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US10069174B2	Battery pack including unit cells, temperature detection device, and protection circuit module connected to substrate A battery pack includes a plurality of unit cells, a substrate electrically connected to the unit cells, a temperature protection device on the substrate, and a protection circuit module electrically connected to the substrate. The temperature protection device includes at least one metal contact electrically connected to the substrate. The substrate includes at least one hole at a location corresponding to the at least one metal contact. A width of the substrate is substantially equal to or less than widths of surfaces of the unit cells overlapping the substrate.
US10069167B2	Electrolyte for rechargeable lithium battery and rechargeable lithium battery An electrolyte for a rechargeable lithium battery includes a non-aqueous organic solvent; a lithium salt; a first compound represented by Chemical Formula 1; and a second compound represented by Chemical Formula 2, wherein an amount of the first compound is about 0.05 wt % to about 10 wt % and an amount of the second compound is about 0.05 wt % to about 10 wt %. In Chemical Formulae 1 and 2, the substituents are the same as defined in the detailed description.
US10069163B2	Fuel cell A fuel cell having an air electrode provided on one surface of a solid oxide electrolyte layer; a fuel electrode on the other surface thereof; and a separator 11 on the air electrode. A middle layer is further provided between the separator and the air electrode in order to suppress the diffusion of constitutional elements of the air electrode to the separator.
US10069162B2	Fuel cell A fuel cell according to one mode includes a plate-like interconnector having a front surface and a back surface; a single cell having a power generation function; a gas chamber provided between the interconnector and the single cell; and one or more gas inlet ports for causing a fuel gas to flow into the gas chamber, the fuel cell further including a buffer chamber provided between the gas inlet ports and the gas chamber; a flow direction changing portion provided between the buffer chamber and the gas chamber so as to be located corresponding to the gas inlet ports, the flow direction changing portion having at least one of a front surface and a back surface, and a side surface; and a fuel gas path provided on at least one of the front surface side and the back surface side of the flow direction changing portion.
US10069161B2	In-situ gravitational separation of electrolyte solutions in flow redox battery systems A flow redox battery system including an electrochemical cell, an anolyte tank, a catholyte tank, a first anolyte carrier slurry, a second anolyte carrier slurry, a first catholyte carrier slurry, a second catholyte carrier slurry, and a power generation circuit. An ion-exchange membrane is electrochemically engaged with an anode and a cathode. The power generation circuit is electrically coupled to the anode and the cathode. The anolyte tank is fluidly coupled to the anode and the catholyte tank is fluidly coupled to the cathode. The first anolyte carrier slurry includes a density less than a density of the second anolyte carrier slurry and an electronegativity different than an electronegativity of the second anolyte carrier slurry. Further, the first catholyte carrier slurry includes a density less than a density of the second catholyte carrier slurry and an electronegativity different than an electronegativity of the second catholyte carrier slurry.
US10069156B2	Separation plate and fuel cell including the same A fuel cell that includes a membrane-electrode assembly and separation plates disposed on both sides of the membrane-electrode assembly is provided. The fuel cell includes barrier ribs formed in reaction surfaces of the separation plates corresponding to the membrane-electrode assembly and configured to partition the reaction surfaces into a plurality of reaction regions. A micropore body is installed between the separation plate and the membrane-electrode assembly. The micropore body includes porous units disposed in the reaction region, and a connection unit integrally coupled to the porous units and flatly contacts the barrier ribs.
US10069155B2	Process control for integrated hydrogen storage in fuel cell energy storage system A process control system includes a storage chamber, a fuel cell in fluid communication with the storage chamber via a feed line, a suction dampening drum in fluid communication with the fuel cell via a product line, a compressor in fluid communication with the suction dampening drum and the storage chamber, a recycle line disposed between the feed line and the product line, and a pressure controller disposed in the recycle line. When the fuel cell is in an electrolysis mode, the pressure controller may be operated to maintain a minimum pressure level inside the drum.
US10069152B2	Fuel cell In a fuel cell, an electrolyte electrode assembly is sandwiched by a pair of separators, which include a sandwiching section having a fuel gas channel for supplying a fuel gas to an anode and a fuel gas inlet for supplying the fuel gas to the fuel gas channel, a bridge having a fuel gas supply channel for supplying the fuel gas to the fuel gas channel, and a fuel gas supply section having a fuel gas supply passage for supplying the fuel gas to the fuel gas supply channel. During operation of the fuel cell, a pressure loss P1 by the fuel gas in the fuel gas inlet, a pressure loss P2 by the fuel gas in the fuel gas supply channel, and a pressure loss P3 by the fuel gas in the fuel gas supply passage have the relationships of P1>P2 and P1>P3.
US10069151B2	De-mineralizer for fuel cell and manufacturing method of same A de-mineralizer for a fuel cell includes a cartridge assembly including an external outer cartridge and an internal inner cartridge installed inside a housing filled with ion resin, wherein at least one of the inner cartridge and the outer cartridge includes an etching network formed with a plurality of fine holes, in which at least one of a size and distribution of the fine holes are formed differently depending on the respective positions based on a vertical flow direction of the cooling water, and a frame formed on an outer circumferential surface of the etching network to support the etching network.
US10069150B2	Alternative path cooling of a high temperature fuel cell Systems and methods provide for the thermal management of a high temperature fuel cell. According to embodiments described herein, a non-reactant coolant is routed into a fuel cell from a compressor or a ram air source. The non-reactant coolant absorbs waste heat from the electrochemical reaction within the fuel cell. The heated coolant is discharged from the fuel cell and is vented to the surrounding environment or directed through a turbine. The energy recouped from the heated coolant by the turbine may be used to drive the compressor or a generator to create additional electricity and increase the efficiency of the fuel cell system. A portion of the heated coolant may be recycled into the non-reactant coolant entering the fuel cell to prevent thermal shock of the fuel cell.
US10069149B2	Fuel cell assembly An assembly includes (a) an anode-side sub-assembly including: a plate member having first and second opposing surfaces compatible with fuel and oxidant gases, respectively, the plate member having first and second opposing end segments, and third and fourth opposing end segments; an anode current collector abutting the first surface of the plate member; and first and second anode wet seal members releasably secured to the plate member so as to form first and second pockets on the first surface of the plate member and (b) a cathode-side subassembly comprising: first and second cathode wet seal members configured to form third and fourth pockets on the second surface of the plate member and to be releasably positioned adjacent said third and fourth opposing end segments; and a cathode current collector cooperating with the first and second cathode wet seal members.
US10069146B2	Lithium anodes for electrochemical cells Provided is an anode for use in electrochemical cells, wherein the anode active layer has a first layer comprising lithium metal and a multi-layer structure comprising single ion conducting layers and polymer layers in contact with the first layer comprising lithium metal or in contact with an intermediate protective layer, such as a temporary protective metal layer, on the surface of the lithium-containing first layer. Another aspect of the invention provides an anode active layer formed by the in-situ deposition of lithium vapor and a reactive gas. The anodes of the current invention are particularly useful in electrochemical cells comprising sulfur-containing cathode active materials, such as elemental sulfur.
US10069144B2	Spherical particles, production and use thereof Spherical particles of transition metal carbonates, transition metal hydroxides or transition metal carbonate hydroxides comprising cations of at least two transition metals selected from nickel, cobalt, manganese, titanium, vanadium, chromium and iron, wherein the concentration of at least one of the transition metal cations, plotted against the radius of the particle in question, has at least one relative extreme value which is neither in the center nor at the edge of the particle in question.
US10069142B2	Rotary tubular furnace, method of producing negative electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, negative electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery The invention provides a rotary tubular furnace including a rotatable furnace tube having an inlet end through which silicon compound particles (SiOx where 0.5≤x<1.6) are put therein and an outlet end through which the particles coated with carbon are taken out therefrom; and a heating chamber having a heater to heat the furnace tube, wherein the furnace tube is composed of a heat portion inside the heating chamber and a non-heat portion outside the heating chamber, a length B of the heat portion and an overall length A of the furnace tube satisfy 0.4≤B/A<1, and a distance C between the heat portion and the outlet end and the overall length A satisfy 0.04≤C/A≤0.35. This furnace can inhibit clogging of the furnace tube and mass-produce a negative electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a high capacity with inhibited variations in the amount of carbon coating and crystallinity.
US10069140B2	Bimodal lithium transition metal based oxide powder for use in a rechargeable battery A bimodal lithium transition metal oxide based powder for a rechargeable battery, comprising: a first lithium transition metal oxide based powder, either comprising a material having a layered crystal structure consisting of the elements Li, a metal M and oxygen, wherein the Li content is stoichiometrically controlled, wherein the metal M has the formula M=Co1−aM′a, with 0≤a≤0.05, and wherein M′ is either one or more metals of the group consisting of Al, Ga and B; or comprising a core material and a surface layer, the core having a layered crystal structure consisting of the elements Li, a metal M and oxygen, wherein the Li content is stoichiometrically controlled, wherein the metal M has the formula M=Co1−aM′a, with 0≤a≤0.05, wherein M′ is either one or more metals of the group consisting of Al, Ga and B; and the surface layer consisting of a mixture of the elements of the core material and inorganic N-based oxides, wherein N is either one or more metals of the group consisting of Mg, Ti, Fe, Cu, Ca, Ba, Y, Sn, Sb, Na, Zn, Zr, Si, Nb, Mo, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, Cd, Sc, Ce, Pr, Nd, Gd, Dy, and Er; the first powder having an average particle size (D50) of at least 15 μm; and a second lithium transition metal oxide based powder having the formula Li1+bN′1−bO2, wherein 0.10≤b≤0.25, and N′═NixMnyCozAd, wherein 0.10≤x≤0.60, 0.30≤y≤0.80, 0.05≤z≤0.20 and 0≤d≤0.10, A being a dopant, the second powder having an average particle size (D50) of less than 5 μm, and preferably less than 2 μm.
US10069138B2	Vanadium oxysulfide based cathode materials for rechargeable battery A cathode active composite containing an amorphous composite of vanadium oxide and an inorganic sulfide is provided. In one embodiment the composite contains vanadium pentoxide and phosphorous pentasulfide. In a further special embodiment, a cathode active material comprising a nanoparticle composite of an amorphous matrix containing vanadium, oxygen and sulfur and crystalline regions of vanadium and oxygen embedded in the matrix is provided. Electrochemical cells and a reversible battery having a cathode containing one of the cathode active composites are also provided. In specific embodiments the battery is a magnesium battery.
US10069136B2	Mixture of basic lead sulfates A microporous lead-containing solid material is produced, which can serve as a carrier for desired materials into a reaction for various desired purposes. For example, if the microporous solid is impregnated with borax it tends to inhibit the growth of unduly large crystals of tetrabasic lead, which is useful in producing batteries having improved functional qualities.
US10069129B2	Battery module comprising connecting member composed of dissimilar metals Disclosed herein is a battery module including battery cells, electrode terminals of which are electrically connected to each other via a connecting member, wherein each of the battery cells is configured to have a structure in which an electrode assembly is mounted in a battery case made of a laminate sheet including a metal layer and a resin layer, and plate-shaped electrode terminals protrude from the battery case, the electrode terminals include a first electrode terminal and a second electrode terminal made of dissimilar metals, the connecting member includes a main connecting part, to which the first electrode terminal is welded, the main connecting part including the metal of the first electrode terminal, and a buried connecting part, to which the second electrode terminal is welded, the buried connecting part including the metal of the second electrode terminal, the buried connecting part is buried in the main connecting part in a state in which the buried connecting part is exposed at one surface of the main connecting part such that the buried connecting part has the same height as the main connecting part to form an even surface, and the first electrode terminal and the second electrode terminal are welded respectively to the main connecting part and the buried connecting part at one surface of the main connecting part at which the buried connecting part is exposed.
US10069126B2	Surface modified polymeric materials, modified functionalized polymers, functional polymers, and methods The present invention relates to new, improved or modified polymer materials, membranes, substrates, and the like and to new, improved or modified methods for permanently modifying the physical and/or chemical nature of surfaces of the polymer materials, membranes, or substrates for a variety of end uses or applications. For example, one improved method uses a carbene and/or nitrene modifier to chemically modify a functionalized polymer to form a chemical species which can chemically react with the surface of a polymer substrate and alter its chemical reactivity. Furthermore, this invention can be used to produce chemically modified membranes, fibers, hollow fibers, textiles, and the like.
US10069125B2	Core, separator roll, and method for producing separator roll A core prevents a battery separator wound therearound from moving and becoming misaligned on an outer circumferential surface of the core in a widthwise direction of the core. The core allows a separator to be wound around the outer circumferential surface thereof and is made of resin. The core includes a groove formed on the outer circumferential surface thereof, the groove extending in a direction substantially equivalent to a circumferential direction of the outer circumferential surface.
US10069124B2	Rechargeable battery having heat-resistant insulating layer A rechargeable battery includes an electrode assembly including a positive electrode and a negative electrode, a case for accommodating the electrode assembly, a cap plate combined to the case, a vent plate disposed under the cap plate and formed with a notch, a middle plate disposed under the vent plate, and a heat-resistant insulating layer disposed between the vent plate and the middle plate.
US10069122B2	Power storage module A power storage module in which rectangular power storage devices each having an electrode assembly and an electrolyte accommodated in a case are configured to be connected, wherein the power storage devices are arrayed in a predetermined array direction (a direction in which positive electrodes and negative electrodes are stacked) and bonded in an arrayed state, and thicknesses of surfaces (in particular, at least parts in contact with an adjacent member in the surfaces of the bonded sides) on bonded sides of the cases are less than thicknesses of surfaces of non-bonded sides.
US10069121B2	Electric battery module Electrical battery module comprising: —a casing (2) comprising a longitudinal body (3) suitable for longitudinally receiving a plurality of electrical batteries (4), one next to the other, and an end cover (5) coupled to one of the ends of said longitudinal body; —an internal, radial electrical connection plate (7) and an external, radial electrical connection plate (8), axially arranged on both sides of said end cover (5); —and at least one axial, electrical connection pad (17, 21) of said internal and external plates (7, 8), axially crossing said cover (5); the interior radial plate (7) comprising a plurality of electrical contact means (13) suitable for being respectively in contact with one end of said electrical batteries (4); and the external radial plate (8) comprising a plurality of electrical distribution means (19) intended for external electrical connection of this external radial plate (8).
US10069118B2	Cylindrical secondary battery and method for manufacturing same A sealing body of a battery includes a positive electrode cap, a safety valve electrically connected to the positive electrode cap, a plurality of protrusions that are disposed annularly and intermittently on the outer peripheral side of a conductive contact part of the safety valve and that are each formed so as to be inclined toward the center of the sealing body, and an insulating member that covers at least top parts of the plurality of protrusions, side surfaces thereof on the center side, and a surface of the safety valve on the center side, that is fitted to the center side of the plurality of protrusions, whose vertical sectional shape is bent in a Z-shape. A terminal plate is fitted and fixed to the center side of the insulating member and is connected by welding to the conductive contact portion through a central opening of the insulating member.
US10069114B2	Light-emitting device having an insulating layer of projections and depressions In a light-emitting device where reflective electrodes are regularly arranged, occurrence of interference fringes due to reflection of light reflected by the reflective electrode is inhibited. A surface of the reflective electrode of a light-emitting element is provided with a plurality of depressions. The shapes of the plurality of depressions are different from each other and do not have rotational symmetry. Irregularity of the surface shape of the reflective electrode is increased, which inhibits interference of light reflected by the reflective electrode. To form the plurality of depressions in the surface of the reflective electrode, for example, a surface of an insulating layer that is a base of the reflective electrode is made uneven. Reflecting the surface shape of the insulating layer, the reflective electrode has an uneven surface.
US10069110B2	Organic EL display device A the organic EL display 1 includes: a first substrate 10; an organic EL element 4 provided above the first substrate 10; and a multilayer sealing film 2 provided above the first substrate 10 to cover the organic EL element 4, and including a barrier layer and a buffer layer lower in hardness than the barrier layer. The organic EL element covered with the multilayer sealing film includes a protrusion, and a relationship (d/h)<2 holds where h is a height of the protrusion directly below the buffer layer and d is a thickness of the buffer layer.
US10069108B2	Display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same A display apparatus and a method of manufacturing a display apparatus, the apparatus including a substrate; a display on the substrate; and an encapsulation layer that seals the display, wherein the encapsulation layer includes a matrix including an organic material, and an inorganic material bonded to the organic material through functional groups of the organic material of the matrix, wherein the matrix includes an internal space adjacent to the organic material, the inorganic material being positioned in the internal space.
US10069102B2	Organic electroluminescence display device Provided is an organic electroluminescence display device including a base member, a display member disposed on the base member and including an organic electroluminescent element; and an encapsulating member disposed on the display member and encapsulating the display member. The encapsulating member includes a first inorganic layer disposed on the display member; a first organic layer disposed on the first inorganic layer; and a second inorganic layer disposed on the first organic layer. The first inorganic layer has a multilayer structure in which first layers having a first refractive index and second layers having a second refractive index different from the first refractive index are alternately disposed. Each of the first organic layer and the second inorganic layer has a single layer structure.
US10069101B2	Organic light emitting display device An organic light emitting display device is discussed. The organic light emitting display device according to an embodiment includes an organic light emitting diode layer provided at an active area of a base substrate; an encapsulation layer encapsulating the organic light emitting diode layer to protect the organic light emitting diode layer; an adhesive layer in the encapsulation layer and provided on the organic light emitting diode layer to cover upper and side surfaces of the organic light emitting diode layer; and an encapsulation substrate in the encapsulation layer and provided on the adhesive layer. The encapsulation substrate is provided to have different thicknesses at the active area and outside the active area.
US10069098B2	Organic light emitting display device, method of manufacturing the same, and head mounted display including the same In one embodiment, a display device comprises: a substrate including an emissive area that emits light and a non-emissive area that does not emit light; a transistor over the substrate; a light emitting device over the transistor, the light emitting device including a first electrode, a light emitting layer on the first electrode, and a second electrode on the light emitting layer; a contact hole in the emissive area of the substrate, the contact hole positioned between the transistor and the light emitting device; and an auxiliary electrode in the contact hole, the auxiliary electrode electrically connecting together the first electrode of the light emitting device and the transistor.
US10069097B2	Light-emitting element, light-emitting device, lighting device, and electronic appliance An inverted-structure light-emitting element is provided. One embodiment of the invention disclosed in this specification is a light-emitting element including a cathode, a layer serving as a buffer over the cathode, an electron-injection layer over the layer serving as a buffer, a light-emitting layer over the electron-injection layer, and an anode over the light-emitting layer. The electron-injection layer includes an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal. The layer serving as a buffer includes an electron-transport material. In the inverted-structure light-emitting element, contact of the alkali metal or alkaline earth metal included in a material of the electron-injection layer with the already formed cathode increases the driving voltage of an EL element and reduces emission efficiency. This problem becomes prominent particularly when the cathode includes an oxide conductive film. To prevent this, the layer serving as a buffer is provided between the cathode and the electron-injection layer.
US10069095B2	Organic photosensitive devices with exciton-blocking charge carrier filters Disclosed herein are organic photosensitive devices including at least one exciton-blocking charge carrier filter. The filters comprise a mixture of at least one wide energy gap material and at least one electron or hole conducting material. As described herein, the novel filters simultaneously block excitons and conduct the desired charge carrier (electrons or holes).
US10069093B2	Self-assembled monolayer overlying a carbon nanotube substrate One example includes a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device include a carbon nanotube substrate, a self-assembled monolayer, and a gate oxide. The self-assembled monolayer overlies the carbon nanotube substrate and is comprised of molecules each including a tail group, a carbon backbone, and a head group. The gate oxide overlies the self-assembled monolayer, wherein the self-assembled monolayer forms an interface between the carbon nanotube substrate and the gate oxide.
US10069091B2	Organic electroluminescent device An organic electroluminescent device including at least one organic layer between a pair of electrodes, wherein the at least one organic layer includes a luminescent layer, at least one layer of the at least one organic layer includes at least one metal complex containing a tri- or higher-dentate ligand, and a compound represented by formula (I) is contained in an organic layer containing the metal complex and/or in other organic layer(s). In formula (I), R11 to R14 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent group, and at least one of R11 to R14 represents an aryl or heteroaryl group.
US10069089B2	Organic metal complex, and organic light emitting device and display apparatus using the same Provided is an organic metal complex having a structure represented by the following general formula (1): MLmL′n (1) where: M represents a metal atom selected from Ir, Pt, Rh, Os, and Zn; L and L′, which are different from each other, each represent a bidentate ligand; m represents an integer of 1 to 3 and n represents an integer of 0 to 2, provided that m+n is 3; a partial structure MLm represents a structure represented by the following general formula (2): and a partial structure ML′n represents a structure including a monovalent bidentate ligand.
US10069080B2	Organic light emitting display device An organic light emitting display device is discussed. The organic light emitting display device may include at least one light emitting part between an anode and a cathode, the light emitting part including at least one organic layer and a light emitting layer, wherein the organic layer includes an organic compound, and the organic compound includes a triazine compound having a substituent with a steric effect.
US10069074B2	Light-emitting material for organic electroluminescent device, organic electroluminescent device using same, and material for organic electroluminescent device Disclosed is a light-emitting material for organic electroluminescent (EL) devices which is composed of an asymmetric anthracene derivative of a specific structure. Also disclosed are a material for organic EL devices and an organic EL device wherein an organic thin film layer composed of one or more layers including at least a light-emitting layer is interposed between a cathode and an anode. At least one layer composed of the organic thin film layer contains the material for organic EL devices by itself or as a component of a mixture. Consequently, the organic EL device has a high efficiency and a long life. Also disclosed are a light-emitting material for organic EL devices and material for organic devices which enable to realize such an organic EL device.
US10069072B2	Nanotube solutions with high concentration and low contamination and methods for purifiying nanotube solutions Solutions of carbon nanotubes and methods for purifying the solutions are provided. The methods include mixing, for example, at least one complexing agents, at least one ionic species, and/or at least one buffer oxide etch (BOE) with a liquid medium containing carbon nanotubes and different types of contaminants, such as metal impurities, amorphous carbon, and/or silica particles, and performing a filtration process to the liquid medium so as to remove or reduce the contaminants in the liquid medium. As a result, carbon nanotube solutions of low contaminants are produced. In some embodiments, the solutions of this disclosure include a high concentration of carbon nanotubes and are substantially free from metal, amorphous carbon, and/or silica impurities.
US10069067B2	Memory arrays and methods of forming memory cells Some embodiments include methods of forming memory cells. A series of rails is formed to include bottom electrode contact material. Sacrificial material is patterned into a series of lines that cross the series of rails. A pattern of the series of lines is transferred into the bottom electrode contact material. At least a portion of the sacrificial material is subsequently replaced with top electrode material. Some embodiments include memory arrays that contain a second series of electrically conductive lines crossing a first series of electrically conductive lines. Memory cells are at locations where the electrically conductive lines of the second series overlap the electrically conductive lines of the first series. First and second memory cell materials are within the memory cell locations. The first memory cell material is configured as planar sheets and the second memory cell material is configured as upwardly-opening containers.
US10069063B2	Integrated circuit having first and second magnetic field sensing elements An integrated circuit can have a first substrate supporting a magnetic field sensing element and a second substrate supporting another magnetic field sensing element. The first and second substrates can be arranged in a variety of configurations. Another integrated circuit can have a first magnetic field sensing element and second different magnetic field sensing element disposed on surfaces thereof.
US10069062B2	Magnetoresistive element A magnetoresistive element includes a laminated structure including a plurality of fixed layers, an intermediate layer formed of a non-magnetic material, and a recording layer, the plurality of fixed layers being laminated via a non-magnetic layer, the plurality of fixed layers having at least a first fixed layer and a second fixed layer, the following formula being satisfied: S1>S2 (wherein S1 is an area of a portion of the first fixed layer adjacent to the intermediate layer, which faces the intermediate layer, and S2 is an area of the fixed layer having the smallest area out of the fixed layers other than the first fixed layer).
US10069058B2	Actuator device, liquid ejection apparatus, and connection structure An actuator device includes: an actuator including a first contact; and a wire member including a second contact connected to the first contact with a conductive adhesive including a conductive particle. One of the first contact and the second contact is a particular contact. The other of the first contact and the second contact is a specific contact. At least two protrusions and at least one recess are formed on and in the particular contact. The at least two protrusions are arranged in a first direction. The at least one recess is interposed between the at least two protrusions. The particular contact is joined to the specific contact with the conductive adhesive provided in the at least one recess, in a state in which each of the at least two protrusions is in contact with the specific contact.
US10069049B2	Semiconductor light emitting element and method for manufacturing the same The semiconductor light emitting element is a semiconductor light emitting element comprising a semiconductor layer including a light emitting layer, wherein a surface of the semiconductor light emitting element includes a light extraction surface. At least one of the light extraction surface and an interface between two layers having different refractive indexes in the semiconductor light emitting element is provided with a periodic recessed and projecting structure having a period that exceeds 0.5 times as great as a wavelength of light emitted from the light emitting layer, and a minute recessed and projecting structure located on a surface of the periodic recessed and projecting structure and having an average diameter that is not more than 0.5 times as great as the wavelength of the light.
US10069042B2	Light-emitting components containing body, manufacturing method of light-emitting components containing body, components mounting apparatus, components mounting method, and components mounting system A light-emitting components containing body includes plural light-emitting components, a containing body which contains the plural light-emitting components. The containing body contains the plural light-emitting components of the same rank among light-emitting components that are classified into plural ranks according to positional deviations of their light emission portions from their light emission portion reference position.
US10069035B2	Light-emitting device and lighting system One embodiment relates to a light-emitting device, a method for manufacturing the light-emitting device, a light-emitting device package, and a lighting system. The light-emitting device, according to the one embodiment, can comprise: a first conductive semiconductor layer; an active layer on the first conductive semiconductive layer; a gallium nitride based superlattice layer on the active layer; and a second conductive semiconductor layer on the gallium nitride based superlattice layer. The gallium nitride based superlattice layer can comprise: a first gallium nitride based superlattice layer on the active layer; and a second gallium nitride based superlattice layer on the first gallium nitride based superlattice layer.
US10069033B2	Integration of epitaxial lift-off solar cells with mini-parabolic concentrator arrays via printing method There is disclosed a method of preparing a photovoltaic device. In particular, the method comprises integrating epitaxial lift-off solar cells with mini-parabolic concentrator arrays via a printing method. Thus, there is disclosed a method comprising providing a growth substrate; depositing at least one protection layer on the growth substrate; depositing at least one sacrificial layer on the protection layer; depositing at least one photoactive cell on the sacrificial layer; etching a pattern of at least two parallel trenches that extend from the at least one photoactive cell to the sacrificial layer; depositing a metal on the at least one photoactive cell; bonding said metal to a host substrate; and removing the sacrificial layer with one or more etch steps. The host substrate can be a siloxane, which when rolled, can form a stamp used to integrate solar cells into concentrator arrays. There are also disclosed a method of making a growth substrate and the growth substrate made therefrom.
US10069032B2	Method of forming an infrared photodetector A low noise infrared photodetector has an epitaxial heterostructure that includes a photodiode and a transistor. The photodiode includes a high sensitivity narrow bandgap photodetector layer of first conductivity type, and a collection well of second conductivity type in contact with the photodetector layer. The transistor includes the collection well, a transfer well of second conductivity type that is spaced from the collection well and the photodetector layer, and a region of first conductivity type between the collection and transfer wells. The collection well and the transfer well are of different depths, and are formed by a single diffusion.
US10069031B2	Method for manufacturing polycrystalline silicon thin-film solar cells by means method for crystallizing large-area amorphous silicon thin film using linear electron beam One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method of manufacturing polycrystalline silicon thin-film solar cell by a method of crystallizing a large-area amorphous silicon thin film using a linear electron beam, and the technical problem to be solved is to crystallize an amorphous silicon thin film, which is formed on a low-priced substrate, by means of an electron beam so as for same to easily be of high quality by having high crystallization yield and to be processed at a low temperature. To this end, one embodiment of the present invention provides a method of manufacturing polycrystalline silicon thin-film solar cell by means of a method for crystallizing a large-area amorphous silicon thin film using a linear electron beam, the method comprising: a substrate preparation step for preparing a substrate; a type 1+ amorphous silicon layer deposition step for forming a type 1+ amorphous silicon layer on the substrate; a type 1 amorphous silicon layer deposition step for forming a type 1 amorphous silicon layer on the type 1+ amorphous silicon layer; an absorption layer formation step for forming an absorption layer by radiating a linear electron beam to the type 1 amorphous silicon layer and thus crystallizing the type 1 amorphous layer and the type 1+ amorphous silicon layer; a type 2 amorphous silicon layer deposition step for forming a type 2 amorphous silicon layer on the absorption layer; and an emitter layer formation step for forming an emitter layer by radiating a linear electron beam to the type 2 amorphous silicon layer and thus crystallizing the type 2 amorphous silicon layer, wherein the linear electron beam is radiated from above type 1 and type 2 amorphous silicon layers in a linear scanning manner in which to reciprocate in a predetermined area.
US10069030B2	Load lock solar cell transfer system Systems and methods for transferring solar cells while maintaining a controlled micro-environment are provided. In particular, such systems provide automated loading and unloading of solar cells by use of a conveyor and elevator within a tank receptacle sealingly connected with a solar cell carrying pods and a flow tube of solar cell components in a solar cell fabrication process. The tank receptacle can include one or more ports for sealingly and operably coupling with a cover of a solar cell carrying pod, each port having an elevator for withdrawing a removable base of the pod along with a solar cell carrying cassette into the tank and a conveyor to facilitate loading and/or unloading of solar cells with the cassette by coordinated movement of the elevator and conveyor. Such systems can further include a robotic arm having a gripper and nozzle to maintain a micro-environment within the pod during transport.
US10069028B2	Multi-wavelength detector array incorporating two dimensional and one dimensional materials A method of forming a wavelength detector that includes forming a first transparent material layer having a uniform thickness on a first mirror structure, and forming an active element layer including a plurality of nanomaterial sections and electrodes in an alternating sequence atop the first transparent material layer. A second transparent material layer is formed having a plurality of different thickness portions atop the active element layer, wherein each thickness portion correlates to at least one of the plurality of nanomaterials. A second mirror structure is formed on the second transparent material layer.
US10069025B2	Optoelectronic device The invention provides an optoelectronic device comprising a photoactive region, which photoactive region comprises: an n-type region comprising at least one n-type layer; a p-type region comprising at least one p-type layer; and, disposed between the n-type region and the p-type region: a layer of a perovskite semiconductor without open porosity. The perovskite semiconductor is generally light-absorbing. In some embodiments, disposed between the n-type region and the p-type region is: (i) a first layer which comprises a scaffold material, which is typically porous, and a perovskite semiconductor, which is typically disposed in pores of the scaffold material; and (ii) a capping layer disposed on said first layer, which capping layer is said layer of a perovskite semiconductor without open porosity, wherein the perovskite semiconductor in the capping layer is in contact with the perovskite semiconductor in the first layer. The layer of the perovskite semiconductor without open porosity (which may be said capping layer) typically forms a planar heterojunction with the n-type region or the p-type region. The invention also provides processes for producing such optoelectronic devices which typically involve solution deposition or vapour deposition of the perovskite. In one embodiment, the process is a low temperature process; for instance, the entire process may be performed at a temperature or temperatures not exceeding 150° C.
US10069021B2	Electro-conductive pastes with salts with an anion consisting of halogen and oxygen in solar cell applications In general, the present invention relates to electro-conductive pastes with salt additives with anions consisting of halogen and oxygen, and solar cells with high Ohmic sheet resistance, preferably photovoltaic solar cells. More specifically, the present invention relates to electro-conductive pastes, solar cell precursors, processes for preparation of solar cells, solar cells and solar modules. The present invention relates to an electro-conductive paste at least comprising as paste constituents: a) metallic particles; b) a glass frit; c) an organic vehicle; and d) a salt with an anion comprising an oxygen atom and a halogen atom.
US10069019B2	Solar cell unit, solar cell array, solar cell module and manufacturing method thereof A solar cell unit comprises a cell. The cell includes a cell substrate and a plurality of secondary grid lines disposed on a front surface of the cell substrate. The secondary grid lines comprises an edge secondary grid line adjacent to an edge of the cell substrate and a middle secondary grid line disposed inside of the edge secondary grid line. The at least one edge secondary grid line has a width greater than the middle secondary grid line. The solar cell unit also comprises a plurality of conductive wires spaced apart from each other. The plurality of conductive wires intersects and is connected with the secondary grid lines.
US10069016B2	Semiconductor diode with trench structures and including doped layers and doped zones of opposite conductivity types providing high surge energy capacity A semiconductor diode includes a semiconductor body and trench structures extending from a surface of the semiconductor body into the semiconductor body. The semiconductor body includes a doped layer of a first conductivity type and a doped zone of a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type. The doped zone is formed between the doped layer and a first surface of the semiconductor body. The trench structures are arranged between electrically connected portions of the semiconductor body. The trench structures do not include conductive structures that are both electrically insulated from the semiconductor body and electrically connected with another structure outside the trench structures.
US10069014B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A base insulating film is formed over a substrate. A first oxide semiconductor film is formed over the base insulating film, and then first heat treatment is performed to form a second oxide semiconductor film. Then, selective etching is performed to form a third oxide semiconductor film. An insulating film is formed over the first insulating film and the third oxide semiconductor film. A surface of the insulating film is polished to expose a surface of the third oxide semiconductor film, so that a sidewall insulating film is formed in contact with at least a side surface of the third oxide semiconductor film. Then, a source electrode and a drain electrode are formed over the sidewall insulating film and the third oxide semiconductor film. A gate insulating film and a gate electrode are formed.
US10069013B2	Amplifiers including tunable tunnel field effect transistor pseudo resistors and related devices Neural signal amplifiers include an operational amplifier and a feedback network coupled between an output and an input thereof. The feedback network includes a tunnel field effect transistor (“TFET”) pseudo resistor that exhibits bi-directional conductivity. A drain region of the TFET may be electrically connected to the gate electrode thereof to provide a bi-directional resistor having good symmetry in terms of resistance as a function of voltage polarity.
