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US10476296B1	Supplementing energy storage of an in-flight solar-powered UAV by casting light from a secondary in-flight UAV A secondary UAV flies over the solar-powered UAV at night and illuminates the solar-powered UAV's solar panels to help supplement the solar-powered UAV's battery charge mid-flight. The secondary UAV could be equipped with a directional light source for providing light of a color and intensity selected for optimal absorption by the solar cells of the solar-powered UAV. As the secondary UAV flies over the solar-powered UAV, the secondary UAV could thus direct its light source at the solar-powered UAV for absorption by the solar cells, to help supplement the solar-powered UAV's battery charge. Further, the secondary UAV could potentially recharge multiple solar-powered UAVs during a single nighttime mission.
US10476290B2	Charging two-terminal portable electronic devices Systems, methods and apparatus for charging a two-terminal portable electronic device. In one example, the system, method, and apparatus include detecting, with a detection circuit, the two-terminal portable electronic device and electrically coupling the two-terminal portable electronic device to a multi-pin universal serial bus connector when the two-terminal portable electronic device is coupled to a receptacle provided by a charger; and charging, with an activation circuit, the two-terminal portable electronic device using a configuration channel terminal of the multi-pin universal serial bus connector upon detection of the two-terminal portable electronic device.
US10476286B2	Desk top item has USB-units or USB-module has USB-charging ports to charge energy-storage unit or assembly inside of the other electric or digital data device(s) Desk top items has LED include USB-unit(s) or USB-module(s) has 2007 released specification of quickly USB Charging-port(s) has minimum 1.0 Amp to 5 Amp charging capacity to quickly charge DC current into energy-storage unit or assembly inside the other electric or digital device(s) and, optionally, additional outlet-units, to supply AC current to other electric or digital devices including smart phone, computer, communication, consumer electric products. The USB-unit(s) or USB-Module(s) or Outlet-unit(s) fit within or install on anywhere of the item's housing including anywhere of the base, pole, bar, stand, step, contour, edge, walls. The said USB charger only has charging function no any data transmit and only have one input power source not more than one and charging capacity minimum 1.0 Amp up for quickly charge from USB-Charging-ports by 2 male USB-plugs' USB-wire to the device's female USB-ports.
US10476283B2	Bi-directional charger for battery device with control logic based on sensed voltage and device type A bi-directional charger may be provided that includes a logic, at least a portion of which is hardware, to determine an operational mode based at least on a characteristic at a battery port or at a charge port, and to control power flow between the charge port and the battery port based on the determined operational mode.
US10476280B2	Energy storage management device deciding charge voltage based on difference in charge amount or voltage difference between energy storage devices Provided is an energy storage device management device which includes a controller configured to decide a charge voltage to be applied to a plurality of energy storage devices connected in series, wherein the controller is configured to perform deciding the charge voltage based on a difference in charge amount or a voltage difference between the energy storage devices.
US10476276B2	Multipurpose electrical fixtures A multipurpose electrical assembly is provided that includes a module receiving an alternating current from a power source in a ceiling and converting the alternating current source to a direct current source. The multipurpose electrical assembly also includes a plurality of devices each having a first connector on a first surface for connecting to the assembly and receiving electrical power from a preceding device and a second connector on a second opposing surface for receiving a following device to be connected to the assembly and for transferring electrical power to the following device. A first device of the plurality of devices attaches to the module, and the plurality of devices can be arranged in any order.
US10476273B2	Management of energy demand and energy efficiency savings from voltage optimization on electric power systems using AMI-based data analysis A method, apparatus, system and computer program is provided for controlling an electric power system, including implementation of a voltage control and conservation (VCC) system used to optimally control the independent voltage and capacitor banks using a linear optimization methodology to minimize the losses in the EEDCS and the EUS. An energy validation process system (EVP) is provided which is used to document the savings of the VCC and an EPP is used to optimize improvements to the EEDCS for continuously improving the energy losses in the EEDS. The EVP system measures the improvement in the EEDS a result of operating the VCC system in the “ON” state determining the level of energy conservation achieved by the VCC system.
US10476269B2	Method for independent real and reactive power flow control using locally available parameters A method for independent real and reactive power flow control without sensing receiving end voltage in a power flow controller (PFC) includes calculating a first reference phase angle, calculating a first reference voltage, modifying the first reference phase angle calculated using a first phasor modifier, calculating a first reference current for a first terminal, calculating a second reference phase angle for current through the first terminal, calculating a second reference voltage across a second CMI by subtracting voltages at the first terminal and a second terminal, and controlling the first CMI and the second CMI for controlling the power flow through the PFC.
US10476267B2	Smart load bank and excitation control A load management system is disclosed. The load management system may include a generator, a power source configured to drive the generator, a load bank configured to produce an electrical load on the generator, a chopper operatively connected to the generator and the load bank, and a chopper regulator in communication with the generator and the chopper. The chopper may be configured to modulate the electrical load of the load bank on the generator. The chopper regulator may be configured to monitor generator parameters and control the chopper based on the generator parameters.
