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US10172921B2	Method of treating an inflammatory bowel disease comprising agonists of orexin-1 receptor The present invention relates to methods and pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases. The presents methods relates to a method of treating an inflammatory bowel disease in a subject in need thereof comprising administering the subject with a therapeutically effective amount of at least one OX1R agonist.
US10172915B2	Methods and compositions for activation of sirtuins with Annexin A1 peptides The present invention provides a method of treating, ameliorating or inhibiting sirtuin-associated disorders and/or conditions in a subject in need thereof, by administering to the subject an effective amount of an ANXA1 peptide.
US10172911B2	Methods of modulating erythropoiesis with arginine vasopressin receptor 1B molecules Disclosed are methods of modulating erythropoiesis with arginine vasopressin receptor 1B (AVPR1B) molecules, such as AVPR1B agonists or antagonists. In one example, a method of stimulating erythropoiesis is disclosed including administering an effective amount of an AVPR1B stimulatory molecule to a subject in need thereof, thereby stimulating erythropoiesis. Also disclosed is a method of stimulating hematopoetic stem cell (HSC) proliferation which includes administering an effective amount of an AVPR1B stimulatory molecule to a subject in need thereof, thereby stimulating HSC proliferation. A method of inhibiting HSC proliferation including administering an effective amount of an AVPR1B inhibitory molecule to a subject in need thereof, thereby inhibiting HSC proliferation is provided.
US10172901B2	Powder for delivery to the oral cavity A powder for delivery to the oral cavity of a user is disclosed. The powder includes at least two populations of particles. A first population of particles includes a stimulant, and a second population of particles includes a flavorant. Also described is a cartridge containing the powder for use in an inhaler device and inhaler device containing the powder.
US10172890B2	Topical skin care compositions and methods Topical compositions containing lysate of human parthenogenetic stem cells (hpSCs), preferably within a liposomal dispersion, that reduce the visible signs of skin aging and/or cellulite.
US10172885B2	Cell The present invention provides a cell which co-expresses a first chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and second CAR at the cell surface, each CAR comprising: (i) an antigen-binding domain; (ii) a spacer (iii) a trans-membrane domain; and (iv) an endodomain wherein the antigen binding domains of the first and second CARs bind to different antigens, and wherein one of the first or second CARs is an activating CAR comprising an activating endodomain and the other CAR is an inhibitory CAR comprising a ligation-off inhibitory endodomain.
US10172881B2	Dialysis precursor composition A dialysis acid precursor assembly including: a bicarbonate containing concentrate and a dialysis acid concentrate solution including powder components mixed with water. The powder components include (1) a sodium chloride powder, (2) at least one dry acid powder, and (3) a magnesium chloride 4.5-hydrate (MgCl2.4.5H2O) powder in a quantity such that a concentration of about 7.5-50 mM magnesium ions is provided in the dialysis acid concentrate solution.
US10172880B2	Talen-based gene correction The invention is directed to transcription activator-like effector nuclease (TALEN)-mediated DNA editing of disease-causing mutations in the context of the human genome and human cells to treat patients with compromised genetic disorders.
US10172879B2	Nanocomplexes for co-delivering a drug and siRNA and uses thereof The present invention relates to a nanocomplex, and a pharmaceutical composition, a drug delivery system and a drug delivery method using the same. The present nanocomplex consists of a nucleic acid molecule, a monocationic drug and a biocompatible polymer surfactant, and not only has a hydrodynamic size of 10 nm or less, but uniformly distributes as a colloidal form in an aqueous environment. In addition, the nanoscale colloidal formulation of the present invention could protect the nucleic acid molecule from a nuclease (for example, serum nucleases) rich in a physiological environment through the formulation of a stable monocomplex, and provide improvement of cell penetration and in vivo delivery via a micellar structure as well as further protection of the nucleic acid molecule by a micellar passivation. Therefore, the present nanocomplex and a composition and system using the same can deliver an active ingredient (for example, a nucleic acid molecule and monocationic drug) into a cell/tissue of interest in a stable manner, and may be effectively applied for treating or detecting diverse disorders (practically, cancers).
US10172876B2	Use of ginsenoside M1 for treating IgA nephropathy The present invention provides a method of treating a subject afflicted with IgA nephropathy (IgAN) comprising administering to the subject an amount of ginsenoside M1 effective to treat the subject.
US10172873B2	Methods for treating inflammatory bowel disease using prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) inhibitors Methods and compounds are disclosed for treating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) by using Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA) inhibitors.
US10172870B2	Method of treating organophosphate intoxication by administration of neurosteroids The present invention provides new compositions and methods for treating and/or reversing organophosphate intoxication, manifested by both cholinergic and non-cholinergic crisis, in a mammal resulting from exposure to organophosphate compounds. The neurosteroidal compounds of this invention are those having the general structural formula of pregnane, androstane, 19-norandrostanes, and norpregnane with further moieties as defined herein. These compounds include, but are not limited to, ganaxolone, pregnanolone, and androstanediol and their analogs, salts and prodrugs. The present invention further relates to combining a therapeutically effective amount of a neurosteroidal compound with a standard organophosphate antidote (e.g. atropine, pralidoxime). The data suggests that neurosteroids are effective or more effective than benzodiazepines, whether given earlier or later than 40-min (up to several hours) after organophosphate compound exposure. Neurosteroids are effective to attenuate long-term neuropsychiatric deficits caused by organophosphate exposure.
US10172865B2	Treatment of erectile dysfunction and other indications The present invention generally relates to the transdermal delivery of various compounds. In some aspects, transdermal delivery may be facilitated by the use of a hostile biophysical environment. One set of embodiments provides a composition for topical delivery comprising a phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitor and/or a salt thereof, and optionally, a hostile biophysical environment and/or a nitric oxide donor. In some cases, the composition may be stabilized using a combination of a stabilization polymer (such as xanthan gum, KELTROL® BT and/or KELTROL® RD), propylene glycol, and a polysorbate surfactant such as Polysorbate 20, which combination unexpectedly provides temperature stability to the composition, e.g., at elevated temperatures such as at least 40° C. (at least about 104° F.), as compared to compositions lacking one or more of these.
US10172864B2	Therapeutically active compounds and their methods of use Provided are compounds useful for treating cancer and methods of treating cancer comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a compound described herein.
US10172863B2	Purine derivatives useful as HSP90 inhibitors The present application provides substituted purine derivatives and related compounds of the formulas shown. These compounds are useful as inhibitors of HSP90, and hence in the treatment of related diseases. (Formulae) Z1-Z3, Xa-Xc, X2, X4, Y and R are as defined in the specification.
US10172859B2	Arylquinazolines The invention relates to novel compounds of the formula (I) which can be used for the inhibition of serine-threonine protein kinases and for the sensitization of cancer cells to anticancer agents and/or ionizing radiation.
US10172853B2	Method of therapeutic administration of DHE to enable rapid relief of migraine while minimizing side effect profile Pharmaceutical compositions containing dihydroergotamine (DHE) and methods in which DHE is administered to patients for treatment of migraine without side effects or adverse effects are disclosed. Methods for rapid treatment of migraine with DHE are disclosed comprising: dampening the peak plasma concentration (Cmax) and slightly delaying the peak such as to avoid activating the dopaminergic and adrenergic receptors, while achieving sufficient active binding to the serotonin receptors to provide relief from migraine symptoms within a timeframe that permits rapid resolution of migraine symptoms. Inhaler devices suitable for the methods are disclosed. Kits for practicing the methods of invention are disclosed.
US10172851B2	Substituted pyrazolo[1,5-A]pyridine compounds as RET kinase inhibitors Provided herein are compounds of the Formula I: and stereoisomers and pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof, in which A, B, X1, X2, X3, X4, Ring D, and E have the meanings given in the specification, which are inhibitors of RET kinase and are useful in the treatment and prevention of diseases which can be treated with a RET kinase inhibitor, including RET-associated diseases and disorders.
US10172849B2	Compositions comprising buprenorphine This disclosure relates to a buprenorphine sustained release delivery system for treatment of conditions ameliorated by buprenorphine compounds. The sustained release delivery system includes a flowable composition containing a suspension of buprenorphine, a metabolite, or a prodrug thereof.
US10172848B2	Gap junction-enhancing agents for treatment of necrotizing enterocolitis and inflammatory bowel disease The present invention relates to methods of reducing the risk of occurrence of, and/or treating, necrotizing enterocolitis (“NEC”) or inflammatory bowel disease (“IBD”) comprising administering, to a subject in need of such treatment, an effective amount of a gap junction enhancing agent (“GJEA”), for example a peptide (“GJP”) or peptide analog (“GJPA”). It is based, at least in part, on the discovery that greater functionality of gap junctions between enterocytes increases their rate of migration and reduces the severity of intestinal inflammation.
US10172841B2	Inhibition of crystal growth of roflumilast Roflumilast crystals have been shown to increase in size during storage. The size of the roflumilast crystals can affect the bioavailability and efficacy of a pharmaceutical composition. The growth of roflumilast crystals can be inhibited during storage by including hexylene glycol in the composition. The resulting composition has improved bioavailability and efficacy and can be used to inhibit phosphodiesterase 4 in a patient in need of such treatment.
US10172840B2	Bach1 inhibitors in combination with Nrf2 activators and pharmaceutical compositions thereof The disclosure provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising Bach1 Inhibitors and Nrf2 Activators. The disclosure also provides methods of treating diseases such as psoriasis, multiple sclerosis, and COPD comprising administering a Bach1 Inhibitor and a Nrf2 Activator to a subject in need thereof.
US10172838B1	Self-emulsifying formulation of CARP-1 functional mimetics A solid self-micro/nano emulsifying formulation comprising CARP-1 functional mimetics (CFM; e.g., CFM-4.16 or CFM-4.17) for oral administration, and methods of fabrication and use thereof to treat cancer (e.g., breast cancer, triple negative breast cancer, resistant lung cancer, and non-resistant lung cancer) and reduce tumor volume. Solid self-micro/nano emulsifying formulation of CFM compounds was found to have significantly enhanced drug loading, aqueous solubility, and oral bioavailability of the formulation.
US10172834B2	(2R,4R)-5-(5′-chloro-2′-fluorobiphenyl-4-yl)-2-hydroxy-4-[(5-methyloxazole-2-carbonyl)amino]pentanoic acid In one aspect, the invention relates to a compound of the structure: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a crystalline form of this compound, having neprilysin inhibition activity. In another aspect, the invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising this compound; methods of using this compound; and processes for preparing this compound.
US10172832B2	Amide derivatives of N-urea substituted amino acids as formyl peptide receptor like-1 (FPRL-1) receptor modulators The present invention relates to novel amide derivatives of N-urea substituted amino acids, processes for preparing them, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use as pharmaceuticals as modulators of the N-formyl peptide receptor like-1 (FPRL-1) receptor.
US10172829B2	Use of small molecules for the treatment of clostridium difficile toxicity Disclosed are methods and compositions for reducing toxicity associated with infection by Clostridium difficile by inhibiting Clostridium difficile toxin B (TcdB) and/or toxin A (TcdA). Such compounds include ebselen compounds, namely ebselen and its salts, ebselen functional analogues and ebselen structural analogues, as well as certain amide derivatives. This includes Formula I, e.g. 1-methyl-3-phenylpropylamine, Formula II, e.g., 2,2′-diselane-1,2-diylbis[N-(2,4-difluorophenyl)benzamide]; and Formula III, e.g. 2-(2-methoxy-5-methylphenyl)-1, 2-benzoselenazol-3-one. The present compositions may be comprised in a colon-retentive formulation that increases residence of and/or release of the compound in the area where the infection is active.
US10172826B2	Composition and method to treat and alleviate symptoms of hot flashes in a female subject A dietary supplement composition is formulated in a therapeutic amount to treat and alleviate symptoms of hot flashes in a female subject, such as experiencing symptoms of perimenopause. The composition includes a phytoestrogen and lycopene in an oral dosage form. The phytoestrogen may include a plant lignan including at least one of Matairesinol, 7-hydroxymatairesinol, Secoisolariciresinol, Lariciresinol and Pinoresinol. The lycopene may include a lycopene complex having at least one of phytoene, phytofluene, beta-carotene, tocopherols and phytosterols.
US10172825B2	Pharmacological treatment of cognitive impairment Methods for treating an individual to improve cognitive function are provided. In the subject methods, an effective amount of a noncompetitive GABAA ionophore blocker is administered to the individual, resulting in an improvement in cognitive function of the host. The subject methods find use in a variety of different applications.
US10172821B2	Histone deacetylase inhibitors In recognition of the need to develop novel therapeutic agents, the present invention provides novel histone deacetylase inhibitors. These compounds include an ester bond making them sensitive to deactivation by esterases. Therefore, these compounds are particularly useful in the treatment of skin disorders. When the compounds reaches the bloodstream, an esterase or an enzyme with esterase activity cleaves the compound into biologically inactive fragments or fragments with greatly reduced activity Ideally these degradation products exhibit a short serum and/or systemic half-life and are eliminated rapidly. These compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are particularly useful in treating cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, neurofibromatosis, psoriasis, hair loss, skin pigmentation, and dermatitis, for example. The present invention also provides methods for preparing compounds of the invention and intermediates thereto.
US10172820B2	Skin preparation composition for external use having excellent antiseptic ability The present invention relates to a skin preparation composition for external use having excellent antiseptic ability without using chemical antiseptics. More particularly, the present invention relates to a skin preparation composition for external use, comprising: glyceryl undecylenate having excellent antiseptic ability; and one or more mixtures of ethylhexylglycerin, glyceryl caprylate, p-anisic acid and a citrus mixed extract, thus improving antiseptic ability through the increased effects of antiseptic abilities of those materials.
US10172819B2	Omega-3 compositions, dosage forms, and methods of use Omega-3 compositions, dosage forms, and methods of use are disclosed herein. The omega-3 compositions and dosage forms disclosed herein may comprise DHA and EPA. The omega-3 compositions and dosage forms disclosed herein may comprise re-esterified triglycerides. Methods of treatment using the compositions and dosage forms are also disclosed.
US10172818B2	Methods of reducing or preventing oxidation of small dense LDL or membrane polyunsaturated fatty acids In various embodiments, the present invention provides methods of treating and/or preventing cardiovascular-related disease and, in particular, a method of reducing or preventing small dense LDL (“sdLDL”) oxidation in a subject, the method comprising administering to the subject a pharmaceutical composition comprising eicosapentaenoic acid or a derivative thereof.
US10172817B2	Treatment and diagnosis of colon cancer The present invention discloses novel agents and methods for diagnosis and treatment of colon cancer. Also disclosed are related arrays, kits, and screening methods.
US10172816B2	Method of treating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (CPD) with verproside A composition comprising a purified extract isolated from Pseudolysimachion rotundum var. subintegrum containing abundant amount of active ingredient or the compounds isolated therefrom as an active ingredient for treating a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and the use thereof. Inventive purified extract and compounds showed potent anti-COPD activity without beta-2-receptor agonistic response through various in vivo tests as well as in vitro test. Therefore, it can be used as the therapeutics or functional health food for treating and preventing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
US10172814B2	Substituted pyridyl-cycloalkyl-carboxylic acids, compositions containing them and medical uses thereof The present invention relates to substituted Pyridyl-cycloalkyl-carboxylic acids of general formula (I), to pharmaceutical compositions and combinations comprising said compounds and to the use of said compounds for manufacturing a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment or prophylaxis of a disease, in particular in mammals, such as diseases associated with pains, or for the treatment or prophylaxis of pain syndromes (acute and chronic), inflammatory-induced pain, pelvic pain, cancer-associated pain, endometriosis-associated pain as well as endometriosis and adenomyosis as such, cancer as such, and proliferative diseases as such like endometriosis.
US10172813B2	Materials and methods for controlling infections The subject invention provides materials methods for reducing infections in subjects. The materials methods utilize chlorhexidine, which has been found to be surprisingly non-toxic. The lack of toxicity facilitates the use of chlorhexidine in contexts that were not previously thought to be possible.
US10172811B2	Topical antifungal composition for treating onychomycosis A topical antifungal composition for treating onychomycosis includes a terbinafine and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in an amount of from 9% to 11% by weight of the composition, a hydroxypropyl chitosan in an amount of from 0.1% to 0.6% by weight of the composition, water in an amount of from 10.0% to 40.0% by weight of the composition, and a C1-C4 alkanol in an amount of from 60% to 80% by weight of the composition.
US10172810B2	Transmucosal ketamine delivery composition Disclosed are preparations and formulations of high thermodynamic activity lipophilic associations (LA), in which there is pairing between an ionizable pharmaceutical agent and a lipophilic species having ionic characteristics opposite to that of the pharmaceutical agent. Such lipophilic associations manifest high thermodynamic activity, as evidenced by their being predominantly in a liquid phase at room temperature or solvated in a lower-than-water dielectric solvent. Further the pharmaceutical agent being solubilized means that dissolution is not rate limiting to transmucosal absorption. This LA or LA-solvate is formulated into a low dielectric dosage form, from when, upon the dosage form's hydration, the pharmaceutical agent is driven through the mucosal tissue and into systemic circulation. The invention therefore provides an enhanced transmucosal drug delivery system for ionizable pharmaceutical agents at or near physiological pH.
US10172808B2	Combinations of mRNAs encoding immune modulating polypeptides and uses thereof The disclosure relates to compositions and methods for the preparation, manufacture and therapeutic use of combinations of immunomodulatory polynucleotides (e.g., mRNAs) encoding an immune response primer polypeptide (e.g., an interleukin 23 (IL-23) polypeptide or an interleukin 36γ (IL-36-gamma) polypeptide), and an immune response co-stimulatory signal polypeptide (e.g., an OX40L polypeptide).
US10172804B2	Pharmaceutical compositions of pimobendan The present invention is directed to a composition comprising particles of pimobendan with an integral coating of a carrier matrix which serve to ensure a rapid dissolution of the active substance at each pH condition representing the gastrointestinal tract and therefore a reliable absorption, and a method of pimobendan microencapsulation using the spray congealing technology and incorporating the coated particles into oral formulations, for example into tablets.
US10172799B1	Controlled release and taste masking oral pharmaceutical composition Controlled release and taste masking compositions containing one or more active principles inglobated in a three-component matrix structure, i.e. a structure formed by successive amphiphilic, lipophilic or inert matrices and finally inglobated or dispersed in hydrophilic matrices. The use of a plurality of systems for the control of the dissolution of the active ingredient modulates the dissolution rate of the active ingredient in aqueous and/or biological fluids, thereby controlling the release kinetics in the gastrointestinal tract.
US10172798B2	Sustained release formulation of nalbuphine Sustained release formulations of nalbuphine or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; methods for making the sustained release formulations of nalbuphine or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; and methods for using the sustained release formulations of nalbuphine or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof to treat patients suffering from pain are provided.
US10172796B2	Use of umirolimus and its derivatives for treating cancer Novel encapsulated umirolimus and umirolimus polymer conjugate formulations having enhanced permeability and retention at tumor sites. Also provided are methods for treating cancer by administering the umirolimus formulations.
US10172795B2	Formulations and carrier systems including compound interactive domains A method of creating a formulation for a compound includes determining a compound interactive agent comprising at least one group that interacts with the compound, creating a carrier agent by conjugating at least one compound interactive domain comprising the at least one group that interacts with the compound with at least one hydrophilic domain, and combining the compound and the carrier agent to create the formulation. Creating the carrier agent may further include conjugating the at least one compound interactive domain with at least one hydrophobic domain so that the at least one compound interactive domain is positioned between the at least one hydrophilic domain and the at least one hydrophobic domain.
US10172794B2	Controlled release dosage form for once daily administration of dimethyl fumarate A controlled release dosage form containing monomethyl fumarate, a compound that can be metabolized into monomethyl fumarate in vivo, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or combinations thereof, wherein the monomethyl fumarate, a compound that can be metabolized into monomethyl fumarate in vivo, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or combinations thereof is delivered to the subject. Also provided is a method of treating a disease or disorder (e.g., multiple sclerosis) by orally administering a controlled release dosage form containing monomethyl fumarate, a compound that can be metabolized into monomethyl fumarate in vivo, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or combinations thereof, wherein the monomethyl fumarate, a compound that can be metabolized into monomethyl fumarate in vivo, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or combinations thereof.
US10172793B2	Probiotic tablet formulations A probiotic tablet comprising a probiotic micro-organism and other nutritionally active ingredients in two zones, a first zone comprising said probiotic micro-organism and prcicrably selenium, and a second zone comprising at least one said other active ingredient such as iron, other minerals and vitamin B6 kept separated from the probiotic micro-organism of said first zone, the water activity in said probiotic micro-organism containing first zone being no greater than 0.2 and the water content of said tablet being as much as 3% by weight. Good viability of the micro-organisms is obtained despite the relatively high overall moisture content.
US10172792B2	Hydrogel composite depot formulation This invention relates to a depot formulation comprising a biodegradable silica hydrogel composite incorporating a nucleotide or nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor, wherein the silica hydrogel composite is obtainable by mixing silica particles comprising said nucleotide or nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor and having a maximum diameter of ≤1 000 μm, as such or as a suspension, with silica sol wherein the hydrogel composite is non-flowing and structurally stable when stored at rest and shear-thinning when shear stress is applied by injection. The present invention also relates to use of the depot formulation for treatment of chronic viral infections and prevention of chronic viral reinfection. The present invention further relates to a prefilled syringes comprising said depot formulation.
US10172791B2	Multi-layer hydrogel capsules for encapsulation of cells and cell aggregates Biomedical devices for implantation with decreased pericapsular fibrotic overgrowth are disclosed. The device includes biocompatible materials and has specific characteristics that allow the device to elicit less of a fibrotic reaction after implantation than the same device lacking one or more of these characteristic that are present on the device. Biocompatible hydrogel capsules encapsulating mammalian cells having a diameter of greater than 1 mm, and optionally a cell free core, are disclosed which have reduced fibrotic overgrowth after implantation in a subject. Methods of treating a disease in a subject are also disclosed that involve administering a therapeutically effective amount of the disclosed encapsulated cells to the subject.
US10172790B2	Method of stabilizing antibody and stabilized solution-type antibody preparation The present invention provides a method of suppressing the formation of a soluble association of an antibody in a solution; a method of suppressing the formation of a chemically degraded product of an antibody in a solution; and a method of stabilizing an antibody in a solution. The present invention also provides a solution-type antibody preparation in which the formation of a soluble association is suppressed; a solution-type antibody preparation in which the formation of a chemically degraded product is suppressed; a solution-type antibody preparation in which the formation of a soluble association, the formation of a chemically degraded product and the formation of an insoluble aggregate are suppressed; an agent for suppressing the formation of a soluble association of an antibody; an agent for suppressing the formation of a chemically degraded product of an antibody; and a stabilizing agent for an antibody.
US10172789B2	Compositions for transdermal delivery of mTOR inhibitors The present invention is drawn to formulations for the transdermal delivery of rapamycin or other related compounds. Specifically, in one embodiment a formulation for transdermally delivering rapamycin includes an mTOR inhibitor, such as rapamycin, water, a polymer having surfactant properties, a polymer having thickening properties, a solvent for solubilizing the mTOR inhibitor, a glycol, a C10-C20 fatty acid; and a base.
US10172787B2	Method of regulating a condition of mammalian keratinous tissue A method of regulating mammalian keratinous tissue that includes applying a safe and effective amount of achachariu to a target portion of keratinous tissue. The achachariu can be in the form of a bioactive ingredient that exhibits anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, anti-aging, and/or anti-protein loss properties, and which is free or substantially free of benzophenones and/or protein. The achachariu ingredient may be a serum fraction and/or an extract, and may be incorporated into a personal care composition formulated for topical use on skin and/or hair.
US10172785B2	Dendrobium chrysotoxum extract and its cosmetic use as an anti-aging agent The invention relates to a cosmetic composition comprising at least one extract from the orchid Dendrobium chrysotoxum as an active agent and at least one cosmetically acceptable excipient.The invention relates to the use in a cosmetic composition of an extract from the orchid Dendrobium chrysotoxum as an active agent for preventing or delaying the appearance of the signs of skin ageing or for slowing or attenuating the effects thereof, or else also for promoting cell or tissue longevity.The invention in particular relates to an orchid extract inhibiting the expression and/or the activity of the mitochondrial protein Smac/DIABLO.
US10172781B2	Pituitous silicone fluid A pituitous silicone fluid includes a hydrosilylation reaction product and a carrier fluid. The hydrosilylation reaction product is the reaction product of a first linear organopolysiloxane and a second linear organopolysiloxane. The first linear organopolysiloxane includes (R1R2R3SiO1/2) and (R4R5SiO2/2) units. Each of R1-R5 is independently a hydrocarbon group so long as at least one of R1-R5 is an alkenyl group. In addition, the first linear organopolysiloxane has a degree of polymerization of from 100 to 15,000. The second linear organopolysiloxane includes (R6R7R8SiO1/2) and (R9R10SiO2/2) units. Each of R6-R10 is independently a hydrocarbon group, polyether group, siloxane group, or polyol group, so long as at least one of R6-R10 is a hydrogen atom. In addition, the second linear organopolysiloxane has a degree of polymerization of from 4 to 1,000. The hydrosilylation reaction product includes alkenyl or Si—H functionality. Personal care compositions can include the pituitous silicone fluid.
US10172778B2	Late stage addition of rheology modifier Methods of making personal care compositions, such as dentifrices, involving the addition of rheology modifiers at a later stage in the personal care composition formation process.
US10172776B2	Compositions for altering the color of hair Disclosed herein is a hair treatment composition containing a polymer selected from crosslinked copolymers of (meth)acrylic acid and (C1-C6)alkyl esters, cross-linked anionic acrylate polymers, and acrylic associative polymers; a carbomer compound; a fatty alcohol that is liquid at room temperature; a fatty substance other than the fatty alcohol that is liquid at room temperature; an anionic surfactant; an amphoteric surfactant; a basic compound; a cosmetically acceptable solvent; and optionally, a colorant compound. Also disclosed is a process for altering the color of hair involving applying onto hair, a composition comprising the hair treatment composition and an oxidizing composition.
US10172775B2	Sunscreen/insect repellant compositions and methods of making and using the same The present invention is directed to combination sunscreen and insect repellant compositions. The combination sunscreen and insect repellant compositions contain (i) diethyl toluamide (or N,N-Diethyl-3-methylbenzamide or DEET), (ii) one or more sunscreen components, with each sunscreen component being capable of absorbing ultraviolet light rays, and (iii) a polymeric binder system. The combination sunscreen and insect repellant compositions may contain additional composition components such as butyloctyl salicylate, a crosslinked polyacrylate polymer, and deionized water. The present invention is also directed to methods of making and using combination sunscreen and insect repellant compositions.
US10172769B2	Method for whitening teeth The present invention relates to a method for whitening teeth. The method for whitening teeth according to the present invention can promote the whitening activity of a tooth whitening agent and increase the degree of permeation of the whitening agent into the teeth, thereby obtaining an excellent whitening effect. Therefore, an excellent whitening effect can be obtained despite the use of low-concentration peroxide, compared with the use of high-concentration peroxide.
US10172763B2	Skin and scalp massaging apparatus using acoustic pressure A skin and scalp massaging apparatus using acoustic pressure. A vibration member generates vibration using acoustic pressure induced when a sound source is generated. A vibration probe is coupled to the vibration member to receive vibration. The vibration probe has a detachably provided head having various purposes. The head is provided to massage skin or scalp. The vibration probe is coupled to a cone paper damper for generating vibration through a connection member to which the vibration member is coupled. The vibration probe is coupled to the cone paper damper of the vibration member, so that vibration is directly received, and thus, the vibration efficiency can be improved. Further, the head for the skin massage or the scalp massage is detachably provided on the vibration probe, and thus, can be used for various purposes of, for example, massaging skin, scalp, or the like.
US10172760B2	Responsive route guidance and identification system The present application discloses a responsive route guidance and identification system for providing route guidance and real time communication to a user related to course corrections along a route to avoid potential obstacles. The system includes a portable electronic device is configured to receive data from a location application software and a sensor module. The data received is processed to generate a route. The sensor module is configured to detect objects or obstructions along the route. The location application software is configured to receive and provide layout data of a particular area to be traversed. The system may optionally include a terminal and one or more transmitters to assist with location and navigation inside a structure. Communication is manifested to the user through audible or sensory methods.
US10172755B2	Bathing aid A bathing aid (100), comprising a bathing enclosure (101), a telescopic element (110) arranged at least partially within the bathing enclosure, and a seat (120) for supporting a person, said seat being arranged on the telescopic element. The bathing aid further comprises an actuation system (140) coupled to the telescopic element and the seat. The actuation system is configured to move the seat on the telescopic element along a horizontal axis (x) between a retracted position of the seat within the bathing enclosure and an extended position of the seat outside the bathing enclosure. The actuation system, in the extended position of the seat, is further configured to rotate (A) the seat in a horizontal plane (x-y) and configured to tilt (C) the seat with respect to a vertical axis (z).
US10172752B2	Standing wheelchair A standing wheelchair device includes a wheeled base for enabling the device to move on a supporting surface. A harness assembly includes a plurality of braces for attaching to parts of a body of a user of the device, at least some adjacent braces of being connected by joints. A lifting unit mounted on the base, supports a hip joint of the harness assembly, and is configured to raise or lower the hip joint. When the user is attached to the harness assembly and is in a sitting position, raising a height of the hip joint causes the user to assume a standing position. When the when the user is attached to the harness assembly and is in a standing position, lowering the hip joint causes the user to assume a sitting or reclining position.
US10172748B1	Inverting digit bandage with deployment strips An inverting digit bandage system enables covering a digit, such as a finger or toe, with an inverting digit bandage by pulling deployment strips. An inverting digit bandage has a sleeve portion that is rolled up into a toroid portion along with the deployment strip, A deployment tab extends from the deployment toroid and pulling down on the deployment tab unfurls the inverting digit bandage over a digit. An attachment tab may be configured on the extended end of the sleeve and have an adhesive to secure the bandage over the digit. The deployment strip may be attached to a release layer configured over the adhesive on the attachment tab and may remove the release layer when pulled from the inverting digit bandage.
US10172744B2	Compression device A compression device for applying compression to a body part of a user. The compression device comprises a sleeve for substantially covering a portion of the body part of a user. The sleeve has an upper edge, a lower edge and an opening extending from its upper edge to its lower edge, said opening having two side edges. The first side edge is provided with one half of a zipper and the second side edge is provided with a complementary half of said zipper. The sleeve includes at least one expandable gusset provided with a releasable closure system extending along the length of said gusset, said gusset and releasable closure system being configured and arranged, such that when said releasable closure system is closed said gusset is prevented from expansion and when said releasable closure system is opened said gusset is allowed to expand.
US10172740B2	Lacrimal stent Provided herein is a lacrimal stent that includes a flexible tube. The flexible tube includes a first distal end, a second distal end, and an elongated body between the first distal end and the second distal end. A first magnet is arranged at the first distal end of the flexible tube, and a magnetic material is arranged at the second distal end of the flexible tube. When the first distal end of the flexible tube is inserted into a lacrimal sac of an eye through a first punctum and the second distal end is inserted into the lacrimal sac of the eye through a second punctum, a magnetic attraction between the first magnet and the magnetic material causes the flexible tube to flex so that the first magnet of the first distal end magnetically engages the magnetic material of the second distal end.
US10172736B1	Color-coded buckle straps for a wheelchair The color-coded buckle straps for a wheelchair is an active restraint system. The color-coded buckle straps for a wheelchair is configured for use with a wheelchair. The color-coded buckle straps for a wheelchair secure a patient to the wheelchair. Each of the plurality of harnesses further comprises a buckle. Each buckle further comprises a male component and a female component. The buckle for each harness selected from the plurality of harnesses is selected such that the color of the buckle of any harness selected from the plurality of harnesses is different from the buckle of each unselected harness remaining within the plurality of harnesses. The color-coded buckle straps for a wheelchair comprises a chest harness, a waist harness, a pelvic harness, and a lower harness. The chest harness, the waist harness, the pelvic harness, and the lower harness are attached to the wheelchair.
US10172731B2	Circumferential trigger wire for deploying an endoluminal prosthesis A deployment device for deploying an expandable endoluminal prosthesis within a body vessel may include an elongate member extending longitudinally along at least a portion of a length of the deployment device. The deployment device may include at least one engagement member coupled to the elongate member and extending outwardly from the elongate member. The deployment device may include a circumferential trigger wire extending at least partially circumferentially around the elongate member and removably received between the engagement member and the elongate member. The circumferential trigger wire may be manipulatable from a distal end of the deployment device, whereby the circumferential trigger wire is removable from between the engagement member and the elongate member.
US10172730B2	Stents with metallic covers and methods of making same All metal stent grafts and covered stents having either a single structural supporting stent member with concentrically positioned graft members on the luminal and abluminal surfaces of the stent member or a single graft member with concentrically positioned structural supporting stent members on the luminal and abluminal surfaces of the graft member are provided.
US10172726B2	Artificial limb casing and method for the production thereof The invention relates to an artificial limb casing (1) having an insertion opening (4) for inserting the artificial limb, wherein a joint area (3) to which an end area (2) is integrally connected is formed on the casing (1). The invention further relates to a method for producing an artificial limb casing (1), wherein a textile intermediate layer (8) is applied to the outside of a hollow polyurethane substrate (9), and a silicone layer (7) is applied to the textile intermediate layer. The casing (1) is made of an elastomer material that has a lower Shore hardness in the joint area (3) than in the end area (2).
US10172723B2	Sensing force during partial or total knee replacement surgery Systems, devices, and methods are provided for measuring forces in the space of a knee during surgery. Such forces can be caused by tension in the ligaments of the knee. A femoral member is engaged with a distal femur. While the knee is flexed, partially extended, or fully extended, a force sensor and a gauge shim can be placed in the gap between the femoral member and the tibial plateau to measure the forces therebetween. The force sensor provides an accurate and quantifiable measurement of force, making knee replacement surgery and ligament tension balancing more accurate, standardized and repeatable. The force sensor comprises an elongate housing which comprises a thin force sensing distal portion and a proximal handle portion.