US10069011B2	Method for fabricating a FinFET metallization architecture using a self-aligned contact etch A method of fabricating a FinFET device includes a self-aligned contact etch where a source/drain contact module is performed prior to a replacement metal gate (RMG) module. In particular, the method involves forming a sacrificial gate over the channel region of a fin, and an interlayer dielectric over adjacent source/drain regions of the fin. An etch mask is then used to protect source/drain contact regions and enable the removal of the interlayer dielectric from outside of the protected area, e.g., between adjacent fins.
US10069010B2	Semiconductor device having compressively strained channel region and method of making same A semiconductor device and method making it utilize a three-dimensional channel region comprising a core of a first semiconductor material and an epitaxial covering of a second semiconductor material. The first and second semiconductor materials have respectively different lattice constants, thereby to create a strain in the epitaxial covering. The devices are formed by a gate-last process, so that the second semiconductor material is deposited only after the high temperature processes have been performed. Consequently, the lattice strain is not substantially relaxed, and the improved performance benefits of the lattice strained channel region are not compromised.
US10069007B2	Vertical FETs with high density capacitor A technique relates to semiconductors. A bottom terminal of a transistor and bottom plate of a capacitor are positioned on the substrate. A spacer is arranged on the bottom terminal of the transistor. A transistor channel region extends vertically from the bottom terminal through the spacer to contact a top terminal of the transistor. A capacitor channel region extends vertically from the bottom plate to contact a top plate of the capacitor. A first gate stack is arranged along sidewalls of the transistor channel region and is in contact with the spacer. A second gate stack is arranged along sidewalls of the capacitor channel region and is disposed on the bottom plate. A distance from a bottom of the first gate stack to a top of the bottom terminal is greater than a distance from a bottom of the second gate stack to a top of the bottom plate.
US10069006B2	Semiconductor device with vertical field floating rings and methods of fabrication thereof A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first conductivity type. A gate structure is supported by a surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a current carrying region (e.g., a drain region of an LDMOS transistor) is disposed in the semiconductor substrate at the surface. The device further includes a drift region of a second, opposite conductivity type disposed in the semiconductor substrate at the surface. The drift region extends laterally from the current carrying region to the gate structure. The device further includes a buried region of the second conductivity type disposed in the semiconductor substrate below the current carrying region. The buried region is vertically aligned with the current carrying region, and a portion of the semiconductor substrate with the first conductivity type is present between the buried region and the current carrying region.
US10069004B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device A semiconductor device of an embodiment includes a p+-type region selectively disposed in a surface of an n-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer disposed on an n+-type silicon carbide substrate, an element structure that includes a source electrode and a p+-type region that form a metal-semiconductor junction on the n-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer, a p−-type region and another p−-type region that surround the periphery of the element structure, and an n+-type channel stopper region that surrounds the periphery of the p−-type regions so that the n-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer is therebetween. The n+-type channel stopper region has a second n+-type channel stopper region whose impurity concentration is high, and a first n+-type channel stopper region that encompasses the second n+-type channel stopper region and whose impurity concentration is lower than that of the second n+-type channel stopper region.
US10069002B2	Bond-over-active circuity gallium nitride devices Implementations of semiconductor devices may include: a first layer with a plurality of cells, each cell having a drain finger, a source finger and a gate ring; a second layer having a drain pad and a source pad, the drain pad having a width and a source pad having a width substantially the same as the drain pad; wherein a width of each drain finger of the first layer is wider than a width of each source finger of the first layer; and wherein each drain pad is coupled to each drain finger through a first contact and the source pad is coupled to each source finger through a second contact, where a width of the first contact is wider than a width of the second contact.
US10068998B2	Semiconductor device and method of producing the same A semiconductor device is provided in which a semiconductor substrate can be prevented from being broken while elements can be prevented from being destroyed by a snap-back phenomenon. After an MOS gate structure is formed in a front surface of an FZ wafer, a rear surface of the FZ wafer is ground. Then, the ground surface is irradiated with protons and irradiated with two kinds of laser beams different in wavelength simultaneously to thereby form an N+ first buffer layer and an N second buffer layer. Then, a P+ collector layer and a collector electrode are formed on the proton-irradiated surface. The distance from a position where the net doping concentration of the N+ first buffer layer is locally maximized to the interface between the P+ collector layer and the N second buffer layer is set to be in a range of 5 μm to 30 μm, both inclusively.
US10068992B2	Semiconductor device including fin FET and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device includes a fin structure for a fin field effect transistor (FET). The fin structure includes a base layer protruding from a substrate, an intermediate layer disposed over the base layer and an upper layer disposed over the intermediate layer. The fin structure further includes a first protective layer and a second protective layer made of a different material than the first protective layer. The intermediate layer includes a first semiconductor layer disposed over the base layer, the first protective layer covers at least side walls of the first semiconductor layer and the second protective layer covers at least side walls of the first protective layer.
US10068991B1	Patterned sidewall smoothing using a pre-smoothed inverted tone pattern Embodiments are directed to a method and resulting structures for smoothing the sidewall roughness of a post-etched film. A sacrificial layer is formed on a substrate. A patterned mask is formed by removing portions of the sacrificial layer to expose a surface of the substrate. The sidewalls of the patterned mask are smoothed and a target layer is formed over the patterned mask and the substrate. Portions of the target layer are removed to expose a surface of the patterned mask and the patterned mask is removed.
US10068989B2	Substrate for display device, display device including the substrate, and method of manufacturing the display device A substrate for a display device is disclosed. In one aspect, the substrate includes an active layer that is formed on substantially the entire portion of the bottom substrate and comprises a first area and a second area with a higher carrier concentration than the first area. The substrate also includes a line overlapping with the first area and a contact electrode that electrically connects the line to the second area of the active layer.
US10068988B2	Doped poly-silicon for PolyCMP planarity improvement A method includes forming a polysilicon layer with an uneven upper surface over a first region and a second region of a substrate, doping a top portion of the polysilicon layer to change its removal rate, thereby forming a doped layer, and removing the doped layer in the first region to expose the polysilicon layer in the first region and leaving at least a portion of the doped layer in the second region. The method also includes removing the exposed polysilicon layer in the first region at a first removal rate and the doped layer in the second region at a second removal rate, the polysilicon layer in the second region being exposed after the doped layer in the second region is removed, and removing the polysilicon layer in the first region and the second region at a third removal rate and a fourth removal rate, respectively.
US10068970B2	Nanowire isolation scheme to reduce parasitic capacitance A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a doped silicon layer on a bulk substrate, forming an undoped silicon cap layer on the doped silicon layer, forming a stacked configuration of silicon germanium (SiGe) and silicon layers on the undoped silicon cap layer, wherein the stacked configuration comprises a repeating arrangement of a silicon layer stacked on an SiGe layer, forming a plurality of dummy gates spaced apart from each other on the stacked configuration, the doped silicon layer and the undoped silicon cap layer, forming a spacer layer on each of the plurality of dummy gates, and on the doped silicon layer and the undoped silicon cap layer, selectively etching the doped silicon layer with respect to the undoped silicon layer, and filling the area from where the doped s silicon layer was selectively removed with a dielectric layer.
US10068969B2	Nanowire transistor and method for fabricating the same A method for fabricating a nanowire transistor is disclosed. First, a substrate is provided, and a stack structure is formed on the substrate, in which the stack structure includes a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer and the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer are made of different material. Next, a hard mask is formed on the stack structure and a first spacer adjacent to the hard mask, part of the stack structure is removed; a second spacer is formed adjacent to the first spacer and the stack structure; and a source/drain structure is formed adjacent to two sides of the second spacer.
US10068968B2	BxCyNz nanotube formation via the pressurized vapor/condenser method Nanotube filaments comprising carbon, boron and nitrogen of the general formula BxCyNz, having high-aspect ratio and high-crystallinity produced by a pressurized vapor/condenser method and a process of production. The process comprises thermally exciting a boron-containing target in a chamber containing a carbon source and nitrogen at a pressure which is elevated above atmospheric pressure.
US10068958B2	Organic light-emitting component and method for producing an organic light-emitting component In various embodiments, an organic light-emitting organic is provided. The organic light-emitting component may include a first electrode layer, an organic functional layer structure over the first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer over the organic functional layer structure. The second electrode layer and the organic functional layer structure are divided into subregions which are arranged laterally next to one another, which are respectively at least partially separated from one another. A plurality of the subregions are electrically connected to at least two neighboring subregions by at least two corresponding connecting elements with are formed by the second electrode layer and the organic functional layer structure.
US10068955B2	Array substrate of OLED display device and manufacturing method thereof A manufacturing method of an array substrate of an OLED display device is provided. Active areas of a first thin film transistor T1 and a second thin film transistor T2 are formed by a first mask; channel doping areas, source electrode doping areas and drain electrode doping areas of T1 and T2 are formed by a second mask; gate electrodes of T1 and T2 are formed by a third mask; vias are formed by a fourth mask; source electrodes and drain electrodes of T1 and T2, a data line and a pixel electrode are formed by a fifth mask. The manufacturing method can simplify the process steps.
US10068947B2	Arrays of memory cells and methods of forming an array of memory cells An array of memory cells includes buried access lines having conductively doped semiconductor material. Pillars extend elevationally outward of and are spaced along the buried access lines. The pillars individually include a memory cell. Outer access lines are elevationally outward of the pillars and the buried access lines. The outer access lines are of higher electrical conductivity than the buried access lines. A plurality of conductive vias is spaced along and electrically couple pairs of individual of the buried and outer access lines. A plurality of the pillars is between immediately adjacent of the vias along the pairs. Electrically conductive metal material is directly against tops of the buried access lines and extends between the pillars along the individual buried access lines. Other embodiments, including method, are disclosed.
US10068943B2	Radiation imaging apparatus and radiation imaging system Provided is a radiation imaging apparatus, including: a plurality of pixels configured to output image signals corresponding to radiation; an image signal line configured to output the image signals; and a detection signal line configured to output a detection signal for detection of irradiation of the radiation, in which at least one of the plurality of pixels includes: a conversion element configured to convert the radiation into charge; a first switch configured to output the image signal corresponding to the charge via the image signal line; a storage capacitor including a first electrode and a second electrode, in which the first electrode is electrically connected to the conversion element to store the charge; and a second switch configured to electrically connect the second electrode and the detection signal line.
US10068940B2	Imaging apparatus with focus-ranging precision in one direction due to saturated photoelectric conversion elements located adjacent to each other An imaging apparatus includes a micro lens, a second photoelectric conversion element that is located adjacent to a first photoelectric conversion element in a first direction, and a third photoelectric conversion element that is located adjacent to the first photoelectric conversion in a second direction intersecting with the first direction, wherein the height of a potential barrier produced at a region between the first and third photoelectric conversion elements against a signal charge is less than the height of a potential barrier produced at a region between the first and second photoelectric conversion elements against a signal charge.
US10068937B2	Image sensor and method for fabricating the same This technology relates to an image sensor. The image sensor may include a substrate including a photoelectric conversion element; a pillar formed over the photoelectric conversion element and having a concave-convex sidewall; a channel film formed along a surface of the pillar and for having at least one end coupled to the photoelectric conversion element; and a transfer gate formed over the channel film.
US10068934B2	Electromagnetic wave detector and electromagnetic wave detector array An electromagnetic wave detector includes: a substrate; an insulating layer provided on the substrate; a graphene layer provided on the insulating layer; a pair of electrodes provided on the insulating layer, with the graphene layer being interposed therebetween; and buffer layers interposed between the graphene layer and the electrodes to separate the graphene layer and the electrodes from each other. The electromagnetic wave detector array includes arrayed electromagnetic wave detectors that are the same as or different from each other.
US10068933B2	Array substrate manufacturing method and array substrate The present invention provides an array substrate manufacturing method and an array substrate. The array substrate manufacturing method of the present invention uses an organic photoresist material to form a passivation protection layer (90) for substituting the conventional passivation protection layer that is made of a silicon nitride material and applies one mask to subject the passivation protection layer (90) and a planarization layer (70) to exposure and development so as to obtain a third via (91) that is located above the first drain electrode (62) and a fourth via (92) that is located above the second drain electrode (64) and, thus, compared the prior art techniques, saves one mask and reduces one etching process so as to achieve the purposes of simplifying the manufacturing process and saving manufacturing cost. The array substrate of the present invention has a simple structure and low manufacturing cost and possesses excellent electrical performance.
US10068928B2	Display device A display device includes: a scan line extending in a first direction; first, second and third signal lines extending in a second direction; a first sub-pixel connected to the scan line and the first signal line; a second sub-pixel connected to the scan line and the second signal line; and a third sub-pixel connected to the scan line and the third signal line. The second signal line disposed between the first sub-pixel and the third sub-pixel is formed by a different layer so as to overlap with the third signal line as viewed in a plan view.
US10068927B2	Semiconductor device, display module, and electronic device A semiconductor device includes a MEMS device, a first transistor that supplies a first voltage to a first electrode of the MEMS device, a second transistor that supplies a second voltage to the first electrode of the MEMS device, a third transistor that supplies a first video signal to a gate of the first transistor, a fourth transistor that supplies the first voltage to a second electrode of the MEMS device, a fifth transistor that supplies the second voltage to the second electrode of the MEMS device, and a sixth transistor that supplies a second video signal to a gate of the fourth transistor. A gate of the second transistor is connected to the gate of the fourth transistor. A gate of the fifth transistor is connected to the gate of the first transistor.
US10068926B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a pixel electrode and a transistor which includes a first gate electrode, a first insulating layer over the first gate electrode, a semiconductor layer over the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer over the semiconductor layer, and a second gate electrode. The pixel electrode and the second gate electrode are provided over the second insulating layer. The first gate electrode has a region overlapping with the semiconductor layer with the first insulating layer provided therebetween. The second gate electrode has a region overlapping with the semiconductor layer with the second insulating layer provided therebetween. A first region is at least part of a region where the second gate electrode overlaps with the semiconductor layer. A second region is at least part of a region where the pixel electrode is provided. The second insulating layer is thinner in the first region than in the second region.
US10068925B2	Thin film transistor, thin film transistor panel, and method for manufacturing the same A thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, a semiconductor layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode. The semiconductor layer overlaps the gate electrode and includes a channel layer comprising an oxide semiconductor and an auxiliary layer comprising amorphous silicon. The source electrode and the drain electrode are separated from each other and connected to the semiconductor layer. A thin film transistor array panel and method of manufacturing same also is disclosed.
US10068924B2	Display panel and display apparatus An embodiment of the present invention provides a display panel including a first substrate; a device layer disposed on the first substrate, wherein the device layer includes a plurality of thin-film transistors and the thin-film transistor includes a gate electrode; a gate insulating layer disposed on the first substrate and covering the gate electrode; a source electrode disposed on the gate insulating layer; a transparent conductive layer disposed on the gate insulating layer and overlapping and electrically connecting the source electrode; a pixel electrode; an active layer electrically connecting the transparent conductive layer and the pixel electrode; a second substrate disposed on the first substrate; and a display medium between the first substrate and the second substrate.
US10068923B2	Transparent display device and method of manufacturing the same A transparent display device includes a base substrate having a pixel area and a transmission area, a barrier layer disposed on the base substrate, a pixel circuit disposed in the pixel area, a display structure disposed on the pixel circuit, a transmitting structure disposed in the transmission area, an adhesive layer disposed between the base substrate and the barrier layer, and between the base substrate and the transmitting structure, and a transmitting window defined in the transmission area where the transmitting structure may include a composition including silicon oxynitride, the adhesive layer may include aluminum oxide, and the transmitting window may expose a surface of the transmitting structure.
US10068919B2	Semiconductor device and method of forming the same A semiconductor device and a method of forming the same, the semiconductor device includes a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistor is disposed on a substrate and comprises a gate electrode, a gate dielectric layer and a first source/drain. The second transistor includes the gate electrode and a channel layer disposed on the gate electrode.
US10068918B2	Contacting SOI subsrates An integrated circuit is provided including a semiconductor bulk substrate, a buried oxide layer formed on the semiconductor bulk substrate, a plurality of cells, each cell having a transistor device, formed over the buried oxide layer, a plurality of gate electrode lines running through the cells and providing gate electrodes for the transistor devices of the cells, and a plurality of tap cells configured for electrically contacting the semiconductor bulk substrate and arranged at positions different from positions below or above the plurality of cells having the transistor devices.
US10068917B2	Vertical memory devices and methods of manufacturing the same A vertical memory device includes insulating interlayer patterns, of gate electrodes, a channel, and a charge storage pattern structure. The insulating interlayer patterns are spaced in a first direction. The gate electrodes between are neighboring insulating interlayer patterns, respectively. The channel extends through the insulating interlayer patterns and the gate electrodes in the first direction. The charge storage pattern structure includes a tunnel insulation pattern, a charge trapping pattern structure, and a blocking pattern sequentially stacked between the channel and each of the gate electrodes in a second direction. The charge trapping pattern structure includes charge trapping patterns spaced in the first direction. The charge trapping patterns are adjacent to sidewalls of first gate electrodes, respectively. A first charge trapping pattern extends in the first direction along a sidewall of a first insulating interlayer pattern.
US10068915B2	Manufacturing method for a semiconductor device including resist films different in thickness According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a stacked body of N (N is an integer of 2 or more) layers stacked on a semiconductor substrate and openings different in depth surrounded by the stacked body and separated from each other.
US10068912B1	Method of reducing charge loss in non-volatile memories A memory apparatus that has at least two non-volatile memory (NVM) cells disposed side by side overlying a substrate and an isolation structure disposed between the first and second NVM cells in the substrate. The first and second NVM cells share a common charge trapping layer that includes a continuous structure, and the portion of the common charge trapping layer that is disposed directly above the isolation structure includes a higher oxygen and/or nitrogen concentration than the portions of the common charge trapping layer that are disposed within the first and second NVM cells.
US10068911B2	Semiconductor device According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a stacked body, a columnar portion, a first charge storage portion, and a second charge storage portion. The stacked body includes a plurality of electrode layers stacked in a first direction. The plurality of electrode layers includes a first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer. The columnar portion extends in the first direction in the stacked body. The first charge storage portion provides between the first electrode layer and the columnar portion. The second charge storage portion provides between the second electrode layer and the columnar portion. A first thickness in a second direction intersecting the first direction of the first charge storage portion between the first electrode layer and the columnar portion is thicker than a second thickness in the second direction of the second charge storage portion between the second electrode layer and the columnar portion.
US10068910B2	Non-volatile semiconductor memory device Provided is a small-area one-time programmable semiconductor memory device that uses a PNPN structure, which is parasitically generated in a CMOS process. An N-type region provided in a location other than both ends or a P-type region provided in a location other than both the ends is put into a floating state so that PNPN current flows, and a thermal breakdown of a resistor caused by this current is used as a memory element.
US10068908B2	Method to form localized relaxed substrate by using condensation Methods and structures for forming a localized, strained region of a substrate are described. Trenches may be formed at boundaries of a localized region of a substrate. An upper portion of sidewalls at the localized region may be covered with a covering layer, and a lower portion of the sidewalls at the localized region may not be covered. A converting material may be formed in contact with the lower portion of the localized region, and the substrate heated. The heating may introduce a chemical species from the converting material into the lower portion, which creates stress in the localized region. The methods may be used to form strained-channel finFETs.
US10068907B1	Dynamic random access memory A dynamic random access memory (DRAM) includes a substrate, two buried word lines and a bit line contact. The substrate includes a first active area, wherein the first active area extends along a first direction. The buried word lines are disposed in the substrate and across the first active area, wherein the buried word lines extend along a second direction. The bit line contact is disposed on the substrate and overlaps the first active area between the two buried word lines, wherein the bit line contact is enclosed by a first side, a second side, a third side and a fourth side, and the first side is parallel to the third side along a third direction while the second side is parallel to the fourth side along a fourth direction, wherein the third direction is parallel to the first direction and the fourth direction is parallel to the second direction.
US10068903B2	Methods and apparatus for artificial exciton in CMOS processes Methods and apparatus for artificial exciton devices. An artificial exciton device includes a semiconductor substrate; at least one well region doped to a first conductivity type in a portion of the semiconductor substrate; a channel region in a central portion of the well region; a cathode region in the well region doped to a second conductivity type; an anode region in the well region doped to the first conductivity type; a first lightly doped drain region disposed between the cathode region and the channel region doped to the first conductivity type; a second lightly doped drain region disposed between the anode region and the channel region doped to the second conductivity type; and a gate structure overlying the channel region, the gate structure comprising a gate dielectric layer lying over the channel region and a gate conductor material overlying the gate dielectric. Methods are disclosed.
US10068901B2	Semiconductor device including transistors with different threshold voltages A semiconductor device including a substrate includes a first region and a second region and first and second transistors in the first and second regions, respectively. The first transistor includes a first gate insulating layer on the substrate, a first lower TiN layer on and in contact with the first gate insulating layer, a first etch-stop layer on the first lower TiN layer and a first upper gate electrode on the first etch-stop layer. The second transistor includes a second gate insulating layer on the substrate, a second lower TiN layer on and in contact with the second gate insulating layer, a second etch-stop layer on the second lower TiN layer and a second upper gate electrode on the second etch-stop layer. A thickness of the first lower TiN layer is less than a thickness of the second lower TiN layer.
US10068899B2	IC structure on two sides of substrate and method of forming An integrated circuit (IC) structure uses a single semiconductor substrate having a first side and an opposing, second side. A first plurality of active devices are positioned on the first side of the single semiconductor substrate, and a second plurality of active devices are positioned on the opposing, second side of the single semiconductor substrate. A TSV may electrically couple active devices on either side. Use of a single semiconductor substrate with active devices on both sides reduces the number of semiconductor layers used and allows annealing without damaging BEOL interconnects during fabrication.
US10068898B2	On-chip MIM capacitor A method for forming an on-chip capacitor with complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) devices includes forming a first capacitor electrode between gate structures in a capacitor region while forming contacts to source and drain (S/D) regions in a CMOS region. Gate structures are cut in the CMOS region and the capacitor region by etching a trench across the gate structures and filling the trench with a dielectric material. The gate structures and the dielectric material in the trench in the capacitor region are removed to form a position for an insulator and a second electrode. The insulator is deposited in the position. Gate metal is deposited to form gate conductors in the CMOS region and the second electrode in the capacitor region.
US10068891B2	Semiconductor device An area of a semiconductor device having a FINFET can be reduced. The drain regions of an n-channel FINFET and a p-channel FINFET are extracted by two second local interconnects from a second Y gird between a gate electrode and a dummy gate adjacent thereto, to a third Y grid adjacent to the second Y gird. These second local interconnects are connected by a first local interconnect extending in the X direction in the third Y grid. According to such a cell layout, although the number of grids is increased by one because of the arrangement of the first local interconnect, the length in the X direction can be reduced. As a result, the cell area of the unit cell can be reduced while a space between the first and second local interconnects is secured.
US10068890B2	Semiconductor device, electronic component, and electronic device To provide a semiconductor device including element layers that are stacked. A first wiring layer and a second wiring layer are stacked between a first element layer and a second element layer. A third wiring layer and a fourth wiring layer are stacked over the second element layer. Transistors of logic cells are provided in the first element layer. Wirings of the logic cells are provided in the first wiring layer or the second wiring layer. Input ports and output ports of the logic cells are provided in the third wiring layer. The input port of one of the logic cells is connected to the output port of another logic cell through the wiring of the third wiring layer or the fourth wiring layer. Connecting the logic cells through the wiring layers over the second element layer improves the efficiency of steps of arranging and connecting the logic cells.
US10068888B2	Making semiconductor devices with alignment bonding and substrate removal Embodiments include a manufacturing method of making a semiconductor device via multiple stages of alignment bonding and substrate removal. One example is an integrated full-color LED display panel, in which multiple wafers with different arrays of LEDs are integrated onto a host wafer with driver circuitry. The driver circuitry typically is an array of pixel drivers that drive individual LEDs on the display panel.
US10068884B2	Display apparatus and manufacturing method thereof A display apparatus including a first substrate including a plurality of light emitting diodes regularly disposed thereon, a second substrate including a thin-film transistor (TFT) panel part including a plurality of TFTs configured to drive the light emitting diodes, and a third substrate including a light converter configured to convert light emitted from the first substrate, in which the first substrate and the second substrate are coupled to face each other, the light emitting diodes are electrically connected to the TFTs, respectively, the first substrate and the third substrate are coupled to face each other, and light emitted from the light emitting diodes is converted into at least one of blue light, green light, and red light through the light converter.
US10068883B2	Optical coupling device An optical coupling device includes a first receiving chip having a first region on one end and a second region on another end side. A first emitting chip is disposed on the first region. A second receiving chip has a third region on one end and a fourth region on another end. A second emitting chip is disposed on the fourth region. The first and third regions are adjacent, and the second and fourth regions are adjacent. A first connection portion is disposed on the second region and is electrically connected to the second light emitting chip through a bonding wire. A second connection portion is disposed in the third region and is electrically connected to the first light emitting chip through a bonding wire.
US10068881B2	Package-on-package type semiconductor package and method of fabricating the same Provided are a package-on-package type semiconductor package and a method of fabricating the same. The semiconductor package includes upper package stacked on a lower package and a via provided between the lower and upper packages to electrically connect the lower and upper packages to each other. The lower package includes a lower package substrate, a lower semiconductor chip mounted on the lower package substrate, and a lower mold layer encapsulating the lower semiconductor chip and including an alignment mark. The lower mold layer includes a marking region, which is provided between the via and the lower semiconductor chip, and on which the alignment mark is provided.
US10068878B2	Printed circuit board (PCB), method of manufacturing the PCB, and method of manufacturing semiconductor package using the PCB Provided are a printed circuit board (PCB) capable of blocking introduction of impurities during a molding process so as to reduce damage on a semiconductor package, a method of manufacturing the PCB, and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor package by using the PCB. An embodiment includes an apparatus comprising: a substrate body comprising an active area and a dummy area on an outer portion of the active area, the substrate body extending lengthwise in a first direction; a plurality of semiconductor units mounted on the active area; and a barrier formed on the dummy area, wherein the barrier extends in the first direction.
US10068877B2	Semiconductor device and method of forming WLCSP with semiconductor die embedded within interconnect structure A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor die. An encapsulant is deposited over the semiconductor die. An insulating layer is formed over the encapsulant and a first surface of the semiconductor die. A semiconductor component is disposed over the insulating layer and first surface of the semiconductor die. A first interconnect structure is formed over the encapsulant and first surface of the semiconductor die to embed the semiconductor component. A conductive via is formed in the semiconductor die. A heat sink is formed over the semiconductor die. A second interconnect structure is formed over a second surface of the semiconductor die opposite the first surface. A conductive layer is formed over the semiconductor component. An opening is formed in the insulating layer.
US10068876B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method therefor A semiconductor devise includes a first substrate and a second substrate which are bonded each other. A first substrate includes an insulating first surface film as an uppermost layer, a first electrode and an insulating second surface film respectively formed inside a plurality of openings in the first surface film, and a first seal ring. A second substrate includes an insulating third surface film as an uppermost layer, and a second electrode, an insulating fourth surface film respectively formed inside a plurality of openings in the third surface film, and a second seal ring. The first electrode and the second electrode are directly bonded together. The first surface film and the third surface film are directly bonded together. The second surface film and the fourth surface film are directly bonded together. A seal ring formed of the first seal ring, the second surface film, the fourth surface film, and the second seal ring is continuous between the first substrate and the second substrate.
US10068875B2	Apparatuses and methods for heat transfer from packaged semiconductor die Apparatuses and methods for heat transfer from packaged semiconductor die are described. For example, an apparatus may include a plurality of die in a stack, and a barrier in close proximity to at least an edge of each of the plurality of die. The apparatus may further include fill material in spaces between adjacent die of the plurality of die and in between the plurality of die and the barrier.
US10068874B2	Method for direct integration of memory die to logic die without use of thru silicon vias (TSV) A method including forming a first substrate including an integrated circuit device layer disposed between a plurality of first interconnects and a plurality of second interconnects; coupling a second substrate including a memory device layer to the first substrate so that the memory device layer is juxtaposed to one of the plurality of first interconnects and the plurality of second interconnects; and removing a portion of the first substrate. An apparatus including a device layer including a plurality of circuit devices disposed between a plurality of first interconnects and a plurality of second interconnects on a substrate; a memory device layer including a plurality of memory devices juxtaposed and coupled to one of the plurality of first interconnects and the plurality of second interconnects; and contacts points coupled to one of ones of the first plurality of interconnects and ones of the second plurality of interconnects.
US10068870B2	Semiconductor device including a connection unit and semiconductor device fabrication method of the same A semiconductor device includes a plurality of semiconductor units each including a laminated substrate formed by laminating an insulating board and a circuit board and a semiconductor element joined to the circuit board using a joining material which irreversibly makes a phase transition into a solid-phase state. In addition, the semiconductor device may include a base plate to which each of the plurality of semiconductor units is joined using solder and a connection unit which electrically connects the plurality of semiconductor units in parallel.
US10068866B2	Integrated circuit package having rectangular aspect ratio An integrated circuit (IC) packaging arrangement for surface mounting of the IC includes a package body that encapsulates one or more IC dies. The package body according to some embodiments has rectangular aspect ratio with a length dimension and a width dimension of different size. The IC packaging according to some embodiments includes leadless surface-mount electrical contacts. According to some embodiments, the leadless surface-mount contacts are situated in clusters at opposite ends of the length dimension of the IC body.
US10068864B2	Nanowires for pillar interconnects An embodiment of the invention may include a semiconductor structure, and method of forming the semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure may include a first set of pillars located on a first substrate. The semiconductor structure may include a second set of pillars located on a second substrate. The semiconductor structure may include a joining layer connecting the first pillar to the second pillar. The semiconductor structure may include an underfill layer located between the first and second substrate.
US10068863B2	Formation of solder and copper interconnect structures and associated techniques and configurations Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed toward formation of solder and copper interconnect structures and associated techniques and configurations. In one embodiment, a method includes providing an integrated circuit (IC) substrate and depositing a solderable material on the IC substrate using an ink deposition process, a binder printing system, or a powder laser sintering system. In another embodiment, a method includes providing an integrated circuit (IC) substrate and depositing a copper powder on the IC substrate using an additive process to form a copper interconnect structure. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10068862B2	Semiconductor device and method of forming a package in-fan out package A semiconductor device comprises a first semiconductor package including a first interconnect structure extending over a surface of the first semiconductor package. The first semiconductor package includes an interposer and a second semiconductor die disposed over the interposer. A second encapsulant is deposited over the interposer and second semiconductor die. A first semiconductor die is disposed over the surface of the first semiconductor package. A second interconnect structure extends from the first semiconductor die opposite the first semiconductor package. A first encapsulant is deposited over the first semiconductor package and first semiconductor die. A portion of the first encapsulant over the first interconnect structure and second interconnect structure is removed. A discrete component is disposed on the surface of the first semiconductor package. A build-up interconnect structure is formed over the first semiconductor package and first semiconductor die. The first semiconductor package includes a molded laser package.
US10068861B2	Semiconductor device Provided is a semiconductor device including a substrate, a pad, a protective layer, a plurality of convex patterns, a redistribution layer (RDL), and a bump. The pad is disposed on the substrate. The protective layer is disposed on the substrate. The protective layer has a first opening exposing a portion of a surface of the pad. The convex patterns are disposed on the protective layer. The RDL is disposed on the convex patterns. The RDL extends from the pad to the convex patterns. The bump is disposed on the convex patterns.
US10068853B2	Integrated fan-out package and method of fabricating the same An integrated fan-out package including an integrated circuit, an insulating encapsulation, and a redistribution circuit structure is provided. The integrated circuit includes an active surface, a plurality of sidewalls connected to the active surface, and a plurality of pads distributed on the active surface. The insulating encapsulation encapsulates the active surface and the sidewalls of the integrated circuit. The insulating encapsulation includes a plurality of first contact openings and a plurality of through holes, and the pads are exposed by the first contact openings. The redistribution circuit structure includes a redistribution conductive layer, wherein the redistribution conductive layer is disposed on the insulating encapsulation and is distributed in the first contact openings and the through holes. The redistribution conductive layer is electrically connected to the pads through the first contact openings. A method of fabricating the integrated fan-out package is also provided.
US10068850B2	Trench silicide with self-aligned contact vias A modified trench metal-semiconductor alloy formation method involves depositing a layer of a printable dielectric or a sacrificial carbon material within a trench structure and over contact regions of a semiconductor device, and then selectively removing the printable dielectric or sacrificial carbon material to segment the trench and form plural contact vias. A metallization layer is formed within the contact vias and over the contact regions.
US10068848B2	Semiconductor chip with integrated series resistances A semiconductor chip has a semiconductor body with a bottom side and a top side arranged distant from the bottom side in a vertical direction, an active and a non-active transistor region, a drift region formed in the semiconductor body, a contact terminal for externally contacting the semiconductor chip, and a plurality of transistor cells formed in the semiconductor body. Each of the transistor cells has a first electrode. Each of a plurality of connection lines electrically connects another one of the first electrodes to the contact terminal pad at a connecting location of the respective connection line. Each of the connection lines includes a resistance section formed of a locally increased specific resistance relative to a specific resistance of adjacent semiconductor material or metal of the respective connection line. Each of the connecting locations and each of the resistance sections is arranged in the non-active transistor region.
US10068846B2	Surface nitridation in metal interconnects Conductive contacts include a first conductor disposed within a first dielectric layer, the first conductor having a recessed area in least one surface. A second dielectric layer is formed over the first dielectric layer, comprising a trench positioned over the first conductor. A second conductor is formed in the trench and the recessed area to form a conductive contact with the first conductor.
