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US10128952B2	Silicon photonics receive phased array sensors High-performance ultra-wideband Receive Phased Array Sensors (Rx-PAS) are disclosed, which have unique capabilities, enabled through photonic integrated circuits and novel optical architectures. Unique capabilities for a Rx-PAS are provided by wafer scale photonic integration including heterogeneous integration of III-V materials and ultra-low-loss silicon nitride waveguides. Novel aspects include optical multiplexing combining wavelength division multiplexing and/or a novel extension to array photodetectors providing the capability to combine many RF photonic signals with very low loss. The architecture includes tunable optical down-conversion, moving a chosen frequency band to baseband with high dynamic range; creating also a single frequency hand channelizer, which is also expanded to create a multiple tunable frequency band channelizer. Simultaneous multi-channel beamforming is achieved through optical power splitting of optical signals to create multiple exact replicas of the signals that are then processed independently.
US10128949B2	Methods, systems, and apparatus for global multiple-access optical communications A wide-field telescope and focal plane array (FPA) that look at Earth and satellites in low- and medium-Earth orbit (LEO and MEO) from a satellite in higher orbit, such as geostationary Earth orbit (GEO), can serve as a node in an on-demand, optical multiple access (OMA) communications network. The FPA receives asynchronous low-rate signals from LEO and MEO satellites and ground stations at a signal rate determined in part by the FPA frame rate (e.g., kHz to MHz). A controller tracks the low-rate signals across the FPA as the signal sources orbit Earth. The node also includes one or more transmitters that relay the received information to other nodes via wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) free-space optical signals. These other signals may include low-rate telemetry communications, burst transmissions, and continuous data relay links.
US10128946B2	Visible light communication device and driving method thereof A visible light communication device includes a light-emitting unit, a switch-mode light-emitting diode (LED) driver, a synthesizing circuit, and a path selection circuit. The switch-mode LED driver provides a driving current for driving the light-emitting unit. The synthesizing circuit synthesizes a data signal and a dimming signal to form a synthesized signal. According to a data frequency and a dimming ratio obtained from one or more path selection information, the path selection circuit selects to turn on a bypass current modulation unit to inject the synthesized signal to the bypass current modulation unit along one path and the bypass current modulation unit controls the light-emitting unit according to the synthesized signal, or selects to inject the synthesized signal to the switch-mode LED driver along another path and the switch-mode LED driver controls the light-emitting unit according to the synthesized signal.
US10128938B2	Hierarchical link quality metrics for a beam in a satellite network A system and method for determining hierarchical link quality metrics in a communication system, and performing different routines to optimize operation of the communication system based on the link quality metrics. Data is collected for a predetermined interval, and a carrier link quality is determined for each terminal utilizing different carriers in the communication system. A link quality is determined for each terminal type, and a beam link quality is determined for each beam in the system. Different thresholds are set so that optimization routines can be performed based on the current link quality values.
US10128933B2	Reducing latency in a mesh network A message (300) that has been transmitted in a mesh network from a source node (102) and intended for reception by a destination node (104) is received by a relay node (125) and also received by a number of other nodes (121, 123). A minimized latency can be obtained by the use of a timer such that the message is relayed by the relay node (125) only if no other node has already relayed the message.
US10128931B2	Antenna combiner An antenna combiner with transmission arbitration and method for using the same are described. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a plurality of antennas to receive signals from a satellite, each antenna in the plurality of antennas having a transmit aperture and a receive aperture, and wherein the receive aperture is operable to receive one of the signals from the satellite; a plurality of signal analyzers coupled to the plurality of antennas, each signal analyzer operable to determine signal quality of a distinct one antenna of the plurality of antennas; an arbiter coupled to the plurality of signal analyzers and operable to select one antenna of the plurality of antennas to transmit to the satellite based on results of determining the signal quality; and a first selector coupled to the arbiter and the plurality of antennas to cause data to be sent to the one antenna selected for transmission to the satellite.
US10128930B2	Fully flexible multi-tuner front end architecture for a receiver In an example, a method includes: in a first mode, causing a first tuner of an entertainment system to receive and process a first RF signal from a first antenna configured for a first band to output a first audio signal of a first radio station and causing a second tuner of the entertainment system to receive a second RF signal from a second antenna configured for the first band to determine signal quality metrics for one or more radio stations of the first band; in a second mode, causing the first tuner to output a first signal representation of the first RF signal and causing the second tuner to receive and process the second RF signal to output a second signal representation of the second RF signal; and causing a phase diversity combining circuit to process the first and second signal representations to output an audio signal of the first radio station, without disruption of output from the entertainment system of a broadcast of the first radio station.
US10128922B2	Apparatus and methods for cross-polarized tilt antennas Embodiments are provided for cross-polarized antennas design with different down tilt angles that support versatile functionality, such as for MIMO or beamforming. An embodiment antenna circuit comprises a baseband signal processor, a pair of RF transmitters coupled to the baseband signal processor, a pair of PAs coupled to the RF transmitters, a 90°/180° hybrid coupler coupled to the RF transmitters, a pair of duplexers and two antennas coupled to the PAs. The two antennas are down tilted at different down tilt angles. A pair of signals is generated using the baseband signal processor, transmitted by the RF transmitters, and amplified using the PAs. Additionally, a 90° or 180° phase difference is introduced into the signals using the 90°/180° hybrid coupler. After the amplifying and introducing the phase difference, the signals are polarized at two different polarizations and down tilted at different down tilt angles using the two antennas.
US10128920B2	Multi-antenna transmission for spatial division multiple access An uplink channel response matrix is obtained for each terminal and decomposed to obtain a steering vector used by the terminal to transmit on the uplink. An “effective” uplink channel response vector is formed for each terminal based on its steering vector and its channel response matrix. Multiple sets of terminals are evaluated based on their effective channel response vectors to determine the best set (e.g., with highest overall throughput) for uplink transmission. Each selected terminal performs spatial processing on its data symbol stream with its steering vector and transmits its spatially processed data symbol stream to an access point. The multiple selected terminals simultaneously transmit their data symbol streams via their respective MIMO channels to the access point. The access point performs receiver spatial processing on its received symbol streams in accordance with a receiver spatial processing technique to recover the data symbol streams transmitted by the selected terminals.
US10128918B2	Universal remote radio head A distributed base station radio system includes first channelized to broadband conversion unit that receives first downlink channelized data for first radio frequency band from first channelized radio frequency source; and first universal remote radio head communicatively coupled to first channelized to broadband conversion unit. First channelized to broadband conversion unit converts first downlink channelized data into a first downlink broadband signal. First channelized to broadband conversion unit communicates the first downlink broadband signal to first universal remote radio head. First universal remote radio head receives first downlink broadband signal. First universal remote radio head frequency converts the first downlink broadband signal into first downlink radio frequency signals in first radio frequency band. First universal remote radio head is further configured to transmit first downlink radio frequency signals in first radio frequency band to first subscriber unit.
US10128915B2	Mobile terminal There is disclosed a mobile terminal including a housing comprising a first metal case, a second metal case and a first non-conductive case arranged between the first metal case and the second metal case, a battery embedded in the housing, a first coil arranged in an area covered by the first metal case inside the housing, a main board comprising a charging module implemented to recharge the battery using electric currents which flow in the first coil, and a first resonator arranged in an area covered by the first non-conductive case and comprising a first matching circuit corresponding to a first frequency, such that the examples of the mobile terminal in accordance with the present disclosure may enhance performance of the wireless communication unit and wireless charging performance, without design change of the housing having the metal case.
US10128914B1	Smart tags with multiple interactions A method for Near Field Communication (NFC) based interactions can be implemented by a device when it is placed near an NFC tag and receives an electromagnetic signal associated with the NFC tag. The device retrieves the identifier of the NFC tag from the electromagnetic signal and, based on the identifier, the device can generate a first command. Furthermore, the device can identify a qualifying event, such as a predetermined orientation of the device. The device then generates a second command in response to the identification of the qualifying event. Each of the first and second command can cause a change in settings of the device, switching an operating mode of the device, activating/deactivating an application, enabling/disabling a feature of an application, and sending an instruction to a remote electronic device.
US10128908B2	Passive electrical coupling device and methods for use therewith Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a coupling device includes a circuit that receives a signal. At least one passive electrical circuit element generates an electromagnetic field in response to the signal. A portion of the electromagnetic field is guided by a surface of a transmission medium to propagate as a guided electromagnetic wave longitudinally along the transmission medium. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10128907B2	Fingerprint sensor module-based device-to-device communication Devices, systems, and techniques are provided for enabling device-to-device communications between a first device equipped with a fingerprint detection module that includes a metal contact and a second device equipped with a capacitive coupling port. In one aspect, a technique for enabling the device-to-device communications includes: positioning the first device and the second device so that the metal contact of the fingerprint detection module of the first device is in capacitive coupling with the capacitive coupling port of the second device; and establishing device-to-device communication between the first device and the second device through electrical signaling between the metal contact of the first device and the capacitive coupling port of the second device. During the device-to-device communication, the metal contact operates as a transmitting and receiving electrode for sending and receiving electrical signals to and from the capacitive coupling port.
US10128900B2	System and method for multi-channel frequency hopping spread spectrum communication One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for transmitting data in a frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) wireless communication system. A multi-channel receiver is configured to receive data from one or more channels simultaneously. The multi-channel receiver enables efficient implementation of a transmission protocol in which multiple candidate nodes within a wireless mesh network are polled for availability to receive a packet of data. The packet of data is transmitted to one or more available nodes based on prevailing link conditions, thereby increasing the likelihood of successful delivery. Data flooding may be selectively implemented to further increase the likelihood of successful delivery.
US10128899B2	Transmission device, reception device, and radio communication method A transmitting apparatus includes an OFDM modulator that generates a first modulation symbol by modulating a first information signal using a first modulation scheme, a signal point of the first modulated information signal being arranged at a first position in an in-phase quadrature-phase plane and a second modulation symbol by modulating a second information signal using the first modulation scheme, and by changing a second position at which a signal point of the modulated second information signal is arranged to a third position in the in-phase quadrature-phase plane, wherein the third position is different from the first position. An OFDM modulation signal includes the first modulation symbol and the second modulation symbol, wherein the OFDM modulation signal comprises a plurality of subcarriers. A transmitter transmits the OFDM modulation signal.
US10128898B2	Method, system, and apparatus for spectrum sensing of radar signals An improved technique for detecting the presence or absence of one or more predetermined signals in a shared spectrum. In accordance with the disclosed embodiments, a received RF signal may be down-converted to a baseband signal, which is subsequently processed by a spectrum sensor to detect the presence or absence of a predetermined signal, such as a predetermined radar signal. The spectrum sensor may transform the baseband signal to the frequency domain, for example using a fast Fourier transform, to generate a corresponding set of frequency components. The spectrum sensor multiplies the frequency components of the baseband signal with the frequency response of a matched filter having a set of coefficients corresponding to the predetermined signal. The spectrum sensor may convert the matched-filter output signal to the time domain, for example using an inverse fast Fourier transform, and then may determine a value indicative of the signal power that it compares with a known threshold value. The spectrum sensor may determine the presence or absence of the predetermined signal in the received RF signal based on the result of the comparison, and may use the results of its determination to cause the reconfiguration of a transmitter that may be used to transmit RF signals in the same shared spectrum as the received RF signal.
US10128896B2	Fully integrated complete multi-band RF frontend system integrated circuit (IC) chip According to one embodiment, an RF frontend IC device includes a first RF transceiver to transmit and receive RF signals within a first predetermined frequency band and a second RF transceiver to transmit and receive RF signals within a second predetermined frequency band. The RF frontend IC device further includes a frequency synthesizer coupled to the first and second RF transceivers to perform frequency synthetization in a wide frequency spectrum, including the first and second frequency bands. The frequency synthesizer generates a first LO signal and a second LO signal for the first RF transceiver and the second RF transceiver to enable the first RF transceiver and the second RF transceiver to transmit and receive RF signals within the first frequency band the second frequency band respectively. The first RF transceiver, the second RF transceiver, and the frequency synthesizer are integrated within a single IC chip.
US10128895B2	Wireless communication device A wireless communication device is provided. The wireless communication device comprises: a first antenna for receiving and transmitting a first sub-band signal of a first frequency band and a second sub-band signal of the first frequency band; a second antenna for receiving and transmitting the second sub-band signal and a second frequency band signal; a third antenna for receiving and transmitting a first sub-band diversity signal of the first frequency band; a first frequency-division multiplex coupled to the first antenna; a switching circuit coupled to the first frequency-division multiplex and the second antenna; a primary path component coupled to the first frequency-division multiplex and the switching circuit; a secondary path component coupled to the switching circuit and the third antenna; a first transceiver coupled to the primary path component and the secondary path component; and a second transceiver coupled to the switching circuit.
US10128894B1	Active antenna calibration Aspects of this disclosure relate to active antenna calibration. In some embodiments, a local oscillator signal can be injected into the receive path for misalignment measurement and calibration of the receive path, a transmit signal from a transmit path can be coupled to a receive path, and the transmit path can be calibrated relative to the receive path.
US10128890B2	Privacy and security systems and methods of use Some embodiments include a privacy/security apparatus for a portable communication device that includes a housing assembly configured to at least partially attenuate at least one of sound energy, acoustic energy, and electromagnetic energy including light, optical, and IR energy and RF radiation from passing through the housing assembly. The housing assembly includes a Faraday cage with two or more portions, and at least one protective shell coupled to or forming at least one aperture. The at least one aperture is configured and arranged to at least partially enclose the portable communication device so that at least a portion of the portable communication device is positioned within at least one portion of the Faraday cage, and the at least one seal coupled or integrated with the protective shell. The housing assembly can be an articulating assembly, a sliding assembly, and can include an active acoustic jamming or passive acoustic attenuation element.
US10128880B2	Communicating through physical vibration A data receiver includes a vibration sensor to sample data from vibrations in an incoming signal at a predetermined sampling rate, and a microcontroller, coupled to the vibration sensor, to control the sampling rate through an inter-integrated circuit (I2C) protocol or the like. A memory card, coupled to the microcontroller, stores the data with a serial peripheral interface (SPI) protocol or the like.
US10128878B1	System and method for digital interference cancellation A system and method for receiving a signal, comprising an input adapted to receive a radio frequency signal having a strong interferer; a signal generator, adapted to produce a representation of the interferer as an analog signal generated based on an oversampled digital representation thereof; and a component adapted to cancel the strong interferer from radio frequency signal based on the generated analog signal to produce a modified radio frequency signal substantially absent the interferer. The system typically has a nonlinear component that either saturates or produces distortion from the strong interferer, which is thereby reduced. The system preferably employs high speed circuits which digitize and process radio frequency signals without analog mixers.
US10128873B2	Control device, electronic apparatus, and contactless power transmission system A transmitting side control device includes a communication portion that performs communication processing with a power receiving device. The communication portion detects communication data from the power receiving device based on an output of a bandpass filtering portion that performs bandpass filtering processing in which a signal in a load modulation frequency band is allowed to pass and signals in bands other than the load modulation frequency band are attenuated.
US10128867B1	Hierarchical unary/thermometer coder for controlling an analog to digital converter A hierarchical unary/thermometer coder comprises a cascade of lower level coders that minimize clock loading and clock transitions by only enabling the clocking of a circuit when that circuit is required to change state, thereby minimizing power consumption. At the lowest level, a stage-1 circuit produces a two-bit unary/thermometer code using two NAND gates, an inverter, and a single set-reset latch. An output of the latch forms a least significant bit (LSB) and is used to control transitions of the next most significant bit. A stage-2 circuit produces a four-bit unary/thermometer code using two stage-1 circuits and a NOR gate. A stage-3 circuit produces an eight-bit unary/thermometer code using two stage-2 circuits and a NAND gate. The circuit associated with each higher order bit is only enabled when the next lower bit has been set. Outputs are also provided for generating a “running one” or “running zero” code.
US10128866B2	Fast current mode sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter A current mode sigma-delta modulator comprises an input node; a comparator that compares a voltage of the input node to a reference voltage and outputs a comparison result; an integrating capacitor connected to an input of the comparator; and a switched capacitor circuit connected at a first end to the input node, the input of the comparator, and the integrating capacitor, and connected at a second end to an output of the comparator. The current mode sigma-delta modulator is a component of an analog-to-digital converter.
US10128862B2	Successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter applying calibration circuit, associated calibrating method, and associated electronic device A Successive Approximation Register (SAR) Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) including: a comparing module and a calibration circuit. The comparing module is arranged to generate a first comparison result by comparing an input voltage value of the SAR ADC with a first voltage value and a second result by comparing the input voltage value with a second voltage value; the calibration circuit coupled to the comparing module is for generating a determination result determining whether the input voltage value is in a range according to the first comparison result and the second comparison result, and enters a calibration mode according to the determination result.
US10128859B1	Correlated double sampling analog-to-digital converter Techniques are described to cancel kT/C sampling noise and residue amplifier sampling noise while also reducing power consumption in a pipelined analog-to-digital converter circuit.
US10128858B2	Phase-locked loop circuitry including improved phase alignment mechanism Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods of operating such apparatuses. One of the apparatuses includes a first circuit included in a phase-locked loop (PLL) to receive an input clock signal and a feedback clock signal, and to generate an output clock signal; a second circuit included in the PLL to generate the feedback clock signal from the output clock signal; and a third circuit to prevent the output clock signal from toggling during a portion of a time interval when the PLL performs an operation of aligning phases of the input clock signal and feedback clock signal.
US10128857B1	System, apparatus and method for programmably controlling generation of a notch at a radio frequency using arbitrary pulse pairing In one embodiment, a radio receiver includes: a programmable frequency synthesizer to generate a first clock signal; a first frequency divider to divide the first clock signal to generate a master clock signal; a second frequency divider to divide the master clock signal to generate a mixing signal; and a mixer to downconvert a radio frequency (RF) signal to a second frequency signal using the mixing signal. A voltage converter to couple to the radio receiver includes a switch controllable to switchably couple a first voltage to a storage device and a pulse generator to generate at least one pulse pair formed of a first pulse and a second pulse substantially identical to the first pulse, when a second voltage is less than a first threshold voltage, the second pulse separated from the first pulse by a pulse separation interval.
US10128853B2	Delay locked loop circuit and integrated circuit including the same A delay-locked loop (DLL) circuit and an integrated circuit (IC) including the same are provided. The DLL circuit includes a pre-processing circuit configured to generate a first pulse signal and a second pulse signal based on a clock signal input, the first pulse signal and the second pulse signal having a phase difference of (s/2) times a clock period of the clock signal (where s is a positive integer), a delay line configured to generate a delay signal by delaying the first pulse signal by a delay amount corresponding to a selection value, a phase detector configured to detect a phase difference between the delay signal and the second pulse signal, and a control logic configured to adjust the selection value based on the phase difference between the delay signal and the second pulse signal as detected by the phase detector, so as to synchronize the delay signal with the second pulse signal.
US10128850B2	Methods and devices for reducing clock skew in bidirectional clock trees The present disclosure provides systems and methods for improving operation of integrated circuit device including a logic region, which includes a plurality of logic gates that operate based at least in part on a clock signal to facilitate providing a target function, and a clock tree, which includes a clock switch block that receives a source clock signal from a clock source and a branch communicatively coupled between the clock switch block and the logic region, in which the branch operates to provide the clock signal to the logic region based at least in part on the source clock signal and the branch includes a tunable delay buffer that operates to apply a delay to the clock signal based at least in part on a clock skew expected to be introduced by the branch.
US10128849B2	Level shift circuit, semiconductor device, and battery supervisory apparatus According to one embodiment, a level shift circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, third transistor, fourth transistor, fifth transistor, sixth transistor, seventh transistor and eighth transistor. The level shift circuit also includes a first capacitance element, a second capacitance element, third capacitance element and fourth capacitance element. The first through eighth transistors have a first conductivity type. The first through fourth transistors are included to a bi-stable multi-vibrator. The fifth through the eighth transistors are included to an active load for the differential input of the signal through the third capacitance element and the fourth capacitance element.
US10128847B2	Apparatuses and methods for level shifting Apparatuses and methods for level shifting in a semiconductor device are described. An example apparatus includes: a splitter circuit that operates on a first voltage potential to produce a first signal having a first polarity and a second signal having a second polarity that is substantially opposite to the first polarity; an one-shot pulse circuit that operates on the first voltage potential to produce a first one-shot pulse signal responsive to the first signal and a second one-shot pulse signal responsive to the second signal; and a logic circuit configured to operate on a second voltage potential to produce a third signal responsive to the first and second one-shot pulse signals, the second voltage potential being different from the first voltage potential.
US10128845B2	Voltage level shifter (VLS) circuits employing a pre-conditioning circuit for pre-conditioning an input signal to be voltage level shifted in response to a pre-charge phase Voltage level shifter (VLS) circuits employing a pre-conditioning circuit for pre-conditioning an input signal to be voltage level shifted in response to a pre-charge phase are disclosed. A VLS circuit is configured to voltage level shift an input signal in a lower voltage domain on an output node in a higher voltage domain. The VLS circuit includes a pre-charge circuit configured to pre-charge the output node in a pre-charge phase. The VLS circuit also includes a pull-up circuit and a pull-down circuit that are configured to pull-up and pull-down the pre-charge phase of the output node, respectively, in an evaluation phase based on a logic state of the input signal to generate the output signal. To mitigate or avoid contention between the pull-up and pull-down circuits in the evaluation phase, the input signal is pre-conditioned such that the pull-down circuit is deactivated in response to the pre-charge phase.
US10128844B2	Semiconductor apparatus and reduced current and power consumption A semiconductor apparatus may include a mode control circuit configured to output differential output signals which swing in a current mode logic (CML) area and a first control signal, in response to a power-down mode signal; a first circuit unit configured to be provided with the differential output signals, and operate in a power-down mode; and a second circuit unit configured to be provided with the differential output signals, and be interrupted in its operation in the power-down mode.
US10128843B2	Apparatuses and methods for partial bit de-emphasis Apparatuses and methods for partial bit de-emphasis are provided. An example apparatus includes an output driver and control circuit. The output driver includes a pull-up circuit including one or more pull-up legs, and a pull-down circuit including one or more pull-down legs. The control circuit may be coupled to the output driver and configured to receive an input signal having a first logical value and a second logical value, and in response to determining the logical transition has occurred from the second logic value to the first logic value, cause the pull-up circuit and pull-down circuit respectively to enter a first state for a duration of a first portion of a bit period and to enter a second state for a duration of a second portion of the bit period preceding the first portion.
US10128840B2	Capacitive touch sensor A capacitive touch sensor (100) is provided. The capacitive touch sensor (100) includes an electrode (110) disposed between a plate (120) and a spring (130) wherein the spring (130) presses the electrode (110) towards the plate (120) in a direction that is substantially parallel to a longitudinal length (L) of the spring (130) and the electrode (110) has a flat sensing surface (112) parallel with the plate (120).
US10128838B2	Reflective switch input surface Example embodiments of a reflective switch and methods for preventing inadvertent actuation of the reflective switch are disclosed. Exemplary embodiments of the reflective switch comprise a plurality of photo emitters that emit light through a translucent zone and a plurality of photo detectors that detect light rays that are reflected back through the translucent zone by an operator input. Upon detecting reflected light rays, the photo detectors send reflective signals to a controller. The controller then monitors whether the unique addresses of the photo detectors are increasing or decreasing and whether the addresses have increased or decreased to a predetermined threshold to merit a change in switch state. An indicia may be configured to notify an operator that a new switch state has been achieved.
US10128831B1	Apparatus, system, and method for ensuring reliable initialization conditions in response to external reset signals The disclosed apparatus may include (1) a first transistor whose (A) first terminal is electrically coupled to an enable node, (B) second terminal is electrically coupled to a feedback node, and (C) third terminal is electrically coupled to a ground node, (2) a second transistor whose (A) first terminal is electrically coupled to the feedback node, (B) second terminal is electrically coupled to the enable node, and (C) third terminal is electrically coupled to the ground node, (3) a resistor that is electrically coupled between the feedback node and the ground node, and (4) a diode that is electrically coupled between the feedback node and another resistor, wherein the other resistor is electrically coupled between the diode and an output-voltage node that provides electrical power to a computing device. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US10128827B1	High-speed phase interpolator The present invention relates generally to integrated circuits. More particularly, the present invention provides a circuit and method for a CMOS interpolator for an output clock signal with a desirable phase for a high speed serializer/deserializer device. In a specific embodiment, the present invention provides a phase interpolator device that mixes phase-shifted clock signals according to a predetermined weight values at predetermined time intervals. There are other embodiments as well.
US10128824B2	Common-mode clamping circuit and method thereof An apparatus includes a first AC (alternating current) coupling circuit configured to receive a first end of a differential signal and output a first coupled signal in accordance with a bias voltage; a second AC coupling circuit configured to receive a second end of the differential signal and output a second coupled signal in accordance with the bias voltage; a first complementary joint-control cascode pair configured to shunt the first end of the differential signal to a DC (direct current) node in accordance with a joint control by the first coupled signal and the second coupled signal; and a second complementary joint-control cascode pair configured to shunt the second end of the differential signal to the DC node in accordance with a joint control by the first coupled signal and the second coupled signal. A related method is also provided.
US10128823B2	Subthreshold metal oxide semiconductor for large resistance Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to generating a large electrical resistance. One example circuit generally includes a first transistor having a gate, a source connected with a first node of the circuit, and a drain connected with a second node of the circuit. The circuit may also include a voltage-limiting device connected between the gate and the source of the first transistor, wherein the device, if forward biased, is configured to limit a gate-to-source voltage of the first transistor such that the first transistor operates in a sub-threshold region. The circuit may further include a second transistor configured to bias the voltage-limiting device with a current, wherein a drain of the second transistor is connected with the gate of the first transistor, a gate of the second transistor is connected with the first node, and a source of the second transistor is connected with an electric potential.
US10128821B2	Low output impedance, high speed and high voltage generator for use in driving a capacitive load A voltage generator circuit uses a feedback loop to regulate an output voltage at an output node. A pair of opposite conductivity source-follower transistors are coupled to the output node. A first one of the source-follower transistors operates to provide a fast current transient for charging a capacitive load that is switchably connected to the output node. A second one of the source-follower transistor operate under feedback control to regulate the voltage level at the output node.
US10128818B2	Data processor, data processing method and communication device A parallel transfer rate converter inputs first parallel data with number of samples being S1 pieces in synchronism with a first clock, and outputs second parallel data with number of samples being S2=S1×(m/p) pieces (p is an integer equal to or larger than 1) in synchronism with a second clock having a frequency which is p/m times of a frequency of the first clock. A convolution operation device inputs the second parallel data in synchronism with the second clock, generates third parallel data with number of samples being S3=S2×(n/m) pieces (S3 is an integer equal to or larger than 1) by executing a convolution operation with a coefficient indicating a transmission characteristic to the second parallel data, and outputs the third parallel data in synchronism with the second clock.
US10128817B2	Digital phase shifter A digital phase shifter includes a logic control circuit, at least four current digital-to-analog converters, at least four amplifiers, and a vector summation circuit. The logic control circuit generates four N-bit digital phase shift control signals according to an (N+2)-bit digital control source signal, and respectively inputs the four N-bit digital phase shift control signals to the four current digital-to-analog converters. The four current digital-to-analog converters are respectively connected in series with the four amplifiers, to implement selection and amplification on four orthogonal input signals, and the vector summation circuit synthesizes amplified signals that are output by the four amplifiers, to obtain a signal having a 360 degree (°) phase shift range.
US10128807B2	Band-based amplifier linearity adjustment A system improve amplifier efficiency of operation relative to that of an amplifier with fixed biasing is operating channel dependent. A control circuit determines a bias current for an amplifying transistor of an amplifier circuit based at least in part on an operating channel. The amplifying transistor operates in a multi-channel system, where the bias current for the amplifying transistor operating at channels at an edge of a channel band is different from the bias current for the amplifying transistor operating at channels nearer a center of the channel band.
US10128804B2	Temperature-compensated equalizer An equalizer, in at least some embodiments, comprises an amplifier configured to produce an amplified voltage signal that is a function of an ambient temperature affecting the equalizer. The equalizer also includes a linear equalizer stage coupled to the amplifier and comprising a transistor having a resistance controlled by the amplified voltage signal. The linear equalizer stage is configured to produce a voltage output signal having a gain that is dependent on the transistor resistance and on a frequency of the amplified voltage signal.
US10128803B2	Systems and methods for predictive switching in audio amplifiers An audio amplifier circuit for providing an output signal to an audio transducer may include a power amplifier and a control circuit. The power amplifier may include an audio input for receiving an audio input signal, an audio output for generating the output signal based on the audio input signal, and a power supply input for receiving a power supply voltage, wherein the power supply voltage is variable among at least a first supply voltage and a second supply voltage greater than the first supply voltage. The control circuit may be configured to predict, based on one or more characteristics of a signal indicative of the output signal, an occurrence of a condition for changing the power supply voltage, and responsive to predicting the occurrence of the condition, change, at an approximate zero crossing of the signal indicative of the output signal, the power supply voltage.
US10128800B2	Distortion compensation apparatus and distortion compensation method A distortion compensation apparatus include: a feedback unit that generates a feedback signal containing a first frequency component in which a plurality of odd-order distortions are superimposed and a second frequency component in which a plurality of even-order distortions are superimposed according to output of a power amplifier which amplifies a transmission signal; and a signal processor that separates the first frequency component and the second frequency component from the generated feedback signal and performs signal processing.
US10128798B2	Adjusting envelope tracking power supply Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for operating an envelope tracking power supply. The method may include receiving, from a modem of a device, information indicative of a transmit waveform statistic of a signal to be wirelessly transmitted by the device. The method may further include adjusting a configuration of the envelope tracking power supply based on the transmit waveform statistic of the signal.
US10128797B2	Power amplifier circuit A power amplifier circuit includes a first amplifier transistor and a bias circuit. The first amplifier transistor amplifies a first signal and outputs a second signal. The bias circuit supplies a bias voltage or a bias current to the first amplifier transistor. The first amplifier transistor includes plural unit transistors disposed in a substantially rectangular region. The bias circuit includes first and second bias transistors and first and second voltage supply circuits. The first and second bias transistors respectively supply first and second bias voltages or first and second bias currents to the bases of unit transistors of first and second groups. The first and second voltage supply circuits respectively supply first and second voltages to the bases of the first and second bias transistors. The first and second voltages are decreased in accordance with a temperature increase. The second voltage supply circuit is disposed within the substantially rectangular region.
US10128795B2	Polar loop modulation techniques for wireless communication This disclosure relates to an apparatus, system, and method for generating uplink transmissions using a polar architecture including a phase locked loop with potential for two point injection. According to some embodiments, frequency resources allocated for a transmission may be determined. A cartesian baseband signal may be generated for the uplink transmission. The cartesian baseband signal may be converted to a polar baseband signal, including a baseband phase signal and an amplitude signal. Modulation parameters, potentially including whether to use one point injection or two point injection with a phase locked loop, may be determined. The baseband phase signal may be upconverted to an RF phase signal according to the determined modulation parameters. The RF phase signal may be amplified according to the amplitude signal to produce an RF signal. The RF signal may be transmitted.
US10128792B2	Temperature controlled platform, system, and method for holding, probing, and testing solar cells A system for testing solar cells includes a probe plate portion, a first voltage probe tip, a first current probe tip, at least one second voltage probe tip, at least one second current probe tip, and means for vertical actuation of the first voltage probe tip to contact the solar cell underside and vertical actuation of the at least one second voltage probe tip and at least one second current probe tip to contact a solar cell top surface. The probe plate portion includes a conductive top surface configured for contact with a solar cell underside and the first current probe tip, a first and a second series of vacuum ports disposed on the conductive top surface, and a coolant channel. The second series of vacuum ports covers a larger area of the conductive top surface than the area covered by the first series of vacuum ports.
US10128791B2	Structures and methods for supporting solar panels Structures and methods for supporting solar panels are provided. The structure includes a plurality of tee extrusions, a plurality of legs, a plurality of trusses, a plurality of ridge rails, and a plurality of clips. The tee extrusions form two parallel tracks upon which the legs are secured. The legs project upward from the extrusions and are coupled to the trusses, which are above and perpendicular to the trusses. At least four legs support each truss. The ridge rails sit on the truss and a parallel to the extrusions. The solar panels sit on the ridge rails and are secured to the ridge rails by the clips.
US10128777B2	Pre-collapsed capacitive micro-machined transducer cell with annular-shaped collapsed region The present invention relates to a pre-collapsed capacitive micro-machined transducer cell (10) comprising a substrate (12) comprising a first electrode (16), a membrane (14) comprising a second electrode (18), wherein the cell has an outer region (22) where the membrane (14) is mounted to the substrate (12) and an inner region (20) inside or surrounded by the outer region (22), wherein the membrane (14) is collapsed to the substrate (12) in a first collapsed annular-shaped region (24) located within the inner region (20).
US10128776B2	Inverter device An inverter device includes a converter circuit unit, an inverter circuit unit, and a current detector. The inverter device includes a calculator that calculates a frequency command value based on output current detected by the current detector, and a pulse signal output unit that outputs a pulse signal based on the frequency command value calculated by the calculator. The calculator includes a calculator and a calculator. The calculator estimates a target frequency from a load torque and motor characteristics, and calculates a first frequency command value with the estimated target frequency as a target. The calculator calculates a second frequency command value to cause torque current detected based on the output current detected by the current detector to follow a torque current limit value calculated based on the output current. When a deviation of the first frequency command value from the target frequency becomes less than or equal to a determination value, output to the pulse signal output unit is switched from the first frequency command value to the second frequency command value.
US10128775B2	Motor drive apparatus and air conditioner A motor drive apparatus driving a motor as a three-phase motor converting direct current into three-phase alternating current, includes: inverter modules and equivalent in number to phases of the motor; and a control unit generating PWM signals used to drive the inverter modules with PWM. The inverter modules each include a plurality of switching element pairs connected in parallel, each of the switching element pairs including two switching elements connected in series.
US10128756B2	DC-DC converter with high transformer ratio A DC-DC converter with a high transformer ratio includes two DC-DC converter bodies with inputs connected in parallel and outputs connected in series so as to ensure the high safe reliability and the high energy conversion efficiency of the DC-DC converter, while increase the boost ratio of the DC-DC converter.
US10128754B2	Power conversion apparatus In a power conversion apparatus including first to fourth semiconductor switching elements connected in series across both terminals of a high voltage-side capacitor, the third and fourth semiconductor switching elements are connected across both terminals of a low voltage-side capacitor via a reactor, and both terminals of the second and third semiconductor switching elements are connected across a charging-discharging capacitor. This charging-discharging capacitor includes a plurality of capacitor elements connected in parallel via a first wiring and a second wiring. Inductance components or capacitance components of the plurality of capacitor elements when viewed from an outflow-inflow portion of the first wiring and an outflow-inflow portion of the second wiring are different from each other such that the charging-discharging capacitor does not have a parallel resonance point in a driving frequency band but has a parallel resonance point in a noise frequency band.
US10128753B2	Inductor current emulator The present application relates to controllers using current mode control to control the operation of switching power supplies such as DC-DC converters. The application provides an inductor current.