US10172722B2	Prosthesis installation systems and methods A system and method for allowing any surgeon, including those surgeons who perform a fewer number of a replacement procedure as compared to a more experienced surgeon who performs a greater number of procedures, to provide an improved likelihood of a favorable outcome approaching, if not exceeding, a likelihood of a favorable outcome as performed by a very experienced surgeon with the replacement procedure.
US10172720B2	Tissue spacer implants, insertion and adjustment tools, and method of use Tissue spacer implants and surgical methods for inserting the implants are disclosed. The implants may include a first cylindrical body with an outer surface, an axially extending hole, and a first end, a second cylindrical body with an outer surface and an axially extending hole, and an adjustment member with an outer surface, an axial hole, and at least one helical slot. The adjustment member axial hole may be adapted to receive the first cylindrical body and the adjustment member may be configured to be inserted into the axially extending hole of second cylindrical body. The implants may also include a travel mechanism for engaging the first cylindrical body, adjustment member, and second cylindrical body along the at least one helical slot to maintain a space between two bodies of tissue.
US10172716B1	Corpectomy spacer and plate An intervertebral body spacer includes an inferior plate portion; a superior plate portion vertically spaced above the inferior plate portion; and a central spacer portion between the inferior plate portion. The central spacer portion has a posterior vertical wall extending between the inferior plate portion and the superior plate portion, the posterior vertical wall including multiple windows therethrough, an anterior vertical wall opposite and spaced apart from the posterior vertical wall, the anterior vertical wall being solid, and a pair of side vertical walls spaced apart from one another and extending between the posterior vertical wall and the anterior vertical wall, the side vertical walls including multiple windows.
US10172714B2	Shoulder arthroplasty implant system An implant for shoulder arthroplasty includes a stem and optionally a head component or a cup component. The stem is sized and shaped to fit into an intramedullary canal of the humerus. The proximal portion of the stem has a concave taper and the distal portion of the stem has a taper. The distal taper includes an anterior-posterior taper and a medial-lateral taper. The shape of the stem loads the metaphysis of the humerus with a greater load than the load applied to the diaphysis of the humerus.
US10172712B2	Method and apparatus for measuring contraction characteristics of engineered heart tissue constructs The invention is directed to a novel method for measuring contraction characteristics of engineered heart tissue constructs (16) which is based on the mechanical coupling of the construct (16) to a support element (8) which comprises or is mechanically coupled to a piezoelectric element (10). An apparatus (1) for carrying out the method of the invention is also provided.
US10172711B2	Device and a method for improving the function of a heart valve A medical device is disclosed that reinforces weakened or degenerated areas of at least a portion of a leaflet (24) of the heart valve. Function of a heart valve is thus improved. The medical device comprises at least a first partly flexible leaflet reinforcement patch (30) having an extension between an inner section (34) and an outer section (32), wherein said outer section (32) is configured to be oriented towards said annulus, and said inner section (34) is configured to be oriented towards said inner section of said valve tissue, and at least a portion of said inner section (34) of said flexible leaflet reinforcement patch (32) having at least one of said plurality of leaflets (24) in juxtaposition to said portion of said inner section (34), and said portion of said inner section (34) being positioned to provide reinforcement to said plurality of leaflets (24).
US10172700B2	Prosthesis for repairing a hernia defect A prosthesis for repairing a hernia defect includes a patch body, a hoisting frame releasably attachable to the patch body, and a tether attached to the hoisting frame and having a free end extendable through the thickness of the patch body and accessible from the side of the patch body opposite to the side where the hoisting frame is releasably attached. The patch body and/or the hoisting frame includes a self-expanding support member. The hoisting frame includes a frame body and a translation component for directing pulling forces on the tether to the frame body.
US10172696B2	Method for producing a ceramic fixed partial denture A method for making ceramic fixed partial dentures comprising separating the as-sintered partial denture structure, rejoining the retainers and pontic with glass, which forms a strong joint between the retainers and pontic after sintering. This method may produce ceramic long-span fixed partial dentures with a better fit.
US10172694B2	Crown prosthesis preparing system, crown prosthesis preparing method, and non-transitory storage medium storing program for preparing crown prosthesis A crown prosthesis preparing system includes a data generator and a cutting device including a retainer, a cutting mechanism, and a controller. The cutting mechanism includes a first processing tool that cuts a workpiece to form a processed workpiece, a second processing tool that polishes the processed workpiece, a driver detachably holding at least one of the first processing tool and the second processing tool and controlling its position. The controller includes a first control section causing the first processing tool to cut the workpiece retained by the retainer based on three-dimensional data, to form the processed workpiece, and a second control section causing the second processing tool to polish a surface of the processed workpiece retained by the retainer based on the three-dimensional data.
US10172692B2	Rapid palatal expander and method for the making thereof Rapid palatal expander provided with a first and a second main body actuatable to be moved along a longitudinal slide direction by an actuator element, and connected to at least one first and one second thread-like support arm intended to interact with opposite portions of a dental arch. The support arms comprise a transversely projecting portion, which is engaged in a shape relationship within an enlarged portion of a shaped seat obtained in the two main bodies. The shaped seat is extended on the external surface with an insertion opening of size at least equal to the transversely projecting portion.
US10172689B2	Dissolvable intra-tooth spacer A pulp chamber dental spacer constructed of cold water soluble material, which may include portions of polyvinyl alcohol, to protect the pupal floor of a pulp chamber from a drilled hole following a root canal treatment or procedure. The spacer may be spherical or cubical in shape and that protects the pupal floor by providing a solid “space” for a practitioner to feel the end of a temporary filing such that the drill does not descend to and possibly damage the sensitive pupal floor. The dissolvable material preferably is non-linting, thereby providing for complete removal and preventing the “wicking” of contaminated salivary fluids and causing coronal damage.
US10172688B2	Steam cleaning device and methods of use According to various implementations, a dental cleaning device includes a steam conduit and a cooling fluid conduit. The steam conduit has a distal tip with an opening defined therein that allows steam to be applied intraorally close to a dental implant to flush away bacteria that has colonized on or adjacent the dental implant. The cooling fluid conduit has a distal tip with an opening defined therein that allows a cooling fluid to be applied intraorally close to the dental implant following the application of the steam to cool the tissue and prevent overheating of the tissue and bone adjacent the dental implant. For example, the cooling fluid may be applied intermittently with the steam, or the cooling fluid may be applied continuously while the steam is applied intermittently, according to various implementations.
US10172686B2	Devices and systems for stabilization of surgeon's arm during surgery Described herein is an arm stabilization member for dampening inadvertent movement of the arm of a user during a surgical procedure, comprising an arm support and a movement mechanism coupled to the arm support. The arm support comprises an outer frame sized to support at least a portion of the user's arm and an inner pad lining an inner surface of the outer frame and configured to conform to the user's arm. The movement mechanism comprises a counterbalance system movably connected by joints and configured to compensate for the gravitational forces exerted by the arm of the user.
US10172683B2	Measuring devices for medical tools Measuring devices that can be incorporated with gripping tools are described. The measuring devices can be integral to a gripping tool or can be removably attachable to a gripping tool. The measuring devices can be incorporated in conjunction with a gripping tool for use in a medical application such as a clamp, a hemostat, a forceps, or the like. Devices can be utilized to determine a straight length and/or to determine the spread of the jaws a gripping tool associated with the device.
US10172682B2	Medical device packaging Packaging (4) for an injection device (6, 92), the packaging comprising: a compartment (32) forming a recess configured to house the injection device therein, the compartment extending in a longitudinal direction, a depth direction, and having a variable lateral width to accommodate the injection device; a first sidewall (54) extending in the depth direction and longitudinal direction contiguous a portion of the compartment; and a lip (56) adjoining the sidewall and said portion of the compartment, wherein the first sidewall is arranged within a field of width of the compartment, the lip arranged at a height (h) from a base of said portion of the compartment, such that the lip and first sidewall prevent user gripping of a housed injection device at said portion of the compartment.
US10172673B2	Systems devices, and methods for delivery of pulsed electric field ablative energy to endocardial tissue Systems, devices, and methods for electroporation ablation therapy are disclosed, with the system including a pulse waveform signal generator for medical ablation therapy, and an endocardial ablation device includes at least one electrode for ablation pulse delivery to tissue. The signal generator may deliver voltage pulses to the ablation device in the form of a pulse waveform. The system may include a cardiac stimulator for generation of pacing signals and for sequenced delivery of pulse waveforms in synchrony with the pacing signal.
US10172672B2	Jaw force control for electrosurgical forceps A surgical instrument includes a first shaft, a second shaft, and a hinge. The first shaft includes a proximal handle and a distal jaw member. The second shaft includes a first segment that has a proximal handle and a second segment that has a distal jaw member. One of the first and second shafts is pivotal relative to the other to pivot the jaw members between an open configuration where the jaw members are spaced relative to one another and an activatable configuration where the jaw members are closer to one another and suitable for applying electrosurgical energy to tissue disposed therebetween. The hinge couples the first and second segments to one another. The first and second segments have a straight configuration where the first and second segments align with a longitudinal axis and a pivoted configuration where the second segment is disposed at an angle relative to the longitudinal axis.
US10172670B2	Flexible neck for surgical instruments Methods and devices for allowing articulation of an end effector on a surgical instrument are provided. In one embodiment, a surgical device can include a flexible neck portion having an end effector coupled to a distal end thereof. The flexible neck portion is configured to bend to as to allow the end effector to articulate. The flexible neck portion can include a monolithic flexible outer shell defining an inner lumen extending therethrough. At least one flexible divider can be disposed within the inner lumen such that it separates the outer shell into elongate pathways configured to receive articulation members extending through the shaft assembly and the flexible neck and coupled to the end effector to cause articulating movement thereof.
US10172669B2	Surgical instrument comprising an energy trigger lockout A surgical instrument can comprise a lock movable between a locked position and an unlocked position, wherein the lock can be engaged with a drive shaft in order to prevent the drive shaft from being advanced when the lock is in its locked position. The surgical instrument can further comprise an electrical input and, in addition, a switch movable between an unactuated position and an actuated position, wherein the electrical input is electrically disconnected from an electrode when the switch is in its unactuated position, wherein the switch is configured to electrically couple the electrical input and the electrode when the switch is in its actuated position, and wherein the switch and the lock are operably coupled such that the movement of the switch from its unactuated position to its actuated position moves the lock from its locked position to its unlocked position.
US10172663B2	Expandable catheter system for peri-ostial injection and muscle and nerve fiber ablation At the present time, physicians often treat patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) using radiofrequency (RF) catheter systems to ablate conducting tissue in the wall of the Left Atrium of the heart around the ostium of the pulmonary veins. These systems are expensive and take time consuming to use. The present invention circular ablation system CAS includes a multiplicity of expandable needles that can be expanded around a central axis and positioned to inject a fluid like ethanol to ablate conductive tissue in a ring around the ostium of a pulmonary vein quickly and without the need for expensive capital equipment. The expansion of the needles is accomplished by self-expanding or balloon expandable structures. The invention includes centering means so that the needles will be situated in a pattern surrounding the outside of the ostium of a vein. Also included are members that limit the distance of penetration of the needles into the wall of the left atrium, or the aortic wall. The present invention also has an important application to ablate tissue around the ostium of one or both renal arteries, for the ablation of the sympathetic nerve fibers and/or other afferent or efferent nerves going to or from each kidney in order to treat hypertension.
US10172661B2	Manifold for filling plural cannulae, the manifold including rotating fittings that close when a cannula is removed from the fitting and that open when a cannula is attached to the fitting A manifold for loading plural cannulae with a substance is described. The manifold includes a housing with a plurality of channels that route the flow of the mixed substance from a single central channel to multiple sub-channels for the simultaneous filling of attached cannulae. Each sub-channel extends to a fitting to which a cannula may be attached. The fittings are rotatably mounted to the housing. A lock assembly holds the cannulae to the individual fittings are so that when a cannula is removed from a fitting, the fitting rotates so as to close the fluid path from the sub-channel. In order to attach a second cannula to the same fitting the lock system requires the fitting to be rotates into a position in which the fluid communications path from the associated sub-channel is reopened.
US10172659B2	Bone treatment systems and methods The present invention relates in certain embodiments to medical devices for treating vertebral compression fractures. More particularly, embodiments of the invention relate to instruments and methods for controllably restoring vertebral body height by controlling the flow of bone cement into the interior of a vertebra and the application of forces causes by the cement flow. An exemplary system utilizes Rf energy in combination a conductive bone cement for selectively polymerizing the inflow plume to increase the viscosity of the cement. In one aspect of the invention, the system utilizes a controller to control bone cement flow parameters to either allow or disallow cement interdigitation into cancellous bone. A method of the invention includes pulsing the flows of bone cement wherein high acceleration of the flow pulses can apply expansion forces across the surface of the cement plume to reduce a vertebral fracture.
US10172658B2	Medical insertion apparatus Provided are a medical insertion apparatus including a screw body to be inserted into a body, and a conductive portion provided in the screw body and including an externally exposed portion, wherein the conductive portion may extend in a longitudinal direction of the screw body and form a single closed loop, and a medical insertion apparatus including a screw body to be inserted into a body, a driver to engage with the screw body to be used to fasten or loosen the screw body, and a conductive portion provided in the screw body and the driver and including an externally exposed portion on one side of the screw body, wherein a portion of the conductive portion disposed in the screw body and another portion of the conductive portion disposed in the driver may be electrically connected to each other.
US10172656B1	Surgical screw A surgical screw configured to expand and prevent or minimize bone growth inside of the surgical screw is provided. Accordingly, the surgical screw is configured to increase the purchase of the surgical screw with respect to the bone, but also to be withdrawn from the bone without damaging the bone as a result of bone ingrowth. The surgical screw includes a center post with an inner bore and an outer sleeve concentric to the center post. An outer surface of the outer sleeve includes a thread to engage bone. The outer sleeve includes a cut pattern defining an expandable region configurable between a first state with a first radius measured from a longitudinal axis of the surgical screw to the outer surface and a second state having a second radius measured from the longitudinal axis to the outer surface.
US10172655B2	Osteosynthesis system, assemblies and components Osteosynthesis systems useful in the fusion of cervical vertebrae are described. An osteosynthesis system includes a plate, a set of anchors, a set of locking members, and a set of pins. The plate defines anchor passageways that receive the anchors, locking member passageways that receive the locking member passageways; and pin passageways that receive the pins. Each of the locking member passageways partially intersects one of the anchor passageways and each of the pin passageways provides a passageway extending from a side of the plate to one of the locking member passageways. Each of the locking members is rotatable within the respective one of the locking member passageways and is adapted to engage an adjacent anchor from the side.
US10172654B2	Controlling bone compression Systems, devices and methods are disclosed for limiting compression of a fracture imposed by a lag screw of a fixation system that includes a fixation device, a lag screw and a compression screw. The disclosed devices, systems and methods prevent over-compression of a fracture by a lag screw caused by over rotation of the compression screw. Specifically, implementations of a lag screw driver and a compression screw driver are provided whereby an engagement between the lag screw driver and compression screw driver prevents any further lateral movement of the lag screw, thereby providing a complete stop to further advancement of the lag screw and any additional compression.
US10172652B2	Method and apparatus for performing spinal surgery Implants, instruments, and methods for performing surgical procedures on the spine, including one or more of creating an operative corridor to the spine, delivering implants to the spine, fusing one or more segments of the spine, and fixing one or more segments of the spine.
US10172650B2	Spinal implant system and method A spinal implant system comprises a plate including a surface that defines a first cavity and a second cavity. The first cavity is oriented to implant a multi-axial fastener with a sacrum. The second cavity is oriented to implant a fastener with an ala of a sacrum. A surgical instrument is engageable with the plate. At least one of the plate and the surgical instrument includes an engagement surface for connection therebetween. Systems and methods of use are disclosed.
US10172647B2	Poly-axial implant fixation system A fixation system comprises a rod, a fastener including a head and an elongated shank, a yoke and an insert. The yoke includes opposite arms defining a slot to receive the rod, an opening to receive the shank, a surface for supporting the fastener head, and a cross bore through each of the arms. The insert has a base configured for slidable insertion between the yoke arms, and defining a rod supporting surface and an opening sized to receive the fastener shank. The insert further includes a pair of resiliently deflectable fingers extending from the base and including a tab projecting therefrom configured to be received within a cross bore. Each tab defines a beveled face configured to bear against the yoke as the insert is advanced into the yoke slot and to deflect the fingers inward until the tabs are aligned with the cross bores.
US10172645B2	Method of correcting hallux varus joint deformity Disclosed are methods for correcting hallux varus joint deformity in a foot. The method can include forming a first hole in a first metatarsal of the foot from a medial side to a lateral side of the first metatarsal. A second hole can be formed in a proximal phalanx of a hallux that extends from a medial side to a lateral side of the proximal phalanx. The method includes passing a suture through the first hole, along a lateral side of a first metatarsal phalangeal joint, and through the second hole. The suture can be tensioned between the first and second holes to reduce the hallux to a rectus position relative to the first metatarsal. The suture can be secured within the first and second holes with a first interference screw inserted within the first hole and a second interference screw inserted within the second hole.
US10172642B2	Method for placing a cannula in a bladder A cannula is placed in an enlarged opening through a bladder wall and an abdominal wall by applying pulling tension to a placement guide extending through a small pathway to hold an inflated placement balloon in sealing contact with the bladder wall. The seal confines distension fluid in the bladder to establish sufficient reactive resistance to enlarge the opening through the bladder wall with blunt force dilation from an obturator.
US10172639B2	Devices and methods for protecting an internal channel of a subject Devices and methods for protecting an internal channel of a subject are disclosed. In one example embodiment, a device for protecting an internal channel of a subject includes a first end portion having a first diameter and defining a first opening, and a second end portion opposite the first end portion having a second diameter and defining a second opening that is in communication with the first opening. A body portion is defined between the first end portion and second end portion. The body portion defines an interior passage between the first opening and second opening, and is expandable along a longitudinal axis from a collapsed state to an expanded state.
US10172637B2	Dissector device A dissector device having a rod-shaped hollow member, an expandable element with a pair of jaws arranged at a distal end of the rod-shaped member and a grip arranged at a proximal end of the rod-shaped member is provided. The dissector device has dispensing assembly for dispensing a fluid under pressure and has feeding channels and a dispensing channel associated with the jaws of the expandable element. The dispensing channel being has an outlet arranged proximate to or at the free end of the jaw. The feeding channels are arranged in fluid communication with a cavity of the rod-shaped member, whereby a fluid under pressure is fed throughout the cavity of the rod-shaped member in an operating condition of the dissector device.
US10172636B2	Articulation features for ultrasonic surgical instrument A surgical apparatus comprises a body, an ultrasonic transducer, a shaft, an acoustic waveguide, an articulation section, an end effector, and an articulation drive assembly. The ultrasonic transducer is operable to convert electrical power into ultrasonic vibrations. The shaft couples the end effector and the body together. The acoustic waveguide is coupled with the transducer. The articulation section includes a collar that is located distal to a nodal portion of the waveguide and is operable to deflect the end effector away from the longitudinal axis. The end effector comprises an ultrasonic blade in acoustic communication with the ultrasonic transducer. The articulation drive assembly is operable to drive articulation of the articulation section. The articulation drive assembly comprises at least one translating articulation driver coupled with the collar. The ultrasonic blade is operable to deliver ultrasonic vibrations to tissue even when the articulation section is in an articulated state.
US10172632B2	Occlusion bypassing apparatus with a re-entry needle and a stabilization tube An occlusion bypassing apparatus for re-entering the true lumen of a vessel after subintimally bypassing an occlusion in a vessel. The apparatus includes an outer shaft component having a needle lumen there-through. A proximal end of the outer shaft component is fixed within a handle of the apparatus at a first attachment point. A stabilization tube of the apparatus is disposed within the needle lumen. A proximal end of the stabilization tube is fixed within the handle at a second attachment point that is spaced apart from the first attachment point and an elongated body and a distal end of the stabilization tube are not attached to the outer shaft component. A needle component of the apparatus is configured to be slidably disposed within the stabilization tube and removable therefrom, and the stabilization tube minimizes resistive forces exerted onto the needle component by the outer shaft component.
US10172629B2	Systems and methods for implanting surgical implants The present invention relates to an implant system that comprises an implant, a handle configured to removably receive the implant, and, in some embodiments, a spacer tool configured to be mounted on the implant. In further embodiments, a k-wire is employed to guide the implant to a desired location. The handle has a hole for receiving a first portion of the implant. Using the handle to implant the implant, along with an associated spacer, provides a quick and convenient method for implanting the implant as described herein and in the associated drawings.
US10172628B2	Vertical cutter and method of use A detachable vertical cutter for insertion into a cylinder or tube is formed as a single unitary structure. The single blade has a pair of tool attachment end portions and a cutting blade extending in a loop between the attachment ends. The cutting blade is inclined vertically relative to a longitudinal axis of a cylinder or tube into which the attachment ends can slide into. The cutting blade has a cutting edge, a portion of which when extended free of the cylinder or tube will extend a distance greater than the tube outside diameter. The cutting edge when pushed inwardly and pulled outwardly between adjacent vertebrae scrapes and cuts disc material. When retracted the cutting blade deflects into the cylinder or tube for insertion or extraction into or from the disc space.
US10172625B2	Hemostatic instrument A pressure adjustment unit of a hemostatic instrument includes a main container portion connected to a side of a balloon and an auxiliary balloon serving as an expansion member. The main container portion has, for example, air passing holes for permitting a portion of a fluid (air) to be expelled. A sliding member is installed at the main container portion and is movable along the main container portion from a state in which the air passing holes of the main container portion are blocked to a state in which one or more of the hole are open, and a moving body movable inside the main container portion to successively block the air passing holes opened by moving the sliding member.
US10172624B2	Device and method for through the scope endoscopic hemostatic clipping Medical device used to cause hemostasis of blood vessels using a clip arrangement delivered to a target region through an endoscope. Method for using the device to cause hemostasis of a blood vessel through an endoscope. Medical device including a reversibly closeable clip, a locking arrangement, a control wire, a sheath, and a handle with an actuating trigger. Through the endoscope, hemostatic clipping device that is fully reversible and lockable. Hemostatic clip that reversibly targets and clips bleeding ulcers.
US10172622B2	Applicator instrument with folding stapling tip An applicator instrument has a body portion that has at least one trigger mechanism and a rod extending from the body portion. The applicator instrument has a folding cap mechanism installed or inserted into an end of the rod. The folding cap mechanism has a plurality of extension arms, each of which have a staple clinch bucket. The extension arms are coupled to a trigger of the triggers and are movable between a collapsed position and an extended position by the trigger.
US10172619B2	Surgical staple driver arrays A surgical staple driver array. The array comprises a distal staple driver configured to operably support at least two distal surgical staples thereon that are each oriented in a distal direction. At least one first intermediate staple driver is configured to operably support at least two first surgical staples oriented in a first direction and at least two second surgical staples oriented in a second direction that differs from the first direction. At least one second intermediate staple driver is configured to be slidably supported adjacent at least one of the distal staple driver and a corresponding one of the first intermediate staple drivers. Each of the second intermediate staple drivers is configured to operably support five surgical staples thereon.
US10172604B2	Trocar system having a drive Systems and methods for using a trocar system are disclosed. The system generally includes a handle having a first end a second end, a trocar disposed adjacent the first end of the handle, a plurality of cannulas disposed on the trocar simultaneously, and a drive system. The drive system is disposed for forward movement of the cannulas in a longitudinal direction away from the first end of the handle.
US10172602B2	Soft robotic retractors Exemplary embodiments describe soft robotic actuators for medical use, such as during surgeries and other medical procedures. According to one embodiment, a soft robotic incision retractor is provided. According to another embodiment, a soft robotic body tissue retractor is provided. The incision retractor and body tissue retractor may be used together, for example by using the incision retractor to hold open an incision while the body tissue retractor manipulates biological matter or an object accessible through the incision. Described embodiments offer the ability to conform to a given space, reduced risk of damage to surrounding structures as compared to traditional retractors, the ability to deliver varying amounts of force, the ability to be made from medically safe materials, and the potential for re-use or disposability.
US10172600B2	Insertion apparatus An insertion apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes: an insertion portion to be inserted into a subject; a bending operation apparatus to be moved by an operator to input an operation instruction; a bending drive section that generates a drive force based on the movement of the bending operation apparatus; a pulling member to be pulled by the drive force from the bending drive section; a bending portion provided in the insertion portion, the bending portion being connected to the pulling member and being bent upon the pulling member being pulled; and a haptic section that connects the pulling member and the bending operation apparatus via an elastic portion.
US10172598B2	Ingestible medical device Various embodiments are described herein for a device and method for an ingestible medical device with a rotatable element. In some described embodiments, the ingestible medical device includes a storage sub-unit with multiple chambers each having an opening for collecting or dispensing substances from the GI tract. The device further comprises a chamber enclosure with an access port. One of the chamber enclosure and the storage sub-unit are rotatable to allow for aligning the access port with a chamber opening. The ingestible medical device includes a sensor for positioning the access port of the chamber enclosure or the storage sub-unit as one of these elements rotates.
US10172596B2	Biological tissue biopsy device The present invention relates to a biological tissue biopsy device including a body extending in a longitudinal direction, an outer needle installed to be connected to one side of the body and be extended in a longitudinal direction and including a first tube having a hollow portion formed therein and a second tube disposed in a direction parallel to the first tube to guide a hemostatic substance, an inner needle provided inside the first tube and extending in a longitudinal direction, and a sliding means provided in the body and installed to be connected to one end of the inner needle so as to enable the inner needle to move forward and backward. Here, the sliding means causes the inner needle to move a predetermined distance from the hollow portion of the first tube and be inserted into a target site.
US10172592B2	Acoustic respiratory and non-respiratory motion detecting A method of detecting subject respiratory motion and non-respiratory motion includes: transmitting a transmitted signal toward a subject, the transmitted signal being an ultrasound wave, the transmitted signal reflecting off the subject to produce a reflected signal; receiving the reflected signal and converting a form of the reflected signal from ultrasound wave to electrical; comparing the reflected signal to at least a first reference signal to determine at least a first reference phase signal indicative of a first phase difference between the first reference signal and the reflected signal, the at least a first reference signal being associated with the transmitted signal; and analyzing the first reference phase signal for respiratory motion of the subject and non-respiratory motion, the non-respiratory motion including at least one of non-respiratory motion of the subject or motion of an entity other than the subject.
US10172591B2	Ultrasonic device, ultrasonic probe, ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, and method of manufacturing ultrasonic device An ultrasonic device includes a substrate, a first piezoelectric body, a second piezoelectric body, and an acoustic matching section. The substrate has a first surface that is a flat surface. The first piezoelectric body is disposed on the first surface of the substrate. The second piezoelectric body is disposed on the first surface of the substrate. The second piezoelectric body has a different thickness from a thickness of the first piezoelectric body as measured from the first surface of the substrate. The acoustic matching section is disposed on the first piezoelectric body and the second piezoelectric body. The acoustic matching section has a first side facing the first piezoelectric body and the second piezoelectric body, and a second side opposite from the first side. A surface of the acoustic matching section on the second side is a flat surface parallel with the first surface of the substrate.
US10172586B2	Mobile X-ray imaging apparatus and method of controlling the same A mobile X-ray imaging apparatus and a method of controlling the mobile X-ray imaging apparatus are provided. The mobile X-ray imaging apparatus includes an X-ray source mounted in a movable main body, a battery configured to supply operating power to the X-ray source, a charger configured to supply charging power to charge the battery, and a controller configured to block charging of the battery while X-rays are radiated.
US10172583B2	Radiography apparatus, radiography method, and radiography program A derivation unit acquires imaging conditions corresponding to order information received by a receiving unit based on a table stored in a storage unit and sets the imaging conditions in a radiation source control unit. The radiation source control unit controls a radiation source based on the set imaging conditions such that a radiographic image is captured. An acquisition unit acquires the actual values of the imaging conditions from the radiation source control unit. The derivation unit derives virtual grid characteristics based on the actual values of the imaging conditions. An execution unit acquires a captured radiographic image through a detector control unit. The execution unit performs a virtual grid process for the acquired radiographic image based on the virtual grid characteristics derived by the derivation unit and the acquired imaging conditions to generate a radiographic image from which the influence of scattered radiation has been removed.
US10172580B2	Phase retrieval for scanning differential phase contrast systems A phase contrast imaging apparatus (MA) and related image processing method. The imaging apparatus includes a movable arm (AR) that carries a detector (D) and one or more interferometric gratings (G0,G1,G2). The imaging apparatus includes a rigidizer (RGD) to control the rigidity of at least the arm (AR) or a mounting (GM) for the gratings (G0,G1,G2). This allows controlling a drift of a Moiré pattern as detected in a sequence of readouts. A phase of the so controlled Moiré pattern can be used to calibrate the imaging apparatus by using the image processing method.
US10172579B2	X-ray imaging system An x-ray imaging system is provided. The x-ray imaging system includes an imaging apparatus configured to generate x-rays and image a subject by radiating the x-rays, an x-ray detection apparatus configured to detect the x-rays by receiving the x-rays radiated by the imaging apparatus, a table on which the subject is positioned, an accommodation frame provided on at least one portion of the table wherein the x-ray detection apparatus is accommodated in the accommodation frame, and a rail unit coupled to an inner side of the accommodation frame configured to at least one of withdraw the x-ray detection apparatus into the accommodation frame and accommodate the x-ray detection apparatus in the accommodation frame, wherein the rail unit comprises a first rail member positioned at an outer side, a second rail member positioned at an inner side of the first rail member, a third rail member positioned in between the first rail member and the second rail member, and a coupling member configured to couple the third rail member to the first rail member.
US10172571B2	X-ray imaging apparatus An X-ray imaging apparatus of the present invention includes: a rotation unit disposed on a lower end of a rotation shaft through a sliding part so as to enable a sliding movement along an irradiation direction of X-ray; an X-ray source unit disposed on a lower end of one side of the rotation unit; a sensor unit installed by disposing a shaft rotation part on a lower end of the other side of the rotation unit; a driving unit including: a driving part which provides drive power to the shaft rotation part; and an interlocking part configured to allow the rotation unit to slidably move to one side or the other side according to the rotation state of the shaft rotation part.
US10172559B2	Implantable device header with embedded sensor and antenna A device and method for manufacturing an implantable cardiac monitor device are provided. The method joins a feed-through assembly to a device housing having electronic components therein. The feed-through assembly includes conductors having distal ends connected to the electronic components and has proximal ends projecting from the feed-through assembly. The method assembles a header having a sensing electrode and an antenna embedded within a non-conductive header body. The electrode and antenna includes corresponding interconnection plates. The header body includes a housing mounting surface that includes at least one passage aligned with an interconnect cavity that includes the interconnection plates. The header body further includes a window exposing the interconnect cavity and interconnect regions. The method further directs the proximal ends of the conductors through the passage to align with the interconnect regions and secures the proximal ends and the interconnect regions to one another through the window.
US10172558B2	Structure and methodology for a shadow mask having hollow high aspect ratio projections A high aspect ratio shadow mask and a method of making and using the high aspect ratio shadow mask can provide multiple conductive trace pathways along high aspect ratio electrodes. The high aspect ratio shadow mask can include a substantially planar base layer and a plurality of hollow high aspect ratio projections extending from the substantially planar base layer. The high aspect ratio shadow mask can further include a plurality of openings along the hollow projections which define trace deposition patterns.
US10172557B2	Wearable biometric device and method of performing biometric measurements A wearable biometric device includes a biometric sensor system adapted to measure a predetermined physiological property of a user's body at two or more different locations at the body surface and to provide for each such location an associated primary signal indicative of said measured physiological property. The device also includes a detector system adapted to detect a level of coupling of the biometric sensor system with the body at each of the locations and to provide for each of the locations an associated secondary signal indicative of said detected level of coupling and also includes a signal processing unit adapted to generate an output signal indicative of said physiological property as a function of the primary and secondary signals.
US10172556B2	Combined wearable electrocardiogram and electronic stethoscope A wearable patch system includes an electrocardiogram (ECG) sensor having electrodes configured to contact a subject. An electronic stethoscope has a diaphragm structure responsive to sounds from the subject. The ECG sensor and the electronic stethoscope are co-located to measure respective parameters concurrently from a same position. A housing is configured to support the diaphragm structure and the electrodes. The housing includes a mechanical interface configured to mount on the subject. A communications circuit is disposed on or in the housing to communicate with a remote component.
US10172555B2	Device for detecting on-body impacts Provided is a device for placement on a human subject to detect impacts on the human subject. The device includes a base member, one or more engagement sensors to detect whether the device is properly placed on the human subject, and one or more motion sensors to detect the kinematics of the human subject. The device also includes a processing unit that includes methodology to detect false positives such as chewing, dropping, and throwing.
US10172553B2	Conductive textile-based inductance-type electrode apparatus for bio-signal detection Provided is a conductive textile-based inductance-type electrode apparatus for bio-signal detection, which includes an electrode unit (10) having a textile electrode (200) for receiving an oscillation signal from an oscillating unit and outputting a bio signal of a subject person, the textile electrode having a spiral coil (101) disposed at a textile sheet (103) formed by spirally turning a coil thread with conductivity from one end to the other end disposed at a center portion thereof, a bottom textile sheet (120) coming in contact with a skin of the subject person, and a buffering member (145) disposed between the electrode unit (10) and the bottom textile sheet (120) to separate the electrode unit (10) from the skin.
US10172551B2	System and method for transmitting orthopaedic implant data A system and method for transmitting implant data includes an orthopedic implant, a wireless receiver, and a processing circuit electrically coupled to the wireless receiver. The orthopedic implant is configured to transmit implant identification data and implant sensor data to the wireless receiver in response to a power signal. The orthopedic implant may transfer the data over, for example, a wireless network. The processing circuit receives the implant identification data and the implant sensor data from the wireless receiver and is configured to retrieve patient-related data from a database based on the implant identification data. The processing circuit may also be configured to update a patient queue, assign a patient room to a patient, and/or transmit the patient-related data and the implant sensor data to a client machine located in the patient room.