US10476264B2	System and method for fault ride through A power distribution system in operative association with a source and a plurality of loads includes a converter, a power distribution unit including a plurality of solid state power controllers and configured to provide power from converter to plurality of loads, and a fault protection unit operatively coupled to converter, power distribution unit, or both. The fault protection unit includes a sensor configured to sense current at output terminal of at least one of power distribution unit and converter and a controller configured to compare sensed current with a corresponding threshold value of current, identify presence of a fault in at least one of plurality of loads, power distribution unit, and converter based on comparison, and activate a desired protection scheme to provide fault ride through during the presence of the fault.
US10476259B2	Power conversion device and method for determining operational state of breaking device A power conversion device provided between a DC power supply and an AC electric path, including: a breaking device provided to at least one line of an output electric path in the power conversion device; a first voltage sensor provided on a primary side of the breaking device; a second voltage sensor provided on a secondary side of the breaking device; and a determination unit which calculates a primary-side voltage and a secondary-side voltage, and a primary-side phase and a secondary-side phase and determines that the breaking device is opened, by occurrence of an event in which an absolute value of a voltage difference between the primary-side voltage and the secondary-side voltage is greater than a voltage difference threshold value and an absolute value of a phase difference between the primary-side phase and the secondary-side phase is greater than a phase difference threshold value.
US10476254B2	Protective device having a thin construction An electrical wiring device including: a housing, a plurality of terminals electrically connected to a contact structure including a conductive member having at least one contact, wherein in response to a make-force each contact structure is configured to perform a first movement to electrically connect each of the contacts on each contact structure to one of the contacts on a different one of the fixed contact structures in the reset state, thereby electrically connecting the terminals in the reset state; a circuit interrupting assembly being configured to perform a first linear movement in response to a break-force in order to cause each contact structure to perform a second movement in a direction opposite the first movement to decouple each of the contacts on each contact structure from one of the contacts on a different one of the fixed contact structures thereby decoupling the terminals to effect a tripped state; a protective electrical assembly, and a latching element configured to restrain the circuit interrupting assembly in a reset state and to disengage the circuit interrupting assembly in a tripped state, the latching element positioned to impart and angular force on a catch pin.
US10476252B2	Arc fault circuit interrupter (AFCI) with arc signature detection In one example, an arc fault circuit interrupter (AFCI) is provided. The AFCI may include a plurality of current arc signature detection blocks configured to output a plurality of corresponding current arc signatures, and a processor. The processor may be configured to receive each of the plurality of current arc signature from each of plurality of current arc signature detection blocks, respectively, and generate a first trigger signal. The processor may be further configured to assess each of the current arc signatures, determine whether an arc fault exists based on the assessment, and generate the first trigger signal if an arc fault is determined to exist. A method for detecting an arc fault is also provided.
US10476251B2	Set of high-voltage cables and method for producing a set of high-voltage cables A high-voltage device for receiving a high-voltage cable having a conductor designed to conduct an electrical current and a cable insulation surrounding the conductor, includes an insulation and a waveguide. The insulation includes an at least partly transparent or translucent field control unit from a siloxane polymer which is designed to at least partly surround the cable insulation of the high-voltage cable, the siloxane polymer including, in at least one portion of the field control unit, covalently bonded fluorophores and/or dielectric pigments. The waveguide is arranged such that a light signal caused by a partial discharge in the field control unit can be coupled from the field control unit into the waveguide.
US10476250B2	Sealing block arrangements for enclosures An enclosure includes a housing having sealing block arrangements disposed at corners of the housing. Each sealing block arrangement includes a containment wall to maintain sealant at the cable ports. A user can choose which corner ports are sealed or blocked by the sealing block arrangements. Each sealing block arrangement includes two volumes of sealant, a sealant containment wall, and two spring elements. Each containment wall includes containment elements that separate from each other to allow passage of a cable through the sealing block.
US10476246B2	Protective member, tube mounting structure, and method for mounting a tube A protective member able to prevent a protector from being large-sized, and to prevent a crush of an end section of a corrugated tube, a tube mounting structure using such a protective member, and a method of mounting a tube are provided. An inner member (protective member) includes: a tubular section fitted into an end section of a corrugated tube, and harder than this corrugated tube; and an outer peripheral rib formed so as to extend in a circumferential direction on an outer periphery of the tubular section, and inserted into an inner peripheral annular concave at the end section of the corrugated tube.
US10476241B2	DIN rail installing portion structure of electrical appliance and socket A DIN rail installing portion structure of an electrical appliance and a socket are provided. A back cover of a socket includes: a fitting groove, which is fitted to a DIN rail; and a claw portion, which is formed on a first side surface portion of both side surface portions of the fitting groove. A first edge portion of the DIN rail is clamped by the claw portion to hold the socket 1 on the DIN rail. The claw portion elastically presses a first edge portion of the DIN rail in a thickness direction. On the first edge portion side of the DIN rail, there is no claw of which a width of clamping the first edge portion in the thickness direction does not change.
US10476235B2	Quantum cascade laser A quantum cascade laser includes: a semiconductor substrate including principal and back surfaces; a semiconductor laminate having a laminate end face, the laminate end face and, the substrate end face extending along a reference plane intersecting a second direction that intersects the first direction; a first electrode disposed on the semiconductor laminate, the semiconductor laminate being disposed between the first electrode and the semiconductor substrate; a second electrode disposed on the back surface; a first insulating film disposed on the laminate end face, the substrate end face, and the first electrode; a metal film disposed on the first insulating film and the laminate end face, the substrate end face, and the first electrode; and a second insulating film disposed on the second electrode, and on the substrate end face, the metal film being disposed between the first insulating film and the second insulating film.