US10128752B1	Controller tuning using perturbation sequence In an example, a device for operating a switching converter is configured to determine a set of perturbed duty cycle values for a converter. A perturbation sequence is superimposed simultaneously onto a duty cycle value for each phase of the converter to form the set of perturbed duty cycle values. The device is further configured to determine an output voltage of the converter that occurs when the converter operates based on the set of perturbed duty cycle values, determine a coefficient vector of system parameters for the converter based on the output voltage and the set of perturbed duty cycle values, and tune a controller based on the coefficient vector. The duty cycle value for each phase of the converter is based on a respective command duty cycle value of a set of command duty cycle values output by the controller.
US10128745B2	Charge balanced charge pump control An apparatus for coupling to capacitors to form a charge pump includes first and second sets of switch elements, and a controller. Switches in the first set couple terminals of capacitors to permit charge transfer between them. Switches in the second set couple terminals of at least some of the capacitors to either a high-voltage or a low-voltage terminal. The controller causes the switches to cycle through a sequence of states, each defining a corresponding configuration of the switch elements. At least three of the states define different configurations permitting charge transfer either between a first capacitor and a second capacitor, or between a first capacitor and one of the terminals. The configured cycle of states causes voltage conversion between the two terminals.
US10128744B1	Single and multi-phase DC-DC converter mode control Disclosed examples include methods and control circuits to operate a single or multi-phase DC-DC converter, including an output that turns a first switch on for a controlled on time and then turns the switch off for a controlled off time in successive control cycles, as well as a PWM circuit that computes a threshold time value corresponding to a predetermined peak inductor current and a duty cycle value, and computes a first time value according to an error value for a subsequent second switching control cycle. The PWM circuit sets the on time to the first time value to operate in a critical conduction mode for the second switching control cycle when the first time value is greater than or equal to the threshold time value, and otherwise sets the controlled on time to the threshold time value for discontinuous conduction mode operation in the second control cycle.
US10128736B1	Rectifier device A rectifier device is described herein. In accordance with one exemplary embodiment, the rectifier device includes a semiconductor substrate doped with dopants of a first doping type and at least one well region arranged in the semiconductor substrate and doped with dopants of a second doping type. Accordingly, the at least one well region and the surrounding semiconductor substrate form a pn-junction. The rectifier device further includes an anode terminal and a cathode terminal connected by a load current path of a first MOS transistor and a diode connected parallel to the load current path. An alternating input voltage is operably applied between the anode terminal and the cathode terminal. The rectifier device further includes a control circuit and a biasing circuit. The control circuit is configured to switch on the first MOS transistor for an on-time period, during which the diode is forward biased. The first MOS transistor and the diode are integrated in the semiconductor substrate, and the control circuit is at least partly arranged in the at least one well region. The biasing circuit is configured to generate a biasing voltage that is applied to the at least one well region such that the pn-junction is reverse biased.
US10128732B2	Linear motor Provided is a highly responsive linear motor that can be constructed by reducing the weight of a mover. In order to attain this object, the linear motor includes a secondary side in which magnets and ladder-shaped members of a magnetic material are arranged in alternate manner in a rectilinearly moving direction of the mover, the ladder-shaped members each holding one of the magnets; and a primary side that includes magnetic pole pieces arranged in close proximity to the secondary side from above and below in a direction perpendicular to the rectilinearly moving direction with a common coil wound around each of the magnetic pole pieces, the primary side including a magnetic material core interconnecting the magnetic pole pieces; wherein the ladder-shaped members of a magnetic material are formed with grooves.
US10128731B2	Linear vernier motor A linear vernier motor includes a stator and a mover. The stator extends in a first direction. The mover extends in the first direction and a pole interval is different from that of the stator. At least one of the stator and the mover includes: a plurality of permanent magnets arranged in the first direction and a plurality of yokes arranged in the first direction. Each of the plurality of yokes is arranged between adjacent permanent magnets. The plurality of permanent magnets is magnetized to the first direction and magnetization orientations of adjacent permanent magnets are opposite to each other.
US10128729B2	Intermittent movement type strong magnetic motor An intermittent movement type strong magnetic motor having a control device (PLC) for first controlling an arresting device to lock an electromagnetic coil, then controlling a power supply device to start power supply. After a given length of time of power supply when the current rises to the highest point or rises to a level as required, the arresting device releases the electromagnetic coil quickly to allow the electromagnetic coil to move and operate immediately. The intermittent movement type strong magnetic motor maximally avoids restriction of counter-electromotive force and makes full use of the great action force created between magnetic fields and the electromagnetic coil, thereby ideally converting magnetic forces to mechanical energy and increasing energy efficient ratio of the motor.
US10128723B2	Printed circuit board spacer A power tool and a printed circuit board assembly (“PCBA”) for the power tool. The PCBA includes, for example, a printed circuit board (“PCB”), a heat sink, a spacer between the PCB and the heat sink, and a gap pad. The PCB and the heat sink are fastened to one another via fasteners so the spacer absorbs excess forces torsional forces from torques applied to the fasteners. The gap pad is placed within an opening or recess of the spacer to contact one or more FETs on the PCB. In some embodiments, the PCBA includes a second heat sink or rigid member on the opposite side of the PCB than the spacer to further distribute excess torsional forces from torques applied to the fasteners.
US10128713B2	Armature winding of rotating electrical machine According to one embodiment, there is provided a 3-phase even-numbered-pole 2-layered armature winding housed in 45 slots per pole provided in a laminated iron core. In each coil piece group of each phase belt, the coil pieces of the second and fifth parallel circuits are placed in the second positions from the pole center among three positions of coil pieces in corresponding coil piece group. In six or four groups out of ten coil piece groups of each phase belt, coil pieces of the first or fourth parallel circuit are placed in the first position from the pole center. In first and second coil piece groups, coil pieces of the first or fourth parallel circuit are placed in different-numbered positions from the pole center.
US10128711B2	Stator assembly for an electric supercharger An electric supercharger comprises a motor, for example a switched reluctance motor. The motor includes a stator assembly (101) comprising a plurality of pairs of windings (103A-C), each pair of windings (103A-C) comprising a first winding for forming a first pole and a second winding for forming a second, opposite, pole, each winding having an input termination (105) and an output termination (107). The terminations (105, 107) of each pair of windings (103A-C) are arranged such that the input terminations (105) for the first and second windings are located adjacent one another and the output terminations (107) of the first and second windings are located adjacent one another.
US10128710B2	Linear compressor and linear motor for a linear compressor A linear compressor and a linear motor for a linear compressor are provided. The linear motor may include a first stator, a second stator spaced apart from the first stator, and at least one permanent magnet disposed between the first stator and the second stator. The first stator may include a bobbin around which a coil may be wound, and a plurality of core blocks that surrounds the bobbin. In at least one core block of the plurality of core blocks, a distance between a first surface that faces the second stator and a second surface of the second stator that faces the first surface varies in a circumferential direction of the second stator.
US10128704B2	Rotor of rotary electric machine A rotor core includes at least one core refrigerant passage configured to release a refrigerant to a gap between the rotor core and a stator. The core refrigerant passage includes: a central refrigerant passage provided radially inside a permanent magnet so as to extend in an axial direction, the central refrigerant passage being opened on axial end surfaces of the rotor core; an inner refrigerant passage communicating the shaft refrigerant passage with the central refrigerant passage; an outer refrigerant passage communicating the central refrigerant passage with the gap; and dams provided on both axial-end sides of the central refrigerant passage relative to the outer refrigerant passage so as to project toward a radially inner side from a radially outer side in the central refrigerant passage.
US10128701B2	Motor cooling system utilizing axial cooling channels An electric motor cooling system is provided utilizing axial cooling channels that are integral to the stator teeth, thus allowing direct contact between the circulating coolant and the lamination stack and providing an efficient means of removing motor assembly heat. Additionally, as the coolant flows out of the cooling channels it impinges on the end windings, thereby providing a secondary means of cooling the motor assembly.
US10128700B2	Rotary electric machine armature core A core segment linked body is configured by linking a plurality of core segments by inserting first shafts of first core segments into first slots of core segments near a first longitudinal end thereof, and inserting second shafts of core segments near the first longitudinal end thereof into second slots of the first core segments, the linked core segments are expandable and contractible between an expanded position in which an interval between the magnetic pole tooth is expanded and a contracted position in which the interval is reduced by the first shafts being guided by the first slots and the second shafts being guided by the second slots, and central axes of the first shafts and the second shafts are: offset in a longitudinal direction of the back yoke in the expanded position; and positioned collinearly in a direction of lamination in the contracted position.
US10128690B2	Power transmitting method and power transmitter for communication with power receiver A method and power transmitter for efficiently controlling power transmission to one or more power receivers in a wireless multi-power transmission system are provided. The method includes performing, when a predetermined measurement cycle arrives, a load measurement; comparing a current load measurement value with a previous load measurement value; determining whether the current load measurement value is increased over the previous load measurement value by at least as much as a first predetermined threshold; gradually increasing, when the load measurement value is increased over the previous load measurement value by at least as much as the first threshold, a transmission power value until a request for a subscription to a wireless multi-power transmission network from a power reception target within a predetermined time limit; and stopping, when the request for the subscription is not received before the time limit is exceeded, power transmission to the power reception target.
US10128681B2	Non-contact power supply control system for controlling power supply by living body detection A non-contact power supply control system includes: an electric transmission pad connected to a power source unit; a control unit controlling current supply to the electric transmission pad; a living body detecting means detecting a living body present around the electric transmission pad; a power receiving pad magnetically coupled to the electric transmission pad to excite power, when current is supplied from the power source unit to the electric transmission pad; and a power storage unit storing power excited by the power receiving pad. The living body detecting means are arranged on the road surface side, and the control unit, when determining that no living body is present around the electric transmission pad on the basis of a result from the living body detecting means, controls the power supply unit to supply power to the power storage unit.
US10128680B2	Constant current charging device To provide a constant current charging device capable of shortening a total charging time of a secondary battery even if an internal impedance of the secondary battery becomes high. A constant current charging device is provided which is equipped with a charging completion voltage detector, a battery voltage drop detector, an up-down counter which adds data when the up-down counter receives a detection signal of the charging completion voltage detector, subtracts the data when the up-down counter receives a detection signal of the battery voltage drop detector, and outputs the subtracted data, and a constant current generating circuit which switches a charging current to a secondary battery according to the data outputted from the up-down counter.
US10128675B2	All-solid-state battery system and method of manufacturing the same An all-solid-state battery system comprising an all-solid-state battery comprising a positive electrode active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer, and a negative electrode active material layer, and a control device configured to control a charge-discharge voltage during use of the all-solid-state battery. The negative electrode active material layer includes alloy negative electrode active material particles. The amorphization degree of the alloy negative electrode active material particles is in the range of 27.8% to 82.8% and a ratio Z/W is in the range of 0.32 to 0.60, where Z is a controlled discharge capacity of the all-solid-state battery, and W is a theoretical capacity of the alloy negative electrode active material particles×a total weight of the alloy negative electrode active material particles×the amorphization degree.
US10128674B2	Apparatus and method for charging and discharging a multiple battery system A multiple battery charging and discharging system controls the configuration of multiple batteries arranged in multiple battery banks. The batteries within each bank are connected in series when powering an electrical load, such as a service motor, and are connected in parallel when charging. A microprocessor monitors the voltage levels of the batteries in each bank and controls relays to switch the electrical load over to a charged battery bank when the voltage level of the discharging battery bank drops below a minimum run threshold. The microprocessor also monitors the voltage levels of the charging battery bank and controls relays to cease charging when the voltage level rises above a minimum charge threshold.
US10128672B2	Electronic device, and method controlling electronic power supply An electric device including: a connecting unit connected to a connection line supplying an electric power of a predetermined rating and transmitting and receiving an information; a charging unit conducting a charging of a charging battery connected to an own device, by the electric power supplied by the connection line; an electric supplying unit supplying an electric power to a recording medium storing an information; a reading-and-writing unit performing a reading-and-writing operation of the recording medium; and an electronic source controlling unit performing a control of the electric power supplied to the charging unit, when the reading-and-writing unit performs the reading-and-writing operation of the recording medium, according to an access request to the recording medium via the connection line.
US10128670B2	Method for confirming contact with fluid and electronic device therefor The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for determining whether an electronic device contacts a fluid or not. The electronic device may include: a housing; at least one sensor arranged in the housing; a coupling member connected to a part of the housing and configured to detachably couple the electronic device to a part of a body of a user; a conductive member arranged on a surface of the housing or on a surface of the coupling member and exposed to an outside while being electrically connectible to the at least one sensor; a processor electrically connected to the at least one sensor and the conductive member; and a memory electrically connected to the processor. The processor determines whether the conductive member has contacted a fluid or not using the at least one sensor and executes a second action at least partially based on the determination.
US10128660B1	Wireless solar power delivery Example implementations relate to a solar panel system including solar cells and an inverter configured to receive electrical energy generated by solar cells and to convert the electrical energy to an electrical signal having an oscillation frequency. The system also include a transmit resonator coupled to the inverter and configured to resonate at the oscillation frequency. Moreover, the transmit resonator may be coupled via a wireless resonant coupling link to a receive resonator that is also configured to resonate at the oscillation frequency. Further, the system may also include a controller configured to determine for the system a mode of operation from among the following modes: (i) a common mode, (ii) a differential mode, and (iii) an inductive mode. And the controller is then configured to instruct the transmit resonator to provide via the wireless resonant coupling link electrical power according to the determined mode of operation.
US10128657B2	System for transmitting electrical power A system transmits electrical power between a first and a second alternating voltage network. A self-commutated converter can be connected to the second alternating voltage network, the converter being connected to an unregulated rectifier via a direct voltage connection. The unregulated rectifier can be connected to the first alternating voltage network on an alternating voltage side. The system has a network generation device, which can be connected to the first alternating voltage network and is provided for generating an alternating voltage in the first alternating voltage network. The network generation device is configured to exchange reactive power and active power with the first alternating voltage network. Furthermore, a method is provided which stabilizes a network frequency of the first alternating voltage network, in which the network frequency in the first alternating voltage network is regulated by changing a voltage at the direct voltage terminal of the self-commutated converter.
US10128655B2	System tools for integrating individual load forecasts into a composite load forecast to present a comprehensive, synchronized and harmonized load forecast A system tool merges different load forecasts for power grid centers. A plurality of load forecast engines are coupled to a load forecast interface and a relational data base that saves load forecast engine data as an input through the load forecast interface. A comprehensive operating plan is coupled to the load forecast engines and the relational database. The comprehensive operating plan is configured to integrate individual load forecasts into a composite load forecast to present a comprehensive, synchronized and harmonized load forecast. A program interface provides access to the composite load forecasting schedule.
US10128653B2	Low voltage buss system An example low voltage buss system is provided. The low voltage bus system distributes low voltage DC power into the office workspace in a manner that reduces clutter and promotes customizable and efficient workspace usage. The low voltage bus system distributes low voltage DC power into the office workspace via an electrical buss having a connector at the end of the buss to distribute low voltage DC power to and throughout office workspace and, in particular, office furniture.
US10128646B1	Two-gang TV bridge kit with pre-molded electrical cord for minimizing wiring terminations A TV bridge kit including a kit, package, or assembly of components for providing power supply and low voltage cables to a TV or similar electronic device while minimizing disruption to the wall surface. The assembly includes a first and second mounting bracket with associated cover plates and a molded power cable including a male plug end and a female receptacle end. Rotatable clamp arms on the mounting brackets enable rapid installation to existing structural walls. The cover plates include openings and peripheral walls and are adapted for selective mounting of the male or female plug ends and a low voltage device. Mounting of the mounting brackets in vertical alignment in a wall portion sharing a common interior wall cavity between two studs enables rapid installation of power and low voltage feeds to the TV. The TV bridge kit assembly may include trim plates for attachment to the mounting brackets.
US10128643B2	Loom assembly providing improved electrical isolation A flexible, electrically insulating insert fits in a slit of a split loom tube to substantially increase the electrical path length between cables contained within the split loom tubing and the outside environment to provide improved electrical resistance therebetween.
US10128639B1	High current busbar system for low-profile power shelves A power distribution system includes a server rack comprising a vertically stacked plurality of power shelf assemblies. Each assembly has first and second opposing sides defining vertical planes, and third and fourth opposing sides extending between the first and second sides. For each assembly, a first bus bar extends along a horizontal plane between the third and fourth sides, a second bus bar extends along the horizontal plane between the first bus bar and the first side of the assembly, a first set of power supply pins extends along the horizontal plane from the first bus bar toward the second side of the assembly, and a second set of power supply pins extends along the horizontal plane from the second bus bar toward the second side of the assembly, wherein the second set of power supply pins further protrude through respective apertures in the first bus bar.
US10128638B1	Ignition plug An ignition plug includes an insulator having an outer-diameter reduction surface and a metal shell. The metal shell includes a rear end portion, a curved deformation portion, and a stepped portion. In a section including an axial line, the average hardness of a surface layer portion, which extends along a specific surface, of a rear end surface of the stepped portion is higher than the average hardness of the rear end portion and the average hardness of the deformation portion.
US10128632B2	Electroabsorption modulator integrated distributed feedback laser with integrated semiconductor optical amplifier, and driving method for same The present invention relates to a driving method for an SOA integrated EA-DFB laser monolithically-integrating a DFB laser portion, an EA modulator portion and an SOA portion, on a same substrate, wherein an electric current ISOA is injected into the SOA portion within a range of a power consumption not exceeding a total amount of a power consumption eliminated in the DFB laser portion of the SOA integrated EA-DFB laser and a power consumption eliminated in the EA modulator portion of the SOA integrated EA-DFB laser by eliminating an elimination amount ΔIDFB from a maximum injection electric current into a DFB laser portion of an EA-DFB laser allowable in a case of mounting the EA-DFB laser on an optical transmission module.
US10128627B1	Cable adapter A communication device includes a mechanical frame, which is configured to be inserted into a multi-channel Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) receptacle that is compliant with a first SFP standard and to receive inside the frame an SFP connector that is compliant with a second SFP standard, which is different from the first SFP standard. First electrical terminals, held by the mechanical frame, are configured to mate with respective first pins of the SFP receptacle, and second electrical terminals, electrically coupled within the mechanical frame to the first electrical terminals, are configured to mate with respective second pins of the SFP connector. A heat sink is mounted in the mechanical frame and configured to make a positive contact with the SFP connector when the SFP connector is inserted into the mechanical frame.
US10128620B1	High speed vertical connector A conductive module of a high speed vertical connector includes an insulating core and a plurality of conductive terminals fixed on the insulating core. Each conductive terminal includes an embedded segment embedded in the insulating core, a fixing segment and a curved segment respectively extending from two opposite ends of the embedded segment, and a contacting segment extending from the curved segment. The embedded segment has a width within a range of 0.28˜0.42 mm. The fixing segment has a width within a range of 0.25˜0.28 mm. The curved segment has a width within a range of 0.35˜0.42 mm. The contacting segment has a width within a range of 0.25˜0.28 mm. The conductive terminals include a plurality pairs of differential signal terminals and a plurality of grounding terminals each arranged between two adjacent pairs of the differential signal terminals. Any two grounding terminals are not connected to any conductive bar.
US10128614B2	Movable connector A movable connector with which an insertion force of a connection object that places a load on a solder portion can be reduced, that has a floating function, and that can be reduced in size is provided. As a result of a pushing operation in which an operation housing is pushed into a fixed housing, a relay terminal is conductively connected to a substrate connection terminal, which is in conductive contact with a substrate, and a pin terminal, which is disposed in a movable housing and serves as the connection object, in the movable housing. Accordingly, the overall size of the movable connector can be reduced. In addition, the insertion force applied to the pin terminal is not applied to the solder portion by which the movable connector is fixed to the substrate, so that conduction failure does not occur.
US10128610B1	Electronic device having a tilt restraining member An electronic device includes a housing, a socket which is placed in the housing and includes a first protruding member having a first terminal connectable to a first connector and a second connector, a second protruding member having a second terminal connectable to the second connector, and one recess which is formed around the first protruding member and the second protruding member and between the first protruding member and the second protruding member, and a tilt restraining member configured to restrain the first connector fitted with the first protruding member from tilting toward the second protruding member.
US10128607B2	Sealed connector system A receptacle connector includes an outer housing, an inner housing, and an interface seal. The outer housing defines a cavity configured to receive a plug connector through a mating opening of the outer housing. The inner housing is disposed within the cavity of the outer housing. The inner housing holds a contact subassembly that is connected to a cable. The inner housing includes a sleeve that surrounds a mating section of the contact subassembly. The sleeve is spaced apart from an interior surface of the outer housing by an annular gap. The interface seal is on an outer surface of the sleeve. The interface seal engages an inner surface of a nose of the plug connector within the annular gap to seal an interface between the sleeve of the inner housing and the nose of the plug connector.
US10128601B1	Fluid pressure activated electrical contact devices and methods A contactor device includes: a first body substrate; a second body substrate; a flexible membrane connected to the first body substrate and second body substrate, wherein the second substrate body is movable relative to the first substrate body by flexure of the flexible membrane; an electrical contact member carried by the second substrate body; a microfluidic-channeled substrate coupled to the first body substrate, the microfluidic-channeled substrate having a chamber and a microfluidic channel in fluid communication with the chamber; and a 3-dimensional flexible membrane enclosing the chamber, wherein the 3-dimensional flexible membrane flexes toward the second body substrate when a fluid pressure is applied to the chamber through the microfluidic channel whereby a force or a movement is transferred to the second body substrate by the 3-dimensional flexible membrane.
US10128598B2	Connector and connector assembly A connector is provided which includes a stage having an arrangement surface for arranging the end portion of the flat cable, and an opposing portion formed so as to face the arrangement surface. An engaging protruding portion is formed in the arrangement surface for engaging the flat cable. The end portion of the flat cable is insertable from the front side to the rear side of the connector between the arrangement surface and the opposing portion. The opposing portion has an extending portion positioned in front of the engaging protruding portion, and an overhanging portion extending to the rear of a first section.
US10128596B2	Electrical receptacle connector An electrical receptacle connector includes a metallic shell and a terminal module in the metallic shell. One or more first leg extends outwardly from two sides of the metallic shell. A first slot is formed on the first leg. When the electrical receptacle connector is soldered to a circuit board, the first slot increases the space for receiving the solders to prevent solder wicking.
US10128595B2	Vehicle camera with connector system for high speed transmission A camera for a vision system of a vehicle includes a front housing portion, a circuit board and a rear housing portion. The front housing portion includes a lens and the rear housing portion includes first and second connectors for electrically connecting to a vehicle wire harness when the camera is disposed at a vehicle. The circuit board includes circuitry established thereat, with the circuitry being associated with an imager of the camera. The first connector includes a multi-pin connector portion having at least one terminal for electrically connecting to at least one first circuit element at the circuit board. The second connector includes a coaxial cable connector portion that receives a connecting end of a coaxial cable for electrical connection to at least one second circuit element at the circuit board. The first and second connectors are at least in part molded at the rear housing portion.
US10128589B2	Electrical connector for flat conductor A terminal, wherein the lower and upper arms have a plurality of integral lower flexible arms and integral upper flexible arms respectively, which include at least a first lower and upper flexible arm and a second lower and upper flexible arm that are elastically displaceable independently of each other, the lower striking portions each have a first and second lower striking portion formed on a first and second lower flexible arm respectively, the second lower striking portion at a position that is offset in the longitudinal direction with respect to the first lower striking portion, and the upper striking portions each have a first and second upper striking portion formed on a first and second upper flexible arm respectively, the second upper striking portion at a position that is offset in the longitudinal direction with respect to the first upper striking portion.
US10128588B2	Cable connecting structure A cable connecting structure includes a cable that includes a conductive film formed on a surface of a core line exposed at a distal end surface, and a substrate that includes an electrode formed on a predetermined connection side surface for connecting the cable. The distal end surface of the cable and the connection side surface of the substrate are arranged so as to face each other. The conductive film formed on the surface of the core line and the electrode are connected by a conductive material.
US10128585B1	Audio jack connector An audio jack connector includes an insulating housing, a plurality of conductive terminals fastened to the insulating housing, and a switch terminal assembly mounted to the insulating housing. The switch terminal assembly includes a first switch terminal having an elastic arm, and a second switch terminal. A tail end of the elastic arm is connected with a first touch portion. A connecting portion connected between the tail end of the elastic arm and the first touch portion is fastened with an insulating block. The second switch terminal has a second touch portion. An audio plug connector is inserted into the audio jack connector. After contact portions of the plurality of the conductive terminals contact corresponding docking positions of the audio plug connector, the audio plug connector pushes against the insulating block to move downward to make the first touch portion abut against the second touch portion.
US10128583B2	Electrical contact limiter structure of wire connection terminal An electrical contact limiter structure of wire connection terminal has a simplified structure and is easy to operate to enhance the stability of the operation and motion of a metal leaf spring. The wire connection terminal includes conductive components mounted in the insulation case and electrical contact assembled with the conductive components. The electrical contact has a limiter for receiving the metal leaf spring and restricting moving path thereof. The limiter is partitioned into at least one space. A limitation mechanism is assembled with the limiter. The metal leaf spring is mounted in the space. The wiring circuits or conductive wires coming from an apparatus can be easily directly plugged into the space of the limiter to insert with the metal leaf spring. The limiter and the limitation mechanism cooperatively prevent the metal leaf spring from being deflected and over-bent and damaged in operation.
US10128579B2	Dipole antenna element with open-end traces A first-band radiating element configured to operate in a first frequency band may be designed for reducing distortion associated with one or more second-band radiating element configured to operate in a second frequency band. The first-band radiating element may include a first printed circuit board. The first printed circuit board may include a first surface including a first feed line connected to a feed network of a feed board of an antenna. The radiating element may also include a second surface opposite the first surface. The second surface may include one or more first conductive planes connected to a ground plane of the feed board; and one or more first open-end traces coupled to the one or more conductive planes.
US10128578B2	Satellite system beam to beam handover A satellite communications system provides for handovers between spot beams, including communicating (at a ground based terminal) with a non-geostationary satellite constellation using a first spot beam of the non-geostationary satellite constellation and a first beam hopping plan. The ground based terminal changes the communicating with the non-geostationary satellite constellation to use a second spot beam of the non-geostationary satellite constellation and a second beam hopping plan.
US10128577B2	Satellite system with different frequency plan at the equator A non-geostationary satellite is configured to provide a plurality of spot beams that implement a first frequency plan at Earth's Equator and a second frequency plan away from Earth's Equator. The second frequency plan is different than the first frequency plan. In one embodiment, the non-geostationary satellite is part of a constellation of non-geostationary satellites, with each of the satellites providing spot beams that implement a first frequency plan at Earth's Equator and implement a second frequency plan away from Earth's Equator as the satellites travel in orbit around Earth.
US10128576B2	Randomized surface reflector A metal plate of small, reflective cells of varying, random (within a limited rage) heights that reflect radio frequency energy such that individual reflective paths are of random length, adding neither constructively nor destructively, and thus not creating a standing wave condition between the reflective plate and the emitter or receiver is disclosed.
US10128568B1	Elliptical conical antenna apparatus and methods An elliptical portion having planform cross-section involving a generally circular configuration and an elevational cross-section having at least a partial elliptical configuration; a conical portion having at least one of a conical configuration and a frustoconical configuration, the conical portion coupled with the elliptical portion; and a modifier feed, the modifier feed having a first feed element and a second feed element, whereby the antenna apparatus is configured to perform as a monopole antenna at a low frequency and as a hybrid monopole-biconical antenna at a high frequency.
US10128565B2	Antenna and electronic apparatus An antenna includes a first radiation element, a ground plate having a grounding point to which the first radiation element is grounded, and a second radiation element grounded to the ground plate and in a position where the grounding point is electrically shared with the first radiation element, and the second radiation element is disposed along the direction of current produced by the first radiation element and flowing in the ground plate.
US10128560B2	Hybrid antenna and integrated proximity sensor using a shared conductive structure A hybrid antenna and integrated proximity sensor is described wherein a commonly shared conductive structure is used for both antenna functions as well as a proximity sensor functions.
US10128559B2	High efficiency mounting assembly for satellite dish reflector A reflector dish assembly including a support structure, a reflector dish, and a reflector bracket configured for mounting the reflector dish. A support arm supports an electronic device and an elbow bracket is configured for coupling with an end of the support arm. A seat section of the elbow bracket is configured for engaging with the reflector bracket for securing the support arm in relation to the reflector dish. The reflector bracket includes a seat to receive the elbow bracket seat section, with the seat having bosses and support tabs spaced linearly from the bosses. The elbow bracket seat section includes guide slots configured for sliding over the bosses when the seat receives the seat section. The elbow bracket seat section includes support slots for receiving the support tabs of the reflector bracket seat and securing the guide slots with the bosses.
US10128553B2	Transmission medium having multiple cores and methods for use therewith Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a transmission medium for propagating electromagnetic waves. The transmission medium can include a plurality of cores for selectively guiding an electromagnetic wave of a plurality of electromagnetic waves longitudinally along each core, and a shell surrounding at least a portion of each core for reducing exposure of the electromagnetic wave of each core. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10128550B2	Battery pack containing phase change material A battery pack for a vehicle is presented. The battery pack comprises a plurality of bricks, each brick of the plurality of bricks comprising a phase change material block, a side of the phase change material block defining a plurality of channels, and a plurality of battery cells, each battery cell being disposed at least in part in the phase change material block; and at least one connector for electrically connecting a first one of the plurality of bricks to a second one of the plurality of bricks, the at least one connector being disposed at least partially in one of the plurality of channels.
US10128546B2	Battery communication system for battery packs A battery pack according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a battery monitoring integrated circuit (BMIC) associated with a grouping of battery cells, a calibration microcontroller configured to store battery data associated with the grouping of battery cells, a main microcontroller; and a data transmission node establishing a shared path for communicating both a status signal from the BMIC and the battery data from the calibration microcontroller.
US10128542B2	Nickel-zinc battery Provided is a highly reliable nickel-zinc battery including a separator exhibiting hydroxide ion conductivity and water impermeability. The nickel-zinc battery includes a positive electrode containing nickel oxide and/or nickel oxyhydroxide; a positive-electrode electrolytic solution in which the positive electrode is immersed, the electrolytic solution containing an alkali metal hydroxide; a negative electrode containing zinc and/or zinc oxide; a negative-electrode electrolytic solution in which the negative electrode is immersed, the electrolytic solution containing an alkali metal hydroxide; a hermetic container accommodating the positive electrode, the positive-electrode electrolytic solution, the negative electrode, and the negative-electrode electrolytic solution; the separator exhibiting hydroxide ion conductivity and water impermeability and disposed in the hermetic container to separate a positive-electrode chamber accommodating the positive electrode and the electrolytic solution from a negative-electrode chamber accommodating the negative electrode and the electrolytic solution; and a porous substrate on a surface of the separator facing toward the positive electrode.
US10128534B2	Microsphere composite electrolyte A polymer electrolyte material that has both structural and conductive phases and is easy and inexpensive to manufacture is provided. The material has rigid spheres in a close-packed arrangement. Some or essentially all of the spheres are connected to their nearest neighbors through a fusion process. A solution of conductive electrolyte fills the interstices. Such an electrolyte offers excellent resistance to growth of lithium dendrites in secondary lithium battery cells.
US10128521B2	Heat treatment device of membrane-electrode assembly (MEA) for fuel cell A heat treatment device of a membrane-electrode assembly for a fuel cell for heat-treating a membrane-electrode assembly sheet includes an electrolyte membrane and electrode catalyst layers continuously adhered onto both surfaces of the electrolyte membrane, the heat treatment device of a membrane-electrode assembly for a fuel cell including: i) a feeding roller feeding the membrane-electrode assembly sheet along a predetermined transport path; and ii) hot presses disposed on upper and lower sides of the transport path, respectively, installed to be reciprocally movable in a vertical direction, and pressing portions of the electrode catalyst layers of upper and lower surfaces of the membrane-electrode assembly sheet at a predetermined temperature.
US10128518B2	Hydrogen production system and methods of producing the same Hydrogen production systems and methods of producing the same are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, a hydrogen production system comprises a reformer reactor that comprises a reformer reactor wall. A plurality of reformer tubes are interconnected to define a reformer lattice that has a reformer inner flow path and a reformer outer flow path. The plurality of reformer tubes are within the reformer reactor and connected to the reformer reactor wall at a plurality of discrete locations. The reformer lattice defines a combustor side that is one of the reformer inner or outer flow paths, and a reformer side that is the other of the reformer inner or outer flow paths. A reformer catalyst is positioned within the reformer side.
US10128515B2	Fuel cell module A fuel cell module includes a fuel cell unit and a casing. The casing has hollow surface members including a front surface member, a rear surface member, a right surface member, a left surface member, and a lower surface member. A single continuous air channel is formed by connecting spaces inside of these surface members. The air channel has a fluid inlet on the front surface member for allowing the air to flow initially in the front surface member. A first flange and a second flange are provided on the front surface member.
US10128514B2	Fuel cell metal separator structure, fuel cell using the separator structure and fuel cell stack A fuel cell metal separator structure includes a first separator in contact with a first membrane electrode assembly and a second separator in contact with a second membrane electrode assembly.In the stacking direction of the first separator and the second separator and the membrane electrode assemblies,in an reaction area formed between the two membrane electrode assemblies, an electrically conductive member is put between the first separator and the second separator, and in the sealing portion on a periphery of the membrane electrode assembly, the first separator and second separator are in direct contact with each other so that a space for sealing is expanded due to the increased depth of the sealing grooves.
US10128513B2	Porous metal body and method for producing porous metal body An object of the present invention is to provide, at a low cost, a porous metal body that can be used in an electrode of a fuel cell and that has better corrosion resistance. The porous metal body has a three-dimensional mesh-like structure and contains nickel (Ni), tin (Sn), and chromium (Cr). A content ratio of the tin is 10% by mass or more and 25% by mass or less, and a content ratio of the chromium is 1% by mass or more and 10% by mass or less. On a cross section of a skeleton of the porous metal body, the porous metal body contains a solid solution phase of chromium, nickel, and tin. The solid solution phase contains a solid solution phase of chromium and trinickel tin (Ni3Sn), the solid solution phase having a chromium content ratio of 2% by mass or less, and does not contain a solid solution phase that is other than a solid solution phase of chromium and trinickel tin (Ni3Sn) and that has a chromium content ratio of less than 1.5% by mass.
US10128511B2	Cathode for metal-air battery, method of manufacturing the same, and metal-air battery comprising the same The present invention relates to a cathode for a metal-air battery, a method for manufacturing the same, and a metal-air battery including the same. The cathode comprises a needle-shaped core including two or more species of metals selected from the group consisting of nickel, cobalt, manganese, zinc, iron, copper, and chrome, or a cobalt oxide; and a flake-shaped shell including an oxide containing two or more species of metals selected from the group consisting of nickel, cobalt, manganese, zinc, iron, copper, and chrome or a cobalt oxide. As such, the core-shell structure may lead to a reduction in the charge voltage of the metal-air battery as well as the taking of the good capacity characteristics of the transition metal oxide. Further, according to the present invention, the cathode for a metal-air battery may be produced without adding carbon or binder.