US10172547B2	System and method using information of involuntary body movement during sleep, and sleeping state detection system and method Provided are a sleeping state detection system and method that can detect the sleeping state of a subject such as an inpatient or a tenant without causing the subject stress, and that can ascertain the health state of the subject from the detection results. The sleeping state detection system includes a room or closed space (201) in which the subject sleeps, and a dust counter (206) that measures the dust particles inside the room or closed space (201). In a state where the inside of the room or closed space (201) is kept cleaner than the outside of the room or closed space (201) by using a fan filter unit (208) disposed in the room or closed space (201), while the subject sleeps, the change over time in the number of dust particles inside the room or closed space (201) is measured using the dust counter (206), and thereby the sleeping state of the subject is detected. The inside of the room or closed space (201) is preferably kept at a cleanliness of US 209D Class100 or better.
US10172546B2	Sensor, network system and controlling method for using the same Disclosed are a sensor, which includes a cardiac impulse sensor for sensing a cardiac impulse of a human body spaced apart from the cardiac impulse sensor to generate an output signal, and a wireless processing unit for processing and outputting an operation signal of an electronic device according to an output signal of the cardiac impulse sensor, a network system including the sensor, and a method of controlling an electronic device. The electronic device is effectively controlled.
US10172543B2	Method of measuring the heart rate and respiratory rate of a human being The invention relates to a method for measuring the human heartbeat rate, comprising the steps of: 1) obtaining a video of the measured subject; 2) parsing the video into a series of image frames; 3) arranging the multiple generated image frames in sequential order; 4) detecting the position of the region of the face in each image; 5) obtaining the facial fluctuation frequency of the measured object according to the change of the position of the face region in the image frame system.
US10172541B2	Motion recognition device and method A motion recognition device includes a sensing unit and a processing unit. The sensing unit generates a sense signal in response to a body motion occurring at a specific position on a user's body, wherein the sense signal includes a first sense signal portion and a second sense signal portion different from the first sense signal portion, and the body motion belongs to a motion segment of a motion type. The processing unit processes the sense signal to generate a motion parameter signal structure including a fusion signal of the first and the second sense signal portions, and recognizes the specific position to determine an effective reference signal for recognition of the motion type based on the motion parameter signal structure.
US10172538B2	Body lumen junction localization Devices, systems, and methods for the localization of body lumen junctions and other intraluminal structure are disclosed. Various embodiments permit clinicians to identify the locations of intraluminal structures and medical devices during non-surgical medical techniques, such as cardiac ablation, by determining the intralumen conductance and/or cross-sectional area at a plurality of locations within the body lumen.
US10172524B2	Photoacoustic apparatus A photoacoustic apparatus includes a light source; a receiving element configured to receive, at a plurality of positions, a photoacoustic wave generated through irradiation of a subject with light generated by the light source, and output a time-series reception signal; a signal data obtaining unit configured to obtain information that is based on a shape of the subject, generate reception signal data by reducing a data amount of the time-series reception signal on the basis of the obtained information that is based on the shape of the subject, and store the reception signal data; and an information obtaining unit configured to obtain information about the subject on the basis of the reception signal data stored in the signal data obtaining unit.
US10172523B2	Light-based spectroscopy with improved signal-to-noise ratio A measurement system includes a light source having semiconductor sources, a multiplexer, and one or more fused silica fibers configured to form an output optical beam having one or more optical wavelengths modulated at a modulation frequency. A light beam set-up includes a monochromator forming a filtered optical beam. A measurement apparatus delivers the filtered optical beam to a sample. A receiver receives a spectroscopy output beam generated from the sample by the filtered optical beam. The receiver is configured to use a lock-in technique that detects the modulation frequency, and to generate first and second signals responsive to light received while the light source is off and on, respectively. The measurement system improves a signal-to-noise ratio of the spectroscopy output beam by differencing the first and second signals. The receiver processes the spectroscopy output beam using chemometrics or multivariate analysis to permit identification of materials within the sample.
US10172521B2	Systems and methods for tracking imaging attenuators A system for imaging an object is provided including a first imaging acquisition module, a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) acquisition module, and a first reconstruction module. The first imaging acquisition module is configured to acquire imaging information using a first non-MRI modality. The MRI acquisition module is configured to acquire MR non-imaging, foreign structure (NFIS) information. The MR NFIS information is acquired via at least one tracking coil associated with an external non-therapeutic (ENT) structure. The MR NIFS information corresponds to at least one of a position or orientation of the ENT structure. The first reconstruction module is configured to obtain the MR NIFS information and use the MR NIFS information to correct an attenuation in the imaging information acquired by the first imaging acquisition module associated with the ENT structure.
US10172519B2	Biosignal transmitter, biosignal receiver, and method of transmitting and receiving biosignal Technology for transmitting and receiving a biosignal based on a pattern related to the biosignal and a feature point included in the biosignal. A biosignal transmitter includes a biosignal obtaining unit configured to obtain a biosignal comprising a plurality of unit signals, a parsing unit configured to parse the biosignal to extract a first unit signal of the plurality of unit signals, a pattern obtaining unit configured to obtain a pattern related to the biosignal based on the first unit signal, and a transmitting unit configured to transmit information related to a feature point of the first unit signal based on the first unit signal and the pattern.
US10172517B2	Image-analysis for assessing heart failure An apparatus for assessing heart failure can include an image sensor configured to capture image data of a patient, a sensor configured to capture sensor data for the patient, a memory configured to store the image data and the sensor data, and a processor coupled to the image sensor, the sensor, and the memory. The processor is configured to receive image data in response to detecting a biological condition from the sensor data, wherein the biological condition is indicative of psychophysiological health and cardiac health. The processor is further configured to detect a visual characteristic from the image data, wherein the visual characteristic is indicative of heart health, and, in response to detecting the visual characteristic, provide an indication that the patient is experiencing a worsening of heart failure.
US10172510B2	Microinvasive medical instrument A medical instrument (10) comprises an effecting device (40), which is movable in a first direction (48) from a first effecting position into a second effecting position, a pushbutton (60), which is movable manually in a second direction (68) from a first button position into a second button position, and a lever (70), which is pivotable about a pivot axis (78). The lever (70) mechanically couples the pushbutton (60) and the effecting device (40) in such a way that a movement of the pushbutton (60) in the second direction (68) is accompanied by a movement of the effecting device (40) in the first direction (48), which is opposite to the second direction (68). The lever (70) does not have an area that is rotationally symmetrical to the pivot axis (78) in the region of the pivot axis (78).
US10172509B1	Athletic shoe cleaning and storage unit A shoe or cleat cleaning and transport unit structured as a box providing a storage cavity, in which a cleaning tray is removably positioned and resting on support structure whereby the tray is elevated above the box floor to provide a debris collection receptacle space between the floor and the tray, wherein the tray is formed with multiple upstanding brush or other mud scraping structure bordered by debris exit ports extending through the tray and opening into the debris collection space between the tray and the box floor.
US10172501B2	Paper towel dispenser with roll holder and rotating plug assembly A hardwound paper towel dispenser cabinet includes a roll holder mounted inside the dispenser cabinet. The roll holder includes a male key stub on a face thereof. The face of the roll holder and the male key stub are open to the vertical axis of the dispenser cabinet. A rotating plug includes a bung collar and a disc rotatably connected to the bung collar. The rotating disc has a female key recess that mate with the male key stub portion of the roll holder. The bung collar is adapted to be fixed inside the end of a core of a roll of hardwound paper towel.
US10172500B2	Method for folding absorbent sheet products A method of stacking a plurality of absorbent sheet products is provided. In an embodiment, the method includes folding an absorbent sheet inwardly along a first folding line to form a first inner panel, folding the absorbent sheet inwardly along a second folding line, substantially parallel to the first folding line, to form a second inner panel, folding the absorbent sheet along a third folding line substantially perpendicular to the first and the second folding lines to form a first outer panel and a second outer panel, sandwiching the first and the second inner panels therebetween to obtain one of the absorbent sheet products, and inserting at least a section of at least one of the first and the second outer panels of each one of the absorbent sheet products between the first and the second outer panels of an adjacent one of absorbent sheet products of the stack.
US10172499B2	Dispenser A dispenser includes a body defining an internal volume and an opening that provides a path of fluid communication between the internal volume and an exterior of the body. A first tubular member extends through the opening. A length of the first tubular member is greater than or equal to about 150% of a height of the body. In response to squeezing the body, a composition in the internal volume flows out of the body through the opening and into the first tubular member.
US10172497B1	Bread storage dispenser device A bread storage dispenser device comprising a housing container made to stand upright having a closed bottom surface and open top end with the housing container further formed having a substantially rectangular chamber extending longitudinally through perimeter walls thereof. A serving drawer assembly is integrally constructed and formed to engage the chamber of the housing container and slide longitudinally therein guided by a pair of side rails on the perimeter walls on opposite sides of the container to a position substantially proximate to the closed bottom surface thereof. The serving drawer assembly includes a top lid member sized to cover and close the open top end of the housing container with a perimeter sealing member secured beneath the lid member, a bottom shelf member having a cross section conforming with the chamber of the housing container and further notched on opposite sides to engage the side rails, and a carriage tray member extending between the top lid and the bottom shelf member configured to retain the slices of bread in a stack held upon the bottom shelf. By raising the serving drawer assembly from its seated position, the stack of bread slices stored within the housing container may be lifted therefrom to allow easy removal of bread slices by the user, and the serving drawer may then be released to descend by itself to a reseated position.
US10172494B2	Method for semi-automatic food cooking A semi-automatic food cooking apparatus comprising: a control unit; a communication unit; and a cooking compartment comprising: a cooking cartridge loading tray; a movable press; a movable cooking base; and a cooking cartridge lid guide.
US10172493B2	Watermelon slicer A slicer device and a method of using a slicer device for slicing and removing a fleshy part of a watermelon surrounded by a rind. The device includes an elongated handle and a scraper head with a scraping portion having at least one scraping edge configured to follow the contour of the watermelon while scraping the fleshy interior of the watermelon.
US10172486B2	Multi-chambered shot container A multi-chamber shot container including a hand-held body that defines a first aperture disposed at an upper end of the hand-held body, a second aperture, and an upper fluid aperture disposed at the upper end of the hand-held body, wherein the first aperture and the upper fluid aperture are disposed at the upper end of the hand-held body. The shot container also includes an inner container member with an inner surface and a bottom surface enclosing and defining a first cavity spanning from the bottom surface of the inner container member to the upper fluid aperture and an outer container member with an inner surface and a bottom surface enclosing and defining, with an outer surface of the inner container member, a second cavity liquidly segregated from the first cavity, wherein the first and second apertures are in sole fluid communication with the second cavity.
US10172484B2	Stackable/wall mountable headwear storage and display cabinet system with variable lighting (CapPalace) One embodiment of the CapPalace is a furniture style Stackable/wall mountable headwear storage/display cabinet with manual/remote controlled dimmable lighting, a sliding drawer, external magnetic stacking guides for good adhesion between units, external elastic pressure electrical contacts for power between units, internally placed insulation piercing electrical contacts for power within the unit, and an outwardly opening translucent front door. A plurality of adjustable head forms are set to desired hat sizes with an Allen wrench and mounted on the drawer. In alternate embodiments without head forms the CapPalace can be made in any size or material for storage/display of collectibles, shoes, clothing, etc. The stacked configuration's base has a low voltage power supply for the lighting system in it and magnetic stacking guides and elastic pressure electrical contacts on the top surface. Use of quick connect/disconnect bolts and bolt receptors on the inner walls of units, flexible flanges on female magnetic stacking guide retainer rings, and elastic pressure and insulation piercing electrical contacts are designed so low tech users with a few hand tools can easily assemble a unit. Other embodiments are described and shown.
US10172482B2	Shelf management device A shelf management device including a guide member having a front end and a rear end, and a pusher device guided for movement by the guide member. Wherein the pusher device includes a rotatable spool upon which is wound a flexible drive member, an end part of the drive member being secured to the guide member at or adjacent the front end thereof. A spring is provided to urge the spool for rotation to take up the drive member and thereby apply a load to the pusher device urging the pusher device towards the front end of the guide member.
US10172478B2	Child carrier A child carrier having a waist belt, an upper torso support, a hammock coupled to the waist belt and to the upper torso support, and a thigh support strap extending to each side of the hammock. Each thigh support strap has an inward end portion proximate to the hammock and an outward end portion configured for selective coupling to the upper torso support in multiple positions. When the thigh support straps are coupled to the upper torso support, the hammock and the thigh support straps form a seat to support a child in an ergonomic spread-squat position in inward and outward facing orientations. The shape of the seat adjusts depending on the positions in which the outward end portions of the thigh support straps are coupled to the upper torso support.
US10172477B2	Baby carrier Described herein is a baby carrier and insert therein. In particular, a multi functional baby carrier that transitions seamlessly from one mode to another to allow the carrying of a child from newborn baby through to a toddler wherein the main body forms an adjustable seat width position to address ergonomic concerns when in a particular carrying mode. The main body portion also comprises a hands through pouch configured to allow a wearer to pass their hands through for additional support when carrying the child. The insert includes an adjustable length back support and is configured to engage with the main body of a multi functional baby carrier without requirement of separate fasteners to retain the insert within the main body of the multi functional baby carrier.
US10172476B2	Child booster seat A child booster seat includes a base, a flexible connecting member, two attachment parts, and a mechanism. The base has a seat plate for a child sitting thereon. The flexible connecting member is attached to the base. The attachment parts are attached to two ends of the flexible connecting member. The mechanism is disposed on the base for tensing the flexible connecting member. When the child booster seat is secured on a chair through the two attachment parts, the mechanism is operated to tense the flexible connecting member, so that the child booster seat is secured firmly and it is hard to move the child booster seat relative to the adult chair.
US10172472B2	Pocketed spring assembly having multi-layered impermeable fabric A pocketed spring assembly comprises a plurality of parallel strings of individually pocketed springs. Each string is joined to at least one adjacent string. Each string has first and second opposed plies of fabric and a plurality of pockets formed along a length of the string by transverse segmented seams joining the plies. Gaps between the segments of the seams allow air to pass into and out of the pockets despite the fabric being impermeable to airflow through the fabric. The fabric has at least four layers. The size of the gaps determines the firmness or “feel” of the pocketed spring assembly or portion thereof.
US10172467B1	Pivotable top board device for a chair A pivotable top board device for a chair includes an armrest having a coupling face with a first positioning hole. An axle block includes a first coupling face and a second coupling face. The first coupling face of the axle block is pivotably coupled to the coupling face of the armrest. The axle block further includes a through-hole extending from the first coupling face through the second coupling face. An operation rod longer than the through-hole is received in the through-hole and includes a first positioning end for disengagably engagement with the first positioning hole of the armrest and a second positioning end. The second coupling face of the axle block is pivotably coupled to a coupling face of a coupling board fixed to a top board. The coupling face of the coupling board includes a second positioning hole releasably receiving the second positioning end of the operation rod.
US10172465B2	Chair with activated back flex A chair back that includes a back support, an upright frame, and at least one flex wing. The back support is substantially flexible and has a first side portion and a second side portion. The upright frame is substantially rigid and has a first frame side and a second frame side. The flex wing is located between the first frame side and the first side portion, where the flex wing includes a front portion coupled to the first side portion, a back portion coupled to the first frame side, and a web portion interconnecting the front portion and the back portion. The flex wing flexes during engagement by a user.
US10172461B2	Furniture drive A furniture drive for retracting a movably supported furniture part into a closed position relative to a furniture carcass includes a housing, an entrainment member which can be releasably coupled to the movable furniture part, a spring device for applying a force to the entrainment member, and a guide path arranged or formed on the housing. The entrainment member is displaceably arranged along the guide path, and the guide path includes a first bend for releasably locking the entrainment member. The guide path includes at least one second bend for releasably locking the entrainment member, and at least one movably-supported switch element with a first and with a second switching position is provided. The switch element, in the first switching position, blocks the first bend so that the entrainment member can move into the second bend and the switch element, in the second switching position, unblocks the first bend so that the entrainment member can move into the first bend.
US10172452B2	Shelving systems A shelving system includes first and second side members. A cross member is coupled to the side members. A guide member is coupled to the cross member such that the guide member is movable relative to the cross member. A container including a rail is coupled to the guide member. The rail includes a first locking element and a second locking element that is connected to the first locking element. The container includes a handle having a third locking element that engages the first locking element. The locking elements are configured to move the container between a first orientation in which the container is provisionally fixed to the guide member and a second orientation in which the container can translate relative to the guide member.
US10172446B2	Bristle for antibacterial cosmetic brush, and antibacterial cosmetic brush obtained using said bristle and process for producing same An antibacterial cosmetic brush bristle material made of a polyester resin filament that has irregularities formed on its surface and comprises 70.0 to 90.0 percent by weight of polytrimethylene terephthalate, 29.2 to 9.9 percent by weight of polybutylene terephthalate, and 0.8 to 0.1 percent by weight of inorganic particles constituting silver-containing soluble glass; a cosmetic brush using such bristle material; and a method of manufacturing such brush.
US10172441B2	Oral care implement An oral care implement having a body comprising a handle and a head, the body having a cavity, and the head having at least one oral care element extending therefrom; a movable wall in the cavity that divides the cavity into first and second reservoirs, the first reservoir for storing an oral care fluid; a fluid outlet through which the oral care fluid is dispensable to an exterior of the oral care implement; a passageway fluidly connecting the first reservoir with the fluid outlet; a control valve movable between a first position and a second position for preventing and permitting fluid flow from the first reservoir, respectively; a first opening fluidly connecting the second reservoir with the exterior of the oral care implement; and a first check valve for permitting and restricting air flow into and out of the second reservoir from the exterior.
US10172439B2	Slim clip case A mobile phone case is provided having a cover shaped to fit snugly around and cover sides and a back of a mobile phone inserted into the cover, the cover having a flat back portion, and a slit formed in the cover between the flat back portion of the cover and sides of the cover for mounting the mobile phone case to a belt. The flat back portion is configured to open with respect to the sides of the cover along the slit such that the mobile phone case is capable of tightly receiving a belt within the slit between the flat back portion and sides of the case.
US10172438B2	Folding hybrid vessel A portable vessel includes a hard shell front hull section, a hard shell aft hull section, a flexible water tight material hull section affixed to the front hull section and the aft hull section in a water tight manner, the material section forming the middle portion of the hull of the vessel, and a tension-adjustable frame assembly. Tensioning of the frame assembly during assembly of the vessel causes tensioning of the material hull section from a less than taught state to a taught state about the frame assembly and wherein the disassembled components of the vessel may be configured into a backpack configuration for portage by a user.
US10172434B2	Compact container having rotating contents container The present invention relates to a compact container having a rotating contents container, in which a button frame integrally formed thereon with a button is coupled to the inside of a container body, a support is hinged to the inside of the container body, a rotation frame is rotatably coupled to the inside of the support, a contents container accommodating an impregnation member is fixedly coupled to the inside of the rotation frame, wherein first and second latching protrusions are formed on the button frame and the rotation frame, respectively, to be latched to each other, thus the second latching protrusion of the rotation frame is latched to the first latching protrusion of the button frame when lifting the support from the container body to rotate the contents container, such that the rotation frame is automatically rotated at a predetermined angle, thereby improving the convenience of use.
US10172432B2	Applicator for semi-solid materials An applicator for a stick product, such as lip balm, has a generally tubular housing closed at one end by an elastomeric base cap and at the other by an end cap. The base cap is connected to one end of a plunger shaft, and at the other end the shaft is connected to a tray holding a semi-solid mass of the stick product. The end cap is in the form of a mold so that the stick product may be molded onto the tray in situ. The end cap locks to the housing to cover the semi-solid mass, and when removed the base cap (e. g. durometer 70A), which is bistable, having two relaxed configurations, may be depressed to move the mass out of the housing. The plunger and stick product are easily replaced.
US10172430B2	Gel nail photocuring machine with multicolor light effects The present invention is to provide a gel nail photocuring machine with multicolor light effects, comprising: a machine body and a control module. The machine body has a curing cavity and one or a plurality of multicolor indicator light module provided on the machine body to produce color light effects on a housing of the machine body, wherein the multicolor indicator light module has a composite light source and a uniform illumination unit provided on one side of the composite light source. The control module is provided on the machine body and is connected to the multicolor indicator light module on the machine body, wherein the control module provides a color difference control instruction to the multicolor indicator light module according to a preset instruction in order to control an output power of each of a plurality of base-color light-emitting units of the composite light source, thereby instructing the multicolor indicator light module to emit light of various colors.
US10172424B2	Housing shell for a safety belt buckle, housing for a safety belt buckle, and method for producing a housing shell for a safety belt buckle A casing shell (10) for a belt buckle is described including at least one sidewall (12, 14, 16) which has an outwardly facing lateral face (22, 24, 26). A groove (23) extending perpendicularly to the longitudinal orientation (L) of the casing shell (10) completely over the lateral face (22, 24, 26) is provided on the lateral face (22, 24, 26). Furthermore a casing for a belt buckle is described.
US10172422B2	Knitted footwear component with an inlaid ankle strand An article of footwear may include an upper incorporating a knitted component. An inlaid strand extends through the knitted component. A combination feeder may be utilized to inlay the strand within the knitted component. As an example, the combination feeder may include a feeder arm that reciprocates between a retracted position and an extended position. In manufacturing the knitted component, the feeder inlays the strand when the feeder arm is in the extended position, and the strand is absent from the knitted component when the feeder arm is in the retracted position.
US10172421B2	Shoe outsoles and systems and methods of manufacturing the same Systems and methods of manufacturing a shoe outsole are provided wherein at least a portion of the resulting shoe outsole includes embedded particles. An example method includes applying adhesive to at least one region of the shoe outsole, depositing selected particles onto the adhesive to provide the shoe outsole with a first coat of particles, and at least partially curing the adhesive. The method continues by applying additional adhesive over the first coat of particles, depositing additional particles onto the adhesive to provide the shoe outsole with a second coat of particles, and at least partially curing the subsequent application of adhesive.
US10172418B2	Article of footwear with multi-layered support assembly An article of footwear including an upper and a sole assembly secured to the upper and including a support assembly having an upper member and a lower member spaced from the upper member. A first layer is positioned beneath and in contact with the upper member and has a wave shaped profile with a plurality of first wave crests and first wave troughs. A second layer is positioned above the lower member and has a wave shaped profile with a plurality of second wave crests and second wave troughs.
US10172416B2	Flex groove sole assembly with biasing structure An article of footwear an upper and a sole structure that defines a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is disposed proximate the medial side of the footwear, and the second portion is disposed proximate the lateral side. The first portion and the second portion are configured to move relative to each other. The article of footwear also includes a flexible biasing member including a first end, a second end, and a middle portion. The middle portion extends across the first portion and the second portion. The first and second ends extend out from the outer surface of the footwear from either the medial or lateral side. The middle portion of the biasing member is configured to bias the first and second portions toward each other.
US10172415B2	Sole assembly formed from multiple preforms and method and mold for manufacturing same An article of footwear includes an upper and a sole assembly positioned beneath the upper. The sole assembly has a vertically extending channel formed in its bottom surface inward of a periphery of the sole assembly, the channel including opposed sidewalls and an end surface. The sole assembly includes a first portion having a first color; and a second portion having a second color that is different than the first color. An interface between the first portion and the second portion is positioned at a central portion of one of the sidewalls of the channel. A method of forming such an article of footwear is also disclosed.
US10172414B2	Locking midsole and insole assembly A footwear item includes an insole, an outsole, and a midsole. The insole includes an insole top surface, an insole bottom surface, and an insole sidewall. The outsole includes an outsole top surface and an outsole bottom surface. The midsole is positioned between the insole and the outsole. The midsole is configured to nest onto the top surface of the outsole. In at least the heel region, the midsole includes a strobel upper surface and a strobel sidewall configured to nestingly receive a heel region of the insole. In addition, an interface between the strobel upper surface and the strobel sidewall includes a fillet region configured to support and reduce lateral-medial movement of the insole relative to the midsole.
US10172413B2	Customized insoles for diabetic and pressure ulcers Disclosed herein are insoles useful for treating skin injuries on a foot, for instance ulcers. The insoles are customizable for each patient's foot and can include various portions of differing softness, depending on the needs of the patient. For instance, it can be beneficial for certain sections of the foot to contact a firmer material, whereas other sections contact a softer material. Some, or all, of the materials can include one or more biofidelic skin simulant materials. Thus, various implementations include one or more regions that can include the same or different materials. For example, a custom insole can include a heel support region, a midfoot support region, and a forefoot support region, and the support regions can be subdivided into medial and lateral support regions or toe regions. One or more regions may have a custom isolation segment to prevent the progression of ulcers and/or expedite wound healing.
US10172412B2	Cushioning shoe insert This application discloses shoe inserts which are configured such that a user may expose one or more adhesive layers while the cushioning shoe insert is maintained at an optimal location within a shoe, thereby securing the cushioning shoe inserts precisely at the optimal location. Moreover, this application discloses shoe inserts which are designed to distribute necessary support forces, e.g. through a foot chock, thereby mitigating or eliminating uncomfortable levels of localized pressure.
US10172411B2	Base for a ski boot and ski boot incorporating such a base A base is provided for a ski boot comprising a sole and an outsole element that is positioned in a predetermined position relative to a longitudinal axis (L). The outsole element is positioned on the sole by using two projections that are carried by one or other of the sole and the outsole element and that locate in holes or cavities defined by the other. Preferably, the projections are carried by the outsole element and locate in holes or cavities defined by the sole. The projections may be integrally formed with the outsole element or the sole. Alternatively, they may be formed by injected pins, rivets, fasteners, t-nuts, or screws.
US10172409B1	Intelligent electronic footwear and control logic for automated pedestrian collision avoidance Presented are intelligent electronic footwear with controller automated features, methods for making/using such footwear, and control systems for executing automated features of intelligent electronic footwear. An intelligent electronic shoe includes an upper that attaches to a user's foot, and a sole structure attached to the upper for supporting thereon the user's foot. A collision threat warning system, a detection tag, a wireless communications device, and a footwear controller are all mounted to the sole structure/upper. The detection tag receives a prompt signal from a transmitter-detector module and responsively transmits thereto a response signal. The footwear controller receives, through the wireless communications device, a pedestrian collision warning signal generated by the remote computing node responsive to the response signal. Responsively, the footwear controller transmits a command signal to the collision threat warning system to generate a visible, audible and/or tactile alert warning the user of an impending collision with a vehicle.
US10172408B1	Helmet to minimize directional and localized forces in the brain and other body parts by means of shape preservation A method for protecting the human head during and after an impact. This is accomplished by fabricating a layer of material that fits precisely on each individual wearer's head, and yet is so rigid that upon impact, the head will not be allowed to significantly change shape or volume, even temporarily. The structure and properties of this protective layer can be easily adapted to most helmet designs. The preferred method of forming this protective layer is to map each wearer's head shape with laser scanning, and then form the layer by means of 3D printing. Said fitted and rigid layer in very close and uniform contact with each wearers head is called an SPDI shield. The SPDI label stands for “Shape Preservation During Impact”.
US10172406B2	Data collecting head guard systems and methods thereof A head guard is provided. The head guard includes one or more sensors as part of an sensory input and communications system. The head guard wirelessly communicates data to remote computing devices for intelligent data collection.
US10172405B2	Headwear accessory mounting clip A clip for mounting devices on a hat brim includes a first and second panel. The panels are each resiliently connected to a nose portion and separated by a spacing that tapers to a contact point from the distal portions of the panels to their proximal portions. The second panel has a wedge-shaped portion in which the width of the panel increases from its distal end to its proximal end. The bottom surface of the first panel is concave, the preferable concavity being close to that of the curvature of a hat brim. The top surface of the second panel is convex. The preferable convexity is close to that of the curvature of the brim. The top surface of the second panel includes a channel adapted to receive the fabric border of the undersurface of a hat brim. The top surface of the first panel includes at its proximal end structure adapted to receive an accessory device.
US10172401B1	Backing plate for magnetic attachment A backing plate having a front wall, a rear wall, a magnet, and a magnet retainer. The magnet retainer comprises magnet retainer front wall, and a thin wall that is thinner than the magnet retainer front wall. The magnet is located between the thin wall and the rear wall.
US10172399B1	Glove with track and rail for securing a smart phone thereto The glove with track and rail for securing a smart phone thereto includes a fingerless glove that has a track integrated onto an outer surface. The track enables a rail member to attach thereon, and slide along the track. The rail member includes a fastening member that is adapted to secure an object thereon such that the object is able to slide along the track while said fingerless glove is being worn. The object is ideally a smart phone. The track extends linearly across the palm and portions of a back of hand of the fingerless glove such that the object is adapted to be positioned at any locale along the track.
US10172396B2	Smartphone-controlled active configuration of footwear, including with concavely rounded soles A smartphone or other mobile computer device, general purpose or specialized, wherein the smartphone device is configured to actively control the configuration of one or more bladders, compartments, chambers or internal sipes and one or more sensors located in either one or both of a sole or a removable inner sole insert of the footwear of the user and/or located in an apparatus worn or carried by the user, glued unto the user, or implanted in the user. The one or more bladders, compartments, chambers, or sipes, and one or more sensors are configured for computer control. A sole and/or a removable inner sole insert for footwear, including one or more bladders, compartments, chambers, internal sipes and sensors in the sole and/or in a removable insert; or on an insole; all being configured for control by a smartphone or other mobile computer device, general purpose or specialized.
US10172391B2	Filter-type distillation suction apparatus A tobacco baking device, comprising a mouthpiece component, a baking component, and a filter component, where the filter component is located below a baking component; the mouthpiece component is located above the baking component; the baking component is detachably connected to the filter component; where there is sealed connection on the butted terminal portions of the mouthpiece component, the filtration component and the baking component; an air flow channel is provided between the mouthpiece component, the filter component, and the baking component. Vapor goes down along the air flow channel to the filtration component, and goes up after being filtered by the filter component and is released via the mouthpiece component. As the vapor is filtered by the filter component, harmful substances in the vapor are greatly reduced, and also cool the vapor and the whole device, so as to enable the device to be more suitable for using.
US10172387B2	Carbon conductive substrate for electronic smoking article The present disclosure provides components useful in heating, particularly heating of an aerosol precursor solution so as to vaporize the solution and form an aerosol. The disclosure particularly provides an electrically conductive, porous carbon heater. The heater may be combined with an aerosol precursor transport element that also is formed of carbon. The heater and transport element may form an atomizer that can be useful in an electronic smoking article, such as in a cartridge that is adapted for attachment to a control body. In some embodiments, the disclosure provides a cartridge of an electronic smoking article, the cartridge being formed substantially completely of carbon.
US10172385B2	Device and method for discharging material on a moving substrate A device for discharging particulate material, for example powder material, granules or capsules, or in general free-flowing material, such as adhesive material, on a substrate moving along a conveying direction, includes at least one drum rotor having at least one helical track carrying the material to be discharged. The drum rotor is arranged adjacent to the moving substrate, with its axis substantially parallel to the conveying direction so that the portion of the at least one helical track which is closest to the substrate moves in the conveying direction during rotation of the drum rotor and discharges the material carried thereby on the substrate.
US10172382B2	Bean roasting device The present invention provides a bean roasting device, comprising: a drum unit comprising a base, a drum pivotally provided in the base and having a receiving space, and a rotation device provided on one side of the base and configured to drive the drum into rotation relative to the base; a heat lamp unit comprising a positioning seat connected to the base, one or a plurality of heat lamp tubes connected at one end to the positioning seat and extending into the receiving space, and one or a plurality of air inlet ducts each provided around a said heat lamp tube and configured to guide air into the receiving space of the drum; and an air supply/venting unit provided on one side of the base, the air supply/venting unit comprising an air guiding portion in communication with the receiving space of the drum and an air blower/air extractor provided on one side of the air guiding portion and configured to provide a positive pressure/negative pressure to the receiving space of the drum through the air guiding portion.
US10172378B2	Mono- or bicyclic carboxylic acids as off-note blockers Disclosed are compounds that block off-notes in consumables and methods of blocking off-notes in consumables including off-notes provided by sweeteners such as stevioside, swingle extract, glyccerhizin, perillartine, naringin dihydrochalcone, neohesperidine dihydrochalcone, mogroside V, rubusoside, rubus extract, and rebaudioside A, and artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, saccharin, acesulfame K (Acesulfame potassium), sucralose and cyclamate.
US10172376B2	Methods for feeding sows and for improving the health of young piglets A method of improving the health of a first group of young monogastric mammals, the first group of young monogastric mammals nursing from a first lactating monogastric mammal during a pre-weaning period, the method including feeding the first lactating monogastric mammal an effective amount of an animal feed during the pre-weaning period, and feeding the first lactating monogastric mammal an effective amount of sugar alcohol during the pre-weaning period.
US10172375B2	Compositions comprising carbohydrates and peptides which comprise tryptophan An edible composition comprising peptides rich in tryptophan, which edible composition further comprises a rapidly available glucose composition and a slowly available glucose composition.
US10172372B2	Machine and method for making liquid and semi-liquid products of the ice cream sector A machine for making liquid and/or semi-liquid products of the ice cream sector including a processing container forming a processing chamber for making an ice cream product; a stirrer mounted inside the processing chamber; a cooling system equipped with at least one heat exchanger associated with the processing container, for exchanging heat with the container and cooling the processing container; a unit for receiving and treating a capsule containing a basic preparation for an ice cream product, configured to allow the capsule to be compressed in such a way so as to deform lateral walls of the capsule and to squeeze the basic preparation out of the capsule and transfer it to the processing container; a device for injecting a dilution liquid, associated with the processing container, for injecting the dilution liquid into the processing container.
US10172366B2	“Gentle touch” modified atmosphere meat packaging system and method of packaging meat The present invention relates in general to the field of packaged meat product, and more specifically, to a modified atmosphere meat packaging system and method of packaging meat product. The modified atmosphere meat packaging system and method comprises a lid-stock container with a reduced-volume headspace configured to contain a modified atmosphere consisting of carbon dioxide and nitrogen. Spices, salts, rubs and seasonings may be further placed on the meat product to add flavor and mask a myoglobin state during long periods of shipping, storage and retail display. An impermeable gaseous barrier is configured to “gently touch” the meat product to prevent movement inside the meat packaging system and maintain an attractive appearance to consumers. The purpose of the invention is to provide a packaged meat product that appears freshly cut and wrapped straight from the butcher at a local meat market as opposed to a centralized packaging facility.