US10476234B2	Externally-strain-engineered semiconductor photonic and electronic devices and assemblies and methods of making same Externally-strained devices such as LED and FET structures as discussed herein may have strain applied before or during their being coupled to a housing or packaging substrate. The packaging substrate may also be strained prior to receiving the structure. The strain on the devices enables modulation of light intensity, color, and electrical currents in some embodiments, and in alternate embodiments, enables a fixed strain to be induced and maintained in the structures.
US10476233B2	Ultra-low noise, highly stable single-mode operation, high power, Bragg grating based semiconductor laser A laser including: a gain chip; an external cavity incorporating a Bragg grating; and a baseplate; wherein a first end of the gain chip has a high reflectivity facet forming a first end of the laser cavity; a second end of the gain chip has a low reflectivity facet; and a second part of the external cavity comprises a Bragg grating, supported by the baseplate, the temperature of the baseplate being maintained through a feedback loop; wherein the optical length of the external cavity is at least an order of magnitude greater than the optical length of the gain chip; wherein the Bragg grating is physically long and occupies a majority of the length of the external cavity and is apodized to control the sidemodes of the grating reflection.
US10476232B2	Optical apparatus, manufacturing method of distributed Bragg reflector laser diode and manufacturing method of optical apparatus Provided are an optical apparatus, a manufacturing method of a distributed Bragg reflector laser diode, and a manufacturing method of the optical apparatus, the an optical apparatus including a cooling device, a distributed Bragg reflector laser diode having a lower clad including a recess region on one side of the cooling device and connected to another side of the cooling device, and an air gap between the cooling device and the distributed Bragg reflector laser diode, wherein the air gap is defined by a bottom surface of the lower clad in the recess region and a top surface of the cooling device.
US10476231B2	Photonic device comprising a laser optically connected to a silicon waveguide and method for manufacturing such a photonic device A photonic device comprising: a support; an intermediate layer (; an optical guiding level including a waveguide and a first to a fifth waveguide section. The photonic device further includes a first dielectric layer covering the optical guiding level and a gain structure in contact with the first dielectric layer. The second and fourth waveguide sections and the first and second ends of the gain structure form a first and a second zone of optical transition between a laser hybrid waveguide, and respectively the first and the fifth waveguide sections. A pattern forming a Bragg grating is arranged over a first part of the thickness of the third waveguide section which is away from the gain structure.
US10476228B2	Semiconductor light-emitting device The present invention comprises: a light-emitting element group configured from columns of serially connected light-emitting elements, one of the ends from each of the columns of the light-emitting elements being collectively connected to a power source; current control elements, provided to correspond to the columns, and being connected to each of the columns of the light-emitting elements at the other end thereof, for controlling the current flowing through the light-emitting elements; a forward voltage monitoring circuit for monitoring, for each of the columns, the total forward voltage across the light-emitting elements; and a control circuit for controlling the current control elements, on the basis of the total forward voltage across the light-emitting elements from each of the columns detected by the forward voltage monitoring circuit, in such a manner that the variations in the total forward voltage across the columns of the light-emitting elements reach a threshold value or lower.
US10476221B2	Power supply socket for halogen lamp, and halogen lamp To provide a socket for a halogen lamp, which allows easy attachment and removal operations, as well as enables stable contact between a lamp terminal and an external electrode terminal when the lamp is attached. The socket includes a first holder part having a first hole, a second holder part having a second hole, and a spring member accommodated at a position between the first hole and the second hole and having a third hole. The first hole, second hole, and third hole have a shape extending in a direction that is different from a direction in which the terminal is passed through. The terminal is turned after being passed through the holes, whereby the terminal moves inside the first hole, second hole, and third hole, and is fixed when the terminal reaches an outer edge portion of the third hole of the spring member.
US10476219B1	Power adaptor The power adapter comprises an adapter plug, a first interconnect, a first outlet, a second interconnect, and one or more second outlets. The adapter plug and the first outlet are high amperage connectors such as NEMA TT-30 connectors. The one or more second outlets are standard lower amperage outlets such as NEMA 5-15R outlets. The power adapter allows a standard low amperage device to be plugged in without drawing current through the RV electrical system. The plug is first plugged into the RV outlet provided at a wired campsite then the RV power plug is plugged into the first outlet of the power adapter. The standard low amperage device may then be plugged into the one or more second outlets.
US10476214B2	Dual orientation electronic connector An electronic device that includes a plug connector having a tab adapted to be inserted into a receptacle connector of a second device during a mating event, the tab including first and second opposing surfaces and a contact region formed at the first surface of the tab, the contact region including a plurality of contacts spaced apart along a first row, the plurality of contacts including a first contact, a power contact and a ground contact; a computer-readable memory having identification, configuration and authentication information relevant to the electronic device that can be communicated to the second device during a mating event stored therein; circuitry coupled to the first contact and configured to, after a mating event in which the plug connector is inserted into the receptacle connector, participate in a handshaking algorithm that includes receiving a command over the first contact from the second device and sending a response to the command that includes contact configuration information for the electronic device over the first contact to the second device; and power circuitry, coupled to the power contact, configured to deliver power to charge a device coupled to the electronic device via the plug connectors.