US10128505B2	Carbon material, electrode material using same and method of manufacturing same A method of manufacturing a carbon material comprising a composite of a porous carbon material and a conductive polymer, in which a dispersion solution of the porous carbon material and a dispersion solution of the conductive polymer are mixed to make the composite of the porous carbon material and the conductive polymer. The carbon material has: a specific surface area of 750 to 3000 m2/g, a methylene blue adsorption performance of 150 mL/g or more, and at least three peaks in a range 1250 to 1700 cm−1 of a spectrum obtained by laser Raman spectroscopy with an excitation wavelength of 532 nm.
US10128496B2	Three-dimensional, porous anode for use in lithium-ion batteries and method of fabrication thereof A three-dimensional, porous anode material suitable for use in a lithium-ion cell. The three-dimensional, porous anode material includes active anode particles embedded within a carbon matrix. The porous structure of this novel anode material allows for the expansion and contraction of the anode without the anode delaminating or breaking apart, thus improving the life-cycle of the lithium-ion cell. An example of this three-dimensional porous anode material is a porous silicon-carbon composite formed using a bi-continuous micro-emulsion (BME) template.
US10128495B2	Positive electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery that uses the positive electrode A positive electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery that does not undergo a decrease in discharge capacity in low-temperature discharge during charge and discharge after the battery is left standing at high temperature in a charged state, for example. The positive electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode active material. The positive electrode active material includes a mixture of lithium nickel cobalt manganate and lithium cobaltate having a compound adhered to part of a surface thereof, the compound containing fluorine and at least one selected from zirconium, magnesium, titanium, aluminum, and a rare earth element; and a ratio of the lithium nickel cobalt manganate relative to a total amount of the positive electrode active material is 1% by mass or more and less than 70% by mass.
US10128494B2	High-density precursor for manufacture of composite metal oxide cathodes for Li-ion batteries The disclosed embodiments relate to the manufacture of a precursor co-precipitate material for a cathode active material composition. During manufacture of the precursor co-precipitate material, an aqueous solution containing at least one of a manganese sulfate and a cobalt sulfate is formed. Next, a NH4OH solution is added to the aqueous solution to form a particulate solution comprising irregular secondary particles of the precursor co-precipitate material. A constant pH in the range of 10-12 is also maintained in the particulate solution by adding a basic solution to the particulate solution.
US10128491B2	Method for alkaliating electrodes The present invention relates to a method for lithiation of an intercalation-based anode or a non-reactive plating-capable foil or a reactive alloy capable anode, whereby utilization of said lithiated intercalation-based anode or a plating-capable foil or reactive alloy capable anode in a rechargeable battery or electrochemical cell results in an increased amount of lithium available for cycling, and an improved reversible capacity during charge and discharge.
US10128490B2	Anode layer, lithium secondary battery including anode layer, and method of manufacturing anode layer Example embodiments relate to an anode layer of a lithium secondary battery. The anode layer includes a three-dimensional carbon structure and a plurality of silicon particles. The three-dimensional carbon structure includes a plurality of cavities without a binder, and the plurality of silicon particles are disposed in the plurality of cavities.
US10128486B2	Current interrupt devices, methods thereof, and battery assemblies manufactured therewith A current interrupt device, method thereof, and battery assembly suitable for reducing the likelihood of an overcharge of the battery. The battery assembly includes a busbar electrically connecting an anode of a first battery cell and a cathode of a second battery cell of the battery assembly. The busbar is configured to interrupt the flow of electrical current between the anode and cathode in response to a mechanical impact load, for example an automobile crash.
US10128485B2	Sealed secondary battery There is provided a sealed secondary battery whose current-blocking system yields little change in the actuation pressure even on long-term use. The sealed secondary battery comprises a current-blocking system 80 that is actuated by a pressure rise inside a battery case 12 to disconnect conduction path between an electrode and an electrode terminal. Current-blocking system 80 comprises a pressure-sensitive member having a pressure-sensitive deformable portion 32 that deforms from a first state via snap-through deformation to a second state upon a pressure rise inside battery case 12, and is configured to disconnect the conduction path by snap-through deformation of pressure-sensitive deformable portion 30.
US10128484B2	Rechargeable battery A rechargeable battery including: an electrode assembly including a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate, and a separator between the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate; a case accommodating the electrode assembly; a first electrode terminal and a second electrode terminal electrically connected to the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate, respectively, and protruding to the outside of the case; and a first terminal plate and a second terminal plate positioned outside the case and coupled to the first electrode terminal and the second electrode terminal, respectively, and a terminal plate of the first terminal plate and the second terminal plate includes a first fuse.
US10128482B2	Separator for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and manufacturing method thereof A separator includes a substrate layer made of a resin and a heat resistance layer. The heat resistance layer contains heat-resistant fine particles and a binder. An amount of the binder contained per unit volume in the heat resistance layer positioned at an end portion in a width direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the separator is higher than the amount of the binder contained per unit volume in the heat resistance layer (84) positioned at a center portion which includes the center in the width direction of the separator. In the heat resistance layer at the end portion, the amount of the binder contained per unit volume in a substrate layer side region is higher than the amount of the binder contained per unit volume in a surface region which includes a surface of the heat resistance layer.
US10128476B2	Sealed battery A sealed battery with a battery element housed in a sealed casing. The sealed battery includes a valve brought into a closed state when a pressure of a gas in the casing is less than a first pressure P1, into an open state when the pressure is more than or equal to the first pressure P1 and less than a second pressure P2, and into the closed state when the pressure is more than or equal to the second pressure P2, and a safety mechanism configured to, when the internal pressure reaches a third pressure P3 exceeding the second pressure P2, operate in accordance with the third pressure P3.
US10128475B2	Integrated battery and vibration and/or shock isolation assembly An integrated battery and shock and/or vibration isolation assembly broadly comprising a battery and an isolation assembly. The isolation assembly broadly comprises a battery support tray and a number of shock absorbing elements. The shock absorbing elements are positioned between the battery and battery support tray and each include a shock absorbing portion configured to mechanically isolate the battery from vibrations and/or shocks transferred from a vehicle, other machine, or operating environment.
US10128473B2	Battery structure having an absorbent lining impregnated with a base for containment and neutralization of acid A battery system of a vehicle includes a battery, a battery tray configured to support the battery, and a battery pouch. The pouch has a plurality of side walls and a bottom defining a space sized to accommodate the battery. The side walls each include an absorbent layer containing a base, such as sodium bicarbonate, and an outer layer impervious to the electrolyte and the base. One of the side walls is a front side wall that includes a wedge that is configured to mate with a front of the battery and the tray. The wedge cooperates with a bottom lip of the battery to secure the battery to the tray.
US10128471B2	Battery-packaging material To provide a technique for a battery-packaging material made of a film-form laminate in which at least a base material layer, an adhesive layer, a metal layer, and a sealant layer are laminated successively, wherein: electrolytic solution resistance is further improved by including a polyester film in the base material layer; cracks and pinholes are less likely to be created at the time of forming the polyester-film-including base material layer; and formability is improved. This battery-packaging material is made of a laminate in which at least a base material layer, an adhesive layer, a metal layer, and a sealant layer are laminated successively, wherein: the base material layer includes a polyester film; and the metal layer is an aluminum foil in which the 0.2% proof stress at the time of performing a tensile test in a direction parallel to the rolling direction is from 55 to 140 N/mm2.
US10128470B2	Rechargeable battery A rechargeable battery includes: an electrode assembly formed by repeatedly stacking first and second electrodes while interposing a separator therebetween, the first and second electrodes each having an uncoated region and a coated region; and a case having a flexible property and accommodating the electrode assembly. The electrode assembly includes a fixing portion where the separator is attached and fixed to the uncoated regions of the first and second electrodes.
US10128469B2	Square-shaped sealed secondary battery and method of manufacturing same In a prismatic sealed secondary battery provided with an outer can made of a metal, the ability of inserting the electrode assembly into the outer can is improved to restrain the displacement and damages of the insulation member when inserting the electrode assembly into the outer can. The prismatic sealed secondary battery of the present invention includes an insulation member having a bottomed box shape which is a shape obtained by eliminating the upper surface from the surfaces of a hexahedron having a cuboid form, wherein each width of at least a pair of side surfaces facing each other in the insulation member is smaller than the width of the electrode assembly facing the pair of side surfaces.
US10128468B2	Nozzle assembly and nozzle array for OVJP Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide a nozzle assembly and method of making the same, the nozzle assembly including a first aperture formed on a first aperture plate to eject a carrier gas flow having organic vapor onto a substrate in a deposition chamber, second apertures formed on a second aperture plate disposed adjacent to the first aperture to form a vacuum aperture, where the first aperture plate and the second aperture plate are separated by a first separator plate, third apertures formed on a third aperture plate to eject purge gas that are disposed adjacent to the second aperture plate, where the second aperture plate and the third aperture plate are separated by second separator plate, and a third separator plate is disposed adjacent to the one or more third aperture plates to form a gas channel in the one or more third aperture plates.
US10128458B2	Rollable display device configured to have many variations in shape and form A rollable display device includes a display panel having a flexible property, a roller configured to receive the display panel in a rolled-up configuration, and a handle coupled to an end portion of the display panel. The rollable display device further includes a housing configured to house the roller and the display panel in the rolled-up configuration. The housing includes an outlet, which the display panel passes through in an unrolled configuration, and a first coupling hole disposed apart from the outlet and is configured to receive the handle.
US10128453B2	Method for manufacturing a graphene thin-film transistor The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a graphene thin-film transistor, which includes: depositing a graphene layer on a surface of a copper foil; depositing a metal layer on a surface of the graphene layer; attaching a support layer to a surface of the metal layer to form a graphene film; placing the graphene film in a copper etching solution until the copper foil is dissolved completely, then transferring the graphene film to a target substrate, and removing the support layer; defining patterns of a source and a drain on the surface of the metal layer, manufacturing a source electrode and a drain electrode, and manufacturing a gate electrode on a target substrate.
US10128452B2	Hybrid junction field-effect transistor and active matrix structure Junction field-effect transistors including inorganic channels and organic gate junctions are used in some applications for forming high resolution active matrix displays. Arrays of such junction field-effect transistors are electrically connected to thin film switching transistors and provide high drive currents for passive devices such as organic light emitting diodes.
US10128451B2	Flexible display substrate, flexible display panel, and flexible display apparatus, and fabrication methods thereof Flexible display substrate, flexible display panel, and display apparatus, and their fabrication methods are provided. In an exemplary flexible display substrate, a motherboard is formed on a rigid substrate that is magnetisable. The motherboard includes a magnetic first flexible substrate and a plurality of flexible display panels on the magnetic first flexible substrate. When the rigid substrate is magnetized, the motherboard is cut to separate the plurality of flexible display panels from each other, followed by demagnetizing the rigid substrate.
US10128449B2	Metal complex and light emitting device using the same A metal complex represented by the following formula (1) is provided. In formula (1), M represents an iridium atom or a platinum atom; n1 represents 1, 2 or 3. n2 represents 0, 1 or 2; E1 to E4 represent a nitrogen atom or a carbon atom; R1 to R10 represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkoxy group, a cycloalkoxy group, an aryl group, an aryloxy group, a monovalent heterocyclic group or a halogen atom; Xa and Xb represent a direct bond, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, —C(═O)—, —CRXa2— or —NRXa—; A1-G1-A2 represents an anionic bidentate ligand; and G1 represents an atomic group constituting a bidentate ligand together with A1 and A2.
US10128447B2	Luminescent palladium(0) and platinum(0) carbene complexes for OLEDs A light-emitting device includes an organometallic complex of the form Z-M-Z1, as light emitting material. M is Pd(0) or Pt(0) and Z is a nitrogen containing heterocyclic carbene ligand. Z1 is a phosphorus ligand or a nitrogen containing heterocyclic carbene ligand that may be the same as or different from Z. The light emitting device may be an organic light-emitting diode (OLED), a sensor, or a light-emitting electrochemical cell (LEEC).
US10128444B2	Thin-film planarization method, planarized thin-film formation method, and thin-film formation varnish Provided are a thin-film planarization method, a planarized thin-film formation method, and a thin-film formation varnish to be used in these methods, in which when forming a thin film using a thin-film formation varnish which includes an organic compound and an organic solvent, the varnish flow activation energy is set to no more than 28 kJ/mol.
US10128441B2	Field-effect transistors based on macroscopically oriented polymers Embodiments of the invention include methods and materials for preparing organic semiconducting layers, for example one used in an organic semiconductor device including a substrate with a nanostructured surface and an organic semiconductor film overlying the nanostructured surface. The semiconductor film is typically formed from macroscopically ordered polymer fibers made from selected conjugate polymer compounds. Such polymer fibers synthesized from selected conjugated polymer compounds and directionally aligned in organic semiconductor devices can provide these devices improved functional properties, including for example, unexpectedly high field effect saturation mobilities.
US10128440B2	Deposition mask assembly and method of manufacturing display device using the same A deposition mask assembly includes a frame including a first opening portion and a second opening portion spaced apart from each other in a first direction, a first split mask group including a plurality of first split masks arranged on the first opening portion in a second direction crossing the first direction, and a second split mask group including a plurality of second split masks arranged on the second opening portion in the second direction, wherein a boundary between adjacent first split masks in the second direction and a boundary between adjacent second split masks in the second direction are at different positions.
US10128439B1	Reprogrammable phononic metasurfaces A phononic transistor can be realized by arranging a row of cantilevered structures with attached magnets, elastically extending upward upon application of a magnetic repulsive force to the magnets. In the extended configuration, the phonons are transmitted from source to drain, while in the flattened configuration the phonons are blocked from transmission. A gate element controls the ON and OFF states of the phononic transistor.
US10128438B2	CEM switching device Subject matter herein disclosed relates to a method for the manufacture of a CEM switching device providing that the CEM layer comprises a doped metal compound substantially free from metal wherein ions of the same metal element are present in different oxidation states. The method may provide a CEM layer which is born on and capable of switching with operating voltages below 2.0V.
US10128435B2	Memory element and memory device There is disclosed an information storage element including a first layer including a ferromagnetic layer with a magnetization direction perpendicular to a film face; an insulation layer coupled to the first layer; and a second layer coupled to the insulation layer opposite the first layer, the second layer including a fixed magnetization so as to be capable of serving as a reference of the first layer. The first layer is capable of storing information according to a magnetization state of a magnetic material, and the magnetization state is configured to be changed by a spin injection. A magnitude of an effective diamagnetic field which the first layer receives is smaller than a saturated magnetization amount of the first layer.
US10128433B2	Magnetic memory device Provided is a magnetic memory device. The magnetic memory device includes a first magnetization layer, a tunnel barrier disposed on the first magnetization layer, a second magnetization layer disposed on the tunnel barrier, and a spin current assisting layer disposed on at least a portion of a sidewall of the second magnetization layer.
US10128432B2	Nonvolatile magnetic memory device A nonvolatile magnetic memory device having a magnetoresistance-effect element includes: (A) a laminated structure having a recording layer in which an axis of easy magnetization is oriented in a perpendicular direction; (B) a first wiring line electrically connected to a lower part of the laminated structure; and (C) a second wiring line electrically connected to an upper part of the laminated structure, wherein a high Young's modulus region having a Young's modulus of a higher value than that of a Young's modulus of a material forming the recording layer is provided close to a side surface of the laminated structure.
US10128427B2	Thermoelectric generator An apparatus for generating electricity. The apparatus comprises a collar arranged to couple to a pipe and a support having a first planar face, the support being attached to the collar such that it projects away from the collar. The apparatus also has at least one thermoelectric generator attached to the first planar face of the support and a cover attached to the at least one thermoelectric generator.
US10128423B2	Light emitting device and lighting apparatus having the same Disclosed are a light emitting device and a lighting apparatus having the same. The light emitting device includes a plurality of lead frames, a first body having non-transmissive resin material on top surfaces of the lead frames, a second body having transmittance resin material on a top surface of the first body, a light emitting chip on at least one of the lead frames exposed in the first opening of the second body, and a first transmissive layer disposed in the first opening of the second body. The first body and the second body is disposed around the light emitting chip.
US10128421B2	Light emitting device A light emitting device of side-view type includes a substrate, a light emitting element, an insulating member and a light reflecting or sealing member. The substrate includes a pair of connection terminals at least on a first main surface. The light emitting element is disposed on a first main surface side of the substrate and connected to the connection terminals. The insulating member is disposed to cover at least a portion of the connection terminals. The light reflecting or sealing member covers the light emitting element. The connection terminals each includes an element connection portion and an outer connection portion disposed on the first main surface of the substrate. The outer connection portion is configured to connect with an external unit. The insulating member is placed in contact with the light reflecting or sealing member, and disposed between the element connection portion and the outer connection portion.
US10128414B2	Chip substrate provided with joining grooves in lens insert A chip substrate includes: a plurality of conductive layers horizontally stacked and constituting the chip substrate; a plurality of insulation layers alternately with the conductive layers and electrically separating the conductive layers; a lens insert comprising a groove having a predetermined number of edges on the upper surface of the chip substrate and having a cross-section wherein an arc is formed at the region where the extended edges meet; a cavity comprising a groove reaching down to a predetermined depth towards the area accommodating the insulation layer within the internal region of the lens insert; and a plurality of joining grooves formed on the surface of the lens insert. Thus, the lens to be inserted also can be formed to be a shape comprising straight lines so that the manufacturing process of the lens to be inserted into the chip substrate can be further simplified.
US10128413B2	Light emitting diode A light emitting diode with a stacked structure, having a first region and a second region, wherein both regions comprise the following layers in the stated order, a carrier layer and an n-doped lower cladding layer and an electromagnetic radiation-generating active layer. The active layer comprises a quantum well structure and a p-doped upper cladding layer, and the first region additionally comprises a tunnel diode formed on the upper cladding layer from a p+-layer and an n+-layer, and an n-doped current distribution layer, wherein the current distribution layer and the n-doped contact layer are covered with a conductor track layer structure. At least the lower cladding layer, the active layer, the upper cladding layer, the tunnel diode and the current distribution layer are monolithic. The second region has a contact hole with a bottom region, an injection barrier being formed in the bottom region of the contact hole.
US10128411B2	Light-emitting element A light-emitting element includes an n-type semiconductor layer mainly including AlxGa1−XN (0.5≤x≤1), a p-type semiconductor layer, a light-emitting layer sandwiched between the n-type semiconductor layer and the p-type semiconductor layer, an n-electrode connected to the n-type semiconductor layer, and a plurality of p-electrodes that are connected to the p-type semiconductor layer and are arranged in a dot pattern. An area of the n-electrode is not less than 25% and not more than 50% of a chip area.
US10128410B2	Multi-color light emitting devices with compositionally graded cladding group III-nitride layers grown on substrates A light emitting device includes a substrate, multiple n-type layers, and multiple p-type layers. The n-type layers and the p-type layers each include a group III nitride alloy. At least one of the n-type layers is a compositionally graded n-type group III nitride, and at least one of the p-type layers is a compositionally graded p-type group III nitride. A first ohmic contact for injecting current is formed on the substrate, and a second ohmic contact is formed on a surface of at least one of the p-type layers. Utilizing the disclosed structure and methods, a device capable of emitting light over a wide spectrum may be made without the use of phosphor materials.
US10128407B2	Ultra-wideband light emitting diode and optical detector comprising aluminum gallium antimonide and method of fabricating the same Devices, systems, and methods for providing wireless personal area networks (PANs) and local area networks (LANs) using visible and near-visible optical spectrum. Various constructions and material selections are provided herein. According to one embodiment, a light-emitting diode (LED) includes a substrate, a carrier confinement (CC) region positioned over the substrate, an active region positioned over the CC region, and an electron blocking layer (EBL) positioned over the active region. The CC region includes a first CC layer comprising aluminum gallium antimonide and a second CC layer position over the first CC layer. The second CC layer and the electron blocking layer (EBL) also each include aluminum gallium antimonide. The active region is configured to have a transient response time of less than 500 picoseconds (ps).
US10128402B2	Method of manufacturing display device To provide a method of manufacturing a display device having an excellent impact resistance property with high yield, in particular, a method of manufacturing a display device having an optical film that is formed using a plastic substrate. The method of manufacturing a display device includes the steps of: laminating a metal film, an oxide film, and an optical filter on a first substrate; separating the optical filter from the first substrate; attaching the optical filter to a second substrate; forming a layer including a pixel on a third substrate; and attaching the layer including the pixel to the optical filter.
US10128401B2	Optical sensor An optical sensor includes a substrate, light emitting units for emitting light with different wavelengths, and a photodetector. The substrate has at least one receiver for containing these light emitting units and a slot for containing the photodetector. A light guide structure of the optical sensor can be the receiver with a specific design, so that the light emitted by the light emitting units can be reflected towards a central axis of the photodetector. Thus, when at least one of the light emitting units emits light onto an object, the photodetector can receive the light reflected from the object.
US10128400B1	Optocoupler for the control of high voltage The present invention relates to an optocoupler including a light source having a body and electrical leads, a light detector having a diode stack a metal end cap and electrical leads, and an optical cavity including optically transparent material at least partially covering the body of the light source and the diode stack of the light detector. Also included is a reflective layer including optically reflective material surrounding the optical cavity. The electrical leads of the light source, the metal end cap and the electrical leads of the light detector protrude from the optical cavity and the reflective layer.
US10128393B2	Connection assembly protection A photovoltaic module may include an electrical connection assembly with increased corrosion protection. The module may be protected from corrosion by using a high number of photovoltaic cells, by providing protective materials over module components subject to corrosion, and/or by adjusting the size ratio of the positive components to the negative components within the module.
US10128391B2	Photovoltaic module with flexible wire interconnection A solar panel includes a first photovoltaic cell, a second photovoltaic cell, and a flexible electrical connection structure which comprises an electrically conductive connector that electrically connects the first photovoltaic cell and the second photovoltaic cell in series along a connection direction. The electrically conductive connector does not extend from a first major surface of a flexible transparent insulating sheet through a thickness of the flexible transparent insulating sheet to a second major surface of the flexible transparent insulating sheet.
US10128386B2	Semiconductor structure comprising an absorbing area placed in a focusing cavity A semiconducting structure configured to receive electromagnetic radiation, a method for manufacturing such a structure, and a semiconductor component, the semiconductor structure including: a first semiconducting area of a first type of conductivity, a second semiconducting area of a second type of conductivity opposite to the first type of conductivity, the second area being in contact with the first area to form a semiconducting junction. The second area includes a portion for which a concentration of majority carriers is at least ten times less than a concentration of majority carriers of the first area. The second area and its portion are essentially made in a first cavity configured to focus in the first cavity at least one portion of the electromagnetic radiation.
US10128383B2	Thin film transistor array substrate and manufacturing method of the same A thin film transistor array substrate includes a first conductive pattern group including a gate line extending along a first direction, data lines extending along a second direction crossing the first direction and spaced apart from each other along the second direction with the gate line there between, and a gate electrode protruding from the gate line, an active pattern disposed on the gate electrode to overlap the gate electrode, a second conductive pattern group including a bridge pattern coupling the data lines, a source electrode extending to an upper portion of the active pattern from the bridge pattern and a drain electrode spaced apart from the source electrode, facing the source electrode and disposed on the active pattern and metal patterns each stacked between the active pattern and the source electrode and between the active pattern and the drain electrode.
US10128379B2	Semiconductor device having channel regions A semiconductor device includes a substrate; protruding portions extending in parallel to each other on the substrate; nanowires provided on the protruding portions and separated from each other; gate electrodes provided on the substrate and surrounding the nanowires; source/drain regions provided on the protruding portions and sides of each of the gate electrodes, the source/drain regions being in contact with the nanowires; and first voids provided between the source/drain regions and the protruding portions.
US10128378B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device comprising a first transistor, a second insulating film, a conductive film, and a capacitor is provided. The first transistor comprises a first oxide semiconductor film, a gate insulating film over the first oxide semiconductor film, and a gate electrode over the gate insulating film. The second insulating film is provided over the gate electrode. The conductive film is electrically connected to the first oxide semiconductor film. The capacitor comprises a second oxide semiconductor film, the second insulating film over the second oxide semiconductor film, and the conductive film over the second insulating film. The first oxide semiconductor film comprises a first region and a second region. Each of a carrier density of the second region and a carrier density of the second oxide semiconductor film is higher than a carrier density of the first region.
US10128377B2	Independent gate FinFET with backside gate contact A method of making a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of fins on a substrate, with the substrate including an oxide layer arranged beneath the plurality of fins. A sacrificial gate material is deposited on and around the plurality of fins. First trenches are formed in the sacrificial gate material. The first trenches extend through the oxide layer to a top surface of the substrate and are arranged between fins of the plurality of fin. First trenches are filled with a metal gate stack. Second trenches are formed in the sacrificial gate material, with a bottom surface of the second trenches being arranged over a bottom surface of the first trenches, and the second trenches being arranged between fins of the plurality of fins and alternating with the first trenches. The second trenches are filled with a metal gate stack.
US10128375B2	Strained FinFET and method for manufacturing the same An FinFET and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The FinFET comprises: a semiconductor substrate; a stress layer on the semiconductor substrate; a semiconductor fin on the stress layer, the semiconductor fin having two sidewalls extending in its length direction; a gate dielectric on the sidewalls of the semiconductor fin; a gate conductor on the gate dielectric; and a source region and a drain region at two ends of the semiconductor fin, wherein the stress layer extends below and in parallel with the semiconductor fin, and applies stress to the semiconductor fin in the length direction of the semiconductor fin.
US10128373B2	Metal oxide semiconductor device having recess and manufacturing method thereof The present invention provides a MOS (Metal-Oxide-Silicon) device and a manufacturing method thereof. The MOS device includes: a semiconductor substrate, a gate, a source, a drain, and two LDDs (Lightly-Doped-Drains). At least one recess is formed at an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate. The recess has a depth which is deeper than the depth of the two LDDs. The recess is filled with a conductive material. A vertical connection portion is formed at a boundary of the recess in the vertical direction, to at least connect one of the LDDs to the drain. The LDD closer to the drain is not laterally in contact with the drain but is connected to the drain by the vertical direction.
US10128372B1	Bottom contact resistance reduction on VFET Embodiments are directed to a method and resulting structures for a vertical field effect transistor (VFET) having a reduced bottom contact resistance. A multilayered bottom doped region having alternating doped layers and doped sacrificial layers is formed on a substrate. One or more cavities are formed by removing portions of the doped sacrificial layers. A bottom contact is formed over the multilayered bottom doped region. The bottom contact includes one or more conductive flanges that fill the cavities.
US10128371B2	Self-aligned nanostructures for semiconductor devices A method for forming a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate. The method also includes epitaxially growing on the semiconductor substrate a first part of a III-V semiconductor nanostructure. The method further includes covering the first part of the III-V semiconductor nanostructure with a layer of a first material. Additionally, the method includes removing a top portion of the layer of the first material. Still further, the method includes epitaxially growing on the first part of the III-V semiconductor nanostructure a second part of the III-V semiconductor nanostructure. The method additionally includes covering the second part of the III-V semiconductor nanostructure with a layer of a second material. The second material is different from the first material. Even further, the method includes removing a top portion of the layer of the second material.
US10128367B2	Transistor device with increased gate-drain capacitance Disclosed is a transistor device. The transistor device includes: a semiconductor body with an active region and a pad region; at least one transistor cell including a gate electrode dielectrically insulated from a body region by a gate dielectric, wherein the body region is arranged in the active region; an electrode layer arranged above the pad region and dielectrically insulated from the pad region by a further dielectric; and a gate pad arranged above the electrode layer and electrically connected to the electrode layer and the gate electrode of the at least one transistor cell. A thickness of the further dielectric is equal to or less than a thickness of the gate dielectric.
US10128361B2	Insulated gate power semiconductor device and method for manufacturing such a device An insulated gate power semiconductor device has an (n−) doped drift layer between an emitter side and a collector side. A trench gate electrode has a trench bottom and trench lateral sides and extends to a trench depth. A p doped first protection pillow covers the trench bottom. An n doped second protection pillow encircles the trench gate electrode at its trench lateral sides. The second protection pillow has a maximum doping concentration in a first depth, which is at least half the trench depth, wherein a doping concentration of the second protection pillow decreases towards the emitter side from the maximum doping concentration to a value of not more than half the maximum doping concentration. An n doped enhancement layer has a maximum doping concentration in a second depth, which is lower than the first depth, wherein the doping concentration has a local doping concentration minimum between the second depth and the first depth.
US10128360B2	Semiconductor device and method for producing the same A method of producing a semiconductor device is disclosed in which, after proton implantation is performed, a hydrogen-induced donor is formed by a furnace annealing process to form an n-type field stop layer. A disorder generated in a proton passage region is reduced by a laser annealing process to form an n-type disorder reduction region. As such, the n-type field stop layer and the n-type disorder reduction region are formed by the proton implantation. Therefore, it is possible to provide a stable and inexpensive semiconductor device which has low conduction resistance and can improve electrical characteristics, such as a leakage current, and a method for producing the semiconductor device.
US10128353B2	Trench transistors and methods with low-voltage-drop shunt to body diode Methods and systems for power semiconductor devices integrating multiple trench transistors on a single chip. Multiple power transistors (or active regions) are paralleled, but one transistor has a lower threshold voltage. This reduces the voltage drop when the transistor is forward-biased. In an alternative embodiment, the power device with lower threshold voltage is simply connected as a depletion diode, to thereby shunt the body diodes of the active transistors, without affecting turn-on and ON-state behavior.
US10128350B2	Integrated epitaxial metal electrodes Systems and methods are described herein to include an epitaxial metal layer between a rare earth oxide and a semiconductor layer. Systems and methods are described to grow a layered structure, comprising a substrate, a first rare earth oxide layer epitaxially grown over the substrate, a first metal layer epitaxially grown over the rare earth oxide layer, and a first semiconductor layer epitaxially grown over the first metal layer.
US10128347B2	Gate-all-around field effect transistor having multiple threshold voltages One example of an apparatus includes a conducting channel region. The conducting channel region includes a plurality of epitaxially grown, in situ doped conducting channels arranged in a spaced apart relation relative to each other. A source positioned at a first end of the conducting channel region, and a drain positioned at a second end of the conducting channel region. A gate surrounds all sides of the conducting channel region and fills in spaces between the plurality of epitaxially grown, in situ doped conducting channels.
US10128345B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device including a semiconductor element, an upper-surface electrode provided on an upper surface of the semiconductor element, a plated layer provided on an upper surface of the upper-surface electrode, one or more gate runners penetrating the plated layer and provided to extend in a predetermined direction on the upper surface of the semiconductor element, and a metal connecting plate that is arranged above the plated layer and is electrically connected to the upper-surface electrode, wherein the metal connecting plate has a joint portion parallel to the upper surface of the semiconductor element and has a rising portion that is connected to a first end of the joint portion and extends in a direction away from the upper surface of the semiconductor element, and in a plane parallel to the upper surface of the semiconductor element, the rising portion and the gate runner do not overlap with each other.
US10128343B2	III-V MOSFET with self-aligned diffusion barrier A field effect transistor is provided which includes a plurality of fins, at least a portion of a given fin including a respective source region, and a raised source disposed at least partially on the fins and including III-V material. The field effect transistor further includes a diffusion barrier disposed at least partially on the raised source and including transition metal bonded with silicon or germanium, and a gate stack capacitively coupled at least to the respective source regions of the fins.
US10128342B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same Characteristics of a semiconductor device are improved. An active region including a MOS transistor is structured such that the active region includes, in a plan view, a first side extending in X direction, a second side opposing the first side, an extension part projecting from the first side, and a cut-away portion recessed from the second side. By forming the cut-away portion on the second side opposing the first side where the extension part is formed, the active-region area increase caused by a first rounded portion can be cancelled by the active-region area decrease caused by a second rounded portion. Therefore, even when a gate electrode is disposed near the extension part, gate width variation can be inhibited and characteristics of the MOS transistor can be improved. The distance between the extension part and the gate electrode can be reduced to facilitate miniaturization of the MOS transistor.
US10128341B2	Nanoporous semiconductor materials and manufacture thereof Methods for forming nanoporous semiconductor materials are described. The methods allow for the formation of micron-scale arrays of sub-10 nm nanopores in semiconductor materials with narrow size distributions and aspect ratios of over 400:1.
US10128339B2	Superlattice materials and applications A superlattice cell that includes Group IV elements is repeated multiple times so as to form the superlattice. Each superlattice cell has multiple ordered atomic planes that are parallel to one another. At least two of the atomic planes in the superlattice cell have different chemical compositions. One or more of the atomic planes in the superlattice cell one or more components selected from the group consisting of carbon, tin, and lead. These superlattices make a variety of applications including, but not limited to, transistors, light sensors, and light sources.
US10128333B2	FinFET with isolated source and drain A FinFET has shaped epitaxial structures for the source and drain that are electrically isolated from the substrate. Shaped epitaxial structures in the active region are separated from the substrate in the source and drain regions while those in the channel region remain. The gaps created by the separation in the source and drain are filled with electrically insulating material. Prior to filling the gaps, defects created by the separation may be reduced.
US10128329B2	Method of forming guard ring structure A method of making a circuit device includes forming core circuitry. The core circuitry includes a doped region in the core circuit. The method further includes implanting a first set of guard rings around a periphery of the core circuitry. The first set of guard rings has a first dopant type. Implanting the first set of guard rings includes implanting the first set of guard rings spaced from the doped region. The method further includes implanting a second set of guard rings having a second dopant type, wherein the second dopant type being opposite to the first dopant type. At least one guard ring of the second set of guard rings is around a periphery of at least one guard ring of the first set of guard rings.
US10128326B2	Resistor having increasing resistance due to increasing voltage A resistor comprises a substrate, an upper ohmic region disposed on a selective one of an upper surface and a lower surface of the substrate and a lower ohmic region disposed on the other one of the upper surface and the lower surface of the substrate. An upper metal conducting layer overlies on the substrate and the upper ohmic region, and a lower metal conducting layer overlies on the lower ohmic region. When the upper and lower metal conducting layers are electrified, the upper ohmic region and the lower ohmic region are electrically connected, and a contact interface between the substrate and the upper metal conducting layer forms an enlarged depletion region to block electrical conduction therebetween. As a result, a resistance value of the resistor is increased when an applied voltage on the resistor is increased.
US10128323B2	Display module and electronic device having said display module A display module (10) and an electronic device having the display module are provided. The display module (10) includes a substrate (20) and a flexible screen (30). The substrate (20) may include a front surface (22) having a first curvature, a back surface (24) opposite to the front surface (22), and at least two side surfaces (26, 28, 29) located beside the front surface (22) and having a second curvature, and the second curvature is larger than the first curvature. The flexible screen (30) may include at least two non-display regions (38) and an effective region (36) having a light-emitting element array (31), the effective region (36) may include a main portion (36a) bonded to the front surface (22) and at least two edge portions (36b, 36c) bonded to the side surfaces, and the at least two non-display regions (38) extend to the back surface (24).