US10172365B2	Negative draft inducing device for smoker A negative draft inducing device for a smoker that induces a negative draft through an offset smoker. The negative draft is provided by means of a relatively small portable device which may readily be secured to the smoker when needed and readily released therefrom for storage when not in use. The device not only maintains a fire in the smoker, but also creates a negative flow of warm air through the smoker. The device includes a housing having an intake end and an output end. A fan inside the housing creates air flow from the intake end to the output rend. The housing attaches to a lower portion of the smoker, aligning with air registers. The air flow creates a negative draft across the smoker that maintains a fire in the lower portion and creates a uniform air flow over the smoked food and out the exhaust.
US10172364B2	Wheat protein-based dough relaxer compositions and methods of producing the same Wheat protein-based dough relaxers are prepared by pre-reacting a high-concentration wheat protein product (e.g., vital wheat gluten, wheat protein isolate, and mixtures thereof) with a yeast product selected from inactivated non-leavening yeast, yeast extract, and mixtures thereof. The pre-reaction is preferably carried out using an aqueous slurry containing the protein and yeast products, followed by drying. The resultant dough relaxers may be incorporated into a wide variety of wheat protein-based dough formulations to enhance the handling properties thereof, especially dough extensibility and machinability, and reduced dough mixing times.
US10172362B2	Biofilms, components and methods of use to reduce biofouling and contamination Biofilms are provided which are capable of regulating their own thickness, reducing contamination and preventing biofouling. Constructs are introduced into bacteria that comprise nucleic acid molecules encoding an autoinducer synthase polypeptide, a transcriptional regulator and a biofilm dispersal protein. Nucleic acid molecules may also be introduced which encode a nitric oxide synthase, an epoxide hydrolase, or both. Biofilms of the bacteria may be used to reduce biofouling and contamination of a surface.
US10172358B2	Thiopicolinamide compounds with fungicidal activity The present disclosure relates to thiopicolinamides of Formula I and their use as fungicides.
US10172357B2	Fungicidal composition and method for controlling plant diseases To provide a fungicidal composition having stable and high controlling effects against plant diseases, particularly preventive and/or curative effects against plant diseases, and a method for controlling plant diseases.A fungicidal composition comprising, as active ingredients, pyriofenone, (b) fluazinam and (c) thiophanate-methyl, and a method for controlling plant diseases, which comprises applying the fungicidal composition comprising the above active ingredients to plants and/or to a soil in which they grow.
US10172356B2	Bipyridine compound and use of same for noxious arthropod control A bipyridine compound having an excellent controlling effect against noxious arthropods is provided. In particular, a bipyridine compound of formula (I) or an N-oxide thereof is provided in which the variable groups are as described in the specification. Also provided are compositions containing the bipyridine compound or an N-oxide thereof, and methods of using such compounds and compositions to control noxious arthropods.
US10172352B1	Method for amelioration of the glyphosate effect A method to overcome the unintended effects of repeated glyphosate applications and improve the health and vigor of plants, by remediating the soil with soil remediating microbes and replenishing the amino acid pool by applying foliar essential amino acids.
US10172344B1	System and method for game call having an open frame and notch above a diaphragm Provided are a system and method for a game call having an open frame and notch above a diaphragm. The game call includes a first frame having a top side and a bottom side, an exterior periphery and an interior periphery, and a longitudinal axis. A flexible diaphragm disposed in the first frame between the top side and the bottom side and across the interior periphery, the flexible diaphragm having side portions adjacent to the longitudinal axis and a central portion generally upon the longitudinal axis. An Open Arch Frame spans the interior periphery generally normal to the top side, the Open Arch Frame disposed above the flexible diaphragm and generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, the arch frame having a central air passage notch section, and opposing leg sections. An associated method of use is also provided.
US10172342B2	Apparatus for pest control The present invention relates to an apparatus for pest control; and to the use of said apparatus for pest control. The apparatus comprises a hollow station forming at least one entrance for the pests to be controlled; a pheromone of a pest to be controlled; and a contact pesticide for the pests to be controlled, said contact pesticide being provided inside said hollow station, and the hollow station being designed to prevent the pests from remaining within said hollow station without expenditure of energy.
US10172340B2	Portage system for fishing rods, spikes and accessories A carrying system comprises: a rigid profiled guide, a base sole and a plurality of intermediate plates; with the sole and the plates all extend frontally and transversely from a single front surface of the guide. The guide extends in an elevation direction (Z) and comprises a profiled concave track. A flexible structure for human carrying is attached within the system for grouped transport of rods, stakes and accessories. The invention applies in particular to conventional fishing like surf casting, in particular in a body of water such as, for example, seashore, lakeshore, canal bank and riverbank.
US10172337B2	Spinning reel A spinning reel includes, a spool, a spool shaft, a pinion gear, a tubular-shaped collar, a tubular-shaped nut, and an elastic member. The spool is configured to have a fishing line wound thereon when accompanied by rotation of a rotor. The pinion gear is disposed around the spool shaft and on which the rotor is non-rotatably mounted. The tubular-shaped collar is rotatably disposed on the spool shaft on an end side of the pinion gear in the axial direction of the pinion gear, and supports the spool shaft. The tubular-shaped nut is disposed to accommodate the collar and configured to screw onto the pinion gear. The elastic member is disposed between an outer peripheral surface of the collar and an inner peripheral surface of the nut.
US10172330B2	Gas sensing device The present invention relates to an apparatus for sensing and controlling an amount of gas supply and a method for sensing and controlling an amount of gas supply thereby, which can sense a supply amount of the corresponding gas from an optical sensor in real time on the basis of the number of bubbles generated by any set time difference at the time when a target gas flows in a tube in order to differentiate the supply amount more accurately and whether or not the gas supply state is bad, and which can control pressure of the tube in real time by a series of automated devices in order to precisely realize the target supply amount according to gas supply information obtained from the optical sensor, thereby positively preventing malfunction and continuously maintaining the initial set amount of gas supply.
US10172327B2	Retractable leash system An animal restraint system which involves variable adjustability of maximum extension. A braking device with a pivoting tip which can move from a neutral position to a locked engaged position, a disengaged position, and a semi-engaged position. The semi-engaged position allows for spool rotation in the direction of retraction, while preventing spool rotation in the direction of extension. A brake lock with multiple settings including engaged position, disengaged position, and a semi-engaged position. A spool with teeth where one or more of the teeth is different from the others in shape, size or relative position to promote brake engagement efficiency. A leash maximum settings display. A moving “leash” guide which reduces tangling during extension and retraction. An adjustable handle grip to accommodate different hand sizes. A snap-on accessory attachment system. A leash dispenser system which limits full extension to reduce system failure.
US10172322B2	Method for distributing feed over a plurality of separate feeding locations and a feeding system therefor A method for distributing feed over multiple separate feeding locations includes determining which feeding locations have a feed requirement; selecting a first feeding location among the feeding locations having a feed requirement; determining a feed composition to be delivered to the first feeding location; determining which further feeding locations have a feed requirement and require the same feed composition; determining a maximum filling amount of the feed delivery device; selecting at least one further feeding location until the required amount of feed exceeds the maximum filling amount with a surplus amount of feed; filling the feed delivery device with the maximum filling amount; and distributing the feed in the feed delivery device. Each selected feeding location receives the respective required amount except the feeding location requiring the most which receives the respective required amount minus the surplus amount.
US10172321B1	Portable pet ramp The portable pet ramp is configured for use with a pet access door. The portable pet ramp is an inclined structure that joins the horizontal plane that contains the threshold of the host door with the horizontal plane that contains the threshold of the pet access door. The portable pet ramp attaches the threshold of the pet access door to the horizontal surface that supports the threshold of the host door such that a pet may walk up the portable pet ramp to pass through the pet access door. The portable pet ramp is removably attached to the pet access door such that the host door may be further used for the ingress and egress of humans. The portable pet ramp comprises a plate, one or more brackets, and a slide stop. The one or more brackets and the slide stop attach to the plate.
US10172319B2	Inline analyzer for a milking machine An inline analyzer for a milking machine system includes an outer body having a central axis, a fluid input channel, an upper cover attached to the fluid input channel, a central portion attached to the upper cover, a lower portion attached to the central portion, and a fluid output channel attached to the lower portion, wherein the fluid input channel, the central portion and the fluid output channel each have a hollow central channel. A float portion is disposed loosely within the outer body and is free to move axially along the central axis such that milk flows around the float portion. Electrode(s) extend through an upper portion of the float portion. A battery, processor(s), memory and actuator are disposed within float portion. The actuator causes the float portion to move axially along the outer body central to regulate the flow of milk through the outer body.
US10172316B2	Cucumber variety NUN 53016 CUP The invention relates to the field of Cucumis sativus, in particular to a new variety of Cucumis sativus designated NUN 53016 CUP plants, seeds and cucumber fruits thereof.
US10172315B2	Cucumber variety NUN 55513 CUP The invention relates to the field of Cucumis sativus, in particular to a new variety of Cucumis sativus designated NUN 55513 CUP plants, seeds and cucumber fruits thereof.
US10172314B2	Lettuce variety 79-06 RZ The present invention relates to a Lactuca sativa seed designated 79-06 RZ, which exhibits a combination of traits including resistance to downy mildew (Bremia lactucae) races B1:1-31 and Ca-I to Ca-VIII, resistance to currant-lettuce aphid (Nasonovia ribisnigri), resistance to lettuce mosaic virus (LMV), deeply incised leaves with very strong undulation of the apical margin. The present invention also relates to a Lactuca sativa plant produced by growing the 79-06 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the lettuce cultivar, represented by lettuce variety 79-06 RZ.
US10172313B1	Maize hybrid X13M676 A novel maize variety designated X13M676 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X13M676 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X13M676 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X13M676, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X13M676 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X13M676 and methods of using maize variety X13M676 are disclosed.
US10172306B2	Production of ingenol, ingenol esters and/or tiglian-3-one derivatives by euphorbiaceae plant cell suspension cultures The present invention relates to a method of producing Ingenol, Ingenol esters and/or Tiglian-3-one derivatives, the method comprising the steps of: (a) culturing plant cells obtained from a plant selected from the family Euphorbiaceae in a nutrient medium in a suspension cell culture, wherein the cells produce Ingenol, one or more Ingenol esters and/or one or more Tiglian-3-one derivatives; and (b) recovering the Ingenol, the one or more Ingenol esters and/or the one or more Tiglian-3-one derivatives produced in (a). The present invention further relates to a plant suspension cell culture, wherein the cells are obtained from a plant selected from the family Euphorbiaceae, and wherein the plant cells produce Ingenol and/or one or more Ingenol ester and/or one or more Tiglian-3-one derivatives.
US10172303B2	Airfoils on pivot irrigation tower systems An improved pivot irrigation tower system is provided. The system includes a pivot operatively connected to a water source, a plurality of movable towers, a plurality of spans, and a plurality of sprinklers. One or more inverted airfoils are connected to, or incorporated into the design of, the pivot irrigation system to generate a downward force and/or to reduce drag on the system in response to the relative wind at a specific angle of attack. The system may include opposing pairs of inverted airfoils along a majority of the spans. The inverted airfoils may have means for removal of liquid from the top surfaces. The inverted airfoils may be rigidly and/or pivotally connected to the movable towers and/or the spans. The inverted airfoils may be designed with high camber and/or high camber angle. The quantity of the inverted airfoils may be greater at distances farther from the pivot.
US10172300B2	Double-stream stripping device A double-stream stripping device, intended for the stripping of leaves from the vine, includes at least one stripping head (1) equipped with two counter-rotating drums (2) and (3), namely a first perforated (2a) drum (2) and a second drum (3) working in rotation with the first drum (2), a suction system (4) capable of creating negative air pressure in the first drum (2) and a system for driving drums (2) and (3) in rotation. The suction system includes two main suction openings and a turbine system and channeling elements (8, 9) making it possible to connect the latter to the main suction openings. Each open free end of the first drum is connected at one of the main suction openings in such a way as to create negative pressure, with a double air stream, constant and uniform, in the first drum, essentially over its entire length.
US10172298B1	Garden planting guide/irrigation system Disclosed is a garden planting guide/irrigation system. It serves as simple planting guide assembled in a grid formation creating individual squares to allow planting of one or several plants per square, while surrounding and irrigating plants at their base. This pre-assembled, ready-to-use system connects to an existing pressurized fluid source, and then irrigates by delivering fluid to various points throughout the grid patterned tubing which have a plurality of fluid distribution openings spaced in pre-defined intervals surrounding each planting.
US10172297B2	Monitoring and control system and method for plant factory based on TV white spaces A monitoring and control system and method for a plant factory based on TV white spaces (TVWSs) are disclosed. The monitoring and control system for the plant factory includes a sensor assembly installed inside and outside a plant factory and measuring an environmental state, an actuator assembly installed inside the plant factory and creating a growing environment, and a central data processing assembly assigning a TV white space (TVWS) channel to the sensor assembly and the actuator assembly, receiving the environmental state from the sensor assembly through the TVWS channel, generating a control signal controlling the actuator assembly to meet a predetermined conditions for an internal environment of the plant factory for an optimal state of growth of crops in response to the environmental state, and transmitting the control signal to the actuator assembly through the TVWS channel.
US10172289B2	System and method for the automatic adjustment of the height of an agricultural implement using 3D reconstruction The invention relates to a system for adjusting the height of an agricultural implement, including an arm that can be controlled to raise and lower the implement, a height measuring sensor, and a calculator configured to provide a control set point for the height of the arm on the basis of the measurements obtained by the height measuring sensor. The height measuring sensor is an imaging system including at least one camera mounted such that the sensor can form an image of a scene located in front of the agricultural implement in the direction of travel of the vehicle equipped with the arm. A computer processing unit is configured to produce, on the basis of the images delivered by the at least one camera, a 3D reconstruction representative of the depth of the aforementioned scene.
US10172288B2	Harvesting attachment for a harvester A harvesting attachment for a harvester comprises a frame which includes a rear wall and a base wall. The base wall includes at its end a fastening region for fastening a harvesting unit.
US10172285B2	System for evaluating agricultural material Disclosed herein is a system for evaluating agricultural material which comprises, in one embodiment, a housing having a passage in or through an interior of the housing with an inlet for receiving agricultural material and an outlet for outputting the agricultural material. The system further comprises a wall opening in a wall of the passage. An imaging device having a lens is located inward from a border of the imaging device. The imaging device is pivotally mounted for rotation with respect to a housing such that in a closed state the border of the imaging device rests on, engages or interlocks the wall opening of the housing, and in an open state the border exposes the wall opening and an interior of the housing.
US10172275B2	Pivotable lift assist assembly for an agricultural implement In one embodiment, an agricultural implement system includes a pivotable lift assembly. The pivotable lift assembly includes a first bar member and a second bar member rotatively coupled to the first bar member. The pivotable lift assembly further includes a first wheel assembly disposed on a first end of the second bar member and a second wheel assembly disposed on a second end of the second bar member. The pivotable lift assembly also includes an attachment assembly configured to attach the pivotable lift assembly to an agricultural implement, wherein the pivotable lift assembly is configured to aid in carrying a weight of the agricultural implement.
US10172272B2	Mounting structure for mounting pivot arm to implement A mounting structure for mounting a pivot arm to an implement has a cylindrical member, an adjusting sleeve, and a mounting bolt extending through the cylindrical member and adjusting sleeve to fix the cylindrical member and adjusting sleeve together. The cylindrical member extends through a bore of a bearing housing for rotation within the bearing housing. The adjusting sleeve has a threaded external surface. A disc spring is positioned on the adjusting sleeve. An adjusting nut is threaded onto the threaded external surface of the adjusting sleeve. The adjusting nut can be tightened to compress the disc spring to create a lateral bearing force against the bearing housing. The bearing housing can be integral with a pivot arm for mounting a gauge wheel assembly on a planter row unit, or the bearing housing can be a fixed part for mounting a pivot arm for a closing/press wheel on a drill.
US10172271B2	Pivoting support wheel for mounting on a plow frame A rotary plow (1) with pivoting support wheel (2) for mounting on a plow frame (3). The pivoting support wheel (2) is suitable for plows projecting far behind, such as multi-plowbody mounted, reversible plows or semi-mounted reversible plows with a movable rear part. Furthermore, the pivoting support wheel (2) exhibits self-steering characteristics which have different support or steering forces which act on the pivoting support wheel (2) or the plow frame (3) through the pushed or forwardly-directed arrangement of the pivot arm, and thus enables an accurate lateral guidance of the plow.
US10178814B2	Inverter and method for cooling an inverter The disclosure relates to an inverter, in particular for a photovoltaic system, including a housing with at least one chamber and a cooling air channel formed within the chamber for guiding ambient air as cooling air for electrical and/or electronic components of the inverter disposed along the cooling air channel. The cooling air channel extends through the housing from an air inlet to an air outlet. The inverter includes a further air outlet provided within the cooling air channel between two of the components to be cooled, and is arranged above the air inlet and the air outlet. The disclosure further relates to a method of cooling such an inverter.
US10178813B2	Stacked power module with integrated thermal management A power module including a plurality of power die layers including power electronic components; a plurality of heat sink components operatively connected to multiple sides of each power electronic component; a plurality of electrically conductive layers contacting the plurality of heat sink components, wherein a power die layer and an electrically conductive layer sequentially alternate to form a stacked structure such that both ends of the stacked structure includes an end electrically conductive layer. A cooling path is integrated with each layer in the stacked structure. A housing unit houses the stacked structure. The power electronic components may include heat-producing electronic devices. The cooling path may accommodate any of a fluid and solid to liquid phase change materials. The fluid comes into direct contact with the power die layers, heat sink components, and electrically conductive layers.
US10178811B2	Rotation control method, information processing device, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing rotation control program A rotation control method, includes: calculating, by a processor in an information processing device, a first difference between a temperature of a component in the information processing device and an upper limit of a tolerable temperature for the component; calculating a second difference between a temperature of an environment in which the information processing device is installed and an upper limit of a tolerable temperature for the environment; and setting a rotation speed of a fan for cooling down the component, based on a comparison result between the first difference and the second difference.
US10178810B1	Scaled down, efficient data center Systems and methods disclose self-contained data center facility operations, management and build comprising, in the data center facility, installing a plurality of computer servers contained in a corresponding plurality of configurable rack mounted containers, a single or plurality of heat exchangers operatively coupled to the configurable rack mounted containers, and comprised in a thermal heat exchange system which further comprises a closed loop cooling unit. The closed loop cooling unit is caused to absorb heat from the single or plurality of heat exchangers. Additionally, systems and methods disclosed include power management functionality operatively coupled to control functionality, wherein the power management functionality is configured to assess a data center power requirement, and to draw and supply power based on the assessed requirement, and wherein the data center control unit is configured to calculate a data center environment, infrastructure and component condition, and based on the calculated condition, control the environment, infrastructure and component condition for optimal efficiency.
US10178804B2	Heat spreader for an electrical connector assembly A heat spreader includes a main body extending between a front and a rear configured to be mounted to a cage and heat transfer fingers cantilevered forward from the front of the main body. The heat transfer fingers each have a fixed end, a distal end, a top, a bottom and mating edges facing each other across gaps. The heat transfer fingers are configured to be received in corresponding channels between heat transfer fins of a pluggable module as the pluggable module is installed in the cage through the front end with the gaps receiving the heat transfer fins. The mating edges are configured to face and be thermally coupled to corresponding heat transfer fins. The heat transfer fingers transfer heat from the heat transfer fins rearward toward the distal ends and into the main body.
US10178802B2	Liquid supply device and liquid cooling system A liquid supply device includes a casing, a cover, a plunger, a driving unit and a sensing unit. The casing has a liquid outlet. The cover is connected to the casing. A chamber is formed between the casing and the cover. The chamber communicates with the liquid outlet. The plunger is movably disposed in the chamber. The driving unit is disposed in the chamber and used for driving the plunger to move. The sensing unit is selectively disposed on one of the cover and the plunger. The sensing unit outputs a sensing signal according to a current position of the plunger.
US10178801B2	Cabinet liquid cooling system and cabinet A cabinet liquid cooling system is configured to dissipate heat of a cabinet. A flow allocation unit is installed on a single side of the cabinet, is located in space between a side wall of the cabinet and a mounting bar of the cabinet, and is provided with a liquid inlet and a liquid outlet. A liquid cooling system (LCS) control unit is installed at the bottom of the cabinet and cyclically supplies liquid to the flow allocation unit using the liquid inlet and the liquid outlet. A liquid supply branch includes a liquid delivery pipe and a liquid return pipe. A node pipe includes a liquid inlet pipe and a liquid outlet pipe. Both the liquid inlet pipe and the liquid outlet pipe are connected to the corresponding liquid delivery pipe and liquid return pipe using the quick male connector and the quick female connector.
US10178800B2	Support structure for electronics having fluid passageway for convective heat transfer A support structure for an electronic component a chassis and a standoff that is attached to the chassis. The standoff is configured to support the electronic component and separate the electronic component at a distance away from the chassis. The standoff is configured to receive heat generated by the electronic component. The standoff includes a fluid passageway. The fluid passageway is configured to allow a cooling fluid to flow therethrough for convective heat transfer from the standoff to the cooling fluid.
US10178797B1	Split airflow cooling module Examples are disclosed that relate to cooling multiple heat-generating components in an electronic device. One example provides a cooling module including an airflow channel downstream of a blower to receive a flow of air generated by the blower, a heat sink extending into the airflow channel and configured to direct air toward a first outlet, and an air-diverting structure positioned within a gap between a distal surface of the heat sink and an opposing interior surface of the airflow channel, the air-diverting structure configured to redirect air flowing in the gap toward a second outlet.
US10178795B2	System for fitting components on carrier rails in an order-specific manner An installation for equipping DIN rails, according to an order, with components, including at least one of terminal blocks, electrical devices, and end holders, that are intended to be subsequently installed in switch cabinets, includes at least one main cell. The at least one main cell includes at least one supply unit for supplying the components to be fitted; at least one supply unit for supplying DIN rails, the DIN rail being equipped with the components in the main cell; and a writing, device designed to wirelessly transmit data, in order for said data to be saved, to a memory unit that is arranged on each DIN rail equipped with components and has an integrated wireless communications interface, the data containing order-specific information.
US10178792B2	One-person portable command and control data center A command and control system and related methods are provided including an integrated shipping case/equipment mounting structure, a multi-application information fusion work station, a communication system, an expandable display array, a location determining system, and a data center section with data servers and network hub capability. Embodiments of the system includes design configurations enabling operation with reduced or passive environmental and temperature control capabilities including a compact cooling system usable with a compact layout and close proximity components that provide needed low power consumption cooling capability. Embodiments provide a portable, compact, rapid employable, reduced power consumption and lightweight information command and control capability operable in austere environments.
US10178791B1	Apparatus, system, and method for securing computing components to printed circuit boards A latch apparatus may include an L-shaped latch coupled to a frame such that a proximal end of the L-shaped latch secures a computing component to a printed circuit board. The latch apparatus may also include a pivot point coupled to a bend of the L-shaped latch to facilitate a rotation of the L-shaped latch around the pivot point within the frame. In addition, the latch apparatus may include a spring coupled to the frame to exert a force on the rotation of the L-shaped latch toward a locked position. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US10178789B2	Enclosure mounting system An enclosure mounting system includes a bracket with a rigid body having first, second, and third parallel surfaces wherein the first and third surfaces are on one plane and the second surface is on a different plane. The first surface has at least two notches generally disposed at opposite ends of the first surface and a plurality of first surface fastening holes disposed along the length of the first surface. The second surface has at least two slide mounting openings and at least one second surface fastening hole. The third surface has a plurality of fastening holes disposed along the length of the third surface. The bracket is configured to fasten to a wall and to an enclosure while permitting the enclosure to also fasten to the the wall. The enclosure is mounted by leveling the bracket and fastening the bracket and enclosure to each other and the wall.
US10178785B2	Spark preventing element for printed circuit board A spark-preventing element embedded in a printed circuit board includes a capacitive output electrode, a capacitive input electrode, an interlayer conductive member electrically connecting the capacitive output electrode to a signal line, and an interlayer insulation member electrically insulating the capacitive input electrode from the signal line, The capacitive input electrode is spaced apart from the capacitive output electrode with an air gap disposed between the capacitive output electrode and the capacitive input electrode, surrounds the capacitive output electrode, and is electrically connected to the ground layer. The spark-preventing element has an improved electrical characteristic and an increased durability.
US10178780B2	Power conversion apparatus and electric vehicle The metallic case of a power conversion apparatus includes a casing having a side wall, as well as an upper case and a lower case, a first area being formed between a cooling jacket provided at the inner periphery of the side wall and the lower case, the metal base plate dividing the first area between the cooling jacket and the upper case into a lower side second area and an upper side third area, first and second power modules being fastened to a top surface and a capacitor module being provided in the first area, driving circuits that drive inverter circuits of the power modules respectively being provided in the second area, and a control circuit that controls the driver circuits being provided in the third area.
US10178777B2	Corrosion mitigation for etched and/or printed circuits Methods are disclosed which discourage formation of destructive corrosion on or about circuit traces of printed circuit boards, and/or mitigate electronic circuit degradation and or destruction through corrosion of the circuit traces, whereby said corrosion produces changing characteristics of the circuit, and/or shorting to other adjacent circuit traces. Aspects and embodiments of the present disclosure include or provide for forming at least a portion of a circuit trace or traces with fractal and/or self-complementary geometries, or self complementary geometry alone.
US10178776B2	Differential signal line wiring method and PCB board A method for wiring differential signal lines and a PCB are disclosed. The wiring method includes: providing a rectangle-shaped glass fiber fabric formed of glass fibers which are woven and interlaced with each other and an adhesive filled therebetween; determining a wiring direction and obtaining a glass fiber bundle number of the glass fiber fabric in the wiring direction; equally dividing the glass fiber fabric into glass fiber units, and obtaining a width of each glass fiber unit according to a size of the glass fiber fabric in a direction perpendicular to the wiring direction and the number of the glass fiber units; determining a line distance and line widths of the differential signal lines; and according to the line distance and the line widths, forming the differential signal lines on a metal layer along the wiring direction to make the differential signal lines meet predetermined requirements.
US10178757B2	Systems and methods for providing electromagnetic interference (EMI) compartment shielding for components disposed inside of system electronic packages A compartment EMI shield is provided that is suitable for use in system module packages having thin form factors and/or smaller widths and/or lengths. The compartment EMI shield comprises a fence arranged along a compartment boundary at least in between first and second sets of electrical components of the system module package and a substantially horizontal conductive structure that is coupled to the conductive fence. The fence being configured to attenuate EMI of a frequency of interest traveling in at least one of a first direction and a second direction, where the first direction is from the first set of electrical components toward the second set of electrical components and the second direction is from the second set of electrical components toward the first set of electrical components.
US10178756B1	Multifunctional composite coatings for metal whisker mitigation The present invention relates to composite coatings including particles embedded in a matrix, as well as methods and uses thereof. In some examples, the particles are aligned to enhance mitigation of whisker formation from an underlying metal material. Such coatings can be applied to electrical components, thereby reducing the possibility of electrical short circuits from aberrant whisker growth.
US10178754B2	Circuit board module and electronic device A circuit board module includes: a first electronic component of a surface mounting type; a second electronic component of an insertion mounting type including a lead terminal; a circuit board; and a heat transfer body provided in the circuit board. The first electronic component is mounted on a front surface of the circuit board so as to overlap the heat transfer body in a board thickness direction. The heat transfer body is provided so as to transfer heat generated in the first electronic component to a back surface side of the circuit board. The second electronic component is mounted on a back surface of the circuit board. The second electronic component and the heat transfer body are thermally connected to a heat radiation body provided on the back surface side of the circuit board.
US10178748B1	X-ray spot stability An x-ray tube can provide x-ray spot stability, even for a small x-ray tube. The x-ray tube can have small target displacement, where target displacement is a displacement of the target material, towards the electron-emitter, along a longitudinal-axis of the anode, from x-ray powered-off state to stable operation, based on elongation of the anode. The x-ray tube can include a heatsink with an array of fins extending away from a base in opposite directions. A first fan can be attached to one end of the array of fins, oriented to face the base, and configured to direct an airstream towards the base. A second fan can be attached to opposite ends, oriented to face away from the base, and configured to draw the airstream from the base. Plate(s) can be located on sides of the fins to direct air flow from the first fan to the second fan.
US10178746B2	Configurable lighting system Apparatus, systems, and methods for controlling light output in a lighting system based on defined light profiles are provided. In one example implementation, a light fixture can include a first light emitting diode (LED) array having one or more LED light sources and a second LED array having one or more LED light sources. The light fixture can include a power circuit configured to provide power to the first LED array and the second LED array according to a power distribution among the first LED array and the second LED array. The light fixture can include one or more control devices configured to control the power circuit to adjust the power distribution among the first LED array and the second LED array based at least in part on a signal indicative of a real time clock and a defined light profile associated with a user identified to be present in a space illuminated by the light fixture.
US10178742B2	LED driving apparatus and lighting apparatus A light emitting diode (LED) driving apparatus includes: a first circuit connected to a primary winding of a transformer, and configured to receive input power and transfer the input power to the primary winding of the transformer; a second circuit connected to a secondary winding of the transformer to generate output power for driving a plurality of LEDs; and a controller including a control circuit configured to control the second circuit, and a power detection circuit configured to compare a magnitude of the input power with a predetermined reference power magnitude range, and transmit a control command to the control circuit in response to determining that the magnitude of the input power is outside the predetermined reference power magnitude range.
US10178738B2	Intelligent dimming lighting Systems, devices, and techniques are provided for operating a display and/or an illumination source based upon the direction of a user's gaze and/or a desired illumination level in a monitored area. One or more elements may be controlled with sensor input and application lighting preferences. For example, when a user receives a video call, light may be activated to illuminate their face. When the user is looking at the display, the display will be at the brightness necessary for the lighting conditions. When the user looks away from the screen, the screen may dim further and the lighting elements for the desk can brighten. Similarly, embodiments may adjust the lighting in a monitored location based upon lighting levels identified in other areas.
US10178736B2	Light emitting apparatus and optical transmitting apparatus A light emitting apparatus includes: a semiconductor layer including a light emitting region that generates modulation light modulated with a first signal, and a feedback region that is configured so that a feedback mode to feed back a part of light generated in the light emitting region to the light emitting region and a monitor mode to monitor a light amount of the light generated in the light emitting region are switchable; and a controller, wherein when the modulation light is generated in the light emitting region, the controller sets the feedback region to the feedback mode, and the controller switches the feedback region to the monitor mode during at least a part of a period in which there is no first signal.
US10178734B1	Individual LED short circuit detection An LED lighting circuit for detecting individual LED failure, including a lighting unit including a plurality of LEDs connected in series, and a plurality of LED sensors each associated with a respective one of the LEDs. Also included is a lighting unit status signal generator coupled to the plurality of LED sensors configured to provide a status signal indicating a fault when any individual LED is short circuited.
US10178732B2	Backlight unit, method of driving the same, and display device including the same A backlight unit of a display device includes a power converter to generate a light source voltage in response to a power control signal, a light emitting element connected between a first node and a second node, and a light source controller connected to the second node and to output the power control signal in response to a dimming signal. The light emitting element receives the light source power voltage through the first node. When a feedback voltage of the second node is lower than a first reference voltage, the light source controller outputs the power control signal having a first pulse width based on the feedback voltage and the dimming signal. When the feedback voltage is higher than the first reference voltage, the light source controller outputs the power control signal having a second pulse width based on a voltage lower than the feedback voltage and the dimming signal.
US10178730B2	Method and apparatus for horticultural lighting with current sharing A method and apparatus for a horticultural light for use in a horticultural facility that uses current sharing across any one or more LED strings within the horticultural light. A processor determines the current requirements of the one or more LED strings that are needed to produce a given intensity level. The processor then apportions the current generation capability of a DC-DC converter across all active LED strings using time division multiple access whereby each LED string conducts its apportioned current within its allocated time slot to the mutual exclusion of the remaining active LED strings in the allocated time slot. The processor employs analog (continuous) and/or digital (discontinuous) dimming techniques within each time slot to further modulate the amount of current conducted by any LED string within its allocated time slot.
US10178726B2	Solid-state lighting structure with integrated control A solid-state light source (SSLS) structure with integrated control. In one embodiment, a SSLS control circuit can be integrated with a SSLS structure formed from a multiple of SSLSs. The SSLS control circuit controls the total operating current of the SSLS structure to within a predetermined total operating current limit by selectively limiting the current in individual SSLSs or in groups of SSLSs as each are turned on according to a sequential order. The SSLS control circuit limits the current in each of the individual SSLSs or groups of SSLSs as function of the saturation current of the SSLSs. In one embodiment, the individual SSLSs or groups of SSLSs has a turn on voltage corresponding to a voltage causing a preceding SSLS or group of SSLSs in the sequential order to saturate current.
US10178725B2	Ultra-high efficiency LED lamp driving device and driving method Provided is an ultra-high efficiency LED lamp driving device comprising: a plurality of shift switches connected to tabs between LED lamps; and an LED shift control unit for driving the shift switches so that lighting of the LED lamps is shifted to an end terminal when a total operation threshold voltage value of the LED lamp is equal to or greater than a maximum value of an input voltage, and thus, an unlighted LED lamp exists. The present invention can make the power loss be zero to thereby increase the efficiency.
US10178723B2	Systems and methods for controlling solid state lighting devices and lighting apparatus incorporating such systems and/or methods A lighting apparatus includes at least two sets of light-emitting devices with overlapping spectra and different chromaticities, such as two sets of blue-shifted yellow (BSY) LEDs producing outputs with different yellow content. The devices may be selectively controlled, e.g., by using selective current bypass circuits, to provide a desired color temperature or other visual performance in response to a dimming control input such that, for example, a light output approximating that of an incandescent lamp may be achieved.
US10178722B2	Lighting device and operating method for such a lighting device A lighting device (1) and an operating method for the lighting device (1), which comprises at least one base chip (21) and a plurality of cover emitter regions (22). The base chip or chips (21) and the cover emitter regions (22) are realized by light-emitting diode chips and are electrically controlled independently of one another. Main emission directions (M) of these light-emitting diode chips are oriented parallel to one another. The cover emitter regions (22) are partially overlapping with the at least one base chip (21), so that an overlap region (3, B) is formed and the at least one base chip (21) radiates through the cover emitter regions (22) during operation. The cover emitter regions (22) are arranged in a common plane perpendicular to the main emission directions (M).