US10476211B2	Compact connector system A connector system is disclosed that is configured to provide terminals that support data rates of 10 Gbps or more. Such a connector system includes a wafer set configured to enable broad-side coupling of a differential pair of terminals across an air channel formed between the terminals.
US10476203B2	Connector A connector includes: a first connector which includes a tubular outer housing and an inner housing in which a plurality of first terminals are provided; a second connector which includes a bottomed tubular counterpart housing in which a plurality of second terminals are provided; and an elastic member which is provided in the outer housing and urges the inner housing toward a front side of the first connector in a fitting direction. The inner housing is moved by the elastic member to the front side in the fitting direction at the time of fitting.
US10476202B2	Wire-to-wire connector with insulation displacement connection contact for integral strain relief An apparatus includes a first electrical contact comprising a first aperture and a first insulation displacement opening. Centers of the first aperture and the first insulation displacement opening are aligned. The apparatus also includes an insulated housing comprising a first wire opening, a second wire opening, and a first electrical contact inlet extending through the first and second wire openings. The first electrical contact is at least partially inserted into the first electrical contact inlet such that at least a portion of the first aperture is aligned with the first wire opening.
US10476196B2	Electrical connector with contacts holding spring-loaded pins An electrical connector is made up of a series of stacked headers. The headers may all be made from similar contact arrays initially held together by carriers, with the contact arrays and the carriers stamped from a single piece of sheet metal. After the stamping a header body is overmolded onto the contacts of a header. For some of the headers the carrier is then separated from all of the contacts, and is removed. For other of the headers the carrier remains secured to some of the contacts, while being separated from other of the contacts. The retained carrier functions to electrically connect together all of the contacts that remain secured to it, for example for use as a common ground. The contacts may have beams or clips, bent portions that are used for receiving spring-loaded pins.
US10476193B2	Connector It is aimed to detect a mounted state of a second terminal fitting in a terminal unit in which the second terminal fitting is mounted in a terminal holding member. A connector includes an interfering projection (25) formed on a retainer (21). When a second terminal fitting (50) of a terminal unit (30) is properly mounted in a terminal holding member (31), the retainer (21) is displaceable from a partial locking position to a full locking position without the interfering projection (25) interfering with the second terminal fitting (50). When the second terminal fitting (50) is improperly mounted in the terminal holding member (31), the interfering projection (25) interferes with the second terminal fitting (50), thereby restricting a displacement of the retainer (21) to a full locking position.
US10476189B2	Connector and manufacturing method of the same A connector includes: a housing with a fitting portion; a terminal accommodated in the housing, one end side of the terminal being arranged in the fitting portion; a flat cable drawn out of a drawing-out portion of the housing, provided with conductors connected to the other end of the terminal; and a holder integrally provided with the terminal on the other end side of the terminal, accommodated in the drawing-out portion, in which a connection portion of the terminal and the flat cable is arranged. The flat cable is draw out of the drawing-out portion in a direction orthogonal to a fitting direction of the housing. The terminal is placed across the conductors at the connection portion. The drawing-out portion is closed with a sealing material. The sealing material is integrally provided with an inner periphery of the drawing-out portion and an outer periphery of the flat cable.
US10476179B2	Connector and connector assembly A connector (100) is disclosed that includes a housing (2) having a length, a width, a first end wall (15), a second end wall (19), and a plurality of first (17) and second (18) grooves disposed on upper-portion main surface and bottom-portion main surface of a base (2). The grooves receive pluralities of first (70) and second (71) insulated conductors, respectively. A plurality of terminals (16) make contact with the first and second insulated conductors so that the first insulated conductors and the second insulated conductors are electrically connected to each other.
US10476177B2	Electric wire with terminal and terminal crimping apparatus An electric wire with a terminal includes: an electric wire; and a crimp terminal including a terminal connection part on a front side and an electric wire connection part on a rear side, the terminal connection part configured to be electrically connected to a counterpart terminal, the electric wire connection part being wound around and crimped onto the electric wire, in which a bent part is formed on a bottom face of the electric wire connection part, the bent part being bent toward a side for causing a rear end of the bottom face to be closer to a center axis of the electric wire connection part.
US10476175B2	Terminal-equipped electric wire, and terminal A terminal-equipped electric wire includes: an electric wire including a core wire and an insulating coating; and a terminal connected to the core wire exposed from an end portion of the electric wire. The terminal includes: a flat-plate-shaped weld portion; a bottom plate portion; and a crimping piece. In a state where the crimping piece is crimped so as to be wound around an outer periphery of the insulating coating, a leading edge of the crimping piece is located on a bottom plate portion side with respect to a first virtual plane that passes through the center of the electric wire and is perpendicular to the bottom plate portion, and the leading edge of the crimping piece is in proximity to a side edge of the bottom plate portion on a side opposite to a side on which the crimping piece is provided.