US10128322B2	Organic light-emitting display device including conductive layer and manufacturing method thereof An organic light-emitting display device includes: a substrate; a thin film transistor over the substrate, the thin film transistor including a semiconductor layer and a gate electrode overlapping the semiconductor layer; a conductive layer between the substrate and the semiconductor layer of the thin film transistor; an insulating layer between the conductive layer and the thin film transistor; a passivation layer covering the thin film transistor; a pixel electrode over the passivation layer, the pixel electrode being electrically connected to the thin film transistor via a contact hole defined in the passivation layer; an emission layer over the pixel electrode; and an opposite electrode over the emission layer, the opposite electrode being electrically connected to the conductive layer.
US10128321B2	Pixel isolation wall, display substrate, their manufacturing methods, and display device The present disclosure provides a pixel isolation wall and its manufacturing method. The pixel isolation wall includes an oleophilic layer arranged on a substrate on which a TFT array and a pixel electrode array is formed, and an oleophobic layer arranged on the oleophilic layer and configured to define, together with the oleophilic layer, a plurality of recess regions corresponding to the pixel electrode array.
US10128318B2	Display device A display device includes a substrate having a plurality of transmissive regions aligned in a first direction and a second direction, a plurality of first wiring lines on the substrate extending in the first direction, a plurality of second wiring lines on the substrate extending in the second direction, and a plurality of light emitting sections disposed on the substrate. Each of the transmissive regions is surrounded by the first and second wiring lines. The light emitting sections include a first light emitting section and a second light emitting section. At least part of the first light emitting section is located in a region that is adjacent to the transmissive regions and overlap one of the first wiring lines. At least part of the second light emitting section is located in a region that is adjacent to the transmissive regions and overlap one of the second wiring lines.
US10128316B2	Semiconductor memory device This semiconductor memory device includes: global first wiring lines; global second wiring lines; and memory blocks connected to the global first wiring lines and the global second wiring lines. The memory block includes: local first wiring lines; local second wiring lines; and memory cells connected to the local first wiring lines and the local second wiring lines. The memory cell includes: a variable resistance element; first electrodes disposed on a first surface of the variable resistance element; and second electrodes arranged on a second surface of the variable resistance element. The first electrodes are connected to the local first wiring lines, and the second electrodes are connected to the local second wiring lines.
US10128305B2	Semiconductor element having grooves which divide an electrode layer, and method of forming the grooves A semiconductor element is disclosed including a construction with electrode-dividing grooves, in which a dark current is smaller than in existing examples. A method of forming such grooves is also disclosed. In an embodiment, grooves, which electrically divide an electrode layer formed on the surface of a substrate, are formed with a V-shaped cross-sectional shape, groove side walls in the electrode layer, constituting the grooves, being sloping surfaces. An embodiment of the method of forming the grooves includes using a dicing blade having a blade distal end portion which is sharpened into a V-shape to cut a semiconductor wafer in which multiple patterns of semiconductor elements including an electrode layer on the surface of a substrate are formed, forming the grooves having a V-shaped cross-sectional shape which divide the electrode layer in each semiconductor element.
US10128299B1	Manufacturing method of image sensor including source follower contact to floating diffusion An image sensor includes a photodiode disposed in a first semiconductor material to absorb photons incident on the image sensor and generate image charge. A floating diffusion is disposed in the first semiconductor material and positioned to receive the image charge from the photodiode, and a transfer transistor is coupled between the photodiode and the floating diffusion to transfer the image charge out of the photodiode into floating diffusion in response to a transfer signal. A source follower transistor with a gate terminal is coupled to the floating diffusion to output an amplified signal of the image charge in the floating diffusion. The gate terminal includes a second semiconductor material in contact with the floating diffusion, and a gate oxide is partially disposed between the second semiconductor material and the first semiconductor material. The second semiconductor material extends beyond the lateral bounds of the floating diffusion.
US10128298B2	Colour image sensor with white pixels and colour pixels The invention relates to color-image sensors. To benefit both from a good luminance resolution and a color accuracy that is not excessively degraded by the sensitivity of silicon to near-infrared radiation, the invention proposes to produce a mosaic of pixels comprising colored pixels (R), (G), (B), coated with color filters, which are distributed in the matrix, with white pixels (T) not coated with color filters and which are distributed in the matrix. The colored pixels include photodiodes constructed differently from the photodiodes of the white pixels, the different construction being such that the photodiodes of the colored pixels have a lower sensitivity to infrared radiation than the photodiodes of the white pixels.
US10128296B2	Imaging array with improved dynamic range utilizing parasitic photodiodes A pixel sensor having a main photodiode and a parasitic photodiode and a method for reading out that pixel sensor are disclosed. The parasitic photodiode also serves the function of a floating diffusion node in the pixel. The pixel sensor is read by first determining the exposure as measured by the parasitic photodiode and then determining the exposure as read by the main photodiode. One of the two exposure measurements is chosen as the pixel output. The main photodiode has a light conversation efficiency chosen such that one of the two measurements will provide a measurement of the exposure over a dynamic range that is greater than that of either the main photodiode or the parasitic photodiode utilized separately.
US10128295B2	Metal shield trenches and metal substrate contacts supported within the premetallization dielectric (PMD) layer of an integrated circuit using a middle end of line (MEOL) process A semiconductor substrate includes a photodiode region, a charge storage region electrically coupled to the photodiode region and a capacitive deep trench isolation (CDTI) structure including a conductive region positioned between the photodiode region and the charge storage region. A contact etch stop layer overlies the semiconductor substrate and a premetallization dielectric layer overlies the contact etch stop layer. A first trench, filled with a metal material, extends through the premetallization dielectric layer and bottoms out at or in the contact etch stop layer. A second trench, also filled with the metal material, extends through the premetallization dielectric layer and the contact etch stop layer and bottoms out at or in the conductive region of the CDTI structure. The metal filled first trench forms an optical shield between the photodiode region and the charge storage region. The metal filled second trench forms a contact for biasing the CDTI structure.
US10128293B2	Self-aligned back side deep trench isolation structure A pixel sensor device is disclosed. The device includes a shallow trench isolation structure, a well region and a backside isolation structure. The well region and diode region is adjacent to the shallow trench isolation structure. The backside isolation structure is self-aligned with and arranged over the shallow trench isolation structure. The backside isolation structure is adjacent to the diode region.
US10128292B2	Charge storage cell and method of manufacturing a charge storage cell A method can be used to manufacture a charge storage cell with a first trench and a second trench in a substrate material. The first trench is filled with a doped material. The second trench is filled with a second trench material. The method includes causing the dopant to diffuse from the first trench to thereby provide a doped region adjacent to the first trench. The material from the first and second trenches is removed and at least one of the trenches is filled with a capacitive deep trench isolation material to provide capacitive deep trench isolation.
US10128284B2	Multi diode aperture simulation Provided are techniques for simulating a aperture in a digital imaging device, the aperture simulation generated by a multi-diode pixel image sensor. In one aspect, a method includes detecting light incident on a first light sensitive region on a first photodiode of a pixel, and detecting light incident on a second light sensitive region on a second photodiode of the pixel. The method further includes combining, for each pixel, signals from the first and second light sensitive regions, and generating, for a first aperture setting, a first image based at least in part on the light received from the first light sensitive region, and generating, for a second aperture setting, a second image based at least in part on the light received from the second light sensitive region.
US10128283B2	Method and system for managing harvested energy in an access control system A method for managing light energy received from at least one light source by at least one light sensor in an access control system. The method comprises receiving light energy by the at least one light sensor, measuring the amount of light energy received by an energy harvesting manager interconnected with an access control device, and determining whether the measured amount of light energy is above a predetermined threshold. If the measured amount of light energy is above the predetermined threshold, the method comprises converting the light energy into harvested energy by at least one energy harvester. If the measured amount of light energy is not above the predetermined threshold, the method comprises adjusting the amount of light energy available to the at least one light sensor from the at least one light source until the predetermined threshold is reached.
US10128281B2	Array substrate, fabrication method thereof and display device A fabrication method includes preparing a base substrate, the base substrate including a pixel region and a region of gate on array (GOA); forming a pattern including a gate electrode and a pattern of an active layer on the base substrate, and forming a gate lead on the region of GOA, by a first patterning process; forming a pattern of a gate insulating layer by a second patterning process; forming a pattern including a source/drain electrode by a third patterning process; forming a pattern of a planarization layer by a fourth patterning layer; and forming a pattern including a pixel electrode by a fifth patterning layer. Here, the pattern including the gate electrode and the pattern including the active layer are formed by one patterning process, which can reduce the number of masks in the fabrication process of the array substrate, improve production efficiency and save the cost.
US10128276B2	Display panel A display panel includes selection transistors connected to ends of gate lines, first inspection transistors connected to data lines, second inspection transistors provided in each group, a first conductive electrode of each of second inspection transistors being connected to the control electrode of each of the selection transistors, inspection selection signal supply wirings connected to a second conductive electrode of each of second inspection transistors, each of inspection selection signal supply wirings supplying a control signal for turning on or off the second inspection transistor; and an inspection control signal supply wiring connected to a control electrode of each of first inspection transistors and a control electrode of each of the second inspection transistors, the inspection control signal supply wiring supplying a control signal for turning on or off the first and second inspection transistors. The selection transistors and the second inspection transistors are arranged in a display region.
US10128273B2	Active device array substrate An active device array substrate including a first scan line, a first data line, a second data line, a first active device, a first pixel electrode, a second active device, a second pixel electrode, and a first shielding pattern layer is provided. The first active device includes a first gate electrically connected to the first scan line, a first semiconductor pattern layer, a first source electrically connected to the first data line, and a first drain. The second active device includes a second gate electrically connected to the first scan line, a second semiconductor pattern layer, a second source electrically connected to the second data line, and a second drain. The first shielding pattern layer is overlapped with the first semiconductor pattern layer and the second semiconductor pattern layer. The first shielding pattern layer is overlapped with the second data line and not overlapped with the first data line.
US10128271B2	Display device A display device includes a first pixel, a second pixel, a first substrate, and a second substrate. The first pixel includes a first pixel electrode, a first conductive film, and a first transistor. The first pixel electrode is electrically connected to the first transistor. The first conductive film includes a region functioning as a common electrode. The second pixel includes a second pixel electrode, a second conductive film, and a second transistor. The second pixel electrode is electrically connected to the second transistor. The second conductive film includes a region functioning as a common electrode. The first conductive film and the second pixel electrode are provided on the same plane. A first insulating film is provided over the first conductive film and the second pixel electrode. The first pixel electrode and the second conductive film are provided over the first insulating film.
US10128270B2	Active matrix substrate and manufacturing method of the same The present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing an active matrix substrate. A first laminated film in which a semiconductor film, a first transparent conductive film, and a first metal film are laminated is formed on a substrate. A photoresist pattern having a first part covering a formation area of a channel part of a thin film transistor, a second part covering a formation area of a pixel electrode, and a third part covering formation areas of a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a source line, is formed on the first laminated film. The first metal film, the first transparent conductive film, and the semiconductor film are patterned using the photoresist pattern; the first part is removed and the first metal film and the first transparent conductive film are patterned; and the second part is removed and the first metal film is patterned.
US10128269B2	Systems and methods for a semiconductor structure having multiple semiconductor-device layers A method of fabricating a semiconductor structure having multiple semiconductor device layers is provided. The method comprises providing a bulk substrate and growing a first channel material on the bulk substrate wherein the lattice constant of the channel material is different from the lattice constant of the bulk substrate to introduce strain to the channel material. The method further comprises fabricating a first semiconductor device layer on the bulk substrate with the strained first channel material, fabricating a buffer layer comprising dielectric material with a blanket top surface above the first semiconductor layer, bonding to the blanket top surface a bottom surface of a second substrate comprising a buried oxide with second channel material above the buried oxide, and fabricating a second semiconductor device layer on the second substrate.
US10128264B2	Semiconductor device The semiconductor device according to the embodiments of the present disclosure may include a contact line connecting a pair of channel pillars with a silt disposed therebetween. The contact line may extend in various directions, for example, a diagonal direction with respect to the slit. The contact line may contacts an upper surface or a side wall of the channel pillars.
US10128263B2	Memory devices A memory device may include multiple channel regions extending in a direction perpendicular to an upper surface of a substrate, a plurality of gate electrode layers and a plurality of insulating layers stacked on the substrate to be adjacent at least a portion of the plurality of channel regions, an interlayer insulating layer disposed on the plurality of gate electrode layers, a plurality of cell contact plugs passing through the interlayer insulating layer. Each of the plurality of cell contacts is connected to each of the plurality of gate electrode layers. A vertical insulating layer extends from the interlayer insulating layer disposed between the plurality of channel regions and the plurality of cell contact plugs and has a portion surrounded by at least one of the plurality of gate electrode layers.
US10128258B2	Oxide formation in a plasma process A memory transistor includes a gate electrode and a blocking structure disposed beneath the gate electrode, where the blocking structure is formed by plasma oxidation. The memory transistor includes a multi-layer charge storage layer disposed beneath the blocking structure, wherein the multi-layer charge storage layer includes a trap dense charge storage layer over a substantially trap free charge storage layer, where a thickness of the trap dense charge storage layer is reduced by the plasm oxidation. The memory transistor further includes a tunneling layer disposed beneath the multi-layer charge storage layer and a channel region disposed beneath the tunneling layer, where the channel region is positioned laterally between a source region and a drain region.
US10128257B2	Select transistors with tight threshold voltage in 3D memory Disclosed herein is a 3D memory with a select transistor, and method for fabricating the same. The select transistor may have a conductive floating gate, a conductive control gate, a first dielectric between the conductive floating gate and the conductive control gate, and a second dielectric between a body and the conductive floating gate. In one aspect, a uniform gate dielectric is formed using lateral epitaxial growth in a recess adjacent a crystalline semiconductor select transistor body, followed by forming the gate dielectric from the epitaxial growth. Techniques help to prevent, or at least reduce, a leakage current between the select transistor control gate and the select transistor body and/or the semiconductor substrate below the select transistor. Therefore, select transistors having a substantially uniform threshold voltage, on current, and S-factor are achieved. Also, select transistors have a high on-current and a steep sub-threshold slope.
US10128255B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes first and second well regions having a first conductivity type, and a third well region between the first and second well regions having a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type. A first active region is in the first well region. A second active region is in the second well region. A third active region is in the third well region. The third active region is closer to the second active region than to the first active region. A fourth active region is in the third well region. The fourth active region is closer to the first active region than to the second active region. A first conductive pattern is across the first and third active regions. A second conductive pattern is across the second and fourth active regions and parallel to the first conductive pattern.
US10128252B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a cell active region and a peripheral active region, a direct contact arranged on a cell insulating pattern formed on the substrate and connected to the cell active region, a bit line structure including a thin conductive pattern, contacting a top surface of the direct contact and extending in one direction, and a peripheral gate structure in the peripheral active region. The peripheral gate structure include a stacked structure of a peripheral gate insulating pattern and a peripheral gate conductive pattern, the thin conductive pattern includes a first material and the peripheral gate conductive pattern include the first material, and a level of an upper surface of the thin conductive pattern is lower than a level of an upper surface of the peripheral gate conductive pattern.
US10128250B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof One method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: forming provisional active regions that are shaped such that active regions that are adjacent in an X direction are connected to each other, forming a sacrificial film, performing etching, including the sacrificial film, so as to form a plurality of first trenches that separate the active regions, embedding element-isolating insulating films in the first trenches and then removing the sacrificial film, forming first side-wall insulating films that cover the exposed side surfaces of the element-isolating insulating films and second side-wall insulating films that cover the side surfaces of the first side-wall insulating films, embedding cap insulating films in second trenches that appear due to the formation of the second side-wall insulating films, and forming a plurality of third trenches at the positions of the second side-wall insulating films and forming word lines thereunder.
US10128249B2	Semiconductor device and memory device including the semiconductor device To provide a semiconductor device that can reduce power consumption and retain data for a long time and a memory device including the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a word line divider, a memory cell, a first wiring, and a second wiring. The word line divider is electrically connected to the first wiring and the second wiring. The memory cell includes a first transistor with a dual-gate structure. A first gate of the first transistor is electrically connected to the first wiring, and a second gate of the first transistor is electrically connected to the second wiring. The word line divider supplies a high-level potential or a low-level potential to the first wiring and supplies a predetermined potential to the second wiring, whereby a threshold voltage of the first transistor is changed. With such a configuration, a semiconductor device that can reduce power consumption and retain data for a long time is driven.
US10128244B2	CMOS devices having charged punch-through stopper layer to reduce punch-through and methods of manufacturing the same Provided are a CMOS device having a charged punch-through stopper (PTS) layer to reduce punch-through and a method of manufacturing the same. In an embodiment, the CMOS semiconductor device includes an n-type device and a p-type device. The n-type device and the p-type device each may include: a fin structure formed on a substrate; an isolation layer formed on the substrate, wherein a portion of the fin structure above the isolation layer acts as a fin of the n-type device or the p-type device; a charged PTS layer formed on side walls of a portion of the fin structure beneath the fin; and a gate stack formed on the isolation layer and intersecting the fin. For the n-type device, the PTS layer has net negative charges, and for the p-type device, the PTS layer has net positive charges.
US10128243B2	Semiconductor device with fin field effect transistors having different separation regions between fins in NMOS and PMOS regions A semiconductor device includes a substrate with a NMOS region and a PMOS region, a device isolation layer on the substrate to define active fins, and gate patterns on the substrate to have a length direction crossing the active fins, wherein the device isolation layer includes diffusion brake regions between respective pairs of the active fins, the diffusion brake regions being disposed adjacent to each other in a width direction of the gate patterns, and wherein a width of the diffusion brake region in the NMOS region is different from a width of the diffusion brake region in the PMOS region.
US10128238B2	Integrated circuit having oxidized gate cut region and method to fabricate same A method includes epitaxially depositing source/drains on parallel semiconductor fins having parallel polysilicon gate precursor structures disposed thereon orthogonally to the fins, where two adjacent polysilicon gate precursor structures are joined together and connected at ends thereof by a polysilicon loop portion. The method further includes oxidizing the ends of the polysilicon precursor gate structures, the connecting polysilicon loop portion and any semiconductor nodules that formed on the connecting polysilicon loop portion during the step of epitaxially depositing the source/drains. A structure includes a substrate; a plurality of parallel semiconductor fins disposed on the substrate; a plurality of parallel metal gate structures overlying the plurality of fins and orthogonal to the plurality of fins; and a plurality of source/drain structures disposed on the fins. In the structure two adjacent metal gate structures are joined together and connected at end portions thereof by a loop portion comprised of a semiconductor oxide.
US10128233B2	Semiconductor device and semiconductor device manufacturing method A semiconductor device includes a first structure component comprising a first transistor, a first dummy pattern, a second structure component comprising a second transistor and a second dummy pattern. The first structure component and the first dummy pattern have a first height, and the second structure component and the second dummy pattern have a second height lower than the first height.
US10128228B1	Type III-V semiconductor device with integrated diode A semiconductor device includes a type IV semiconductor base substrate, a first type III-V semiconductor layer formed over the base substrate, a second type III-V semiconductor layer formed over the first type III-V semiconductor layer. A two-dimensional charge carrier gas forms at an interface between the first and second type III-V semiconductor layers. First and second electrically conductive device terminals are in ohmic contact with the two-dimensional charge carrier gas. A gate electrode is formed on the first type III-V semiconductor layer and is configured to control a conduction state of the two-dimensional charge carrier gas. An electrically insulating region is disposed over the second type III-V semiconductor layer and is laterally between the gate electrode and the second electrically conductive device terminal. At least one diode is formed on the electrically insulating region and is electrically connected between the gate electrode and the second electrically conductive device terminal.
US10128225B2	Interconnect structures with polymer core Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards techniques and configurations of interconnect structures having a polymer core in integrated circuit (IC) package assemblies. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a first die having a plurality of transistor devices disposed on an active side of the first die and a plurality of interconnect structures electrically coupled with the first die, wherein individual interconnect structures of the plurality of interconnect structures have a polymer core, and an electrically conductive material disposed on the polymer core, the electrically conductive material being configured to route electrical signals between the transistor devices of the first die and a second die. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10128224B2	Circuit boards and semiconductor packages including protruding pattern on substrate A circuit board comprises a mother substrate including first and second scribing regions, the first scribing region extending in first direction, the second scribing region extending in second direction, the first and second directions crossing each other, the mother substrate including chip regions defined by the first and second scribing regions, and a through via penetrating the chip regions of the mother substrate. The mother substrate comprises a first alignment pattern protruding from a top surface of the mother substrate. The first alignment pattern is disposed on at least one of the scribing regions.
US10128222B2	Light-emitting-and-receiving element module and sensor device using the same A light-emitting-and-receiving element module 1 comprises a substrate 2 that comprises a top surface 2a; a light-emitting element 3a on the top surface 2a of the substrate 2; a light-receiving element 3b on the top surface 2a of the substrate 2 and apart from the light-emitting element 3a; and an intermediate wall 5 between the light-emitting element 3a and the light-receiving element 3b, the intermediate wall 5 comprising a lower surface 5c disposed apart from the top surface 2a. The lower surface 5c of the intermediate wall 5 has a protruding shape.
US10128221B2	Package assembly having interconnect for stacked electronic devices and method for manufacturing the same A package assembly and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The package assembly includes a leadframe having at least two groups of leads and a plurality of electronic devices arranged in at least two levels. Each group of leads is electrically coupled to a respective level of electronic devices. The package assembly further includes an interconnect for coupling one or more leads of one group of leads to one or more leads of another group of leads. The package assembly results in increased packaging density, less usage of bonding wires in the package assembly, improves reliability, and prevents possible interference.
US10128220B2	Display substrate, manufacturing method thereof, display device The present disclosure relates to a display substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The method of manufacturing a display substrate includes assembling LED microparticles of each color category onto a printing template corresponding to a respective color category; the surface of the printing template being provided with assembling grooves arranged in such a manner that sub-pixels of a corresponding color category are arranged; transferring the LED microparticles on each printing template onto a same base substrate respectively to form on the base substrate an array of LED microparticles arranged in a same manner as the sub-pixels.
US10128213B2	Integrated fan-out stacked package with fan-out redistribution layer (RDL) A method includes forming a first through-via from a first conductive pad of a first device die, and forming a second through-via from a second conductive pad of a second device die. The first and second conductive pads are at top surfaces of the first and the second device dies, respectively. The first and the second conductive pads may be used as seed layers. The second device die is adhered to the top surface of the first device die. The method further includes encapsulating the first and the second device dies and the first and the second through-vias in an encapsulating material, with the first and the second device dies and the first and the second through-vias encapsulated in a same encapsulating process. The encapsulating material is planarized to reveal the first and the second through-vias. Redistribution lines are formed to electrically couple to the first and the second through-vias.
US10128212B2	Semiconductor package and fabrication method thereof A semiconductor package may include a first logic die and a second logic die located laterally adjacent to the first logic die. A bridge memory die may be coupled to both the first logic die and the second logic die on a first active face of the first logic die and a second active face of the second logic die. A redistribution layer (RDL) structure may be coupled to the first logic die, the second logic die, and the bridge memory die. The bridge memory die may be interposed between at least a portion of the first logic die and the RDL structure and between at least a portion of the second logic die and the RDL structure. A molding compound may at least partially encapsulate the first logic die, the second logic die, and the bridge memory die.
US10128211B2	Thin fan-out multi-chip stacked package structure and manufacturing method thereof A thin fan-out multi-chip stacked package structure including a plurality of stacked chips is provided. The electrodes of the stacked chips and the active surface of the top chip are exposed. A dummy spacer and an alignment structure are disposed over the active surface. Each bonding wire has a bonding thread bonded to a chip electrode and an integrally-connected vertical wire segment. A flat encapsulant encapsulates the chip stacked structure and the bonding wires. Polished cross-sectional surfaces of the bonding wires and a surface of the alignment structure are exposed by the flat surface of the encapsulant. A redistribution layer structure is formed on the flat surface. A passivation layer covers the flat surface and exposes the polished cross-sectional surfaces and the alignment structure. Fan-out circuits are formed on the passivation layer and are connected to the polished cross-sectional surfaces of the bonding wires and the alignment structure.
US10128208B2	Package substrates, packaged semiconductor devices, and methods of packaging semiconductor devices In some embodiments, a package substrate for a semiconductor device includes a substrate core and a material layer disposed over the substrate core. The package substrate includes a spot-faced aperture disposed in the substrate core and the material layer.
US10128207B2	Semiconductor packages with pillar and bump structures One or more embodiments are directed to semiconductor packages that include a pillar and bump structures. The semiconductor packages include a die that has recess at a perimeter of the semiconductor die. The semiconductor package includes an encapsulation layer that is located over the semiconductor die filling the recess and surrounding side surfaces of the pillars. The package may be formed on a wafer with a plurality of die and may be singulated into a plurality of packages.
US10128204B2	RF module In accordance with an embodiment, an RF module includes a bulk semiconductor substrate with at least one integrated RF component integrated in a first main surface region of the bulk semiconductor substrate; an insulator structure surrounding a side surface region of the bulk semiconductor substrate; a wiring layer stack including at least one structured metallization layer embedded into an insulation material, the wiring layer stack being arranged on the first main surface region of the bulk semiconductor substrate and a first main surface region of the insulator structure; and a carrier structure at a second main surface region of the insulator structure, wherein the carrier structure and the insulator structure include different materials.
US10128197B2	Bottom processing Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to methods and apparatus for processing of the bottom surface of a substrate to counteract thermal stresses thereon. Correcting strains are applied to the bottom surface of the substrate which compensate for undesirable strains and distortions on the top surface of the substrate. Specifically designed films may be formed on the back side of the substrate by any combination of deposition, implant, thermal treatment, and etching to create strains that compensate for unwanted distortions of the substrate. Localized strains may be introduced by locally altering the hydrogen content of a silicon nitride film or a carbon film. Structures may be formed by printing, lithography, or self-assembly techniques. Treatment of the layers of film is determined by the stress map desired and includes annealing, implanting, melting, or other thermal treatments.
US10128194B1	Trace stacking structure and method Methods and systems for a trace stacking structure may comprise a stacked trace including: a first trace that comprises a first seed layer and a first metal layer in a substrate and a second trace that is stacked on the trace. The second trace may include: a second seed layer and a second metal layer, a top surface, a bottom surface opposite the top surface, and sidewalls extending between the top surface and the bottom surface and may be wholly within the width of the trace laterally. A dielectric layer may be on the substrate and enclose the sidewalls of the second trace. A trace channel may be in the dielectric layer directly above the first trace, with the second trace in the trace channel. The second trace may be identical to the first trace its sidewalls may be perpendicular to the top surface and the bottom surface.
US10128180B2	Chip packages, chip arrangements, a circuit board, and methods for manufacturing chip packages A chip package is provided, the chip package including: a chip carrier; a chip disposed over and electrically connected to a chip carrier top side; an electrically insulating material disposed over and at least partially surrounding the chip; one or more electrically conductive contact regions formed over the electrically insulating material and in electrical connection with the chip; a further electrically insulating material disposed over a chip carrier bottom side; wherein an electrically conductive contact region on the chip carrier bottom side is released from the further electrically insulating material.
US10128177B2	Multi-layer package with integrated antenna Embodiments of the present disclosure describe a multi-layer package with antenna and associated techniques and configurations. In one embodiment, an integrated circuit (IC) package assembly includes a first layer having a first side and a second side disposed opposite to the first side a second layer coupled with the first side of the first layer, one or more antenna elements coupled with the second layer and a third layer coupled with the second side of the first layer, wherein the first layer is a reinforcement layer having a tensile modulus that is greater than a tensile modulus of the second layer and the third layer. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10128176B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a semiconductor package, and method of manufacturing thereof, that comprises a signal redistribution structure that comprises an anti-oxidation layer.
US10128175B2	Packaging methods and packaged semiconductor devices Packaging methods and packaged semiconductor devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of packaging semiconductor devices includes forming first contact pads on a carrier, forming a wiring structure over the first contact pads, and forming second contact pads over the wiring structure. A first packaged semiconductor device is coupled to a first set of the second contact pads, and a second packaged semiconductor device is coupled to a second set of the second contact pads. The carrier is removed. The second packaged semiconductor device comprises a different package type than the first packaged semiconductor device.
US10128172B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor device PKG includes a semiconductor chip CP, a lead LD3, a wire BW5 electrically connecting a pad electrode PD2 of the semiconductor chip CP to the lead LD3, a wire BW3 electrically connecting a pad electrode PD3 of the semiconductor chip CP to the lead LD3, and a sealing body sealing them with a resin. The semiconductor chip CP includes internal circuits 5b and 5c, and a switch circuit unit SW. Signal transmission is possible between the internal circuit 5c and the pad electrode PD3. The switch circuit unit SW is a circuit capable of being set in a first state in which signal transmission is possible between the internal circuit 5b and the pad electrode PD2, and in a second state in which signal transmission is not possible between the internal circuit 5b and the pad electrode PD2. The switch circuit unit SW is fixed to the second state during operation of the semiconductor device PKG.
US10128171B1	Leadframe with improved half-etch layout to reduce defects caused during singulation A leadframe matrix for mounting and packaging semiconductor dice includes a plurality of leadframes each including leads arranged along peripheral sides thereof. An interconnecting leadframe portion connects a first peripheral side of a first one of the plurality of leadframes to a second peripheral side of a second one of the plurality of leadframes. The leads along the first peripheral side include partially etched portions. The partially etched portions of the leads are at least partially contiguous with and connected to the interconnecting leadframe portions.
US10128170B2	Conductive clip connection arrangements for semiconductor packages Conductive clip connection arrangements for semiconductor packages are disclosed. Some examples provide electrically conductive clip connection arrangements for semiconductor packages that improve electrical performance and fabrication reliability while maintaining compatibility with existing quality control processes. Some examples provide innovative conductive clip structures and die pad arrangements that broaden the range of options available for tailoring the physical configurations of one or more of the constituent conductive clips and/or die pads to achieve specific electrical performance targets.
US10128169B1	Package with backside protective layer during molding to prevent mold flashing failure A semiconductor package formed utilizing a removable backside protective layer includes a leadframe, a die pad, leads and a molding compound around them. The first surface of the die pad and leads are exposed to an external environment by the plurality of recesses. The recesses are formed by coupling a removable backside protective layer to the leadframe before applying the molding compound. After the molding compound is applied and cured, the backside protective layer is removed to expose the first surface of the die pad and the first surfaces of the leads so the semiconductor package may be mounted within an electronic device. The removable backside protective layer protects the die pad and the leads from mold flashing and residue when forming the semiconductor package during the fabrication process.
US10128163B2	Chip part and method for manufacturing a chip part A chip part includes a substrate that has an upper surface, a lower surface positioned on an opposite side of the upper surface, and a sidewall by which the upper surface and the lower surface are connected together and that has a plurality of concavo-convex portions formed on the sidewall from a side of the upper surface toward a side of the lower surface, a functional element formed at the side of the upper surface of the substrate, a first external electrode and a second external electrode that are arranged at the upper surface of the substrate so as to be electrically connected to the functional element, and a sidewall insulating film with which the sidewall of the substrate is coated so as to fill the plurality of concavo-convex portions formed on the sidewall of the substrate with the sidewall insulating film.
US10128160B2	Systems and methods for detection of plasma instability by electrical measurement A wafer is positioned on a wafer support apparatus beneath an electrode such that a plasma generation region exists between the wafer and the electrode. Radiofrequency power is supplied to the electrode to generate a plasma within the plasma generation region during multiple sequential plasma processing cycles of a plasma processing operation. At least one electrical sensor connected to the electrode measures a radiofrequency parameter on the electrode during each of the multiple sequential plasma processing cycles. A value of the radiofrequency parameter as measured on the electrode is determined for each of the multiple sequential plasma processing cycles. A determination is made as to whether or not any indicatory trend or change exists in the values of the radiofrequency parameter as measured on the electrode over the multiple sequential plasma processing cycles, where the indicatory trend or change indicates formation of a plasma instability during the plasma processing operation.
US10128157B2	Laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor device integrated with vertical field effect transistor An electrical device that in some embodiments includes a substrate including a lateral device region and a vertical device region. A lateral diffusion metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) device may be present in the lateral device region, wherein a drift region of the LDMOS device has a length that is parallel to an upper surface of the substrate in which the LDMOS device is formed. A vertical field effect transistor (VFET) device may be present in the vertical device region, wherein a vertical channel of the VFET has a length that is perpendicular to said upper surface of the substrate, the VFET including a gate structure that is positioned around the vertical channel.
US10128151B2	Devices and methods of cobalt fill metallization Devices and methods of fabricating integrated circuit devices via cobalt fill metallization are provided. A method includes, for instance, providing an intermediate semiconductor device having at least one trench, forming at least one layer of semiconductor material on the device, depositing a first cobalt (Co) layer on the second layer, and performing an anneal reflow process on the device. Also provided are intermediate semiconductor devices. An intermediate semiconductor device includes, for instance, at least one trench formed within the device, the trench having a bottom portion and sidewalls, at least one layer of semiconductor material disposed on the device, a first cobalt (Co) layer disposed on the at least one layer of semiconductor material, wherein the at least one layer of semiconductor material includes at least a first semiconductor material and a second semiconductor material.
US10128149B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing same Provided is a highly reliable semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing same. The method for manufacturing the semiconductor device includes forming an interlayer insulating film on a semiconductor substrate, forming a conductive plug in the interlayer insulating film, the conductive plug having a top surface for forming the same plane as the top surface of the interlayer insulating film, forming a first titanium film on the interlayer insulating film and the conductive plug, forming an aluminum diffusion-preventing film on the first titanium film, forming a second titanium film on the aluminum diffusion-preventing film, forming an aluminum film on the second titanium film, and shaping the area from the aluminum film to the first titanium film by etching to form wiring.
US10128147B2	Interconnect structure Semiconductor structures include a patterned interlayer dielectric overlaying a semiconductor substrate. The interlayer dielectric includes a first dielectric layer and at least one additional dielectric layer disposed on the first dielectric layer, wherein the patterned interlayer dielectric comprises at least one opening extending through the interlayer dielectric to the semiconductor substrate. Chemically enriched regions including ions of Si, P, B, N, O and combinations thereof are disposed in surfaces of the first dielectric layer and the at least one dielectric layer defined by the at least one opening. Also described are methods of for forming an interconnect structure in a semiconductor structure.
US10128141B2	Plasma processing apparatus and plasma processing method A plasma processing apparatus includes: a refrigerating cycle including a refrigerant passage, a compressor, and a condenser, all of which are coupled in this order, and through which a refrigerant flows in this order, the refrigerant passage being disposed inside a sample stage and through which the refrigerant flows to serve as an evaporator; first and second expansion valves which are interposed between the condenser and the refrigerant passage and between the refrigerant passage and the compressor respectively in the refrigerating cycle; a vaporizer that is interposed between the second expansion valve and the compressor in the refrigerating cycle and which heats and vaporizes the refrigerant; and a controller which regulates opening and closing of the first and second expansion valves and regulates a refrigerant heat exchange amount of the condenser or vaporizer based on a refrigerant temperature between the condenser and the second expansion valve.
US10128140B2	System and method for automatically correcting for rotational misalignment of wafers on film frames Automatically correcting for rotational misalignment of a wafer improperly mounted on a film frame includes capturing an image of portions of the wafer using an image capture device, prior to initiation of a wafer inspection procedure by an inspection system; digitally determining a rotational misalignment angle and a rotational misalignment direction of the wafer relative to the film frame and/or a set of reference axes of a field of view of the image capture device; and correcting for the rotational misalignment of the wafer by way of a film frame handling apparatus separate from the inspection system, which is configured for rotating the film frame across the rotational misalignment angle in a direction opposite to the rotational misalignment direction. Such film frame rotation can occur prior to placement of the film frame on the wafer table, without decreasing film frame handling throughput or inspection process throughput.