US10068845B2	Seam healing of metal interconnects Embodiments of the present disclosure describe removing seams and voids in metal interconnects and associated techniques and configurations. In one embodiment, a method includes conformally depositing a metal into a recess disposed in a dielectric material to form an interconnect, wherein conformally depositing the metal creates a seam or void in the deposited metal within or directly adjacent to the recess and heating the metal in the presence of a reactive gas to remove the seam or void, wherein the metal has a melting point that is greater than a melting point of copper. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10068843B2	Semiconductor device and method of forming cavity in build-up interconnect structure for short signal path between die In a semiconductor device, a first semiconductor die is mounted with its active surface oriented to a temporary carrier. An encapsulant is deposited over the first semiconductor die and temporary carrier. The temporary carrier is removed to expose a first side of the encapsulant and active surface of the first semiconductor die. A masking layer is formed over the active surface of the first semiconductor die. A first interconnect structure is formed over the first side of the encapsulant. The masking layer blocks formation of the first interconnect structure over the active surface of the first semiconductor die. The masking layer is removed to form a cavity over the active surface of the first semiconductor die. A second semiconductor die is mounted in the cavity. The second semiconductor die is electrically connected to the active surface of the first semiconductor die with a short signal path.
US10068842B2	Single-layer wiring package substrate, single-layer wiring package structure having the package substrate, and method of fabricating the same A single-layer wiring package substrate and a method of fabricating the same are provided, the method including: forming on a carrier a wiring layer having a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface and being in contact with the carrier; forming on the carrier and on the wiring layer a dielectric body that has a first side having a first opening, from which a portion of the wiring layer is exposed, and a second side opposing the first side and disposed at the same side as the second surface of the wiring layer; and removing the carrier, with the second side of the dielectric body and the second surface of the wiring layer exposed. Therefore, a coreless package substrate is fabricated, and the overall thickness and cost of the substrate are reduced.
US10068834B2	Floating bond pad for power semiconductor devices Embodiments of a semiconductor device including a floating bond pad are disclosed. In one preferred embodiment, the semiconductor device is a power semiconductor device. In one embodiment, the semiconductor device includes a substrate that includes an active area and a control contact area, a first bond pad on the active area, a floating control bond pad on the control contact area and laterally extending over a portion of the first bond pad, and a dielectric between the portion of the first bond pad and the floating control bond pad. The floating control bond pad enables the active area to extend below the floating control bond pad, which in turn decreases a size of the power semiconductor device for a particular rated current or, conversely, increases a size of the active area and thus a rated current for a particular semiconductor die size.
US10068833B2	Heat module A heat module includes a fan, a heat sink, a heat transfer member, and a plurality of connection portions. The heat transfer member includes a lower surface capable of being in thermal contact with a heat source, and an upper surface thermally connected to the heat sink, and is arranged to overlap with at least a portion of the fan in a plan view. The plurality of connection portions are arranged between the heat transfer member and the housing to define an axial gap between an upper surface of the heat transfer member and a lower surface of the lower plate portion. The heat transfer member includes a heat source contact portion arranged on a side, closer to the fan, of an end portion of the fan at which the air outlet is defined.
US10068831B2	Thermally enhanced semiconductor package and process for making the same The present disclosure relates to a thermally enhanced semiconductor package, which includes a module substrate, a thinned flip chip die over the module substrate, a mold compound component, a thermally conductive film, and a thermally enhanced mold compound component. The mold compound component resides over the module substrate, surrounds the thinned flip chip die, and extends above an upper surface of the thinned flip chip die to form a cavity over the upper surface of the thinned flip chip die. The thermally conductive film resides over at least the upper surface of the thinned flip chip at the bottom of the cavity. The thermally enhanced mold compound component resides over at least a portion of the thermally conductive film to fill the cavity.
US10068830B2	Compressible thermal interface materials Provided is a compressible thermal interface material including a polymer, a thermally conductive filler, and a phase change material. A formulation for forming a compressible thermal interface material and an electronic component including a compressible thermal interface material are also provided.
US10068826B2	Package device Provided is a package device, relating to the technical field of lamp beads. The package device comprises an SMD holder, wherein the SMD holder is a hollow housing with one end opened; and the material of sidewalls of the SMD holder is transparent plastic. In the package device provided by the present invention, a transparent material is provided as the material of the sidewalls of the SMD holder, and light generated after a chip is powered on can be partially transmitted out through the sidewalls of the SMD holder, avoiding blocking of the light generated after the chip is powered on by the sidewalls of the SMD holder, thereby increasing transmittance of light from the chip.
US10068825B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor element which includes semiconductor substrate, an insulating film formed on a front surface of the semiconductor substrate and having an opening, and an electrode formed in the opening on the front surface of the semiconductor substrate; and a first protective film disposed to cover the semiconductor element. The insulating film has a thickness of not less than 1/500 of a thickness of the semiconductor substrate and not more than 4 μm. The insulating film has a compressive stress per film thickness of not less than 100 MPa/μm.
US10068822B2	Semiconductor package and method for forming the same A method for forming semiconductor packages includes disposing at least one flow hindering supporter onto a substrate, in which the substrate has at least one active region and at least one gap region surrounded the active region, the flow hindering supporter is located on the gap region; subsequently, disposing at least one die structure onto the active region of the substrate respectively; and then injecting a molding compound flowed into the gap region, to mold the flow hindering supporter and the die structure with the molding compound.
US10068820B2	Electronic element package and method for manufacturing the same The present disclosure relates to an electronic element package and a method of manufacturing the same. The electronic element package includes a substrate, an element disposed on the substrate, and a cap enclosing the element. One of the substrate and the cap includes a groove, the other of the substrate and the cap includes a protrusion engaging with the groove. A first metal layer and a second metal layer form a metallic bond with each other in a space between the groove and the protrusion.
US10068819B2	Semiconductor device A relay substrate in which a circuit pattern and an external electrode are integrated on a insulating plate is used in the semiconductor device. Such configuration makes it possible to reduce a resistance in a current path while preventing the problems occurring when the external electrode is soldered on the semiconductor chip.
US10068818B2	Semiconductor element package, semiconductor device, and mounting structure A semiconductor element package includes a base body, a frame member, and a terminal member. The frame member is provided on a main surface of the base body. A notch is formed on the base body side of this frame member. The notch is a gap between the one main surface of the base body and the frame member. The terminal member is provided so as to cover the notch as the gap. The terminal member includes a first dielectric layer, a plurality of signal wiring conductors and a plurality of coplanar ground conductor layers that are provided on one surface of the first dielectric layer, and a second dielectric layer. The first dielectric layer has a hole provided open in a region of the one surface between a first wiring conductor and a second wiring conductor.
US10068817B2	Semiconductor package A semiconductor package and die assembly with a package having an exterior surface and an interior space, the interior space defined by a first side wall, and a second side wall that opposes the first side wall. Also part of the assembly is a package floor and a package ceiling. The package floor includes package floor conductors. The package ceiling opposes the package floor and includes package ceiling conductors in the package ceiling. One or more semiconductor dies are on the floor of the package floor. Electrical conductors electrically connect the one or more floor dies to the package floor conductors. One or more semiconductor dies are located on the package ceiling. Electrical conductors are configured to electrically connect the one or more ceiling dies to the package ceiling conductors. An air space is located between the package floor and the package ceiling.
US10068815B2	Test structure for testing via resistance and method Aspects of the present disclosure include a semiconductor test device and method. The test device includes a first Kelvin testable structure and a second Kelvin testable structure. The first Kelvin testable structure includes an upper metal plate, a plurality of dummy vias and one measurement via under and electrically connected to the upper plate and a lower metal island electrically connected to the one measurement via. The second Kelvin testable structure includes an upper reference metal plate, a reference via under and electrically connected to the upper reference metal plate, and a lower metal reference island electrically connected to the reference via.
US10068813B2	Array substrate, liquid crystal display panel and broken-line repairing method thereof According to the present disclosure, there is disclosed an array substrate, a liquid crystal display panel and a broken-line repairing method thereof. The array substrate comprises: signal lines, which includes a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines intersecting with each other; and a plurality of pixel units defined by the gate lines and the data lines, wherein a thin film transistor, a common electrode and a pixel electrode, which is connected to a drain of the thin film transistor, are formed in each of the pixel units, for each of the pixel units, at the positions of two corners which are adjacent to one of the data lines, a first repair area and a second repair area are formed, respectively; within the first repair area and the second repair area, patterns of the pixel electrode and the data line overlap, and there is no pattern of the common electrode.
US10068812B2	Method and structure for flip-chip package reliability monitoring using capacitive sensors groups Flip-chip package reliability monitoring and systems of monitoring using capacitive sensors are disclosed. The monitoring is conducted in situ and in real-time without the need for destructive testing of the packages. The capacitive sensors can be used for flip-chip package reliability monitoring.
US10068810B1	Multiple Fin heights with dielectric isolation A method of forming semiconductor fins having different fin heights and which are dielectrically isolated from an underlying semiconductor substrate. The fins may be formed by etching an active epitaxial layer that is disposed over the substrate. An intervening sacrificial epitaxial layer may be used to template growth of the active epitaxial layer, and is then removed and backfilled with an isolation dielectric layer. The isolation dielectric layer may be disposed between bottom surfaces of the fins and the substrate, and may be deposited, for example, following the etching process used to define the fins. Within different regions of the substrate, dielectrically isolated fins of different heights may have substantially co-planar top surfaces.
US10068809B2	TFT backplane manufacturing method and TFT backplane The invention provides a manufacturing method for TFT backplane, through forming an oxygen-containing a-Si layer on the buffer layer and an oxygen-free a-Si layer on the oxygen-containing a-Si layer so that when using a boron induced SPC to crystallize the a-Si thin film, the contact interface between the a-Si thin film and the buffer layer is the oxygen-containing a-Si layer; because the nucleation is not easy to occur in oxygen-containing a-Si layer during high temperature crystallization, the nucleation only occurs top-down in the boron doped layer on the upper surface of the a-Si thin film for good die quality and thin film uniformity to achieve improve crystalline quality and uniformity. The TFT backplane provided by the invention is made with simple process, wherein the crystalline quality and uniformity of the polysilicon layer is preferable, and can enhance the TFT performance and the driving effect.
US10068806B2	Method, apparatus, and system for using a cover mask for enabling metal line jumping over MOL features in a standard cell At least one method, apparatus and system disclosed involves providing an integrated circuit having metal feature flyover over an middle-of-line (MOL) feature. A first location for a non-contact intersection region between a first middle of line (MOL) interconnect feature and a metal feature in a functional cell is determined. A dielectric feature is formed over the first MOL interconnect feature at the first location. The metal feature is formed over the dielectric layer, the dielectric layer providing a predetermined amount of voltage isolation between the first MOL interconnect feature and the metal feature.
US10068804B2	Methods, apparatus and system for providing adjustable fin height for a FinFET device A method and system are disclosed herein for an adjustable effective fin height in a gate region of a finFET device. Fin structures, each having a first height, a fin, an oxide liner, and a nitride liner, are formed. A first portion of the nitride liner is removed. A first portion of the oxide liner is removed. A second portion of the nitride liner in a gate portion of the finFET. Source/drain(s) are formed, and a nitride spacer between the source/drain and the gate portion is formed. A second portion of the oxide liner is exposed by removing the second portion of the nitride liner, exposing a second portion of the fin, wherein the first and second exposed portions of the fin being an effective fin height in the gate portion.
US10068802B2	Threshold mismatch and IDDQ reduction using split carbon co-implantation An integrated circuit containing MOS transistors may be formed using a split carbon co-implantation. The split carbon co-implant includes an angled carbon implant and a zero-degree carbon implant that is substantially perpendicular to a top surface of the integrated circuit. The split carbon co-implant is done at the LDD and halo implant steps.
US10068798B2	Method and processing apparatus for performing pre-treatment to form copper wiring in recess formed in substrate There is provided a method for performing a pre-treatment to form a copper wiring in a recess formed in a substrate, which includes forming a barrier layer on a surface of the substrate that defines the recess, and forming a seed layer on the barrier layer. The method further includes at least one of etching the barrier layer and etching the seed layer. In the at least one of etching the barrier layer and etching the seed layer, the substrate is inclined with respect to an irradiation direction of ions while rotating the substrate.
US10068796B2	Semiconductor device manufacturing method A semiconductor device manufacturing method includes forming a first hole in a first processed layer. A first sacrificial film is formed in the first hole. A hole portion is formed in the first sacrificial film. A second sacrificial film is formed in the hole portion. A second processed layer is formed above the first sacrificial film and the second sacrificial film, and a second hole is formed in the second processed layer to expose the second sacrificial film. A third sacrificial film is formed on an inner side surface of the second hole, and a fourth sacrificial film is formed on the third sacrificial film. The second sacrificial film is etched using the fourth sacrificial film as a mask. The third sacrificial film exposed by etching the second sacrificial film is etched. The second processed layer is etched using the third sacrificial film as a mask.
US10068795B2	Methods for preparing layered semiconductor structures Methods for preparing layered semiconductor structures are disclosed. The methods may involve pretreating an ion-implanted donor wafer by annealing the ion-implanted donor wafer to cause a portion of the ions to out-diffuse prior to wafer bonding. The donor structure may be bonded to a handle structure and cleaved without re-implanting ions into the donor structure.
US10068794B2	Gate all around device architecture with hybrid wafer bond technique A system and method for fabricating non-planar devices while managing semiconductor processing yield and cost are described. A semiconductor device fabrication process forms a stack of alternating semiconductor layers. A trench is etched and filled with at least an oxide layer with a length at least that of a device channel length while being bounded by sites for a source region and a drain region. The process places a second silicon substrate on top of both the oxide layer in the trench and the top-most semiconducting layer of the stack. The two surfaces making contact by wafer bonding use the same type of semiconducting layer. The device is flipped such that the first substrate and the stack are on top of the second substrate. The process forms nanowires of a gate region from the stack in the top first substrate.
US10068793B1	Semiconductor structure for preventing generation of void and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor structure including a substrate, an isolation structure, a first gate structure, a second gate structure and a protection layer is provided. The isolation structure is disposed on the substrate. The first gate structure and the second gate structure are adjacent to each other and disposed on the isolation structure. Each of the first gate structure and the second gate structure includes a conductive layer. The protection layer is disposed between the first gate structure and the second gate structure and covers the isolation structure between the first gate structure and the second gate structure.
US10068792B2	Method and apparatus for liquid treatment of wafer shaped articles An apparatus for processing wafer-shaped articles comprises a rotary chuck adapted to hold a wafer shaped article thereon. The rotary chuck comprises a peripheral series of pins configured to contact an edge region of a wafer-shaped article. Each of the pins projects from the rotary chuck, and each of the pins comprises a projecting portion having a gripping element at a distal end thereof, and a proximal portion comprising a drive mechanism at a proximal end thereof by which the pin can be rotated. The projecting portion and the proximal portion comprise interengageable connectors configured to allow the projecting and proximal portions to be interconnected by pressing the projecting portion against the proximal portion and to be disconnected by pulling the projecting portion away from the proximal portion.
US10068789B2	Method of using a wafer cassette to charge an electrostatic carrier A method comprising placing a wafer assembly in a wafer cassette, wherein the wafer assembly includes a wafer and an electrostatic carrier attached to the wafer. In addition, the electrostatic carrier is charged through the wafer cassette, the wafer cassette is transported to a next process stage, and the wafer assembly is removed from the wafer cassette.
US10068788B2	Communication device and method for controlling communication device A communication device includes a communicator that performs communication via a network, IO ports that connect with a manufacturing apparatus, a packet monitor that monitors, via the communicator, packet data communicated to and from the manufacturing apparatus via the network, an IO monitor that monitors states of the IO ports, and a controller configured or programmed to transmit monitoring information to a transportation apparatus via the communicator, the transportation apparatus transporting a processing target, and the monitoring information being obtained through the monitoring performed by the packet monitor and the IO monitor.
US10068787B2	Bowing semiconductor wafers Methods for processing semiconductor wafers, methods for loading semiconductor wafers into wafer carriers, and semiconductor wafer carriers. The methods and wafer carriers can be used for increasing the rigidity of wafers, e.g., large and thin wafers, by intentionally bowing the wafers to an extent that does not break the wafers. In some examples, a method for processing semiconductor wafers includes loading each semiconductor wafer into a respective semiconductor wafer slot of a semiconductor wafer carrier, horizontally bowing each semiconductor wafer, and moving the semiconductor wafer carrier into a processing station and processing the semiconductor wafers at the processing station while the semiconductor wafers are loaded into the semiconductor wafer carrier and horizontally bowed.
US10068786B1	Data structures for semiconductor die packaging At least some embodiments are directed to a system that comprises storage comprising a data structure that cross-references an identifier of a semiconductor wafer, a location of a die in the wafer, an identifier of a lead frame strip, a location of a lead frame in the lead frame strip, and results of a first test on the die. The system also comprises mechanical equipment configured to test packaged die. The system further comprises a processor, coupled to the storage and to the mechanical equipment, configured to perform a second test on a package containing the die and the lead frame using the mechanical equipment and the results of the first test.
US10068784B2	Indicator used in electronic device manufacturing apparatus and method for designing and/or managing the apparatus Provided is an indicator that can easily detect whether treatment with at least one member of plasma, ozone, ultraviolet rays, and radical-containing gas is uniformly performed on an entire substrate in an electronic device manufacturing apparatus; also provided is a method for designing and/or managing an electronic device manufacturing apparatus using the indicator. The indicator is used in an electronic device manufacturing apparatus, wherein (1) the indicator detects at least one member selected from the group consisting of plasma, ozone, ultraviolet rays, and radical-containing gas, (2) the indicator has a shape that is the same as that of a substrate used in the electronic device manufacturing apparatus, (3) the indicator contains a color-changing layer, and (4) the color-changing layer is formed by an ink composition whose color changes or disappears by reaction with at least one member selected from the group consisting of plasma, ozone, ultraviolet rays, and radical-containing gas.
US10068783B2	Sample holder A sample holder of the present invention includes a base body formed of ceramic substrates laminated to each other and having an upper surface functioning as a sample holding surface. In this sample holder, the base body includes a first ceramic substrate including a flow path for a heating medium and a second ceramic substrate which is laminated at an upper side than the first ceramic substrate, which has an upper surface functioning as the sample holding surface, and which is formed of the same material as that of the first ceramic substrate, and the average grain diameter of ceramic grains forming the second ceramic substrate is smaller than that of ceramic grains forming the first ceramic substrate.
US10068782B2	Device and method for scribing a bottom-side of a substrate while viewing the top side A device includes a table surface defining a horizontal plane having an x-axis and a y-axis orthogonal to the x-axis and the x-axis and y-axis lie in the horizontal plane; a scribe mounted below the horizontal plane, the scribe further disposed to present at least a portion of the tip above the horizontal plane; a rail arranges parallel to the y-axis and movable in a direction parallel to the x-axis; a sample guide configured in relation to the horizontal plane so that the sample guide arranges parallel to the x-axis and movable in a direction parallel to the y-axis; a scribe stop guide configured in relation to the horizontal plane so that the scribe guide arranges parallel to the x-axis and movable in a direction parallel to the y-axis, whereby the sample guide moves independent of the scribe stop, the scribe stop further comprising a locking mechanism.
US10068780B2	Lead frame connected with heterojunction semiconductor body A semiconductor component includes a semiconductor chip including a first semiconductor body comprising silicon and a second semiconductor body attached to an upper side of the first semiconductor body and comprising a III-nitride, and a lead-frame connected with the first semiconductor body. A thickness ratio between a thickness of the semiconductor chip and a thickness of the lead-frame is smaller than 1.3 or larger than 1.9.
US10068779B2	Systems and methods for fabricating a polycrystaline semiconductor resistor on a semiconductor substrate In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an integrated circuit may include at least one region of shallow-trench isolation field oxide, at least one region of dummy diffusion, and a polycrystalline semiconductor resistor. The at least one region of shallow-trench isolation field oxide may be formed on a semiconductor substrate. The at least one region of dummy diffusion may be formed adjacent to the at least one region of shallow-trench isolation field oxide on the semiconductor substrate. The polycrystalline semiconductor resistor may comprise at least one resistor arm formed with a polycrystalline semiconductor material, wherein the at least one resistor arm is formed over each of the at least one region of shallow-trench isolation field oxide and the at least one region of dummy diffusion.
US10068772B2	Recess channel semiconductor non-volatile memory device and fabricating the same A recess channel semiconductor non-volatile memory (NVM) device is disclosed. The recess channel MOSFET devices by etching into the silicon substrate for the device channel have been applied to advanced DRAM process nodes. The same etching process of the recess channel MOSFET device is applied to form the recess channel semiconductor NVM device. The tunneling oxides are grown on silicon surface after the recess channel hole etching process. The storing material is deposited into the recess channel holes with coupling dielectrics on top of the storing material. The gate material is then deposited and etched to form the control gate. Owing to the recess channel embedded below the silicon substrate, the scaling challenges such as gate channel length, floating gate interference, high aspect ratio for gate stack etching, and the mechanical stability of gate formation for the semiconductor NVM device can be significantly reduced.
US10068764B2	Selective metal oxide deposition using a self-assembled monolayer surface pretreatment Embodiments of the invention provide methods for selective film deposition using a surface pretreatment. According to one embodiment, the method includes providing a substrate containing a dielectric layer and a metal layer, exposing the substrate to a reactant gas containing a molecule that forms self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on the substrate, and thereafter, selectively depositing a metal oxide film on a surface of the dielectric layer relative to a surface of the metal layer by exposing the substrate to a deposition gas.
US10068763B2	Coating film forming method, coating film forming apparatus, and storage medium A method of forming a coating film includes horizontally supporting a substrate, supplying a coating solution to a central portion of the substrate and spreading the coating solution by a centrifugal force by rotating the substrate at a first rotational speed, decreasing a speed of the substrate from the first rotational speed toward a second rotational speed and rotating the substrate at the second rotational speed to make a surface of a liquid film of the coating solution even, supplying a gas to a surface of the substrate when the substrate is rotated at the second rotational speed to reduce fluidity of the coating solution, and drying the surface of the substrate by rotating the substrate at a third rotational speed faster than the second rotational speed.
US10068759B2	Mass spectrometry systems with convective flow of buffer gas for enhanced signals and related methods Mass spectrometry systems include an ionizer, mass analyzer and the detector, with a high pressure chamber holding the mass analyzer and a separate chamber holding the detector to allow for differential background pressures where P2
US10068758B2	Ion mass separation using RF extraction An apparatus which has the capability of filtering unwanted species from an extracted ion beam without the use of a mass analyzer magnet is disclosed. The apparatus includes an ion source having chamber walls that are biased by an RF voltage. The use of RF extraction causes ions to exit the ion source at different energies, where the energy of each ion species is related to its mass. The extracted ion beam can then be filtered using only electrostatic energy filters to eliminate the unwanted species. The electrostatic energy filter may act as a high pass filter, allowing ions having an energy above a certain threshold to reach the workpiece. Alternatively, the electrostatic energy filter may act as a low pass filter, allowing ions having an energy below a certain threshold to reach the workpiece. In another embodiment, the electrostatic energy filter operates as a bandpass filter.
US10068757B2	Strong field photoionization ion source for a mass spectrometer An ion source for a mass spectrometer comprises: an evacuated chamber having an interior receiving a gaseous sample effluent stream; a source of light pulses of pulse width 150 femtoseconds or less; a window of the evacuated chamber through which the light pulses pass into the evacuated chamber interior; one or more mirrors within the evacuated chamber disposed such that the light pulses are reflected from each of the one or mirrors such that the reflected pulses are caused to focus at one or more focal regions within the effluent stream within the evacuated chamber interior; and a pair of electrodes disposed at opposite sides of the one or more focal regions.
US10068756B2	Mass spectrometer The objective of the presently disclosed subject matter is to provide a mass spectrometer that improves the ionic permeability ratio at the entrance to an ion transport part or the entrance to a mass spectrometry part, and to acquire a high-sensitivity mass spectrum. To reduce the electric-field distortion that is caused by ion loss, electrodes are arranged so that the radius of a circle inscribed within the electrodes of the ion transport part is larger than the radius of a circle inscribed within the electrodes of the mass spectrometry part. The entrance to the electrodes of the mass spectrometry part also can have a tapered, inclined, folded-over, or rounded configuration. Together, these reduce the sharply fluctuating (peak-shaped) distribution of electric potential generated near the entrance to the ion transport part and the entrance to the mass spectrometry part.
US10068755B2	Photo-dissociation of proteins and peptides in a mass spectrometer A method of mass spectrometry is disclosed comprising directing first photons from a laser onto ions located within a 2D or linear ion guide or ion trap. The frequency of the first photons is scanned and first photons and/or second photons emitted by the ions are detected. The ions are then mass analysed using a Time of Flight mass analyser.
US10068753B2	Systems and methods for identifying precursor ions from product ions using arbitrary transmission windowing A transmission window that has a constant rate of precursor ion transmission for each precursor ion is stepped across a mass range, producing a series of overlapping transmission windows across the mass range. The precursor ions produced at each step are fragmented. Resulting product ions are analyzed, producing a product ion spectrum for each step of the transmission window and a plurality of product ion spectra for the mass range. For at least one product ion of the plurality of product ion spectra, a function that describes how an intensity of the at least one product ion from the plurality of product ion spectra varies with precursor ion mass as the transmission window is stepped across the mass range is calculated. A precursor ion of the at least one product ion is identified from the function. An elution profile can also be determined from the function.
US10068752B2	Multiplexed precursor isolation for mass spectrometry Systems and methods for multiplexed precursor ion selection are provided. A mass isolator includes a selection region of rods, a transmission region of rods, and a barrier electrode lens separating the selection and transmission regions. Two or more different precursor ions are selected by applying two or more different AC voltage frequencies to rods of a selection region in order to resonate the two or more different precursor ions from a continuous beam of ions. The two or more different precursor ions are transmitted by applying a DC voltage to the barrier electrode lens, creating an electric field potential barrier over which only the resonating ions are transmitted. Precursor ions of product ions from combined product ion spectra produced by multiplexed precursor ion selection are identified by grouping the target precursor ions.
US10068750B2	Blanking aperture array apparatus, charged particle beam lithography apparatus, and electrode testing method In one embodiment, a BAA apparatus 204 includes apertures 3, each of which being provided to blank charged particle beams 20. The apparatus 204 further includes first electrodes 6a, second electrodes 6b, first via plugs 5a, second via plugs 5c, drivers 2 and comparison circuitries 7 that are provided for each aperture 3, wherein a first electrode 6a and a second electrode 6b are opposite to each other, first and second via plug 5a and 5c are electrically connected to the first electrode 6a, a driver 2 supplies a driving signal to the first electrode 6a via the first via plug 5a, and a comparison circuitry 7 is provided to correspond to the first electrode 6a and compares the driving signal and a signal obtained from the second via 5c plug to output a comparison result signal indicating a result of the comparison.
US10068749B2	Preparation of lamellae for TEM viewing A method and apparatus for producing thin lamella for TEM observation. The steps of the method are robust and can be used to produce lamella in an automated process. In some embodiments, a protective coating have a sputtering rate matched to the sputtering rate of the work piece is deposited before forming the lamella. In some embodiments, the bottom of the lamella slopes away from the feature of interest, which keeps the lamella stable and reduces movement during thinning. In some embodiments, a fiducial is used to position the beam for the final thinning, instead of using an edge of the lamella. In some embodiments, the tabs are completed after high ion energy final thinning to keep the lamella more stable. In some embodiments, a defocused low ion energy and pattern refresh delay is used for the final cut to reduce deformation of the lamella.
US10068748B2	Scanning an object using multiple mechanical stages A method for scanning an object, the method may include moving an object by a first mechanical stage that follows a first scan pattern; introducing multiple movements, by a second mechanical stage, between the object and the first mechanical stage while the first mechanical stage follows the first scan pattern; and obtaining, by optics, images of multiple suspected defects while the first mechanical stage follows the first scan pattern; wherein a weight of the first mechanical stage exceeds a weight of the second mechanical stage.
US10068747B2	Methods and devices for examining an electrically charged specimen surface A method for examining a specimen surface with a probe of a scanning probe microscope, the specimen surface having an electrical potential distribution. The method includes (a) determining the electrical potential distribution of at least one first partial region of the specimen surface; and (b) modifying the electrical potential distribution in the at least one first partial region of the specimen surface and/or modifying an electrical potential of the probe of the scanning probe microscope before scanning at least one second partial region of the specimen surface.
US10068745B2	Charged particle beam device and sample holder for charged particle beam device The purpose of the present invention is to provide a charged particle beam device and a sample holder for the charged particle beam device by which it is possible to form various environments, and perform in-situ observation and analysis without removing a sample from the charged particle beam device. In the present invention, inserting a detachable reverse side entry portion from a side facing a sample holding means, said portion being provided with a function for changing the state of a sample attached to the sample holding means, makes it possible to observe/analyze changes in the sample by a different process without removing the sample from the charged particle beam device by combining a reverse side entry portion having a different function with the sample holding means. The reverse side entry portion comprises two parts, and a tip thereof, which is one of the parts, is removable. After mounting the reverse side entry portion onto the sample holding means, the sample can be transported while maintaining the same atmosphere, and the sample can be transported between different devices without exposing the sample to air.
US10068744B2	Charged particle optical apparatus for through-the lens detection of particles Disclosed is a charged particle optical apparatus. The charged particle optical apparatus has a liner electrode in a first vacuum zone. The liner electrode is used to generate an electrostatic objective lens field. The apparatus has a second electrode which surrounds at least a section of the primary particle beam path. The section extends in the first vacuum zone and downstream of the liner electrode. A third electrode is provided having a differential pressure aperture through which the particle beam path exits from the first vacuum zone. A particle detector is configured for detecting emitted particles, which are emitted from the object and which pass through the differential pressure aperture of the third electrode. The liner electrode, the second and third electrodes are operable at different potentials relative to each other.
US10068743B2	Ion source devices and methods An ion source includes a chamber defining an interior cavity for ionization, an electron beam source at a first end of the interior cavity, an inlet for introducing ionizable gas into the chamber, and an arc slit for extracting ions from the chamber. The chamber includes an electrically conductive ceramic.
US10068742B2	Radiation generating tube, radiation generating apparatus, radiography system and manufacturing method thereof The present invention relates to a radiation generating tube. The radiation generating tube includes an envelope including an insulating tubular member having at least two openings, a cathode connected to one of the openings of the insulating tubular member, and an anode connected to the other of the openings of the insulating tubular member. At least one of the cathode and the anode and the insulating tubular member are bonded at a bonded portion with an electrically conductive bonding member; and the bonded portion bonded with the electrically conductive bonding member is coated with a dielectric layer.
US10068737B2	Fuse holder and carrier A fuse holder for holding a fuse is provided. The fuse holder includes a body, a line side connector supported by the body, and a load side connector supported by the body. The fuse holder also includes a fuse carrier supported by the body. The fuse carrier is adapted for holding the fuse and the fuse carrier is adapted to be removed from the fuse holder. The fuse carrier defines a longitudinal axis thereof. The fuse carrier is separable from the body in a direction along the longitudinal axis of the fuse carrier.
US10068733B2	Micro-electromechanical system relay circuit A switching system includes a MEMS switching circuit having a MEMS switch and a driver circuit, and an auxiliary circuit coupled in parallel with the MEMS switching circuit that comprises solid state switching circuitry. A control circuit in communication with the MEMS switching circuit and the auxiliary circuit performs selective switching of a load current towards the MEMS switching circuitry and the auxiliary circuit, with the control circuit programmed to transmit a control signal to the driver circuit to cause the MEMS switch to actuate to an open or closed position across a switching interval, activate the auxiliary circuit during the switching interval when the MEMS switch is switching between the open and closed positions, and deactivate the auxiliary circuit upon reaching the open or closed position after completion of the switching interval, such that the load current selectively flows through the MEMS switch and the solid state switching circuitry.
US10068732B2	Pyrotechnic circuit breaker A circuit breaker includes at least one electrical conductor for connection to an electrical circuit, a housing, a die, a punch movable relative to the housing to pass from a first position to a second position, and a pyrotechnical actuator to make the punch pass from the first position to the second position when ignited. The punch passes from the first position to the second position to cut the at least one electrical conductor into at least two distinct parts, and establish between the punch and the die, at least one electrical arc between the at least two distinct parts when the circuit breaker is connected to a live electrical circuit. When the punch is in the second position, at least one passage is between the at least two distinct part guides the at least one electrical arc between the distinct parts. A punch die unit includes at least one material designed to be withdrawn by ablation by the at least one electrical arc for generating gas suitable for increasing a voltage of the at least one electrical arc.
US10068731B2	Framework of relay and relay A framework part of a relay and a relay. An inner hollow portion and peripheral windows are formed by the framework. The windows are communicated with the exterior of the framework and the hollow portion. At least one group of contactors that can correspondingly contact are accommodated in the hollow portion. An arc gap is formed between the contactors that can correspondingly contact. The windows are aligned with the arc gap from an outer side. A main body of the framework is a hollowed injection molding framework, and has multiple windows that are aligned with the arc gap from the outer side, so that, under the precondition of ensuring the structural strength, materials can be reduced and the cost can be reduced. The windows can be used for installing functional components such as magnetic steel, a resistant act clip or an arcing and are extinguishing piece. The framework is made be applicable to relays and breakers having more functions and requirements, so as to improve a scope of application of products to a great extent and facilitate reduction of molds and other manufacturing costs.
US10068730B2	Hybrid relay A relay (1) includes a motor (20) and a primary electrical switch assembly (132). Primary electrical switching attachment points (113) are switched by a moveable switching link (101) which is moved in and out of the switch on an switched off position axially by the motor (20) in response to electrical signals delivered to the coil (26) via the flexible leads (32, 33). The switching link (101) includes a mercury reservoir (119). A piezoelectric disk bender (105) displaces mercury to close the gaps between the attachment points (113).
US10068728B2	Touchpad with capacitive force sensing Described herein are techniques related to a touchpad with capacitive force sensing. The described techniques may determine the point or region of a user-engagement surface contacted by a user. In addition, the described techniques may also determine a force of the user's finger press on the user-engagement surface using one or more capacitance force-sensors. Furthermore, the described techniques may offer active tactile feedback (i.e., haptics) to the user's finger touching the user-engagement surface. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US10068720B2	Electrical system, and electrical switching apparatus and guard member therefor A guard member is for an electrical switching apparatus of an electrical system. The electrical system includes at least one electrical conductor. The electrical switching apparatus is structured to move from a CLOSED position to an OPEN position in response to a trip condition. The electrical switching apparatus has a terminal end coupled to the electrical conductor. The guard member includes a body having a receiving portion structured to receive the electrical conductor, and a coupling portion extending from the receiving portion and being structured to be coupled to the terminal end. The coupling portion has a number of thru holes in order to dissipate heat generated by the electrical switching apparatus moving from the CLOSED position to the OPEN position.