US10178721B1	Light emitting device driver circuit and control method thereof A light emitting device driver circuit drives a light emitting circuit. The light emitting device driver circuit includes a switching power supply circuit and a current regulator circuit. The current regulator circuit includes a multi-level DC current control circuit, which individually determines whether plural DC current supply circuits are conducted or not conducted according to a DC dimmer signal to supply a DC current to the light emitting circuit; and a switching current control circuit, which operates a PWM switch according to a PWM dimmer signal to supply a PWM current to the light emitting device circuit. The DC current and the PWM current are summed together to form a total current flowing through the light emitting device circuit so that the brightness of the light emitting device circuit is adjustable according to the DC dimmer signal and the PWM dimmer signal.
US10178720B1	Low standby power control circuit for LED driver An LED driver is configured to minimize power consumption during standby operating modes. The LED driver includes power factor correction (PFC) and isolated DC-DC conversion stages, driven by respective first and second regulators. An auxiliary sensor detects environmental conditions for a controller which generates standby or normal operating mode signals based thereon. A low standby isolated power supply circuit receives operating mode signals and is configured: responsive to normal operating mode signals to enable the voltage regulators; responsive to standby mode signals to disable the voltage regulators, and in both modes to supply power to the controller and auxiliary sensor. Accordingly, the controller and auxiliary sensor are continuously enabled whereas the PFC and DC-DC stages of the LED driver are disabled during standby modes. Additional circuitry may selectively disconnect voltage sensing resistance networks from the LED driver for further reductions in power consumption during standby mode.
US10178718B2	System and method for active power factor correction and current regulation in LED circuit The present invention discloses a system and method for active power factor correction and current regulation in led circuit. The system (100) used in the LED driver circuit performs active PFC and current regulation through the dynamic input current wave shaping by limiting peak currents. The dynamic wave 5 shaping scheme is realized through hardware and firmware and is used to strike an optimal balance between current accuracy, Power factor, THD and peak inductor currents. The system (100) is versatile enough to improve PF and current accuracy in LED circuits and indimmers circuits.
US10178717B2	Lamp-control circuit for lamp array emitting constant light output An apparatus includes a lamp-control circuit. The lamp-control circuit is configured to be electrically connectable to an electrical source having an output voltage that forms a periodic wave formation. The lamp-control circuit is also configured to be electrically connectable to a lamp array. This is done in such a way that electrical current, in use, flows from the electrical source to, and through, the lamp array. The lamp array includes lamp segments. The lamp-control circuit is also configured to urge each lamp segment of the lamp array to consume relatively constant power for a portion of a cycle of the output voltage of the electrical source in such a way that said each lamp segment of the lamp array, in use, emits a relatively constant light output for the portion the cycle of the output voltage of the electrical source.
US10178716B2	LED driver circuit and method An LED driver design has a single controller used to drive multiple strings of LEDs. In one aspect there is dynamic threshold voltage setting so that the individual characteristics of the LED strings can be taken into account in the voltage control loop. In another aspect, excess energy is dissipated off-chip in a dedicated heat dissipater, and the routing of current to the heat dissipater is controlled dynamically such that a desired integrated circuit biasing remains stable.
US10178715B2	High frequency multi-voltage and multi-brightness LED lighting devices and systems and methods of using same A system and method transforming AC voltage to a high-frequency AC voltage and providing the high-frequency AC voltage to an AC LED circuit or rectifying the high-frequency circuit to a DC voltage and providing the DC voltage to a DC LED circuit.
US10178713B2	Thermoelectrically powered portable light source Provided is a portable, thermoelectrically powered device, such as a flashlight or headlamp. The device comprises at least one thermoelectric generator for extracting body heat from a user, the Thermoelectric generator located on and extending through an elongated open ended outer shell, a heat sink in contact with an inner surface of the thermoelectric generator and configured to provide an elongated first cooling channel therethrough, circuitry in electrical communication with the thermoelectric generator, the circuitry comprising a transistor oscillator, a step-up transformer and a decoupling capacitor, the circuitry in electrical communication with a power sink, such that in use, a temperature gradient across the thermoelectric generator is sufficient to result in generation of at least about 25 μW of power.
US10178707B2	Systems and methods to provide wireless accessory backup communication links A communications system and method of operation thereof. The communications system includes a communication network, a plurality of subscriber units and accessories, and a communications server. Each of the plurality of accessories are associated with and linked to one of the of subscriber units by a wireless connection. The communications server communicates with the plurality of subscriber units via the communication network, and is configured to obtain and maintain a plurality of data on each of the plurality of subscriber units, and generate a backup list identifying secondary subscriber units to which each of the plurality of accessories can link. Upon detecting a condition where communication drops below a desired level of service, the communication server is configured to identify a secondary subscriber unit from the first accessory's backup list and instruct the secondary subscriber unit to link with the first accessory.
US10178704B2	Method, communication device and computer program for enabling out-of-coverage device A method is disclosed for enabling device-to-device, D2D, communication when a communicating device is out of public land mobile network, PLMN, coverage for a first radio access technology, RAT. The method comprises scanning a carrier associated with a carrier predetermined for D2D communication for any signals, and if the scanning determines that D2D communication is present on the carrier, initiating out-of-coverage D2D communication, or if the scanning cannot determine that D2D communication is present on the carrier, determining a signal strength of other signals on the carrier and if the signal strength is below a threshold initiating out-of-coverage D2D communication. Alternatively, the method comprises scanning a carrier for at least a second RAT, and if a second RAT is detected, determining a PLMN of the detected RAT and accessing data on the determined PLMN about out-of-coverage D2D permissions, and if out-of-coverage D2D communication is permitted in the determined PLMN initiating out-of-coverage D2D communication. A communication device and computer program accordingly are also disclosed.
US10178700B2	Method and devices for solving resource conflict issues among dynamic TDD capable UE A method for a device and a node for preventing data transmission configuration conflict between the device and the node is disclosed. The node transmits a control message which is received by the device. The device determines a first data transmission configuration from the received control message. The device then determines a second data transmission configuration from a candidate set of configurations wherein the candidate set of configurations is associated with the first data transmission configuration. The device then transmits data and wherein the node receives the data in accordance with the second data transmission configuration. A device and node implementing the method is also disclosed.
US10178699B2	Random access enhancement based on scalable signature design Various aspects described herein relate to techniques for random access based on scalable signature design in wireless communications systems. A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. In an aspect, the method may include randomly choosing an array of source symbols, wherein the array has one or more scalable dimensions based on at least one of a capacity requirement or a coverage requirement of a random access channel (RACH), encoding the array of source symbols into a codeword for a RACH signature, mapping the codeword to a serial concatenation of orthogonal or quasi-orthogonal sequences to define the RACH signature, and transmitting the RACH signature within a RACH slot. The techniques described herein may apply to different communications technologies, including 5th Generation (5G) New Radio (NR) communications technology.
US10178693B2	Method and apparatus for handling random access channel responses A method and apparatus for supporting a random access using a random access channel (RACH) are disclosed. The WTRU detects a format of control information in at least one control channel element (CCE) of a common area in a control portion of a downlink transmission. The control information indicates a resource allocation in a data portion of the downlink transmission. The WTRU recovers a random access response assigned to the WTRU from the indicated resource allocation of the data portion on a condition that the at least one CCE has a random access radio network terminal identifier (RA-RNTI) assigned to the WTRU.
US10178692B2	Method for transmitting a data in a communication system and device therefor The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), data in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving a first uplink grant for a radio bearer and a first radio bearer indicator of the radio bearer; generating a Medium Access Control Protocol Data Unit (MAC PDU) containing a data of only the radio bearer indicated by the first radio bearer indicator; and transmitting the MAC PDU using the first uplink grant.
US10178691B2	Method and apparatus for requesting scheduling in wireless communication system Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for requesting scheduling in a wireless communication system. More specifically, a method of requesting scheduling for transmitting uplink data in a wireless communication system may include transmitting, by user equipment (UE), a Scheduling Request (SR) of an SR type selected from multiple SR types to an eNB, receiving, by the UE, an uplink grant determined according to the selected SR type from the eNB, and transmitting, by the UE, uplink data to the eNB through a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource allocated by the uplink grant.
US10178690B2	Transmission and reception of a data block in a wireless communication system A user equipment is configured for use in a wireless communication system. The user equipment in particular is configured to receive from a base station one or more configuration messages that indicate a pattern of downlink transmission gaps in time. The user equipment is further configured to receive from the base station a scheduled downlink transmission that comprises a downlink data block and one or more repetitions of the downlink data block. The scheduled downlink transmission is received with downlink transmission gaps therein according to the indicated pattern. Alternatively or additionally, the user equipment is configured to transmit a scheduled uplink transmission that comprises an uplink data block and one or more repetitions of the uplink data block. In this case, the scheduled uplink transmission is transmitted with uplink transmission gaps therein according to an uplink transmission gap pattern that specifies a pattern of uplink transmission gaps in time.
US10178689B2	Adaptive resource allocation for simultaneous operation of cellular and device to device communications In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following: detect that a mode change is required; and in response to the detection that a mode change is required, select a mode for resource allocation, wherein the mode is selected based on a command received by the apparatus or the mode is selected from a plurality of modes which comprises a first mode and a second mode, and wherein in the first mode the cellular communication and device to device communication are separated in time, and in the second mode the cellular communication and device to device communication take place simultaneously.
US10178688B2	Method of scheduling short uplink transmissions A method and apparatus for scheduling short uplink transmissions on a mobile communication device. Embodiments of the invention include a method of scheduling an uplink transmission on a mobile communication device. In one exemplary embodiment, the method includes establishing a predetermined uplink delay time, and generating an uplink message. The method further includes determining that an audio event is occurring on the mobile communication device, and monitoring an audio amplitude of the audio event. The method further includes transmitting the uplink message when the first of either a pause in the audio event is detected or when the predetermined uplink delay time has elapsed.
US10178681B2	Systematic approach to power throttling for equipment protection in data centers or other locations A method includes receiving information identifying one or more power constraint violations in a hierarchy of computing devices. The hierarchy has multiple levels, and the computing devices are grouped into different collections in one or more levels of the hierarchy. The one or more power constraint violations are associated with at least one of the levels. The method also includes classifying each power constraint violation by identifying, for each power constraint violation, one or more of the computing devices that potentially contribute to that power constraint violation. In addition, the method includes resolving the one or more power constraint violations by throttling power consumption of at least one of the one or more computing devices identified as potentially contributing to the one or more power constraint violations.
US10178679B2	Signaling designs for network assisted interference cancellation and suppression Signaling Designs for Network Assisted Interference Cancellation and Suppression Signaling can be valuable in connection with addressing issues of interference. Signaling designs may be valuable, for example, in network-assisted interference cancellation and suppression. A method can include determining transmission information for at least one interference source for a user equipment of a base station. The method can also include signaling the user equipment about the transmission information for the at least one interference source. The transmission information can be configured to facilitate a receiver of the user equipment to cancel interference from the at least one interference source.
US10178678B2	System and methods for handling priority services congestion Techniques for congestion management in a communication network are contemplated. For example, a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) may include a Radio Resource Control (RRC) layer and a Non-Access Stratum (NAS) layer. The RRC layer may receive an indication for a service, for example from the NAS. The indication may be interpreted as a request for the particular service indicated. For example, the indicated service may correspond to at least one of: a mobile originated (MO) voice communication, a circuit switched fallback (CSFB) supplementary service (SS), or a MO short message service (SMS). The RRC layer may receive a signal from a network indicating that one or more services provided by the network are allowed. The RRC layer may send a connection request to the network for the service sought by the NAS if that service is one of the one or more services allowed.
US10178677B2	Transmission of control information to reduced bandwidth terminals A method receiving data at a communications terminal from an OFDM wireless communications network including a wireless access interface communicating the data using plural OFDM sub-carriers includes: receiving from a first control channel having a bandwidth corresponding to a first frequency band providing first plural OFDM sub-carriers a resource allocation message allocating communications resources of a second group of OFDM sub-carriers; and receiving from a second control channel within the second frequency band within the second group of OFDM sub-carriers control information specific to the communications terminal operating to receive the data via the second group of OFDM sub-carriers. The communications terminal receives resource allocation messages from the first control channel to allocate resources within the second frequency band forming a virtual carrier and to receive control information specific to the communications terminal, which receives data from the second frequency band of the virtual carrier via a second control channel.
US10178675B1	Device receiving resource block allocation and method therefor In a wireless communication base station device, a modulation unit carries out modulation processing for Dch data after coding to generate a Dch data symbol. A modulation unit carries out modulation processing for Lch data after coding to generate an Lch data symbol. An allocation unit allocates the Dch data symbol and Lch data symbol to each sub-carrier composing an OFDM symbol and outputs the allocated sub-carrier to a multiplex unit. In this case, the allocation unit allocates the Dch data symbol to a plurality of resource blocks where one Dch is arranged at an interval equal to integral multiples of the number of resource blocks composing a resource block group.
US10178670B2	Signaling uplink frame duration in wireless local-area networks Computing readable media, apparatuses, and methods for signaling UL frame duration in wireless local-area networks. An apparatus of a wireless device is disclosed. The apparatus comprising processing circuitry, the processing circuitry configured to: encode a trigger frame for an uplink (UL) multi-user (MU) communication, the trigger frame including a media access control (MAC) portion including one or more station identifications and a length field to indicate an UL physical layer convergence procedure (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) (UL-PPDU) length, the MAC portion further including a duration field to indicate a time period for other stations to set network allocation vectors. The processing circuitry further configured to: configure the access point to transmit the trigger frame, and decode UL-PPDUs from one or more stations identified by the one or more stations identifications, where a length of each of the UL-PPDUs is to be in accordance with the UL-PPDU length.
US10178669B2	Method and device for anchor master selection A method for anchor master selection includes: a device receives a NAN Beacon frame, where the NAN Beacon frame carries first AM information and first TSF information, and the first AM information includes: a first AMR, a first HC, and a first AMBTT; if the NAN Beacon frame is used for AM selection, when the first AMR is less than a second AMR and an MR of the device is greater than the first AMR, switching a role of the device to AM, where second AM information recorded in the device includes: the second AMR, a second HC, and a second AMBTT; and if the NAN Beacon frame is used for AM selection, when the first AMR is less than the second AMR, and the MR of the device is less than the first AMR, updating the second AM information and second TSF information according to the NAN Beacon frame.
US10178668B2	Periodic and aperiodic CSI reporting procedures for enhanced licensed assisted access In enhanced licensed assisted access (eLAA), providing several approaches to report the CSI measurement may be desirable to provide flexibility in CSI reporting, especially in aperiodic CSI reporting. Further, a difference in using a licensed carrier and an unlicensed carrier may be considered during communication. In addition, assigning different transmit power usage based on different transmission types may be desired. The apparatus may be a user equipment (UE). The apparatus may be a UE. The UE receives a grant for uplink communication. The UE determines a reporting subframe based on the grant. The UE determines whether to select, as a reference subframe, a triggering subframe in which the grant is received or a subframe before the reporting subframe. The UE transmits, in the reporting subframe, channel state information (CSI) measured in the reference subframe.
US10178661B2	Quasi co-located antenna ports for channel estimation Systems and methods are disclosed for estimating one or more channel properties of a downlink from a cellular communications network based on quasi co-located antenna ports with respect to the one or more channel properties. In one embodiment, a wireless device receives a downlink subframe including a downlink control channel from the cellular communications network. The wireless device estimates one or more large-scale channel properties for an antenna port of interest in the downlink control channel based on a subset of reference signals that correspond to antenna ports in the cellular communications network that are quasi co-located with the antenna port of interest with respect to the one or more large-scale channel properties. As a result of using the quasi co-located antenna ports, estimation of the one or more large-scale channel properties is substantially improved.
US10178645B2	Electronic device and method of estimating location by electronic device Disclosed is an electronic device including a memory that stores grid information corresponding to a plurality of grids corresponding to a cell. The electronic device also includes a processor configured to acquire location information of an external electronic device and cell information related to a cell of the external electronic device corresponding to the location information, to calculate at least one active grid corresponding to the location information of the electronic device among the plurality of grids at least based on the location information, to acquire dominant values corresponding to the at least one active grid based on the cell information, to designate the at least one active grid as at least one dominant grid when the dominant values meet a predetermined condition, and to update the cell information when a number of at least one dominant grid meets a predetermined condition. Various embodiments are possible.
US10178643B1	Signal power pattern-based location detection and cell placement Systems and methods identify placement areas for small cells in a macro cell network environment. A network device collects user equipment (UE) received signal strength measurements for wireless access stations concurrently visible to one or more UE devices and designates signature areas based on groupings of the concurrently visible wireless access stations. The network device identifies time intervals with high RAN usage; extracts, from network data for the identified time intervals, traffic data for each signature area over incremental periods and a number of concurrent UEs for each signature area over the incremental periods. The network device ranks the signature areas based on the extracted uplink traffic and the extracted number of concurrent UEs; and selects a target signature area for small cell placement from the ranked signature areas.
US10178642B1	System and method for providing alternate wireless and network service in a bandwidth constrained environment Methods and systems for providing alternate wireless and network service on a cruise ship or in other remote or isolated “captive” environments where available wireless communication options tend to be limited and/or bandwidth constrained. Aspects of the disclosed systems and methods allow existing wireless customers to continue using their normal wireless phone and phone number in the captive environments while still easily avoiding large roaming and bandwidth charges, all while nearly transparently maintaining the full range of normal wireless voice, text, and MMS services.
US10178638B1	System, method and apparatus for sensor control applications A system, method and apparatus for configuring a node in a sensor network. A sensor service can enable sensor applications to customize the collection and processing of sensor data from a monitoring location. In one embodiment, sensor applications can customize the operation of nodes in the sensor network via a sensor data control system.
US10178635B1	Method and apparatus for preventing cluster fragmentation in a neighbor awareness networking (NAN) system Embodiments include a method that includes receiving, by a first device, a first synchronization beacon frame over a first communication channel, wherein the first device is configured to receive synchronization beacon frames over the first communication channel and a second communication channel; indicating, by the first device, that the first synchronization beacon frame received over the first communication channel is not to be considered while determining a state of the first device; and indicating, by the first device, that any synchronization beacon frame received over the second communication channel is to be considered while determining the state of the first device.
US10178630B2	Terminal apparatus, base station and communication method Provided is a terminal apparatus in which, a transmission control unit (204) controls the transmission power of a sounding reference signal (SRS) by use of an offset value relative to the transmission power of a data signal, and a transmission unit (206) transmits the SRS by use of the transmission power as controlled. If a subframe to be used for transmitting the SRS is a predetermined subframe, the transmission control unit (204) uses a first offset value to control the transmission power of the SRS. Otherwise, the transmission control unit (204) uses a second offset value to control the transmission power of the SRS. The second offset value is an offset value that has been established so as to be transmitted to the serving cell of the terminal (200), and the first offset value is greater than the second offset value.
US10178629B2	Communications node, system, communications method, and computer product A communications node includes a first transmitting circuit configured to transmit to plural communications nodes, a confirmation signal for confirming whether response is possible; a receiving circuit configured to receive from first communications nodes capable of responding among the plural communications nodes, a response signal for the transmitted confirmation signal; a selecting circuit configured to select from among the first communications nodes and based on reception strength of the received response signal, a second communications node to which execution of data processing is requested by the communications node; a strength calculating circuit configured to calculate based on the reception strength of the response signal from the selected second communications node, a transmission strength to the second communications node; and a second transmitting circuit configured to transmit to the second communications node and based on the calculated transmission strength, a request signal requesting execution of the data processing.
US10178623B2	Transmitting apparatus for both wireless charging and short range communication Disclosed herein is a transmitting apparatus for both wireless charging and short range communication. According to an embodiment, the transmitting apparatus for both wireless charging and short range communication includes a power transmitter configured to wirelessly transmit power to a power receiver, a communication transmitter configured to wirelessly transmit information to a communication receiver, and a controller configured to control the transmitting apparatus to be selectively switched between a first mode in which the power transmitter is enabled and the communication transmitter is disabled and a second mode in which the communication transmitter is enabled and the power transmitter is disabled. The controller may switch to the first mode when the power receiver is sensed, and may switch to the second mode when the communication receiver is sensed. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a power receiver or a communication receiver is sensed and then a power transmitter or a communication transmitter corresponding thereto is selectively operated so that a communication error that occurs when the power transmitter and the communication transmitter are simultaneously operated is prevented and an unnecessary waste of power is reduced.
US10178621B2	Automatic notification providing sleep state protection for an unattended computing device A method of a first mobile computing device includes storing a wireless communication address of a second mobile computing device, determining that the first mobile computing device has left a sleep state while in a closed condition, and automatically wirelessly transmitting a notification to the second mobile computing device in response to determining that the first mobile computing device has left the sleep state while in a closed condition. A method of a second mobile computing device includes receiving a wireless notification from a first mobile computing device indicating that the first mobile computing device has left a sleep state while in a closed condition, and providing an alert to a user of the second mobile computing device in response to receiving the wireless notification.
US10178616B2	Enhanced discovery channel for interworking between a cellular wide-area communication system and a wireless local-area communication system The present invention relates to methods, apparatuses and a computer program product for an enhanced discovery channel for interworking between a cellular wide-area communication system and a wireless local-area communication system. The present invention includes inserting, in a discovery channel, information indicating an interworking capability of a small cell base station between a cellular wide-area communication system and a wireless local-area communication system, and transmitting, by the base station, the discovery channel including the information to a user equipment located in the small cell.
US10178614B2	Power saving Wi-Fi tethering The techniques discussed herein reduce the power consumption of a Wi-Fi tethering device by switching the Wi-Fi functionality of the Wi-Fi tethering device from a normal operational mode to a sleep mode during idle intervals. The techniques implement a sleep protocol where a Wi-Fi tethering device and the Wi-Fi client device coordinate and establish a sleep schedule. Moreover, the techniques describe a sleep interval adaptation algorithm to establish sleep duration intervals based on data packet exchange patterns associated with different applications executing on the Wi-Fi client device and/or different operations being performed by the Wi-Fi client device.
US10178612B2	Enhanced machine-type communications cell acquisition using narrow band synchronization channel Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described for utilizing narrow band (NB) synchronization channel(s) for enhanced machine-type communications (eMTC) cell acquisition. The methods, systems, and devices may perform a first portion of cell acquisition using an NB acquisition signal. A second portion of cell acquisition may be performed using an eMTC acquisition signal determined based at least in part on the acquisition signal.
US10178611B2	Scheme for performing a data session via a Wi-Fi access in a wireless communication system A method for performing a data session via a Wi-Fi access of a user equipment (UE) in a cellular network is provided. The method includes maintaining a look-up table including at least an entry, the entry including a Wi-Fi identifier of a Wi-Fi access point (AP) and location information of the Wi-Fi AP, determining whether a user preference for a Wi-Fi connection is set to ON or OFF, checking whether at least one matched entry of the look-up table is found based on current location information of the UE, scanning to discover the Wi-Fi AP, connecting to a Wi-Fi AP corresponding to the matched entry based on a result of the determining, and performing a data session via a Wi-Fi access to the connected Wi-Fi AP.
US10178610B2	Smart home control method and system based on alljoyn technology A smart home control method and system based on Alljoyn technology is provided, the method includes: A, the controller searching a WIFI hotspot having an SSID started with a preset identification field; B, the controller connecting to the WIFI hotspot opened by the smart terminal, and duplicating configuration information of the target home WIFI hotspot network to the smart terminal; C, the controller calling a connection interface of the smart terminals, to connect the smart terminals to the target home WIFI hotspot network.
US10178609B2	System and method to support inter-wireless local area network communication by a radio access network A system and method is provided for operating a user equipment (“UE”) connected to a first wireless local access network (“WLAN”) access point (“AP”). In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a first policy from a radio access network (“RAN”) defining when to report a first difference between values for a first communication characteristic for communication with the first WLAN AP and a second WLAN AP, respectively, and searching for the second WLAN AP. The method also includes determining values for the first communication characteristic for communication with the first WLAN AP and the second WLAN AP, respectively, and reporting the first difference between values for the first communication characteristic for the first WLAN AP and the second WLAN AP to the RAN when the first difference crosses a first threshold in accordance with the first policy.
US10178601B2	Systems and methods for managing the routing and replication of data in the upload direction in a network of moving things Communication network architectures, systems and methods for supporting a network of mobile nodes. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide communication network architectures, systems, and methods for supporting a dynamically configurable communication network comprising a complex array of both static and moving communication nodes (e.g., the Internet of moving things). More specifically, systems and methods for managing the routing and replication of data in the upload direction in a network of moving things.
US10178597B2	Method and device for calling in network congestion state The present disclosure relates to a communication field, and provides a method for calling in a network congestion state. The method includes: sending a connection request by a smart terminal to a base station of an enabled cell, and starting a timer; when the smart terminal does not receive a connection response after the timer passes a first preset time period, determining a timeout of the enabled cell and setting the enabled cell as being disabled in a second preset time period; repeating actions of sending, starting, determining and setting, until the smart terminal receives the connection response within the first preset time period; and establishing a connection by the smart terminal with a base station of a third cell feeding back the connection response. The present disclosure has an advantage of improving a call completion rate.
US10178590B2	Communications with a mobile virtual base station Methods and systems are provided for using virtual base stations in communication systems. A communication system may comprise a plurality of fixed base stations. A virtual base station may be generated and/or assigned to a fixed base station in the communication system, with the fixed base station emitting signals of the virtual base station. The communication system may also comprise at least one network node, and communication system may be configured to transmit data of the virtual base station between the at least one network node and the assigned fixed base station, and emit signals of the virtual base station from the assigned fixed base station with the transmitted data of the virtual base station. The data of the virtual base station may be transmitted from the network node over multicast and/or broadcast connections, to the assigned fixed base station and to one or more fixed base stations.
US10178589B2	Methods in a radio access node for obtaining neighbouring information and radio access nodes The present disclosure relates to a method (200) in a first radio access node for obtaining neighboring cell information. The method comprises the steps of transmitting via an interface a radio access node request (Si2) for set-up information related to the neighboring cell to at least one second radio access node, and receiving a radio access node response (Si3) over the interface from said at least one second radio access node. The radio access node response (Si3) comprises set-up information including an indicator related to the neighboring cell's capability for uplink transmission. The present disclosure also relates to said first radio access node.
US10178588B2	Wireless device, network nodes and methods therein for handling a device-to-device (D2D) communication during handover in a wireless telecommunications network A method performed by a first wireless device for handling a device-to-device (D2D) communication with a second wireless device during handover of the first wireless device from a source network node to a target network node in a wireless telecommunications network is provided. The first wireless device interrupts the D2D communication. Then, the first wireless device determines a first uplink timing difference as the difference between the uplink timing to the source network node and the uplink timing to the target network node. Further, the first wireless device reconfigures the D2D communication based on the first uplink timing difference. Then, the first wireless device restarts the D2D communication as reconfigured. A first wireless device is also provided, along with a target network node, a source network node and methods therein for handling a D2D communication.
US10178586B2	User terminal and base station A system, user terminal, and processor determine whether to omit transmission of a random access preamble signal in a handover procedure from the first cell controlled by a first base station to a second cell controlled by a second base station when the user terminal transmits a notification indicating that a connection with the second cell is completed. The second base station notifies the user terminal of information via the first base station in response to admitting a handover request, the information indicating first information for adjusting a transmission timing of the notification and second information on a radio resource for transmitting the notification to the second base station. The user terminal determines that it omits transmission of the random access preamble signal on a basis of the first information, and transmits notification to the second base station by use of the second information in response to the determination.
US10178585B2	Enhanced multimedia call control in next generation mobile communication systems A network-based solution of supporting IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) call setup in a next generation system (5GS) is proposed. During an attach or registration area update procedure, a serving base station sends an indication to a UE indicating whether IMS voice over PS session is supported or not. Upon receipt of the indication that IMS VoPS is supported, the UE triggers an IMS registration procedure. However, when an MO/MT call happens, the network determines that the UE may be in conditions where voice service is not supported because the network is not able to provide a successful IMS VoPS over the current serving cell connected to 5G core network. The network then triggers a RAT change or a EPS fallback procedure such that the UE is handover to a target cell that supports IMS VoPS.
US10178583B2	Method for transmitting or receiving information on network access of terminal in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor Disclosed is a communication method of a network entity, which comprises: receiving state information from a plurality of neighboring network entities; selecting one network entity, which is not in a congestion state, among the plurality of network entities for a network access of a terminal, on the basis of the state information; and transmitting, to the terminal, a message including information for accessing of the terminal to the selected network entity.
US10178580B2	System and method for efficient use of network bandwidth based on user profiles and other data A system for optimizing the use of network bandwidth by a mobile device including a mobile application client, which resides on the mobile device, and is connected to a cloud server, wherein the system analyzes user content consumption, provides a prefetching schedule to the mobile device, and the mobile device prefetches content partially in accordance with the schedule. A method of optimizing the use of network bandwidth using the system is also provided.
US10178579B2	Internet of things (IoT) system and method for selecting a secondary communication channel An IoT system and method for selecting a secondary communication channel. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: one or more primary communication interfaces to establish a connection between an Internet of Things (IoT) device and an IoT service over one or more primary communication channels; one or more secondary communication interfaces to establish a connection between the IoT device and the IoT service over one or more secondary communication channels; a communication interface selection module to determine whether a primary threshold related to connection attempts over the one or more primary communication channels has been reached; in response to detecting that the primary threshold has been reached, the communication interface selection module to attempt to establish a connection between the IoT device and the IoT service over one of the secondary communication channels; the secondary communication interface to exchange data between the IoT device and the IoT service over the secondary communication channel.
US10178578B1	Thermal management of wireless accessed points based on optimization and operation in a distributed Wi-Fi network Systems and methods of optimizing a distributed Wi-Fi network considering thermal management of a plurality of access points in the distributed Wi-Fi network include periodically obtaining temperature measurements from the plurality of access points; performing an optimization to configure the distributed Wi-Fi network with the temperature measurements as thermal inputs used in the optimization, wherein the optimization determines configuration parameters including one or more of a topology of the distributed Wi-Fi network, band and channel of each hop in the topology, and which clients associate with which access point on which band, based in part on the temperature measurements and thermal constraints; and providing the configuration parameters to the distributed Wi-Fi network for implementation thereof.
US10178575B2	Method and apparatus for supporting full-duplex communication operation in wireless communication system supporting full-duplex communication A method for performing a Full-Duplex Radio (FDR) operation in a wireless communication system that supports the FDR is disclosed. The method includes exchanging FDR capability information that represents whether to have a capability of performing the FDR operation between a user equipment (UE) and a base station (BS); receiving, by the UE, Inter-Device-Interference (IDI) measurement configuration information from the BS; performing, by the UE, an IDI measurement based on the received IDI measurement configuration information; reporting, by the UE, a result of the IDI measurement to the BS; and receiving, by the UE, a control message notifying that the UE is included in a group related to the FDR operation from the BS, where the FDR capability information includes indication information that represents whether to support an FDR mode that transmission and reception operations are available to be performed simultaneously using an identical radio resource.
US10178572B2	Mobile station apparatus, management method in a mobile station apparatus, processing section, base station apparatus and communication system A communication system that includes at least a terminal apparatus and a base station apparatus. The terminal apparatus communicates with a base station apparatus by carrier aggregation using a plurality of serving cells, wherein each serving cell of the plurality of serving cells has a different frequency. The terminal apparatus receives (from the base station apparatus) a measurement configuration which includes a reporting configuration, a measurement object to indicate a measurement frequency and a measurement identity which links the measurement object to the reporting configuration. The terminal apparatus, in a case that an entry condition of the event corresponding with an event identity of the reporting configuration is fulfilled, transmits (to the base station apparatus) a measurement report which includes measurement results of all of the serving cells.
US10178571B2	Method for performing positioning in wireless communication system and device therefor Disclosed is a method for performing positioning by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, including: receiving assistance data including reference cell information and neighbor cell information from a serving base station (BS), the reference cell information and the neighbor cell information including channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration information for measurement related to CSI-RS-based positioning; receiving a CSI-RS from each of a reference cell and at least one neighbor cell on the basis of the received assistance data; measuring a reference signal time difference (RSTD) regarding the reference cell of the at least one neighbor cell using the received CSI-RS; and reporting the measured RSTD to the serving BS.
US10178569B1	Adaptive application behavior based on assessed network characteristics Mobile devices executing applications utilize data services worldwide. Data may be acquired at a mobile computing device during communication. Over relatively short time scales differences in the data may be determined. Based on the differences, output data may be generated that is indicative of one or more particular network characteristics, such as bandwidth, latency, transmit power, received signal strength, and so forth. The output data may then be used to change the behavior of one or more of an application executing on the mobile computing device or a service executing on server that is in communication with the mobile computing device. For example, output data may be used as input to selection nodes associated with the application or service.
US10178568B2	Method and apparatus for defining received signal strength indicator for discovery signals in wireless communication system A method and apparatus for performing measurements in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving an indication on measurements based on a discovery signal from a network, and performing measurements only in discovery signal occasions. In another aspect, a user equipment (UE) includes a memory, a transceiver, and a processor coupled to the memory and the transceiver, and configured to control the transceiver to receive an indication on measurements based on the discovery signal from the network, and perform measurements only in discovery signal occasions.
US10178566B2	Radio access network (RAN) cell site diagnostic test tool system and method A radio access network (RAN) cell site field test tool with a mobile application extension wherein a diagnostic function can be invoked automatically based on preconfigured event criteria or can be initiated remotely by a preregistered human or machine user. Example diagnostic functions may include the ability to test one or all the following functional/structural subsystems of a RAN cell site infrastructure comprising: fronthaul components, backhaul components, baseband components, GPS/location components, transceiver components, antenna components, enclosure/chassis components, internal monitoring components, cooling/AC and other ambient climate control components, environmental/regulatory compliance components, and power components.