US10128139B2	Substrate holding method and substrate processing apparatus A substrate holding method is to horizontally hold a substrate, and includes a positioning step of positioning a substrate by moving a substrate transfer mechanism and by allowing the peripheral edge of the substrate to come into contact with the plurality of positioning pins, a substrate grasping step of bringing the plurality of grasping pins into a closed state after completing the positioning step so that the substrate held by the plurality of positioning pins and the plurality of grasping pins, and a transfer mechanism receding step of allowing the substrate transfer mechanism to recede from above the spin base after completing the substrate grasping step.
US10128136B2	Liquid processing apparatus and liquid processing method There is provided a guide member 3 in which an inclined surface 32 thereof is inclined downwardly outwards from an edge portion of a rear surface of a horizontally held wafer W; and a cylindrical surrounding member 2 which surrounds the wafer W and in which an upper peripheral portion thereof is inwardly extended obliquely upwards. Further, the surrounding member 2 has, at an inner surface side thereof, two groove portions 23 extended along an entire circumference and located above a height position of the horizontally held wafer W. If an air flow flows along the surrounding member 2, a vortex flow is formed within the groove portions 23 and stays therein. Thus, mist can be captured, so that the flow of the mist to the outside of a cup body 1 can be suppressed. Accordingly, the adhesion of the mist to the wafer W can be suppressed.
US10128133B1	Method of conditioning an etch chamber for contaminant free etching of a semiconductor device An etching tool that includes an interior chamber is provided. A plurality of type III-V semiconductor wafers is provided. A process cycle is performed for each one of the type III-V semiconductor wafers in the plurality. The process cycle includes performing a preliminary contamination control process. The process cycle further includes inserting one of the type III-V semiconductor wafers into the interior chamber. The process cycle further includes etching type III-V semiconductor material away from the type III-V semiconductor wafer that is present in the interior chamber. The process cycle further includes removing the type III-V semiconductor wafer that is present in the interior chamber. The preliminary contamination control process includes forming a carbon containing protective material that completely covers exposed surfaces of the interior chamber.
US10128132B2	Substrate liquid processing apparatus A substrate liquid processing apparatus includes a liquid unit configured to process a liquid processing unit configured to process a substrate with multiple kinds of processing liquids, an exhaust pipe connected to the liquid processing unit, and configured to allow an exhaust gas from the liquid processing unit to flow therein, a plurality of individual exhaust pipes provided to correspond to at least one of the multiple kinds of processing liquids, and an exhaust switching unit connected to the exhaust pipe and the individual exhaust pipes, and configured to change a discharge destination of the exhaust gas flowing within the exhaust pipe to one of the individual exhaust pipes. The exhaust switching unit is positioned above the liquid processing unit.
US10128126B2	Method of doping 2-dimensional semiconductor The present disclosure relates to a method of doping a 2-dimensional semiconductor. The method of doping a 2-dimensional semiconductor includes: forming an insulating layer including photosensitive particles on a substrate; moving the photosensitive particles included in the insulating layer to a surface of the insulating layer through a heat treatment; forming a 2-dimensional semiconductor layer on the insulating layer; and doping a 2-dimensional semiconductor material included in the 2-dimensional semiconductor layer by exposing the 2-dimensional semiconductor material to a light corresponding to an absorption wavelength of the photosensitive particles included in the insulating layer.
US10128125B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device including: a semiconductor substrate; a first coil formed on the semiconductor substrate via a first insulation film; a second insulation film formed on the semiconductor substrate so as to cover the first insulation film and the first coil; a first pad formed on the second insulation film and disposed at a position not overlapped with the first coil in a planar view; a laminated insulation film formed on the second insulation film, the laminated insulation film having a first opening from which the first pad is exposed; a second coil formed on the laminated insulation film and disposed above the first coil; and a first wiring formed on the laminated insulation film including an upper portion of the first pad exposed from the first opening, the first wiring being electrically connected to the first pad.
US10128122B2	Stacked nanowires Techniques for producing stacked SiGe nanowires using a condensation process without parasitic Ge nanowires as an undesired by-product. In one aspect, a method of forming SiGe nanowires includes the steps of: forming a stack of alternating Si and SiGe layers on a wafer; patterning fins in the stack; selectively thinning the SiGe layers in the fins such that the Si and SiGe layers give the fins an hourglass shape; burying the fins in an oxide material; and annealing the fins under conditions sufficient to diffuse Ge from the SiGe layers in the fins to the Si layers in the fins to form the SiGe nanowires. A FET device and method for formation thereof are also provided.
US10128118B2	Bottom and side plasma tuning having closed loop control An apparatus for plasma processing a substrate is provided. The apparatus comprises a processing chamber, a substrate support disposed in the processing chamber, and a lid assembly coupled to the processing chamber. The lid assembly comprises a conductive gas distributor coupled to a power source. A tuning electrode may be disposed between the conductive gas distributor and the chamber body for adjusting a ground pathway of the plasma. A second tuning electrode may be coupled to the substrate support, and a bias electrode may also be coupled to the substrate support.
US10128111B2	Low temperature nanowire growth on arbitrary substrates The present invention provides a method to manufacture nanowires. In various embodiments, a method is provided for producing an oxidized non-zinc metal layer as a heterogeneous seed layer on arbitrary substrate for controlled nanowire growth is disclosed which comprises depositing a metal layer at low temperature on a substrate, oxidizing the metal layer in air ambient or in oxidizing agent, and growing nanowires at low temperatures on oxidized metal layers on virtually any substrate.
US10128107B1	Wafers having III-Nitride and diamond layers Wafers including a diamond layer and a semiconductor layer having III-Nitride compounds and methods for fabricating the wafers are provided. A first SiC layer is formed on a silicon substrate, and using a carbon containing gas, a surface of the first SiC layer is carbonized to form carbon particles on the SiC layer. Then, a diamond layer is grown on the carbonized surface, where the carbon atoms act as seed particles for growing the diamond layer. A second SiC layer is formed on the diamond layer and a semiconductor layer having III-Nitride compounds is formed on the second SiC layer. Then, the silicon substrate and the first SiC layer are removed.
US10128099B1	Systems and methods for regulating the ion population in an ion trap for MSn scans A mass spectrometry apparatus includes an ion source, an ion trap and a mass spectrometer controller. The ion source is configured to generating ions. The ion trap is configured to trap ions within a RF field; eject unwanted ion while retaining target ions; and fragment target ions. The mass spectrometer controller is configured to determine an injection time for the ion trap based on a precursor ion flux and a product ion flux; fill the ion trap with ions from the ion source for an amount of time equal to the injection time; isolate target precursor ions in the ion trap; fragment the target precursor ions to generate product ions; and mass analyzing the product ions.
US10128095B2	Methods and systems of treating a particle beam and performing mass spectroscopy A method of treating a particle beam is disclosed, of interest in particular for mass spectrometry for 14C. A particle beam including positive ions is passed through a charge exchange cell containing a target gas. The target gas is electrically insulating at room temperature and pressure. At least some of the positive ions of the particle beam are converted to negative ions by interaction with the target gas. The particle beam incident at the charge exchange cell includes molecules and/or molecular ions which interact with the target gas to reduce the concentration of molecules as a result of repeated collisions with particles of the target gas. A corresponding mass spectrometry system is also disclosed.
US10128088B2	Graded in-situ charge trapping layers to enable electrostatic chucking and excellent particle performance for boron-doped carbon films The present disclosure generally relates to processing chamber seasoning layers having a graded composition. In one example, the seasoning layer is a boron-carbon-nitride (BCN) film. The BCN film may have a greater composition of boron at the base of the film. As the BCN film is deposited, the boron concentration may approach zero, while the relative carbon and nitrogen concentration increases. The BCN film may be deposited by initially co-flowing a boron precursor, a carbon precursor, and a nitrogen precursor. After a first period of time, the flow rate of the boron precursor may be reduced. As the flow rate of boron precursor is reduced, RF power may be applied to generate a plasma during deposition of the seasoning layer.
US10128086B1	Silicon pretreatment for nitride removal Exemplary methods for treating a silicon-containing substrate may include flowing plasma effluents of a hydrogen-containing precursor into a processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber. A silicon-containing substrate may be positioned within the processing region and include a trench formed through stacked layers including alternating layers of silicon nitride and silicon oxide exposing a portion of the silicon-containing substrate. The methods may include contacting the exposed portion of the silicon-containing substrate with the plasma effluents. The methods may include flowing an oxygen-containing precursor into the processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may include contacting the exposed portion of the silicon-containing substrate with the oxygen-containing precursor. The methods may also include converting the exposed portion of the silicon-containing substrate to silicon oxide.
US10128084B1	Wafer temperature control with consideration to beam power input A system and method is provided maintaining a temperature of a workpiece during an implantation of ions in an ion implantation system, where the ion implantation system is characterized with a predetermined set of parameters. A heated chuck is provided at a first temperature and heats the workpiece to the first temperature. Ions are implanted into the workpiece concurrent with the heating, and thermal energy is imparted into the workpiece by the ion implantation. A desired temperature of the workpiece is maintained within a desired accuracy during the implantation of ions by selectively heating the workpiece on the heated chuck to a second temperature. The desired temperature is maintained based, at least in part, on the characterization of the ion implantation system. Thermal energy imparted into the workpiece from the implantation is mitigated by the selective heating of the workpiece on the heated chuck at the second temperature.
US10128082B2	Apparatus and techniques to treat substrates using directional plasma and point of use chemistry In one embodiment, an apparatus to treat a substrate may include an extraction plate to extract a plasma beam from a plasma chamber and direct the plasma beam to the substrate. The plasma beam may comprise ions forming a non-zero angle of incidence with respect to a perpendicular to a plane of the substrate; and a gas outlet system disposed outside the plasma chamber, the gas outlet system coupled to a gas source and arranged to deliver to the substrate a reactive gas received from the gas source, wherein the reactive gas does not pass through the plasma chamber.
US10128080B2	Three-dimensional imaging in charged-particle microscopy A method of investigating a specimen using charged-particle microscopy, and a charged particle microscope configured for same. In one embodiment, the method includes: (a) selecting a virtual sampling grid on a surface of a specimen, the virtual sampling grid extending in an XY plane and comprising nodes to be impinged upon by a beam of charged particles; (b) selecting a landing energy for the beam, the landing energy associated with a penetration depth; (c) generating a scan image by irradiating the specimen at each of the nodes with the beam, and detecting output radiation emanating from the specimen in response thereto; (d) repeating steps (b) and (c) for a series of different landing energies corresponding to an associated series of penetration depths, (e) pre-selecting an energy increment by which the landing energy is to be altered after a first iteration of steps (b) and (c); (f) associating the energy increment with a corresponding depth increment; (g) selecting the virtual sampling grid to have a substantially equal node pitch p in X and Y, which pitch p is matched to the value of the depth increment so as to produce a substantially cubic sampling voxel; and (h) selecting subsequent energy values in the series of landing energies so as to maintain a substantially constant depth increment between consecutive members of the series of penetration depths.
US10128078B2	Protective agent for electron microscopic observation of biological sample in water-containing state, kit for electron microscopic observation, methods for observation, diagnosis, evaluation, and quantification by electron microscope, and sample stage Provided are a protective agent for electron microscopic observation in a vacuum which can protect a biological sample in a water-containing state, such as a mammal, a plant tissue or a cultured cell, and a single cell in the living state without deforming it even in a vacuum, a kit using the same, methods for observation, diagnosis, evaluation, and quantification of a sample by an electron microscope, and a sample stage to be used for the observation. The protective agent for electron microscopic observation of the present invention contains a a component to impart the survival environment, a saccharide, and an electrolyte.
US10128077B2	Electron microscope electron gun for facilitating position adjustment and electron microscope including same The present invention relates to an electron gun for facilitating position adjustment, and an electron microscope including the same, the electron gun improving a vacuum structure so as to easily move a filament block or an electron tip of an electron gun without having bellows for maintaining a vacuum when the center axis of the filament block or the electron tip of the electron gun is mechanically misaligned with the center axis of a anode and a focusing lens.
US10128076B1	Inductively coupled plasma ion source with tunable radio frequency power In a plasma ion source having an induction coil adjacent to a reactor chamber for inductively coupling power into the plasma from a radio frequency power source and designed for negative and positive ion extraction, a method for operating the source according to the invention comprises providing radio frequency power to the induction coil with a RF amplifier operating with a variable frequency connected to a matching network mainly comprised of fixed value capacitors. In this device, the impedance between the RF power source and the plasma ion source is matched by tuning the RF frequency rather than adjusting the capacitance of the matching network. An option to use a RF power source utilizing lateral diffused metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor based amplifiers is disclosed.
US10128072B2	Pressure switch and method of forming a diaphragm therein In a method of manufacturing a diaphragm with a contact, contact stocks each forming a movable contact on a stock formed out of a strip-shaped thin metal sheet material, or a rolled material are bonded at predetermined intervals to the stock by resistance welding, for example to form a diaphragm stock with a contact. Next, the stock of a diaphragm with a contact is subjected to continuous blanking with a predetermined diameter from each movable contact as center to produce a diaphragm with a contact.
US10128070B2	Contact for a high-voltage vacuum arc extinguishing chamber The invention provides a contact for a high-voltage vacuum arc extinguishing chamber. The contact of the invention includes a conductive connecting piece, an annular outer contact and an inner contact which is located within the ring of the outer contact and does not contact with the outer contact. The conductive connecting piece, inner contact and outer contact are coaxial and the contact surface of the inner contact is on the same plane as that of the outer contact. The outer contact is fixed on the conductive connecting piece. An axial magnetic field means is covered outside of the conductive connecting piece for generating an axial magnetic field. The axial magnetic field means is fixedly connected with the conductive connecting piece. The inner contact is fixed on the conductive connecting piece. A circumferential magnetic field means is covered outside of the conductive connecting piece for generating a circumferential magnetic field.
US10128063B2	Keyswitch A keyswitch uses a combination of springs connected in serial for providing a return force to a keycap of the keyswitch. When the keycap moves toward a base of the keyswitch beyond a transition position, one of the springs stops continuously deforming. It leads to an increment of the elastic coefficient of the combination of springs and an increment of the elastic stored energy by the combination of springs. Therefore, during a pressing on the keycap, the keycap can provide a light force feedback and then a heavy force feedback to a user. Further, the keyswitch can use a switch with a lateral motion, which can reduce influence of a resilient force produced by the switch on the up and down movement of the keycap. The keyswitch also can use an elastic piece disposed beside the keycap, which can provide a tactile feedback to the user.
US10128062B2	Strain gauge proportional push button A transmitter device incorporating a strain gauge proportional push button is disclosed. The transmitter device includes a printed circuit board including one or more electrical components thereon and a proportional push button having a flexible membrane, a dome switch positioned beneath the flexible membrane and attached to the printed circuit board, the dome switch being proximate to the flexible membrane such that depression of the flexible membrane causes the dome switch to snap down and thereby form a closed circuit in the dome switch, and a strain gauge formed on or applied to the printed circuit board and positioned adjacent the dome switch, the strain gauge generating an electrical output proportional to an amount of deflection of the printed circuit board caused by pressure exerted thereon by depression of the flexible membrane and the dome switch.
US10128061B2	Key and switch housing for keyboard assembly A key and a switch housing for a keyboard assembly is disclosed. A switch housing for the keyboard assembly may include a body having a switch opening and a light source recess formed adjacent the switch opening. The switch opening may house or receive a dome switch for the keyboard assembly and the light source recess may house or receive a light source assembly configured to illuminate a keycap of the keyboard assembly. The switch housing also can include a top panel integrally formed and molded to a portion of the body. The top panel covers the switch opening formed in the body and the top panel is a light guide.
US10128058B2	Switching device having a drive for functional switching and a high-speed circuit breaker for breaking a current path in the switching device A switching device, for the on-off switching of a current passing through a current path, has at least one fixed contact and at least one movable contact, wherein the movable contact can be moved relative to the fixed contact for making or breaking the current path, and a drive for the functional movement of a jumper between a contact-making position and a contact-breaking position. In the contact-making position with the fixed contact, the movable contact makes the current path. The switching device includes a high-speed circuit breaker for breaking the current path in the event of a short circuit or overload, wherein the armature of the high-speed circuit breaker is rigidly coupled to the movable contact.
US10128056B2	Dye-sensitized solar cell The present invention is a dye-sensitized solar cell that has a pair of electrodes that oppose each other, a sealing section that joins the pair of electrodes, an electrolyte that fills a cell space that is surrounded by the pair of electrodes and the sealing section, wherein the sealing section has a resin sealing section that contains a resin, the resin sealing section has a changing-thickness section, the thickness of which increases or decreases as a distance from the electrolyte is increased and which has an inclined face, and the resin sealing section comes into contact, along the inclined face of the changing-thickness section, with an electrode of the pair of electrodes that opposes the inclined face.
US10128053B2	Solid electrolytic capacitor article, solid electrolytic capacitor, lead frame and method for manufacturing solid electrolytic capacitor Disclosed is a solid electrolytic capacitor article including a lead frame having at least a pair of an anode terminal and a cathode terminal, a capacitor element which is connected to the anode terminal and the cathode terminal, and a silicone resin layer that coats the anode terminal, the cathode terminal, and the exterior surface of the capacitor element connected thereto.
US10128045B2	Film capacitor A film capacitor includes: two adjacent capacitor elements, each of which has end-face electrodes at two end faces, respectively, and an insulating film at a lateral surface, each of the adjacent capacitor elements having dielectric films and metal layers that are alternately disposed; and a bus bar for connecting the end-face electrodes of the adjacent capacitor elements on one side. The lateral surfaces of the adjacent capacitor elements are disposed to be opposite to each other. The bus bar includes a tongue piece. The tongue piece is disposed between the lateral surfaces of the adjacent capacitor elements. With this arrangement, the film capacitor can dissipate heat generated during charging and discharging and thus have improved heat-dissipating performance.
US10128042B2	Full-automatic network transformer winding machine The invention provides a full-automatic network transformer winding machine, comprising a T1 ring winding device and a T2 ring winding device connected with said T1 ring winding device, wherein said T1 ring winding device includes an enameled wire pre-cutting mechanism, a stranding mechanism before T1 ring winding, a T1 ring winding mechanism and a tail wire-cutting mechanism which are connected with one another sequentially, and said T2 ring winding device includes a separating mechanism, a stranding mechanism before T2 ring winding and a T2 ring winding mechanism which are connected with one another sequentially. The full-automatic network transformer winding machine of the invention can completely replace manual winding to manufacture the network transformer, has high production efficiency and high product acceptability, and meanwhile provides great convenience to automatically realize shell mounting and end wrapping in subsequent processes.
US10128035B2	Coupled inductor arrays and associated methods A coupled inductor array includes a monolithic magnetic core formed of magnetic materials having a distributed gap, first and second windings, and a low-permeability magnetic structure. The first and second windings form respective first and second winding turns around a common winding axis extending in the height direction. The low-permeability magnetic structure is embedded in the monolithic magnetic core and forms a loop around the common winding axis. The low-permeability magnetic structure separates the first and second winding turns in the height direction, and the low-permeability magnetic structure is formed of a magnetic material having a lower magnetic permeability than the one or more magnetic materials forming the monolithic magnetic core. One possible application of the coupled inductor array is in a multi-phase switching power converter.
US10128033B2	Inductor device An inductor device includes a conductor and a connector. The conductor includes a first ring-type structure and a second ring-type structure. The second ring-type structure is coupled to the first ring-type structure. The connector is coupled to the first ring-type structure and the second ring-type structure, and is configured to selectively connect the first ring-type structure and the second ring-type structure such that the conductor forms single loop.
US10128032B2	Electromechanical assembly controlled by sensed voltage An electromechanical assembly is provided controlled by voltage across a motor or with an electronic system. The electromechanical assembly includes a control circuit coupled to sense voltage at the motor or within the electronic system, and an electromechanical actuator energized by the voltage sensed by the control circuit. A movable element is movable by the electromechanical actuator from an operational position to a quiesced position when the voltage sensed by the control circuit falls below a quiesced threshold. In certain embodiments, the voltage being sensed is across a motor of an air-moving assembly, which resides within a support structure, or the voltage being sensed is within the electronic system, which resides within the support structure, and the movable element is an interlock element which interlocks to the support structure to prevent removal of one or more components from the structure when sensed voltage is above the quiesced threshold.
US10128029B2	Ferrite ceramics, ferrite sintered plate and ferrite sintered sheet An object or technical task of the present invention is to provide a ferrite sintered sheet having a dense ferrite microfine structure which has a large μ′ value, a small μ″ value, and a small temperature-dependent change of the μ′ value thereof. The present invention relates to a ferrite ceramics having a composition comprising 47.5 to 49.8 mol % of Fe2O3, 13.5 to 19.5 mol % of NiO, 21 to 27 mol % of ZnO, 7.5 to 12.5 mol % of CuO and 0.2 to 0.8 mol % of CoO, all of the molar amounts being calculated in terms of the respective oxides, the ferrite ceramics further comprising 0.2 to 1.4% by weight of SnO2 and 0.005 to 0.03% by weight of S and having a density of 5.05 to 5.30 g/cm3; and a ferrite sintered sheet comprising the ferrite sintered plate on a surface of which a groove or grooves are formed, and an adhesive layer and/or a protective layer formed on the ferrite sintered plate.
US10128024B2	MgB2-based superconducting wire for a liquid hydrogen level sensor, a liquid hydrogen level sensor, and a liquid hydrogen level gauge An MgB2-based superconducting wire for a liquid hydrogen fluid level sensor which can maintain an unimmersed portion of the MgB2-based superconducting wire for a liquid hydrogen fluid level sensor in a non-superconducting state even without heating the unimmersed portion is provided. A wire for a liquid hydrogen fluid level sensor comprises an MgB2-based superconductor which contains Mg, B, and Al. The critical temperature at which the electrical resistance becomes essentially zero is 20-25 K, and the transition width, which is the difference between the temperature at which the electrical resistance begins to decrease toward zero and the critical temperature, is at most 5 K.
US10128022B1	Lightweight carbon nanotube cable comprising a pair of plated twisted wires A carbon nanotube (CNT) cable includes a pair of plated twisted wires, wherein each wire includes one or more sub-cores, wherein at least one sub-core includes CNT yarn; a dielectric surrounding the plated twisted wires; and an electrical layer surrounding the dielectric, wherein the electrical layer is configured to shield the CNT cable. A method for making a CNT cable includes the steps of controlling a deposition rate, depositing plating so as to surround a pair of wires, wherein each wire includes one or more sub-cores, wherein at least one sub-core includes CNT yarn, twisting the plated wires together, and surrounding the plated twisted wires with an electrical layer configured to shield the plated twisted wires, thereby creating the CNT cable.
US10128015B2	X-ray shield grating and X-ray talbot interferometer including X-ray shield grating An X-ray shield grating includes a substrate on which a plurality of recessed portions are arranged, and metal that is arranged in each of the recessed portions. The substrate includes a bent region that is bent in an arrangement direction in which the plurality of recessed portions are arranged. A radius of curvature of the bent region is 200 millimeters or less. In the bent region, a maximum value of a width of a region sandwiched between two adjacent recessed portions of the plurality of recessed portions and a width of the substrate in an end portion of the bent region are less than or equal to three times a minimum value of the width of the region sandwiched between the two adjacent recessed portions.
US10128013B1	Electromagnetic trap cooling system with parallel dipole line trap A method, apparatus and system for decreasing random motions of a levitated diamagnetic cylinder is provided. Embodiments of the present invention utilizes a parallel dipole line (PDL) trap system to trap a diamagnetic object. The trap consists of a magnetic parallel dipole line system made of a pair of transversely magnetized (or diametric) cylindrical magnets. A diamagnetic object such as graphite rod can be trapped at the center. The system includes a differential photodetector pair, a differential amplifier, a differentiator, a proportional integral differential (PID) feedback controller and electrode voltage drive system. The feedback control system will minimize the speed of the trapped rod thus lowering its effective temperature. The system can be used to minimize intrinsic noise and enhance the precision in various sensing applications using a parallel dipole line trap.
US10128010B2	Radiation shielding material and production method therefor [Object] To provide a radiation shielding material that includes a resin composition obtained by filling a matrix formed of resin with a radiation-absorbing substance and is capable of obtaining a structure in which transparency is significantly improved as compared with the conventional radiation shielding material while having a radiation shielding effect similar to that of the conventional radiation shielding material. [Solving Means] A radiation shielding material includes: a resin composition containing a proportion of 20 to 80 vol % of fluoride powder containing barium as a constituent element. The fluoride powder is favorably barium fluoride or lithium barium fluoride, the resin favorably has a refractive index (n) of 1.4 to 1.6, and particularly, a difference between a refractive index of the resin and a refractive index of the fluoride powder is favorably within ±0.05.
US10128009B2	System for handling fuel elements Fuel elements are moved between an upper pool and a lower pool of a nuclear plant by a conveyor tube having an upper end at the upper pool and a lower end at the lower pool and extending at an acute angle to the vertical between the ends. A plurality of transport baskets can move through the conveyor tube, each holding at least one of the fuel. An upper transfer device at the upper end in the upper pool loads the fuel elements into or unloads them from the transport baskets. A lower transfer device in the lower pool loads fuel elements into or unloads them from the transport baskets. Each transfer device can hold two of the transport baskets that are displaceable for positioning above or below the conveyor tube and movable during displacement through the tube between a vertical transfer position and an angled transport position.
US10128003B2	Fuel assembly Disclosed embodiments include fuel ducts, fuel assemblies, methods of making fuel ducts, methods of making a fuel assembly, and methods of using a fuel assembly.
US10127994B1	Systems and methods for threshold voltage modification and detection A memory device includes a memory array of a set of memory cells. Each memory cell of the set of memory cells includes at least one transistor and at least one capacitor. The memory array includes at least one programmed memory cell. The programmed memory cell is selectively programmed by applying hot-carrier injection (HCI) to a transistor of the programmed memory cell. The programmed memory cell may provide an indication of pattern data that may be used to facilitate functionality such as data encryption, data decryption, implementation of a particular memory device operation mode, and/or machine-implemented instructions.
US10127991B2	Three dimensional memory device with access signal triggering from voltage pump output levels A method is described. The method includes, within a semiconductor memory device comprising a three dimensional storage cell array, pumping a voltage and detecting a level of the pumped voltage. The method also includes causing a voltage level of an access control signal that is applied to the three dimensional storage cell array and whose voltage is derived from the pumped voltage to change in response to the detecting of the level of the pumped voltage. An apparatus is also described. The apparatus includes a semiconductor memory device comprising a three dimensional storage cell array. The semiconductor memory device includes a voltage pumping circuit to produce a pumped voltage, a waveform shaping circuit and a controller circuit.
US10127989B2	Semiconductor device An object of the present disclosure is to provide a semiconductor having high security. A semiconductor device includes: a memory region having a plurality of memory cells capable of storing data; a read circuit capable of switching a reference current reading method of reading data by comparing current flowing a memory cell to be read in the memory region with a reference current, and a complementary reading method of reading data by comparing currents flowing in first and second memory cells in which complementary data to be read in the memory region is stored; a register setting a security state; a mode controller setting a mode; and a control circuit controlling the reference current reading method and the complementary reading method of reading the data in the read circuit on the basis of a signal of setting a mode from the mode controller and a value of the register.
US10127987B2	Method for operating single-poly non-volatile memory cell A method for operating a NVM cell is disclosed. The NVM cell includes a select transistor and a floating gate transistor serially connected to the select transistor on an N well. The floating gate transistor includes a floating gate and a floating gate extension capacitively coupled to an erase gate region. The method includes erasing the NVM cell by applying an N well voltage VNW to the N well, wherein VNW>0V; applying a source line voltage VSL to a source doping region of the select transistor, wherein VSL=0V; applying a word line voltage VWL to a select gate of the select transistor, wherein VWL=0V; applying a bit line voltage VBL to a drain doping region of the floating gate transistor, wherein VBL=0V; and applying an erase line voltage VEL to the erase gate region, wherein VEL=VEE.
US10127983B1	Error handling for match action unit memory of a forwarding element A hardware forwarding element is provided that includes a group of unit memories, a set of packet processing pipelines, and an error signal fabric. Each packet processing pipeline includes several of match action stages. Each match action stage includes a set of match action tables stored in a set of unit memories. Each unit memory is configured to detect an error in the unit memory and generate an error output when an error is detected in the memory unit. The error signal fabric, for each match action stage, combines error outputs of the unit memories storing match tables into a first bit in the error signal fabric. The error signal fabric, for each match action stage, combines error outputs of the unit memories storing action tables into a second bit in the error signal fabric.
US10127980B2	Integrated circuit including memory, and write method An integrated circuit according to an embodiment includes: first and second wiring lines; a memory device including a first and second terminals connected to the first and second wiring line respectively; a first transistor including a high-k metal gate; a first circuit applying a first write voltage between the first and the second terminals, and switch the resistance of the memory device from a high-resistance state to a low-resistance state; a second circuit reading the resistance of the memory device, and comparing a read value of the resistance with a predetermined value; a third circuit lowering a threshold voltage of the first transistor when the read value of the resistance is greater than the predetermined value; a fourth circuit applying a second write voltage between the first and second terminals after the threshold voltage is lowered; and a fifth circuit raising the threshold voltage of the first transistor.
US10127976B2	Static random access memory cell array, static random access memory cell and operating method thereof A static random access memory cell includes a controlling signal line unit, a latch and an access transistor unit. The first bottom transistor unit is controlled by the controlling signal line unit to change voltage levels of the first pseudo node and the second pseudo node. The second bottom transistor unit is controlled by the first internal node to perform connection and disconnection between the controlling signal line unit and the second pseudo node, and the second bottom transistor unit is controlled by the second internal node to perform connection and disconnection between the controlling signal line unit and the first pseudo node. The access transistor unit is controlled by the controlling signal line unit to perform connection and disconnection between the controlling signal line unit, the first pseudo node and the second pseudo node.
US10127971B1	Systems and methods for memory cell array initialization Systems and methods are provided for implementing an array rest mode. An example system includes at least one mode register configured to enable an array reset mode, a memory cell array including one or more sense amplifiers, and control logic. Each of the one or more sense amplifier may include at least a first terminal coupled to a first bit line and a second terminal coupled to a second bit line. The control logic may be coupled to the memory cell array, and in communication with the at least one mode register. The control logic may be configured to drive, in response to array reset mode being enabled, each of the first and second terminals of the sense amplifier to a bit-line precharge voltage that corresponds to a bit value to be written to respective memory cells associated with each of the first and second bit lines.
US10127969B2	Memory device command receiving and decoding methods Systems, devices and methods are disclosed. In an embodiment of one such method, a method of decoding received command signals, the method comprises decoding the received command signals in combination with a signal provided to a memory address node at a first clock edge of a clock signal to generate a plurality of memory control signals. The received command signals, in combination with the signal provided to the memory address node at the first clock edge of the clock signal, represent a memory command. Furthermore, the signal provided to the memory address node at a second clock edge of the clock signal is not decoded in combination with the received command signals. The memory command may be a reduced power command and/or a no operation command.
US10127968B2	Method and apparatus for completing pending write requests to volatile memory prior to transitioning to self-refresh mode In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a processor core and a power control unit. The power control unit is to identify the occurrence of a power loss from a primary power source, instruct the I/O controller to block further write requests from the one or more I/O devices and to send at least one pending write request stored by the I/O controller to the memory controller, and instruct the memory controller to complete at least one pending write request stored by the memory controller and to cause the memory to be placed into a self-refresh mode.
US10127967B1	DRAM and method for operating the same The present disclosure provides a dynamic random access memory (DRAM). The DRAM includes a refresh unit and an accessing device. The refresh unit includes a target row on which a read/write (R/W) operation is requested to be performed. The accessing device is configured to perform the R/W operation on the target row while the refresh unit is being refreshed.
US10127961B2	Three transistor two junction magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) bit cell Three transistor two junction magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) bit cells provided. An example MRAM bit cell includes a first magnetic tunnel junction, MTJ, connected to a first bit line. The MRAM bit cell also includes a second MTJ connected to a second bit line. In addition, the MRAM bit cell includes a first transistor connected to the first MTJ and to a ground conductor. The MRAM bit cell further includes a second transistor connected to the second MTJ and to the ground conductor. Additionally, the MRAM bit cell includes a third transistor connected to the first transistor and to the second transistor.
US10127960B1	Transient sensing of memory cells The present invention is directed to a method for sensing the resistance state of a memory cell, which includes a memory element and a two-terminal selector coupled in series between first and second conductive lines. The method includes the steps of precharging at least the first conductive line to attain a potential drop across the memory cell that is sufficiently large to turn on the two-terminal selector; allowing the voltage of the first conductive line to decay by discharging through the second conductive line; measuring the voltage of the first conductive line after a discharge period to determine the resistance state of the memory cell; concluding that the memory cell is in the high resistance state if the measured voltage is greater than a reference level; and concluding that the memory cell is in the low resistance state if the measured voltage is less than the reference level.
US10127952B2	Power control module using protection circuit for regulating backup voltage to power load during power fault A power control module comprising low voltage (LV) port for receiving low supply voltage via LV supply line, high voltage (HV) input port for receiving high supply voltage via HV supply line, wherein high supply voltage is higher than low supply voltage, LV output port for providing low output voltage, HV output port for providing high output voltage, LV node coupled to LV input port, HV node coupled to HV input port, bypass circuit coupled between LV and HV nodes, LV protection circuit coupled between LV node and LV output port, and control circuitry configured to detect power fault on either LV or HV supply line, isolate the LV and HV nodes from LV and HV supply lines, provide backup voltage to LV node, and cause LV protection circuit to regulate backup voltage at LV node to maintain low output voltage at LV output port to within predetermined operating range.
US10127948B1	Extendable hard drive drawer An apparatus comprising at least one extendable hard drive drawer for replacement and maintenance of at least one hard drive. The apparatus comprises a chassis comprising a front side and a rear side, and a first hard drive carrier and a second hard drive carrier housed within the chassis. The first hard drive carrier can be housed at the front side of the chassis, and the second hard drive carrier can be located behind the first hard drive carrier. The first hard drive carrier and the second hard drive carrier can each be adapted to house at least one hard drive. The first hard drive carrier can be adapted to slide from a closed position to a first open position, and from the first open position to a second open position, such that the second hard drive carrier can be accessed in the second open position.
US10127941B2	Optical disk drive guide A method and apparatus is provided to enable loading and/or unloading of a storage drive. The body has a first end, a second end, and a path extending from the first end to the second end. The body is configured to receive the computer readable storage device and maintain the computer readable storage device in a first position. The body is configured to passively change orientation from a first orientation to a second orientation responsive to contact from the computer readable storage device. The first orientation maintains the first position of the computer readable storage drive and the second orientation facilitates traversal of the computer readable storage device along the path.