US10068719B2	Safety mat for safeguarding a technical installation Safety mat for safeguarding an electrically driven installation, comprising a sensor, a rigid supporting body and an evaluation unit. The supporting body has a top side, a rear side and first and second side faces, adjoining the top and rear sides. The sensor has an active surface covering the top side of the supporting body. The rear side has an opening for contacting an evaluation unit arranged in the interior of the supporting body that is configured to provide an output signal depending on the actuation of the sensor. The first side face has a first cavity and the second side face has a second cavity. The rear side has a first and a second cable guide. The first cable guide connects the opening to the first cavity and the second cable guide connects the opening to the second cavity.
US10068715B2	Activated carbon and electric double layer capacitor thereof An activated carbon composition having a relatively high transition metal content and a low covalent oxygen as defined herein. Also disclosed is a method of making and using the disclosed activated carbon composition, and an EDLC article incorporating the activated carbon composition.
US10068714B2	Energy storage module comprising a plurality of energy storage assemblies An energy storage module (10) including a plurality of energy storage assemblies (12) electrically connected to one another, the module including an external casing (40) in which are arranged the storage assemblies (12) and at least one heat exchanger (24). The energy storage assemblies (12) are arranged side by side on at least two distinct levels (N1, N2). The heat exchangers (24) are positioned between two adjacent levels. The exchangers (24) are fixed to the casing (40) of the module at least at a securing wall (28) that is distinct from the contact faces (26A, 26B). The securing walls and the casing are configured so that the module has a space between the corresponding securing walls (28; 44) of the exchanger and of the casing.
US10068710B2	Laminated ceramic electronic component and method for manufacturing same A laminated ceramic electronic component that includes a laminate having a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrode layers laminated together. External electrodes having underlying electrode layers and plating layers are formed on both end surfaces of the laminate. When a cross-section including the underlying electrode layers is observed, the underlying electrode layers contain a plurality of Cu crystals and glass, and an average value of lengths of demarcation lines of the Cu crystals having different crystal orientations is 3 μm or less.
US10068706B2	Multilayer polymer dielectric film A multilayer polymer dielectric film includes a stack of coextruded, alternating first dielectric layers and second dielectric layers that receive electrical charge. The first dielectric layers include a first polymer material and the second dielectric layers include a second polymer material different from the first polymer material. The first polymer material has a permittivity greater than the second polymer material. The second polymer material has a breakdown strength greater than the first polymer material. Adjoining first dielectric layers and second dielectric layers define an interface between the layers that delocalizes electrical charge build-up in the layers. The stack has substantially the crystallographic symmetry before and during receiving electrical charge.
US10068698B2	Device and method for reducing a magnetic unidirectional flux component of a transformer core A device for reducing a magnetic unidirectional flux component in the core of a transformer includes at least one compensation winding, which is magnetically coupled to the core of the transformer, at least one switching unit in series with the compensation winding to feed a current into the compensation winding, and at least one current-limiting reactor in series with the compensation winding, wherein two switching units are connected in parallel with each other per current-limiting reactor and the current-limiting reactor comprises two windings, which can be connected either in series or in parallel with each other, in order to reduce the number of current-limiting reactors in comparison with conventional cascaded circuits.
US10068694B2	Integrated circuits and coupled inductors with isotropic magnetic cores, and methods for fabricating the same Integrated circuits and coupled inductors with isotropic magnetic cores, and methods for fabricating integrated circuits and coupled inductors with isotropic magnetic cores are provided. In an embodiment, a method for fabricating an integrated circuit is provided. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate and forming an isotropic magnetic core bottom yoke over the semiconductor substrate. Further, the method includes forming an inductor coil over the isotropic magnetic core bottom yoke. Also, the method includes forming isotropic magnetic core sidewalls over the isotropic magnetic core bottom yoke and around the inductor coil. The method includes forming an isotropic magnetic core top yoke over the isotropic magnetic core sidewalls and over the inductor coil.
US10068692B2	Magnetic block locking of an electronic device An electronic device comprising a first portion and a second portion pivotably connected to each other is disclosed. The electronic device is pivotable between a closed position and an open position. The device comprises a magnetically attractable arrangement within or on the second portion and a magnetic arrangement comprising a magnet having a magnetic field and a magnetic shielding element disposed within or on the first portion. At least one of the magnet or the magnetic shielding element is configured to move translationally with respect to the other between a shielded position and an engaging position when the first portion is pivoted with respect to the second portion. In the shielded position, the magnetic shielding element at least partially reduces a portion of the magnetic field extending outside of the first portion. In the engaging position, the magnet engages the magnetically attractable arrangement.
US10068688B2	Superconducting article with compliant layers A composition for a plurality of configurations of a high-temperature superconductor tape including a superconducting film disposed on a compliant film or sandwiched or captured between at least one pair of compliant film layers.
US10068686B2	Coaxial cable A coaxial cable includes an internal conductor, an insulator that is provided at an outer circumference of the internal conductor, a film that is provided at an outer circumference of the insulator, an external conductor that is provided at an outer circumference of the film, a sheath that is provided at an outer circumference of the external conductor, and an adhesive layer that is provided between the insulator and the film and that bonds the insulator and the film with each other.
US10068683B1	Rare earth materials as coating compositions for conductors A conductor includes a core with at least one conductive filament, and a coating deposited on a surface of the core. The coating is made of a rare earth material that includes at least one rare earth element selected from the group consisting of Lanthanum (La), Cerium (Ce), Praseodymium (Pr), Neodymium (Nd), Promethium (Pm), Samarium (Sm), Europium (Eu), Gadolinium (Gd), Terbium (Tb), Dysprosium (Dy), Holmium (Ho), Erbium (Er), Thulium (Tm), Ytterbium (Yb), Lutetium (Lu), Scandium (Sc) and Yttrium (Yt).
US10068681B2	Method for producing an electrode lead or a catheter, and associated semifinished product A method for producing a medical electrode lead or a catheter, and also to an associated semifinished product. The semifinished product for this purpose includes a cable having at least one electrical conductor, which is embedded in a sheath made of an electrically insulating, thermoplastic material. It is characterized in that the cable, at least at one cable end, forms a connection point, via which the conductor can be attached permanently and non-detachably to further components, wherein part of the surface of the conductor is exposed in the region of the connection point and forms a contact face, and the sheath has, in the region of the connection point, a recess that is continuous in the longitudinal direction of the cable.
US10068680B2	Cable harness and method for producing the cable harness A method for producing a cable harness, in particular for the motor vehicle industry, includes combining a plurality of individual lines into a line bundle. The line bundle is provided with a bundling element. The bundling element is constructed as a textile-like fiber interlacement or weave which is produced by applying a suspension including fibers and a binder to the line bundle. A cable harness produced by the method is also provided.
US10068679B2	Scintillator panel and production method thereof Provided is a scintillator panel realizing reduced image unevenness and the like by virtue of having a cushioning layer between a support and a phosphor. The cushioning layer absorbs irregularities on the phosphor layer when the scintillator panel is compression bonded to a planar light-receiving element and thereby allows the phosphor layer to be in contact with the planar light-receiving element without any gaps in the interface. The scintillator panel includes, in the order named, a support, a cushioning layer disposed on a surface of the support, and a phosphor layer deposited on the surface of the cushioning layer, the cushioning layer having a specific thickness, the phosphor layer being configured to be placed into uniform contact with a surface of a planar light-receiving element when the phosphor layer is pressed against the planar light-receiving element by the application of a pressure from the support side.
US10068673B2	Method for modeling behavior and health changes One method for supporting a patient through a treatment regimen includes: accessing a log of use of a native communication application executing on a mobile computing device by a patient; selecting a subgroup of a patient population based on the log of use of the native communication application and a communication behavior common to the subgroup; retrieving a regimen adherence model associated with the subgroup, the regimen adherence model defining a correlation between treatment regimen adherence and communication behavior for patients within the subgroup; predicting patient adherence to the treatment regimen based on the log of use of the native communication application and the regimen adherence model; and presenting a treatment-related notification based on the patient adherence through the mobile computing device.
US10068664B1	Column repair in memory Apparatuses and methods related to column repair in memory are described. An apparatus can include sensing circuitry. The sensing circuitry can include a first sensing component, a second sensing component, and a third sensing component. The second sensing component can include a defective sense amplifier that is column repaired. The apparatus can include a controller configured to use the sensing circuitry to shift data from the first sensing component to the third sensing component by transferring the data through the second sensing component. The second sensing component can be physically located between the first sensing component and the third sensing component.
US10068663B1	Data storage device with rewriteable in-place memory A non-volatile memory may be resident in a data storage device. The non-volatile memory can consist of a rewritable in-place memory cell having a read-write asymmetry. The non-volatile memory may be divided into a first group of tiers with a selection module of the data storage device prior to adapting to an event by altering the non-volatile memory into a second group of tiers. The first and second groups of tiers being different.
US10068656B2	Non-volatile memory with multi-pass programming A non-volatile memory system implements a multi-pass programming process that includes separately programming groups of memory cells in a common block by performing programming for memory cells that are connected to two adjacent word lines and are part of a first group of memory cells followed by performing programming for other memory cells that are also connected to the two adjacent word lines and are part of a second group of memory cells.
US10068653B2	Methods of operating memory Methods of operating memory include generating a data value indicative of a level of a property sensed from a data line while applying potentials to control gates of memory cells of more than one string of series-connected memory cells connected to that data line. Methods of operating memory further include generating data values indicative of levels of a property sensed from data lines while applying potentials to control gates of memory cells of strings of series-connected memory cells connected to those data lines, performing a logical operation on a set of data values comprising those data values, and determining a potential to be applied to control gates of different memory cells of those strings of series-connected memory cells in response to an output of the logical operation on the set of data values.
US10068650B1	Characterizing and operating a non-volatile memory device A sequence of contiguous pages in an erase block in a non-volatile memory device is programmed and erased. Next, all of the pages in the erase block are programmed with data. Then, the data is read back and verified to determine whether there is an error in the data. When there is an error in the data, then the last page in the sequence is identified as being unstable. If there is no error in the data, then the last page in that sequence is identified as being stable. Thus, the recorded information identifies a point of instability in the erase block. Instabilities can be stabilized by performing additional writes to fill the partially filled word line.
US10068645B2	Multiple cycle search content addressable memory In an aspect of the disclosure, a method and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a content addressable memory. The content addressable memory includes a plurality of memory sections each configured to store data. Additionally, the content addressable memory includes a comparator configured to compare the stored data in each of the plurality of memory sections with search input data. The comparison may be in a time division multiplexed fashion. The comparator may be configured to compare the stored data in each of the plurality of memory sections with search input data in a corresponding one of a plurality of memory access cycles. The content addressable memory may include a state machine configured to control when the comparator compares the stored data in each of the plurality of memory sections with search input data based on a state of the state machine.
US10068643B2	Sense amplifier for non-volatile memory devices and related methods A memory device includes an array of phase-change memory (PCM) cells and complementary PCM cells. A column decoder is coupled to the array of PCM cells and complementary PCM cells, and a sense amplifier is coupled to the column decoder. The sense amplifier includes a current integrator configured to receive first and second currents of a given PCM cell and complementary PCM cell, respectively. A current-to-voltage converter is coupled to the current integrator and is configured to receive the first and second currents, and to provide first and second voltages of the given PCM cell and complementary PCM cell to first and second nodes, respectively. A logic circuit is coupled to the first and second nodes and is configured to disable the column decoder and to discharge the bitline and complementary bitline voltages in response to the first and second voltages.
US10068640B2	Semiconductor device, electronic component, and electronic device A memory in which a write cycle time is longer than time for one clock cycle can be mounted on a processor. The processor includes a processor core, a bus, and a memory section. The memory section includes a first memory. A cell array of the first memory is composed of gain cells. The processor core is configured to generate a write enable signal. The first memory is configured to generate a wait signal on the basis of the write enable signal. The processor core is configured to delay access to the memory section by time for n clock cycles, on the basis of the wait signal. (n+1) clock cycles can be assigned to a write cycle of the first memory.
US10068639B2	Out-of-place presetting based on indirection table An aspect of this invention is a method for providing a PreSET region in a memory device wherein the PreSET region includes one or more lines of the memory device which have been PreSET; performing a write operation on one or more out of place lines of the memory device by writing to the PreSET region instead of writing to an in place line of the memory device; and storing in an indirection table a mapping of each of a respective plurality of logical pages of the memory device to a corresponding physical page of a plurality of physical pages of the memory device, wherein the indirection table keeps track of the one or more out of place lines.
US10068638B2	Apparatus with low power SRAM retention mode A memory array and an integrated circuit are disclosed. The memory array includes first and second banks of memory elements and five switches. Each memory element of the first bank of memory elements is coupled to an upper rail and to a first node, while each memory element of the second bank of memory elements is coupled to a second node and to a lower rail. The first switch is coupled between the first node and the second node; the second switch is coupled between the first node and the lower rail; and the third switch is coupled between the second node and the upper rail. A fourth switch is coupled between the first node and a voltage that is one diode drop above the lower rail, and a fifth switch is coupled between the second node and a voltage that is one diode drop below the upper rail.
US10068630B2	Non-volatile ferroelectric memory cells with multilevel operation Ferroelectric components, such as the ferroelectric field effect transistors (FeFETs), ferroelectric capacitors and ferroelectric diodes described above may be operated as multi-level memory cells as described by the present invention. Storing multiple bits of information in each multi-level memory cell may be performed by a controller coupled to an array of the ferroelectric components configured as ferroelectric memory cells. The controller may execute the steps of receiving a bit pattern for writing to a multi-level memory cell comprising a ferroelectric layer; selecting a pulse duration for applying a write pulse to the memory cell based, at least in part, on the received bit pattern; and applying at least one write pulse to the memory cell having the selected pulse duration, in which the at least one write pulse creates a remnant polarization within the ferroelectric layer that is representative of the received bit pattern.
US10068625B2	Buffer memory device and display drive device A buffer memory and display drive device are described herein. In one example, a buffer memory is arranged so that write and read address counters are controlled according to a wraparound method, and subjected to no reset in count value, which enables the avoidance of data destruction in a boundary portion of a block. In the buffer memory, block head addresses of the write and read address counters are managed centrally. So, even in the event of undesired change in count value, the influence thereof can be intercepted halfway. While reducing the memory capacity of the buffer memory which is supplied with data in blocks, the following are made possible: to prevent the deviation in read data owing to an undesired change in the address counter from lasting; and to prevent data, handled in blocks, from disappearing near a block boundary.
US10068624B2	Electronic device and operating method thereof According to an embodiment, a storage device may be provided. The storage device may include a semiconductor memory device, and a memory controller configured for controlling the semiconductor memory device. The semiconductor memory device may include a memory unit including a plurality of memory chips. The semiconductor memory device may include an interface chip realigning serial data received from the memory controller into parallel data and transferring the parallel data to each of the plurality of memory chips.
US10068621B2	Electronic apparatus An electronic apparatus includes a plurality of parts, a frame having an outer periphery surrounding the plurality of parts and formed from resin, a circuit board disposed at one side in a first direction with respect to the plurality of parts, a chassis disposed at the one side in the first direction with respect to the plurality of parts, and formed from metal, and a metal plate disposed at the other side in the first direction with respect to at least one of the plurality of parts and attached to the frame.
US10068620B1	Affective sound augmentation for automotive applications In order to affect the mood of a vehicle operator (for example, to increase attentiveness), embodiments of the invention automatically sequence appropriate audio cues into the sound playback from a vehicle's sound system. These cues represent events related to the vehicle or taking place in the vicinity of the vehicle, and can be modulated or effected so as to better convey the vehicle event. These cues may also be part of a coherent soundscape representing a fantasy scenario, such as motocross, sailing, or stand-up paddle boarding. Both the soundscape and the mapping of vehicle events to sound cues are configurable by the user.
US10068619B1	Hand held storage device A hand held data storage apparatus includes a disk-based storage device, an interface configured for data transfer with the storage device, and an enclosure that encapsulates the storage device and the interface, wherein the enclosure is configured with a rectangular mobile phone form factor.
US10068617B2	Adding content to a media timeline Techniques are provided for associating comments with certain positions within a video (or audio) timeline. Multiple users compose comments, such as questions, and cause those comments to be stored in association with the video. Each comment is stored in association with a specific point or section in the video timeline. Later, another user can view the comments and select a particular comment, which causes the video to be played at the position in the timeline associated with the particular comment. Additionally or alternatively, playing a particular portion of a video may cause one or more comments that are associated with the particular portion to be displayed.
US10068610B2	Motion detection for A/V recording and communication devices Audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices according to the present embodiments comprise a processor, a motion sensor, and a camera. In various embodiments, the A/V recording and communication devices are configured to reduce latency and/or to reduce false positive indications of motion.
US10068609B1	Variable frequency write pattern generation In some implementations, a system includes a magnetic media disk and a read/write unit. The read/write unit includes a plurality of phase-locked loops (PLLs), an interpolator unit, a delay-locked loop, and a precompensation unit. The PLLs are configured to generate, using a reference clock signal, a first plurality of clock signals having different frequencies phases. The interpolator unit is configured to interpolate the first plurality of clock signals in accordance with a frequency offset signal to generate a single-phase clock signal. The delay-locked loop is configured to delay the single-phase clock signal in accordance with a PLL data clock signal to generate a second plurality of clock signals having different phases. The precompensation unit is configured to apply precompensation to the second plurality of clock signals to generate a timing signal for writing data to the magnetic media disk.
US10068604B2	Information recording device and data erasing method Upon receiving an erase command for data recorded in a write-once optical disc, an information recording device corrupts data in an information area (synchronization signal in Run-in, frame synchronization signal, address information and the like), in an erased area on the optical disc, in which information necessary for synchronization of reproducing data by overwriting the data in the information area with an erasing pattern. The erased area is specified by an erase starting position and a size of data to be erased. In this way, the information recording device erases the data in the erased area.
US10068603B2	Magnetic recording medium A magnetic recording medium includes a nonmagnetic substrate and at least a magnetic layer, a protective layer, and a lubricating layer provided on the nonmagnetic substrate. The magnetic recording medium is characterized in that the lubricating layer is formed of a lubricating agent represented by general formulas (1), (2) or (3), in which substituents R1, R2, R3, and R4 in the lubricating agent represent organic groups, at least one of the substituents R1 and R2 at the end part of the lubricating agent and the substituents R3 and R4 contain a plurality of functional groups, and the shortest distance between the functional groups is a distance of three or more atoms, preferably five atoms. The magnetic recording medium may be used for a heat assisted recording method in which the temperature of the magnetic layer reaches 150° C. to 200° C. The magnetic recording medium is characterized in that the amount of the lubricating agent volatilized in the lubricating layer is less than 10% of the initial layer thickness.
US10068593B1	Bolometer with low scattering for a heat-assisted magnetic recording slider A slider configured for heat-assisted magnetic recording has an upper surface, an opposing air bearing surface (ABS), and a body defined between the upper surface and the ABS. The slider comprises a write pole and a near-field transducer (NFT) at or near the ABS. An optical waveguide is configured to receive light from a laser source and comprises a first cladding layer, a second cladding layer, and a core between the first and second cladding layers. The core has a width, a length, and a longitudinal axis oriented along the length of the core. A bolometer is situated within the body of the slider at a location that receives at least some of the light communicated along the waveguide used during a writing operation. The bolometer is spaced apart from the core and comprises a longitudinal axis that is oriented substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the core.
US10068591B2	Head having wrap-controlled flexible media interface An apparatus according to one embodiment includes a module having a tape bearing surface, a magnetic transducer in a thin film region, and an edge closest to the transducers. A guide is positioned relative to the edge for inducing tenting of a moving magnetic recording tape above a tape tenting region of the tape bearing surface. The magnetic transducer is positioned along the tape tenting region.
US10068588B2	Real-time emotion recognition from audio signals Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for recognizing emotion in audio signals in real-time. An audio signal is detected and a rapid audio fingerprint is computed on a user's computing device. One or more features is extracted from the audio fingerprint and compared with features associated with defined emotions to determine relative degrees of similarity. Confidence scores are computed for the defined emotions based on the relative degrees of similarity and it is determined whether a confidence score for one or more particular emotions exceeds a threshold confidence score. If it is determined that a threshold confidence score for one or more particular emotions is exceeded, the particular emotion or emotions are associated with the audio signal. As desired, various action then may be initiated based upon the emotion/emotions associated with the audio signal.
US10068586B2	Binaurally integrated cross-correlation auto-correlation mechanism A sound processing system, method and program product for estimating parameters from binaural audio data. A system is provided having: a system for inputting binaural audio; and a binaural signal analyzer (BICAM) that: performs autocorrelation on both the first channel and second channel to generate a pair of autocorrelation functions; performs a first layer cross-correlation between the first channel and second channel to generate a first layer cross-correlation function; removes the center peak from the first layer cross-correlation function and a selected autocorrelation function to create a modified pair; performs a second layer cross-correlation between the modified pair to determine a temporal mismatch; generates a resulting function by replacing the first layer cross correlation function with the selected autocorrelation function using the temporal mismatch; and utilizes the resulting function to determine ITD parameters and interaural level difference ILD parameters of the direct sound components and reflected sound components.
US10068580B2	Band expander, reception device, band expanding method for expanding signal band An oversampling LPF unit receives a sound signal. A differentiator differentiates the sound signal. An overtone computation unit generates an overtone signal by multiplying a signal differentiated by the differentiator by the sound signal from the oversampling LPF unit. A HPF unit filters the overtone signal generated by the overtone computation unit. A combiner combines the overtone signal filtered by the HPF unit and the sound signal from the oversampling LPF unit.
US10068579B2	Encoding/decoding apparatus for processing channel signal and method therefor An encoding/decoding apparatus and method for controlling a channel signal is disclosed, wherein the encoding apparatus may include an encoder to encode an object signal, a channel signal, and rendering information for the channel signal, and a bit stream generator to generate, as a bit stream, the encoded object signal, the encoded channel signal, and the encoded rendering information for the channel signal.
US10068574B2	Voice control method, device and terminal Disclosed are a voice control method, device and terminal, and the method includes: after a terminal has been triggered into voice control mode, receiving input voice data and obtaining corresponding speech text according to the voice data; matching the speech text with an interface word list corresponding to a current operating interface, wherein the interface word list includes text information of the current operating interface; in response to determining that the speech text matches an interface word list successfully, obtaining in the current operating interface an operation link which corresponds to the speech text; and performing an operation corresponding to the operation link.
US10068567B1	System, method, and computer program for automatic management of intent classification A system, method, and computer program product are provided for automatic management of intent classification. In operation, an intent classification system identifies a conversation including a plurality of utterances for which to identify intent of a user associated with the plurality of utterances. The intent classification system identifies one or more actions performed in association with the plurality of utterances. Further, the intent classification system correlates at least one of the one or more actions to at least one of the plurality of utterances based on which of the one or more actions were performed as a result of the plurality of utterances. The intent classification system automatically determines an intent of the user based on the correlation of the at least one of the one or more actions to the at least one of the plurality of utterances. Additionally, the intent classification system stores an indication of the intent based on the at least one of the plurality of utterances. Moreover, the intent classification system associates one or more specific actions with the indication of intent such that subsequent utterances are capable of being used by the intent classification system to automatically identify an intent of one or more users and to automatically identify specific actions that should be performed based on the automatically identified intent of the one or more users.
US10068558B2	Method and installation for processing a sequence of signals for polyphonic note recognition This is a method and installation in which a time-domain digital audio signal is split into a plurality of narrow-band time-domain digital audio signals confined to specific frequency bands, short-term segments of which are temporarily stored in memory. The method comprises the use of signal processing algorithms for extracting multiple signal features from said short-term segments in a fixed sequence or upon request from a decision-making algorithm. Said decision-making algorithm makes tentative or final decisions about the type of occupancy of frequency bands resulting from the extracted features. Said decision-making algorithm may request from said signal processing algorithms further specific feature extractions from specific short-term segments and make further tentative or final decisions about the type of occupancy of frequency bands resulting from the requested features. Next, said decision-making algorithm stores its tentative decisions and makes final decisions about band occupancy for processing together with results from later short-term segments. Eventually, said decision-making algorithm outputs final decisions derived from current and past short-segments in the form of a set of notes having been played over some recent time interval, together with information as to the timing of each note from the set.
US10068557B1	Generating music with deep neural networks The present disclosure provides systems and methods that include or otherwise leverage a machine-learned neural synthesizer model. Unlike a traditional synthesizer which generates audio from hand-designed components like oscillators and wavetables, the neural synthesizer model can use deep neural networks to generate sounds at the level of individual samples. Learning directly from data, the neural synthesizer model can provide intuitive control over timbre and dynamics and enable exploration of new sounds that would be difficult or impossible to produce with a hand-tuned synthesizer. As one example, the neural synthesizer model can be a neural synthesis autoencoder that includes an encoder model that learns embeddings descriptive of musical characteristics and an autoregressive decoder model that is conditioned on the embedding to autoregressively generate musical waveforms that have the musical characteristics one audio sample at a time.
US10068555B2	Display driving circuit and display device including the same An display driving circuit including a buffer write controller transmitting a different image frame to a first buffer or a second buffer, a buffer scan controller scanning an image frame stored in the first buffer or the second buffer on the basis of a predetermined cycle, a write signal detector controlling the buffer write controller such that a second image frame is transmitted to the second buffer after a first image frame is transmitted to the first buffer, and a scan buffer switching controller receiving an EOF (End of Frame) command indicating the completion of transmission of the first image frame to the first buffer and controlling the buffer scan controller such that the first image frame stored in the first buffer is scanned after the image frame previously stored in the second buffer is scanned.
US10068553B2	Enhanced rendering by a wearable display attached to a tethered computer A wearable display enhances rendering when attached to a tethered computer. In one example a process includes determining a position and an orientation of a wearable computing device, sending the determined position and orientation to a tethered computer, receiving a frame at the wearable computing device from the tethered computer, the frame being one of a sequence of frames of a video sequence corresponding to a view of a scene in response to the determined position and orientation, displaying the received frame on a display of the wearable computing device, generating a frame at the wearable computing device using the received frame, displaying the generated frame after the received frame, receiving a second frame at the wearable computing device from the tethered computer, the frame being a second one of a sequence of frames of a video sequence corresponding to a view of the scene, and displaying the second received frame.
US10068552B2	Display driving method, upper machine, lower machine and display driving system Disclosed is a display driving method, an upper machine, a lower machine and a display driving system. The method includes: acquiring, by a lower machine, an address for any of subpixels transmitted from an upper machine; looking up, by the lower machine, a gray scale data corresponding to the pointer address in a display Look-UP Table (LUT), wherein the LUT stores mapping relationships between respective pointer addresses and their corresponding gray scale data; performing, by the lower machine, a digital-analog conversion on the gray scale data to acquire a converted analog voltage; and outputting the analog voltage to the subpixel so as to drive the subpixel for displaying. The method can increase the transmission rate between the GPU and the display to a certain degree and reduce the power consumption thereof.
US10068548B1	Sub-pixel layout resampler systems and methods Systems and methods for improving perceived image quality of an electronic display, which includes a co-located sub-pixel that controls luminance of a first color component and an offset sub-pixel that controls luminance of a second color component. A display pipeline communicatively coupled to the electronic display determines image data, which indicates target luminance of the first, the second, and a third color component at an image pixel; determines edge parameters, which indicate whether an edge is expected to be present at the offset sub-pixel, based on a difference metric between a first image pixel block around the offset sub-pixel and a second image pixel block offset from the first image pixel block; and determines offset sub-pixel image data by filtering an image pixel group around the offset sub-pixel based at least in part on the edge parameters, wherein the offset sub-pixel image data indicates target luminance of the offset sub-pixel.
US10068547B2	Augmented reality surface painting Techniques for simulating interactions using an augmented reality device are described. Embodiments receive a request to paint over portions of a visual scene. Here, the visual scene is captured using one or more camera devices of the augmented reality device and is presented on a display of the augmented reality device. A first object in the visual scene corresponding to the first location is identified. Additionally, embodiments paint at least a portion of the first object as specified by the received request, and render a series of frames depicting the first object, such that the painted at least a portion of the first object is shown as painted when viewed from different perspectives using the augmented reality device.
US10068545B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a driver chip. The first substrate includes a plurality of gate lines disposed in the display area and extended in a first direction, a plurality of data lines disposed on a gate insulating layer insulating the gate lines and extended in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, and a gate driving circuit section disposed in the first peripheral area adjacent to first ends of the gate lines. The second substrate is opposite to the first substrate. A liquid crystal is interposed between the first and second substrates. The driver chip is disposed in the second peripheral area adjacent to second ends of the gate lines opposite to the first ends so that the width of the upper and lower portions of the display area may be decreased.
US10068538B2	Display device specifying temperature distribution of display surface According to an aspect, a display device comprising: a display unit; a plurality of electrodes arranged side by side in a first direction along a display surface of the display unit; a detecting unit that detects one of an electric resistance of the electrodes, a voltage, and a current; and a specifying unit that specifies temperature distribution of the display surface based on the one of the electric resistance of the electrodes, the voltage, and the current. The electrodes are tapered in a second direction along the display surface and orthogonal to the first direction, and the electrodes include a first electrode tapered toward one side in the second direction and a second electrode tapered toward the other side opposite to the one side. The first and second electrodes are alternately arranged side by side in the first direction.
US10068537B2	Image processor, display device including the same and method for driving display panel using the same An image processor, a display device including the same, and a method for driving display panel using the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes an image shifter configured to shift a data signal by at least one pixel based at least in part on a shift start signal and output the shifted data signal and a shift direction signal. The display device also includes an image buffer configured to output current data and previous data based at least in part on the shifted data signal and the shift direction signal. The display device also includes an image mixer configured to mix the current data and the previous data over M frames starting at a start frame when the shift start signal is received and output image data, M being a natural number.
US10068524B2	Pixel driving circuit, display substrate and driving method thereof, and display device The present disclosure provides a pixel driving circuit, a display substrate and a driving method thereof, and a display device. The pixel driving circuit includes a driving unit, a data voltage write unit, an energy storage unit, a threshold compensation unit, and a touch driving compensation unit. The energy storage unit comprises a first energy storage end and a second energy storage end. The touch driving compensation unit is connected to the second energy storage end of the energy storage unit to compensate the voltage of the second energy storage end in a touch phase, so as to maintain that driving current generated by the driving unit does not vary with time. The pixel driving circuit provided by the present disclosure can allow luminance of a driven electroluminescent element does not vary with time in a touch phase, thereby avoiding affecting light emission display of the driven electroluminescent element.
US10068515B2	Display device A display device includes a signal receiver, a signal generator, and a signal corrector. The signal receiver receives an image signal. The signal generator generates a data signal for each of a first color pixel and a second color pixel based on the image signal. The signal corrector generates corrected data for the first color pixel based on the data signal for the second color pixel in a single driving mode. The first color pixel and the second color pixel emit light of different grayscale values of a same color. The first color pixel is driven and the second color pixel is not driven in the single driving mode.
US10068514B2	Electronic paper display apparatus and a detection method thereof An electronic paper display apparatus including a display driving unit, an electronic paper display panel and a detection circuit unit is provided. The display driving unit generates at least one driving signal. The electronic paper display panel is coupled to the display driving unit. The display driving unit drives the electronic paper display panel to display an image by the at least one driving signal, and the electronic paper display panel outputs the at least one driving signal. The detection circuit unit is coupled to the electronic paper display panel to receive the at least one driving signal outputted by the electronic paper display panel, and detect a display status of the electronic paper display panel according to the at least one driving signal. Besides, a detection method of an electronic paper display apparatus is also provided.
US10068511B2	LED driving device, illuminator, and liquid crystal display device The present invention provides a light emitting diode (LED) driving device as a semiconductor device, which comprises: a direct current/direct current (DC/DC) controller, for controlling an output segment that is used to generate an output voltage from an input voltage and supply the output voltage to an LED; an output current driver, for generating an output current of the LED; and an LED short-circuit detection circuit, for monitoring a cathode voltage of the LED to perform an LED short-circuit detection, wherein the LED short-circuit detection circuit controls whether an action is performed or not according to a short-circuit detection enable signal input from outside the LED driving device.
US10068505B2	Identification tag with mechanical actuator An identification tag comprising a display and a mechanical actuator is disclosed. A visual indication associated with a manufacturer is displayed by a display. The mechanical actuator comprises a reservoir to contain a fluid component. The mechanical actuator is connected to the display via a conduit.
US10068502B1	Photoluminescent container A container includes a substrate including a brightening agent on its upper surface and a photoluminescent layer on, or impregnated into, the upper surface. The photoluminescent layer on said upper surface absorbs radiant energy and emits radiant energy in the form of light. The substrate is optionally formed from a moisture absorbent material, a moisture resistant material, or a combination thereof. Optionally, an overlay that is substantially light transmissive, that includes an overlay image that is at least partially light transmissive, overlies the substrate. Optionally, a case may be provided to receive and at least partially encase the substrate and, optionally, at least one overlay.
US10068489B2	Managing energy during flight of unmanned aerial vehicles for safe return to ground Systems and methods are disclosed for managing energy of a UAV during flight. In particular, the disclosed systems and methods assist in safely returning a UAV to ground while reducing diversionary time for providing energy to the UAV. In one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods calculate a measure of remaining energy with regard to a UAV flying a mission plan and a measure of landing energy needed to travel to a landing station. The disclosed systems and methods can select a transition point from a mission plan and route leading from the mission plan to the landing station by comparing the calculated measure of remaining energy and the calculated measure of landing energy. Moreover, the disclosed system and methods can modify a mission plan to include the selected transition point and route.
US10068488B2	Systems and methods of providing a data update to an aircraft Systems and methods of providing a data update to an aircraft including requesting a data update related to a route to be flown by the aircraft, receiving flight procedure data in a data update into a component of the aircraft from a ground station in response to the request and updating the route to be flown utilizing the flight procedure data in the data update.