US10476174B2	Patch antennas configuration for an unmanned aerial vehicle Antennas configuration for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) comprising at least one pair of patch antennas. Each patch antenna having a patch mounted on a ground plane. A UAV body having at least one portion constructed of material that minimally attenuates the electromagnetic signal transmitted or received by said plurality of antennas. Wherein the at least one pair of patch antennas are mounted within the UAV body and near the inner surface of the UAV body. Each antenna from the pair of patch antennas further installed opposite to one another and each of the patches facing outside from the UAV body.
US10476170B2	Antenna arrays having conductive shielding buckets An electronic device may be provided with a sidewall, a display module separated from the sidewall by a gap, a display cover, a conductive bucket mounted to the display cover within the gap, and a phased antenna array mounted to the bucket for conveying millimeter wave signals through the display cover. The sidewall may form part of an antenna for conveying non-millimeter wave signals. The array may include resonating elements on a substrate. The resonating elements may be fed using feed terminals coupled to alternating sides of the resonating elements. Dielectric layers having a dielectric constant lower than that of the display cover may be provided on a surface of the display cover within the bucket. The array may operate with satisfactory efficiency despite the small amount of available space within the device, electromagnetic interference from the sidewall and the display module, and dielectric loading by the display cover.
US10476153B2	Directional antenna with signal strength feedback and methods Disclosed are systems and methods for improving the quality and strength of a wireless signal connecting a mobile station and a base station, in situations where the mobile station is able to utilize a directional antenna. The system for improving system quality comprise, for example, a directional antenna; an antenna power level detector which detects a signal strength; a signal inverter wherein the signal inverter generates a conditioned signal from the detected signal strength; an indicator wherein the indicator provides an indicator of a signal quality level from the detected signal strength; a reorientation decision logic wherein the reorientation decision logic communicates an instruction for movement of the directional antenna, wherein the detected signal strength is correlated to a projected orientation of the directional antenna at a time the signal strength is detected, and further wherein an antenna orientation control loop communicates a reorientation instruction for the directional antenna.
US10476152B2	System and method for automatic real time control of the rotational speed of a radar antenna A method and system which enable the automatic adjustment of the rotational speed of a radar antenna in a radar system having a continuously rotating radar antenna based on where objects are being detected. The automatic adjustment of the rotational speed of the radar antenna is controlled by a controller integrated with the radar system and is based on the bearing of the emitting antenna relative to objects being detected. The method relies on continuously reading the angular position of the antenna and corresponding the presence of detected objects to this angular position so as to automatically adjust the speed of the antenna to slow down the antenna while it is directing wave signals towards detected targets and speed up the antenna while it is directing wave signals in a direction where there are no detected objects.
US10476151B2	Antenna apparatus and electronic device having the same An antenna apparatus that is able to improve isolation between antennas that are arranged adjacent to each other and an electronic device having the same are provided. The antenna apparatus includes a plurality of antennas, and a printed circuit board connected to the plurality of antennas, wherein the printed circuit board comprises a plurality of feeding units respectively connected to the plurality of antennas and a plurality of ground units respectively connected to the plurality of antennas, and each of the ground units is separated from the other ground units by means of at least one slot.
US10476147B2	Antenna device and method of manufacturing the same An antenna device includes an RFIC element, a power supply coil connected to the RFIC element, and a first coil conductor including a first large-diameter loop shaped conductor and a first small-diameter loop shaped conductor. The first coil conductor functions as a booster antenna and forms an antenna resonance circuit. The power supply coil is accommodated in a recess surrounded by the first small-diameter loop shaped conductor. The power supply coil is disposed in a manner that its winding direction is aligned with the winding axis direction of the first small-diameter loop shaped conductor and its outer diameter is inside a coil opening of the first small-diameter loop shaped conductor in a planar view. The power supply coil is coupled to the first small-diameter loop shaped conductor through a magnetic field.
US10476143B1	Antenna for base station of wireless remote-control system An antenna for a receiver, a transmitter, and/or a transceiver of a base station of a wireless remote-control system is provided. The antenna includes a printed circuit board (PCB) and a metallic stamped antenna structure. The antenna structure is directly mounted on the PCB. The antenna structure includes a lineal antenna body and legs. The antenna body and the legs are unitary with one another. The legs extend from the antenna body and are mechanically mounted to the PCB to support the antenna body over the PCB with the antenna body lying above the PCB within a plane.
US10476139B2	Electronic device An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a main body on which a controller is mounted, a strap pin connector protruding from the main body, at least a portion of the strap pin connector having conductivity, a strap pin spaced apart from the main body and connected to the strap pin connector, at least a portion of the strap pin having conductivity, and an antenna pattern disposed in an insulating portion of an outer surface of the main body, connected to a wireless communication unit, and having conductivity. The strap pin connector, the strap pin, and the antenna pattern are electrically connected to one another and form an antenna that transmits and receives a radio wave.
US10476137B1	Terminal housing and terminal The present disclosure provides a terminal housing and a terminal. The main board unit in the terminal housing includes a power supply module, a switching module, a first grounding area, a second grounding area and a third grounding area; the antenna unit includes a horizontal bezel, a first branch, a second branch, a third branch and a fourth branch; the power supply module is connected to the horizontal bezel through the first branch; the first end of the switching module is connected to the contact area of the second branch, the third branch, and the fourth branch, the second end of the switching module is connected to the third grounding area, and the switching module is configured to control the first end to be connected to or disconnected from the second end.