US10127931B2	Perpendicular magnetic recording and reproducing device According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording and reproducing device includes a magnetic recording medium, a magnetic head, and a controller. The controller implements a first operation and a second operation. The first operation is implemented in a first information recording interval including a first recording interval and a first non-recording interval. The second operation is implemented in a second information recording interval including a second recording interval and a second non-recording interval. The first operation includes in the first recording interval, generating a first signal magnetic field from the magnetic head, and in the first non-recording interval, generating a first non-signal magnetic field from the magnetic head. The second operation includes in the second recording interval, generating a second signal magnetic field from the magnetic head, and in the second non-recording interval, generating a second non-signal magnetic field from the magnetic head.
US10127930B1	In-field laser calibration for heat-assisted magnetic recording head using temperature compensation equation A temperature compensation equation is generated during manufacture of a heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) disk drive using initial total currents supplied to a laser diode of the disk drive at different initial operating temperatures. The total currents represent currents for recording data to or erasing data from the medium. The temperature compensation equation is stored in the disk drive, and updated, during field operation, using a subsequent total current associated with an operating temperature differing from the initial operating temperatures. The total current supplied to the laser diode for a subsequent write operation is adjusted using the updated temperature compensation equation in response to the operating temperature at the time of the subsequent write operation.
US10127928B2	Multi-party conversation analyzer and logger A multi-party conversation analyzer and logger uses a variety of techniques including spectrographic voice analysis, absolute loudness measurements, directional microphones, and telephonic directional separation to determine the number of parties who take part in a conversation, and segment the conversation by speaking party. In one aspect, the invention monitors telephone conversations in real time to detect conditions of interest (for instance, calls to non-allowed parties or calls of a prohibited nature from prison inmates). In another aspect, automated prosody measurement algorithms are used in conjunction with speaker segmentation to extract emotional content of the speech of participants within a particular conversation, and speaker interactions and emotions are displayed in graphical form. A conversation database is generated which contains conversation recordings, and derived data such as transcription text, derived emotions, alert conditions, and correctness probabilities associated with derived data. Investigative tools allow flexible queries of the conversation database.
US10127926B2	Securely executing voice actions with speaker identification and authentication input types In some implementations, (i) audio data representing a voice command spoken by a speaker and (ii) a speaker identification result indicating that the voice command was spoken by the speaker are obtained. A voice action is selected based at least on a transcription of the audio data. A service provider corresponding to the selected voice action is selected from among a plurality of different service providers. One or more input data types that the selected service provider uses to perform authentication for the selected voice action are identified. A request to perform the selected voice action and (i) one or more values that correspond to the identified one or more input data types are provided to the service provider.
US10127925B1	Parallel signal processing system and method A system and method for processing a plurality of channels, for example audio channels, in parallel is provided. For example, a plurality of telephony channels are processed in order to detect and respond to call progress tones. The channels may be processed according to a common transform algorithm. Advantageously, a massively parallel architecture is employed, in which operations on many channels are synchronized, to achieve a high efficiency parallel processing environment. The parallel processor may be situated on a data bus, separate from a main general purpose processor, or integrated with the processor in a common board or integrated device. All, or a portion of a speech processing algorithm may also be performed in a massively parallel manner.
US10127921B2	Adaptive correction of loudspeaker using recurrent neural network An audio system is described that corrects for linear and nonlinear distortions. The system can include a physical loudspeaker system responsive to an audio input signal, an adaptive circuit, e.g., with a recurrent neural network, to correct for non-linear distortions from the loudspeaker.
US10127917B2	Filtering sounds for conferencing applications A conferencing system includes a display device that displays video received from a remote communication device of a communication partner. An audio stream is transmitted to the remote communication device. The audio stream includes real-world sounds produced by one or more real-world audio sources captured by a microphone array and virtual sounds produced by one or more virtual audio sources. A relative volume of sounds in the audio stream is selectively adjusted based, at least in part, on real-world positioning of corresponding audio sources, including real-world and/or virtualized audio sources.
US10127911B2	Speaker identification and unsupervised speaker adaptation techniques Systems and processes for generating a speaker profile for use in performing speaker identification for a virtual assistant are provided. One example process can include receiving an audio input including user speech and determining whether a speaker of the user speech is a predetermined user based on a speaker profile for the predetermined user. In response to determining that the speaker of the user speech is the predetermined user, the user speech can be added to the speaker profile and operation of the virtual assistant can be triggered. In response to determining that the speaker of the user speech is not the predetermined user, the user speech can be added to an alternate speaker profile and operation of the virtual assistant may not be triggered. In some examples, contextual information can be used to verify results produced by the speaker identification process.
US10127904B2	Learning pronunciations from acoustic sequences Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for learning pronunciations from acoustic sequences. One method includes receiving an acoustic sequence, the acoustic sequence comprising a respective acoustic feature representation at each of a plurality of time steps; for each of the time steps processing the acoustic feature representation through each of one or more recurrent neural network layers to generate a recurrent output; processing the recurrent output for the time step using a phoneme output layer to generate a phoneme representation for the acoustic feature representation for the time step; and processing the recurrent output for the time step using a grapheme output layer to generate a grapheme representation for the acoustic feature representation for the time step; and extracting, from the phoneme and grapheme representations for the acoustic feature representations at each time step, a respective pronunciation for each of one or more words.
US10127902B2	Optimizations to decoding of WFST models for automatic speech recognition A method in a computing device for decoding a weighted finite state transducer (WFST) for automatic speech recognition is described. The method includes sorting a set of one or more WFST arcs based on their arc weight in ascending order. The method further includes iterating through each arc in the sorted set of arcs according to the ascending order until the score of the generated token corresponding to an arc exceeds a score threshold. The method further includes discarding any remaining arcs in the set of arcs that have yet to be considered.
US10127899B2	System and method to interface and control multiple musical instrument effects modules and pedals on a common platform A system and method for interfacing and controlling multiple musical instrument effects modules and pedals on a common platform. The system includes: a system processor; a backplane coupled with the system processor; a plurality of musical instrument effects modules removably inserted into the backplane, a plurality of musical instrument effects pedals removably inserted into the backplane via looper channels, each of the plurality of musical instrument effects modules and pedals including an audio input signal interface and an audio output signal interface, at least one of the musical instrument effects modules including a programmable potentiometer and/or programmable switch to modify an audio output signal; and a user interface configured to enable a user to apply a desired setting on the programmable potentiometer of the musical instrument effects modules via the system processor and the backplane: and a user interface configured to enable a user to reorder the musical effects signal path by dragging and dropping a module or pedal icon to a desired position among a plurality of icons thus electrically reordering the effects signal path.
US10127894B2	System for providing fonts, apparatus for providing metafont fonts, and method for controlling the apparatus A system for providing fonts, an apparatus for providing Metafont fonts, and a method for controlling the apparatus are disclosed. The disclosed apparatus, which connects to a device to provide Metafont fonts, includes: a communication module configured to receive a first font request from the device for the font engine, where the first font request includes at least one font style parameter and the ID information of a Metafont font file; and an operating module configured to determine whether or not a font file having ID information identical to the ID information of the font file included in the first font request exists in a first external memory, and if a font file having identical ID information exists, determine whether or not the font converted from the font file having identical ID information is saved in a second external memory.
US10127885B2	Display device, method for driving the same, and electronic apparatus According to an aspect, a display device includes an image display panel in which pixels are arranged; and a signal processing unit that converts input values of input signals including color information of a certain color represented in a reference color gamut into extended values in an extended color space to generate output signals. The signal processing unit corrects the input values of the input signals into input values of corrected input signals including color information of a corrected color so as to correct the certain color into the corrected color that is a color positioned in a direction away from a white point, determines an expansion coefficient, and obtains the output signals for first to fourth sub-pixels based on at least the corrected input signals and the expansion coefficient.
US10127882B2	Method of driving a display apparatus, a display apparatus performing the same and a timing controller included in the display apparatus A method of driving a display apparatus includes determining a duration of a blank interval between a first frame and a second frame, wherein the second frame is subsequent to the first frame, and modulating a common voltage during the blank interval when the duration is longer than a first reference time, wherein an average of the common voltage is fixed during the blank interval.
US10127873B2	Slim display device A display device including scan lines, data lines, k clock signal lines and pixel groups is provided. The pixel groups are respectively driven by the data lines, the corresponding scan lines and the corresponding clock signal lines. Each pixel group includes pixel units respectively configured at intersections of the data lines and the corresponding scan lines, where the scan lines in each pixel group receive a same scan driving signal. Each pixel unit includes two switches and a pixel electrode. Conduction states of the two switches are respectively controlled by the corresponding scan line and the corresponding clock signal line, where clock signals of the clock signal lines corresponding to the pixel units on the adjacent scan lines have a phase difference of 1/k cycle.
US10127872B2	Display apparatus and method of driving the same A display apparatus includes a display panel, a data driving part and a gate driving part. The gate driving part outputs gate signals to gate lines, respectively, increases the gate signal from a first gate off voltage to a gate on voltage, decreases the gate signal from the gate on voltage to the first gate off voltage, decreases the gate signal from the first gate off voltage to a second gate off voltage in a slope less than a slope in which the gate signal decreases from the gate on voltage to the first gate off voltage, during P (P is a natural number) horizontal time in which P gate line of the gate lines is driven, and increases the gate signal from the second gate off voltage to the first gate off voltage.
US10127866B2	Automatic detection method for backlight control and portable electronic device using the same There is provided a portable electronic device including a backlight module, an ambient light sensor, a proximity sensor and a processing unit. The backlight module illuminates with backlight brightness. The ambient light sensor is configured to detect ambient light intensity. The proximity sensor is configured to detect an object. The processing unit is configured to activate the proximity sensor when the ambient light intensity detected by the ambient light sensor is lower than a predetermined value or decreases more than a predetermined range, and to maintain or reduce the backlight brightness according to a detection result of the proximity sensor. There is further provided an automatic detection method.
US10127865B2	Sensing device for sensing light intensity of a panel module and panel apparatus therewith A sensing device for sensing a backlight density of a panel module is disclosed. The panel module includes a panel, a back plate and a holding frame. The back plate has an opening formed thereon and is for installing the panel onto the holding frame. The sensing device includes a sensor module and a base. The sensor module is for sensing a light projected via the opening and generated by the panel. The base is disposed between the back plate and the holding frame. The base includes a main body and a resilient structure. The main body is for containing the sensor module. The resilient structure extends from the main body and resiliently abuts against the holding frame. The resilient structure presses the main body onto the back plate when resilient abutting against the holding frame, such that the back plate and the main body cooperatively covers the sensor module.
US10127864B2	Circuit structure, display device and driving method A circuit structure includes: a control circuit, including a first end, a second end and a control end; a switching circuit, including a first interface, a second interface and a control interface; a driving power line, connected with the control end of the control circuit and configured to provide a driving power voltage in a working stage to conduct the first end of the control circuit and the second end of the control circuit; and a first voltage line, connected with the first end of the control circuit and configured to, when the first end of the control circuit and the second end of the control circuit are conducted, provide a first voltage to the control interface of the switching circuit through the control circuit to disconnect the first interface of the switching circuit from the second interface of the switching circuit.
US10127863B2	Organic light emitting display device An organic light emitting display device includes a controller to control a first area and a second area of a display based on a predetermined condition. The controller simultaneously controls the pixels in the first area to display an image and controls the pixels in the second area to display light having a same gray scale value. The predetermined condition may be a user command or an operational condition, power mode, or status of a host device. The same gray scale value may be a lowest gray scale value in a predetermined range. The first and second areas may have different contours, and may be located at respective main and peripheral display locations of the host device.
US10127858B1	Display systems and methods for three-dimensional and other imaging applications A system can include a plurality of display elements arranged into groups that each include a plurality of first lines, each coupled to at least one element, and a plurality of latch circuits, each having an input coupled to receive a same shared data signal that transitions between different values, each latch circuit configured to latch and output the data signal on the corresponding first line to enable the different values to be driven on different first lines at the same time.
US10127857B2	Temperature estimating apparatus, a method of estimating a temperature, and a display system including the temperature estimating apparatus A temperature estimating apparatus includes an average data outputting circuit configured to output average data of image data displayed on a display panel. The temperature estimating apparatus further includes a change amount outputting circuit configured to determine a change amount of the average data, and to output an average data change amount. The temperature estimating apparatus additionally includes a luminance outputting circuit configured to convert the average data change amount to a luminance, and to output the luminance. The temperature estimating apparatus further includes a temperature sensor configured to sense an ambient temperature of the display panel, and to output the ambient temperature. The temperature estimating apparatus additionally includes a current temperature outputting circuit configured to determine a current temperature of the display panel based on a previous temperature of the display panel, the luminance and the ambient temperature.
US10127856B2	Display apparatus and control method thereof Disclosed are a display apparatus and a control method thereof, the display apparatus including: a display unit which includes a plurality of pixels with an organic light emitting diode (OLED); a power supply which supplies power to the display unit; an image processor which processes an image signal in accordance with the plurality of pixels; and a controller which divides the frame into a plurality of sub-frames, assigns bit weights to each of the divided sub-frames, and controls the power supply to supply a voltage which is adjusted by the assigned bit weights in accordance with the sub-frames to the display unit.
US10127855B2	Array substrate, its manufacturing method, and display device The array substrate according to the present disclosure may include within its fanout region a plurality of signal transmission lines for transmitting signals between a driver chip and a display region of the array substrate, and each signal transmission line may correspond to one data transmission channel. The array substrate may further include at least one impedance balancing line arranged corresponding to a signal transmission line in the plurality of signal transmission lines, wherein the impedance balancing line is electrically connected to the signal transmission line, so that a difference between impedances of different data transmission channels within the fanout region meets a first predetermined condition.
US10127852B2	Method for adjusting display parameters and display device using the same A method for adjusting display parameters in a display device detects a change (second intensity value) in ambient light levels from a first intensity value of ambient light and corresponding first set of display parameters applied to the display device. Second set of display parameters are calculated according to the first intensity value and the second intensity value as well as the first set of display parameters. The display parameters of the display device are adjusted from the first set of display parameters to the second set of display parameters to take account of the change represented by the second intensity value.
US10127850B2	Field sequential display panel, field sequential display device and driving method using an organic light emitting diode (OLED) light source A field sequential display panel, a field sequential display device and a driving method are provided. The field sequential display panel includes: a lower substrate, including a base substrate and a plurality of pixel units disposed on the base substrate, each of the plurality of pixel units including a thin film transistor; an upper substrate; and a liquid crystal layer, located between the lower substrate and the upper substrate; an OLED light source, disposed on a side of the base substrate away from the thin film transistor, which is configured for providing trichromatic light for each of the plurality of pixel units, the OLED light source including: a plurality of trichromatic light source units, each trichromatic light source unit including a sub-light-source of a first color, a sub-light-source of a second color and a sub-light-source of a third color, the first color, the second color and the third color are colors different from each other. With the field sequential display panel, the field sequential display device and the driving method, when a color field sequential display method is used, requirement on response time of a liquid crystal can be reduced.
US10127847B2	Three-dimensional display method, three dimensional display device and display substrate A three-dimensional display method, a three-dimensional display device and a display substrate are provided, which can improve a PPI of an image, and enhance a three-dimensional display effect of the image. The three-dimensional display method is applied to the three-dimensional display device, the three-dimensional display device including a pixel array and a grating, the grating including light-shielding regions and light-transmitting regions arranged alternately; the pixel array including a plurality of pixels, each pixel including at least two sub-pixels, an odd-numbered column and an even-numbered column in the pixel array being staggered longitudinally by a preset length, and the preset length being less than a length of one sub-pixel in a longitudinal direction, the three-dimensional display method including: obtaining original luminance values of sub-pixels of respective colors in each pixel in an original signal of a to-be-displayed image; determining compensation pixels of each sub-pixel, part of the compensation pixels in the compensation pixels corresponding to the sub-pixel being located in a column where the sub-pixel is located, and part of the compensation pixels being located in a column adjacent to the column where the sub-pixel is located; calculating a target luminance value of the sub-pixel, for each sub-pixel in the pixel array, according to an original luminance value of a compensation sub-pixel having a same color as that of the sub-pixel in the compensation pixels corresponding to the sub-pixel, and a weight thereof; displaying the to-be-displayed image according to the target luminance value of each sub-pixel in the pixel array, and dividing the image displayed into two views by the grating.
US10127843B2	Photoluminescent signage A non-powered photoluminescent sign includes a clear substrate and a message. The message is positioned on a surface of the clear substrate. The message is defined by at least one opaque portion. At least one of the at least one opaque portion is photoluminescent. The message is viewable with ambient light and without ambient light. Methods and other photoluminescent signs are also provided.
US10127842B2	Linerless combined mailing label and return label and method of manufacturing same A combined primary label and secondary label comprises a first piece of paper, a first release coating disposed on a portion of the first piece of paper, a second piece of paper, a second release coating different from the first release coating and disposed on a portion of the second piece of paper. The combined primary and secondary label further comprises an adhesive layer disposed between the first and second pieces of paper such that (i) a primary label can be peeled away with at least some adhesive of the adhesive layer from the second release coating disposed on the portion of the second piece of paper, and (ii) a secondary label can be peeled away with at least some adhesive of the same adhesive layer from the first release coating disposed on the portion of the first piece of paper.
US10127840B1	Patient identification band with a tab cover A patient identification unit is provided including a conformable sleeve configured to be worn by a patient such that it extends substantially along an extremity. The sleeve includes a band information display portion, and an occluding insert that is slidably placed to cover the band information display portion. Private information of the patient is provided in the band information display portion beneath the occluding insert. Public information of the patient is provided on an outer surface of the occluding insert forming a tab information display portion. In such a configuration the patent may be able to carry a considerably larger amount of medical information in a manner that both satisfies regulatory privacy laws while allowing access by medical providers in a situation where the patient is unconscious or unable to communicate.
US10127839B2	Apparatus for simulating the function of human stomach and/or human intestine Provided is an apparatus for simulating the function of a human stomach and/or intestine. The apparatus comprises a flexible vessel (10; 100), and a plurality of constriction mechanisms (20), wherein each of the constriction mechanisms (20) is disposed annularly around the outer circumference of the vessel (10; 100), and an inner diameter of each of the constriction mechanisms (20) is variable such that the vessel (10; 100) can be locally and annularly constricted.
US10127837B2	Central Venous Access Trainer (CVAT) A training device for the preparation, execution and maintenance of central venous catheters comprising a central block including a cavern traversing through the block, a tube running through the cavern, a reservoir containing a liquid with a distal end of the tube engaged with the reservoir, a covering material secured over the central block, a guidewire extended through the covering material and within the tube, a hydraulic or pneumatic device operationally associated with the reservoir and allowing the reservoir and the tube to be filled and pressurized with the liquid, a scalpel or similar instrument for making a small incision in the covering material at the site where the guide wire extends through the covering material, a dilator to expand the incision opening and then remove from the incision and guidewire and a catheter to feed over the guidewire and into the incision.
US10127836B2	Automatic injection training device Automatic injection training device with a housing assembly comprising an outer housing, an actuation assembly, and a damper unit comprising a damper housing and a piston assembly that is arranged in said damper housing. The damper housing slides in a proximal direction relative to the piston assembly when an injection is simulated.
US10127834B2	Measurement ring for a mannequin and simulator interacting therewith The present disclosure relates to a measurement ring for positioning at an orifice of a mannequin or standardized patient. The measurement ring comprises a hollow channel, an annular lip, at least one sensor and a communication module. The annular lip is located at a first extremity of the hollow channel and forms therewith an insertion channel for inserting at least one instrument in the orifice of the mannequin or standardized patient. The at least one sensor measures at least one parameter related to insertion of the instrument in the insertion channel and generates insertion data. The communication module transmits the insertion data to a simulation system.
US10127833B1	Video relay service, communication system, and related methods for providing remote assistance to a sign language interpreter during a communication session Video relay services, communication systems, and methods are disclosed herein. The video relay service is for providing sign language translation services during a real-time communication session between a hearing-impaired user and a hearing-capable user. The video relay service is configured to create a video conference and an audio conference for a remote video interpreter at a remote video interpreter work station to provide teaming assistance request for a first video interpreter work station of the video relay service.
US10127828B2	Running form aid system A running form aid system for efficiently teaching a runner the proper running form. The running form aid system generally includes a waist belt attachable about a waist of the runner, a left binding attachable about a left arm of the runner, a left connector attached between a left side of the waist belt and the left binding, a right binding attachable about a right arm of the runner, and a right connector attached between a right side of the waist belt and the right binding. A left elastic strap is attached to the left binding and a right elastic strap is attached to the right binding for engagement by the left hand and the right hand of the runner respectively to maintain the arms at an approximate 90 degree angle.
US10127827B2	Portable egress training device Disclosed is an underwater safety training device. More particularly, the disclosure relates to an egress chair for use in training individuals on how to egress from a submerged vehicle. In accordance with the disclosure, the present egress trainer is lightweight so that it can be manipulated and moved by a single individual. It can also be dissembled for storage and transport. The trainer includes floatable wheel pods that allow the device to float and balance upon the water.
US10127825B1	Apparatus, method, and system of insight-based cognitive assistant for enhancing user's expertise in learning, review, rehearsal, and memorization A personal intuition-based cognitive assistant system includes one or more components which may be worn by a user as a camera-headset, one or more sensors that capture an intuitive state of the user, a camera that capture videos, a processor that provides a cognitive navigating map for the captured videos based on the captured intuitive states of the user, and an inputter that input notes, comments to the videos linked by cognitive navigating map, and a memory to store all components of the information with links and identified cognitive map.
US10127824B2	System and methods to create multi-faceted index instructional videos Features are extracted from visual and audio modalities of a video to infer the location of figures/tables/equations/graphs/flow-charts determined as video anchor points which are highlighted on the video timeline to enable quick navigation and provide a quick summary of the video.A voice-based mechanism navigates to a point-of-interest in the video.In case of bandwidth-constrained settings, videos are often played at a very low resolution (quality), and often users need to increase video resolution manually to understand content presented in the figures. Using the automatic identification of these aforementioned anchored points, the resolution can be changed dynamically during streaming a video, which will provide a better viewing experience.
US10127821B2	Aircraft systems and methods to improve airport traffic management An aircraft system includes a processing unit configured to identify an airport marker during a surface operation at an airport. The processing unit is further configured to automatically generate a reporting message based on the airport marker at a predetermined location relative to the airport marker. The aircraft system further includes a communications unit coupled to the processing unit and configured to send the reporting message.
US10127813B2	Systems and methods for alerting drivers of approaching emergency vehicles A computer-implemented method for alerting passenger vehicles of approaching emergency vehicles is implemented by an alert management computing device. The method includes receiving an emergency vehicle alert request message from an emergency vehicle transmitter, receiving passenger vehicle location data from a plurality of passenger vehicle user computing devices located in a plurality of passenger vehicles, wherein the passenger vehicle location data includes a present passenger vehicle location and a present passenger vehicle trajectory, identifying an alert zone for the emergency vehicle based on the present emergency vehicle location and the present emergency vehicle trajectory, identifying a vehicle zone for each of the plurality of passenger vehicles, identifying a subset of the passenger vehicles within the alert zone by comparing each vehicle zone to the alert zone, and transmitting a warning to the subset of passenger vehicles via the passenger vehicle user computing devices.
US10127805B2	Caching programming data Systems and methods for facilitating caching of programming data are provided herein, including receiving two or more programming data portions, storing the respective programming data portions, managing access to the storage component or the communication component based on programming data portions stored within the storage component, and generating a sleep signal based on a period of inactivity which exceeds an inactivity threshold. In one or more embodiments, caching of programming data may include determining a programming data set based on user profile data, parsing the programming data set into two or more programming data portions, converting respective programming data portions into a format based on a remote configuration, transmitting a first programming data portion of the respective programming data portions, and transmitting additional programming data portions of the respective programming data portions based on a sleep signal.
US10127804B2	Trainable transceiver and cloud computing system architecture systems and methods A system for controlling a remote device including a trainable transceiver, communications electronics, and a processing circuit coupled to the trainable transceiver and the communications electronics. The processing circuit is configured to cause the trainable transceiver to control a remote device in response to a signal received from a cloud computing system, wherein the signal is received from the cloud computing system using the communications electronics.
US10127803B2	Radio and slave control apparatus Provided is a radio formed to be capable of performing wireless communication with sensors, and configured to be connected, through one communication port via wired communication, to a slave control apparatus configured to be communicably connected to a master control apparatus with a predetermined communication method. The radio generates one communication packet formed with the predetermined communication method and transmitted from the radio to the slave control apparatus, such that pieces of measured data measured by the sensors are included in the one communication packet in accordance with a predetermined order in which the slave control apparatus or the master control apparatus can determine which sensor measured which piece of the measured data of the sensors, and the radio transmits the generated one communication packet to the slave control apparatus via wired communication.
US10127802B2	Integrated security system with parallel processing architecture An integrated security system that includes a security coprocessor coupled to a conventional security system panel and an interactive security system. The integrated security system enables conventional security system features as well as the consumer-oriented interactive features and functions of an interactive security system without sacrificing reliability or the significant burden and cost associated with frequent software updates associated with conventional security systems. The integrated security system also minimizes or eliminates the need for new battery backup circuitry or larger batteries.
US10127800B2	Method for sensor maintenance of redundant sensor loops A system for performing sensor maintenance, including redundant sensors to collect one or more data points; one or more non-transitory storage mediums; a processor; and an output device; wherein one of the non-transitory storage mediums receives the one or more data points; wherein one of the non-transitory storage mediums includes one or more instructions for performing two or more statistical calculations; and wherein the processor carries out the instructions. The method for using the system includes: the non-transitory storage medium receiving one or more data points from the redundant sensors; the processor performing the statistical calculations on the data points to generate one or more processed data points and comparing the processed data points to a threshold value; and the non-transitory storage medium creating an alert when the processed data points exceed a threshold value for a period of time; and displaying the alert on the output device.
US10127798B1	Monitoring system control technology using multiple sensors, cameras, lighting devices, and a thermostat Techniques are described for providing control of a monitoring system (e.g., a home alarm or security system) using one or more mobile devices. In some implementations, a native mobile device application enables use of a mobile device as a security/automation system keypad and controller for a home security system. In these implementations, the mobile device, using the native mobile device application, checks real time status of system and sensors, arms/disarms system, turns lights on/off, looks in on live video of security cameras, reviews history of system events, reviews saved video clips, monitors/changes thermostat settings, and performs other features of a traditional security keypad in a home security system.
US10127795B1	Detecting and handling material left in vehicles by transportation requestors The present disclosure includes embodiments of systems, methods, and computer readable media that enable a dynamic transportation system to detect when material has been left in a vehicle by a requestor. In some embodiments, the system detects the completion of the transportation request, analyzes data from a plurality of vehicle sensors, from a computing device associated with the vehicle, and from a computing device associated with the requestor, and then determines, based on the data analysis, that material has been left in the vehicle. The system then performs an action for handling the material based on one or more attributes of the material.
US10127793B2	Smart garment that communicates at least one parameter to a receiver At least one parameter indicating the smart garment presently is being worn by a user can be received from a transmitter integrated into a smart garment. Based on the at least one parameter indicating the smart garment presently is being worn by the user, the smart garment can be identified. Responsive to identifying the smart garment, a fashion recommendation for the user can be determined. The fashion recommendation can be communicated to a client device associated with the user.
US10127789B2	Disaster determination system and disaster determination method A plurality of sensing terminal devices and a disaster determination processing device are dispersedly placed at different positions. Each sensing terminal device is configured to send, when occurrence of disaster has been sensed, disaster sensing information to which terminal identification information for specifying the sensing terminal device itself is added, and the disaster determination processing device is configured to determine a disaster status based on the received disaster sensing information. The sensing terminal devices and the disaster determination processing device are connected together via a mesh network. A disaster determination section of the disaster determination processing device is configured to determine a disaster occurrence position and a disaster expansion direction from a placement position and a disaster sensing time for at least two or more of the sensing terminal devices having sent the disaster sensing information.
US10127775B2	Electronic gaming machine with token-based game availability An electronic gaming machine comprises a display for displaying game symbols for playing a first game of chance, and an electronic game controller for controlling the display of the game symbols on the display. In response to a trigger event in the first game, a second game of chance is displayed, where the appearance of one or more special symbols causes the award of one or more tokens associated with one or more token values. At the end of the second game, an accumulated token value is determined and if it is equal to a predetermined number, a plurality of third games of chance is displayed and is selectable by the player. The third games displayed depend on the accumulated token value. A gaming method is also provided.
US10127771B2	Gaming machine and methods of providing games to players with a special symbol triggering multiple feature games A gaming machine for providing a game to a player is described herein. The gaming machine displays a primary game including a plurality of reels and spins and stops the reels to display the outcome of the primary game. The gaming machine detects a first triggering condition appearing in the outcome of the primary game and responsively initiates a bonus award game upon detecting the first triggering condition, and detects a second triggering condition appearing in the outcome of the primary game and responsively initiates a free game feature upon detecting the second triggering condition.
US10127769B2	System and method for dynamically adjusting prizes or awards based on a platform One aspect of the disclosure relates to implementing a system to encourage cross platform operation in an online game. The online game may provide the ability to provide incentives for participating in cross platform game play. The system may monitor the player's performance on a particular console and provide incentives to accomplish tasks through game play on a different platform than the player is currently operating to play the game.
US10127768B2	Hybrid game with manual trigger option Systems and method for providing a gambling hybrid game having manual triggering of gambling events is disclosed. The systems and method involve providing a proposition of a gambling event to a user and receiving an input accepting the proposition from a user. The gambling event that is associated with the proposition is then resolved. The results of the gambling event are then determined and the wagers are resolved. The results of the gambling event are then used to change variables in a set of game variables that are applied in the game.
US10127765B1	Gaming machine having secondary gaming controller with proxy configuration A gaming machine has a main or master gaming controller for presenting primary games. A secondary controller is associated with the gaming machine for presenting secondary games. The gaming machine includes a primary gaming machine interface and a secondary gaming machine interface to one or more external servers, such as an accounting server. The secondary gaming machine interface is positioned between the master gaming controller and the primary gaming machine interface, whereby the secondary gaming machine interface acts as a host to the master gaming controller and whereby the secondary controller acts as a gaming device to the primary gaming machine interface.
US10127762B2	Gaming system, gaming device, and method for enabling a player to select volatility using game symbols Various embodiments of the gaming system, gaming device, and gaming method disclosed herein provide a primary game and a free activation bonus sequence, wherein the gaming system enables the player to select one or more of a plurality of different volatility options for use in the free activation bonus sequence. Each option is associated with a different number of free activations and a different pool of symbols or different symbol functionality. The gaming system provides this variation in the pool of symbols or symbol functionality in various embodiments by enabling the player to replace one or more symbols of a pool or set of symbols of the primary game (i.e., the primary set of symbols) with the symbol associated with a player selected option. The symbols of this modified set of symbols (i.e., the secondary set of symbols) are used in the free activation bonus sequence).
US10127760B2	Systems and methods for dynamic sharding Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture provide for dynamic sharding, such as in an online gaming environment. The invention includes providing a shared data store including at least a table store adapted to store data representative of table state; creating a plurality of shards wherein each shard includes at least a floor manager system and a game system; presenting a plurality of tables to players via a lobby interface; and scaling a number of the plurality of shards to support a current number of players. Numerous additional aspects are disclosed.
US10127758B2	Automatic retail selling device and method of operation therefore An automated device for automatically and without any human intervention, receiving into the device articles to be distributed or sold, storing the articles, and then distributing or selling the articles to users/customers. The store includes within a housing an entry means for controlling entry into the housing of a plurality of closed shipping containers. Also within the housing is an automated forming means for forming an opening in each of the plurality of the shipping containers, a storing means for storing the plurality of opened shipping containers inside a storage area of the housing, a computer controlled retrieving means for entering into selected ones of the opened shipping so as to retrieve an article from inside one of the stored opened shipping containers and further including moving means for moving the retrieved articles to an output of the housing. Such an automated device allows for new methods of operation of the automatic device, with respect to agreements between parties that distribute or sell articles to users or customers. Furthermore, such an automated device allows is particularly well suited for being implemented in a modular arrangement.
US10127756B2	Medium processing apparatus and financial device A medium processing apparatus is provided. The medium processing apparatus comprises a first cassette support to at least one first cassette, a second cassette support to support at least one second cassette, the second cassette support being connected to the first cassette support, a container in which the first and second cassette supports are received, and a first locking unit to lock the second cassette support and the first cassette support. When the first locking unit is released, the second cassette support is pulled out to the outside of the container in a state in which the first cassette support is disposed in the container.
US10127754B2	Identification-based barrier techniques Methods and systems are described for controlling access to a home based on user occupancy. According to at least one embodiment, an apparatus for controlling access to a home based on user occupancy includes a processor, a memory in electronic communication with the processor, and instructions stored in the memory which are executable by a processor to determine a location of a user of a home automation system relative to a barrier of a home being monitored by the home automation system. The instructions are executable to determine whether to permit a change in a locking mechanism of the barrier based in part on the determined location of the user, and maintain a current state of the home automation system.
US10127753B2	Antenna diversity implementation for wireless locks An electronic lock system including an access control device configured to provide system instructions, an interface module electrically coupled to the access control device and configured to transmit RF signals in response to system instructions received from the access control device, and a plurality of wireless electronic door locks each configured to wirelessly communicate with the interface module. Each of the wireless electronic door locks includes a controller and a wireless receiver operatively connected to the controller, the wireless receiver including a first antenna defined as a circuit board trace and a second antenna, spaced from the first antenna and defined as a circuit board trace. Each of the first antenna and the second antenna include one of a monopole antenna and a fractal antenna. The controller is configured to switch between the first antenna and the second antenna to receive a wireless signal having a greater signal strength.
US10127752B2	Electronic locking systems, methods, and apparatus Electronic locking devices, systems, and methods may require the utilization of an electronic key generated by an electronic key generation device. The electronic key may be generated using a data payload received from server and/or an administrative device. The administrative device is enabled to remotely manage the locking device and locking system via, for example, a software application running on the administrative device and/or a website.
US10127751B2	Controlling physical access to secure areas via client devices in a networked environment A method is disclosed for providing physical access credentials to a client device. The method may include receiving a request for a physical access credential, where the first request includes at least one user access credential and at least one physical access point identifier. The method may also include determining whether the request should be granted based at least in part on the at least one user access credential. The method may further include, in response to determining that the request should be granted, sending the physical access credential associated with the physical access point.
US10127749B2	System and method for profile indication on a key fob A key fob associated with a select one of a plurality of driver profiles stored in a vehicle memory is provided. The key fob comprises a memory for storing a profile indication for identifying the driver profile associated with the key fob, and an output device for presenting the profile indication. Another embodiment provides a wireless system comprising a vehicle storing driver profiles in a memory, and a key fob associated with a select profile and comprising an output device for presenting a profile indication assigned to that profile. Another embodiment includes a method of providing a profile indication on a key fob associated with one of the driver profiles stored in the vehicle. The method comprises transmitting an identifier to the vehicle, receiving a profile indication associated with the identifier from the vehicle, and presenting the profile indication on an output device of the key fob.