US10068487B2	Comprehensive flight planning tool for a mobile device a mobile application is disclosed for providing a flight planning tool on a client device. The mobile application may include a data input module configured to receive, via interface hardware on the client device, a selection of one of a plurality of selectable tools. The mobile application may further include a graphics module configured to display, via the interface hardware, a user interface associated with the selection. The mobile application may further include a flight planning communication module configured transmit a request for information associated with the selection, via an API, to a flight planning system, and receive, from the flight planning system via the API, responsive information that fulfills the request, wherein the responsive information was generated by the flight planning system based on information from a third-party device.
US10068484B2	Parking assisting device Systems, methods, and devices of parking assisting devices. Two variations are disclosed: one that is floor-based and one that is suspended from a support structure. Devices of the inventive subject matter are configured to detect a tilt condition, a contact condition, or both, indicating that a vehicle has contacted the device and is positioned be parked safely. Upon detecting a tilt condition, a contact condition, or both, the device generates an alert to inform the driver that the vehicle should be stopped and parked. These devices can be wirelessly enabled, for example, to be accessed to determine whether a car is in a garage.
US10068483B2	Parking assistance device A parking assistance device includes: a ground object detection unit configured to, in a predetermined detection region set in advance in at least a portion of the vehicle periphery, perform detection of a ground object defining a parking stall in which garage parking is to be performed; an end portion specification unit configured to specify an end portion of the ground object detected by the ground object detection unit, the end portion being located on an entrance side of the parking stall; and a target parking stall setting unit configured to set, based on the end portion on the entrance side specified by the end portion specification unit, a corner portion of a rectangular parking frame that defines a target parking stall in which the vehicle is to be parked, and set the parking frame to extend from the corner portion in the depth direction of the parking stall.
US10068480B2	Driving support apparatus When an own vehicle is highly likely to collide with an obstacle, a notification of prompting a driver to carry out a collision avoidance operation is appropriately given. When an output request for collision avoidance support information exists, a notification ECU notifies of the collision avoidance support information irrespective of absence/presence of an output request for vehicle-infrastructure cooperation support information. When the output request for the collision avoidance support information does not exist and the output request for the vehicle-infrastructure cooperation support information exists, the notification ECU notifies of the vehicle-infrastructure cooperation support information. Thus, when the conditions for the notification of the vehicle-infrastructure cooperation support information and the collision avoidance support information are simultaneously satisfied, the vehicle-infrastructure cooperation support information is inhibited from being notified and the collision avoidance support information is notified.
US10068478B2	Communication terminal periodically providing position information of the communication terminal A communication terminal operating with electric power stored in a battery to execute information communication with an external communication device is provided. The communication terminal repetitively acquires specific information including a present position of the communication terminal and transmits the specific information in a transmission period. The communication terminal includes a detection section for detecting a total number of external communication devices present within an area of a pre-specified distance and a setting section for setting the transmission period in accordance with the total number of external communication devices detected by the detection section.
US10068476B2	Vehicle location discrepancy detection and mitigation A mechanism is provided for detecting and mitigating vehicle location discrepancies. A set of dynamic boundaries are generated around a prescribed pickup location agreed upon with a next renter of a vehicle for a prescribed pickup time. A location of the vehicle is also determined. Based on the location of the vehicle, a determination is made of a boundary in the set of dynamic boundaries with which the vehicle is associated. One state from a set of states is identified based on the location of the vehicle and the identified boundary with which the vehicle is located. Based on the identified state, an associated action is performed.
US10068472B2	Automotive lane discipline system, method, and apparatus A method and apparatus for assisting a driver of a first vehicle determines whether the first vehicle is traveling in a first lane of a multi-lane highway. The method further determines that another vehicle is approaching the first vehicle from behind in a second lane of the multi-lane highway. The method determines that the first vehicle is being passed by the second vehicle, and outputs a warning to the driver, instructing the driver to merge into the second lane where the second vehicle had been traveling.
US10068471B2	Collision avoidance and traffic signal preemption system A method of avoiding collisions and preempting traffic signals, including the steps of predicting a first likely travel route of a first vehicle along established roadways; predicting a second likely travel route of a second vehicle along the established roadways; preempting a normal operation of at least one traffic signal at an intersection of roadways along at least one of the first likely travel route and the second likely travel route allowing at least one of the first vehicle and the second vehicle to traverse the intersection; and determining whether both the first vehicle and the second vehicle will be at the intersection within a predefined time interval of each other.
US10068470B2	Determination of an average traffic speed Navigation devices, services, and methods are provided for determining an average traffic speed for a path segment using probe data from a plurality of navigation devices. The method for determining an average traffic speed may include retrieving probe data from a plurality of navigation devices, each navigation device traveling over at least a portion of a defined path segment for at least a portion of a defined time interval, wherein the probe data for each navigation device comprises an instantaneous velocity of the navigation device. The method may further include calculating a total distance traveled and a total time traveled by the plurality of navigation devices over the path segment and within the time interval using the instantaneous velocities from the retrieved probe data. The average traffic speed may then be determined based on the calculated total distance traveled and total time traveled.
US10068465B2	Battery-less data transmission module accessory for portable and handheld metrology devices A data transmission module is provided as a battery-less accessory for attachment to portable metrology devices (e.g., handheld digital calipers, micrometers, indicators, etc.). Rather than utilizing battery resources from the metrology devices, the data transmission module utilizes energy harvested wirelessly from a remote data node (e.g., a computer system, display, etc.) to power transmission of measurement data signals to the remote data node. The data transmission module may receive sufficient power when relatively close to the remote data node, such as when a user is near the remote data node when operating the metrology device to obtain dimensional measurements of a workpiece. A wireless data generator of the data transmission module may be configured to wirelessly communicate measurement data signals using: the harvested energy; or a modulated reflection of, or coupling to, a received energy supply field from the remote data node; or a combination thereof.
US10068461B2	Real-time patient experience monitoring system A system is provided that monitors information from locating equipment and nurse call equipment and that provides notifications to caregivers so that patient care processes are maintained or modified to ensure high levels of patient satisfaction or patient safety.
US10068460B2	Interactive media device An interactive media device comprises a remote control interface that receives a wireless signal from a corresponding remote control with an emergency button. A controller decodes the wireless signal to determine if the user has pressed a button of the remote control to operate an associated television or if the user has pressed the emergency button on the remote control. If the user has pressed a button of the remote control to operate the associated television, then a television interface that issues an instruction based on the wireless signal to the associated television. However, if the user has pressed the emergency button, a medical emergency interface that issues an alert to a local or remote response unit.
US10068459B2	Universal reminder device A universal reminder device in the form of a series circuit including a power source, a warning indicator, a pressure-sensitive normally closed momentary switch, and a pressure-sensitive normally open momentary switch.
US10068456B2	Locating a lost device An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for detecting a device. The embodiment may include a computing device that determines a Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) of a beacon of a second device. The computing device may determine a first location of the first device. The computing device may determine whether the UUID of the beacon of the second device matches a UUID in a list of UUIDs, where each UUID in the list of UUIDs corresponds to a beacon associated with a device. The computing device may transmitting the UUID of the beacon of the second device and the first location to a third device, based on determining the UUID of the beacon of the second device matches an entry in the list.
US10068453B2	Analog output diagnosis tool A system, method, and an apparatus related to a diagnostic tool to recognize abnormalities in the readings from the transmitter device. The diagnostic tool may diagnose the health of the transmitter device through review of an analog output and comparing it to a digital value. This comparison may be done periodically. The system includes a device for detecting field device operational anomalies of a field device in an industrial process. The system includes a storage medium operable to store program code and a processor operable to read the program code and operate as instructed by the program code. The program code includes acquiring an analog process variable (PV) value from the field device, acquiring a digital process variable (PV) value from the field device, calculating a difference value between the analog PV value and the digital PV value, comparing the difference value to a first threshold alert value, and issuing an alert to a user if the difference value exceeds the first threshold alert value.
US10068452B1	Vehicle alert system A vehicle alert system inhibiting a child from being left unattended in a vehicle includes a car seat that is selectively positioned in a vehicle and child is selectively seated in the car seat. A base unit is positioned upon the seat to be sat upon thereby facilitating the base unit to detect weight. The base unit is turned on when the base unit detects weight. A remote unit is carried by the driver of the vehicle. The remote unit is in electrical communication with the base unit. Moreover, the remote unit emits an audible alarm when the remote unit moves beyond a trigger distance from the base unit and the base unit is turned on. In this way the remote unit inhibits the child from being left unattended in the vehicle.
US10068447B1	Lighting module with integrated sensing Light emitting modules are provided in which light emission and sensing functions are integrated into a single module. Example embodiments utilize a non-planar light guide to create a cavity within which sensing components are configured. Some embodiments provide for collection of directional information regarding light incident to the lighting module.
US10068445B2	Systems and methods of home-specific sound event detection Systems and methods of a security system are provided, including detecting, by a sensor, a sound event, and selecting, by a processor coupled to the sensor, at least a portion of sound data captured by the sensor that corresponds to at least one sound feature of the detected sound event. The systems and methods include classifying the at least one sound feature into one or more sound categories, and determining, by a processor, based upon a database of home-specific sound data, whether the at least one sound feature is a human-generated sound. A notification can be transmitted to a computing device according to the sound event.
US10068442B2	Light fixture A light fixture includes a housing having a first portion and a second portion. The light fixture further includes a first light emitting element supported within the first portion of the housing, and a second light emitting element supported within the second portion of the housing. The second light emitting element is controlled such that the second light emitting element provides a different color than the first light emitting element.
US10068441B2	Security system providing a localized humanly-perceivable alert for identifying a facility to emergency personnel The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for guiding emergency personnel to a location in a facility proximate to an alarm that has been generated. In one aspect, a method may include detecting an alarm condition at a facility protected by a security system and determining a location at the facility of the alarm condition. The method may further include causing at least one indicator at the facility, which is proximate to the determined location of the alarm condition, to generate an identifying alert that is humanly perceivable from an exterior of the facility such that emergency personnel can identify the facility based at least in part on the identifying alert. In some aspects, the method may also include notifying a security representative of the alarm condition, and receiving a notification from the security representative indicating that emergency personnel are dispatched to the facility.
US10068439B2	Determining personal outdoor comfort with individual and environmental parameters Devices and systems for determining personal outdoor comfort are described herein. One device includes instructions executable to receive inputs corresponding to characteristics of a user associated with a mobile device, determine a location of the mobile device, communicate an indication of the characteristics and the determined location to a computing device, and receive an outdoor comfort determination from the computing device, wherein the outdoor comfort determination is particular to the user based on the characteristics of the user and particular to the location of the mobile device based on a plurality of environmental parameters associated with the location of the mobile device.
US10068438B2	L-style marking clamp A clamp assembly is provided. The clamp assembly is configured to be able to clamp to a buried or buryable element. A marker extends away from the clamp to allow visual indication that there is a buried element below the burying material.
US10068435B2	Gaming machine including win chains A gaming machine having a standard game play mode and a bonus feature play mode that include winning and non-winning reel set spins. The gaming machine includes a housing having a user interface and a display attached to the housing to enable games having standard and bonus game play modes. Standard game play mode displays a matrix of symbols including scatter symbols. The gaming machine evaluates scatter symbols in the matrix, whereby appearance of a predetermined number of scatter symbols in the matrix triggers bonus feature play mode and initializes a win chain counter. During bonus game play mode a winning reel set spin enables a new reel set spin while leaving the value of the win chain counter unchanged and a non-winning reel set spin decrements the win chain counter. When the win chain counter reaches a threshold value then bonus game play mode terminates.
US10068427B2	Recommendation module interleaved wagering system A recommendation module interleaved wagering system is disclosed, including an interactive processing device constructed to: receive recommendation data; display one or more recommendations; communicate selection data and application telemetry data; receive wagering telemetry and application resource data; configure a wagering user interface; and incorporate the application resource data; wager controller constructed to: communicate user wager data; receive wager request data; determine and communicate wager outcome; recommendation module constructed to: receive recommendation request data; receive user wager data; determine recommendations; and communicate recommendation data; process controller operatively connecting interactive processing device and wager controller, constructed to: communicate recommendation request data; receive recommendation data; communicate recommendation data; receive selection data; receive application telemetry data; determine whether to trigger wager request; generate wager request data; communicate wager request data; receive wager outcome data; communicate wagering telemetry data and application resource data.
US10068426B1	Online game with adjusted results A method, apparatus, and computer readable storage to implement a casual wagering game which is not for real money that can adjust its results based on past events. Based on detected patterns of past events, the mathematical model of a wagering game such as a slot game can change. For example, if a player has had a continuous streak of bad luck, the mathematical model of the game the player is playing can change so that the player would generally receive more favorable results.
US10068424B2	Attendant device and gaming machine The present invention provides a reception device, which comprises an operation device which is used to perform a variety of operations, a camera device which is used to take dynamic images for the operation area of the operation device, and a control device determining whether there is an abnormal state in the operation area according to the dynamic images taken by the camera device, and if it is determined that there is an abnormal state, performing a control to cause the operation device to perform an operation corresponding to the abnormal state.
US10068416B2	Controlling wagering game system audio A wagering game system and its operations are described herein. In some embodiments, the operations can include determining a classification of a first sound provided by a first wagering game application for presentation via one or more output devices of a wagering game machine. Further, a second wagering game application provides a second sound for concurrent presentation via the one or more output devices. The first wagering game application is independent from the second wagering game application. In some embodiments, the operations further include determining a prioritized relationship between the first sound and the second sound based on the classification, and controlling presentation of the first sound and the second sound via the one or more output devices according to the prioritized relationship.
US10068414B2	Gaming system and method of gaming A gaming device arranged to display a game outcome is provided. The gaming device includes a credit input mechanism configured to receive a credit input for establishing a credit balance. A display includes a plurality of designated spaces arranged to display a plurality of symbols and an initiator associated with an initial location within a reel column positioned outside of the plurality of designated spaces. A processor is configured to cause the display to move each of the plurality of symbols from the initial location within the reel column positioned outside of the plurality of designated spaces to a respective final location within the plurality of designated spaces based on the initiator until all designated spaces of the plurality of designated spaces are populated. A game outcome is partly dependent on at least one of an arrangement and a location of the plurality of symbols populating the designated spaces.
US10068413B2	Electronic gaming machine and gaming method An electronic gaming machine comprises a display for displaying a game and an electronic game controller for controlling the display of game symbols on the display. The electronic game controller enables the player to select a bet option from a plurality of bet options. A first bet option has a first number of predetermined combinations of symbol positions and a second bet option has a second number of predetermined combinations of symbol positions. The first and second bet options and the first and second numbers are different to each other. In response to an in-game trigger event, the number of symbol positions in the array changes based on the selected bet option. A gaming method is also provided.
US10068411B2	Gen II meter system Apparatus for controlling and monitoring vehicle parking meter systems, including programmable single space parking meters each having a hardened shell, a vehicle detection sensor for detecting presence of a vehicle, multiple low power microprocessors associated with each parking meter capable of waking up to perform a specialized task, an application processor connected to each of the microprocessors for monitoring and controlling changes in logic for setting the operational parameters and awakening the microprocessors, wherein the microprocessors, the application processor and the vehicle detection sensor are located within the hardened shell, a centralized operational controller accessible to parking personnel capable of monitoring and controlling the parking meters from a remote location, a pass-through radio frequency communication device capable of passing messages from the controller to and from each of the parking meters by way of the internet, and a power supply powering the application processor, microprocessors and vehicle detection sensor.
US10068410B2	Item dispensing apparatus Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a dispenser configured for storing one or more items and dispensing the stored items to authorized users. According to various embodiments, the dispenser generally includes a housing defining an interior portion dimensioned to receive one or more items and a laterally sliding access door comprised of a flexible barrier configured to provide restricted access to items stored within the dispenser. In various embodiments, the dispenser also includes a biasing system configured bias the access door to a closed position.
US10068404B2	Coin conveying device A coin conveying device for a coin processing apparatus configured to store an input coin according to denomination, and dispense a coin stored therein in accordance with a payout instruction is provided. The coin conveying device includes: a rail portion configured to form a conveyance path to convey a coin; a conveying portion including holders connected endlessly, each holder being configured to hold one coin, the conveying portion being configured to convey the input coin from below to above by displacing the conveying portion in one direction along the rail portion; and a controller configured to, when the input coin is put in the conveying portion, displace the conveying portion in a reverse direction that is opposite to the one direction for a predetermined time, and displace the conveying portion in the one direction after the predetermined time has elapsed.
US10068401B1	Transponder key replication A method and apparatus for replicating a transponder key is disclosed. The transponder replication device includes an antenna that reads a transponder code from a transponder key; a camera, wherein the camera captures a bitting characteristic of the transponder key blade; a stabilizer that secures the transponder key in place while the camera captures the bitting characteristic; a memory device for storing the transponder data; means for transmitting the transponder code and the bitting characteristic of the transponder key blade to a remote location; and, a remote communication device that is compatible with the internet communications device that receives the transponder data and transmits it to a transponder duplication device at the remote location.
US10068400B2	Apparatus, method and computer program for controlling functions of a vehicle Apparatuses, methods and computer programs for controlling functions of a vehicle. The apparatus for an information system of a vehicle includes a communication module for communication with a mobile device and a control module for controlling the communication module. The control module obtains a key signal and information about a user profile from the mobile device via the communication module. The user profile includes user settings for functions of the vehicle. The information about the user profile includes data about at least one subset of the user settings. The control module controls a locked state of the vehicle based on the key signal and controls at least one subset of the functions of the vehicle based on the information about the user profile.
US10068394B2	Dynamic industrial vehicle measure A task to be performed using an industrial vehicle is defined and segmented into segments including a start segment and an end segment. The performance of the industrial vehicle while the industrial vehicle performs the segments is measured, and a target score for the task based on an extrinsic factor that is in effect at least one time during performance of the task is defined. The measured performance of the industrial vehicle during the segments is aggregated to create a task performance score, which is evaluated to the target score to create a task evaluation.
US10068393B2	Intelligent towing plug An intelligent towing plug apparatus and software system that performs trailer electrical system testing, diagnostic and monitoring routines as well as towing vehicle plug testing utilizing wireless technology housed completely inside a towing adapter plug or attached towing plug compartment housing that interfaces with any smart phone or towing vehicle on-board computer system that has downloaded or preinstalled the intelligent towing plug mobile application or software compatible with the on-board computer's operating system.
US10068389B1	Method and apparatus for evaluating an axle condition on a moving vehicle A vehicle measurement station utilizing one or more displacement sensors disposed on each opposite side of an inspection region of a vehicle inspection lane to acquire displacement measurement data along associated measurement axes. At least a portion of the displacement measurement data is associated with the outermost wheel assemblies on an axle of a moving vehicle passing through the inspection region, and utilized to determine one or more vehicle characteristics, such as an axle total toe condition.
US10068388B2	Automated system for suggesting wiper replacement A system for determining a need for a vehicle windshield wiper blade replacement includes a detector for detecting a wiper blade operating noise and a processor configured to determine a wear condition requiring wiper blade replacement from the detected wiper blade operating noise. On determining the wear condition, the processor provides a display including at least a windshield wiper blade wear condition warning and a listing of one or more suggested replacement wiper blades. The visible display may further include a listing of one or more suggestions of locations for acquiring the replacement wiper blades. Related methods are also disclosed.
US10068387B2	System and method for processing distribution items in a distribution network Systems and methods for processing distribution items having unique identifiers affixed thereon. The unique identifiers can include computer readable codes and written alphanumeric strings generated by a user. A system receives the unique identifier and requests payment information from a user, and stores an association between the unique identifier and the payment information, and processes the item according to the payment information.
US10068383B2	Dynamically displaying multiple virtual and augmented reality views on a single display One variation of a method for dynamically displaying multiple virtual and augmented reality scenes on a single display includes determining a set of global transform parameters from a combination of user-defined inputs, user-measured inputs, and device orientation and position derived from sensor inputs; calculating a projection from a configurable function of the global transform parameters, context provided by the user and context specific to a virtual and augmented reality scene; rendering a virtual and augmented reality scene with the calculated projection on a subframe of the display; and repeating the previous two steps to render additional virtual and augmented reality scenes.
US10068378B2	Digital content interaction and navigation in virtual and augmented reality Digital content interaction and navigation techniques and systems in virtual and augmented reality are described. In one example, techniques are employed to aid user interaction within a physical environment in which the user is disposed while viewing a virtual or augmented reality environment. In another example, techniques are described to support a world relative field of view and a fixed relative field of view. The world relative field of view is configured to follow motion of the user (e.g., movement of the user's head or mobile phone) within the environment to support navigation to different locations within the environment. The fixed relative field of view is configured to remain fixed during this navigation such that digital content disposed in this field of view remains at that relative location to a user's field of view.
US10068376B2	Updating mixed reality thumbnails Examples are disclosed herein that relate to the display of mixed reality imagery. One example provides a mixed reality computing device comprising an image sensor, a display device, a storage device comprising instructions, and a processor. The instructions are executable to receive an image of a physical environment, store the image, render a three-dimensional virtual model, form a mixed reality thumbnail image by compositing a view of the three-dimensional virtual model and the image, and display the mixed reality thumbnail image. The instructions are further executable to receive a user input updating the three-dimensional virtual model, render the updated three-dimensional virtual model, update the mixed reality thumbnail image by compositing a view of the updated three-dimensional virtual model and the image of the physical environment, and display the mixed reality thumbnail image including the updated three-dimensional virtual model composited with the image of the physical environment.
US10068375B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium To notify a user of an area where marker-based position and orientation measurement becomes unstable, an information processing apparatus according to the present specification includes, a first acquisition unit configured to acquire arrangement information and size information of a marker arranged in a real space, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire information about an imaging apparatus for capturing the real space, an unstable area derivation unit configured to derive an unstable area where the imaging apparatus is unable to stably detect the marker arranged in the real space, based on the arrangement information and the size information of the marker and the information about the imaging apparatus, and an output unit configured to output the area derived by the derivation unit.
US10068374B2	Systems and methods for a plurality of users to interact with an augmented or virtual reality systems One embodiment is directed to a system for enabling two or more users to interact within a virtual world comprising virtual world data, comprising a computer network comprising one or more computing devices, the one or more computing devices comprising memory, processing circuitry, and software stored at least in part in the memory and executable by the processing circuitry to process at least a portion of the virtual world data; wherein at least a first portion of the virtual world data originates from a first user virtual world local to a first user, and wherein the computer network is operable to transmit the first portion to a user device for presentation to a second user, such that the second user may experience the first portion from the location of the second user, such that aspects of the first user virtual world are effectively passed to the second user.
US10068373B2	Electronic device for providing map information An electronic device for providing map information associated with a space of interest is provided. The electronic device includes a display and a processor configured to display, on the display, at least a portion of a map including at least one node associated with at least one image photographed at a corresponding position of the space of interest and additional information on the at least one image, change, in response to an input or an event, a first image associated with a first node among the at least one node or first additional information on the first image, and display, on the map through the display, at least a portion of the changed first image or at least a portion of the changed first additional information.
US10068369B2	Method and apparatus for selectively integrating sensory content To integrate a sensory property such as occlusion, shadowing, reflection, etc. among physical and notional (e.g. virtual/augment) visual or other sensory content, providing an appearance of similar occlusion, shadowing, etc. in both models. A reference position, a physical data model representing physical entities, and a notional data model are created or accessed. A first sensory property from either data model is selected. A second sensory property is determined corresponding with the first sensory property, and notional sensory content is generated from the notional data model with the second sensory property applied thereto. The notional sensory content is outputted to the reference position with a see-through display. Consequently, notional entities may appear occluded by physical entities, physical entities may appear to cast shadows from notional light sources, etc.
US10068367B2	Asynchronous and concurrent ray tracing and rasterization rendering processes Rendering systems that can use combinations of rasterization rendering processes and ray tracing rendering processes are disclosed. In some implementations, these systems perform a rasterization pass to identify visible surfaces of pixels in an image. Some implementations may begin shading processes for visible surfaces, before the geometry is entirely processed, in which rays are emitted. Rays can be culled at various points during processing, based on determining whether the surface from which the ray was emitted is still visible. Rendering systems may implement rendering effects as disclosed.
US10068359B2	Information processing device The present invention makes it possible to see an original text string which (i) is contained in a captured image and (ii) has been translated, even after a translation of the original text string is displayed. The text string decoration display control section (12) decorates a part indicating a text string contained in a captured image and causes the decorated part to be displayed. The translation image generating section (13) generates a translation image showing a result of translating the text string into another language. The translation display control section (16) switches between display and non-display of the translation image in accordance with an input carried out by a user.
US10068351B2	Automatic detection and identification of brain sulci in MRI Disclosed is a method for determining a position of a brain sulcus in the brain of a patient, the method comprising executing, on at least one processor of at least one computer, steps of: acquiring, at the at least one processor, patient image data describing a digital medical image of at least part of the brain; acquiring, at the at least one processor, atlas data describing an image-based model of the at least part of the brain; determining, by the at least one processor and based on the patient image data and the atlas data, mapping data describing a transformation between the patient image data and the atlas data; and determining, by the at least one processor and based on the patient image data and the atlas data and the mapping data, sulcus position data describing the position of the brain sulcus in the digital medical image.
US10068344B2	Method and system for 3D capture based on structure from motion with simplified pose detection Aspects disclosed herein provide methods, systems, and devices for 3D image capture based on a Structure from Motion (SFM) imaging technique with simplified pose detection. The present disclosure provides a straightforward method to directly track a camera's motion (pose detection) thereby removing a substantial portion of the computing load needed to build a dimensionally accurate 3D model from a sequence of images taken by the camera.
US10068341B2	Border detection A method for assessing the presence of a border in an image, the method comprising: for each of two pixel positions estimating the strength of the second-order rate of change of a convolution of said image at the pixel position with respect to a plurality of directions and determining a binary condition of the pixel position in dependence on whether the strength exceeds a predetermined threshold; and assessing the presence of a border by comparing the two binary conditions.
US10068338B2	Active sensing spatial resolution improvement through multiple receivers and code reuse Structured light active sensing systems transmit and receive spatial codes to generate depth maps. Spatial codes can't be repeated within a disparity range if they are to be uniquely identified. This results in large numbers of codes for single transmitter/single receiver systems, because reflected ray traces from two object locations may be focused onto the same location of the receiver sensor, making it impossible to determine which object location reflected the code. However, the original code location may be uniquely identified because ray traces from the two object locations that focus onto the same location of the first receiver sensor may focus onto different locations on the second receiver sensor. Described herein are active sensing systems and methods that use two receivers to uniquely identify original code positions and allow for greater code reuse.
US10068337B2	Device and method for diagnosing thermal images This invention provides a device and method for diagnosing thermal images, which relates to a thermal imaging device and an applied field of infrared detection. The conventional thermal imaging device is excessively dependent on subjective experience of users to set an analysis area and mode of a thermal image during photographing, causing complicated operation and affecting assessments of thermal images. In the invention, a reference image reflecting morphological characters of a photographed body is superimposed and displayed in an infrared thermal image, and is as a visual reference of the photographed thermal image. The thermal image is diagnosed according to a corresponding analysis area and a specified diagnosis mode, to acquire a diagnosis result. Thereby, the common users can achieve the better photographing level.
US10068335B2	Moving-object counter apparatus, moving-object counting method, and non-transitory computer readable medium A moving-object counter apparatus includes a first captured-image acquisition unit, a moving-object moving-path specifying unit, a virtual-line setting unit, and a first moving-object counter unit. The first captured-image acquisition unit acquires multiple images captured at respective times different from each other by a first imaging apparatus capturing images of a predetermined region. The moving-object moving-path specifying unit specifies, on the basis of the acquired images, one or more moving paths along which one or more respective moving objects have moved in the predetermined region. The virtual-line setting unit sets a virtual line on the basis of the specified one or more moving paths. The first moving-object counter unit counts, by counting one or more moving paths that cross the set virtual line among the specified one or more moving paths, one or more moving objects that have passed through the predetermined position.
US10068334B2	Reconstruction of images from an in vivo multi-camera capsule Method and apparatus of reconstruction of images from an in vivo multi-camera capsule are disclosed. In one embodiment of the present invention, the capsule comprises two cameras with overlapped fields of view (FOVs). Intra-image based pose estimation is applied to the sub-images associated with the overlapped area to improve the pose estimation for the capsule device. In another embodiment, two images corresponding to the two FOVs are fused by using disparity-adjusted, linear weighted sum of the overlapped sub-images. In yet another embodiment, the images from the multi-camera capsule are stitched for time-space representation.
US10068332B2	Processing a computed tomography image to reduce windmill artifacts Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing a CT (Computed Tomography) image are provided. An example method includes accessing an original CT image that is reconstructed from a first set of raw data and includes windmill artifacts, generating a high-frequency image by processing the original CT image, generating a low-frequency image by processing a plurality of thick images reconstructed from a second set of raw data and combining the plurality of processed thick images, the second set of raw data including the first set of raw data and each of the plurality of thick images including substantially no windmill artifacts, generating an intermediate image by synthesizing the high-frequency image and the low-frequency image, and obtaining a target CT image based on the generated intermediate image.
US10068327B2	Method and system for statistical modeling of data using a quadratic likelihood functional A method and system are provided for constructing a model of a target object in a computer processor by receiving an input signal from a source, the input signal containing data describing the target object and a plurality of parameters, the input signal having a noise portion; selecting a group of initial parameters, estimating a nonparametric probability distribution function (pdf) comprising a linear combination of a set of square-integrable basis functions, computing a quadratic likelihood functional (QLF), evaluating a fit of the initial parameters to the data based on the QLF, iteratively optimizing the QLF by selecting a new group of parameters and evaluating the fit of the new group of parameters into a predetermined condition is achieved. Once an acceptable fit is achieved, an output of a model of the target object constructed using optimized parameters can be displayed.
US10068325B2	Method for three-dimensionally measuring a 3D aerial image of a lithography mask In a method for three-dimensionally measuring a 3D aerial image in the region around an image plane during the imaging of a lithography mask, which is arranged in an object plane, a selectable imaging scale ratio in mutually perpendicular directions (x, y) is taken into account. For this purpose, an electromagnetic wavefront of imaging light is reconstructed after interaction thereof with the lithography mask. An influencing variable that corresponds to the imaging scale ratio is included. Finally, the 3D aerial image measured with the inclusion of the influencing variable is output. This results in a measuring method with which lithography masks that are optimized for being used with an anamorphic projection optical unit during projection exposure can also be measured.
US10068317B2	Metadata-driven method and apparatus for constraining solution space in image processing techniques Methods and apparatus for constraining solution space in image processing techniques may use the metadata for a set of images to constrain an image processing solution to a smaller solution space. In one embodiment, a process may require N parameters for processing an image. A determination may be made from metadata that multiple images were captured with the same camera/lens and with the same settings. A set of values may be estimated for the N parameters from data in one or more of the images. The process may then be applied to each of images using the set of values. In one embodiment, a value for a parameter of a process may be estimated for an image. If the estimated value deviates substantially from a value for the parameter in the metadata, the metadata value is used in the process instead of the estimated value.
US10068315B2	Electronic device and method for operating display A display operating electronic device is provided. The display operating electronic device includes a display configured to include a first output area and a second output area, a sensor module configured to detect whether the display rotates, and a processor configured to output an execution screen in the first output area and output at least one item in the second output area, and configured to replace the at least one item with at least one new item in the second output area if a pre-defined amount of rotation is detected.
US10068304B1	Vendor matching engine and method of use A vendor matching engine and method of use, which may be used by a prospective bidder on a government contract or another prospective selectee in order to determine which bids or applications are most worthwhile to pursue. The engine may perform steps of retrieving transactional or vendor registry information, such as Federal Procurement Data System data or System for Award Management data, and may then use this data to generate matchability scores characterizing the compatibility between the selector and selectee. To generate these scores, the distances between selector and selectee coordinates in n-dimensional space may be used in order to determine how similar the prospective selectee is to the selector's desired selectee, allowing a vendor to prioritize government contracts for which they may be best suited. The system may also be used for other pairings of applicants and awarding parties, such as universities and research granting organizations.
US10068301B2	Predictive approach to contract management Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems for a predictive approach to contract management. In one embodiment, acceptable contract parameters are predicted based, at least in part on historic data and specified thresholds of identified contract parameters. Predicting acceptable contract parameters can help reduce negotiation cycles.
US10068300B2	Intellectual asset family creation An example embodiment includes a method for creating a family of related intellectual asset (IA) records. The method may include obtaining IA data for a current filing. The method may include creating an IA record for the current filing. The method may include obtaining IA data for one or more related filings. The current filing and the one or more related filings belong to a family of intellectual assets. The method may also include preparing for creation of a plurality of IA records for the one or more related filings based on the IA data for the current filing and the IA data for the one or more related filings. The method may further include creating a plurality of new IA records for the one or more related filings.
US10068293B2	Repositioning a value axis Various embodiments of a trading screen allow a market value indicator to go out of view without necessarily triggering a command to reposition a value axis. The value axis may be repositioned to bring the market value indicator back in view when the market value indicator satisfies a threshold condition. The threshold condition is defined such that it is possible for the market value indicator to go out of view and not trigger a command to reposition the value axis. Various embodiments automatically reposition the value axis in a way that can provide the user with more overall control of the trading screen than previous trading screens. Further, the user may gain increased confidence in using the trading display, particularly with respect to single action order entry, because there is less risk of the value changing on the display during order entry. These advantages and others will be evident to a person of ordinary skill in the art of the embodiments described herein.
US10068290B2	System and method for determining a stable quoting quantity for use in a trading strategy Identification of a stable quoting quantity is disclosed. An example method includes setting a quoting quantity for a trading strategy based on a distribution associated with a tradable object of the trading strategy; defining a range having first and second boundaries based on the distribution; updating a first tracked value according to changes in the distribution; and changing the quoting quantity in response to the first tracked value falling outside the range.
US10068289B2	Method and system for offering a credit product by a credit issuer to a consumer at a point-of-sale A method for offering at least one credit product by at least one credit issuer to a consumer at a point-of-sale between a merchant and the consumer. The method includes the steps of: providing a credit issuer data set including a plurality of data fields to a central database; initiating a transaction between the consumer and the merchant at the point-of-sale; offering, to the consumer at the point-of-sale, the at least one credit product; and presenting, to the consumer at the point-of-sale, at least one data field in the credit issuer data set. The at least one data field presented to the consumer is populated with data directed to the credit product, the credit issuer, or any combination thereof. An apparatus and system are also disclosed.