US10178559B2	Incomplete navigation data of indoor positioning systems A method is disclosed comprising: determining, using a processor, whether a radio model of at least one radio node associated with a data set is incomplete based on a comparison between the coverage area of the radio model of the at least one radio node and a cumulative coverage area generated out of radio models of the at least one radio node associated with a plurality of data sets, wherein a data collection comprises the plurality of data sets and the data collection is indicative to at least one indoor radio map. Further disclosed are a corresponding apparatus, a corresponding system and a corresponding software program.
US10178555B2	Securing a wireless mesh network via a chain of trust A master beacon device emits a data packet that is received and retransmitted by servant beacon devices in a wireless mesh network that enables the beacon devices to detect the received signal strength indicator (“RSSI”) of beacon devices in proximity. Each servant beacon device transmits survey data packets comprising the RSSIs and hardware identifiers of proximate beacon devices to the master beacon device, which constructs a first virtual map of the mesh network. At a later time, each servant beacon device transmits authentication data packets, which are retransmitted, each retransmitting beacon inserting an RSSI and hardware identifier of the beacon device from which the authentication data packet was received, until they reach the master beacon device, which constructs a second virtual map of the mesh network. The master beacon device compares the first virtual map to the second virtual map to determine if the network is secure.
US10178550B2	Method and device for registering and certifying device in wireless communication system A gateway (GW) in a wireless communication system, according to the present disclosure is provided. The GW generates self-signed authentication information, allocates the self-signed authentication information to at least one device, transmits a registration request message for requesting registration of the at least one device to a server if a certificate channel with the at least one device is generated based on the self-signed authentication information, and transmits certificate information for the at least one device to the at least one device if the certificate information for the at least one device is received from the server.
US10178549B2	Authentication and key agreement with perfect forward secrecy Systems and methods for providing authentication key agreement (AKA) with perfect forward secrecy (PFS) are disclosed. In one embodiment, a network according to the disclosure may receive an attach request from a UE, provide an authentication request including a network support indicator to a network resource, receive an authentication token from the network resource, such that the authentication token includes an indication that a network supports PFS, provide the authentication token to the UE, receive an authentication response including a UE public key value, obtain a network public key value and a network private key value, determine a shared key value based on the network private key value and the UE public key value, bind the shared key value with a session key value to create a bound shared key value, and use the bound shared key value to protect subsequent network traffic.
US10178548B2	Method for protecting terminal location information and intelligent terminal A method for protecting intelligent terminal location information is provided, where the method includes: responding to a location query request from an APP, and acquiring current location coordinates of the intelligent terminal; acquiring a privacy sensitivity level of an area in which the current location coordinates are located; acquiring a location trust level of the APP; and obtaining, according to the location trust level of the APP and the privacy sensitivity level of the area in which the current location coordinates are located, a response manner corresponding to the location query request from the APP. In addition, some embodiments of the present application further disclose an intelligent terminal.
US10178547B2	Method and device for obtaining system information in wireless communication system Provided are a method for receiving/decoding a system information block by a terminal and a device for supporting same. The terminal can receive one or more MIBs and receive/decode a first SIB on the basis of the received MIBs and a first time offset. The first SIB is an SIB which has been newly defined for a terminal having low complexity.
US10178546B2	Mobile device activation Methods, systems and apparatus that facilitate activation of mobile devices, such as communication devices or multi-function devices, via a computer are disclosed. According to one aspect of the invention, a mobile device can be forced into a limited service mode until properly activated with a service provider for a wireless network. According to another aspect of the invention, a mobile device can defer its attempt to send a location update request to a wireless network. According to still another aspect of the invention, a mobile device can be automatically controlled to reset a portion of its internal hardware to initiate a location update request.
US10178545B2	Information processing system and information processing method A handheld terminal 200 performs wireless communication with a game apparatus 103 and determines whether the wireless communication with the game apparatus 103 is possible. The game apparatus 103 performs wireless communication with the handheld terminal 200 and determines whether the wireless communication with the handheld terminal 200 is possible. The game apparatus 103 performs a return home determination process, based on the determination about whether the wireless communication is possible, when the wireless communication with the handheld terminal 200 has become, after having become disabled, enabled again.
US10178544B2	Obtaining multiple subscription services from an embedded universal integrated circuit card Methods for obtaining network services on a mobile communication device may include attaching the mobile communication device to a first network associated with a first subscription supported by a first profile stored on an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) on the mobile communication device, caching, in memory on the mobile communication device, the first profile corresponding to the first subscription, deactivating the first subscription of the eUICC on the mobile communication device without detaching from the first network, caching, in memory on the mobile communication device, a second profile stored on the eUICC corresponding to a second subscription, activating the first subscription of the eUICC, and monitoring for paging indicators directed to the second subscription utilizing the cached second profile.
US10178537B2	Emergency messaging system and method of responding to an emergency An emergency assistance program running on a mobile computing device sends an emergency trigger message to an emergency responder's emergency response computer system. The message includes the computing device's location that is received by the device from a global positioning module and also preferably includes user profile information for the computing device's user. For smartphone computing devices running the program, the program also preferably instructs the smartphone to place a call to the contact phone. The emergency response computer system receives the message from the computing device and begins a group message thread with the computing device. An emergency response module running on the emergency response computer system determines one or more emergency response units in proximity to the computing device's location and automatically transmits the emergency trigger message to at least one emergency response unit. The emergency response computer system places the emergency response unit into the group message.
US10178536B2	Update indication information According to a first exemplary embodiment of the invention, a method provides update indication information from a radio network node to one or more wireless devices unreachable via a paging channel or a machine-type communication, MTC, control channel. The method comprises generating (112) an update signal comprising a Downlink Control Information, DCI, message by including the update indication information in the update signal, the update indication information comprising at least one indication unrelated to paging the one or more wireless devices, and transmitting (122) the update signal to the one or more wireless devices via a Physical Downlink Control Channel, PDCCH, when the one or more wireless devices are unreachable via the paging channel or the MTC control channel. Further embodiments of the invention includes e.g. methods of handling update indication information and corresponding radio network nodes and wireless devices.
US10178535B2	Secure system for emergency-mode operation, system monitoring and trusted access vehicle location and recovery Embodiments described herein relate to an autonomous emergency system (EMS) for UAVs and UMVs. The autonomy of the emergency system enables the vehicle to self-detect that it is in an emergency state (autonomous detection). When vehicle detects the emergency state the vehicle is configured to implement an improved autonomous emergency system process. The vehicle triggers autonomous state change, and controls its operation (auxiliary, power levels, and so on). The vehicle has beacons to emit pulses over time intervals to communicate with specific vehicles. For example, when known, friendly, other vehicles come into a specific radius, the EMS detects the friendly vehicle(s) and sends safe signals. The EMS implements a pairing communication process based on pre-establish configurations and protocols.
US10178532B2	Communication method, communication system, and communication management apparatus A communication method using a communication system including a first communication apparatus, a second communication apparatus, and a communication management apparatus, the communication method includes acquiring, by the communication management apparatus, communication information used for the first communication apparatus to be coupled to a communication network via the second communication apparatus, from the first communication apparatus or the second communication apparatus, transmitting, by the communication management apparatus, the communication information to the first communication apparatus or the second communication apparatus, and based on the transmitted communication information, establishing communication between the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus by the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus.
US10178529B2	Method of retransmitting data in a wireless connection system supporting machine-to-machine communication, and device for supporting same The present invention relates to a wireless connection system, and in particular, relates to methods of retransmitting data in a machine-to-machine communication system, methods of managing the data, and devices for supporting machine-to-machine communication. As one aspect of the present invention, the method of retransmitting data in the wireless connection system supporting the machine-to-machine communication may include: allocating a data slot for retransmitting data from a first machine, from among two or more peer machines, by transmitting a transmit request message to a second machine; receiving a transmit response message transmitted form the second machine in response to the transmit request message; and retransmitting data to the second machine through the allocated data slot.
US10178528B2	Device connectivity management for machine type communications Methods for managing device connectivity of machine type communications devices include receiving a packet data protocol based command addressed to a Machine Type Communication (MTC) device, determining if the MTC device has an active packet data protocol context, in response to determining that the MTC device does not have an active packet data protocol context, activating a packet data protocol context for the MTC device, and forwarding the packet data protocol based command to the MTC device.
US10178526B2	Coordinating wireless communication network access via multiple logic capable databases Wireless communication network access is facilitated via multiple logic-capable storage (MLCS) devices. One method comprises: scanning a record of records stored in a MLCS device to determine whether a communication device associated with a request for communication establishment has a defined functionality; and generating information indicative of the communication device failing to have the defined functionality based on identifying a value range inclusive of an identifier of the communication device and based on determining that the MLCS device is a negative logic storage device, wherein the MLCS device is programmable to have a first type of logic at a first time and a second type of logic at a second time. The first type of logic can be the negative logic type and the second type of logic can be a positive logic type.
US10178523B2	Position detection system and position detection method A position detection system is provided which is capable of inhibiting an increase in system costs and improving accuracy of detecting a position of a terminal. In the position detection system, a first terminal measures radio waves from a wireless connection device or a second terminal, and transmits a measurement result to a position detection server through the wireless connection device. The position detection server estimates that the first terminal is located in a position of the second terminal which has transmitted the radio waves in a case where the measurement result includes information of the radio waves from the second terminal, and estimates the position of the first terminal based on information of radio wave intensity of the radio waves from the wireless connection device, which is included in the measurement result, reference data, and positional information of the second terminal in a case where the measurement result does not include the information of the radio waves from the second terminal.
US10178520B2	Unified communications using called party location Call processing can include receiving a call directed to a first destination device associated with a called party, determining, using a processor, an attribute of the call, and determining a location of the called party. A call processing rule can be selected that matches the attribute of the call and the location of the called party. The call can be redirected to a second and different destination device according to the matched call processing rule.
US10178519B2	Variable path management of user contacts Systems, methods, and computer-readable mediums for managing a subset of contacts on a telecommunications device are provided. In one embodiment, a software application executed by a processor of a telecommunications device identifies a subset of contacts selected at least in part by a user of the telecommunications device. The subset of contacts includes a portion of the user's contacts accessible by the telecommunications device. The software application causes display of a first portion of graphical identifiers associated with a first portion of the subset of contacts along a first path on a display of the telecommunications device about an axis positioned external to the display of the telecommunications device. The software application further causes display of a second portion of graphical identifiers associated with a second portion of the subset of contacts along a second path on the display of the telecommunications device about the external axis.
US10178517B1	Apparatus and method for sending video content to a mobile device An apparatus and method for sending video content to a mobile device is described. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprising embedding a widget in a website, the widget generating a form. The form is provided when a user visits the website so as to execute the widget. The form includes a first field to enter a recipient phone number, a send selector, and one or more non-visible fields, the non-visible fields containing a content service provider identifier, and a video URL. A data packet is generated with the widget when the user selects the send selector, the data packet including the recipient phone number, the video URL, and the content service provider identifier. An encoded version of the data packet is sent to the content service provider and a video link message is sent to the recipient phone number.
US10178511B2	Vessel traffic management system A method including receiving, at a server, vessel AIS information, said AIS information including at least a vessel identifier and a vessel location. Querying a location data store in response to the vessel location, said location data store including port location information. Determining, in response to said querying, whether the vessel is in a port area or port approach area and iteratively receiving, additional AIS information which may be stored as structured data. And calculating port performance metrics in response to the location information, and transmitting those performance metrics through a network.
US10178508B1	Real-time, location-aware mobile device data breach prevention A cognitive security service learns regular locations and usage of one or more mobile devices for a user at multiple times based on aggregated location and usage information reported by the one or more mobile devices via a network. The cognitive security service forecasts one or more selected locations and selected usage by the user with a highest probability of predictability at one or more future sequential times from among the regular locations and usage. The cognitive security service, responsive to detecting a current location of the one or more mobile devices for the user deviates from the one or more selected locations and selected usage beyond a threshold, triggers, via the network, one or more secondary levels of authentication at the one or more mobile devices, wherein the one or more secondary levels of authentication prevent data breaches on the one or more mobile devices through real-time, location aware data security.
US10178498B2	Method and device for signal processing The disclosure describes a method and device for signal processing. The method includes generating a signal time series associated with a terminal device based on time points for signal collection and intensities of signals collected at the time points collected from the terminal device by signal collection devices deployed in a spatial object; obtaining at least one segment of the signal time series by segmenting the signal time series according to a pre-generated segmenting interval; and determining, for the at least one segment, if a user of the terminal device is located in the spatial object during a continuous period of time included in the at least one segment. The disclosure may be used to statistically analyze user traffic in a spatial object and reduce resource consumption.
US10178492B2	Apparatus, systems and methods for adjusting output audio volume based on user location Systems and methods are operable to adjust an output audio volume level of presented audio content that is output as sound from one or more speakers in a media presentation environment. An exemplary embodiment detects movement of a user who is listening to the audio content; increases the output audio volume level when the detected user movement is away from a predefined location in the media presentation environment; and decreases the output audio volume level when the detected user movement is closer to the predefined location in the media presentation environment.
US10178491B2	Apparatus and a method for manipulating an input audio signal The disclosure relates to an apparatus for manipulating an input audio signal associated to a spatial audio source within a spatial audio scenario, wherein the spatial audio source has a certain distance to a listener within the spatial audio scenario. The apparatus comprises an exciter adapted to manipulate the input audio signal to obtain an output audio signal, and a controller adapted to control parameters of the exciter for manipulating the input audio signal based on the certain distance.
US10178490B1	Intelligent audio rendering for video recording Image analysis of a video signal is performed to produce first metadata, and audio analysis of a multi-channel sound track associated with the video signal is performed to produce second metadata. A number of time segments of the sound track are processed, wherein each time segment is processed by either (i) spatial filtering of the audio signals or (ii) spatial rendering of the audio signals, not both, wherein for each time segment a decision was made to select between the spatial filtering or the spatial rendering, in accordance with the first and second metadata. A mix of the processed sound track and the video signal is generated. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US10178483B2	Light based hearing systems, apparatus, and methods Embodiments of the present invention include a method of aligning the elements of a tympanic lens, the method comprising the steps of: forming mold of a user's ear canal, including the user's tympanic membrane; digitally scanning the ear canal mold to create a digital model of the user's ear canal; using the digital data to size a chassis for the tympanic lens; manufacturing a chassis; manufacturing an ear canal mold, manufacturing an alignment tool, including a chassis alignment feature and a photodetector alignment feature; mating the ear canal mold and alignment tool; placing the chassis into the mold, using the alignment tool to fix the position of the chassis with respect to a model of the user's tympanic membrane and features thereof; mounting a microactuator and photodetector to the chassis; and using the photodetector alignment feature to position the photodetector prior to fixing the photodetector in place.
US10178480B2	Speaker and magnetic circuit system thereof Disclosed are a magnetic circuit system for a loudspeaker, and a loudspeaker. The magnetic circuit system for a loudspeaker comprises a magnetically conductive plate (11), a central magnet (12), a central washer (14), a side magnet (13), and a side washer (15). The side washer (15) comprises a washer body (151) and a bent portion (152) continuing from the washer body (151). The washer body (151) is arranged on the surface, away from the magnetically conductive plate (11), of the corresponding side magnet (13). The bent portion (152) is bent towards the magnetically conductive plate (11) from top to bottom via a side face (15a) of the washer body (151). The bent portion (152) and the magnetically conductive plate (11) are fixedly welded together. According to the present invention, by providing the bent portion and fixedly welding the bent portion and the magnetically conductive plate together, the side washer, the magnetically conductive plate, and the side magnet between the side washer and the magnetically conductive plate are effectively prevented from loosening and falling off due to insufficient glue bonding strength, thus achieving the object of improving the connection strength of the magnetic circuit system itself.
US10178479B2	Speaker driver A speaker driver with a high degree of symmetry for use in a loudspeaker is disclosed. The disclosed motor assembly may be symmetrical about its long and radial axes. A voice coil disclosed may be supported by opposing upper and lower suspension members on the voice coil upper and lower ends. The upper and lower voice coil suspension members disclosed may be adhered to a frame above and below the motor assembly, respectively in a mirror like fashion being symmetrical about their long and radial axes. An open voice coil frame disclosed may use elongate structural members having a shape similar to the letter “j” (j-beams) defining large interconnected air gaps to promote cooling of the voice coil.
US10178478B2	Acoustic apparatus with diaphragm supported at a discrete number of locations An acoustic apparatus includes a back plate, a diaphragm, and at least one pillar. The diaphragm and the back plate are disposed in spaced relation to each other. At least one pillar is configured to at least temporarily connect the back plate and the diaphragm across the distance. The diaphragm stiffness is increased as compared to a diaphragm stiffness in absence of the pillar. The at least one pillar provides a clamped boundary condition when the diaphragm is electrically biased and the clamped boundary is provided at locations where the diaphragm is supported by the at least one pillar.
US10178477B2	Vibrating diaphragm assembly A vibrating diaphragm assembly related to the technical field of electroacoustic products is provided. The vibrating diaphragm assembly comprises a vibrating diaphragm, wherein the vibrating diaphragm comprises a middle part and a folding ring part surrounding the periphery of the middle part. The vibrating diaphragm also comprises a vibrating diaphragm substrate layer and a silica gel layer; the silica gel layer being at least partially combined with the vibrating diaphragm substrate layer. The vibrating diaphragm substrate layer is also a high molecular material layer; the silica gel layer is combined on the surface of the folding ring part; and the silica gel layer and the high molecular material layer are formed through injection molding.
US10178476B2	Compliant constrained headband spring A compliant constrained headband spring for audio headphones includes a headband spring element and a stiffness enhancing element coupled to the headband spring element. The compliant constrained headband spring exhibits a first stiffness in an open position and a second stiffness greater than the first stiffness when closed beyond a predetermined point.
US10178474B2	Sound signature database for initialization of noise reduction in recordings A smart-home device may include a recording device configured to record sound during a first time interval and a memory device comprising a plurality of stored sound profiles. The smart-home device may also include a processing system configured to receive an environmental input, select a stored sound profile from the plurality of stored sound profiles based on the environmental input, and perform a noise-cancelation routine on the sound recorded during the first time interval. The stored sound profile may be used as an initial background noise profile for the noise-cancelation routine.
US10178471B2	Unidirectional condenser microphone unit A unidirectional condenser microphone unit includes a unit case that includes a diaphragm that vibrates upon receiving a sound wave, a fixed electrode disposed to face the diaphragm, an insulating base that supports the fixed electrode to form a back air chamber between the insulating base and the fixed electrode and a fixed electrode leading terminal made of metal that is attached to the insulating base, and that leads a signal voltage generated at the fixed electrode, wherein the unit case is provided with a front acoustic terminal hole formed in a front side of the diaphragm and a rear acoustic terminal hole for communication with the back air chamber, wherein the unit case has a second air chamber different from the back air chamber and the fixed electrode leading terminal is provided with a communication path between the back air chamber and the second air chamber.
US10178468B2	Acoustic system having a housing with adsorbent powder An acoustic system is provided that includes a transducer having a housing, which encloses a volume and in which at least a surface or a sub-surface is formed by a sheet-like structure configured to vibrate. Powder made of adsorbent material having an adsorption effective surface may be present in the volume. The powder may be selected such that, through a movement of the powder caused by vibrations of the sheet-like structure configured to vibrate, the adsorption effective surface is enlarged. The adsorbent material may be selected such that an adsorption of air or gas present in the volume is caused by an increase of the pressure caused from vibrations of the sheet-like structure configured to vibrate. The powder is freely movable within the housing.
US10178466B2	Powered speaker system and method A powered speaker system comprising a cabinet and an input to receive an audio signal from an external amplifier. An audio splitter receives and splits the audio signal into first and second portions. At least one first speaker driver receives the first portion of the split audio signal, and an effects output jack receives the second portion. An effects input jack that is connectable to the external effects device, receives the second portion of signal that is modified by the external effects device. An internal amplifier is coupled to the effects input jack and receives and amplifies the modified second portion of the signal. At least one second speaker driver receives from the internal amplifier, the amplified modified second portion. The first speaker driver outputs the first portion simultaneously while the second speaker driver outputs the amplified modified second portion of the split audio signal.
US10178463B2	Headphones A pair of headphones including an adjustable headphone band. The headphone band can include an inner member and an outer member. The headphones can further include a braking mechanism disposed between the inner member and the outer member, and an earcup attachment feature. In some embodiments, the braking mechanism can include a brake pad and a brake pad cover.
US10178459B2	Loudspeaker with acoustic impedance system A loudspeaker assembly may be configured with at least one driver disposed between first and second acoustic impedance structures. The first and second impedance structures can be arranged with one or more layers that have similar, or dissimilar, thicknesses. The first and second impedance structures can respectively be configured to maintain symmetric acoustic impedance on opposite sides of the driver during operation of the driver.
US10178457B1	Audio output assembly for a head-mounted display A head-mounted display (HMD) includes a housing defining an enclosure having an aperture. A is speaker positioned within the enclosure, the speaker having a back side facing an interior surface of the housing and a front side facing away from the interior surface of the housing, a back volume defined between at least a portion of the housing and the back side of the speaker for enhancing sound generated by the speaker. A sound conduit having an end open to the enclosure and extends outside the housing through the aperture. The sound conduit has another end open toward a rear direction to transmit the sound generated by the speaker.
US10178456B2	Zipper system incorporating a sound producing system A zipper system includes a zipper mechanism having interlocking teeth, the teeth, when interlocked, closing a signal circuit to an audio playback circuit, the audio playback circuit. The audio playback circuit includes a microprocessor. The microprocessor includes an audio track storage and control instructions that, when executed by the microprocessor, cause playback of an audio track from the audio track storage. The audio playback circuit further includes a speaker device coupled to the microprocessor that broadcasts the audio track.
US10178454B2	Motor matrix control method and wearable apparatus A method includes, but is not limited to, arranging several linear motors based on a 3D spherical model to form a linear motor matrix, and determining an azimuth of each linear motor on the 3D spherical model, performing information extraction for received 3D audio signal, and obtaining azimuth, frequency and amplitude information of the 3D audio signal reaching a central position of the 3D spherical model, generating a motor drive signal according to the azimuth, frequency and amplitude information of the 3D audio signal reaching a central position of the 3D spherical model, and driving a linear motor in the linear motor matrix within a certain scope away from the azimuth of the 3D audio signal to vibrate.
US10178449B1	IoT tag and invivo sensor system and communication method A sensor system is provided. The sensor system includes: a battery that powers the sensor system; a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag that stores a unique identifier of the sensor system; a sensor that provides a sensing data for the sensor system; an internet of things (IoT) transceiver that communicates with an access point in an IoT system; and a processor that receives the sensing data from the sensor and controls an activation of the sensor and a frequency of communication of the IoT transceiver with the access point.
US10178446B2	Prioritized call sessions A local network call handling device is configured to establish multiple concurrent call sessions between local network end devices and an external network. When a prioritized end device attempts to establish a call session, the call handling device may initially determine if a first call session identifier is available. If so, the call session can be established using that first identifier. If the first identifier is in use for a call session of another end device, the call handling device may either use a different call session identifier for the prioritized end device session or may drop a pre-existing call session to free an identifier for use in connection with the prioritized end device.
US10178445B2	Methods, devices, and systems for load balancing between a plurality of waveguides Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying an overload event according to monitoring signals received from a group of source devices over a network. Other aspects can include receiving load information from each of a plurality of waveguides resulting in a plurality of load information. Further aspects can include analyzing the plurality of load information resulting in a load analysis of the plurality of waveguides. Additional aspect can include identifying a recipient waveguide from the plurality of waveguides based on the load analysis. Also, aspects can include identifying a first source device, and notifying the first source device to provide communications to the recipient waveguide and not to the waveguide device to mitigate the overload event. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10178443B2	Enhanced metadata and content delivery using watermarks Methods, systems and devices enable enhanced delivery of metadata, as well as auxiliary programs and services associated with a primary content. In one method, a primary content with pre-existing watermarks is received at a content distributor device. The pre-existing watermark include specific fields that allow retrieval of a first metadata. The values and boundary locations of the symbols of the pre-existing watermark messages are determined, and symbols of a new watermark message are embedded in the primary content to render the pre-existing watermarks undetectable. The new watermark message includes symbol values that different from those in the pre-existing watermark messages and enable retrieval of a second metadata. Upon transmission of the primary content to a client device, detection of the new watermark message, and initiation of a request by the client device, access to the first or the metadata, as well as associated programs or services, are enabled.
US10178436B2	Method to auto-select media channel programs A computer-implemented method of selecting a media program includes continuously monitoring a plurality of media programs on available channels and analyzing, by a processor, a content of the programs. The content is compared to a set of user preferences and the programs are ranked based on the user preferences. An optimal program is selected based on the rankings and is switched to. A media system includes a media output device and a user interface. A controller is operably connected to the media output device and to the user interface. The controller includes a control system configured to monitor media programs on available channels and analyze a content of the media programs. The content is compared to a set of user preferences and the programs are ranked based on the user preferences. An optimal media program is selected based on the rankings and is switched to by the control system.
US10178434B2	Integrated user interface for internet-enabled TV A user interface (UI) for an Internet enabled TV lists content genre such as photos, music, and video, and for each genre a sub-list of content is provided regardless of the source of the content, i.e., regardless of whether the content in the particular genre is stored locally or is sourced from the Internet.
US10178431B2	Hybrid stream delivery Hybrid stream delivery techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a multicast stream of primary content is received at a computing device for output by the computing device. Timing information in the multicast stream is identified indicating when a break in the primary content is to occur. Responsive to the identification and before output of the primary content attains to the break, supplemental content is requested by the computing device that is available via a single dedicated stream. The supplemental content received via the single dedicated stream is cached during output of the primary content and the cached supplemental content is output upon completion of the output of the primary content up to the break.
US10178430B2	Intelligent processing method and system for video data The present application discloses an intelligent processing method and system for video data, wherein, in the method an intelligent camera set a warning rule, the method comprises: the intelligent camera collecting video data and analyzing the collected video data in real time, generating intelligent data if the warning rule is met, which intelligent data contain an encoder identifier and motion trajectory information; the intelligent camera packaging the video data and the intelligent data into a program stream and sending it to a frame analyzing component in a cloud storage system; the frame analyzing component unpacking the received program stream to obtain the video data and the intelligent data, and storing the video data and the intelligent data in storage components respectively; the storage components sending storage address information of the video data and the intelligent data to an index server for recording respectively. The solutions of the present application can perform intelligent processing for the collected video data in real time.
US10178429B2	Aggregated control and presentation of media content from multiple sources Systems and methods are described for aggregating media content from multiple sources for viewing on a local display or for placeshifting to a remote display. The aggregation system responds to instructions received from a remote device via the digital network to provide the video output incorporating the media content received from any of the media sources to the locally-connected display. The media aggregation system also simultaneously provides a placeshifted video stream to the remote device via the digital network that incorporates media content received from any of the plurality of media sources selected in response to the instructions received from the remote device.
US10178428B2	Video bitstream processing for enabling tune-in Chunks (12, 14) of encoded video data of a streamed video bitstream (1) are stored and encoded video data is decoded to form decoded video data to be output for display. A selected portion (12) of the stored chunks (12, 14) or selected sub-chunks (25, 27) of the stored chunks (20, 22) for a previous, already played out part (3) of the streamed video bitstream (1) is or are discarded while keeping selected stored chunks (14) or selected sub-chunks (21, 23) stored as navigation tune-in points. The usage of selected stored chunks (14) or sub-chunks (21, 23) that are not discarded from the already played out part (3) of the streamed video bitstream (1) enables a low delay solution during video navigation when a user wants to jump to a previously played out position (5) within the streamed video bitstream (1).
US10178422B1	Systems and methods for generating aggregated media assets based on related keywords Methods and systems for a media guidance application (e.g., implemented on a user device) that generates aggregated media assets based on keywords from different sources.
US10178415B2	Chapter detection in multimedia streams via alignment of multiple airings There is described a multimedia processing method comprising: identifying a start and end time ranges in an input multimedia stream; comparing said ranges to an alternate multimedia stream of the same program for regions of similarity; and defining time ranges as representing chapter regions responsive to the content of both streams within the time ranges having high similarities.
US10178407B2	Moving image prediction encoding/decoding system A moving image encoding/decoding system may include a video predictive encoding device, which may include: an encoding device which encodes each of a plurality of input pictures to generate compressed picture data including a random access picture, and encodes data about display order information of each picture; a restoration device which decodes the compressed picture data to restore a reproduced picture; a picture storage device which stores the reproduced picture as a reference picture; and a memory management device which controls the picture storage device. Following completion of an encoding process of generating the random access picture, the memory management device refreshes the picture storage device by setting every reference picture in the picture storage device, except for the random access picture, as unnecessary immediately before or immediately after encoding a picture with display order information larger than the display order information of the random access picture.
US10178406B2	Control of video encoding based on one or more video capture parameters This disclosure describes techniques for improving functionalities of a video encoder, using parameters detected and estimated by a front-end video capture device. The techniques may involve estimating a blurriness level associated with frames captured during a refocusing process. Based on the estimated blurriness level, the quantization parameter (QP) used to encode blurry frames is adjusted either in the video capture device or in the video encoder. The video encoder uses the adjusted QP to encode the blurry frames. The video encoder also uses the blurriness level estimate to adjust encoding algorithms by simplifying motion estimation and compensation in the blurry frames.
US10178394B2	Transcoding techniques for alternate displays Video coding techniques are disclosed for resource-limited destination display devices. Input video data may be coded by converting a first representation of the input video to a resolution of a destination display and base layer coding the converted representation. Additionally, a region of interest may be predicted from within the input video. The predicted ROI may be converted to a resolution of the destination display, and the converted ROI may be enhancement layer coded. The base layer coded data and the enhancement layer data may be transmitted to the destination display where the coded base layer data is decoded and displayed until a zoom event occurs. When a zoom event occurs, both the coded base layer data and the coded enhancement layer data may be decoded and displayed. Thus, the switchover from a first field of view to an ROI view may be performed quickly.
US10178393B2	Image encoder and decoder using unidirectional prediction The present invention relates to an image encoding and decoding technique, and more particularly, to an image encoder and decoder using unidirectional prediction. The image encoder includes a dividing unit to divide a macro block into a plurality of sub-blocks, a unidirectional application determining unit to determine whether an identical prediction mode is applied to each of the plurality of sub-blocks, and a prediction mode determining unit to determine a prediction mode with respect to each of the plurality of sub-blocks based on a determined result of the unidirectional application determining unit.
US10178392B2	Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding multilayer video signal A method for decoding a multilayer video signal, according to the present invention, is characterized by: inducing the number of active references of a current picture, in consideration of whether the maximum number of active reference pictures of the current picture in a current layer is limited; obtaining a reference layer identifier based on the number of active references, determining an active reference picture of the current picture using a reference layer identifier, generating a reference picture list including the active reference pictures, and performing interlayer prediction of the current picture using the reference picture list.
US10178389B2	Rate control algorithm for scalable video encoding with disposable P-frames Systems and methods of performing rate control in scalable video encoders for use in videoconferencing, announcements, and live video streaming to multiple participant devices having diverse bandwidths, resolutions, and/or other device characteristics. The systems and methods can accommodate different target bit rates of the multiple participant devices by operating on scalable video bitstreams in a multi-layer video format, including a base layer having one or more reference video frames, and an enhancement layer having one or more disposable non-reference, predictive video frames. By adjusting the number of disposable non-reference, predictive video frames in the enhancement layer, as well as quantization parameters for the respective base and enhancement layers, the systems and methods can accommodate the different target bit rates for the respective participant devices, while enhancing the spatial and/or temporal qualities of the base and enhancement layers in the respective video bitstreams.
US10178386B2	Adaptive filtering based upon boundary strength An image decoding apparatus that includes a motion compensation prediction circuit configured to conduct motion compensation prediction for each of blocks to be decoded by using the reconstructed image, an inverse transformation circuit configured to conduct inverse orthogonal transformation for the data of the blocks to be decoded, and a determination circuit configured to determine a filtering strength and whether or not to conduct filtering, with respect to each of the boundaries. In addition, the determining circuit is configured to determine filtering is conducted when at least one of the two adjacent blocks is intra-coded, and filtering is not conducted when both of the two adjacent blocks are not intra-coded, a non-zero transformation coefficient is not coded in both of the two adjacent blocks, the two adjacent blocks are predicted by the same reference frame, and an absolute value of a difference between motion vectors of the two adjacent blocks is smaller than a specified threshold value.
US10178385B2	Method and system for video picture intra-prediction estimation Several systems and methods for intra-prediction estimation of video pictures are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes accessing four ‘N×N’ pixel blocks comprising luma-related pixels. The four ‘N×N’ pixel blocks collectively configure a ‘2N×2N’ pixel block. A first pre-determined number of candidate luma intra-prediction modes is accessed for each of the four ‘N×N’ pixel blocks. A presence of one or more luma intra-prediction modes that are common among the candidate luma intra-prediction modes of at least two of the four ‘N×N’ pixel blocks is identified. The method further includes performing, based on the identification, one of (1) selecting a principal luma intra-prediction mode for the ‘2N×2N’ pixel block and (2) limiting a partitioning size to a ‘N×N’ pixel block size for a portion of the video picture corresponding to the ‘2N×2N’ pixel block.
US10178384B2	Image decoding device, image coding device, and residual prediction device Residual prediction poses a problem that deriving a residual involves a large amount of processing for generating two motion-compensated images and deriving a difference. Provided is a residual prediction device including a reference image interpolation unit that derives two residual prediction motion-compensated images, and a residual synthesis unit that derives a residual from a difference between the two residual prediction motion-compensated images and derives a predicted image by adding the residual to a motion-compensated image, in which the residual synthesis unit derives a predicted image by adding the residual to the motion-compensated image in a case where a target block size is greater than a predetermined size and derives the motion-compensated image as the predicted image in a case where the target block size is less than or equal to a predetermined size.
US10178383B2	Bi-prediction coding method and apparatus, bi-prediction decoding method and apparatus, and recording medium An image decoding method and an image decoding apparatus is provided. The method comprises recovering a first motion vector corresponding to a first decoding reference picture based on the entropy decoded bit stream, calculating a second motion vector corresponding to a second decoding reference picture by scaling the first motion vector based on a first temporal distance between the current picture and the first decoding reference picture and a second temporal distance between the current picture and the second decoding reference picture, generating a prediction block relating to a current block in the current picture, based on the calculated second motion vector, generating a residual block relating to the current block through a residual data decoding process based on the entropy decoded bit stream, and recovering the current block based on the prediction block and the residual block.