US10127748B2	System having a mobile key unit A system having a mobile key unit (2) for reading and writing data from at least one external device (3) of a facility (4), wherein the data at least comprise identification data for the device (3) to be checked, and wherein the mobile key unit (2) has a first transmission/reception unit (5) by means of which the data can be transmitted wirelessly between the device (3) and the key unit (2), wherein the key unit (2) has a first memory (6), the key unit (2) has at least one secure channel (7) having a first evaluation unit (8) and the first transmission/reception unit (5) and has at least one second channel (12) having a second evaluation unit (13) and a second transmission/reception unit (10) by means of which data can be wirelessly transferred between the device (3) and the key device (2), wherein the data can at least be transmitted using one of the transmission/reception units.
US10127747B2	Systems and methods for electronic ticketing, monitoring, and indicating permissive use of facilities Systems and methods for electronic ticketing, monitoring, and indicating permissive use of facilities for family entertainment centers that implement connected terminal devices or kiosks, wireless communication networks, and a plurality of electronic wearable devices. Customers perform transactions with or without a facility employee, using the wearable device as a means of identifying the patron within the facility in addition to verifying the validity of said transactions. Systems and methods provide real-time status information regarding patrons via visual indicators embedded within wearable devices, gamification of facility attractions through an embedded motion-tracking component embedded in the wearable device, and establishment of a ‘leaderboard’ that encourages further participation by calculating and prominently displaying the top-performing customers in a facility.
US10127743B2	Apparatuses, systems and methods for electronic data logging Apparatuses, systems, and methods are provided for electronic data logging. More particularly, apparatuses, systems, and methods are provide for electronic data logging which may incorporate a vehicle electronic device that may store data when the vehicle electronic device is not in communication with an external device and that may transmit data when the vehicle electronic device is in communication with an external device.
US10127741B2	Electronic vaporizing device with vehicle monitoring functionality The present disclosure is directed to an electronic vaporizing device having a vehicle monitoring component for monitoring a plurality of performance data associated with a vehicle, analyzing the plurality of performance data to determine at least one vehicle condition, and outputting the data and/or analysis to a user of the device. The electronic vaporizing device may comprise at least one vehicle monitoring component operable to interface with a plurality of machine devices of an associated vehicle to capture a plurality of vehicle performance data associated with at least one of the plurality of machine devices, determine at least one performance condition based on at least a portion of the plurality of captured performance data, and generate a plurality of vehicle status data therefrom. The determination of the at least one performance condition and generation of the plurality of vehicle status data may be based on a plurality of performance data capture parameters.
US10127739B2	System for detecting angle of articulation on an articulating mining machine A system for detecting the angle of articulation at an articulating point between a first section and a second section of an articulating machine is provided. The system includes a controller positioned on the articulating machine for generating a uniquely encoded signal. A plurality of drivers are positioned on the second section of the articulating machine such that they are in communication with the controller for transmitting the uniquely encoded signal. A machine mounted locator is positioned on the first section of the articulating machine such that it is in communication with the drivers. An algorithm based on the uniquely encoded signal and a radio frequency signal generated by the machine mounted locator is performed at the controller to generate the uniquely encoded signal.
US10127734B2	Augmented reality personalization A method is provided, such as for mobile augmented reality personalization. A front-facing camera of the mobile device acquires a first view of a user of the mobile device. A personal characteristic of the user of the mobile device is identified from the first view. A location of the mobile device may be determined. A back-facing camera of the mobile device may acquire a second view of a region at the location. Augmented reality information is selected as a function of the personal characteristic. A second view is displayed with the augmented reality information.
US10127732B1	Stereo-based calibration apparatus A virtual reality (VR) headset calibration system calibrates a VR headset, which includes a plurality of locators and an inertial measurement unit (IMU) generating output signals indicative of motion of the VR headset. The system comprises a calibration controller configured to receive a headset model of the VR headset that identifies expected positions of each of the locators. The controller controls cameras to capture images of the VR headset while the headset is moved along a predetermined path. The images detect actual positions of the locators during the movement along the predetermined path. Calibration parameters for the locators are generated based on differences between the actual positions and the expected positions. Calibration parameters for the IMU are generated based on the calibration parameters for the locators and differences between expected and actual signals output by the IMU. The calibration parameters are stored to the VR headset.
US10127731B1	Directional augmented reality warning system A head mounted device (HMD) has a transparent display. The HMD detects an event external to the HMD and determines a location of the event relative to the location of the HMD. The HMD generates augmented reality (AR) content identifying the event and a direction of the location of the event relative to the location of the HMD and displays the AR content in the transparent display.
US10127726B2	Electronic apparatus, control method thereof, computer program, and computer-readable recording medium Disclosed herein is a control method of an electronic apparatus. The control method of an electronic apparatus includes: calculating an average speed of a vehicle when a specific event occurs; generating an object indicating a relationship between the calculated average speed and an event speed corresponding to the specific event; and outputting the generated object through augmented reality.
US10127725B2	Augmented-reality imaging A two-dimensional augmentation image is rendered from a three-dimensional model from a first virtual perspective. A transformation is applied to the augmentation image to yield an updated two-dimensional augmentation image that approximates a second virtual perspective of the three-dimensional model without additional rendering from the three-dimensional model.
US10127721B2	Method and system for displaying and navigating an optimal multi-dimensional building model A method and system is provided for automatic generation and navigation of optimal views of facades of multi-dimensional building models based on where and how the original images were captured. The system and method allows for navigation and visualization of facades of individual or multiple building models in a multi-dimensional building model visualization system.
US10127719B2	Creating a synthetic model with organic veracity A method of creating a real time synthetic model tracking a dynamic physical entity, comprising: a) Receiving multiple points extracted from a sequence of 3D information depicting a dynamic physical entity, each point is associated with position and photometric information. b) Identifying, within the multiply of points, a cloud point which includes multiple entity representative points which portray a surface of the dynamic physical entity. c) Generating a points-surface for a synthetic model by creating spatial presentation of the entity representative points through calculation of principal curvatures for each entity representative point according to the respective position information. d) Generating a continuous surface for the synthetic model by texturing ellipsoidal shapes created for each entity representative point according to the respective photometric information. e) Tracking motion of the dynamic physical entity by adjusting the points-surface and the continuous surface through iterations wherein in each iteration steps a)-d) are performed.
US10127718B2	Methods for indoor 3D surface reconstruction and 2D floor plan recovery utilizing segmentation of building and object elements Methods for indoor 3D surface reconstruction and 2D floor plan recovery by segmenting a number of objects and building structure elements from a building scan using an electronic computing device are presented, the methods including: causing the electronic computing device to capture the building scan, where the building scan includes a number of scan points; pre-processing scan data from the building scan; generating an octree and a 2.5D model from the pre-processed scan data; extracting interior and exterior volumes from the octree model and the 2.5D model; and meshing the extracted volumes to generate a 3D object geometry and a 3D building geometry, where the 3D object geometry corresponds with the number of objects and the 3D building geometry corresponds with the indoor 3D surface reconstruction of building structure elements.
US10127715B2	3D user interface—non-native stereoscopic image conversion Systems and methods for displaying a three-dimensional (3D) workspace, including a 3D internet browser, in addition to a traditional two-dimensional (2D) workspace and for browsing the internet in a 3D/virtual reality workspace and transforming and/or upconverting objects and/or visual media from the 2D workspace and/or 2D webpages to the 3D workspace as 3D objects and/or stereoscopic output for display in the 3D workspace.
US10127709B2	Modeling device, three-dimensional model generating device, modeling method, and program The modeling device according to the present invention includes a data obtainer, a surface extractor, and a modeler. The surface extractor determines, by use of mathematical formulae representing a first surface and second surfaces surrounding the first surface, of the three-dimensional object, boundaries surrounding the first surface. The surface extractor extracts, from measurement points belonging to the first surface, measurement points relating to a region inside the first surface and having a predetermined width from the boundaries.
US10127708B2	Management of a plurality of graphic cards The invention notably relates to a computer-implemented method for managing a plurality of graphic cards, a graphic card comprising one or more graphic processing units, comprising loading a scene in a Render Engine, the scene comprising at least one graphic data to be used for rendering a view of the scene; creating an abstract graphic resource for a graphic resource of the at least one graphic data, the abstract graphic resource storing an identifier of a graphic resource for at least one of graphic card; copying, on the said at least one graphic card, the said graphic resource of the at least one graphic data; providing to the Render Engine with an access to the abstract graphic resource for handling the said graphic resource.
US10127707B2	Discard mechanism for tile-based rendering A tile identifier may be assigned to tiles processed in order in a pixel shader. When the tiles are processed out of order in the pixel shader, the tile identifier may be used to determine when rendering is complete and a tile may be discarded.
US10127705B2	Method and apparatus for dynamic geofence searching of an incident scene An incident scene is searchable via a portable communication device and method that provides for displaying a masked augmented reality of the incident scene to the display of the portable communication device. A geofenced area is applied within the displayed masked augmented reality of the incident scene as an indication to the user of an area to be searched. As the geofenced area is searched, masking is removed from the displayed masked augmented reality of the incident scene. The masking is only being removed within the geofenced area based on user attention span provided to the geofenced area. The removal of masking indicates areas that have been searched.
US10127702B2	Image processing device and image processing method There is provided an image processing device. An object detecting unit is configured to detect objects from each frame image sequentially input from an imaging device. A selecting unit is configured to select objects positioned at the lowest portions, from the objects included in a plurality of individual segment areas constituting the frame image and existing side by side in a left-right direction. A highlighting-image generating unit is configured to generate highlighting images for highlighting the objects selected by the selecting unit.
US10127701B2	Image processing apparatus and control method thereof The image processing apparatus includes a determination unit that determines whether a plurality of input images are a plurality of divided images or a plurality of independent images, an adding unit that adds a margin image to an edge portion of each input image, an image processing unit that performs image processing on the plurality of input images to each of which the margin image has been added when the plurality of input images are the plurality of divided images, and performs image processing on the plurality of images to each of which the margin image generated from another input image has not been added when the plurality of input images are the plurality of independent, and a synthesizing unit that generates one synthesized image by synthesizing the plurality of input images on which image processing has been performed by the image processing unit.
US10127700B2	Generation of display overlay parameters utilizing touch inputs A system includes: a first module configured to receive a video image and to record image sections of the video image corresponding to touch event locations; a second module configured to determine foreground color information and background color information of each image section based on a comparison of the image sections of the video image; and a third module configured to output overlay information based on the foreground color information and the background color information.
US10127690B2	PET random coincidence correction A positron emission tomography (PET) imaging system (10) includes a singles unit (24), a delay unit (26), a scaling unit (28), and a reconstruction unit (30). The singles unit (24) is configured to generate a correction sinogram of random coincidences defined by a coincidence time window tw and a time period t based on rij=2 t si sj where rij is an estimate of the random coincidences in the time period t between singles at detector locations si and sj. The delay unit (26) is configured to determine delay coincidences in the time period t defined by a delay coincidence time window of a paired coincidences including tw to 2 tw. The scaling unit (28) is configured to scale the correction sinogram of random coincidences based on the delay coincidences. The reconstruction unit (30) is configured to iteratively reconstruct one or more images based on the scaled random sinogram and a prompt sinogram for the time period t.
US10127686B2	System including a seamless lens cover and related methods A seamless lens cover, and methods of forming such a seamless lens cover. The cap structure that covers a camera of a rotating panoramic camera system includes a seamless lens cover through which images are obtained by the camera. The cap structure may be injection molded at an initial lens cover thickness, and then a portion of the as molded initial lens cover thickness may be removed (e.g., by machining away) to achieve the final desired thickness. By such a method, the lens cover may be injection molded at thicknesses suitable for injection molding (e.g., about 0.06 to about 0.1 inch), after which most of the thickness may be machined away, to provide a seamless lens cover having a thickness of less than about 0.015 inch, exhibiting at least 60% transmittance to the thermal spectrum, no lensing characteristics, and no curvature effect.
US10127677B1	Using observations from one or more robots to generate a spatio-temporal model that defines pose values for a plurality of objects in an environment Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for generating and using a spatio-temporal model that defines pose values for a plurality of objects in an environment and corresponding times associated with the pose values. Some implementations relate to using observations for one or more robots in an environment to generate a spatio-temporal model that defines pose values and corresponding times for multiple objects in the environment. In some of those implementations, the model is generated based on uncertainty measures associated with the pose values. Some implementations relate to utilizing a generated spatio-temporal model to determine the pose for each of one or more objects an environment at a target time. The pose for an object at a target time is determined based on one or more pose values for the object selected based on a corresponding measurement time, uncertainty measure, and/or source associated with the pose values.
US10127675B2	Edge-based local adaptive thresholding system and methods for foreground detection Systems and methods for generating a locally adaptive threshold image for foreground detection performing operations including creating a saliency edge strength image or layer indicating edge or border pixels of the nuclei by performing tensor voting on pixels neighboring the initial edge pixels within an image region to refine true edges are featured. Further, for each of a plurality of regions or blocks of the image, an adaptive threshold image is determined by sampling a foreground pixel and a background pixel for each initial edge pixel or refined edge pixel, generating histograms for both background and foreground saliency (or gradient magnitude) modulated histograms, determining a threshold range for each block of the image, and interpolating the threshold at each pixel based on the threshold range at each block. Comparing the input image with the resulting locally adaptive threshold image enables extraction of significantly improved foreground.
US10127671B2	Method and apparatus for generating superpixel clusters A method and an apparatus for generating a superpixel cluster for an image or a sequence of images. A primary clustering unit generates a primary superpixel cluster using a fixed reference superpixel, whereas a secondary clustering unit generates two or more secondary superpixel clusters using a propagating reference superpixel. A combining unit then combines intersections between the primary superpixel cluster and the two or more secondary superpixel clusters to generate a final superpixel cluster.
US10127670B2	Computer vision systems and methods for detecting and modeling features of structures in images A computer vision system and method for detecting and modeling features of a building in a plurality of images is provided. The system includes at least one computer system in communication with a database of aerial imagery, and computer vision system code executed by the at last one computer system which automatically detects contours and infers interior roof features of the building. The system first processes the plurality of images to identify a plurality of two-dimensional (2D) line segments in each image. Then, the system processes the plurality of 2D line segments to generate a plurality of three-dimensional (3D) line segments. The plurality of 2D line segments are then processed to detect a contour of the structure, and the contour of the structure is utilized by the system to infer interior roof lines from the structure. A model of the roof of the structure is finally generated using the detected contour and interior roof lines. The system can execute a straight-skeleton algorithm to infer the interior roof lines from the detected contour. Additionally, the system can detect roof rakes from the images.
US10127665B1	Intelligent assistant judgment system for images of cervix uteri and processing method thereof The present invention discloses an intelligent assistant judgment system for images of cervix uteri and a processing method thereof. This system comprises a colposcope device and an assistant judgment device. By combining the colposcope device and the assistant judgment device together to obtain the images of the cervix uteri to be detected by the colposcope device and to compare and analyze the images of the cervix uteri to be detected and its characteristic data by the assistant judgment device, the present invention can judge whether the current cervix uteri to be detected are normal cervix uteri, and can obtain, from the characteristic data of the images of the cervix uteri to be detected, the type of a lesion occurring in the current cervix uteri to be detected and characteristic parameters of the lesion. The doctors are assisted in making correct diagnosis and judgment.
US10127663B2	Method for creating a production model for a patient-specific medical object A method is disclosed for creating a production model for a patient-specific medical object. Image data relating to a body region are segmented into regions, each region corresponding with structures of different tissue. By way of the regions that correspond with the structures, a number of shape features is determined for the medical object. The shape features are compared with shape data relating to a plurality of stored object data sets. On the basis of the comparison of the shape features with the shape data, a prototype of the medical object is specified. The prototype of the medical object is defined as a production model. The production model is stored on a data carrier and/or output via an interface.
US10127661B2	Method for evaluating skin tissue and system using the same A method for evaluating skin tissue includes: obtaining a tomographic image of skin; performing a quantization process for quantizing brightness values of the tomographic image of skin to generate a quantized image; performing a binarization process on the brightness value of each image point in the quantized image according to a first threshold interval to generate a first filtered image; performing the binarization process on the brightness value of each image point in the quantized image according to a second threshold interval to generate a second filtered image; obtaining a first estimated tissue boundary according to the distribution of the bright spots in the first filtered image; obtaining a second estimated tissue boundary according to the distribution of the bright spots in the second filtered image; estimating a thickness of skin tissue according to a difference between the first and second estimated tissue boundaries.
US10127660B2	Radiomic features on diagnostic magnetic resonance enterography Methods, apparatus, and other embodiments associated with predicting Crohn's Disease (CD) patient response to immunosuppressive (IS) therapy using radiomic features extracted from diagnostic magnetic resonance enterography (MRE). One example apparatus includes an image acquisition circuit that acquires an MRE image of a region of tissue demonstrating CD pathology, a segmentation circuit that segments a region of interest (ROI) from the diagnostic radiological image, a classification circuit that extracts a set of discriminative features from the ROI and that distinguishes the ROI as a responder or non-responder to IS therapy, and a CD prediction circuit that generates a radiomic enterographic (RET) score based on the diagnostic radiological image or the set of discriminative features. A prognosis or treatment plan may be provided based on the RET score.
US10127658B2	Geometry correction for computed tomography Disclosed are apparatus and methods determining a center offset distance for computed tomography imaging. A specimen is positioned between an emission source for outputting radiation towards the specimen while the specimen rotates with respect to a detector for receiving radiation that has passed through the specimen. Projection data is collected from emissions received at the detector for multiple rotational positions of the specimen. A sinogram image is generated based on the projection data. The sinogram image is divided into image portions, which are superimposed and iteratively moved relative to each other by a relative offset so that a superimposed image peak in such superimposed image portions has a maximized height. A center offset distance for the sinogram image is defined as a relative offset between the superimposed image portions that results in the maximized height. If the center offset distance is zero, the superimposed image portions will be superimposed so that their edges are aligned to result in the maximized height. A specimen image is reconstructed using the determined center offset distance.
US10127656B2	Method and apparatus for processing block to be processed of urine sediment image In the present invention are a method and apparatus for processing a block to be processed of a urine sediment image. The method comprises: dividing a block to be processed into a plurality of grids; calculating an n-dimensional local feature vector of each grid of the plurality of grids, where n is a positive integer; in the block to be processed, merging at least two adjacent grids of the plurality of grids into an intermediate block; calculating an intermediate block merging feature vector of the intermediate block; according to a predetermined combination rule, combining the intermediate block merging feature vectors obtained for different intermediate blocks of the block to be processed into a general combination feature vector of the block to be processed; and by way of taking the general combination feature vector as a feature in a feature set of block processing, processing the block to be processed.
US10127655B2	Medical imaging apparatus and method of operating same Provided is a method of operating a medical imaging apparatus, comprising: acquiring a first image of a first type corresponding to a first respiratory state of an object; determining motion information of the object with respect to a respiratory state, based on first and second images of a second type respectively corresponding to the first respiratory state and a second respiratory state of the object; and generating a second image of the first type corresponding to the second respiratory state by applying the motion information to the first image of the first type.
US10127653B2	Determining coordinates for an area of interest on a specimen Methods and systems for determining coordinates for an area of interest on a specimen are provided. One system includes one or more computer subsystems configured for, for an area of interest on a specimen being inspected, identifying one or more targets located closest to the area of interest. The computer subsystem(s) are also configured for aligning one or more images for the one or more targets to a reference for the specimen. The image(s) for the target(s) and an image for the area of interest are acquired by an inspection subsystem during inspection of the specimen. The computer subsystem(s) are further configured for determining an offset between the image(s) for the target(s) and the reference based on results of the aligning and determining modified coordinates of the area of interest based on the offset and coordinates of the area of interest reported by the inspection subsystem.
US10127650B2	Method for controlling the suspension of a vehicle by processing images from at least one on-board camera The disclosed method checks the state of degradation of the suspension of a vehicle without having to carry out tests that immobilize the vehicle or to use non-objective expertise. The method processes data provided by at least one front camera in an on-board visual system. The checking method includes steps for periodically acquiring images provided by the camera or cameras, followed by storage of the positional data of the three-dimensional road in relation to a flat road and basic positional parameter data for the path of the vehicle. The error between the ideal values of the suspension parameters of a chosen suspension model and the values of these parameters corresponding to the stored path data from the positional data is then minimized. By iteration, the accuracy ε of the error reaches a predetermined value sufficient to diagnose a state of the suspension.
US10127648B2	Pattern inspection apparatus and pattern inspection method A pattern inspection apparatus includes a stage to mount thereon a substrate with patterns formed thereon and be able to move two-dimensionally, plural detectors of a two-dimensional scale, whose height positions are mutually different and arranged at positions on the stage different from the substrate position, to perform measurement, the body of the two-dimensional scale arranged fixed to a position facing the plural detectors, a sensor to acquire an optical image of the pattern on the substrate, in a state where the stage with the substrate is moving in one direction on a surface for the two-dimensional movement, a calculation circuitry to calculate an image acquiring position of the optical image by using position information measured by the two-dimensional scale, and a comparison circuitry to compare, using a reference image corresponding to the image acquiring position of the optical image, the optical image with the reference image for each pixel.
US10127646B2	Apparatus and method for measuring quality of holographic image Provided is an apparatus for measuring a quality of a holographic image. The apparatus includes: a hologram image reconstruction unit configured to perform a hologram image; a superimposed focus image generation unit configured to collect an area that is in focus from reconstructed images and superimpose into a single image; and a hologram image quality measurement unit configured to perform an image quality evaluation for the superimposed focus image.
US10127642B2	Method for correcting defective pixel artifacts in a direct radiography image A method for reducing image disturbances caused by reconstructed defective pixel clusters located in signal-gradient affected diagnostic image regions. An individually adapted central symmetrical pair reconstruction (CSP) kernel is composed for a defective image pixel based on a kernel-pair candidate order encoded in a model thereby using the pixel's validity state. The image impacted by defective pixels is corrected in real-time by statistical filtering or spatial convolution of the kernel-associated image data accessible via a predetermined CSP kernels image-offsets structure.
US10127641B2	Contrast constrained aerothermal radiation correction method Disclosed in the present invention is a contrast constrained aerothermal radiation correction method. By analyzing features of images at different intensities of aerothermal radiation, it has been discovered that the stronger the aerothermal radiation effect is, the smaller the image contrast becomes, and when thermal radiation correction is performed using a gradient fitting algorithm, it has been discovered that time consumption thereof grows exponentially with an increase in a degree of a fitting surface and with an increase in an image size. The present invention can rapidly and effectively restore an aerothermal radiation image, remarkably improving a signal to noise ratio and quality of the image.
US10127639B2	Image processing device having depth map generating unit, image processing method and non-transitory computer readable recording medium An object of the present invention is to provide an image processing device and the like that can generate a composite image in a desired focusing condition. In a smartphone 1, an edge detecting section 107 detects an edge as a feature from a plurality of input images taken with different focusing distances, and detects the intensity of the edge as a feature value. A depth estimating section 111 then estimates the depth of a target pixel, which is information representing which of the plurality of input images is in focus at the target pixel, by using the edge intensity detected by the edge detecting section 107. A depth map generating section 113 then generates a depth map based on the estimation results by the depth estimating section 111.
US10127638B2	Image haze removing apparatus and method of removing image haze An image haze removing apparatus includes at least a transmission coefficient generator, a low pass filter, a particle size parameter estimator, a transmission coefficient divider and a real image estimator. The transmission coefficient generator generates a transmission coefficient based on a captured image. The low pass filter outputs a low frequency image, which includes a low frequency component of the captured image. The particle size parameter estimator estimates a particle size parameter based on the low frequency image. The transmission coefficient divider divides the transmission coefficient based on the particle size parameter to generate first to third divided transmission coefficients, which correspond to red, green and blue data of the captured image, respectively. The real image estimator estimates a real image by applying the first to third divided transmission coefficients to the red, green and blue data of the captured image, respectively.
US10127636B2	Content-based detection and three dimensional geometric reconstruction of objects in image and video data Systems, computer program products, and techniques for reconstructing objects depicted in digital image data within a three-dimensional space are disclosed, according to various exemplary embodiments. The inventive concepts uniquely utilize internal features to accomplish reconstruction, thereby avoiding reliance on reconstructing objects based on information derived from location of edges. The inventive concepts thus provide an improvement over conventional object reconstruction since objects may be reconstructed even when edges are obscured or not depicted in the digital image data. In one aspect, a computer-implemented method of reconstructing an object depicted in a digital image includes: detecting a plurality of identifying features of the object, wherein the plurality of identifying features are located internally with respect to the object; and reconstructing the digital image of the object within a three dimensional coordinate space based at least in part on some or all of the plurality of identifying features.
US10127630B2	Zooming of medical images The invention relates to a system (100) for zooming an image displayed in a viewport, wherein the image comprises a plurality of regions, each region of the plurality of regions having a zoom function associated with the region, the system comprising an input unit (110) for receiving a region input for selecting a region of the plurality of regions and for receiving a zoom input for zooming the image, and a zoom unit (120) for zooming the image based on the zoom input, using the zoom function associated with the selected region. The zoom function associated with each region of the plurality of regions may be defined in any way deemed useful. For example, it may be defined in such a way that the selected region or an interesting portion of it is displayed in the viewport or, vice versa, the selected region or an interesting portion thereof is removed from the displayed view of the image. Advantageously, the user does not always need to precisely select the zoom center, as the application will select the zoom center, based at least on the selected region.
US10127629B2	System and method of providing real-time dynamic imagery of a medical procedure site using multiple modalities A system and method of providing composite real-time dynamic imagery of a medical procedure site from multiple modalities which continuously and immediately depicts the current state and condition of the medical procedure site synchronously with respect to each modality and without undue latency is disclosed. The composite real-time dynamic imagery may be provided by spatially registering multiple real-time dynamic video streams from the multiple modalities to each other. Spatially registering the multiple real-time dynamic video streams to each other may provide a continuous and immediate depiction of the medical procedure site with an unobstructed and detailed view of a region of interest at the medical procedure site at multiple depths. A user may thereby view a single, accurate, and current composite real-time dynamic imagery of a region of interest at the medical procedure site as the user performs a medical procedure.
US10127628B2	Method and system to virtualize graphic processing services Methods and systems configured to virtualize graphic processing services in a virtual machine environment are disclosed. A virtual machine monitor (VMM) may be configured to maintain a virtual machine (VM) based on a host operating system (OS) executing in the system. The VM may contain a virtualized graphics library (vGLib) configured to support a graphic command from an application executing in the VM. The host OS may contain a graphics library (GLib) configured to support the graphic command and utilize a graphics processing unit (GPU) in the system to process the graphic command. Upon receiving the graphic command from the application, the vGLib may be configured to allocate a memory section in the VM to store the graphic command. And the VMM may be further configured to share access to the memory section with the host OS, thereby allowing the host OS to retrieve the graphic command from the memory section and deliver the graphic command to the GLib for processing.
US10127622B2	Image processing apparatus and robot system An image processing apparatus includes a first connecting unit connected to an image pickup apparatus, a plurality of second connecting units connected to one control apparatus or one other image processing apparatus, the control apparatus being configured to control a robot; and a processing unit configured to process picked-up images picked up by the image pickup apparatus.
US10127620B2	Individual health record system and apparatus A system, apparatus, and related methods for the collection, processing, evaluation, transformation, and reporting of individual health care information from diverse information systems and sources. A individual health record (IHR) of the present invention provides a structure for individuals to participate in, and manage, their health and their medical care, while still meeting the needs of health care organizations and caregivers. An IHR object may be formed by obtaining information from diverse health care information systems and sources, and transforming and re-purposing into a coherent account of the individual's overall health and care using a comprehensive health care ontology. As information from various sources is updated or available, the IHR is dynamically updated on a continuous or periodic basis. In one embodiment, the IHR system is contained in a self-contained package or “appliance” designed to “plug and play” in existing health care information technology systems and networks, with minimal effort and intervention.
US10127617B2	System for analyzing social media data and method of analyzing social media data using the same A system and method for analyzing social media data may include a seeding means configured to extract a URL of social media and perform targeting by assigning the extracted URL to a pattern, a crawling means configured to collect data included in the targeted social media, an indexing means configured to classify the collected data as first data or second data based on a predetermined reference value and including (i) a first indexing module configured to assign a first index to the first data and search for first target data based on the first index, and (ii) a second indexing module configured to assign a second index to the second data and search for second target data based on the second index. An analysis means may analyze the first and the second target data and derive a result value, and a visualization means may display the result value.
US10127612B2	System, method, and computer-readable medium for improving the efficiency and stability of financial markets A method to assist in the operation of a financial market. The method including receiving one or more transaction messages, where the one or more transaction messages include one or more orders or order commitments to be executed on the financial market; imposing one or more delays on the one or more orders or order commitments using a delay algorithm; processing the one or more order or order commitments by opening the one or more transaction messages after the one or more delays; matching the opened orders or order commitments; and executing the matched orders or order commitments.
US10127610B1	Risk-based reference pool capital reducing systems and methods Embodiments consistent with the present invention provide a credit enhancement structure for risk allocation between parties that minimizes the regulatory capital reserve requirement impact to an institution subject to capital reserve requirement. A subject pool of assets held by the institution, such as a pool of loans, is rated to determine its risk levels. Based on the rated risk levels, a guarantor party agrees to be responsible for a portion of the risk associated with the pool of assets, which may define the maximum risk exposure of the institution holding the asset pool. The risk-rated capital reserve requirements are applied to the asset pool based on the risk level rating and the guarantor's agreed upon risk responsibility such that the institution holds a reduced amount of reserve capital compared to what it would otherwise be required to hold.
US10127607B2	Alert notification A system for alerting an employee or agent of a retailer regarding an unfavorable condition may include the use of computer-aided visual recognition of products to aid in identifying the location of the unfavorable condition. A user can direct a mobile computing device camera at one or more targeted products displayed on store shelves. Image recognition operations can be carried out to compare the targeted product image(s) against images from a prepopulated product image store of known products. Upon a positive match, shelf location information of the identified targeted product(s) may be used to determine the current location of the user. The employee or agent may be alerted with respect to the unfavorable condition and the location thereof.
US10127606B2	Augmented reality system and method for visualizing an item In a system and method for searching, browsing, and visualizing items, a first image containing an item is received to be stored in an account associated with a user. The first image is processed using a processor to extract an image of the item from the first image. The image of the item is layered over a stream of video frames received from the client device to form a superimposed image. The superimposed image is caused to be displayed on the client device.
US10127594B2	Computing device for custom golf club fitting In an example embodiment, a method is provided using a computing device that has a sensor for custom golf club fitting. Here, a hand dimension is detected using the sensor of the computing device. The hand dimension correlates to a grip size of a golf club. A query is composed with a parameter based on the detected hand dimension. The query is then communicated to an online platform that facilitates sales of golf clubs. In response to the query, an inventory of a number of the golf clubs having the grip size is received from the online platform.The inventory is then provided for display on the computing device.
US10127590B2	Methods and systems supporting online shopping as a shared and social activity Certain embodiments of the disclosure relate to methods and systems that enable a consumer to electronically shop for products using a conventional electronic shopping cart such as are typically provided by online merchants, and to also create and manage one or more additional “shared” electronic shopping carts through which the end-user may automatically share details of such shopping activities with others using electronic means such as online social networks, short message services, and email, thereby enabling others to participate and assist in various shopping activities.
US10127588B2	Methods and apparatus for providing customer assistance Techniques for providing customer assistance with real-time feedback are presented herein. A request for customer assistance is generated by a customer using an application executing on a handheld mobile smart device. The request is transmitted to an employee using another handheld mobile smart device. The request is accepted by the employee and a response is transmitted back to the customer. The response includes the employee's expected arrival time at the customer's location and a floor plan map that depicts the progress of the employee as the employee travels to the customer's location.
US10127587B2	Virtualized services discovery and recommendation engine Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for a virtualized services discovery and recommendation engine. A request for a service can be received from a requestor. The request can include feature data that can define two or more features. Two or more features can be determined based on the feature data and requestor data associated with the requestor can be obtained. Two or more services that satisfy the request can be identified and a recommendation that represents the two or more services can be generated. The recommendation can include a data representation of a custom product that can include the two or more services. The recommendation can be tested to determine if the custom product functions, and the recommendation can be provided to the requestor.
US10127579B2	Personalizing advertisements based on proximate computing devices Techniques include generating an advertisement (ad) including text and/or image data using a user device (e.g., a mobile computing device). The techniques further include identifying one or more proximate devices (e.g., networked computing devices or appliances) located proximate to the user device using a local wireless network (e.g., Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or NFC). The techniques include modifying (e.g., personalizing) the ad based on the identified proximate devices, based on one or more device types (e.g., categories) associated with the devices, and/or based on one or more states of the devices. In some examples, the techniques include transmitting an indication of the identified proximate devices, their types, and/or their states and an indication of the ad to an ad system, and receiving the modified ad from the system. The techniques also include displaying the modified ad to a user at the user device (e.g., within a software application executing on the device).
US10127578B2	Method and system for matching purchase transaction history to real-time location information Embodiments are described for a system and method for providing a list of current offers from retailers to a user operating a mobile client device. Aspects of the method comprise analyzing a transaction history of the user to identify a vendor who has transacted with the user; determining a present geographic location of the user based on a location of the mobile client device; determining a location of the vendor proximate the user based on the transaction history and the present geographic location of the user; searching for a current promotion offered by the vendor; and facilitating the serving of the current promotion to the user through the mobile client device.
US10127577B2	Search architecture for rendering deep links from action criteria A search system stores records, each identifying search functionality of a respective application. Each record includes a path to reach a corresponding search input state and includes an indication of required input parameters. A code generation module provides a first software object to a first developer for incorporation into a first state of a first application. The first software object includes instructions for, upon the first state being accessed by a user, transmitting a query to a search system with an entity corresponding to the first state and an action to be performed. The instructions receive an advertisement object from the search system in response to the query. The instructions selectively display a first user interface element in the first state based on the advertisement object. The instructions open, in response to selection by the user of the first user interface element, a designated application to a designated state.
US10127573B2	Framework for evaluating targeting models An online system predicts, using a first targeting model, a first group of users as candidates to be in a targeting cluster, and predicts, using a second targeting model, a second group of users as candidates to be in the targeting cluster. The online system determines a first set of users that are not part of the first group of users, and a second set of users that are not part of the second group of users, and provides surveys to the first and second set of users. The online system determines a first subgroup of the first group of users and a second subgroup of the second group of users, and provides an ad preferences tool to the first subgroup and the second subgroup. The online system scores the first and second targeting models based in part on responses to the surveys and/or the ad preferences tools.
US10127572B2	Stimulus placement system using subject neuro-response measurements Example methods, apparatus, systems and machine readable media are disclosed herein for selecting advertisement or entertainment location based on neuro-response data. An example method includes analyzing first neuro-response data from a first subject exposed to source material. The example method also includes identifying a candidate location in the source material for introduction of an advertisement or entertainment based on the first neuro-response data. In addition, the example method includes analyzing second neuro-response data from at least one of the first subject and a second subject exposed to a combination of the source material and the advertisement or entertainment inserted in the candidate location. The example also includes determining an effectiveness of the advertisement or entertainment based on the second neuro-response data.