US10068288B2	Systems and methods for providing a user interface for facilitating personal payment transactions Systems and processes are disclosed for providing customized user interfaces for facilitating personal payment transactions. In certain embodiments, disclosed embodiments may generate a dynamic and customized interface for effecting the personal payment transaction by, for example, providing one or more options for the payer to fund the payment. The disclosed embodiments may provide an interface that includes one or more suggested recipients for identifying the payee associated with the payment transaction. The disclosed embodiments may also provide an interface that includes one or more routing options to route the payment. The disclosed embodiments may also provide an interface that provides one or more communication channel options for parties associated with the personal payment transaction to communicate.
US10068286B2	Probability modeling In various example embodiments, a system and method for providing dynamic bidding notifications and price guidance for buyers are presented. The system receives a selection of a present item listing and accesses historical auction data for a set of historical item listings. The system generates a dynamic bidding model for bidding on the present item and generates one or more bidding notifications based on the dynamic bidding model. The system then causes presentation of the one or more bidding notifications on a client device.
US10068280B2	Gift transaction system architecture A system architecture of a gift transaction system is disclosed. The gift transaction system can include a buyer interface module, a recipient interface module, a merchant backend interface module, a store front interface module, a curation module, a reminder module, an analytics module, or a media plug-in interface module. A method of operating the gift transaction system under the system architecture includes: providing an embedded widget on a website to determine gift intent to initiate a gift transaction by a buyer account for a recipient account; generating a gift buyer interface for a first client device to personalize a gift package including a gift item; generating a gift recipient interface for a second client device to customize the gift package; and communicating with a merchant backend system to complete the gift transaction to ship the gift package.
US10068279B2	Process for ordering a selection in advance, digital system and jukebox for embodiment of the process This invention relates to a process for ordering a selection in advance, characterized in that it includes a step in which a menu is displayed followed by a selection in this menu, to make specific requests and particularly: a step displaying the event for which the advance order of a selection is made, and then selection of the event; a step displaying the identity of destination equipment on which the selection is to be played, and then selection of this equipment; a step displaying the date and time at which the selection is to be made on the destination equipment; a step in which particular requests are recorded and downloaded onto a file only after payment has been verified.
US10068276B2	System and method for coupling a mobile device and point of sale device to transmit mobile shopping cart and provide shopping recommendations Systems and methods are disclosed herein for providing shopping recommendations. Amounts and timing of user purchases are recorded and analyzed to determine consumption rates for various products. A list of recommended products is generated for a user including previous purchases. Expected runout dates for products may be determined based on previous purchases and consumption rates. The list of recommended products may be prioritized based on expected runout dates. A listing of products may be presented with one or both of validation and alternative indicators associated with items of the list. A validation indicator indicates that the product satisfies a criteria and an alternative indicator indicates that an alternative product satisfies the criteria better than the product.
US10068274B2	Method and system to display and search in a language independent manner A method to facilitate a language independent search includes displaying a search attribute, including an attribute name and a selection of attribute values, to a user and receiving from the user a search attribute value selection corresponding to the attribute name. Then, the attribute name and attribute value selection are translated into language independent symbols, such as numbers. The numbers are used in a search of a sellers item listings table to select item listings with attribute values that match the search attribute values selected by the user.
US10068273B2	Method for delivering a custom sandwich to a patron One variation of a method for personalizing food orders includes: from a patron, receiving a taste feedback for a first food item in a first food order submitted previously by the patron; predicting an absolute food preference of the patron from the first food order; predicting a relative taste preference of the patron based on the taste feedback and a recipe of the first food item; generating a taste profile of the patron based on the absolute food preference and the relative taste preference; from the patron, receiving a selection for a second food item in a new food order, the second food item different than the first food item; applying the taste profile of the patron to a recipe for the second food item to generate a personalized recipe; and submitting the personalized recipe with the new food order to a robotic food assembly apparatus.
US10068272B1	Pickup order Methods, computer program products, and systems for pickup orders. A customer device receives an input from a customer selecting one or more items to purchase from a merchant. A list of the selected items can be routed, directly or through a server, to a merchant device of the merchant. The server can provide an identity verification record of the customer to the merchant device. The customer can arrive at the merchant device and request to pick up the selected items. The merchant device, upon receiving an input from the merchant indicating that the customer is authenticated using the identity verification record, approves the purchase and submits price of the selected items to the server for processing.
US10068267B1	Programmatic selection of service provider Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for determining a recommendation for a service provider to perform a service on a creative work based on metadata associated with the creative work and attribute information associated with the service provider. Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are also disclosed for determining a recommendation for a creative work requiring a service to be performed based on metadata associated with the creative work and attribute information associated with the service provider.
US10068264B1	Electronic processing of invoices using assigned users and supplier groups An electronic invoicing system performs a method of processing electronic invoices. A portal is provided by the system. The portal has respective views for a supplier submitting electronic invoices and an administrator of an enterprise submitting and/or reviewing electronic invoices. An administrator of the enterprise can create and maintain supplier groups in the portal, assign security permissions to the supplier groups in the portal; and assign users to the supplier groups in said portal. The users thereby receive security permission assigned to the supplier group to which they are assigned. The processing of electronic invoices by users is controlled in accordance with the assignments of security permissions to the supplier groups.
US10068260B1	Generating a proposed bid A computer-implemented method for generating a proposed bid includes receiving an input generated by a first content provider as part of a bidding process where content providers bid for opportunities to provide content for publication. The input indicates (i) a resource for publishing first content from the first content provider and (ii) a campaign characteristic associated with the first content. The method includes determining a proposed bid for the first content provider based on the input and on historical data from the bidding process associated with the resource. The method includes presenting the proposed bid to the first content provider.
US10068254B2	Customer relationship management system Systems and methods for customer relationship management are disclosed. In one example, a customer relationship management system can receive, from a customer device, a customer location and a request for a sales representative. In response, the customer relationship management system can send, for display to a sales representative device, the customer location and then receive, from the sales representative device, a request for customer profile information. In response to this request, the customer relationship management system can send, for display to the sales representative device, at least some of the customer profile information.
US10068252B2	Targeted and neutral advertising The present disclosure includes a system, method, and article of manufacture for measuring the effectiveness of an advertisement. In various embodiments, the system may compare exposed data indicating that a first customer was exposed to a targeted advertisement to a first spending activity associated with the first customer. The system may further compare unexposed data indicating that a second customer was exposed to a neutral advertisement to a second spending activity associated with the second customer. Further still, the system may, in various embodiments, generate a spend report based on the comparing the exposed data to the first spending activity and the comparing the unexposed data to the second spending activity.
US10068250B2	System and method for measuring mobile advertising and content by simulating mobile-device usage A system and methods for simulating human usage of mobile devices by simulating human behavior patterns operating mobile devices and using the simulation of human usage to obtain advertising or other online content specific to certain entities that is displayed on the mobile devices. The advertising or other online content specific to the certain entities is transmitted to an analytics server, where the advertising or other online content is interpreted and deciphered to obtain particular elements that relate to the advertising and online content including, but not limited to, an identification of the specific entity, the size of the advertising or other online content, the locations where the advertising or other online content appears, and the path by which the advertising or other online content travels to the mobile devices for display.
US10068248B2	Analysis of controlled and automatic attention for introduction of stimulus material A system analyzes neuro-response measurements including regional electroencephalography (EEG) measurements from subjects exposed to stimulus materials to determine locations in stimulus materials eliciting controlled attention and automatic attention. Additional stimulus materials are inserted into locations having salient attention attributes. In some examples, a challenging task is used to direct controlled attention onto a location and additional stimulus material is subtly presented in the location to benefit from automatic attention and salient attention measurements.
US10068243B2	Method and system for processing a discount A computer-implemented method for processing a discount is described. The method is implemented using a payment processor computing device associated with a payment network. The method includes receiving, at the payment processor computing device, from a discount module computing device, a notification of an adjusted authorization amount for a transaction, wherein the notification is received by the discount module computing device from an intercept node computing device at the time a cardholder makes a purchase. The method also includes receiving, at the payment processor computing device, an authorization request message including a non-adjusted authorization amount for the transaction, replacing the non-adjusted authorization amount with the adjusted authorization amount in the authorization request message, and transmitting the authorization request message to an issuer computing device.
US10068239B2	Systems and methods for determining enhanced merchant identification A computer implemented method for creating merchant profiles based on check transactions is provided. The method uses a computing device having a processor communicatively coupled to a memory. The method includes receiving a plurality of payment transactions including payment by a check where each payment transaction includes plurality of fields from the associated check that include at least a payee field, an address field, and a memo field, generating a list of unique merchants based in part on the payee fields of the plurality of payment transactions, generating two or more merchant profiles, and determining one or more connections between two or more merchant profiles in the plurality of merchant profiles. Each connection represents a relationship or association between two or more merchant profiles. The method also includes storing the one or more connections and the two or more merchant profiles.
US10068237B2	Transmit an authentication mark Examples disclosed herein relate to transmitting an authentication mark. For example, a processor creates an authentication mark for a two factor authentication system. The authentication mark is created according to data represented by a data bearing image. The processor transmits via a network the authentication mark to a computing device.
US10068236B2	Methods and arrangements for third party charging authorization for mobile service providers Methods and arrangements for handling web-based purchase requests. A customer request for content of a third party content provider is received at a charging service provider. An authorization code on behalf of the content provider is generated and returned to the customer via a channel other than a channel which links the customer with the third party content provider. The authorization code is accepted from the third party content provider as received by the third party content provider from the customer, the authorization code is verified, and charging for the requested content is executed.
US10068235B1	Regulating fraud probability models An automated purchase transaction analyzes a purchase transaction using a probability model to determine a probability that the transaction is fraudulent. If the probability exceeds a threshold, the transaction may be manually reviewed to determine whether to freeze the account associated with the transaction. When introducing the model, the threshold may be set to a relatively high value so that a small number of transactions are submitted for manual review. After a period of time, the observed freeze rate resulting from manual reviews is compared to a target freeze rate. The threshold is then adjusted upwardly or downwardly to decrease the difference between the observed and target freeze rates.
US10068232B2	Credit card reader authenticator A credit card reader is attached to a mobile device to process credit card transactions at the point of sale. In response to detecting attachment of the credit card reader to the mobile device, the credit card reader displays a one-time password for authenticating the credit card reader. The algorithm used to generate the one-time password is synchronized with a user token configured to display one-time passwords. If there is a match between the one-time passwords of the credit card reader and the token, the credit card reader is authentic. Further, if there is a match, the credit card reader may allow the user to process credit card transactions through the credit card reader.
US10068231B2	Automated teller machine with an encrypting card reader and an encrypting pin pad A banking system operates responsive to data read from data bearing records. The system includes an automated banking machine comprising a card reader. The card reader includes a movable read head that can read card data along a magnetic stripe of a card that was inserted long-edge first. The card reader includes a card entry gate. The gate is opened for a card that is determined to be properly oriented for data reading. The card reader can encrypt card data, including account data. The machine also includes a PIN keypad. The card reader can send encrypted card data to the keypad. The keypad can decipher the encrypted card data. The keypad can encrypt both deciphered card data and a received user PIN. The card data and the PIN are usable by the machine to authorize a user to carry out a financial transfer involving the account.
US10068226B2	System for authorization and instant integration of credit card to digital wallet Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for security confidence calculation for digital wallet integration. In this way, the invention provides instantaneous access to new payment methods, such as credit cards with prevention of misappropriation based on user device security confidence and token presentation. As such, the system allows for instant application approval, authorization, and instant integration of credit cards to a user's digital wallet. Thus allowing a user to instantaneously use the new credit card via his/her digital wallet without having to wait for the physical card to be received and activated.
US10068225B2	System and method for utilizing a universal prepaid card A network service operates to initialize and link a card instrument to a merchant or merchant location, so that the merchant can receive funds the service. One or more requests are detected to use the card instrument for one or more transactions, where each transaction involves a corresponding customer who has registered a customer funding account with the network service. For each of the transactions, a merchant account is funded using a funding account of the card instrument.
US10068217B1	Status monitoring for boxed wireless device Methods and systems for determining the status of a packaged device are disclosed. The device can include a secure microcontroller, a battery, a memory storing a status code, and an NFC antenna located in the device and communicatively coupled to the secure microcontroller. A set of instructions are stored on the secure microcontroller to write the status code to the memory. The status code is accessible from outside the sealed package via the antenna. The device could also be a POS device with instructions to process payment information received on the antenna. The apparatus could also include a power routing switch. Power could then be provided from the antenna to the battery via the switch output when the switch is in a conductive state.
US10068215B1	Support messages based on merchant account context A payment processing system for mobile point-of-sale transactions from a mobile point of sale terminal including a payment card reader having a card interface configured to read data from a payment card, the payment processing system includes an automated support system for proactively generating and presenting support messages for merchants using a mobile point-of-sale terminal. The automated support system generates the support message using a current account context for the merchant account and a plurality of rules that indicate a problem with the merchant account. The automated support system is further configured to generate a plurality of rules for detecting merchant account problems using a knowledge database of support tickets that include a human generated response to a merchant account problem and a corresponding merchant account context at the time of the human generated response.
US10068214B2	Portable terminal and its programs, settlement apparatus, and merchandising information providing apparatus On receiving simplified settlement data generated form settlement data and ID data for downloading electronic-receipt data from an electronic-receipt server, both from a settlement-processing apparatus, a portable terminal records the simplified settlement data in association with the ID data. The display unit of the portable terminal displays the simplified settlement data thus recorded. The portable terminal downloads electronic-receipt data from the electronic-receipt server by using the ID data recorded in association with the simplified settlement data, when the input unit is operated, thereby commanding that the electronic receipt related to the simplified settlement data displayed by the display unit should be downloaded. The electronic-receipt data is recorded in the electronic-receipt recording unit. The display unit displays the electronic receipt on the basis the electronic-receipt data recorded in the electronic-receipt recording unit.
US10068212B2	Systems and methods for point of sale deposits The disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for executing a point of sale deposit. In one embodiment, a system may include one or more memory devices storing software instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the software instructions to receive transaction information related to a point of sale deposit from a client device, and generate a pending deposit transaction based on the transaction information. The one or more processors may be further configured to execute the software instructions to receive a first transaction token from the client device, receive a second transaction token from a third-party device, match the first transaction token to the second transaction token, and complete the pending deposit transaction based on the match.
US10068210B2	Casino cash system, apparatus and method utilizing integrated circuit cards Methods, systems and apparatus are provided for facilitating financial transactions using an IC type financial card via a terminal. A user is provided a list of transaction types, such as PIN-based, signature-based, etc., and a requested transaction is processed via a first selected transaction type. If the transaction is unsuccessful, the terminal automatically presents a list of remaining available transaction types from which the user may select and the transaction is processed by the next selected transaction type. If the transaction is successful, funds are provided to the user, such as in the form of currency/coins or funds transfer.
US10068209B1	System and method for billing an account Methods and systems are disclosed for issuing bills on an account to a primary account holder and at least one secondary account holder. The methods and systems allow separate component bills to be sent to the primary and secondary account holders based on instructions received from the primary account holder. In one embodiment, the component bills represent the portion of the total bill that is attributable to the recipient of the component bill. In another embodiment, payment reminders are sent to the primary and secondary account holders before the payment deadline. Account identification information can be encoded on each payment received from a primary or secondary account holder so that the payment can be properly credited to the account.
US10068201B2	Storage container with inventory control Systems and methods of the invention relate to managing an inventory of items within a storage container. A storage container can house one or more items for distribution among one or more users such as, for instance, employees. The storage container discussed herein provides authentication of a user, tracking of the inventory each user removes or returns, video/image capture of user during access of the storage container, wireless tracking of items housed within the storage container, among others.
US10068200B1	Business and data processing system for providing mass spectrometric services Embodiments of business systems and data processing systems and related methods, apparatus, compositions, systems, and articles of manufacture useful for providing mass spectrographic analysis services are disclosed. In embodiments, MS analysis services may be provided to customers without exposing proprietary information of the customer to the service provider or others.
US10068197B2	Method and apparatus for making changes to a quantity for a time interval within a time series A method is described that involves providing a persisted quantity for a time series time interval to a first transaction, then, providing the same persisted quantity to a second transaction that operates in parallel with the first transaction. The second transaction is not permitted to change the persisted quantity. The method also involves replacing the persisted quantity with a second persisted quantity within the time series. The second persisted quantity is determined by the first transaction. The method also involves writing a persisted quantity change for the time series time interval. The persisted quantity change is determined by the second transaction.
US10068192B2	System and method of solving supply chain campaign planning problems involving major and minor setups A system including a computer solves supply chain campaign planning problems involving major and minor setups. The computer is configured to execute a major campaign for two or more of a plurality of major product families and fix an optimal major product family to a major time period on a planning horizon, based at least on aggregated major productivity fractions and calculated second moments of a plurality of two or more major product families. The computer is further configured to execute a minor campaign for two or more minor product families associated with the optimal major product family, obtain a minor productivity fraction of a campaignable resource for the minor product family over at least a portion of a major time period and fix an optimal minor product family from the two or more minor product families to a minor time period based at least on the minor productivity fraction.
US10068191B2	Event wizard server and methods for use therewith An event wizard server includes at least one processor that executes the event wizard server application that bidirectionally communicates event planning data with a user of a client device via a network interface. The event planning data includes: event type menu data, event type selection data, event size selection data, location data received from the client device, event budget menu data, event budget selection data, event budget data, event option menu data, event option selection data, event invitee menu data, and event invitee selection data.
US10068190B2	Component based interface to handle tasks during claim processing A computer program is provided for developing component based software capable of handling insurance-related tasks. The program includes a data component that stores, retrieves and manipulates data utilizing a plurality of functions. Also provided is a client component that includes an adapter component that transmits and receives data to/from the data component. The client component also includes a business component that serves as a data cache and includes logic for manipulating the data. A controller component is also included which is adapted to handle events generated by a user utilizing the business component to cache data and the adapter component to ultimately persist data to a data repository. In use, the client component is suitable for receiving a plurality of tasks that achieve an insurance-related goal upon completion, allowing users to add new tasks that achieve the goal upon completion, allowing the users to edit the tasks, and generating a historical record of the tasks that are completed.
US10068185B2	Error-driven feature ideation in machine learning Disclosed herein are technologies directed to a feature ideator. The feature ideator can initiate a classifier that analyzes a training set of data in a classification process. The feature ideator can generate one or more suggested features relating to errors generated during the classification process. The feature ideator can generate an output to cause the errors to be rendered in a format that provides for an interaction with a user. A user can review the summary of the errors or the individual errors and select one or more features to increase the accuracy of the classifier.
US10068184B1	Vertical superconducting capacitors for transmon qubits A vertical q-capacitor includes a trench in a substrate through a layer of superconducting material. A superconductor is deposited in the trench forming a first film on a first surface, a second film on a second surface, and a third film of the superconductor on a third surface of the trench. The first and second surfaces are substantially parallel, and the third surface in the trench separates the first and second surfaces. A dielectric is exposed below the third film by etching. A first coupling is formed between the first film and a first contact, and a second coupling is formed between the second film and a second contact in a superconducting quantum logic circuit. The first and second couplings cause the first and second films to operate as the vertical q-capacitor that maintains integrity of data in the superconducting quantum logic circuit within a threshold level.
US10068181B1	Microwave integrated quantum circuits with cap wafer and methods for making the same A quantum computing system that includes a quantum circuit device having at least one operating frequency; a first substrate having a first surface on which the quantum circuit device is disposed; a second substrate having a first surface that defines a recess of the second substrate, the first and second substrates being arranged such that the recess of the second substrate forms an enclosure that houses the quantum circuit device; and an electrically conducting layer that covers at least a portion of the recess of the second substrate.
US10068180B2	Systems and methods for operating a quantum processor to determine energy eigenvalues of a hamiltonian Systems and methods for employing macroscopic resonant tunneling operations in quantum processors are described. New modes of use for quantum processor architectures employ probe qubits to determine energy eigenvalues of a problem Hamiltonian through macroscopic resonant tunneling operations. A dedicated probe qubit design that may be added to quantum processor architectures is also described. The dedicated probe qubit enables improved performance of macroscopic resonant tunneling operations and, consequently, improved performance of the new modes of use described.
US10068177B2	Process of probabilistic multi-source multi-INT fusion benefit analysis A method of fusing sensor detection probabilities. The fusing of detection probabilities may allow a first force to detect an imminent threat from a second force, with enough time to counter the threat. The detection probabilities may include accuracy probability of one or more sensors and an available time probability of the one or more sensors. The detection probabilities allow a determination of accuracy of intelligence gathered by each of the sensors. Also, the detection probabilities allow a determination of a probable benefit of an additional platform, sensor, or processing method. The detection probabilities allow a system or mission analyst to quickly decompose a problem space and build a detailed analysis of a scenario under different conditions including technology and environmental factors.
US10068176B2	Defect prediction method and apparatus Embodiments of the present invention disclose a defect prediction method and apparatus, which relate to the data processing field, and implement accurate and quick locating of a defect in a faulty product. A specific solution is as follows: selecting a training attribute set from a pre-stored product fault record according to a target attribute, and combining the target attribute and the training attribute set into a training set, where the target attribute is a defect attribute of a historical faulty product; generating a classifier set according to the training set, where the classifier set includes at least two tree classifiers; and predicting a defect of a faulty product by using the classifier set as a prediction model. The present invention is used in a process of predicting a defect of a faulty product.
US10068171B2	Multi-layer fusion in a convolutional neural network for image classification A method and system for domain adaptation based on multi-layer fusion in a convolutional neural network architecture for feature extraction and a two-step training and fine-tuning scheme. The architecture concatenates features extracted at different depths of the network to form a fully connected layer before the classification step. First, the network is trained with a large set of images from a source domain as a feature extractor. Second, for each new domain (including the source domain), the classification step is fine-tuned with images collected from the corresponding site. The features from different depths are concatenated with and fine-tuned with weights adjusted for a specific task. The architecture is used for classifying high occupancy vehicle images.
US10068170B2	Minimizing global error in an artificial neural network Computer systems, machine-implemented methods, and stored instructions are provided for minimizing an approximate global error in an artificial neural network that is configured to predict model outputs based at least in part on one or more model inputs. A model manager stores the artificial neural network model. The model manager may then minimize an approximate global error in the artificial neural network model at least in part by causing evaluation of a mixed integer linear program that determines weights between artificial neurons in the artificial neural network model. The mixed integer linear program accounts for piecewise linear activation functions for artificial neurons in the artificial neural network model. The mixed integer linear program comprises a functional expression of a difference between actual data and modeled data, and a set of one or more constraints that reference variables in the functional expression.
US10068168B2	IC card and IC module An IC card has a data storage, a table storage and a processing unit. The data storage stores data. The table storage stores a data element table including profile information including, in association with each other: a profile identifier for identifying a profile that is a group (set) of data elements to be stored in the data storage, at the time of issuance; the data elements included in the profile; and data region identifiers indicating data regions that are reserved in the data storage to store the data elements. The processing unit stores, in the data region indicated by the data region identifier corresponding to the data elements, the data elements corresponding to the profile identifier, from the data element table stored in the table storage, in response to a processing request that includes the profile identifier and requests issuance processing.
US10068163B2	Image processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium using difference in processing speed information Provided is an image processing apparatus including a print image generation section that generates print image data to be supplied to a printing device by executing a rasterizing process with a resolution for printing on print data, and an image density calculation section that executes the rasterizing process on the print data with a resolution lower than the resolution for printing and calculates image density information used in control of an image forming process in the printing device based on raster image data which is generated through the rasterizing process and has a resolution lower than the resolution for printing, wherein a difference in a processing speed between the print image generation section and the image density calculation section causes the image density information of a page prior to a page of the print image data being printed by the printing device to be supplied to the printing device.
US10068161B2	Apparatus and method for maintenance of an image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus and method for controlling an image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a detecting unit, a projecting unit, and a control unit. The detecting unit is configured to detect an event that needs user work on the image forming apparatus. The projecting unit is configured to project an image onto a projection target. The control unit is configured to control projection by the projecting unit. When an event that needs user work on the image forming apparatus is detected, the projecting unit projects an image onto a projection target so that a target portion of the user work can be identified and also projects an instruction image for performing the user work.
US10068160B2	Image processing apparatus and method for controlling the same An image forming apparatus includes a light emitting element group including a plurality of light emitting elements disposed at first intervals in a first direction, and configured to emit optical beams based on image data, a lens array including a plurality of lenses disposed at second intervals different from the first intervals in the first direction and configured to focus or condense the light emitted from the light emitting element group, and a halftone processing unit configured to perform halftone processing by using a dither matrix corresponding to a relative positional relationship between the plurality of light emitting elements and the plurality of lenses to generate the image data.
US10068156B2	Methods and systems for decision-tree-based automated symbol recognition The current document is directed to methods and systems for identifying symbols corresponding to symbol images in a scanned-document image or other text-containing image, with the symbols corresponding to Chinese or Japanese characters, to Korean morpho-syllabic blocks, or to symbols of other languages that use a large number of symbols for writing and printing. In one implementation, the methods and systems to which the current document is directed create and store a decision tree, the nodes of which include classifiers that each recognizes the symbol that corresponds to a symbol image. Input of a symbol image to the decision tree and processing of the symbol image through one or more nodes of the decision tree returns a symbol corresponding to the symbol image.
US10068154B2	Recognition process of an object in a query image Recognition process (1) of an object (An) in a query image (2), performing a training step (6) that comprises: —providing (20) a set of training images (Ti), each training image (Ti) comprising an object tag (LOGOi); —determining (21) for each training image (Ti) of said set a plurality of first descriptors (11), each first descriptor (11) being a vector that represents pixel properties in a subregion (Sri) of the associated training image (Ti); —determining (23) a group of exemplar descriptors (111) describing the set of training images (Ti) and resulting from a selection of the first descriptors (11) based on the position of said subregion (Sri) in the associated training image (Ti) and on the pixel properties of said first descriptors (11); performing a query step (7) comprising: —receiving (30) the query image (2) and defining (31) a plurality of vectors (V′) of second descriptors (3) describing the properties of said query image (2); —determining (35) a visual similarity coefficient based on a comparison between each one of said second descriptor (3) of said query image (2) and each one of said exemplar descriptors (111) of said group in order to automatically recognize the object (An) in said query image (2) with respect to the object tag (LOGOi) coupled to one of said exemplar descriptor (111).
US10068150B2	Method and apparatus for OCR detection of valuable documents by means of a matrix camera The invention relates to a method for OCR detection of valuable documents in a cash dispenser in the case of which an image of the valuable document is detected by means of a digital video or matrix camera. A Hough transformation is used to calculate edge lines of the valuable document and a rotation angle is calculated therefrom such that the edges of the valuable document are aligned with the image edges. The detected image is homogenized to compensate an inhomogeneous image background. This is followed by OCR detection of alphanumeric information on the valuable document.
US10068149B2	Image processing utilizing reference images Embodiments are generally related to image processing utilizing reference images. An embodiment of a mobile device includes an image capture mechanism to capture a base image, the base image containing one or more objects including a target object; and a memory to store data, the data including the base image. The mobile device is to analyze the base image to identify one or more objects in the base image, and identify one or more reference images based on a comparison of one or more identified objects in the base image with reference images in a repository of images, wherein the one or more reference images include a first reference image containing the target object, the first reference image having a first set of first image characteristics.
US10068148B2	Image processing apparatus, and operation method and program therefor For assigning a binary label representing belonging to a target region or not to each pixel in an image: a predicted shape of the target region is set; a pixel group including N pixels is selected, where N is a natural number of 4 or more, which have a positional relationship representing the predicted shape; and an energy function is set, which includes an N-th order term in which a variable is a label of each pixel of the pixel group, so that a value of the N-th order term is at a minimum value when a combination of the labels assigned to the pixels of the pixel group is a pattern matching the predicted shape, and increases in stages along with an increase in a number of pixels to which a label different from the pattern is assigned. The labeling is performed by minimizing the energy function.
US10068144B2	Association method and association apparatus An association relating to the field of communications is enabled. A method comprises: acquiring image data in a view area of an imaging device; dividing the view area into sub-view areas; acquiring an attribute information set of an object in any one of the sub-view areas through beam scanning; in response to that the attribute information set comprises attribute information of multiple objects, dividing the one sub-view area or the view area into secondary sub-view areas; acquiring attribute information of at least one object in any one of the secondary sub-view areas through beam scanning; and establishing a correspondence between the attribute information of the object in the one secondary sub-view area and image data corresponding to the one secondary sub-view area. A user can obtain a correspondence between attribute information of an object and image data of the object more conveniently.
US10068143B2	Method for calibrating a camera for a gaze direction detection in a vehicle, device for a motor vehicle having a camera and at least one further element, and computer program product A method for calibrating a camera for a gaze direction detection in a vehicle, to a device for a motor vehicle having a camera and at least one further element, and to a computer program product. The at least one further element is situated in a fixed geometric relationship with the camera the calibration takes place by detecting, in images of the camera, at least one relative change in the gaze direction in which a user changes his gaze in the direction of the further element. The method is characterized in that it is detected by at least one action of the user that the gaze change of the user has taken place or will take place. For the gaze direction then offers an advantage as a result of a dual benefit: it is used both for the calibration and for the action of the user.
US10068142B2	Detection apparatus, detection method, driving assistance apparatus, and driving assistance method A jump-out determination unit determines whether or not an object is approaching a travel direction of a vehicle based on movement information relating to movement of the object, the movement information having been acquired by a speed variation calculation unit after a pre-indication of that the object approaches the travel direction of the vehicle is detected by a jump-out pre-indication calculation unit of a detection apparatus. As a result, the sudden approach of the object toward the travel direction, which is difficult to determine solely from the movement information relating to the object, can be detected with improved precision.
US10068141B2	Automatic operation vehicle An automatic operation vehicle that automatically performs an operation in an operation area is provided. The vehicle includes an image analysis unit configured to extract a marker included in an image captured by a camera provided on the automatic operation vehicle. If a situation in which the marker that was extracted from the image captured by the camera cannot be extracted by the image analysis unit from the image captured by the camera has occurred during a movement of the automatic operation vehicle in a constant direction. The image analysis unit determines whether the marker extracted before an occurrence of the situation and the marker extracted after an elimination of the situation are the same marker.
US10068140B2	System and method for estimating vehicular motion based on monocular video data A vehicle movement parameter, such as ego-speed, is estimated using real-time images captured by a single camera. The captured images may be analyzed by a pre-trained convolutional neural network to estimate vehicle movement based on monocular video data. The convolutional neural network may be pre-trained using filters from a synchrony autoencoder that were trained using unlabeled video data captured by the vehicle's camera while the vehicle was in motion. A parameter corresponding to the estimated vehicle movement may be output to the driver or to a driver assistance system for use in controlling the vehicle.
US10068137B2	Method and device for automatic detection and tracking of one or multiple objects of interest in a video The invention relates to a method for automatic detection and tracking of one or multiple objects of interest in a video sequence comprising several successive frames (1) captured with a moving camera, comprising:—segmenting (32) each frame into regions depending on color and producing a segmented image (1′);—deducing (34) from each segmented image (1′) a region adjacency graph (11) comprising nodes and edges, wherein each node defines a region and each edge links two nodes of adjacent regions; wherein the region adjacency graphs (11) form a set of region adjacency graphs;—extracting (36) from the set of region adjacency graphs frequent spatio-temporal patterns (13);—determining (38) degrees of dissimilarity between the trajectories of the extracted frequent spatio-temporal patterns (13) between successive frames (1); and—clustering (39) the frequent spatio-temporal patterns (13) to produce at least one cluster (25, 26, 27) corresponding to one object of interest among said one or multiple objects of interest according to the determined degrees of dissimilarity of the trajectories.
US10068136B2	Event detection based on video metadata Video data from sources, such as cameras, is analyzed to create metadata descriptive of the events and objects occurring in the video. This metadata, which consists of data about the video, is then analyzed on a transaction basis to determine if a suspicious activity, such as a fraudulent Point of Sale (POS) return event, has occurred in relation to a transaction.
US10068132B2	Document optical character recognition Vehicles and other items often have corresponding documentation, such as registration cards, that includes a significant amount of informative textual information that can be used in identifying the item. Traditional OCR may be unsuccessful when dealing with non-cooperative images. Accordingly, features such as dewarping, text alignment, and line identification and removal may aid in OCR of non-cooperative images. Dewarping involves determining curvature of a document depicted in an image and processing the image to dewarp the image of the document to make it more accurately conform to the ideal of a cooperative image. Text alignment involves determining an actual alignment of depicted text, even when the depicted text is not aligned with depicted visual cues. Line identification and removal involves identifying portions of the image that depict lines and removing those lines prior to OCR processing of the image.
US10068131B2	Method and apparatus for recognising expression using expression-gesture dictionary An apparatus for recognizing expression using an expression-gesture dictionary, includes a learning image acquisitor to obtain data from a learning expression, perform a normalization based on the data, track a change of a dense motion from a reference frame, and generate expression learning data, an expression-gesture dictionary and expression-gesture dictionary learner to represent and store a numerical value for expression recognition for each expression using a local support map in an image coordinate space for a motion flow with respect to a set of changes of the dense motion, an expression classifier learner to learn an expression classification for each expression based on a weight of data on the expression-gesture dictionary, a recognition image acquisitor to obtain data from a recognition target, and generate recognition data, and an expression recognizer to analyze an expression weight on the recognition data, and recognize an expression by the expression classifier learner.
US10068126B2	Microscope slide coordinate system registration Systems, methods and computer program products for mapping coordinates of various imaging stations are described. In some implementations, cells (e.g., red blood cells) in a biological specimen can be used for determining the mapping information between the imaging stations. The use of cells allows a target image (e.g., an image of a sub-region of cells in the biological specimen) taken by one imaging station to be pattern-matched to a reference image (e.g., an image showing a larger region of cells in the biological specimen that also includes the sub-region) taken by another imaging station. Once the target image is matched to the reference image, point by point correspondence (and therefore coordinates) between the target image and the reference image can be established for computing the coordinate transformation to map the imaging stations.