US10476133B2	Electrical element, mobile device, and method for manufacturing electrical element An electrical element includes a flexible antenna and a rigid member higher in rigidity than the flexible antenna. At least one of the flexible antenna and the rigid member is made of thermoplastic resin. A conductor pattern defining at least a portion of a section that performs the main function of the electrical element is provided at the flexible antenna. No conductor pattern that performs the main function of the electrical element is provided at the rigid member. Opposing surfaces of the flexible antenna and the rigid member are directly joined to each other.
US10476129B2	Rotatable antenna mount A rotatable antenna mount for mounting an antenna to a structure includes a mounting bracket, an antenna rotation assembly and an antenna mounting pole. The mounting bracket includes a base and two sidewalls that together define an opening into which the structure is received. An adjustment clamp is inserted through one of the sidewalls of the base and mounts the mounting bracket to the structure situated within the space. The antenna mounting pole is mounted to the rotation assembly. The antenna rotation assembly is situated on the mounting bracket and includes at least two rotation brackets that are hingedly joined to one another so that the antenna mounting pole to which an antenna is mounted may be selectively moved in at least two dimensions.
US10476127B2	Multi-band antenna apparatus A multi-band antenna apparatus according to one of various embodiments of the present invention may comprise: an antenna housing in which an antenna module having two or more frequency bands is mounted; a plurality of repeaters detachably coupled to the antenna housing according to slide movement thereof; connector parts which protrude from the antenna housing and are connected to the plurality of repeaters, respectively; and a bracket which fixes the antenna housing to an outer wall and couples the plurality of repeaters to the antenna housing in an individually detachable manner.
US10476126B2	Wireless control device having an antenna illuminated with visible light A wireless control device, such as a system controller for a load control system, may comprise a light-transmissive cover for an antenna that may be illuminated to provide feedback to a user of the load control system. The light-transmissive cover may receive light energy from a light-generating circuit to provide a visible display of the light energy. The wireless control device may be mounted to, for example, a ceiling, and the light-transmissive cover may extend from the wireless control device (e.g., down from the ceiling). The light-transmissive cover may be viewed by a user at large viewing angles and at a distance away from the wireless control device, which may simplify and improve reliability of commissioning of the load control system as well as speed up troubleshooting of the load control system after commissioning is completed.
US10476122B2	Cryogenic-stripline microwave attenuator The technology described herein is directed towards a cryogenic-stripline microwave attenuator. A first high thermal conductivity substrate such as sapphire and a second high thermal conductivity substrate such as sapphire, along with a signal conductor comprising one or more attenuator lines between the substrates form a stripline. A compression component such as one or more screws, vias (plus clamps) and/or clamps presses the first high thermal conductivity substrate against one side of the signal conductor and presses the second high thermal conductivity substrate against another side of the signal conductor. The high thermal conductivity of the substrates facilitates improved thermalization, while the pressing of the substrates against the conductor reduces the thermal boundary (Kapitza) resistance and thereby, for example, improves thermalization and reduces thermal noise.
US10476120B2	Multi-port phase shifter with multiple lines formed on opposite surfaces of a ground A multi-port phase shifter includes a ground, a first line on one surface of the ground, a second line on the other surface of the ground, a third line spaced at a predetermined distance from the upper surface of the first line and facing a part of the first line, and a fourth line spaced at a predetermined distance from the upper surface of the second line and facing a part of the second line. A via hole penetrates the ground. A power supply line on the one surface of the ground includes a region having the via hole. Multiple ports make the phase shifter applicable to a sector antenna for obtaining a high gain. Phase shifter volume can be reduced by implementing multiple ports in one phase shifter without coupling two or more phase shifters, thereby eliminating an additional component such as a fixing pole or a connecting pole.
US10476113B2	Storage battery pack and method of operating the same A storage battery pack includes: a secondary battery; and a circuit that includes a power consumer which consumes power of the secondary battery, and that causes the power consumer to consume a remaining power of the secondary battery until a voltage of the secondary battery reaches a voltage lower than a discharge cutoff voltage.
US10476112B2	Method of manufacturing a battery, battery and integrated circuit A method of manufacturing a battery includes defining an active region and a bonding area in a first main surface of a first semiconductor substrate, forming a first ditch in the bonding area, forming an anode at the first semiconductor substrate in the active region, and forming a cathode at a carrier comprising an insulating material. The method further includes stacking the first semiconductor substrate and the carrier so that the first main surface of the first semiconductor substrate is disposed on a side adjacent to a first main surface of the carrier, a cavity being formed between the first semiconductor substrate and the carrier, and forming an electrolyte in the cavity.
US10476111B2	Composite electrode for aqueous rechargeable zinc ion batteries An aqueous rechargeable zinc ion battery is provided, the battery comprising a cathode comprising a V3O7.H2O-graphene composite, the composite comprising a plurality of V3O7.H2O nanostructures in contact with graphene, an anode in electrical communication with the cathode, the anode comprising zinc, and an aqueous electrolyte between the cathode and the anode, the aqueous electrolyte comprising zinc ions and an ether of a type and at an amount selected to maximize a capacity retention value of the battery.