US10127571B2	Systems and methods for suggesting financial account cards stored on a wireless device A wireless device is enabled to process a transaction. In one implementation, the wireless device receives card data for a plurality of financial account cards and stores the card data in memory associated with the wireless device. The wireless device determines merchant information for the transaction and determines rewards benefit information for at least some of the plurality of financial account cards. The wireless device provides a suggestion of at least one of the plurality of financial account cards to use in the transaction based on the determined rewards benefit information.
US10127570B1	Systems and methods for managing and processing vehicle operator accounts based on vehicle operation data Methods and systems for analyzing vehicle operation data associated with a temporary or periodic usage of a vehicle by a driver. In aspects, the driver may associate with an electronic device within the vehicle that may record or collect the vehicle operation data. After the vehicle operation has concluded, the vehicle operation data may be analyzed to assess a performance of the driver during operation of the vehicle, whereby the performance may be influenced by positive or negative driving events. Based on the performance of the driver, a profile or account of the user may be processed accordingly such that the user may be incentivized to modify certain driving behaviors.
US10127569B2	Service design and order fulfillment system with service order design and assign provider function A system that creates a service instance is provided. The system receives a service order including an entity, where the entity includes metadata that defines a capability that is provided, and where the entity includes child entities. The system further designs a configuration for the entity, where the configuration includes the entity, the child entities, and relationships between the entity and the child entities. The system further creates, for each child entity, a design context, where each child entity is a subject for the design context. The system further designs, for each child context, an instance of the child entity using the design context.
US10127566B2	Platforms, systems, software, and methods for dynamic recapture of retail sales Computer-based platforms, systems, software, and methods for dynamic recapture of retail sales in showrooming situations.
US10127565B2	Displaying mobile advertising based on determining user's physical activity from mobile device sensor data A mobile handset device determines a physical activity performed by a user based on local sensor data. The local sensor data can include sensors within the mobile handset device and local sensors in communication with the mobile handset device. The mobile handset device provides an indicator of the physical activity to a publisher. The publisher targets advertisements based on the current activity or activity pattern of the user.
US10127563B2	System and method for providing sports and sporting events related social/geo/promo link promotional data sets for end user display of interactive ad links, promotions and sale of products, goods, gambling and/or services integrated with 3D spatial geomapping, company and local information for selected worldwide locations and social networking A technique, method, apparatus, and system to provide sports and sporting events related, integrated social networking, real time geospatial mapping, geo-target location based technologies including GPS and GIS and multiple points of interest, receiving current location of user's electronic or mobile device and multiple points of interest, cloud-type configuration storing and handling user data across multiple enterprises, generating user behavior data and ad links, promotions (“social/geo/promo”) links on a website for sports and sporting events related products, goods, gambling, and/or services, including sports related social/geo/promo data sets for user customized visual displays showing 3D map presentations with correlated or related broad or alternative categories of social/geo/promo links to be displayed with web page content for view and interaction by an end user.
US10127562B2	Method and apparatus for maintaining high data integrity and for providing a secure audit for fraud prevention and detection Any of various comparisons of computer folders from different points in time is performed. Such comparisons provide the ability to discover missing documents or documents with modification dates that have changed when there would otherwise have been no need to change them and thus allows discovery of missing documents to discover fraud or to search for evidence after a fraud is suspected. In another embodiment, deltas in accounting system vendor invoice accounts are compared at different points in time, potentially exposing the practice of moving fraudulent vendor transactions into a large group of legitimate transactions for a legitimate vendor. Per period transaction totals for specific periods for legitimate vendors are compared over historical time for suspicious activity. A comparison of reports from the two different periods, using exact data and software from those separate periods (instead of reporting from “current” data), may raise a red flag otherwise missed.
US10127560B2	Methods and systems for facilitating customer support using a social post case feed and publisher Methods and systems are provided for responding to customer posts on a plurality of social media channels from a customer service portal of a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system of an organization. A retrieval system can retrieve, based on one or more rules specified by a rules engine, data from a first customer post on a first social media channel. The first customer post is identified using one or more rules that finds customer posts that warrant a customer service response from the organization. Based on the data from the first customer post, a parser of the CRM system creates a first case that can be displayed at the customer service portal, which automatically pre-populates a first response to the first customer post in compliance with protocols associated with the first social media channel that allow the first response to be communicated via the first social media channel.
US10127557B2	Dynamic offline card authorization Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating rules to apply to fare transactions when a fare card reader cannot communicate with an authorization server, for generating historical data and a risk score for a fare card that are used by a fare card reader, with the rules, to determine whether to authorize access to a transit service when the fare card reader cannot communicate with the authorization server, and for selectively permitting or denying access to the transit service using the rules and the historical data or the score for a fare card.
US10127547B2	Gift card conversion and digital wallet A method and a system convert the value of a gift card for use with a mobile device. The value of the gift card is determined from an issuer of the gift card. The value of the gift card is stored in a digital payment account in a storage device. The digital payment account stores values of gift cards from issuers. A financial transaction corresponding to the issuer of the gift card is performed on the digital payment account. The value of a first gift card from a first issuer of a first digital payment account is exchanged with the value of a second gift card from a second issuer of a second digital payment account.
US10127546B2	Enabling secure transactions with an underpowered device Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing secure transactions for a device with limited functionality are disclosed. For example, a computer-implemented method may include presenting an encoded image identifying a form of payment on a display of a computing device in response to detecting a condition limiting a functionality of the device, maintaining the presentation of the encoded image on the display in response to the detected condition, and removing the presentation of the encoded image from the display in response to determining that the detected condition is no longer detected.
US10127542B2	Payment code generation using a wireless beacon at a merchant location There are provided systems and method for payment code generation using a wireless beacon at a merchant location. A check-in at a merchant location may be completed using a wireless beacon at the merchant location with a communication device. After check-in a user using the communication device may request a payment code be generated from a payment provider that enables the user to have the payment code scanned by a merchant scanner at a point of sale device and complete payment for items with the merchant. The request to generate the payment code may be transmitted from the communication device to the wireless beacon, where the wireless beacon transmits the code over a network connection with the payment provider. Once the code is generated, the wireless beacon may receive the code and transmit the code back to the communication device.
US10127541B2	Payment card terminal for mobile phones Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for payment card terminals for mobile phones. In general, data characterizing a payment card and a settlement amount for a transaction may be received, where the data is user-generated input and is received at a mobile phone associated with a mobile phone number. Wireless transmission of data characterizing a request to provide a payment card settlement service of a merchant account of a merchant account provider for the transaction may be initiated, where the wireless transmission is to be from the mobile phone over a carrier data network to an application server. Data characterizing authorization of settlement of the transaction with the payment card may be wirelessly received by the mobile phone from the application server.
US10127539B2	System for tokenization and token selection associated with wearable device transactions Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for tokenization and token selection associated with wearable device transactions. The system is configured to receive an indication that a user is in possession of the wearable device; authenticate the wearable device; receive an indication from the user to execute a transaction; determine that the user continues to remain in possession of the wearable device; and complete execution of the transaction; initiate execution of the transaction using the first token received from the user; determine a second token based on at least the transaction information and the one or more limits associated with the second token; swapping the first token with the second token; and execute the transaction using one or more financial institution accounts of the user associated with the second token.
US10127537B1	System and method for a mobile wallet A system for payment processing using a mobile device configured to generate a unique code associated with a transaction to pay a recipient. The system further comprises mobile wallet account processing logic configured to receive the unique code and payment receipt options from a recipient. The mobile wallet account processing logic is further configured to transmit funds using an ACH network to the recipient.
US10127536B2	Unified content representation Example apparatus and methods facilitate providing an incremental future-proof license to a master stream of content. The master stream may be related to different instances of content (e.g., different versions) for which there is a unified content representation. A request for content available through the master stream may be received from a licensee. The request may include an explicit indication of which stream of frames is to be accessed or may include implicit information from which a stream of frames may be selected. The selected stream may be changed midstream in response to changing conditions (e.g., bandwidth), events (e.g., gesture), devices (e.g., licensee accesses different device) or explicit requests. As the available streams of frames associated with the content changes, the changes may be mapped to the master stream and made available to the licensee. The licensee may pay an incremental license fee for access to updated content.
US10127531B2	Invoicing system A method to facilitate invoicing for transactions established utilizing a network-based transaction system includes supporting establishment of transactions between a plurality of entities in the network-based transaction system, and identifying as part of an invoice generation process, a plurality of transactions to which a first entity is a party. The method further includes identifying first and second transactions from the plurality of transactions that satisfy combinable criteria, and generating an invoice for at least the first and second transactions that satisfy the combinable criteria. The method can also be implemented in a system and on a machine-readable medium.
US10127530B1	Updating service level agreements based on a usage pattern for a subscriber at multiple locations during multiple times of day Systems and methods are presented to intelligently and seamlessly provide services to a mobile subscriber on a network based on the subscriber's usage of that or other services. A provisioning mechanism is presented that is able to correlate subscriber profiles with a plurality of Service Level Agreements (SLA) in order to intelligently determine optimal service levels. A logic unit on a network distinguishes usage patterns for a subscriber of a service, correlates the usage patterns with an SLA related to the service, and optimizes the service by modifying the SLA to reflect the usage patterns of the subscriber. Usage patterns for multiple subscribers can be correlated and stored in a segment profile. The segment profile sheds further light on what quality, level, and type of service the subscriber will find relevant. This helps maintain efficient network usage while increasing subscriber satisfaction with their level of service.
US10127526B2	Determining transportation status using network connections Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining travel information. One of the methods includes obtaining flight information for each of a plurality of users, the flight having a flight identifier and associated with a particular scheduled departure time and departure location; based on the scheduled departure time, obtaining location information for user devices associated with each user of the plurality of users; determining that the respective user devices associated with a first group of users of the plurality of users, has a location associated with the departure location; determining that the respective mobile devices associated with users of the first group are no longer in communication a mobile network; and using the respective times at which the user devices are determined to no longer be in communication with the mobile network along with the scheduled departure time to determine a departure time.
US10127525B2	Enhanced e-mail return receipts based on cognitive consideration An embodiment of the invention provides a method for enhanced e-mail return receipts based on cognitive considerations. An input device receives an expected response time from a sender of an electronic message, wherein the expected response time includes the amount of time that the sender expects to receive a response to the electronic message. A processor generates a likelihood that the recipient of the electronic message will respond to the electronic message within the expected response time based on a profile of the recipient. The profile of the recipient includes the recipient's degree of attentiveness to the electronic message, the recipient's workload, the recipient's efficiency, and the recipient's work habits. A communications device presents the likelihood that the recipient will respond to the electronic message within the expected response time to the sender.
US10127524B2	Shared collaboration canvas A computing system causes a plurality of display devices to display user interfaces containing portions of a canvas shared by a plurality of users. The canvas is a graphical space containing discrete graphical elements located at arbitrary locations within the canvas. Each of the discrete graphical elements graphically represents a discrete resource. When a user interacts with a resource in the set of resources, the computing system modifies the canvas to include an interaction element indicating that the user is interacting with the resource. The computer system then causes the display devices to update the user interfaces such that the user interfaces reflect a substantially current state of the canvas. In this way, the users may be able to understand which ones of the users are interacting with which ones of the resources.
US10127521B2	System and method for determining and controlling status and location of an object Techniques are described with regard to determining and controlling a location and status of assets directly and/or indirectly. The techniques may be used to track and control the respective locations and status of any number of objects. Applications include but are not limited to tracking dry and refrigerated trailers and their status in a supply-chain yard; tracking pallets and boxes and their status in a warehouse; tracking items in a retail environment; tracking finished goods and work in progress in and around a manufacturing plant; tracking vehicles in a parking lot; tracking cargo and equipment at an airport; tracking equipment in a lay down yard; etc. In all cases the laborious and error prone data gathering is replaced with automated data collection methods reducing cost, increasing accuracy, and increasing efficiency.
US10127506B2	Determining users for limited product deployment based on review histories Methods, systems, and computer program products for determining users for limited product deployment based on review histories are provided herein. A method includes accessing a collection of reviews generated by a plurality of users and pertaining to multiple features of multiple products; computing multiple qualitative measures for each respective one of the plurality of users based on analysis of the collection of reviews; and outputting, to a sub-set of the plurality of users, (i) a deployment of a given product comprising a new feature of the given product and/or a modified feature of the given product and (ii) a query for a review of the new feature of the given product and/or the modified feature of the given product, wherein the sub-set of the plurality of users is selected based on said computed multiple qualitative measures.
US10127505B1	Computer methods and systems for building and maintaining subscriber recruitment, retention and loyalty in a subscription service model In one embodiment, the instant invention includes a computer system, having at least one processor for executing the computer executable program code stored in memory, where the program code includes: code to provide a benefit to subscribers of a subscription entity, where the benefit includes uncovered information about unclaimed asset, available asset, claim, and/or entitlement for subscribers and where the uncovered information is obtained by employing: code to store, in a subscriber database, records containing personal data of subscribers; code to search a repository database based on a portion of subscribers' personal data to uncover for at least one subscriber at least one of: i) unclaimed asset, ii) available asset, iii) claim, and iv) entitlement; code to receive the uncovered information for subscribers; and code to alert subscribers to the uncovered information.
US10127503B2	Generating multidimensional combination data A set of available values is obtained corresponding to a set of data fields associated with a dimension member in a set of dimension members corresponding to a dimension in a set of dimensions of an object. Each possible combination of dimension members is computed for the object. For a data field of a dimension member of a dimension, a normalized value is computed based on values of the data field for each dimension member in the dimension. A combined data field value is computed for a possible combination of the object as a product of the normalized value of the data field in each dimension member that participates in the possible combination. A set of combined data field values corresponding to all possible combinations is analyzed to identify a possible combination having a property. A control component of a physical environment is adjusted according to the identified possible combination.
US10127501B2	Trust score determination using peer-to-peer interactions A system and method for determining confidence scores for accounts based on peer-to-peer interactions. One or more clustering algorithms are applied to a database of peer-to-peer interactions to identify and group related peer-to-peer interactions. A classifying algorithm is applied to a group resulting from the one or more clustering algorithms that classifies each peer-to-peer interaction within the group based on one or more relationships between the peer-to-peer interactions with the group. A score is provided to each transaction in the group based at least in part on the classification. The system uses the score to change functionality of at least one of the accounts associated with one of the transactions and/or provides information regarding the trustworthiness of a user of an account.
US10127496B1	System and method for estimating arrival time Systems and methods are provided for estimating arrival time associated with a ride order. An exemplary method may comprise: inputting transportation information to a trained machine learning model. The transportation information may comprise an origin and a destination associated with the ride order, and the trained machine learning model may comprise a wide network, a deep neural network, and a recurrent neural network all coupled to a multilayer perceptron network. The method may further comprise, based on the trained machine learning model, obtaining an estimated time for arriving at the destination via a route connecting the origin and the destination.
US10127482B2	Printing system including automatic status transmission function and control device and control method thereof Functionality for issuing instructions related to the status of a printing device can be added to a control device capable of connecting to a printing device while suppressing modification of programs installed on the control device. A network system 1 includes a printer 9 that prints on recording media, and a control device 8 capable of communicating with the printer 9. The control device 8 has a control unit that generates and outputs by a printing program a command instructing the printer 9 to print; and a management unit that adds a maintenance command issuing an instruction related to the status of the printer 9 to the command output by the control unit, and sends the command with the added maintenance command to the printer 9, by a maintenance program that is different from the printing program.
US10127481B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method With respect to an area quantized by using an area of part in a quantization pattern and also without using an area of the other part in the quantization pattern in quantized data, a mask pattern part corresponding to the area of the part among mask pattern parts constituted by dividing a mask pattern is applied.
US10127480B1	System for automated decoration A system for automated decoration of an item comprising the steps of: installing print generating software on a computer with a memory (e.g. a server); linking an input system (e.g. a web site) to the computer; allowing a customer to select an item (customer selection), preferably a fabric item, via the input system; allowing the customer to specify a decoration (customer specification) for the item via the input system; generating a print image for the item from the customer selection and specification with the print generating software; and sending the print image from the computer to a printer, which is preferably a dye sublimation printer.
US10127479B2	Electronic device An electronic device includes a first accommodation portion to accommodate a first card, a second accommodation portion to accommodate a second card, and a holding member capable of holding the first card and the second card. The first accommodation portion and the second accommodation portion are arranged so that an ejection path of the first card and an ejection path of the second card overlap. The holding member is located in an area where the ejection path of the first card and the ejection path of the second card overlap.
US10127470B2	Computerized method and apparatus for determining obstructed portions of displayed digital content Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content communicating, rendering, generating, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems for determining obscured portions of displayed digital content. The disclosed method and apparatus involve acquiring and recording coordinates of each pixel in a digital image, and marking the pixels located at a boundary of the image as boundary pixels. The pixels located at a first region block are extracted and marked as obstruction pixels. An obstructed cutting space area corresponding to each pixel is determined based on positional relations of each pixel in the image. An image obstruction score is calculated based on the cutting space areas and utilized for rendering the pixels of the image.
US10127464B2	Safety system for a vehicle to detect and warn of a potential collision A system mountable in a vehicle to provide object detection in the vicinity of the vehicle. The system includes a camera operatively attached to a processor. The camera is mounted externally at the rear of the vehicle. The field of view of the camera is substantially in the forward direction of travel of the vehicle along the side of the vehicle. Multiple image frames are captured from the camera. Yaw of the vehicle may be input or the yaw may be computed from the image frames. Respective portions of the image frames are selected responsive to the yaw of the vehicle. The image frames are processed to detect thereby an object in the selected portions of the image frames.
US10127463B2	Vehicle vision system with multiple cameras A vision system for a vehicle includes a plurality of cameras having respective fields of view exterior of the vehicle. The plurality of cameras includes driver and passenger side wide angle cameras having wide angle fields of view, driver and passenger side rearward viewing cameras having fields of view along the respective sides of the vehicle rearward of the vehicle, and a rearward camera having a wide angle field of view rearward of the vehicle. A display is operable to display images derived from image data captured by at least some of the cameras. The display is selectively operable to display images derived from image data captured by all of the plurality of cameras. An image processor is operable to process image data captured by at least some of the cameras to detect objects in the field of view of the at least some of the cameras.
US10127462B1	Systems and methods for detecting markers on a roadway System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to detecting markers on a roadway. In one embodiment, a method includes controlling a radar to transmit a scanning signal with defined characteristics. The radar is integrated with a vehicle that is traveling on the roadway. The method includes, in response to receiving a reflected signal resulting from the scanning signal interacting with the roadway, identifying the marker from the reflected signal according to an electromagnetic signature of the marker embodied in the reflected signal. The electromagnetic signature is a response induced within the defined characteristics of the scanning signal that is embodied within the reflected signal.
US10127460B2	Lane boundary line information acquiring device In a lane boundary line information acquiring device, a detection unit detects lane boundary lines. A driving environment acquiring unit acquires a driving environment. A probability information acquiring unit acquires probability information containing a probability of presence of a lane boundary line, etc. based on the detected lane boundary lines and the acquired driving environment. A position information acquiring unit acquires position information of the own vehicle. A memory unit associates the probability information with the position information of the own vehicle. Where the position information is acquired by the position information acquiring unit at a time when the probability information acquiring unit acquires the probability information, and stores the probability information associated with the position information into the memory unit. A readout unit reads out the probability information associated with the position information at a location in front of the own vehicle.
US10127459B2	Trailer type identification system A trailer type identification system is provided herein. The system includes an imaging device for capturing images of a trailer connected to a vehicle, and a controller for analyzing the captured. The controller identifies vehicle and trailer contours, predicts a trailer type based on detection of a connection between the identified vehicle and trailer contours, and validates the prediction if the identified trailer contour exhibits motion during a vehicle turn event.
US10127457B2	System and methods for generating quality, verified, and synthesized information An improved system and methods for identifying, assessing, obtaining, evaluating, processing and displaying information about specific topics of interest. In certain embodiments, information is processed with advanced computation and analytical techniques in which detailed statistical data is generated and refined to produce meaningful quantitative and qualitative information that may be useful in analyzing the economic performance of specific businesses or geographical regions of interest.
US10127455B2	Apparatus and method of providing thumbnail image of moving picture An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a processing unit configured to extract at least one frame selected from a plurality of frames of moving-picture data as a candidate thumbnail image, wherein the at least one frame corresponds to at least one frame selected according to a plurality of thumbnail extraction criteria, and to determine at least one candidate thumbnail image selected from a group comprising candidate thumbnail images obtained by the extracting, as at least one final thumbnail image, based on a thumbnail extraction criterion to which the candidate thumbnail images obtained by the extracting respectively correspond, and a display unit configured to display the at least one final thumbnail image.
US10127451B1	Method of detecting and quantifying sun-drying crops using satellite derived spectral signals The unique methodology and utility seeking patient protection in this application is using satellite imagery to quantify and derive harvest statistics of sun-drying crops.High resolution imagery can be used to geospatially define known coffee drying basins however it is impractical for continuous observation as it is costly and infrequent.The geospatially defined regions of interests of coffee drying basins can be matched with more frequent, lower resolution, multispectral satellite imagery (such as Sentinel-2). The signals can be tested against the known spectral signatures of washed and unwashed coffee to determine whether or not each pixel contains coffee.The result will yield a classified region of interest which can be used to determine the quantity of drying coffee and the washed to unwashed ratio of a harvest. With regular monitoring across multiple temporal scenes the harvest's seasonality and historical change can be derived.
US10127444B1	Systems and methods for automatically identifying document information Described herein is a computer implemented method for processing an electronic document. The method comprises accessing a comparison set of reference document codifications, each reference document codification in the comparison set comprising a plurality of canonical feature codifications. Each canonical feature codification in each reference document codification in the comparison set is processed by determining whether the electronic document has one or more text rectangles in a potential position of the canonical feature and, in response determining that the electronic document has one or more text rectangles in a potential position of the canonical feature, recording a preliminary association between the or each text rectangle and the canonical feature. For each text rectangle preliminarily associated with one or more canonical features, a final canonical feature assignment is determined for the text rectangle based on the one or more preliminarily associated canonical features.
US10127441B2	Systems and methods for classifying objects in digital images captured using mobile devices In one embodiment, a system includes: a processor; and logic in and/or executable by the processor to cause the processor to: generate a first feature vector based on a digital image captured by a mobile device; compare the first feature vector to a plurality of reference feature matrices; classify an object depicted in the digital image as a member of a particular object class based at least in part on the comparison; determine one or more object features of the object based at least in part on the particular object class; and detect one or more additional objects belonging to the particular object class based on the determined object feature(s). The one or more additional objects are depicted either in the digital image or another digital image received by the mobile device. Corresponding computer program products are also disclosed.
US10127439B2	Object recognition method and apparatus An object recognition apparatus and an object recognition method are provided. The object recognition method includes generating an input image based on an event flow of an object, generating a composite feature based on features extracted by a plurality of recognizers, and recognizing the object based on the composite feature.
US10127433B2	Systems and methods for generating fields of view Embodiments disclosed herein are directed, among other things, to imaging systems, methods, and apparatuses for automatically identifying fields of view (FOVs) for regions in an image encompassing tumor are disclosed. In embodiments and in further aspects of the present invention, a computer-implemented method is disclosed for a tumor region based immune score computation. The method, in accordance with the present invention, involves identifying regions, for example, tumor areas or regions around a tumor area, partitioning a whole slide image or portion of a whole slide image into multiple regions related to the tumor, selecting FOVs within each identified region, and computing a number of cells present in each FOV. An immune score and/or immune-related score may be generated based on the cells counted in each FOV.
US10127432B2	Derived virtual quality parameters for fingerprint matching In some implementations, a computer-implemented method may include: identifying one or more neighboring minutiae within a particular octant neighborhood for the octant feature vector for each minutia included in a list of minutiae associated with a search fingerprint; computing, for each minutia included in the list of minutiae, a direction difference between each minutia included in the list of minutiae, and each of the one or more neighboring minutiae identified for the octant feature vector for each minutia included in the list of minutiae; computing, for each minutia included in the list of minutiae, a minutia quality confidence; and computing a fingerprint quality confidence.
US10127431B2	Fingerprint identification element, fingerprint identification method, display device and display apparatus A fingerprint identification element, a fingerprint identification method, a display device and a display apparatus are provided. The fingerprint identification element includes fingerprint identification units arranged in matrix, fingerprint identification scan lines and fingerprint identification read lines. Each fingerprint identification unit includes a first photosensitive thin film transistor and a second switching thin film transistor. A gate electrode and a source electrode of the first thin film transistor are connected with each other. A drain electrode of the first thin film transistor is electrically connected with a drain electrode of the second thin film transistor. Gate electrodes of the second thin film transistors in each row of the fingerprint identification units are electrically connected with the corresponding fingerprint identification scan line. Source electrodes of the second thin film transistors in each column of the fingerprint identification units are electrically connected with the corresponding fingerprint identification read line.
US10127429B2	Systems and methods for spoof detection based on local interest point locations Disclosed are a system and method for performing spoof detection. The method includes: receiving, by processor from a biometric sensor, an input image of a biometric; obtaining, by the processor, keypoint locations of keypoints in the input image, wherein keypoints in the input image comprise local regions of interest in the input image; computing, by the processor, one or more anti-spoof metrics of the input image based on the keypoint locations; and, determining, by the processor, whether the input image is a replica of the biometric based on the one or more anti-spoof metrics.
US10127423B1	Methods for changing a configuration of a device for reading machine-readable code A method is provided for controlling a device for reading machine-readable code. A processor, configured by a strike application program monitors for a strike against a surface of the device. The strike is caused by a user either striking the device against a non-device surface or striking the surface of the device without necessarily engaging a button, a capacitive surface, or a resistive surface of the device. The strike comprising a detected strike is detected. An identifying characteristic of the detected strike is determined and it is determined if the detected strike having the identifying characteristic correlates to a particular scan-related operation of the device. The particular scan-related operation correlating to the detected strike having the identifying characteristic is executed in response to determining that the detected strike having the identifying characteristic correlates to a particular scan-related operation.
US10127422B1	Handheld code reader having a motion sensor A code reader includes an image acquisition system to acquire a plurality of images. A sensor detects motion of the code reader, and a processor is operatively coupled to the image acquisition system and the sensor. The processor performs a plurality of steps including associating a first detected motion data with one of the plurality of acquired images; associating a second detected motion data with a subsequent one of the plurality of acquired images; attempting to decode the one of the plurality of acquired images; determining if the second detected motion data is preferred over the first detected motion data; and attempting to decode the subsequent one of the plurality of acquired images when the second detected motion data is preferred over the first detected motion data.
US10127419B1	Radio-frequency identification (RFID) for inventory of electronic equipment Methods and systems for RFID for inventory of electronic equipment may employ a regressive location algorithm to identify specific locations of electronic equipment having a mobile RFID tag based on a power value associated with an RFID scan. In this manner, electronic equipment housed within metal chassis and not externally visible may be identified with a desired accuracy of location.
US10127418B2	Container with a detection system A portable container (2) for one or more articles (16) each tagged with a respective Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) device (18). The container (2) comprises: a bay (6) having at least one opening (O) for removal and/or placement of RFID-tagged articles (16) into the bay (6); a lid (15) for covering the at least one opening in the bay (6), wherein the lid (15) is openable to permit access to the bay (6); a detector device (21,22) for detecting RFID-tagged articles (16) located in the bay (6); a power supply (30) for supplying electrical power to the detector device (21,22). The container (2) further comprises: an electromagnetic shield (19,19a,19b,19c,19d) wherein the bay (6) and the at least opening in the bay (6) is enclosed by the electromagnetic shield and wherein the lid (15) forms part of the electromagnetic shield.
US10127411B2	Image forming apparatus that forms an image with a decolorable material on an RFID tag An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming unit configured to form an image with a decolorable material, a second image forming unit configured to form an image with a non-decolorable material, an RFID processor configured to write data in an RFID tag, a memory unit for storing a table indicating one or more attributes associated with the decolorable material and one or more attributes associated with the non-decolorable material, and a controller configured to control the first image forming unit to carry out image forming on a medium including the RFID tag for information of which attribute is associated with the decolorable material in the table, and control the second image forming unit to carry out image forming on the medium for information of which attribute is associated with the non-decolorable material in the table.
US10127410B2	Fibers with physical features used for coding Disclosed are fibers which contain identification fibers. The identification fibers can contain a plurality of distinct features, or taggants, which vary among the fibers and/or along the length of the identification fibers, tow band, or yarn. The disclosed embodiments also relate to the method for making the fibers. Characterization of the fibers can include identifying distinct features, combinations of distinct features, and number of fibers with various combinations of distinct features and correlating the distinct features to supply chain information. The supply chain information can be used to track the fibers, fiber band, or yarn from manufacturing through intermediaries, conversion to final product, and/or the consumer.
US10127397B2	Method for strongly encrypting .zip files The present invention provides a method of integrating existing strong encryption methods into the processing of a .ZIP file to provide a highly secure data container which provides flexibility in the use of symmetric and asymmetric encryption technology. The present invention adapts the well-established .ZIP file format to support higher levels of security and multiple methods of data encryption and key management, thereby producing a highly secure and flexible digital container for electronically storing and transferring confidential data.
US10127395B2	Ad hoc target based photograph sharing Methods, systems and computer program products for sharing of photographs based on targets depicted in the photographs are provided. Aspects include receiving photographs of an event from one or more users, wherein each of the photographs include metadata related to the photograph and a usage policy for the photograph, identifying one or more targets depicted in the photographs based at least in part on the metadata and storing the photographs in a database. Aspects also include receiving an access request for photographs that include a first target from a requestor, wherein the access request includes an indication of the desired use, identifying one or more photographs in the database that depict the first target and which permit the desired use and providing the one or more photographs to the requester.
US10127394B2	Image forming apparatus for ensuring high security level, method of controlling image forming apparatus, information processing apparatus, method of controlling information processing apparatus, and storage medium, that provide security for reserving a print job An image forming apparatus that is capable of ensuring a high security level. An image forming apparatus receives a print job from an information processing apparatus connected to the MFP via a network. When a security policy specifying reservation of a received print job is set for the image forming apparatus, the received print job is not immediately executed, but is reserved therein.
US10127389B1	Performing operations on intelligent storage with hardened interfaces A storage device can include processing and cryptographic capability enabling the device to function as a hardware security module (HSM). This includes the ability to encrypt and decrypt data using a cryptographic key, as well as to perform processing using such a key, independent of whether that processing involves data stored on the device. An internal key can be provided to the drive, whether provided before customer software access or received wrapped in another key, etc. That key enables the device to perform secure processing on behalf of a user or entity, where that key is not exposed to other components in the network or environment. A key may have specified tasks that can be performed using that key, and can be discarded after use. In some embodiments, firmware is provided that can cause a storage device to function as an HSM and/or processing device with cryptographic capability.
US10127387B2	Change-tolerant method of generating an identifier for a collection of assets in a computing environment using a secret sharing scheme A secure and fault-tolerant, or variation-tolerant, method and system to turn a set of N shares into an identifier even when only M shares from this set have a correct value. A secret sharing algorithm is used to generate a number of candidate identifiers from subsets of shares associated with asset parameters of a collection of assets. The most frequently occurring candidate identifier is then determined to be the final identifier. The method has particular applicability in the fields of node locking and fingerprinting.
US10127386B2	Systems and methods for adaptive analysis of software Systems and methods for software verification. In some embodiments, an application architecture model is generated for a software application, wherein: the application architecture model is generated based on source code of the software application; and the application architecture model comprises a plurality of component models. A property model type may be selected, based on a property to be checked, from a plurality of property model types. One or more component models may be selected, based on the selected property model type, from the plurality of component models. The one or more selected component models may be used to construct at least one property model of the selected property model type. The at least one property model may be analyzed to determine if the property is satisfied with respect to the at least one property model.
US10127385B2	Automated security vulnerability exploit tracking on social media Embodiments automate tracking of exploit information related to initially-identified security vulnerabilities, through the data mining of social networks. Certain social network communities (e.g., those frequented by hackers) share information about computer security breaches (zero-day events). Embodiments recognize that further relevant security information may be revealed, in conjunction with and/or subsequent to such initial zero-day vulnerability disclosures. That additional information can include valuable details regarding known (or unknown) vulnerabilities, exploit codes and methodologies, patches, etc. Tracking that additional information can benefit security researchers/experts/law enforcement personnel. Embodiments monitoring social media traffic based upon initial security vulnerability information, perform analysis to detect patterns and create relevant keywords therefrom. Those keywords in turn form a basis for generating social media stream(s) responsible for harvesting additional security-relevant data. Results of further analysis of the social media stream can be fed back in an iterative manner to refine pattern detection, keyword creation, and media stream generation.
US10127378B2	Systems and methods for registering and acquiring E-credentials using proof-of-existence and digital seals A system and methods for registering and acquiring e-credentials using personal devices and an identity registry system that combines the method for handling digital seals with a proof-of-existence method. The identity registry system is used to register and verify e-credentials. Device owners register their e-credentials when created and updated and verify acquired e-credentials to safeguard against tampering and errors. When registering an e-credential, the e-credential is hashed and digitally sealed creating an identifying thumbprint that is stored in the identity registry system. When verifying an acquired e-credential, the e-credential is hashed, the identity registry system is searched to locate the identifying thumbprint, and the digital seal of the thumbprint is verified. A requesting owner can request an issuing owner to proof, attest, and digitally seal an e-credential of the requester.
US10127374B2	Methods for controlling the use of intellectual property in individual integrated circuit devices A method for controlling the use of intellectual property (IP) in an individual integrated circuit includes loading data including the IP into the individual integrated circuit, loading an IP license certificate into the individual integrated circuit, the certificate including identification of the IP authorized for the individual integrated circuit, determining inside the individual integrated circuit whether the IP is authorized for the individual integrated circuit, enabling operation of the individual integrated circuit if the IP circuit is authorized for use in the individual integrated circuit, and imposing a penalty on operation of the individual integrated circuit if the IP is not authorized for use in the individual integrated circuit.
US10127373B1	Systems and methods for distinguishing among human users and software robots A technique for distinguishing between a human user and a software robot. The technique includes: receiving a first communication from a device different from the at least one computer; identifying, from the first communication, a request to access a web resource; generating a shuffled image that encodes a challenge text, the generating comprising: generating an initial image encoding the challenge text; dividing the initial image into image portions; and generating the shuffled image as a shuffled arrangement of the image portions; generating decoding information for revealing the challenge text encoded in the shuffled image; transmitting the shuffled image and the decoding information to the device; receiving a second communication from the device; identifying, from the second communication, a response text; and providing the device with access to the web resource based on a comparison between the challenge text and the response text.
US10127371B2	User identification based on the motion of a device Disclosed herein are embodiments for user identification based on the motion of a device. An embodiment operates by detecting a motion of a remote control. The detected motion is compared with one or more stored motions. A user ID corresponding to the motion based on the comparison is determined. Access to a system is provided based on the determined user ID.
US10127370B2	Computing device chording authentication and control Chording techniques are described that may be utilized in a variety of ways to provide inputs to a computing device. The computing device, for instance, may include sensors disposed on a housing of the computing device such that the sensors are configured to detect fingers of a user when grasping the device. Detection of a likely indexed relative position of the fingers of the user's hand in relation to each other, and even an amount of pressure used by respective ones of the fingers, may be used to define and input chords that may be used to initiate operations of the computing device.

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