US10068124B2	Systems and methods for spoof detection based on gradient distribution A system and method for performing spoof detection are disclosed. The method includes: receiving an input image of a biometric; generating a first filtered image by applying a first convolution to the input image based on a first convolution kernel; generating a second filtered image by applying a second convolution to the input image based on a second convolution kernel; computing a gradient residual image by subtracting, for each pixel location of the first and second filtered images, a pixel value in the second filtered image from a corresponding pixel value in the first filtered image; applying a density estimation procedure to the gradient residual image to identify areas of varied density; and, determining whether the input image is a replica of the biometric based on results of the density estimation procedure.
US10068111B2	Method and system for marking manufactured items to detect unauthorized refilling A method for marking a manufactured item is provided, the manufactured item comprising a container and a removable closure for the container, the method comprising: generating a first code for the container, generating a second code for the closure, marking the container with the first code, and marking the closure with the second code, wherein the first code and the second code are interrelated such that at least a portion of one of the first code and the second code can be derived from the other of the first code and the second code. In an authentication process one of the first or second codes or a portion of the first or second code, in encrypted or unencrypted form, may be compared with a value derived from reading the other of the first or second code.
US10068110B2	Semiconductor device including a content firewall unit that has a secure function A semiconductor device includes a first processing unit configured to perform a calculation by using data stored in a memory; and a memory path controller configured to communicate with the first processing unit and control the memory for the first processing unit to perform the calculation, wherein the memory path controller includes an address region control unit configured to divide an address space of the memory to include a secure address and a non-secure address and permit the first processing unit to access the secure address or the non-secure address, and a first content firewall unit connected with the address region control unit and configured to prevent the first processing unit from writing secure contents in the non-secure address.
US10068105B2	User authentication method and terminal A user authentication method and terminal, where the method includes acquiring an authentication interaction object and an interference interaction object where the authentication interaction object is a real interaction object stored in a terminal, the interference interaction object is a virtual interaction object constructed by the terminal, and the interference interaction object has a similar feature with the authentication interaction object to cause interference to a user when the user is selecting the authentication interaction object, displaying the authentication interaction object and the interference interaction object in an authentication interface for the user to select from, receiving a selection result and determining whether the selection result is the authentication interaction object, and determining, when the selection result is the authentication interaction object, that authentication succeeds.
US10068102B2	Dynamic, temporary data access token Provided are techniques for generating a temporary data access token for a subset of data for a specific period of time for a non-registered user who did not register with a computer providing access to the subset of the data. In response to the non-registered user attempting to access the subset of data with the temporary data access token, it is determined whether the temporary data access token is valid for the subset of data based on the specified period of time. In response to the temporary data access token being valid, the subset of data is provided to the non-registered user. In response to the temporary data access token not being valid, access is denied to the subset of data by the non-registered user.
US10068101B2	Secure content sharing Technologies for sharing secure content include a source computing device to determine a content use policy for content of the source computing device. The content use policy defines at least one location at which a destination computing device is permitted to access the content. The source computing device encrypts the content with an encryption key to generate encrypted content, generates a secure content package, and transmits the secure content package to the destination computing device. The secure content package includes the encrypted content and the content use policy.
US10068099B1	System and method for providing a data structure having different-scheme-derived portions In certain embodiments, first and second information to be represented in a data structure (accessible to a plurality of entities) may be obtained. First and second sets of permissions associated with the first and second information may be respectively obtained. A first cryptographic scheme may be determined for the first information based on the first set of permissions being associated with the first information. A second cryptographic scheme may be determined for the second information based on the second set of permission being associated with the second information. A first data structure portion may be generated based on the first cryptographic scheme, where the first data structure portion represents the first information in the data structure. A second data structure portion may be generated based on the second cryptographic scheme, where the second data structure portion represents the second information in the data structure.
US10068095B1	Systems and methods for selecting a termination rule for a penetration testing campaign Systems and methods of penetration testing of a networked system by a penetration testing system that is controlled by a user interface of a computing device so that a penetration testing campaign is executed until a termination condition is satisfied, the termination condition being manually and explicitly selected and being an indirect termination condition.
US10068091B1	System and method for malware containment Systems and methods for malware containment on connection is provided. In exemplary embodiments, a malware containment method is described that performs a number of operations. The method involves redirecting network data received over a communication network to a virtual machine. The virtual machine is configured to simulate functionality of a digital device. Furthermore, the method involves analyzing of the redirected network data that including analyzing a response of the virtual machine to processing of the network data within the virtual machine to identify a malware attack. Thereafter, the method involves continuing to redirect the network data for processing by the virtual machine until expiration of a predetermined period of time without detection of malware, or continuing to redirect the network data for processing by the virtual machine beyond the predetermined period of time when malware is detected.
US10068090B2	Systems and methods for detecting undesirable network traffic content A method of detecting a content desired to be detected includes receiving electronic data at a first host, determining a checksum value using the received electronic data, sending the checksum value to a processing station, the processing station being a second host that is different from the first host, and receiving a result from the processing station, the result indicating whether the electronic data is associated with a content desired to be detected. A method of detecting a content desired to be detected includes receiving electronic data at a receiving station, and determining whether the received electronic data is associated with a content desired to be detected, wherein the receiving station does not include content detection data for identifying the content desired to be detected.
US10068088B2	Method, computer program and system that uses behavioral biometric algorithms A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and system for determining whether a user exhibits machine behavior, or does not exhibit human-like behavior, thereby to authenticate the user for access to a software service.
US10068086B2	System and method of automatic password recovery for a service A system and method for automatic password recovery for one or more web services comprising: obtaining user registration data and a request password restoration, determining a first security question associated with a first complexity factor, causing the first security question to be asked to the user, obtaining the first user's answer and assigning a first weighting factor thereto, the first weighting factor depending on the first complexity factor determining a second security question associated with a second complexity factor, causing the second security question to be asked to the user, obtaining the second user's answer and assigning a second weighting factor thereto, the second assigned weighting factor depending on the second complexity factor, adding up the first weighting factor and the second weighting factor, if the sum exceeds a given threshold, automatically restoring the password and if the sum is below the given threshold, denying automatic password restoration.
US10068083B2	Secure transport of web form submissions Methods and systems for secure web form submission may implement one or more operations including, but not limited to: receiving web content including at least one web form from a web server at a client; determining a value of at least one web form submission security attribute of the at least one web form; and transmitting submission data associated with the at least one web form from the client to the web server according to the value of the web form submission security attribute.
US10068082B1	Systems and methods for maintaining split knowledge of web-based accounts Systems and methods for enabling multi-factor authentication for a web-based account. A first computing device and a second computing device are accessible to a first user. A backend system is accessible to a second user. The backend system communicates with the second computing device via a secure communication network. The first user creates a web-based account and receives a MFA initiation screen including secret information and a field for entering at least one TOTP token. The backend system has a TOTP token generator. The second computing device captures the secret information and transmits it to the backend system. The second user generates at least one TOTP token using the backend system and transmits the at least one TOTP token to the second computing device. The first user enters the at least one TOTP token into the first computing device. The account can then be validated and MFA enabled.
US10068078B2	Electronic devices with improved iris recognition and methods thereof An electronic device and a method for improving iris recognition for providing access to the electronic device. The electronic device includes an iris scanner, an ambient light sensor, a memory and a processor. The memory includes computer program code for providing access control to the electronic device to a user by iris recognition of the user's iris. The processor causes the electronic device to prompt the user to provide iris samples of the user's iris to the iris scanner in a particular lighting condition measured by the ambient light sensor in occurrence of at least one of first event and second event. The first event occurs if the processor determines a missing information associated with an iris sample in the particular lighting condition in the electronic device. The second event occurs if the processor detects an unsuccessful iris recognition attempt for accessing the electronic device in the particular lighting condition.
US10068075B2	Method for generating a human likeness score One embodiment of the invention is a method utilizing a CAPTCHA to generate a human likeness score including blocks: a) receiving a user solution to the CAPTCHA; b) receiving a user interaction pattern descriptive of an interaction undertaken by the user, through a graphical interface of the CAPTCHA, to achieve the user solution; c) determining the accuracy of the user solution; d) comparing the user interaction pattern against an interaction model generated from interaction patterns of previous users; e) calculating the human likeness score based upon the determination of block c) and the comparison of block d), wherein the human likeness score lies within a continuum of human likeness scores.
US10068070B2	White-box elliptic curve point multiplication A method of obscuring software code implementing an elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) point multiplication function, including: receiving ECC parameters including a multiplier d having N bits; transforming multiplier d into an array d(i) with −1, 0, and +1 values while maintaining the same value for d; and generating ECC point multiplication function operations using the transformed multiplier array d(i) and N, wherein the generated ECC point multiplication function operations are split variable operations.
US10068066B2	Providing temporary contact information Contact information associated with a user is identified. Temporary contact information, exclusive of the contact information, is generated and associated with the user. Termination controls, configured to prevent use of the temporary contact information after the occurrence of an event, are generated and associated with the temporary contact information.
US10068065B2	Assignment of a machine-readable link to content as a payoff Examples disclosed herein relate to assignment of a machine-readable link to content as a payoff. Examples include acquisition of an email message specifying an external link identifier, and identification of a machine-readable link to which the external link identifier is assigned in a linking service. Examples further include, based on the email message, a linking platform being caused to assign the machine-readable link to content as the payoff for the machine-readable link.
US10068056B2	Medical diagnosis support system This invention provides a mechanism for making a doctor surely follow correct procedures in which the doctor confirms diagnosis information obtained by computer processing after he or she has completed interpretation. A medical diagnosis support apparatus executes diagnosis processing for acquiring medical diagnosis information from an image to be interpreted by computer processing. The medical diagnosis support apparatus accepts interpretation information as an interpretation result of the image to be interpreted, which information is input by, for example, a doctor. The medical diagnosis support apparatus calculates a degree of matching between the diagnosis information and interpretation information, and permits to present the diagnosis information acquired by the diagnosis processing when the calculated degree of matching exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US10068054B2	Bioinformatics systems, apparatuses, and methods executed on an integrated circuit processing platform A system, method and apparatus for executing a sequence analysis pipeline on genetic sequence data includes an integrated circuit formed of a set of hardwired digital logic circuits that are interconnected by physical electrical interconnects. The hardwired digital logic circuits are arranged as a set of processing engines, each processing engine being formed of a subset of the hardwired digital logic circuits to perform one or more steps in the sequence analysis pipeline on the reads of genomic data. In various instances, each subset of the hardwired digital logic circuits may be formed in a wired configuration to perform one or more steps a variant call operation.
US10068049B2	Automated fiducial marker planning method A system and method are described for determining candidate fiducial marker locations in the vicinity of a lesion. Imaging information and data are input or received by the system and candidate marker locations are calculated and displayed to the physician. Additionally, interactive feedback may be provided to the physician for manually selected or identified sites. The physician may thus receive automatic real time feedback for a candidate fiducial marker location and adjust or accept a constellation of fiducial marker locations. 3D renderings of the airway tree, lesion, and marker constellations may be displayed.
US10068045B1	Programmable logic device design implementations with multiplexer transformations A programmable logic design is generated for a programmable logic device (PLD) containing configurable logic blocks (CLBs) each having a plurality of multiplexers and look-up-table (LUT) circuits. A first subset of multiplexers are identified from the plurality of multiplexers based upon an analysis of design definitions for input signals of the plurality of multiplexers. The first subset of multiplexers are transformed into LUT logic. Configuration data is generated that is designed to be loaded into the PLD to configure the CLBs. The configuration data includes the LUT logic.
US10068043B1	Validating integrated circuit simulation results A technique validates results from a circuit simulation estimation program. The technique determines whether the estimated results satisfy Kirchhoff's current law (KCL), Kirchhoff's voltage laws (KVL), and power conservation for the original circuit. A reporting tool shows the validation results and may be customized by the user. The tool can show in the original circuitry where the estimated results may be inaccurate.
US10068041B2	Multi-core compact executable trace processor Described herein are a processor and a method of operating the processor to simulate a many-core target machine. The processor includes a plurality of processing cores arranged in a predetermined manner and a global target clock counter (GTCC) configured to count a number of simulated clock cycles in the target machine. A global stall controller (GSC) configured to halt execution of all the processing cores based on a determination of at least one processing core being in a fault condition; and wherein the processor acquires a base clock per instruction (CPI) of a target machine, the CPI corresponding to an average number of clock cycles required by the target machine to execute a single instruction, translates an application of the target machine to a compact executable trace to be executed by the processor, and adjusts a speed of simulation by adjusting an update rate of the global target clock counter.
US10068036B2	Simulation of resizable bodies using a rigid body solver A computer-implemented method and system automatically adjusts the size of a rigid body model. The method and system construct a two-dimensional model or a three-dimensional model, where the model has one or more rigid bodies. The rigid bodies are converted into geometric primitives that represent a respective rigid body and enable the respective rigid body to resize. One or more of the primitives are constrained to one another. A solver process changes a size of at least one geometric primitive and a rigid body simulation process uses the resized primitive(s) as input.
US10068034B2	Efficient matching of TCAM rules using hash tables in RAM A method includes extracting classification keys from a collection of data items. A corpus of rules for matching to the classification keys is received, each rule including a respective set of unmasked bits having corresponding bit values, and at least some of the rules also include masked bits. Rule patterns are extracted from the corpus, each rule pattern defining a respective sequence of masked and unmasked bits to which one or more of the rules conforms. Multiple hash tables are defined in a RAM, each is used for searching for a rule that matches a given classification key. A match result of a given rule in a given hash table is also indicative of which of the other hash tables are to be used for subsequent searching. The data items are classified by matching the respective classification keys to the rules using one or more of the hash tables.
US10068030B2	Extending java server faces web pages to support multiple devices The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for extending Java Server Faces Web pages to support multiple devices. The method includes: providing a device and modeling language independent Java Server Faces (JSF) web page, wherein the JSF web page does not contain any modeling language specific elements.
US10068029B2	Visualizing relationships in survey data Some examples of visualizing relationships between survey data can be implemented by displaying a user interface including a survey question region and a percentage region. In response to detecting a selection of a survey data set, multiple question objects are displayed in the survey question region. Each question object represents a survey question and an answer option for the survey question. In response to inputs to interact with the multiple question objects, survey results such as a percentage of selections of a first answer option to a first survey question represented by a first question object can be determined and displayed in the user interface. Also, interrelationships between answers to survey questions can be displayed by positioning question objects at different locations in the user interface. In response to a selection of a question object, other question objects can be presented according to the correlation with the selected question object.
US10068023B2	Systems and methods for updating links between keywords associated with a trending topic Systems and methods are described herein for updating links between keywords associated with a trending topic. Control circuitry may identify a plurality of communications associated with a plurality of users, the plurality of communications being related to a topic. The communications may comprise, for example, emails, text messages, online social media posts, websites or portions of a website, or any other online communication. The control circuitry may determine whether the topic is trending and increase a strength of association between a first symbol associated with the topic and a second symbol associated with the topic such that when a search query is received that includes the first symbol, search results related to the second symbol have a higher probability of being returned.
US10068017B2	Stream recognition and filtering A method obtains a first data item signature for a first data item, the first data item signature comprising an association between a plurality of synch points in the first data item and a corresponding plurality of block signatures. The process attempts to find one of the synch points in a second data item; and, if such a synch point is found, then a block signature of a corresponding block of bits in the second data item is determined. The process ascertains whether the synch point and corresponding block signature from the second data item correspond to a synch point and block signature in the first data item. If a predetermined number of synch points and corresponding block signatures match, the first and second data items are considered to match. In response to said determining, one or more actions associated with the first data item are performed.
US10068014B2	Security information management for content delivery Described herein are methods, systems, and software to handle verification information in a content node. In one example, a method of operating a content node includes receiving a secure content request from an end user device and determining the availability of verification information stored on the content node to service the secure content request. The method further provides, if the verification information is available, verifying the end user device based on the verification information. The method also includes, if the verification information is unavailable, querying an origin server to verify the end user device.
US10068012B2	Music discovery Examples described herein relate to music discovery. In one aspect, a method is provided that involves (a) receiving by a computing device an indication of a search tool from among a plurality of search tools, where each search tool of the plurality of search tools is associated with at least one respective media service, (b) receiving by the computing device an indication of a media characteristic, where the computing device receives the media characteristic via the indicated search tool, (c) selecting by the computing device one or more of the at least one respective media service that maintains media associated with the indicated media characteristic, and (d) sending by the computing device an indication of the selected one or more of the at least one respective media service.
US10068008B2	Spelling correction of email queries Techniques and constructs to facilitate spelling correction of email queries can leverage features of email data to obtain candidate corrections particular to the email data being queried. The constructs may enable accurate spelling correction of email queries across languages and domains based on, for example, one or more of a language model such as a bigram language model and/or a normalized token IDF based language model, a translation model such as an edit distance translation model and/or a fuzzy match translation model, content-based features, and/or contextual features. Content-based features can include features associated with the subject line of emails, content including identified phrases, contacts, and/or the number of candidate emails returned. Contextual features can include a time window of subject match and/or contact match, a frequency of emails received from a contact, and/or device characteristics.
US10068005B2	String hashing using a random number generator String hashing using a random number generator is disclosed. A method of implementations includes dividing an input stream provided to a hashing module into a plurality of subsets of bits, wherein each subset comprises a same number of bits and wherein each of the subsets of bits comprises an overlapping subset, augmenting a subset of the subsets of bits with a constant, entangling, by a mixer of the hashing module, the subset by an output of a number generator, adding a result of the entangling to an accumulator of the hashing module, repeating the augmenting, the entangling, and the adding on at least a portion of a next sequential subset of the subset of bits, and when all of the subsets of bits have been processed, returning a value in the accumulator as a hash result value.
US10067998B2	Distributed sync list A dispersed storage network (DSN) includes a processing unit and multiple storage unit sets. A first storage unit set and a second storage unit set receive, sets of encoded data slices generated, by the DS processing unit, for storage. The encoded data slices include dispersal-encoded portions of one or more data objects. The first and second storage unit sets are used to mirror storage of the one or more data objects. The first storage unit set stores data slices unsynchronized to the second storage unit set, and generates a record identifying the unsynchronized data slices. Later, the storage unit detects that the availability of at least one storage unit of the second storage unit set, and in response facilitates copying of particular unsynchronized data slices to corresponding storage units of the second storage unit set. After copying, the record is updated to indicate the synchronization.
US10067990B1	System, method, and computer program for identifying significant attributes of records A system, method, and computer program product are provided for identifying significant attributes of records (e.g. journeys, etc.). A plurality of records are stored, including a plurality of events with a plurality of attributes. Further, the attributes of the events are processed, utilizing machine learning. To this end, at least one of the attributes are identified as being significant, based on the processing. Such identified at least one attribute may then be displayed, etc.
US10067988B2	User-based content filtering and ranking to facilitate on-demand services A transport facilitation system can receive content items for display on driver devices associated with an on-demand transportation service. Using stored driver data for a driver, the system can filter the content items into a filtered subset of content items relevant to the driver. The system can receive location data from a driver device indicating a current location of the driver as the driver travels throughout a given region, and determine a degree of relevance for each of the filtered subset of content items based, at least in part, on the current location of the driver. The system can generate a set of ranked content items for display on the driver device based on the determined degree of relevance for each of the filtered subset of content items, and provide the set of ranked content items for display on the driver device.
US10067979B2	Allocation of tenants to database services The claimed subject matter provides a system and method for automatic allocation of tenants to database services. An exemplary method comprises determining a query plan based on a workload for each tenant. A distance metric is created based on the query plan for each tenant, and tenants are clustered based on the distance metric into a predetermined number of clusters which is equal to the predetermined number of databases.
US10067978B2	Plug-in architecture of business intelligence platform using data source cartridges Embodiments implement a plug-in architecture supporting adding new data sources to a federated database without the need to recode a federated database manager software module. The federated database manager software module includes a plug-in framework for interfacing with a data source cartridge. The data source cartridge supplies metadata including a feature table of a newly added data source to the framework and creates a physical query for the newly added data source based on an execution plan generated by the federated database manager software module. The data source cartridge returns the result set of the query of the new added data source to the federated database manager software module.
US10067976B2	Method for enhancing record linkage production data quality A Record Linkage Production Data Quality (RLPDQ) tool provides an independent record linkage system producing comparative results with a production record linkage system and an efficient arbitration operation to resolve respective confusion matrices for the two systems. The tool can be used for enhancing the output of record linkage engines, for merging different files into a third file containing expanded descriptions of common entities in both files, and for making testable improvements to a record linkage engine.
US10067975B2	Conversation based search system and method using a touch-detection surface separated from the system's search window A conversation based search method includes the steps of: proposing an utterance phrase corresponding to a query input by a user; and reforming the query by means of an answer from the user and offering a search result corresponding to the reformed query, wherein the user answer is presented by the user using a touch-detection surface separated from a user terminal search window in which the user receives the search results.
US10067974B2	Loading and reloading an in-memory copy of a database object without blocking concurrent updates to the database object Techniques are herein described for loading a portion of a database object into volatile memory without blocking database manipulation language transactions. The techniques involve invalidating data items loaded from blocks affected by a transaction, referred to as a straddling transaction that started before the load time and committed after the load time. Identifying these straddling transactions involves reviewing one or more transaction lists associated with the set of data items loaded in memory. The transaction list may be read in reverse temporal order of commit to identify a transaction meeting the criteria of starting before the load start, not committing before the load time, and affecting a data item loaded in memory.
US10067970B1	Disaster recovery for split storage cluster A method, computer program product and/or computer system assigns access to a quorum disk in a split-storage cluster environment when a communication link between storage systems fails. Access to the quorum disk is based on storage system I/O performance. Priority is given to the storage system that has a higher performance before the link failure. When the communication link fails, both storage systems attempt to access the quorum disk. If the system that first attempts to access the quorum disk is the non-priority storage system, a timer is started. If the priority system attempts to access the quorum disk within a predetermined time interval, the priority system locks the quorum disk and forms the cluster. If the priority system does not attempt to access the quorum disk within the predetermined time interval, the non-priority system locks the quorum disk and forms the cluster.
US10067969B2	Table partitioning within distributed database systems Techniques are disclosed for implementing a unified partitioning scheme within distributed database systems to allow a table to be horizontally partitioned and those partitions stored on and serviced by a storage group. A storage group is a subset of storage manager (SM) nodes, and each SM node is configured to persist database data in durable storage. The distributed database system assigns each storage group to a subset of SM nodes. The distributed database system can address each storage group using a symbolic mapping that allows transactions to identify a particular storage group, and to direct read and write operations to a subset of SM nodes servicing that storage group. An administrator can update this mapping on-the-fly to cause the distributed database system to dynamically adjust an implemented partitioning scheme without necessarily interrupting on-going database operations.
US10067966B2	Leveraging hierarchy in a tree data structure to dynamically allocate keys Techniques for dynamically allocating keys in an instance of a tree data structure are provided. In one embodiment, a computer system can, at a time of instantiating each non-root node in the instance, determine a key space to be addressed by the non-root node, where the key space is based on a key subinterval in a parent node of the non-root node that is associated with a pointer to the non-root node. The computer system can further calculate a number of bits to allocate to each key of the non-root node in view of the determined key space. The computer system can then allocate the keys of the non-root node in accordance with the calculated number of bits.
US10067964B2	System and method for analyzing popularity of one or more user defined topics among the big data A method to analyze popularity of user defined topics by identifying correlations between grams contained in user identified anchor documents and the grams contained in raw documents is provided. The method includes following steps: (a) a user input data that includes (i) user identified topics for user identified subject matter, (ii) user identified topical anchor documents, and (iii) a plurality of user identified raw documents internet source with respective source addresses; (b) the raw document sources is accessed using the source addresses to retrieve and store data in a database; (c) grams and gram document dictionaries together with gram values for each topical anchor document and raw document are identified and stored; and (d) the grams in each of the topical anchor documents against the grams in all the raw documents are analyzed to determine a relative popularity of the topical anchor documents.
US10067962B2	Expression based synopsis of database tables Although many techniques provide ways to answer queries very quickly by either avoiding joins and/or aggregation or avoiding expression computations in order to apply filtering predicates, these techniques have significant potential overhead for maintenance, and require a great deal of storage space. The present invention discloses the use of synopsis or zone tables to expressions to provide powerful filtering capabilities to base tables across joins, and aggregations on join results, thus allowing for highly effective region or stride filtering and ordering aggregate ranges to select the most likely candidate tuples for joining to produce top-N or bottom-N result sets for queries.
US10067961B2	Expression based synopsis of database tables Although many techniques provide ways to answer queries very quickly by either avoiding joins and/or aggregation or avoiding expression computations in order to apply filtering predicates, these techniques have significant potential overhead for maintenance, and require a great deal of storage space. The present invention discloses the use of synopsis or zone tables to expressions to provide powerful filtering capabilities to base tables across joins, and aggregations on join results, thus allowing for highly effective region or stride filtering and ordering aggregate ranges to select the most likely candidate tuples for joining to produce top-N or bottom-N result sets for queries.
US10067960B2	Controlling atomic updates of indexes using hardware transactional memory A current state of one or more entries in a mapping table that are associated with latch-free updates of a data structure that uses indirection mapping tables is accessed. A transformation of the current state of the one or more entries in the mapping table to a transformed state of the entries in the mapping table, is controlled. The controlling includes initiating an atomic multi-word compare-and-swap (MWCAS) operation on a plurality of words using a hardware transactional memory (HTM) resident in a device processor, and the MWCAS operation is performed using hardware primitive operations of the HTM, via the device processor. A transformation of a current state of the data structure to an updated state of the data structure, is controlled, via the transformation of the current state of the one or more entries in the mapping table to the transformed state of the entries in the mapping table.
US10067957B1	Process for serializing and deserializing data described by a schema A process for serializing and deserializing instance data from a schema is disclosed. A schema can be used to automatically and dynamically generate classes and methods. First, the raw schema may be parsed into an intermediate data structure consisting of pairs representing object properties and attributes of the properties. Then, an exemplary process generates new parser classes and methods by iterating over the intermediate data structure's keys and generating classes or class variables based on the property type. Accessors and mutators are generated for each class variable. Additionally, a serialization method and a constructor method are generated for each class. These classes and methods are stored in memory and can be used by a host programming language to transmit, receive, and manipulate data to or from an API.
US10067954B2	Use of dynamic dictionary encoding with an associated hash table to support many-to-many joins and aggregations Techniques are described herein for using a dynamic dictionary encoding with an associated hash table to support many-to-many join and aggregation operations. In an embodiment, within a first storage of a computing device, a first data structure that comprises a first dense grouping key column is created. The dense grouping key column includes a first plurality of dense grouping key values and one or more instances of a flag value. Within the first storage of the computing device, a second data structure is created that comprises a group-by column and a second dense grouping key column. The group-by column includes a plurality of group-by key values and the second dense grouping key column includes a second plurality of dense grouping key values. Within the first storage of the computing device, a third data structure, a hash table, is created that includes a hash bucket for each join key value that corresponds to an instance of the flag value. A result set for a query is determined using a combination of the first data structure, second data structure and/or the third data structure.
US10067953B2	Indexing a chameleon schema A system for validating a document against an encompassing schema and at least one referenced chameleon schema, comprising: a working schema register for storing a working schema using the encompassing schema as a starting point; chameleon schema identifier for identifying a chameleon schema encompassed by the encompassing schema; an existing indexed schema engine for incorporating an existing indexed schema into the working indexed schema if there is an existing indexed schema associated with the encompassing schema and the chameleon schema; a new indexed schema engine for creating a new indexing schema based on the chameleon schema and the encompassing schema namespace and incorporating said new indexed schema into the working schema if there is no existing indexed schema associated with the encompassing schema and chameleon schema; and a schema validator for validating the document using the working schema.
US10067951B2	Method for creating binary code and electronic device thereof A method for creating a binary code in an electronic device is provided, which includes operations of confirming an image resource for an application, based on a request for creating a binary code for the application; determining an attribute for the image resource; selectively converting the image resource into a compressed texture, based on the attribute; and, if the image resource is converted, creating the binary code for the application, based on the converted image resource.
US10067950B1	Systems and methods for efficiently organizing map styling information To organize configuration parameters for rendering map features on digital maps, a data structure storing multiple nodes is generated. Respective sets of map feature attributes and configuration parameters are assigned to the nodes. The configuration parameters specify visual attributes for rendering map features. Indications of relationships between the nodes are generated, where at least several of the nodes include several child nodes. An indication of one or more map feature attributes to which a certain map feature belongs is received, and the data structure is traversed according to the indicated relationships between the nodes to generate a set of configuration parameters for rendering the map feature. Traversing the data structure includes comparing the indicated map feature attribute or map feature attributes to sets of map feature attributes at some of the nodes, such that the generated set of configuration parameters includes configuration parameters from at least two of the nodes.
US10067949B1	Acquired namespace metadata service for controlling access to distributed file system Systems and methods are provided for adopting and controlling storage resources of a distributed file system using an acquired namespace metadata service. For example, a computing system includes a first file system, and a distributed file system, which is separate from the first file system. The distributed file system includes storage nodes for storing data. The first file system includes an acquired namespace metadata server that is configured to execute on one or more nodes of the first file system. To adopt and control storage resources of the distributed file system, the first file system acquires a namespace of the distributed file system and uses the acquired namespace metadata server to manage the acquired namespace of the distributed file system. Moreover, the first file system uses the acquired namespace metadata server to directly communicate with and control access to the storage nodes of the distributed file system.
US10067948B2	Data deduping in content centric networking manifests A storage system facilitates deduping repeating data segments when generating a Manifest hierarchy for a file. During operation, the system can select a partitioning function that identifies a pattern that is expected to occur a predetermined number of times within the file. The system can process a plurality of segments of the file, using the partitioning function, to identify a set of chunk boundaries. The system generates a chunk for each file portion between two consecutive chunk boundaries, and generates a Manifest that includes a Content Object Hash (COH) value for each partitioned chunk. The system can store the Manifest and the unique partitioned chunks in a storage repository, such that two partitioned chunks with a common COH value are stored once in the storage repository.
US10067947B2	Synchronization of a server side deduplication cache with a client side deduplication cache A server computational device maintains commonly occurring duplicate chunks of deduplicated data that have already been stored in a server side repository via one or more client computational devices. The server computational device provides a client computational device with selected elements of the commonly occurring duplicate chunks of deduplicated data, in response to receiving a request by the server computational device from the client computational device to prepopulate, refresh or update a client side deduplication cache maintained in the client computational device.
US10067945B2	File and move data to shrink datafiles A system, method, and computer-readable medium for consolidating all the currently used areas to the beginning of the datafile by performing a datafile reorganization operation. With this consolidation, more space can be recovered from the datafile. More specifically, with the consolidation, because each used area can contain extents related to several different segments, locating all the segments that have extents in a used area and relocate these segments to lower addresses in the datafile can be challenging.
US10067943B2	Reducing read operations and branches in file system policy checks A method to identify data elements conforming to a policy includes receiving a request to identify data elements in an input set of data elements that conform to one or more requested policies. According to the method, policy output information describing data elements that conform to a requested policy are saved in association with the requested policy. In response to receiving a subsequent request to identify data elements in a subsequent set of data elements that conform to the requested policy, the method includes outputting the saved policy output information based on the policy output information having been saved in association with the requested policy. A computer program product and a system, configured with processors and a memory that can store saved policy information, can implement the method.
US10067942B2	Architecture for management of digital files across distributed network A system includes a first application executable on a first electronic device. The system further includes a second application executable on a second electronic device in communication with the first electronic device. The second electronic device is configured to store a first electronic file. Subsequent to a user modifying the first electronic file, the second application is operable to automatically transfer the modified first electronic file, or a copy thereof, to the first electronic device. The system further includes a third application executable on a third electronic device in communication with the first electronic device. The third electronic device is configured to store a second electronic file. Subsequent to the user modifying the second electronic file, the third application is operable to automatically transfer the modified second electronic file, or a copy thereof, to the first electronic device. The first application is operable to automatically transfer the modified first electronic file or copy to the third electronic device, and automatically transfer the modified second electronic file or copy to the second electronic device.
US10067941B2	Extending file system namespace types In response to a request to a file system to perform a requested update, a lock of a first node in a file system can be acquired, and an update of the first node can be performed while the lock of the first node is held. Also in response to the request, a lock of a second node can be acquired, and an update of the second node, which reflects the update of the first node, can be performed while the lock of the second node is held. A file system can allow a pair of update operations to be performed in parallel where both operations include updating the same container node. Additionally, while a file system is running, new namespace types can be defined, and the file system can be extended to manage nodes within the new namespace types.
US10067937B2	Determining delay for language translation in video communication Disclosed are various embodiments for translation of speech in a video messaging application. A segment of streaming video is decoded to separate the visual component from the audio component. The audio component is then converted to text, which may then be translated and converted to a translation output comprising a new language. In response, the translation output may be encoded with the previously separated visual component. A delay is imposed on the visual component to account for any delays that may arise in translation. The translated video may then be streamed to participants giving the appearance of real-time video conferencing.
US10067936B2	Machine translation output reranking Technology is disclosed to select a preferred machine translation from multiple machine translations of a content item, each machine translation from the multiple machine translations created for the same target language. Each machine translation is assigned a score based on feedback from a user group that receives the machine translation. The machine translation with the highest score is identified as the preferred machine translation, and is provided in response to subsequent requests for translations of the content item. If there is no preferred translation, the several top scoring machine translations are provided to a larger group of users for further scoring. This process may be repeated until either a clearly preferred translation is identified, a maximum number of iterations is reached, or a maximum number of scoring users is reached.
US10067933B2	Geospatial origin and identity based on dialect detection for text based media A method for acquiring an author's geospatial location of origin from text based media through dialect detection. The method detects the dialect for a specified language using keywords, phrases, patterns, or gestures and identifies the geographical location for the author's origin or area of linguistic influence. The identified geospatial areas can include the overarching primary areas of use for the base language coupled with a smaller geographical area bounded according to, for example, state, country, region, or political, tribal, or societal influence, for the specified dialect, and produces a map to the user with a polygon depicting the probable area of origin or influence. In instances where more than one element of dialect detection is available (multiple keywords, phrases, patterns, gestures) the intersection of these individual polygons produce increasing areas of probability where the solution space can exist for the combination of identified dialect components.