US10178382B2	Method for performing diagnosis of a camera system of a motor vehicle, camera system and motor vehicle The invention relates to a method for performing a diagnosis of a camera system (2) of a motor vehicle (1) by: providing at least one image (BD) by means of a camera (3); detecting an object (6) in the image (BD) by means of an image processing device; providing sensor data (SD) by means of at least one sensor (7) of the motor vehicle (1), wherein the sensor data (SD) characterizes environmental conditions of the motor vehicle (1); first classifying the object (6) and herein associating the object (6) with a class (K1, K2, K3, K4) among several predetermined classes (K1, K2, K3, K4) depending on the environmental conditions, wherein the classes (K1, K2, K3, K4) differ from each other with respect to the environmental conditions; second classifying the at least one object (6) and herein associating the object (6) with one of the classes (K1, K2, K3, K4) based on the image (BD) and independently of the sensor data (SD) by a classification device (12) using a predetermined classification model (11); and comparing classification results of the first and the second classification and performing a diagnosis depending on the comparison.
US10178381B2	Depth-spatial frequency-response assessment A method to test the fidelity of a depth-imaging camera to depth-change abruptness of an imaged subject includes digitally generating, with the depth-imaging camera, a machine-readable calibration depth image of a calibration subject arranged in a field of view of the depth-imaging camera. The method includes machine processing the calibration depth image in a spatial domain to obtain a machine-readable measure of the fidelity in the spatial domain, and machine processing the measure of the fidelity in the spatial domain to obtain a measure of the fidelity in a frequency domain.
US10178374B2	Depth imaging of a surrounding environment Examples are disclosed herein that are related to depth imaging of a 360-degree field of view. One example provides a depth imaging system comprising an image sensor, a reflector subsystem comprising one or more reflectors arranged to reflect a radial field of view of a surrounding environment toward the image sensor, a projector configured to project light onto the reflector subsystem for reflection into the surrounding environment, and a computing device comprising a logic subsystem and a storage subsystem comprising instructions executable by the logic subsystem to receive image data from the image sensor, and output a depth image based upon the image data.
US10178372B2	Long focal length monocular 3D imager An optical assembly for three-dimensional image capture includes first and second optical channels that are fixed with respect to one another. Each channel is configured to direct light onto at least a portion of an image sensor. The first and second optical channels each include an aperture for receiving the light, an objective lens for focusing the light into an intermediate image on an intermediate image plane, and an eyepiece lens for collimating the intermediate image.
US10178371B2	Light field capture This disclosure pertains to operations, systems, and computer readable media to capture images of a scene using a camera array and process the captured images based on a viewer's point of view (POV) for immersive augmented reality, live display wall, head mounted display, video conferencing, and similar applications. In one implementation, the disclosed subject matter provides a complete view to a viewer by combining images captured by a camera array. In another implementation, the disclosed subject matter tracks the viewer's POV as he moves from one location to another and displays images in accordance with his varying POV. The change of the viewer's POV is inclusive of movements in the X, Y, and Z dimensions.
US10178368B2	Stereo imaging system with automatic disparity adjustment for displaying close range objects A stereo imaging system comprises a stereoscopic camera having left and right image capturing elements for capturing stereo images; a stereo viewer; and a processor configured to modify the stereo images prior to being displayed on the stereo viewer so that a disparity between corresponding points of the stereo images is adjusted as a function of a depth value within a region of interest in the stereo images after the depth value reaches a target depth value.
US10178367B2	Method and apparatus to realize virtual reality The current invention relates to the method and apparatus to determine the focus point of a viewer from a single eye of the viewer in a viewing space. The claimed method detects the focus depth and the line of eye sight from said single eye. It further relates to the method to use the determined focus point to achieve virtual reality and augmented reality.
US10178364B1	Digital image dynamic range processing apparatus and method An apparatus and related methods for enhancing low dynamic range and high dynamic range digital images. The process converts single digital images into a form that can be shown on traditional electronic and computer displays and paper prints through luminance mapping and tone mapping functions. These functions require the calculation of values for each pixel within the digital image. The values calculated include, but are not limited to, color, grey-level, and luminance. The present apparatus and method builds upon the tone mapping process by combining log-average luminance values of various sized neighborhood tiles with the global log-average luminance of the entire image.
US10178363B2	HD color imaging using monochromatic CMOS image sensors integrated in 3D package HD color video using monochromatic CMOS image sensors integrated in a 3D package is provided. An example 3DIC package for color video includes a beam splitter to partition received light of an image stream into multiple light outputs. Multiple monochromatic CMOS image sensors are each coupled to one of the multiple light outputs to sense a monochromatic image stream at a respective component wavelength of the received light. Each monochromatic CMOS image sensor is specially constructed, doped, controlled, and tuned to its respective wavelength of light. A parallel processing integrator or interposer chip heterogeneously combines the respective monochromatic image streams into a full-spectrum color video stream, including parallel processing of an infrared or ultraviolet stream. The parallel processing of the monochromatic image streams provides reconstruction to HD or 4K HD color video at low light levels. Parallel processing to one interposer chip also enhances speed, spatial resolution, sensitivity, low light performance, and color reconstruction.
US10178361B2	Image pickup element, imaging apparatus, and image recognition system using non-polarized light To achieve an image pickup element that can utilize polarized light as well as non-polarized light to image or capture an object, an image pickup element is provided to an imaging apparatus that forms an image of an object to be imaged onto a light-receiving surface of an image sensor, acquires a polarized filter image together with a regular luminance image, and executes image processing on the acquired images. The image pickup element includes, on a light-receiving surface LRS of the image sensor IMS, a polarizing filter PFL including at least two kinds of pixels having different transmission and polarization properties from each other.
US10178357B2	Video camera device and method to monitor a child in a vehicle The present invention is directed to a system and methods of monitoring a child seated in the rear seat of a vehicle in a child's car seat employing a video camera which transmits a video signal to a video display receiver placed in the driver's frame of vision. The video camera as envisioned herein is placed within a child's stuffed toy, the camera signal being transmitted remotely to a separate video display monitor screen device, viewable to the parent driving the vehicle. The camera is adjustable in the number of positions in which it is placed in the vehicle compartment as well as the direction in which the camera is directed. To adjust the direction in which the camera is pointed, the invention includes a bendable, flexible and sturdy neck that interconnects the camera to a transmission unit, which provides the driver with a view of the child.
US10178349B2	Transmission terminal, transmission method, and computer-readable recording medium storing transmission program A transmission terminal transmits video data and display data of a screen shared with another transmission terminal to the other transmission terminal via a predetermined relay apparatus. The transmission terminal includes a storage unit that stores relay apparatus information of the relay apparatus to which the transmission terminal transmits the video data; a receive unit that receives the display data from an external input apparatus connected to the transmission terminal; and a transmitting unit that transmits the display data received by the receive unit to the relay apparatus indicated by the relay apparatus information stored in the storage unit.
US10178348B2	Information processing apparatus, image display method, and communication system An information processing apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive images from other information processing apparatuses via a network; a band information acquirer configured to acquire reception band information of the receiver; a first display number determiner configured to determine a first number of the images to be displayed on a display device according to the reception band information; a second display number determiner configured to determine the first number as a second number of the images to be displayed on the display device, when the reception band information is stable, and determine a present number of the images presently displayed on the display device, as the second number, when the reception band information is unstable; and a display processor configured to display the second number of the one or more images on the display device.
US10178347B2	Remote communication system, method for controlling remote communication system, and program The present invention provides a scheme that allows a person to communicate with another person at a remote site while giving the realistic sensation as if the persons faced each other in close proximity by capturing the images of the person using a plurality of image capturing units.A remote communication system includes a projector configured to project, on to a screen, an image transmitted from a remote site. The screen has a plurality of the front cameras disposed thereon. A CPU performs an extraction process to extract a person part from each of images captured by the front cameras and a combining process to combine the images captured by the front cameras. The remote communication system further includes a projector that projects the image subjected to the extraction process and the combining process onto a screen set in the remote site.
US10178346B2	Highlighting unread messages Various embodiments enable a video messaging experience which permits the exchange of short video messages in an asynchronous manner. The video messaging experience preserves the video intimacy and experience of synchronous-type video communications, while at the same time provides the convenience of SMS-type message exchange.
US10178340B2	Broadcasting signal receiving apparatus and control method thereof A broadcasting signal receiving apparatus includes an input receiver configured to receive a user's input selecting a channel among a plurality of channels; a first tuner configured to tune to the channel selected by the user's input and receive a broadcast signal of the tuned channel; and a controller configured to control the first tuner to tune to a first channel and receive a broadcast signal of the first channel when a user makes the first input, and to control the first tuner to tune to a second channel and receive a broadcast signal of the second channel when a user makes a second input within a predetermined period of time after receiving the first input, wherein the first channel corresponds to the first input, and the second channel corresponds to a combination of the first input and the second input.
US10178337B1	Oncoming left turn vehicle video transmit Methods and systems are provided for providing vehicles with video feed for making a turn. In one example, a vehicle includes sensors, a transceiver, a processor, and a display device. The sensors are configured to generate sensor data pertaining to operation of the vehicle. The processor is configured to determine when the vehicle is about to make a turn at an intersection, based at least in part on the sensor data. The transceiver is configured to receive a video feed from one or more cameras of a second vehicle, the second vehicle disposed proximate the intersection, when the vehicle is about to make a turn, for use in assistance with making the turn of the vehicle at the intersection. The display device is configured to display the video feed in accordance with instructions provided by the processor.
US10178334B2	System for and method of configurable diagonal and multi-mission line scan array imaging Disclosed are image data acquisition methods and systems that utilizes selective temporal co-adding of detector integration samples to construct improved high-resolution output imagery for arrays with selectable line rates. Configurable TDI arrays are used to construct output imagery of various resolutions dependent upon array commanding, the acquisition geometry, and temporal sampling. The image acquisition techniques may be applied to any optical sensor system and to optical systems with multiple sensors at various relative rotations which enable simultaneous image acquisitions of two or more sensors. Acquired image data may be up-sampled onto a multitude of image grids of various resolution.
US10178333B2	Image sensor and imaging device An image sensor comprising a plurality of imaging pixels, a plurality of focus detecting pixels in which opening positions of light receiving sections are shifted from those of the imaging pixels, and a plurality of color filters arranged corresponding to the imaging pixels and the focus detecting pixels, wherein first focus detecting pixels in which opening positions are shifted in a first direction are arranged at positions corresponding to first color filters of the imaging pixels, and second focus detecting pixels in which opening positions are shifted in the first direction and which have opening ratios different from those of the first focus detecting pixels are arranged at positions corresponding to the first color filters.
US10178331B2	Method for image noise reduction and image device A method for noise reduction in an imaging device comprises a 4T pixel in operation, whereby the 4T pixel comprises a pinned photodiode and a floating diffusion node. The method includes the steps of: detecting a signal impinging on the 4T pixel of the imaging device and integrating the charge of the detected signal simultaneously in the photodiode potential well and the potential well of the floating diffusion node; deriving a linear signal proportional to the detected signal from the charge in the photodiode potential well; deriving a compressed signal from the charge in the potential well of the floating diffusion node, while keeping the compressed signal separate from the linear signal, and the compressed signal being a non-linear function of the detected signal; and summing the linear signal and a linearized version of the compressed signal and performing a non-linear conversion on the summation signal to fit the imaging device's output range.
US10178329B2	Oversampled high dynamic-range image sensor In an integrated-circuit image sensor having a pixel array, a first subframe readout policy is selected from among a plurality of subframe readout policies, each of the subframe readout policies specifying a first number of subframes of image data to be readout from the pixel array for each output image frame and respective exposure durations for each of the first number of subframes of image data, wherein a shortest one of the exposure durations is uniform for each of the subframe readout policies. Each of the first number of subframes of image data is read out from the pixel array following the respective exposure durations thereof while applying a respective analog readout gain. The analog readout gain applied during readout of at least a first subframe of the first number of subframes is scaled according to a ratio of the shortest one of the exposure durations to the exposure duration of the first subframe.
US10178328B2	Electronically controlled graduated density filters in stacked image sensors A method for performing color density filtering of images captured in a digital camera having a mechanical shutter and an imaging array including a plurality of pixels each including different color sensors aligned with each other, including opening the mechanical shutter, resetting all of the color sensors in each pixel by asserting a row reset signal, separately asserting color-select signals for each color after the mechanical shutter is opened, independently starting exposure for each different color sensor at a color sensor exposure start time by de-asserting its color select signal, the exposure start time for each different color sensor being a function of a color density filter function, closing the mechanical shutter, and reading color exposure values from the color sensors by separately asserting color-select signals after the mechanical shutter has closed, the reading being unrelated to the start times for the color sensors.
US10178327B2	Imaging device, method for controlling imaging device, and control program An imaging unit causes each exposure corresponding to one frame period of respective second image signals in a first mode, and causes each exposure in divided sections of one frame period of the respective second image signals under different imaging conditions in a second mode. An image processing unit generates frames of respective first image signals based on each imaging signal read out in such a manner as to correspond to each exposure corresponding to one frame period in the first mode, and generates frames of the respective first image signals based on each imaging signal read out in such a manner as to correspond to each exposure of the divided sections in the second mode. An image output unit sequentially outputs frames of the second image signals set to a signal format common to the first mode and the second mode.
US10178325B2	Method and system for managing video of camera setup having multiple cameras Disclosed are a system and a method for managing a set of videos originating from a camera setup having a plurality of cameras. The system and method provides a mesh of graphical elements superposed with an active video at a display of a user device. The graphical elements are arranged on a virtual surface representing positions of the cameras in a co-ordinate system. The active video originates from the at least one camera, which at least one camera is associated with the graphical element located in the middle portion of the display. In addition, the present disclosure enables correlating relative position, recording direction and order of the multiple cameras for providing multiple viewing positions, for example, on a user interface.
US10178320B2	Image display terminal, image display method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing program An image display terminal includes a memory configured to store a plurality of sample images and display time of the sample images; a display interface configured to display live images continuously output from an imaging module and the sample images; and a display control unit, wherein the display control unit performs a control to cause the live images to be displayed on the display interface, and cause a first image of the plurality of sample images to be displayed on the display interface for the display time, and when the display time has elapsed, the display control unit performs a control to cause the first image to be non-displayed, and cause a second image of the plurality of sample images, different from the first image and non-displayed, to be displayed on the displayer interface for the display time.
US10178319B2	Imaging apparatus, camera system and signal output method An imaging apparatus capable of outputting pixel signals to one or more output destinations includes an imager having a plurality of pixels that are arrayed two-dimensionally and respectively can generate pixel signals; an identifier adding unit configured to add an identifier associated with at least one output destination to each of pixel signals of at least a part of pixels among the plurality of pixels and an image processing unit configured to output each of the pixel signals to an output destination that corresponds to an identifier included in each of the pixel signals.
US10178316B2	Stabilization and display of remote images Apparatus for remote imaging of a terrestrial area, the apparatus comprising: a camera array having a focal length f and a photosensor comprising photosensor pixels characterized by a photosensor pixel pitch P on which light from the terrestrial area is imaged from an operating distance A from the terrestrial area to acquire an image of the terrestrial area; an orthographic image of the terrestrial area having image pixels that image features in the terrestrial area; a terrain map that provides elevation for features in the terrestrial area imaged on the image pixels of the orthographic image; a controller that registers the image of the terrestrial area to the orthographic image responsive to the terrain data; wherein elevation provided by the terrain map has an uncertainty Δβ that satisfies a constraint P≥Δe·f·sin α/A, where a is a maximum oblique angle at which the camera array images the terrestrial area so that registration of the image of the terrestrial area to the orthographic image has an accuracy better than or about equal to the pixel pitch.
US10178314B2	Moving object periphery image correction apparatus A reference line detection unit 12 extracts an edge from a distorted image taken by a fisheye camera to thereby determine a curved reference line. A distortion parameter calculation unit 13 calculates a distortion parameter such that the reference line is made linear. A distortion correction unit 14 corrects distortion of the distorted image by a distortion correction equation by using the distortion parameter.
US10178312B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method to position images to position images An image processing apparatus for synthesizing continuously captured images includes a positioning unit configured to position images to be synthesized by using a motion vector indicating a positional deviation of the images between the images, and a synthesis unit configured to synthesize the images positioned by the positioning unit. The image processing apparatus further includes a group classification unit configured to classify the images into groups based on an order of imaging, and a setting unit configured to set a reference image in each group. The positioning unit includes a first positioning unit configured to position the images within the groups with respect to the respective reference images, and a second positioning unit configured to position the reference images between the groups.
US10178304B1	Ensuring that video or images are captured at a determined orientation A method for capturing video or still images at a determined orientation, via a mobile device, including accessing at least some information regarding a desired orientation preference; accessing at least some information regarding an orientation of the mobile device; comparing the information regarding the orientation of the mobile device to the information regarding the desired orientation preference; determining whether the information regarding the orientation of the mobile device matches the information regarding the desired orientation preference, within a degree of variance; disabling, if the information regarding the orientation of the mobile device does not match the desired orientation preference, within the degree of variance, a video or still image capture function of the mobile device; and enabling, if the information regarding the orientation of the mobile device matches the desired orientation preference, within the degree of variance, a video or still image capture function of the mobile device.
US10178299B2	Control device and control method An information processing apparatus includes circuitry that outputs a first image for display with a first indicator that identifies an initial focus position within a scene of the first image and a second indicator that identifies at least one focus position that is in front of or behind the initial focus position within the scene. The first indicator display is updated in response to an adjustment of the initial focus position to an updated focus position. Another information processing apparatus includes circuitry that generates a virtual image of at least one object included in a first image of a scene from a different point of view. The generated virtual image is output for display with an indicator corresponding to an initial focus position within the scene of the first image. The indicator display is updated in response to an adjustment of the initial focus position to an updated focus position.
US10178297B2	Accessory apparatus, image-capturing apparatus, control method and storage medium storing control program The accessory apparatus includes an accessory communicator providing, with an image-capturing apparatus, three channels that are a notification channel, a first data communication channel and a second data communication channel. The image-capturing apparatus and the accessory apparatus are each configured to have a function of switching the second data communication channel between a first setting in which the data transmission from the image-capturing apparatus to the accessory apparatus is allowed and a second setting in which data transmission from the accessory apparatus to the image-capturing apparatus is allowed, The accessory controller is configured to, in response to receiving from the image-capturing apparatus through the notification channel a first notice indicating completion of switching from the first setting to the second setting in the image-capturing apparatus, switch from the first setting to the second setting in the accessory apparatus.
US10178296B2	Imaging apparatus, control method of imaging apparatus, imaging system, and portable display device According to the present invention, an imaging apparatus includes: an imaging unit which images a subject to acquire a subject image; a communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with devices; an output unit configured to output the subject image to the device previously set as an output destination among the devices; a recognition unit which recognizes that one of the devices has been operated by a user; and an output control unit which changes the output destination of the subject image by the output unit when the recognition unit recognizes that one of the devices has been operated by the user.
US10178292B2	Wearable apparatus with wide viewing angle image sensor A wearable apparatus and method are provided for capturing image data. In one implementation, a wearable apparatus for capturing image data is provided. The wearable apparatus includes at least one image sensor for capturing image data of an environment of a user, wherein a field of view of the image sensor includes a chin of the user. The wearable apparatus includes two or more microphones, and an attachment mechanism configured to enable the image sensor and microphones to be worn by the user. The wearable apparatus includes a processing device programmed to capture at least one image, identify the chin of the user to obtain a location of the chin, select a microphone from the two or more microphones based on the location, process input from the selected microphone using a first processing scheme, and process input from a microphone that is not selected using a second processing scheme.
US10178284B2	Device for acquiring a characteristic image of a body A device for acquiring a characteristic image of a body, including: an image sensor including a plurality of photosensitive cells; and a layer of a material having its color varying according to a physical parameter characteristic of said body, coating a surface of the sensor.
US10178283B2	Dome camera device Provided is a dome camera including a housing part configured to accommodate a camera and rotate in multiple directions; a connection cover part configured to cover at least part of the housing part; a first rotation restricting part configured to limit a rotation range of the housing part in a first rotation direction; and a second rotation restricting part configured to limit a rotation range of the housing part in a second rotation direction.
US10178282B2	Trail camera with interchangeable hardware modules A multipurpose trail camera having expandable and replaceable hardware modules automatically detects and captures one or more images of wildlife in outdoor or other natural environments. The multipurpose trail camera is compatible with various hardware modules that may be attached to its imaging device to provide various functionality. Each hardware module may include various hardware features including image storage, power supply, communication, and image processing capabilities. This allows a user to select one or more hardware modules he or she desires to suit particular needs, a particular environment of use, or the like.
US10178279B2	Image forming device, non-transitory computer readable medium, and image forming method for color correction An image forming device includes an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium in response to an input of image data representing the image, a reading unit that reads a first image formed by the image forming device, and a second image formed by another image forming device to respectively generate a first read image and a second read image, the first image and the second image being formed based on identical image data, a discrimination unit that discriminates the first read image and the second read image from each other, and a color correction unit that performs, on the image formed by the image forming unit, a color correction that cancels out a difference in color between the first read image and the second read image.
US10178276B2	Printing apparatus including NFC tag, method related thereto, and storage medium A printing apparatus includes a card reader that reads a card for user authentication, a near field communication (NFC) tag, a memory that stores instructions, and a processor that executes the instructions to determine whether the card reader reads the NFC tag and determine, based on a result of the determination, an operation method of the NFC tag.
US10178271B2	Facsimile apparatus and control method of facsimile apparatus A facsimile apparatus includes a storage unit, a first detection unit, and a second detection unit. The storage unit stores a parameter based on a connection standard of a telephone-line connected to the facsimile apparatus, and an apparatus direct-current resistance of the facsimile apparatus. The first detection unit detects a first voltage that is a voltage at a line-open time of a telephone line connected to the facsimile apparatus. The second detection unit detects a second voltage that is a voltage at a line-capture time of the telephone line. By using the first voltage, the second voltage, the parameter, and the apparatus direct-current resistance, a voltage to be a threshold for determination of line capture is determined. By using a voltage detected from the telephone line and the voltage to be the threshold determined by the first determination unit, whether the telephone line is captured is determined.
US10178265B2	Image formation apparatus, method of controlling flash memory, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium An image formation apparatus includes a flash memory as an image data buffer, and a control section, where data writing to each memory block of the flash memory is controlled by using wear leveling. The control section predicts whether writing of a certain amount of image data such that the amount of image data to be written into the flash memory in a predetermined period exceeds a predetermined value, will occur, and on predicting that the writing of the certain amount of image data will occur, restricting an input of image data and/or a speed of buffering the image data, to reduce the amount of image data to be written into the flash memory in the predetermined period.
US10178264B2	Cable support mechanism which supports ribbon-shaped flexible cable and automatic document feeder including same, and image forming apparatus A cable support mechanism has a cable support portion, and supports two flexible cables which are ribbon-shaped and in each of which a plurality of conductors are arranged in parallel to each other in a coating material. The cable support portion includes a first support surface, a second support surface, and a plurality of guide ribs. The first support surface supports one of the two flexible cables. The second support surface is formed on a side reverse to a side where the first support surface is formed, and supports the other one of the two flexible cables. The guide ribs projects from two edges of each of the first support surface and the second support surface, the two edges opposing each other in a flexible-cable width direction, so as to overlap, and be spaced by a predetermined distance from, the first support surface and the second support surface.
US10178262B2	Printing system, and set and computer-readable medium therefor A printing system includes a printer and an information processing device that includes a processor and a memory storing processor-executable instructions, the instructions being configured to, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to, when condition information does not include trigger information, determine to instruct the printer to start a pre-printing operation, when the condition information includes the trigger information, determine not to instruct the printer to start a pre-printing operation, in response to determining to instruct the printer to start the pre-printing operation, transmit the preparation instruction information to the printer, in response to determining to instruct the printer to start the pre-printing operation and performing the preparation instruction process, generate print data based on specified contents data, and transmit the print instruction information to the printer.
US10178261B2	System and image forming apparatus that stops or controls the transmission of control information between at least one controlled device and an external device A system includes at least one controlled device that is controlled based on control information output from an external device, and an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a recording material and communicate with the external device and the controlled device, wherein the image forming apparatus includes a transceiver that receives the control information from the external device and transmits the control information to the controlled device, and a transmission controller that stops the transmission of the control information by the transceiver or changes contents of the control information to be transmitted by the transceiver.
US10178257B2	Monitoring device, monitoring method, and non-transient computer-readable recording medium that records monitoring program A monitoring device that acquires device information to be collected from a device includes an operation finish notification acquiring section that acquires an operation finish notification indicating that a predetermined operation performed by the device has been finished, and a device information acquiring section that acquires the device information from the device with a trigger of the acquisition of the operation finish notification. A monitoring method for acquiring device information to be collected from a device includes acquiring an operation finish notification indicating that a predetermined operation performed by the device has been finished, and acquiring the device information from the device with a trigger of the acquisition of the operation finish notification.
US10178254B2	Image recording apparatus including cover unit mounted in openable and closable manner above image recording unit An image reading and recording apparatus includes an image recording unit and an image reading unit supported to be pivotally movable above the image recording unit and configured to be opened and closed by being pivotally moved relative to the image recording unit. The apparatus includes a stay including an opening portion formed thereon, a rotor inserted in the opening portion of the stay, a first cam surface provided on an inner peripheral portion of the opening portion, and a second cam surface provided on an outer peripheral portion of the rotor. The rotor rotates due to abutment of the first cam surface and the second cam surface with each other. The image reading unit is held in a first opened state with a first open angle, due to meshed engagement of the first cam surface and the second cam surface with each other.
US10178253B2	Image reading apparatus An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit, a cover, and a hinge mechanism connecting the cover to the reading unit pivotably about a pivot axis which extends in a first direction. A center of gravity of the cover is closer to a first end of the cover in a first direction than to a second end of the cover. A first hinge is spaced from the center of gravity toward the second end of the cover in the first direction. A second hinge is disposed closer to the center of gravity in the first direction than the first hinge. The first hinge includes a base member disposed movably in the reading unit, a pivot member coupled to the cover, and an urging member exerting an urging force between the base member and the pivot member so as to maintain the cover at a pivoted position.
US10178240B2	Multi-card resource management method, device and multi-card terminal A multiple subscriber identity module cards (multi-SIM) resource management method, device and multi-SIM terminal. The method comprises: acquiring a subscriber identity module card list in a terminal, the subscriber identity module card list comprising all subscriber identity module cards in the terminal; and if a remaining quantity of a service resource on a subscriber identity module card currently used in the terminal is less than or equal to a preset remaining quantity threshold, then automatically switching to a subscriber identity module card having a sufficient service resource and in the subscriber identity module card list.
US10178235B2	Transmission detection, interruption, and notification system Systems and methods for transmission detection, interruption, and notification are described.
US10178234B2	User interface for phone call routing among devices A first electronic device receives a phone call that was routed to the first electronic device by a call-routing service. While receiving the call, the first electronic device receives a request to route the phone call to a second electronic device. In response to receiving the request to route the phone call to the second electronic device, in accordance with a determination that a first routing criteria have been met, the first electronic device sends a request to the call-routing service to route the phone call to the second electronic device instead of routing the phone call to the first electronic device. In accordance with a determination that a second routing criteria have been met, the first electronic device causes call data associated with the call to be routed through the first electronic device to the second electronic device.
US10178233B1	Multimedia network transposition Methods and systems for routing multimedia traffic are described. A method may include receiving a communication originating from a user, transposing an alias transport network over one or more existing networks to route the communication, and routing the communication based on mapping rules.
US10178231B2	Multiple party call acknowledgement Disclosed embodiments provide improved communication between a caller and multiple parties. A caller performs a call spray operation on a group of contacts using an electronic communication device such as a mobile telephone. The call spray operation attempts to contact an electronic device associated with each contact in the group of contacts. If one of the contacts answers and is deemed to be a live user, then the remaining contacts that did not answer each receive a message on their associated electronic device indicating which of the contacts answered the caller with a live user. In this way, a group of people can be conveniently contacted and kept up to date with the status of the communication with the caller.
US10178230B1	Methods and systems for communicating supplemental data to a callee via data association with a software-as-a-service application Disclosed are methods and systems for communicating supplemental telephonic entity data to a callee via data association with a Software-as-a-Service application. An example method comprises providing a networked application server, the application server to access a data storage, providing a SaaS application, subscribing a subscriber organization to the SaaS application, receiving at the user interface of the SaaS application data corresponding to an entity, storing within the data storage a data record for the entity, providing a telephonic switching framework, receiving an incoming call with caller ID information, identifying the entity by caller ID information from the data storage, identifying supplemental data in the data storage associated with the entity, placing an outbound call, and communicating to a callee who is a member of the subscriber organization the supplemental data. Some examples of systems generally comprise a server, a SaaS application configured to receive user input and insert user input into a collection of entities within a data storage, a telephonic apparatus configured to receive incoming calls with caller ID, associate the caller ID information with supplemental data, place outgoing calls, effect text-to-speech synthesis, and audibly transmit to a callee data information from the data storage.
US10178226B2	System and a method for selecting a ring back tone to be provided to a caller The present subject matter relates to a method and a system for selecting a ring back tone to be provided to a caller. The method comprising selecting, by a subscriber, an editable audio file with a predetermined duration; encrypting the selected editable audio file on a storage device; communicating, by a communication interface, a start time of the selected editable audio file to the server, the server transcodes and smoothens the selected portion of the editable audio file; transferring, by the server, the transcoded audio file to the mobile operator network as a ring back tone.
US10178225B1	Contraband wireless communications device identification in controlled-environment facilities Systems and methods for identification of a controlled-environment facility resident in possession of a contraband communications device capture or otherwise accept managed access data and/or contraband communications device assessment data for contraband communications devices operating in the controlled-environment facility. Controlled-environment facility resident call data for each resident of the controlled-environment facility is gathered from the controlled-environment facility resident communications system. Correlations in the managed access data and/or assessment data with the controlled-environment facility resident communications system call data are analyzed to identify each resident of the controlled-environment facility in possession of a contraband communications device.
US10178221B2	Time synchronization method and apparatus The present disclosure discloses a time synchronization method and apparatus, which belong to the field of the Internet. The method includes: counting down, when a data processing right of a network application is allocated to a first user, a processing time of the first user, the first user being a user in a user group; stopping, when the first user is disconnected and logs in to the network application again in a process of countdown, if a processing operation sent by a first user terminal is received, the process of countdown, to obtain a remaining processing time of the first user, the processing operation including an operation of abandoning the data processing right or a network data processing operation; and sending the remaining processing time to the first user terminal and a second user terminal separately, so that the first user terminal and the second user terminal separately display the remaining processing time, a second user being a user other than the first user in the user group. The present disclosure prevents an error from occurring in time displayed in the first user terminal and the second user terminal.
US10178217B2	Telecare-enabled mobile terminal, and a method of operating a telecare-enabled mobile terminal A telecare-enabled mobile terminal has a controller, a first subscriber identity and a second subscriber identity. At least one mobile network interface provides telecommunication connectivity for the mobile terminal as identified by the first subscriber identity and the second subscriber identity, respectively. The controller is configured to use the first subscriber identity for outbound telecommunication traffic relating to a telecare service provided by a remote telecare provider. The controller is configured to use the second subscriber identity for outbound telecommunication traffic not relating to the telecare service.
US10178215B2	Communication systems and methods Systems and methods for establishing communication between a terminal and a device are disclosed. According to certain embodiments, a method used in the device includes receiving a plurality of multicast packets from the terminal. The method also includes determining, according to the multicast packets, wireless connection information of a wireless network. The method further includes connecting to the wireless network according to the wireless connection information. The method further includes generating a notification indicating a password associated with the device.
US10178211B2	Lighting for audio devices An apparatus may include an inner module, an outer module that substantially surrounds a perimeter of the inner module, a plurality of light emitters, and a light distribution medium. The plurality of light emitters may be positioned under the inner module and project light radially outward. The light distribution medium may transport the light projected from the plurality of light emitters to an edge of the light distribution medium. The edge may include a diffusive surface and traverse a substantial portion of a boundary between the inner module and the outer module.
US10178209B1	Accessory mount for smartphones, tablets, iPads, and cameras A mounting device to support and secure a mobile device incorporating a high pixel count camera, comprised of a first rod secured to a support plate, with the first rod connected to a ball and socket joint for rotating the mounting device into at least a 90° configuration, the ball and socket joint connected to a second rod interposed between the ball and socket joint and a pivot mechanism comprising a pivot dial facilitating pivoting around a vertical axis, and terminating in a vice clamp opposed to the support plate, with a third rod interposed between the pivot mechanism and the vice clamp. A removable mount receives a mobile device having an integrated high pixel count camera and camera lens, the removable mount securing the mobile device so as to leave the camera lens unobstructed.
US10178207B1	Optimized defragmentation of data packets in a passive optical network Methods, systems, and apparatus, for receiving, by an optical line terminal, an upstream communication frame from an optical network terminal, the upstream communication frame including a data packet and a last fragment bit; determining, by the optical line terminal, a fragmentation of the data packet of the upstream communication frame; and processing, by the optical line terminal, the data packet of the upstream communication packet based on the fragmentation of the data packet, including: when the data packet is fragmented, examining a last fragment bit of the upstream communication frame, and storing, in a memory device, the data packet when a state of the last fragment bit indicates that the data packet is not a completion; and when the data packet is not fragmented, transmitting the data packet upstream without storing the data packet in the memory device.
US10178206B2	Multi-protocol gateway for connecting sensor devices to cloud Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for connecting sensor devices to cloud servers by a gateway device. The gateway device includes a plurality of sensor adaptors, a sensor data processor, and a network communication interface. The sensor adaptors are configured to receive sensor data in communication signals from sensor devices. Each sensor adaptor is configured to extract sensor data encapsulated according to a respective sensor communication protocol. The sensor data processor is configured to process the extracted sensor data for transmission to a cloud service, such as by extracting unneeded messages data, or inserting additional data such as a time stamp. The network communication interface is configured to transmit the processed sensor data to the cloud service over a network according to a network communication protocol. Sensor data of different types may be transmitted according to corresponding types of network communication protocols.