US10476105B2	Self-healing gel-type electrolyte composite Systems and methods of providing self-healing gel-type electrolyte composites for metal batteries are disclosed. According to aspects of the disclosure, a method includes preparing a ternary mixture including an electrolyte portion, a matrix precursor portion, and a self-healing portion, forming a self-healing gel-electrolyte membrane by initiating polymerization of the gel-forming precursor and the gel-forming initiator to thereby form a polymer matrix, and disposing the self-healing gel-electrolyte membrane between an anode and a cathode. The self-healing portion includes a self-healing precursor that is flowable and a self-healing initiator. The matrix precursor portion includes a gel-forming precursor and a gel-forming initiator. The electrolyte portion and the self-healing portion are disposed substantially throughout the polymer matrix and the polymer matrix includes a plurality of gel-forming active sites.
US10476104B2	Gel polymer electrolyte and lithium secondary battery comprising the same Provided are a gel polymer electrolyte including a polymer network, and an electrolyte solution impregnated in the polymer network, wherein the polymer network is formed by combining a first oligomer, which includes unit A derived from a monomer including at least one copolymerizable acrylate or acrylic acid, unit C including urethane, and unit E including alkylene group substituted with one or more fluorine, in a three-dimensional structure, and a lithium secondary battery including the gel polymer electrolyte.
US10476101B2	Electrical device To improve cycle durability in an electrical device such as a lithium ion secondary battery including a negative electrode containing a silicon-containing negative electrode active material, an electrical device includes a power generating element containing a unit cell layer. The unit cell contains a positive electrode in which a positive electrode active material layer containing a positive electrode active material is formed on a surface of a positive electrode current collector, a negative electrode in which a negative electrode active material layer containing a silicon-containing negative electrode active material is formed on a surface of a negative electrode current collector, and a separator. In the unit cell layer, the electrical device satisfies formula (1): 0.91≤C/A<0.99 where the area of the negative electrode active material layer is A [m2] and the area of the positive electrode active material layer is C [m2].
US10476095B2	Fuel cell and method of manufacturing the same A fuel cell may include a fuel supply unit for supplying hydrogen to a fuel cell stack; an air supply unit for supplying air to the fuel cell stack; and the fuel cell stack that generates energy using hydrogen and air supplied from the fuel supply unit and the air supply unit, wherein the fuel cell stack has a mesh structure and comprises a conductive polymer electrode containing about 0.1 to 1 wt % of polyethylene oxide (PEO) having a molecular weight of about 1,000 to 6,000 kg/mol.
US10476092B2	Fuel cell system, fuel cell mountable vehicle and method of controlling fuel cell system A fuel cell system comprises: a fuel cell; a cooling liquid supply flow path for supplying cooling liquid to the fuel cell; a radiator for cooling the cooling liquid; a first temperature sensor, provided at an outlet of the radiator, for measuring a temperature of the cooling liquid; an ambient temperature sensor; and a controller. The controller executes: estimating a temperature of the cooling liquid inside the cooling liquid supply flow path based on an ambient temperature measured by the ambient temperature sensor; acquiring a temperature of the cooling liquid inside the cooling liquid supply flow path based on the temperature measured by the first temperature sensor after it is determined that the cooling liquid within the radiator has reached the first temperature sensor; and adjusting a flow rate of the cooling liquid based on the estimated temperature or the acquired temperature of the cooling liquid.
US10476088B2	Manifold device of fuel cell stack A manifold device of a fuel cell stack is provided which prevents moisture condensed in gases supplied to the fuel cell stack from excessively flowing into specific cells of the stack by heating gases supplied into the stack using heat of the stack. The manifold device also prevents flooding that is caused by liquid generated in cells disposed away from a gas inlet by removing a flow rate difference of gases generated in respective cells based on distances from the gas inlet of the stack.
US10476083B2	Electrode manufacturing method A length L between the markings 11a measured by the pre-coating thickness measuring device 17 and a length L′ between the markings 11a measured by the post-coating thickness measuring device 18 are calculated, and a length ratio is obtained. Measurement positions of thickness data measured by the post-coating thickness measuring device 18 are corrected based on the calculated length ratio. A value at each measurement position of pre-coating thickness information on a corrected post-coating thickness interpolation line connecting measurement points of corrected post-coating thickness information obtained by correcting the measurement positions with a line segment is determined as post-coating thickness at each measurement position. A difference between the determined value and the pre-coating thickness is calculated. If it is in a predetermined range, the electrode is determined as a non-defective product.
US10476080B2	Electrode containing both anion-absorbing and cation-absorbing active materials An electrode is provided having a front region adjacent to a separator and a back region adjacent to a current collector. The electrode includes an anion-absorbing material and a cation-absorbing material. The electrode exhibits a compositional profile such that the anion-absorbing material is present at a higher volume percent at the back region than at the front region. Also provided are electrochemical cells that employ such an electrode as a positive electrode. Optionally, the cells include an electrolyte comprised of a solution of a solvent and a salt dissolved therein at a concentration of at least about 2M when the cell is in a fully discharged state.
US10476079B2	Lithium secondary battery A lithium secondary battery comprises a cathode, an anode and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The cathode includes a cathode active material containing lithium-metal oxide of which at least one of metals has a continuous concentration gradient from a core part to a surface part thereof, and is doped with transitional metal. The lithium-metal oxide includes elements M1, M2 and M3. One of M1, M2 and M3 has a concentration gradient range in which a concentration increases from the core part to the surface part.