US10067931B2	Analysis of documents using rules One or more computers receive input indicative of multiple files to be analyzed together, by performing one or more predetermined actions, using the contents (e.g. strings of text) of a corresponding one or more structures. The one or more structures are identified by the presence in each file, of corresponding names. The one or more structures are normally written into the files for use by an application program to layout the contents therein in a structured manner. The one or more computers are programmed to automatically parse each file, to identify therein the one or more layout structures e.g. based on the presence in each file of corresponding names of layout structures. After parsing, the one or more computer(s) perform the one or more predetermined actions, to obtain an output structure that holds the results based on the contents of each layout structure identified in each file.
US10067930B2	Page template selection for content presentation in a digital magazine A digital magazine server creates a section of a digital magazine including content items based on a page template describing the relative positioning and sizing of content items. A page template may include display regions specifying the size of content items as a percentage of a display area. Additionally, a display region in a page template may specify use of a sub-template for presenting content items. The sub-template includes display regions specifying the relative positioning of content items presented in the display region specifying use of the sub-template. To generate the section of the digital magazine, various page templates are scored and a page template is selected based on the scoring. One or more diversity policies may be enforced when selecting the page template to improve user interaction with the digital magazine.
US10067923B2	Unified electronic forms management system A unified electronic forms management system that comprises a network-based software implemented process that is designed to provide its users with access to a unified system and process of managing form data and the creation, storage, update and distribution of electronic forms. The unified electronic forms management system may include a centralized and unified electronic forms management system remote server, which communicates over a network with a remote form designer used by a user to create a form, a remote form viewer used by a form user, a database that stores the form data associated with the remote server, and external database(s) that optionally receive data transmitted by the unified system. Form recipient(s) have the option of receiving over the network the form for approval and/or to provide additional information.
US10067922B2	Automated study guide generation for electronic books An electronic book system provides interfaces particularly suited to students' use of textbooks. User-controlled content is associated with portions of an electronic book. A study guide corresponding to at least some of the portions with associated user-controlled content is generated. The user can navigate between portions of the study guide and the corresponding portions of the electronic book.
US10067919B2	Feedback tool A device may receive a request to generate a feedback report regarding an error. The device may cause an image associated with a user interface and the error to be captured based on receiving the request to generate the feedback report. The device may cause the image to be altered, to highlight or redact information of the image, by: altering the image to highlight a first portion of the image or altering the image to redact a second portion of the image. The device may obtain contextual information associated with the image. The device may provide the feedback report for resolution of the error. The feedback report may include the contextual information and the image that is altered to highlight or redact information of the image.
US10067917B2	Method for managing and selectively arranging sets of multiple documents and pages within documents A method of computerized presentation of a plurality documents is disclosed. There is at least one original document with at least one original document page, and an addendum document with at least one addendum document page. A first selection of the at least one original document is received. There is a page sequencing array defined by an arrangement of each original document. A second selection of the addendum document is received. Each of the at least one addendum document page is correlated to an original document page. A document set is generated using the first selection and the second selection. For each addendum document in the document set, a priority identifier is determined. A document set view is generated from the document set with the original document pages and the addendum document pages, and is defined by an ordered page selection according to the page sequencing array.
US10067916B2	Methods and systems for providing an actionable object within a third-party content slot of an information resource of a content publisher Systems and methods for providing an actionable object within a third-party content slot of an information resource of a content publisher. A processor receives an indication of interest in providing, for display, a creative within at least one third-party content slot of an information resource of a content publisher. The information resource includes third-party content slots available to be reserved to serve creatives. The processor identifies, on the information resource, at least one third-party content slot available to be reserved to serve one or more creatives. The processor inserts an actionable object within the identified third-party content slot, the actionable object configured to generate a request to provide an interface for reserving the identified third-party content slot to display the creative responsive to an action being taken on the actionable object. The processor renders the information resource including the inserted actionable object within the identified third-party content slot.
US10067909B2	Sparse linear algebra in column-oriented in-memory database Embodiments relate to storing sparse matrices in an in-memory column-oriented database system. Specifically, recent hardware shifts of primary storage from disc into memory, allow execution of linear algebra queries directly in the database engine. Dynamic matrix manipulation operations (like online insertion or deletion of elements) are not covered by most linear algebra frameworks. Therefore a hybrid architecture comprises a read-optimized main structure, and a write-optimized delta structure. The resulting system layout derived from the Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) representation, integrates well with a columnar database design. Moreover, the resulting architecture is amenable to a wide range of non-numerical use cases when dictionary encoding is used. Performance in specific examples is evaluated for dynamic sparse matrix workloads, by applying work flows of nuclear science and network graphs. Embodiments allow performing linear algebra operations on large, sparse matrices commonly associated with scientific computations and analytical business applications.
US10067899B2	Storage system and data transferring method thereof A storage system and a data transferring method thereof are provided. The storage system includes at least one drawer storage device, a backplane board and a processing unit. Each of the drawer storage devices accommodates at least one storage device, and has a first connecting interface. The backplane board has a second connecting interface. The backplane board and each of the drawer storage devices are connected with each other through a transmission line. The first connecting interface and the second connecting interface are connected or isolated with each other. The processing unit detects a connection status between the first connecting interface and the second connecting interface, and determines to transfer data through at least one of the transmission line and a connection between the first connecting interface and the second connecting interface according to the connection status.
US10067898B2	Protocol adaptation layer data flow control for universal serial bus In an example, a method for transmitting data includes determining, at a Universal Serial Bus (USB) host, a USB data transfer type of USB data being transmitted from the host device to a USB device, and determining a priority of the USB data based on the determined USB data transfer type. The example method also includes controlling transfer of the USB data from a protocol adaptation layer (PAL) of the USB host to a network layer of the USB host based on the determined priority.
US10067896B2	Hardware data structure for tracking partially ordered and reordered transactions Methods and hardware data structures are provided for tracking ordered transactions in a multi-transactional hardware design comprising one or more slaves configured to receive transaction requests from a plurality of masters. The data structure includes one or more counters for keeping track of the number of in-flight transactions; a table that keeps track of the age of each of the in-flight transactions for each master using the one or more counters; and control logic that verifies that a transaction response for an in-flight transaction for a particular master has been issued by the slave in a predetermined order based on the tracked age for the in-flight transaction in the table.
US10067895B2	Systems and methods for asynchronous toggling of I2C data line A method of operating an I2C slave having an I2C clock pin and an I2C data pin is disclosed. The method includes (a) receiving a command via the I2C clock pin and the I2C data pin, (b) driving the I2C data pin to logic low for a first duration, (c) not driving the I2C data pin to logic low for a second duration, and (d) repeatingly alternating (b) and (c) until a termination event occurs. (b) and (c) are not synchronized to transitions of the I2C clock pin. Other methods and systems are disclosed.
US10067894B1	Cable-based configuration The following description is directed to cable-based configuration. In one example, a method can include determining a first end of a cable is connected to a first device and a second end of the cable is connected to a second device. The first device can be configured to perform a first function when it is determined the first end of the cable is connected to the first device. The second device can be configured to perform a second function when it is determined the second end of the cable is connected to the second device. The second function can be different from the first function, such that the first device and the second device are configured differently based on which end of the cable is connected to the respective device.
US10067893B2	Acceleration framework with direct data transfer mechanism Systems and methods for offloading computations from a CPU directly to an accelerator engine are disclosed. One embodiment includes determining a function of an application to be offloaded from a CPU to an accelerator engine, locating data within a file necessary to perform the functions, programming a logic of the accelerator engine based on the function to be offloaded, programming a DMA engine to move a copy the data from a secondary storage device to the accelerator engine, and processing the data at the accelerator engine using the programmed logic.
US10067889B2	Bridge and method for coupling a requesting interconnect and a serving interconnect in a computer system A bridge for coupling a requesting interconnect and a serving interconnect connected to a number of coherent units in a computer system includes N machines configured to handle requests from the requesting interconnect and for handling allocated responses from the serving interconnect, wherein each of the N machines has an allocated local count; a tracking entity configured to track priorities of the N machines for issuing received requests to the serving interconnect and for issuing received responses to the requesting interconnect based on the N local counts; a first arbiter configured to arbitrate the received requests to be issued to the serving interconnect based on the tracked priorities; and a second arbiter configured to arbitrate the received responses to be issued to the requesting interconnect based on the tracked priorities.
US10067883B2	Using an access increment number to control a duration during which tracks remain in cache Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for using an access increment number to control a duration during which tracks remain in cache. Tracks in a storage in the cache are indicated in a cache list. For each of the tracks indicated in the cache list, an access value is updated when one of the tracks is accessed in the cache. An access to a track in the cache indicated in the cache list is received. A determination is made as to whether an access increment number for the accessed track, wherein the access increment number is greater than one. The access value for the accessed track is incremented by the determined access increment number in response to the track being accessed in the cache. The access value for one of the tracks is used to determine whether to initiate to demote the track from the cache.
US10067882B2	Storage system and storage control method A storage system manages correspondence relationships between physical addresses and logical addresses inside a storage device, as well as logical spaces provided by a plurality of storage devices, and when a determination is made as to whether first data and second data are stored in the same storage device in a case in which the first data and the second data are exchanged inside a logical space, and the determination is found to be affirmative, the storage device replaces the logical address corresponding to the first data with the logical address corresponding to the second data without changing the physical address of the physical area in which the first data is stored and the physical address of the physical area in which the second data is stored.
US10067880B2	Dynamic tier remapping of data stored in a hybrid storage system Disclosed are embodiments for supporting dynamic tier remapping of data stored in a hybrid storage system. One embodiment includes a storage controller and firmware, where the firmware maintains a plurality of mapping elements, where each mapping element includes a plurality of group identifiers, where each group identifier is configured to indicate a mapping of a logical block addresses, and where the storage controller performs: receiving a read command including a logical block address; parsing the logical block address to determine a mapping element and a group identifier; determining, for a particular mapping element of the plurality of elements, whether the particular mapping element is locked, wherein the particular mapping element corresponds to the mapping element of the logical block address; and dependent upon the particular mapping element, queuing the read command for firmware processing or remapping the logical block address.
US10067876B2	Pre-fetching data from buckets in remote storage for a cache Embodiments are disclosed for a prefetching method that may include copying, in response to a search query, a first bucket from a remote storage to a cache. The first bucket may include first data associated with the search query. The method may further include identifying a first file type associated with a first file in the first bucket. The first file may be associated with a usage status. The method may further include accessing, based on the search query, a second bucket from the remote storage. The second bucket may include second data associated with the search query. The method may further include identifying a second file in the second bucket having the first file type, and copying, in response to the usage status indicating that the first file was used in processing the search query, the second file from the remote storage to the cache.
US10067874B2	Optimizing the management of cache memory It is determined that a cache operation relating to the transfer of data between a cache memory and a data storage system is required. A state of a utilization model is received, the utilization model including requirements for utilization of resources of the data storage system over a time period, and the state indicating a cost of resource utilization associated with cache operations in the current time period. It is determined whether to perform the cache operation, based on the utilization requirements and the state of a utilization model. If the cache operation is not to be performed, and if the cache operation is a write operation, it is determined whether the cache memory is full. If so, the cache operation is managed according to an emergency cache management process; if not, the data associated with the cache operation is maintained in the cache memory.
US10067871B2	Logic analyzer for detecting hangs A microprocessor comprises a cache including a tag array; a tagpipe that arbitrates access to the tag array; and a logic analyzer for investigating a starvation, livelock, or deadlock condition. The logic analyzer, which comprises read logic coupled to the tagpipe, is configured to record snapshots of transactions to access the tag array.
US10067868B2	Memory architecture determining the number of replicas stored in memory banks or devices according to a packet size A memory architecture for storing information units, the memory architecture comprising a plurality of memory banks or a plurality of memory devices and a memory controller for initiating storage of an information unit and a number of replicas of the information unit in the memory banks or in the memory devices, the memory controller discriminating the replicas in dependence on a size of the information unit.
US10067867B2	Performing garbage collection on an object array using array chunk references Techniques for performing garbage collection on an object array using array chunk references is described. A garbage collector (GC) thread identifies an object array to be processed. The GC thread divides the object array into array chunks. The GC thread generates array chunk references corresponding respectively to the array chunks. Each array chunk reference comprises: (a) chunk start bits representing a memory address of a start of a corresponding array chunk, and (b) chunk length bits representing a chunk length of the corresponding array chunk. The GC thread pushes the array chunk references onto the processing stack. A single processing stack concurrently stores multiple array chunk references, associated with a same object array. One or more of the array chunk references, that are associated with the same object array and stored on the processing stack, may be distributed to other GC threads for processing.
US10067864B2	Systems and methods for revising permanent ROM-based programming An application program stored in a ROM includes a function lookup data structure in which functions called by the application program have identifiers and memory addresses at which the function is located and can be executed. Upon startup, the function lookup data structure is copied to a RAM as a revised lookup data structure and is compared to a revision lookup data structure also written to that RAM or elsewhere. If the revision lookup data structure contains replacement functions having the same function identifiers but new memory addresses, these new memory addresses are written over the existing addresses in the revised lookup data structure for those replacement functions. The application program refers to the revised lookup data structure to find and execute the functions; thus the original application program on the ROM can continue to be used with revised functions.
US10067859B2	Constructing test-centric model of application A test-centric model of an application is constructed. Each resource specified by each test governing an application is added to the test-centric model. The test or tests specifying an resource are linked to the resource within the test-centric model. A composition of the application is defined using the one or more tests, as the resources specified by the one or more tests, within the test-centric model of the application.
US10067858B2	Cloud-based software testing In a method of software item testing, an automated test of a software item is initiated in a cloud-based computing environment in exchange for a fee. The test is part of a testing framework in the cloud-based computing environment. In response to occurrence of an error condition during the test, the test is paused within the cloud-based computing environment. An alteration to the test is accepted while the test is paused. The alteration is accepted via a user interface to the cloud-based computing environment. Testing is continued within the cloud-based computing environment, using altered test.
US10067856B2	Employing code overlays to facilitate software development In one embodiment, a method for editing and testing computer programming code is provided. The method includes receiving a first file comprising computer programming code, and a first code overlay comprising one or more modifications to be applied to the computer programming code of the first file. The method further includes determining a first location within the computer programming code of the first file, at which to apply the first code overlay. The method further includes generating a second file comprising uncompiled composite computer programming code, the uncompiled composite computer programming code comprising the computer programming code of the first file modified by the one or more modifications applied at the first location. The method further includes testing the uncompiled composite computer programming code of the second file.
US10067855B2	Error developer association Systems, methods, and machine-readable and executable instructions are provided for error developer association. Error developer association can include identifying a number of portions of the source code associated with a message, wherein the message is associated with an error. Error developer association can also include associating a developer with a portion of the source code of the number of portions of the source code. Error developer association can also include identifying a developer of the number of developers to resolve the error.
US10067854B2	System and method for debugging software executed as a hardware simulation Approaches for debugging include receiving by a hardware debug server, a high-level language (HLL) debugging command for setting a breakpoint in an HLL software specification. The hardware debug server translates the HLL debugging command into a hardware debugging command that specifies a condition of a hardware finite state machine that is representation of the software specification. The hardware debugging command is input to a simulator. The simulator adds a conditional breakpoint on the finite state machine in response to the hardware debugging command and executes a simulation of the finite state machine representation. Execution of the simulation is suspended in response to the detecting the condition in the finite state machine.
US10067852B2	Switching between traditional and history program trace modes without halting a processor In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, method, and/or processes described herein can change/switch from a first trace mode to a second trace mode without halting a system under development and/or under test. For example, a debug/trace unit can switch a trace mode without halting a processing unit of a system under development and/or under test. For instance, a debug/trace unit can switch a trace mode that can occur on a change of flow boundary of program instructions executable by a processing unit, at a branch instruction, if a region of program instructions is entered or exited, and/or if a capacity of a buffer changes. In one or more embodiments, Nexus messages can be utilized, and trace mode switches can include switches to and/or from traditional and history traces modes.
US10067849B2	Determining dynamic statistics based on key value patterns A method for dynamically updating database statistics and a plurality of access paths associated with at least one database table is provided. The method may include identifying at least one dynamically changing column associated with the at least one database table. The method may further include determining at least one predicate pattern associated with the identified at least one dynamically changing column. Additionally, the method may include dynamically detecting at least one range change associated with the determined at least one predicate pattern based on at least one record insert. The method may also include updating the plurality of database statistics associated with the identified at least one dynamically changing column based on the dynamically detected at least one range change. The method may further include determining at least one filter factor based on the updated plurality of database statistics associated with the identified at least one dynamically changing column.
US10067847B1	Time-based on-chip hardware performance monitor Disclosed herein is a performance monitor for a functional block of a system, the performance monitor comprising a counter circuit, wherein the counter circuit includes a programmable time window counter configured to determine an adjustable counting period, and an event counter coupled to the time window counter. The event counter is configured to count a number of occurrences of an event occurring in the functional block during the counting period, and record the number of occurrences of the event during the counting period and generate an output trigger signal when the number of occurrences of the event during the counting period is outside of a programmable threshold band, or after receiving an input trigger signal from a cross trigger network triggered by other performance monitors in electrical communication with the cross trigger network.
US10067844B2	Method of channel content rebuild in ultra-high capacity SSD A method of restoring user data in a modular solid-state drive including memory channels coupled to respective ones of non-volatile memory cards, the method including: upon physical replacement of a defunct memory card of the non-volatile memory cards with a new non-volatile memory card, and power on of the modular solid-state drive, retrieving a firmware segment and a system segment of the modular solid-state drive from unaffected memory channels of the memory channels not coupled to the new non-volatile memory card; rebuilding a firmware of the modular solid-state drive based on the retrieved firmware segment; rebuilding a data mapping table associated with the non-volatile memory cards based on the retrieved system segment; and restoring full integrity of the user data originally stored on the non-volatile memory cards based on the rebuilt data mapping table and data from the unaffected memory channels.
US10067843B1	Synchronizing control nodes and a recovery from a failure of a primary control node of a storage system A method for synchronizing between a primary control node of a storage system and a secondary control node of the storage system, the method may include performing a change in a key-value store that is stored in shared memory of the storage system and includes control metadata for controlling access to data stored in the storage system; the shared memory is accessible to the primary control node and to a secondary control node; generating a change indication that (i) is indicative of the change in the key-value store and (ii) requests the secondary control node to introduce changes in one or more additional data structures that are not stored in the shared memory; the change in the key-value store comprises replacing a previous given value with a current given value that is associated with a given key; sending the change indication to the secondary control node; receiving an acknowledgement from the secondary control node; wherein the acknowledgement indicates at least one of the following: (i) the secondary control node received the change indication and (ii) the secondary control node introduced the changes in the one or more additional data structures that are not stored in the shared memory; and deleting, by the primary control node, the previous given value from the shared memory.
US10067837B1	Continuous data protection with cloud resources In one aspect, a method includes storing a virtual machine disk in a first logical unit stored on a data store; replicating the first virtual machine disk used by a first virtual machine at a second virtual machine disk stored on a second logical unit on a cloud array storage device; storing changes to the first virtual machine disk on a journal stored on the data store; periodically rolling each virtual machine disk of virtual machines on the second logical unit to a same-point-in-time using the journal and taking a snapshot of the second logical unit at the same point-in-time and sending the snapshots to a cloud storage network.
US10067836B1	Configuration based intelligent protection modeling In one example, a method for protecting data includes receiving input specifying a data backup process, consulting a resource map to identify backup resources that are available, and then checking a rules engine to identify a backup rule that matches the specified data backup process and that can be executed to perform a backup using the available backup resource. When a backup rule is identified that matches the specified data backup process and that can be executed to perform a backup using the available backup resources, the specified backup process is automatically performed using the identified backup rule.
US10067830B1	Managing distributed system performance using accelerated data retrieval operations A distributed system is adapted to manage the performance of distributed processes. In one aspect, multiple stripes associated with a data item are stored in a distributed storage. The stored stripes include one or more stripes of redundancy information for the data item. A distributed process including at least one task is performed. During performance of the distributed process, a determination is made as to whether to perform an accelerated data retrieval operation. Responsive to a determination to perform an accelerated data retrieval operation, at least one of the one or more stripes of redundancy information for the data item is requested from the distributed storage. Other stripes associated with the data item may also be requested from the distributed storage. After a sufficient subset of stripes associated with the data item is received, the data item is reconstructed using the subset.
US10067829B2	Managing redundancy information in a non-volatile memory Embodiments include apparatuses, method, and systems for organizing individual memory dice of a memory device into a plurality of virtual dice and designating one of the virtual dice of the memory device for storage of redundancy information. In one embodiment, a memory controller includes memory allocation logic to organize memory resources of individual memory dice of a memory device into a plurality of virtual dice, including a redundancy virtual die for storing redundancy information and a plurality of data virtual dice for storing data. The memory controller may further include input/output logic to write data to the data virtual dice of the non-volatile memory device, and redundancy information logic to generate redundancy information based on the data and to write the redundancy information to the redundancy virtual die of the non-volatile memory device.
US10067828B2	Memory controller and data control method A memory controller includes an error check correction circuit performing a calculation regarding an error correction code of data, and a processor using the error check correction circuit and write the data with the error correction code to a non-volatile memory (NVM) when writing the data to the NVM, while performing error correction of the data using the error correction code when reading the data from the NVM. The processor counts the number of error bits of the data stored in a block that is a unit of batch-erasure of the data, stores the data in the block with a first error correction code having an error correction ability, and stores the data in the block with a second error correction code having an error correction ability higher than the first error correction code when the number of the error bits is larger than a value.
US10067826B2	Marker programming in non-volatile memories A method and a memory controller for accessing a non-volatile memory are disclosed. The method includes reading a first memory region of the non-volatile memory, ascertaining whether the first memory region contains a predetermined data pattern wherein the predetermined data pattern has no influence on resulting error correcting data determined for at least the first memory region. The method evaluating a data status for a second memory region of the non-volatile memory on the basis of a presence of the predetermined data pattern in the first memory region, wherein the data status indicates at least one of whether valid data is present within the second memory region and whether the second memory region is writable.
US10067823B2	Systems and methods for adaptive error corrective code mechanisms Systems and methods for managing the endurance of a solid state drive by assigning error corrective codes (ECC) to a plurality of solid state drive blocks are provided. The disclosed systems and methods can provide a plurality of error corrective codes, each code having a corresponding correction capability and assign to each solid state drive block an error corrective code, according to a reliability of the solid state drive block. Moreover, the disclosed systems and methods can group the solid state drive blocks into groups according to their assigned error corrective codes and apply, for each group of solid state drive block, a level of ECC correction according to the assigned error corrective code of each group.
US10067820B2	Delay-compensated error indication signal A memory subsystem has multiple memory devices coupled to a command/address line and an error alert line, the error alert line delay-compensated to provide deterministic alert signal timing. The command/address line and the error alert line are connected between the memory devices and a memory controller that manages the memory devices. The command/address line is driven by the memory controller, and the error alert line is driven by the memory devices.
US10067817B2	Equipment failure risk detection and prediction in industrial process Detecting equipment failure risk in industrial process may include distributing equipment operations data to a cluster of servers based on a range of time and operation specified in maintenance data associated with the equipment. From a record entry in the maintenance data, an operation and installation and maintenance time may be determined. A plurality of servers storing equipment operations data associated with the operation during a time range between the installation and the maintenance time are selected. A distributed processing operation in each of the plurality of servers is executed to run in parallel and computes operation features. The operation features are aggregated and added as an entry in a target table. Equipment failure risk is detected by risk failure analysis performed based on the target table. A signal may be sent to automatically adjust or correct one or more operation features.
US10067816B2	Model checking apparatus and method, and storage medium having program stored therein In a model check with respect to a distributed environment model, in order to reduce redundant search, wasteful search is avoided and efficient search is enabled. A model checking apparatus is provided with: a distributed environment model search unit that, when searching a distributed environment model by model checking, performs the search while determining whether execution with respect to a predetermined transition should be postponed; a distributed environment model dependency relationship analysis unit that analyzes a dependency relationship and a happens-before relationship with respect to a plurality of transitions on a path searched by the distributed environment model search unit, and that generates information about a back track with respect to the path; and a delay transition information providing unit that, on the basis of the information, generates information about the predetermined transition of which execution should be postponed in the search performed, after a back track, by the distributed environment model search unit.
US10067815B2	Probabilistic prediction of software failure A log entry identifies an error in the computer or other system. Another log entry identifies a symptom associated with the system error. The symptom occurs in timeframe prior to the system error and a variable score is determined for the symptom according to the timeframe, the consistency with which the symptom appears along with the error, and the frequency with which the symptom occurs throughout the system log. A new occurrence of the symptom is identified. Whether the symptom's variable score exceeds a threshold value for the symptom is determined. In response to determining that the symptom's variable score exceeds the threshold value, an alert indicating that the associated system error is probable is displayed.
US10067810B2	Performing transactions between application containers Various implementations disclosed herein provide a method for performing one or more transactions between application containers. In various implementations, the method includes transmitting a key request to a first network node within a cluster of network nodes that are configured to generate and maintain a distributed ledger. In some implementations, the key request indicates that the requested key is for one or more transactions between a first application container and a second application container. In various implementations, the method includes receiving a key in response to transmitting the key request. In some implementations, the key is valid for the one or more transactions between the first application container and the second application container. In various implementations, the method includes synthesizing, at the first application container, transaction data with the key. In various implementations, the method includes transmitting, by the first application container, the transaction data to the second application container.
US10067809B2	System and method for batch transport using hardware accelerators A method, computer program product, and computer system for maintaining, at a computing device, one or more tuples in a software-level queue. The one or more tuples may be transported as a batch of the one or more tuples from the software-level queue to a first queue for processing at a hardware accelerator. After processing the one or more tuples, the one or more tuples may be transported from the first queue to a second queue at the hardware accelerator. The one or more tuples may be transported from the second queue to a next location.
US10067806B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a central processing unit and a processor on one semiconductor substrate. The processor includes a buffer for storing a register setting list and notifies the central processing unit of an access complete signal indicating completion of reading the register setting list. The central processing unit changes the register setting list within a memory based on the access complete signal and notifies the processor of an update request signal. The processor reads the register setting list changed by the central processing unit into the buffer based on the update request information.
US10067802B2	Hybrid security batch processing in a cloud environment An example method for processing a batch job that includes a plurality of sequentially ordered tasks includes obtaining a message that includes inputs of a plurality of tasks included in a batch job. The plurality of tasks includes a first task that is sequentially ordered before a second task. The method also includes assigning tasks of the plurality of tasks to different computing nodes. The first task is assigned to a first computing node associated with a first public key, and the second task is assigned to a second computing node associated with a second public key.
US10067799B2	Controlling data processing tasks Information representative of a graph-based program specification has a plurality of components, each of which corresponds to a task, and directed links between ports of said components. A program corresponding to said graph-based program specification is executed. A first component includes a first data port, a first control port, and a second control port. Said first data port is configured to receive data to be processed by a first task corresponding to said first component, or configured to provide data that was processed by said first task corresponding to said first component. Executing a program corresponding to said graph-based program specification includes: receiving said first control information at said first control port, in response to receiving said first control information, determining whether or not to invoke said first task, and after receiving said first control information, providing said second control information from said second control port.
US10067798B2	User interface and system supporting user decision making and readjustments in computer-executable job allocations in the cloud A visual tool may be provided to display information associated with computer job allocation and to allow a user to explore different job configurations. Jobs executing on a computing environment comprising a shared pool of configurable computing resources may be monitored. Cost and duration estimates may be determined with uncertainty associated with the cost and duration estimates. Sandbox environment may be provided that allow users to manipulate one or more different job configuration options for executing the jobs in the computing environment.
US10067793B2	Data processing method and apparatus for executing task code using reservation instruction and release instruction A data processing method and apparatus, where the method comprises an operating system loads a task code to a reserved hardware thread such that the reserved hardware thread executes the task code subsequently after receiving a hardware thread reservation request. Alternatively, in a process in which an operating system loads a task code to a hardware thread for execution, the hardware thread loads the small task code to a reserved hardware thread for execution without a need to create a thread for a task code corresponding to each task when the hardware thread reads a flag of a small task code.
US10067791B2	Methods and apparatus for resource management in cluster computing Embodiments of an event-driven resource management technique may enable the management of cluster resources at a sub-computer level (e.g., at the thread level) and the decomposition of jobs at an atomic (task) level. A job queue may request a resource for a job from a resource manager, which may locate a resource in a resource list and grant the resource to the job queue. After the resource is granted, the job queue sends the job to the resource, on which the job may be partitioned into tasks and from which additional resources may be requested from the resource manager. The resource manager may locate additional resources in the list and grant the resources to the resource. The resource sends the tasks to the granted resources for execution. As resources complete their tasks, the resource manager is informed so that the status of the resources in the list can be updated.
US10067789B2	Method and apparatus for scheduling concurrent task among service servers by using processing thread A method for scheduling a concurrent task includes: receiving an uploaded service request, and encapsulating the service request into a task object; acquiring a processing thread, and allocating the task object to the processing thread, so that the processing thread selects a service server and sends the task object to the selected service server for processing; and receiving, by using the processing thread, a processing result returned by the service server, generating a response according to the processing result, and returning the response.
US10067785B1	Event driven virtual machine instance pool balancing A system includes one or more computer systems that include one or more processors and memory. The memory includes instructions, that, upon being executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to determine a plurality of increased capacity configuration options for a first pool of servers, generate an assessment value for each of the plurality of increased capacity configuration options, and implement a first configuration option of the plurality of increase capacity configuration options having a greatest health increase assessment value.
US10067784B2	Hypervisor backdoor interface A method of providing a backdoor interface between software executing in a virtual machine and a hypervisor executing on a computing system that supports the virtual machine includes trapping, at the hypervisor, an exception generated in response to execution of a debug instruction on a central processing unit (CPU) by the software; identifying, by an exception handler of the hypervisor handling the exception, an equivalence between an immediate operand of the debug instruction and a predefined value; and invoking, in response to the equivalence, a backdoor service of the hypervisor using state of at least one register of the CPU as parametric input, the state being set by the software prior to executing the debug instruction.
US10067781B2	Service manifests Generally described, aspects of the present disclosure relate to for managing the configuration and security policies of hosted virtual machine networks. Hosted virtual machine networks are configured in a manner such that a virtual machine manager component can establish service manifests that correspond to information required by the virtual machine network from a user/customer. The virtual machine manager component can also publish in the service manifests contractual information, such as security risk assessments, that are deemed to have been provided and accepted by the user/customer in instantiating virtual machine networks. If the processed service manifest information remains valid, a substrate network process requests or independently instantiate services or components in accordance with the configuration information and security risk information included in the processed service manifest.
US10067780B2	Performance-based public cloud selection for a hybrid cloud environment A hybrid cloud solution for securely extending a private cloud or network to a public cloud can be enhanced with tools for evaluating the resources offered by multiple public cloud providers. In an example embodiment, a public cloud evaluation system can be used to create a virtual machine (VM) in a public cloud to serve the function of a public cloud evaluation agent. The public cloud evaluation agent can instantiate one or more VMs and other resources in the public cloud, and configure the VMs and resources to execute performance evaluation software. The results of the performance evaluation software can be transmitted to a private enterprise network, and analyzed to determine whether the public cloud is an optimal public cloud for hosting an enterprise application.
US10067770B2	Platform key hierarchy In one example, a system for a platform key hierarchy includes an embedded controller to, store a first public platform key with a key bit list corresponding to a number of valid private platform keys, and verify a second public platform key by comparing a key number corresponding to a private platform key to the key bit list.
US10067769B2	Checking method for electronic device and computer program product thereof A checking method for electronic device includes receiving a fast boot signal and entering into a fast boot stage in response to the fast boot signal. The fast boot stage includes executing a part of bootstrap program, reading machine information of an electronic device after the execution of the part of bootstrap program is finished, driving an output module of the electronic device, outputting an external signal by the output module according to the machine information, and staying in the fast boot stage after the external signal is output.
US10067766B2	History buffer with hybrid entry support for multiple-field registers An approach is provided in which a mapper control unit receives dispatch information corresponding to an instruction that targets a first field in a first register and a second field in a second register, the first register being a first register type and the second register being a second register type. As such, the mapper control unit selects a history buffer entry in a history buffer that is adapted to concurrently store content corresponding to the first register type and the second register type. In turn, the mapper control unit stores first content from the first register's targeted first fields and second content from the second register's targeted second fields into the selected history buffer entry.
US10067765B2	Speeding up younger store instruction execution after a sync instruction Mechanisms are provided, in a processor, for executing instructions that are younger than a previously dispatched synchronization (sync) instruction is provided. An instruction sequencer unit of the processor dispatches a sync instruction. The sync instruction is sent to a nest of one or more devices outside of the processor. The instruction sequencer unit dispatches a subsequent instruction after dispatching the sync instruction. The dispatching of the subsequent instruction after dispatching the sync instruction is performed prior to receiving a sync acknowledgement response from the nest. The instruction sequencer unit performs a completion of the subsequent instruction based on whether completion of the subsequent instruction is dependent upon receiving the sync acknowledgement from the nest and completion of the sync instruction.
US10067761B2	Performing rounding operations responsive to an instruction In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving a rounding instruction and an immediate value in a processor, determining if a rounding mode override indicator of the immediate value is active, and if so executing a rounding operation on a source operand in a floating point unit of the processor responsive to the rounding instruction and according to a rounding mode set forth in the immediate operand. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10067759B2	Generating an operating procedure manual A device generates an operating procedure manual for software including a captured image of a screen displayed by the software. An image acquiring hardware unit acquires a plurality of captured images of a plurality of screens displayed by software in response to a plurality of operations with respect to the software. A dividing hardware unit divides the plurality of captured images into a plurality of captured image groups, to each of which at least one captured image acquired in response to at least one operation constituting a meaningful chunk belongs. A generating hardware unit generates an operating procedure manual including, for each captured image group, a captured image belonging to that captured image group.

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