US10178201B2	System and method for using virtual machine fabric profiles to reduce virtual machine downtime during migration in a high-performance computing environment Systems and methods for using a virtual machine fabric profiles to reduce virtual machine downtime during migration. An exemplary embodiment can provide a subnet manager (SM) and a virtual machine fabric profile that is accessible by the subnet manager, and where the virtual machine fabric profile includes a virtual host channel adapter (vHCA) configuration. The SM can receive a request to preregister the vHCA with a first physical host channel adapter (HCA) while the vHCA is already actively registered with a second physical HCA. The subnet manager can send the vHCA configuration to the first physical HCA for preregistration. After preregistration, the virtual link between the vHCA and a vSwitch of the first physical HCA can be left unestablished, until the SM determines that a virtual link between the vHCA and a vSwitch on the second physical HCA has been disconnected.
US10178197B2	Metadata prediction of objects in a social networking system using crowd sourcing A social networking system leverages user's social information to evaluate content submitted for inclusion in objects. If the evaluated submission is accepted, the submission is added to the content of an object. Accepted submissions are also used to predict associations between metadata and objects. Metadata is used to predict which objects will match user searches for information. The social networking system also provides a user interface configured to prompt users to submit information to objects. When a user completes a submission to an object, the user is provided with other options for groups of objects to contribute to. The objects offered are chosen to increase the likelihood that the user will choose to provide submissions to one of the provided objects.
US10178192B2	Behavior-based browser bookmarks Methods and apparatus for obtaining web content are disclosed. The method may include storing a history of webpages requested via a browser of the communication device and generating a bookmark for a webpage in response to the at least one webpage being requested more than a threshold number of times at a particular time. The bookmark is then stored in association with the particular time, and when the particular time occurs, the webpage is requested and rendered on the communication device so the webpage is rendered in advance of a user launching the browser.
US10178188B2	System for a monitored and reconstructible personal rendezvous session Disclosed is a system that adapts a personally portable “smart” communications device to enhance a user's personal security by continuously monitoring an alert function of the device from a remote location during a user initiated “session.” The user device is in communications with a remote server, which monitors the alert function and provides: accurate preservation of session data; monitoring of user device ambient conditions; dispatch of emergency services; and notification of third parties. Server software (host application) on the remote server manages communications with user devices. The server collects, processes and stores data; dispenses data according to a rule set, and manages multiple user sessions. User software manages the initiation and conduct of a session and communications with the server. The user and server software in combination provide for establishing, maintaining operations of the system, and databases accessible by the remote server for storage/archiving of system data.
US10178186B2	Connection reestablishment protocol for peer communication in distributed systems Communication resumption information can be retained nodes of a cluster of nodes that form a distributed computing system. The communication resumption information can be exchanged between a node of the cluster and a peer node of the cluster after resumption of communication following a loss of communication between the node and the peer node. A determination of whether communication between the node and the peer node can be reestablished without losing messages can include comparing the communication resumption information received by the node from the peer node with the communication resumption information retained at the node. Communication between the node and the peer node can be resumed based when the determining indicates that communication between the node and the peer node can be reestablished without losing messages.
US10178183B2	Techniques for prevent information disclosure via dynamic secure cloud resources Techniques for preventing information disclosure via dynamic secure cloud resources are provided. Data (information) remotely housed on a particular cloud resource of a particular cloud is periodically, randomly, and dynamically changed to a different cloud resource within the same cloud or to a different cloud resource within an entirely different cloud. A requesting principal for the data is dynamically authenticated and a current location for the data is dynamically resolved and the principal is securely and dynamically connected to the current cloud resource and current cloud hosting the data for access.
US10178169B2	Point to point based backend communication layer for storage processing A storage system is provided. The storage system includes a plurality of storage nodes, each of the plurality of storage nodes having a plurality of storage units with storage memory. The system includes a first network coupling the plurality of storage nodes and a second network coupled to at least a subset of the plurality of storage units of each of the plurality of storage nodes such that one of the plurality of storage units of a first one of the plurality of storage nodes can initiate or relay a command to one of the plurality of storage units of a second one of the plurality of storage nodes via the second network without the command passing through the first network.
US10178162B2	Message transfer system, method of transferring messages and software product A message transfer system, method of transferring message and a software product. A message transfer system (10) comprising: an interface to a send agent (70), arranged to facilitate an input of an at least one message to the message transfer system, an interface to a delivery agent (80), arranged to facilitate an output of the at least one message from the message transfer system, a message queue, arranged to facilitate a processing of the at least one message through the message transfer system (10) between the interface to a send agent (70) and the interface to a delivery agent (80), wherein, the message transfer system (10) further comprises a message transfer node (20 22 23 24 25 26 27), arranged to comprise the message queue (90) such that the message queue (90) is arranged as distributed.
US10178161B2	Digital signal processing over data streams The techniques and systems described herein are directed to providing deep integration of digital signal processing (DSP) operations with a general-purpose query processor. The techniques and systems provide a unified query language for processing tempo-relational and signal data, provide mechanisms for defining DSP operators, and support incremental computation in both offline and online analysis. The techniques and systems include receiving streaming data, aggregating and performing uniformity processing to generate a uniform signal, and storing the uniform signal in a batched columnar representation. Data can be copied from the batched columnar representation to a circular buffer, where DSP operations are applied to the data. Incremental processing can avoid redundant processing. Improvements to the functioning of a computer are provided by reducing an amount of data that to be passed back and forth between separate query databases and DSP processors, and by reducing a latency of processing and/or memory usage.
US10178157B2	Method and system for simulating surgical procedures A system and method for converting static/still medical images of a particular patient into dynamic and interactive images interacting with medical tools including medical devices by coupling a model of tissue dynamics and tool characteristics to the patient specific imagery for simulating a medical procedure in an accurate and dynamic manner.
US10178156B2	Extraction and capture of information from customizable header A database system captures custom information of a header section associated with a logged interaction of a user. The database system may receive a hypertext transfer protocol (http) message including the header section and determine whether the header section includes a predetermined data pattern associated with the custom information added by a second application that is different than a first application which initiated the http message. The database system may extract the custom information from the header section in response to determining that the header section includes the predetermined data pattern. The custom information and event data extracted from the logged interaction of the user may be stored on the database system as a storage element.
US10178152B2	Central repository for storing configuration files of a distributed computer system In a computer-implemented method for configuring a distributed computer system comprising a plurality of nodes of a plurality of node classes, configuration files for a plurality of nodes of each of the plurality of node classes are stored in a central repository. The configuration files include information representing a desired system state of the distributed computer system, and the distributed computer system operates to keep an actual system state of the distributed computer system consistent with the desired system state. The plurality of node classes includes forwarder nodes for receiving data from an input source, indexer nodes for indexing the data, and search head nodes for searching the data. Responsive to receiving changes to the configuration files, the changes are propagated to nodes of the plurality of nodes impacted by the changes based on a node class of the nodes impacted by the changes.
US10178151B2	Sharing asserted media Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for sharing asserted media. An assertion application can be executed by a device to generate asserted media. The assertion application can receive a request or other input for specifying information to be included in the asserted media. The assertion application also can be executed to obtain media captured with a media capture device and to obtain the information to be included in the asserted media. The assertion application also can associate the information with the media content to generate the asserted media and share the asserted media with one or more recipients. An assertion service remote from the user device can be configured to generate the asserted media and/or to share the asserted media with the recipients.
US10178149B2	Analysis for framework assessment Design analysis for framework assessment is described. A file including a designed image may be obtained from a storage device, and a guide structure may be extracted from the file. The guide structure may include multiple guide lines, and the guide lines may be analyzed to determine column-related data, such as at least relative widths or positional orders, a total number of columns, groups of column widths, a combination thereof, and so forth. From multiple frameworks, a framework may be ascertained that substantially matches the guide structure based at least partially on a comparison of column-related data to each framework of the multiple frameworks. Ascertainment of a framework may be indicated to an end-user. The ascertained framework may be applied to facilitate development of a coded functional version of at least a visual design of the image.
US10178148B2	Content supply device, content supply method, program, and content supply system The present disclosure relates to a content supply device, a content supply method, a program, and a content supply system, wherein an adaptive streaming technique based on DASH is extended to enable the use of broadcast distribution and multicast distribution.A content supply device according to a first aspect of the present disclosure is a content supply device that supplies streaming data of content in accordance with an adaptive streaming technique, the device including: an HTTP distribution unit that makes the streaming data into a file for each segment and distributes by HTTP the obtained segment file through a bidirectional communication network; a multicast distribution unit that distributes the segment file by multicast; and a meta file generation unit that generates a meta file in which information for receiving the segment file to be subjected to the HTTP distribution or the multicast distribution is described. The present disclosure is applicable to the system for streaming the content.
US10178147B1	Client-side location address translation Switching a content location address is disclosed. A mapping data is received from a server indicating one or more translated location addresses that correspond to one or more content requests. At a client device, a request is generated that specifies an initial content location address. The initial content location address is translated to a different content location address using the received mapping data.
US10178146B2	Web services A method, system, and/or computer program product invokes a web service in a software application. A software application comprises a machine readable description of a functionality to be supported by a web service to be invoked, and a machine readable description of an execution instruction for the web service to be invoked. One or more processors determine/identify a web service that supports the functionality to be supported and the execution instruction for the web service to be invoked.
US10178143B2	Selecting bitrate to stream encoded media based on tagging of important media segments A method, system and computer program product for selecting a bitrate to stream encoded media. A manifest file is fetched, where the manifest file contains metadata for encoded media segments which includes tags signifying the associated encoded media segments being important to the viewer. A playback occupancy level is then increased before reaching these tagged media segment(s). A high bitrate (high quality) is selected to stream the tagged media segment(s) which are then fetched and played at the selected high bitrate in response to the new playback buffer occupancy level being above a threshold level. In this manner, those media segments that are of higher importance to the viewer will be viewed in a higher quality since content information is used to select the bitrate to receive the encoded media segments. As a result, the user's quality of experience in viewing media is improved.
US10178140B2	Quality-driven streaming Quality-based optimizations of a delivery process of streaming content may be enabled. The optimization may take the form of quality-based switching. To enable quality-based switching in a streaming client, the client may have access to information about the quality of an encoded segment and/or sub-segment. Quality-related information may include any number of added quality metrics relating to an encoded segment and/or sub-segment of an encoded video stream. The addition of quality-related information may be accomplished by including the quality-related information in a manifest file, including the quality-related information in segment indices stored in a segment index file, and/or providing additional files with quality-related segment information and providing a link to the information from an MPD file. Upon receiving the quality-related information, the client may request and receive a stream that has a lower bitrate, thereby saving bandwidth while retaining quality of the streaming content.
US10178139B2	Providing event data to a group of contacts Data related to an event is provided to a group of contacts while the event is occurring via an event user interface that enables the group of contacts to coordinate with one another during the event. In this regard, an event coordination service is provides the event data to each contact of the group for review via an event user interface that is persistently displayed on a telecommunication or other computing device associated with the contact for the contact's easy and immediate reference during the event. When the event ultimately concludes, display of the event user interface ceases as the group of contacts likely no longer needs immediate or ready reference to the event.
US10178135B2	Modularized software system for managing a plurality of disparate networks Converged network management application and system is provided that delivers a management platform as a service that can view and/or manage all managed networks in the aggregate, or any one of them individually (including individual devices within the managed networks), in a secure and efficient manner, providing continuously available intelligence in real time on the managed networks and systems, and overcoming integration issues including conflicting address schemas, the need to avoid unnecessary infrastructure, and the need acquire all necessary information in real time within applicable memory and bandwidth constraints.
US10178126B2	Activity-based risk selection of open Wi-Fi networks For activity-based risk assessment of open Wi-Fi networks, an activity occurring at a consumer application is analyzed to determine that a connection with a first open Wi-Fi network is to be used in conjunction with the activity. From an entry representing the activity in a risk profile, a risk level of the activity is selected. Whether an overall risk value of the first network exceeds the risk level of the activity is determined. When the overall risk value of the first network exceeds the risk level of the activity, the connection with the first network is terminated. A second open Wi-Fi network with a second overall risk value that does not exceed the risk level of the activity is selected. A second connection with the second network is established. The activity is allowed to proceed using the second connection with the second network.
US10178123B2	Avoidance of hostile attacks in a network For improving the protection of a network against denial of service attacks and other hostile attacks, while keeping the operation of the network simple and efficient and considering restricted capacities of single network nodes, a control unit, a system and a method for operating a network with a plurality of nodes are provided, wherein at least one operation parameter of at least one node is adjusted based on a current network phase and a data packet received by the node (10) is processed based on the operation parameter.
US10178118B2	Data surveillance system Data surveillance techniques are presented for the detection of security issues, especially of the kind where privileged data may be stolen by steganographic, data manipulation or any form of exfiltration attempts. Such attempts may be made by rogue users or admins from the inside of a network, or from outside hackers who are able to intrude into the network and impersonate themselves as legitimate users. The system and methods use a triangulation process whereby analytical results pertaining to data protocol, user-behavior and packet content are combined to establish a baseline for the data. Subsequent incoming data is then scored and compared against the baseline to detect any security anomalies. A set of metadata layers related to the analysis are also maintained. The techniques are also applicable for detecting performance issues indicative of a system malfunction or deterioration.
US10178116B2	Automated computer behavioral analysis system and methods Events related to an end-point connected with one or more devices are recorded and collected to observe end-point behavior and determine the risk of unfavorable conduct occurring on a network/system. The analysis may include a behavioral analysis that matches events to behaviors, and scores behaviors along factors or parameters of fraud including opportunity (O), pressure (P), and rationalization (R). Malicious behavior may be anticipated or identified prior to commission, allowing preventative measures to be taken or behavior intercepted within the early stages.
US10178115B2	Systems and methods for categorizing network traffic content A method for categorizing network traffic content includes determining a first characterization of the network traffic content determining a first probability of accuracy associated with the first characterization, and categorizing the network traffic content based at least in part on the first characterization and the first probability of accuracy. A method for use in a process to categorize network traffic content includes obtaining a plurality of data, each of the plurality of data representing a probability of accuracy of a characterization of network traffic content, and associating each of the plurality of data with a technique for characterizing network traffic content. A method for categorizing network traffic content includes determining a characterization of the network traffic content, determining a weight value associated with the characterization, and categorizing network traffic content based at least in part on the characterization of the network traffic content and the weight value.
US10178114B2	Analyzing client application behavior to detect anomalies and prevent access A client device accesses content and performs actions at a remote application server via a user-agent application. The application server directs the user-agent application to a security verification system to retrieve and perform security tests. The security verification system receives information from the user-agent application describing characteristics of the user-agent application, and the security verification system selects a set of security tests to be performed by a security module executing in the user-agent application to verify that the user-agent application is accessing the application server consistent with the described user-agent application. The security verification system compares a set of test results with other user-agent applications and provides a token to the user-agent application to access the application server. The security module may also monitor and actions on the user-agent application to permit the security verification system to revise or revoke the token.
US10178113B2	Systems, methods, and media for generating sanitized data, sanitizing anomaly detection models, and/or generating sanitized anomaly detection models Systems, methods, and media for generating sanitized data, sanitizing anomaly detection models, and generating anomaly detection models are provided. In some embodiments, methods for sanitizing anomaly detection models are provided. The methods including: receiving at least one abnormal anomaly detection model from at least one remote location; comparing at least one of the at least one abnormal anomaly detection model to a local normal detection model to produce a common set of features common to both the at least one abnormal anomaly detection model and the local normal detection model; and generating a sanitized normal anomaly detection model by removing the common set of features from the local normal detection model.
US10178108B1	System, method, and computer program for automatically classifying user accounts in a computer network based on account behavior The present disclosure describes a system, method, and computer program for identifying and classifying service accounts in a network based on account behavior. For each evaluated account in the network, a plurality of behavior indicators are calculated. The behavior indicators correspond to service account behaviors and, for each account, are calculated based on network events associated with the account. Each behavior indicator is compared to a threshold specific to the corresponding behavior. If one or more behavior indicators for an account satisfies the applicable threshold, the account is deemed to display service account behavior. Consistency in which an account displays service account behavior is factored into classifying accounts as service accounts.
US10178100B2	Operating-system-level isolation of multi-tenant applications Implementations of PDB Sandboxing in layers and mapping to different operating systems are described. In exemplary implementations, one or more pluggable databases (PDBs) are encapsulated on common container databases to form one or more PDB sandboxes. Encapsulating PDBs forms an isolation boundary layer configured to dynamically regulate security and isolation of the PDB sandboxes. Access by processes and resources to and from the PDBs inside respective PDB sandboxes through the isolation boundary layer, and access within PDB sandboxes, is regulated using dynamic access processes that dynamically vary access to resources and process disposed within and external to the PDB sandboxes.
US10178095B2	Relayed network access control systems and methods A computer system for authenticating and managing network traffic may comprise a network link providing a connection to a network, an authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) server configured to provide AAA management for the network link, an access controller configured to communicate with the AAA server and to control access to the network link, and a subnetwork of client devices connected to an intermediate relay node. The client devices may be configured to communicate with the access controller and the network link through the intermediate relay node. Also methods and processes by which an intermediate relay node and an access controller may operate in the network for authentication of client devices and routing of network traffic.
US10178092B2	Methods and apparatus for private service identifiers in neighborhood aware networks Methods and apparatus in accordance with various embodiments provide for private service IDs for utilization in wireless devices in neighbor aware networks. One aspect of the subject matter described in the disclosure provides a method of transmitting service information in a wireless neighborhood aware network. The method includes generating a first message having a first service identifier. The first service identifier includes a first hash value based on a service name and timing information. The first hash value is generated by applying a first hash function. The method further includes transmitting the first message.
US10178089B2	Mobile terminal apparatus and control method Disclosed is a mobile terminal apparatus including one or more processors configured to execute a process. The process includes storing content data acquired in a specific mode in a storage, acquiring an address corresponding to authentication information at authentication when the content data are acquired in the specific mode, generating a first mail to which the content data are attached and setting the address in the first mail as a transmission destination, transmitting the generated first mail to the address, and controlling deleting the stored content data and a transmission history of the transmitted first mail.
US10178086B2	Method and arrangements for intermediary node discovery during handshake A method executed by an Intermediary Node arranged between a Client and a Server for participating in the setting up of a connection between the Client and a Server is described. In response to intercepting a first message, the method transmits from the Client and destined for the Server, and requests for a connection to be set-up between the Client and the Server. The method recognizes, based on content of the received first message, that it is desirable for the Intermediary Node to perform at least one function on the requested connection, the Intermediary Node is transmitting a second message to the Client, comprising an identity of the Intermediary Node. This enables the Client to accept or reject the Intermediary Node as a node participating in the requested connection set-up.
US10178084B2	Generalized certificate use in policy-based secure messaging environments Within a secure messaging environment, a determination is made that a request to send a message has been generated by a message sender. A message protection policy configured to process the message within the secure messaging environment is identified. The message protection policy specifies that, within the secure messaging environment, a secured digital certificate, other than a digital certificate of the message sender, is configured with an associated private key to digitally sign the message on behalf of the message sender. Based upon the message protection policy, a determination is made to digitally sign the message using the private key of the secured digital certificate. The message is signed on behalf of the message sender using the private key of the secured digital certificate.
US10178081B2	Authentication system, method and storage medium An authentication system according to an embodiment is provided with a service providing apparatus, an IDaaS corporation apparatus, and an authentication providing apparatus. Based on the user ID and SSO request transmitted from the user terminal, the authentication providing apparatus executes authentication processing for the user. If the result of the authentication processing indicates success, the IDaaS corporation apparatus having SSO account information including the SSO account identifier identical to the user ID, permits SSO authentication to be executed for the service identified by the service account identifier included in the service account information associated with the SSO account information. The service providing apparatus transmits information related to the service to the user terminal.
US10178077B2	Preventing persistent storage of cryptographic information using signaling Organizations maintain and generate large amounts of sensitive information using computer hardware resources and services of a service provider. Furthermore, there is a need to be able to delete large amounts of data securely and quickly by encrypting the data with a key and destroying the key. To ensure that information stored remotely is secured and capable of secure deletion, cryptographic keys used by the organization should be prevented from being persistently stored during serialization operations.
US10178076B2	Cryptographic security functions based on anticipated changes in dynamic minutiae Dynamic key cryptography validates mobile device users to cloud services by uniquely identifying the user's electronic device using a very wide range of hardware, firmware, and software minutiae, user secrets, and user biometric values found in or collected by the device. Processes for uniquely identifying and validating the device include: selecting a subset of minutia from a plurality of minutia types; computing a challenge from which the user device can form a response based on the selected combination of minutia; computing a set of pre-processed responses that covers a range of all actual responses possible to be received from the device if the combination of the particular device with the device's collected actual values of minutia is valid; receiving an actual response to the challenge from the device; determining whether the actual response matches any of the pre-processed responses; and providing validation, enabling authentication, data protection, and digital signatures.
US10178071B2	Techniques to use operating system redirection for network stream transformation operations Techniques to use operating system redirection for network stream transformation operations are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a network stream component operative to receive a network stream, the network stream associated with an application on a device; modify the network stream to generate a modified network stream; and send the modified network stream through an operating system for the device; and a local virtual private network component operative on the processor circuit to: receive the modified network stream from the operating system as a plurality of modified network stream packets; determine a network connection policy based on the application; and send the plurality of modified network stream packets to a destination network address via the network interface controller when the network connection policy indicates sending. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10178067B1	Data center portal applications monitoring Techniques are described for monitoring resource consumption, detecting faults, and predicting future faults with internal or customer-facing portal applications that engage data center operations for supporting co-location and, in some cases, interconnection by customers of a co-location provider. For example, an operational intelligence engine for portal applications deployed by a co-location provider stitches together transactions records and logs based on a unique identifier inserted into transactions performed by multiple system applications that execute the portal transactions through a lifecycle of requests and events for the portal and system applications.
US10178066B1	User-configurable dynamic DNS mapping for virtual services Various example implementations are directed to circuits, apparatuses, and methods for providing virtual computing services. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus includes a computing server configured to provide a respective group of virtual servers for each of a plurality of accounts. Each of the accounts has a respective set of domain names and a respective settings file. The apparatus also includes a domain name server (DNS). The DNS is configured and arranged to dynamically map a respective set of domain names for each account to network addresses of the respective group of virtual servers, provided for the account. The DNS performs the mapping according to a mapping function indicated in the respective settings file of the account. The respective settings file of a first account accounts includes a mapping function that is different from a mapping function included in the respective settings file of a second account.
US10178064B2	Per-session invocation of priority services based upon network available information Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to per-session invocation of priority services based upon network available information. A service architecture can include a service architecture core and a service execution runtime framework in which a priority service application is executable to perform operations to provide a priority service for a communications session. The priority service application can determine whether a priority service should be invoked for the communications session based upon priority criteria. If a determination is made that the priority service is to be invoked for the communications session based upon the priority criteria, the priority service application can invoke the priority service for the communications session. If a determination is made that the priority service is not to be invoked for the communications session based upon the priority criteria, the priority service application can cause the communications session to be coordinated without the priority service.
US10178061B2	Digest filtering system and method A method, computer program product, and computer system for sending, from a first computing device, an email digest in an email message to a second computing device at a first point in time, wherein the email digest includes one or more content items for display at the second computing device when the email digest in the email message is accessed. An action is determined to be performed on a content item of the one or more content items at a second point in time that is after the first point in time. The content item of the one or more content items in the email digest is filtered from the email message based upon, at least in part, determining that the action is performed on the content item of the one or more content items at the second point in time.
US10178060B2	Mitigating email SPAM attacks The present disclosure relates to mitigating email spam attacks. A gateway is configured to receive mail from one or more mail systems. If mail is intended for delivery to an invalid address, the gateway can generate status messages for delivery to the mail systems or determine if a threshold for delivery attempts to the invalid address has been met. If the threshold has been met, the gateway can request creation of a honeypot email address, and future mail intended for delivery to the invalid address are delivered to a mailbox associated with the honeypot email address. Various actions can be taken with respect to the mail delivered to the honeypot email address including analysis, blacklisting of senders, and/or other actions.
US10178056B2	Predicting and updating availability status of a user Predicting and notifying availability status of a user may include determining, using a processor, an availability status of a user according to historical data for the user and automatically updating the availability status of the user using the processor.
US10178052B2	Parallel information processing apparatus method of determining communication protocol, and medium A parallel information processing apparatus includes a group of switches configured to have a topology of a Latin square, and nodes connected with a switch among the group of switches. The parallel information processing apparatus also include a memory and a processor configured to designate (n×k) units of blocks in the group of switches included in a lattice structure in the topology of the Latin square; to generate information about communication protocol that includes communication directions having different slopes for m (m≤k) units of the nodes, and the number of hops set for the respective communication directions having the different slopes; and to execute communication for the m units of the nodes of the units of the block, based on the information about communication protocol, so as to execute part-to-part communication between the m units of the nodes of the respective units of the blocks.
US10178048B2	Exchange switch protocol version in a distributed switch environment Techniques are provided for two components in a distributed Fiber Channel Forwarder (FCF) to establish a link between them at a level of operation that is mutually compatible with respect to the various capabilities offered by the two components. A controlling switch in the distributed FCF may simultaneously operate at different levels with different Fiber Channel Data-Plane Forwarders (FDFs), on a per-pair basis. The level of operation is established at the granularity of an individual capability offered by a switching element. When switching elements are upgraded, the switching elements can dynamically switch to higher or lower levels of operation for any or all of the capabilities defined per pair of switching element.
US10178044B2	Providing a guest with access to content of a social network Providing a guest with access to content of a social network includes identifying a guest associated with content posted by a user on a social network, sending, via electronic mail (email), a notification to the guest's email address to notify the guest of the content on the social network, receiving, via an identity provider, an identity assertion associated with the guest's email address, and providing, based on the identity assertion, access to the content posted by the user on the social network to allow the guest to view the content, in which the identity provider is identified by a domain of the guest's email address.
US10178043B1	Dynamic bitrate range selection in the cloud for optimized video streaming Selecting an optimal bitrate range is disclosed. A request for content from a first client is received. An optimal subset of bitrates for the first client is determined. The optimal subset of bitrates for the first client is determined based at least in part on one or more real-time quality measures. A different optimal subset of bitrates is determined for a second client. An indication of the optimal subset of bitrates determined for the first client is provided to the first client. The first client is configured to obtain content according to the indication of the optimal subset of bitrates.
US10178041B2	Technologies for aggregation-based message synchronization Technologies for aggregation-based message processing include multiple computing nodes in communication over a network. A computing node receives a message from a remote computing node, increments an event counter in response to receiving the message, determines whether an event trigger is satisfied in response to incrementing the counter, and writes a completion event to an event queue if the event trigger is satisfied. An application of the computing node monitors the event queue for the completion event. The application may be executed by a processor core of the computing node, and the other operations may be performed by a host fabric interface of the computing node. The computing node may be a target node and count one-sided messages received from an initiator node, or the computing node may be an initiator node and count acknowledgement messages received from a target node. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10178039B2	Communication systems and methods having reduced frame duration A transmitter arrangement using randomization is disclosed. The arrangement includes one or more randomizers, a measure component and a frame select component. The one or more randomizers are configured to generate one or more randomized frames from an original frame. The measure component is configured to measure a criterion for the original frame and the one or more randomized frames. The frame select component is configured to select a frame for transmission from the one or more randomized frames and the original frame. The selection is performed according to the measured criteria, such as frame duration.
US10178038B1	System and computer-implemented method for dynamically changing network port speed of fiber channel initiator A system and method for improving the functioning of a data storage array by allowing for dynamically changing a speed of a communications port receiving data from a server via a fiber channel network managed by a network switch. The switch is queried to determine which server is sending data to each port, and to determine the speed and flow rate of the data through each port. The port experiencing the highest speed of data is identified, and if the cache write pending is above a threshold or if the array is otherwise unable to save the data at the speed at which it is being received, then the switch is set to limit the speed through that port, thereby avoiding a backup of data which could cause the port to be taken offline. A record of the change and an alert that the change was made are then generated.
US10178032B1	Wide area network distribution, load balancing and failover for multiple internet protocol addresses Embodiments for a method of providing dynamic load balancing and fail-over in a WAN network. The interface group architecture for WAN is applied to both sides of the source-destination connection to redirect the data movement of read/write operations away from a public network to a private network. The process identifies interface group selection criteria to be invoked on both source and destination servers to select a tenant-specific private network interface for multi-tenant servers. The method provides high availability communication to select the interface for reads/writes as well as load balancing across the interfaces of each interface group, and a failover interface for recovery from interfaces of the interface group.
US10178031B2	Tracing with a workload distributor A load balanced system may incorporate instrumented systems within a group of managed devices and distribute workload among the devices to meet both load balancing and data collection. A workload distributor may communicate with and configure several managed devices, some of which may have instrumentation that may collect trace data for workload run on those devices. Authentication may be performed between the managed devices and the workload distributor to verify that the managed devices are able to receive the workloads and to verify the workloads prior to execution. The workload distributor may increase or decrease the amount of instrumentation in relation to the workload experienced at any given time.
US10178022B2	Segment routing using a remote forwarding adjacency identifier Disclosed is an apparatus and method for segment routing using a remote forwarding adjacency identifier. In one embodiment, a first node in a network receives a packet, wherein the packet is received with a first segment-ID and another segment ID attached thereto. The first node detaches the first and the other segment IDs from the packet. Then the first node attaches a first label to the packet. Eventually, the first node forwards the packet with the attached first label directly to a second node in the network. In one embodiment, the other segment ID corresponds to a forwarding adjacency or tunnel label switched path between the first node and another node.
US10178020B2	Systems and methods for performing layer one link aggregation over wireless links A first layer one link aggregation master comprises a first port coupled to receive customer traffic; a first channel; a second channel; an aggregation engine coupled to the first and second channels; a first switch circuit coupled to the first port and to the first channel, and configured to communicate the customer traffic from the first port over the first channel to the aggregation engine, the aggregation engine including a splitter circuit configured to use layer one information to segment at least a portion of the customer traffic into a first virtual container and a second virtual container, the aggregation engine further including an encapsulation circuit configured to encapsulate the second virtual container using Ethernet standards for transport over the second channel; a radio access card configured to generate an air frame based on the first virtual container for wireless transmission over a first wireless link of a link aggregation group to the receiver; and a second switch circuit coupled to the second channel, and configured to communicate the Ethernet-encapsulated second virtual container over an Ethernet cable to a slave for wireless transmission over a second wireless link of the link aggregation group to the receiver.
US10178019B2	Low-overhead anchorless managing of producer mobility in information-centric networking In one embodiment, a device in an anchorless network receives an update message from a first neighbor of the device. The update message indicates a movement of a node in the network to a new position in the network. The device updates a forwarding table of the device to reverse a link direction associated with the node, in response to receiving the update message. The device sends the update message to a second neighbor of the device towards a prior position of the node in the network.
US10178018B2	Transmission and reception devices A method and devices for reducing the delay in end-to-end delivery of network packets may be achieved by having the transmission (TX) side of the device, tag each cell with a unique packet identifier and with a byte offset parameter where the tagging allows the reception (RX) side of the destination device to perform on-the-fly assembly of cells into packets by directly placing them at corresponding host buffer, and the method may be done for multiple packets concurrently, and hence store and forward buffering is not needed in either the source or the destination devices and the lowest possible end-to-end cut-through latency is achieved.
US10178017B2	Method and control node for handling data packets A method and a control node (300) for establishing network functions for processing data packets of a data flow from a delivering node (306) to a receiving node (308) over a communication network (302). The control node identifies (3:2) flow characteristics relating to the data flow and determines (3:3) a succession of network functions (304) in the network for processing the data packets, based on the identified flow characteristics. The network functions (304) are then instructed (3:4a-c) to forward the data packets in the data flow according to the determined succession. The sequence of network functions specifies a service chain. The controller uses OpenFlow. Network functions are dynamically relocated based on network conditions.
US10178015B2	Methods, systems, and computer readable media for testing network equipment devices using connectionless protocols The subject matter described herein relates to methods, systems, and computer readable media for testing network equipment devices using connectionless protocols. In some examples, a method for testing a network equipment device under test (DUT) includes transmitting a first message using a connectionless protocol for a network flow to the network equipment DUT according to a test script. The method includes storing a record for the network flow including a first flow identifier for the flow based on a first payload of the first message. The method includes receiving a second message from the network equipment DUT and determining that the second message belongs to the network flow by determining a second flow identifier based on a second payload of the second message and matching the second flow identifier to the first flow identifier.
US10178011B2	Network traffic management via network switch QoS parameters analysis Some examples disclosed herein relate to traffic management via network switch QoS parameters analysis. In one example, a set of actual QoS parameters maybe analyzed using a set of configured QoS parameters of each network switch. A set of modified QoS parameters for each network switch maybe determined based on the analysis of the set of actual QoS parameters. The set of modified QoS parameters maybe recommended to configure each network switch for improved traffic management.
US10178010B2	Automated control of descriptor type for packet transmission A method for data communication includes submitting from a host processor to a network interface controller (NIC) during a first time period first work items instructing the NIC to transmit over a network packets containing respective data. The first work items include pointer-based work items, which contain a pointer to the respective data in a memory of the host processor, and inline work items, which contain the respective data. The performance of the NIC is measured in transmitting the packets during the first time period. During a second time period, subsequent to the first time period, the host processor submits second work items to the NIC while deciding automatically, under control of software running on the host processor and based on the measured performance during the first time period, how many of the second work items are to be pointer-based and how many are to be inline work items.
US10178009B2	Method, a computer program product, and a carrier for indicating one-way latency in a data network Disclosed herein is a method, a computer program product, and a carrier for indicating one-way latency in a data network (N) between a first node (A) and a second node (B), wherein the data network (N) lacks continuous clock synchronization, comprising: a pre-synchronisation step, a measuring step, a post-synchronisation step, an interpolation step, and generating a latency profile. The present invention also relates to a computer program product incorporating the method, a carrier comprising the computer program product, and a method for indicating server functionality based on the first aspect.

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