US10476078B2	Positive electrode for secondary battery, method of preparing the same, and lithium secondary battery including the positive electrode The present invention relates to a positive electrode for a secondary battery in which a maximum diameter of internal pores is controlled to be less than 1 μm, a method of preparing the same, and a secondary battery including the positive electrode.
US10476076B2	Anode compositions and alkali metal batteries comprising same A composition-of-matter comprising a plurality of particles is disclosed herein, the particles comprising a compound (e.g., an element or a mixture of elements) which forms an alloy with an alkali metal and/or an alloy of an alkali metal with said compound. The alloy is characterized by reversibly releasing the alkali metal and absorbing the alkali metal. Some or all of the particles are encapsulated within a volume enclosed by a shell or matrix which conducts cations of the alkali metal, wherein a volume of the alloy upon maximal absorption of the alkali metal does not exceed the volume enclosed by a shell or matrix. Further disclosed herein is a process of preparing a composition-of-matter, which is effected by coating particles comprising an alloy saturated with the alkali metal with a conductor of cations of the alkali metal, as well as electrochemical half cells and batteries including the composition-of-matter.
US10476068B2	Battery module including probe for detecting expansion of battery cell The present invention relates to a battery module that includes a probe for detecting expansion of a battery cell. More particularly, the present invention relates to a battery module including: two or more of rechargeable battery cells; a sensing probe provided at an external surface of at least one of the battery cells to sense a local expansion change of the battery cell and transmitting a signal; and a controller receiving the signal from the sensing probe, estimating an internal pressure of the battery cell from the received signal, and generating a warning signal to assure safety of the battery module when the estimated internal pressure exceeds a threshold pressure level.
US10476065B2	Lithium metal coating on battery separators A lithium ion battery may comprise a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a separator coated with a thin film of lithium metal, the thickness of the lithium being less than or equal to a thickness sufficient to compensate for the irreversible loss of lithium during the first cycle of the battery. Furthermore, there may be a ceramic layer on the separator between the separator and the lithium metal thin film. Yet furthermore, there may be a barrier layer between the ceramic layer and the lithium metal thin film, wherein the barrier layer blocks Li dendrite formation. Furthermore, the separator may have pores which may be filled with one or more of a lithium ion-conducting polymer, a binder soluble in a liquid electrolyte, and a lithium ion-conducting ceramic material. Methods of, and equipment for, fabricating such battery separators and also for fabricating components for lithium metal based batteries are described.
US10476064B2	Separator comprising adhesive coating parts having different tack strengths and electrode assembly comprising the same The present invention relates to a jelly-roll type electrode assembly comprising: a sheet-like positive electrode; a sheet-like negative electrode; and a separator which is interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and which includes a first adhesive coating part and a second adhesive coating part formed on a first surface of a sheet-like porous substrate, and a third adhesive coating part formed on a second surface which is the opposite surface to the first surface, wherein the first adhesive coating part and the second adhesive coating part have different tack strength from each other.
US10476063B2	Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery insulating porous layer and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery laminated separator Provided as a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery insulating porous layer that allows a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery to have an improved discharge output characteristic is a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery insulating porous layer containing fine particles of a metal salt having a Lewis acid peak area within a range of not less than 0.2 g−1 and not more than 3.6 g−1 per unit weight, the Lewis acid peak area being measured by an infrared spectroscopy-based acid nature evaluation method for a solid surface, the Lewis acid peak area of a metal salt per unit weight being defined as a value resulting from dividing (i) the area of a peak present in a region of 1447 cm−1 to 1460 cm−1 of an infrared absorption spectrum measured of a sample on which pyridine was adsorbed and from which the pyridine has then been desorbed by (ii) the weight of the metal salt.
US10476061B1	Electric vehicle cabin floor structure Provided herein are apparatus, systems, and methods for reducing noise in an electric vehicle. The apparatus can include a cabin floor, a battery pack, and a stiffener positioned between the cabin floor and the battery pack. The cabin floor can include a recess that that defines a volume in the cabin floor. The battery pack is coupled to the cabin floor, and includes a plurality of battery cells generating a voltage and a current. The stiffener includes a first stiffener surface that faces the cabin floor, a second stiffener surface that faces the battery pack, and a first stiffener element that extends out of the first stiffener surface and conforms to a shape of the recess. The first stiffener element is positioned on the first stiffener surface to align with a position of the recess in the cabin floor.
US10476056B2	Battery pack housing structure, and electronic apparatus A battery pack housing structure is used for an electronic apparatus including a housing portion for housing a battery pack and a battery cover for covering the housing portion. The battery pack, the housing portion, and the battery cover comprise battery-pack side-surface protruding portions, housing-portion side-surface protruding portions, and cover lower-surface protruding portions, respectively. Before the battery pack is positioned at a mounting position in the electronic apparatus, the battery pack is positioned at a pre-mounting position. When the battery cover is mounted, the battery pack is pushed from the pre-mounting position to the mounting position. The battery-pack side-surface protruding portions, the housing-portion side-surface protruding portions, and the cover lower-surface protruding portions are engaged, and movement of the battery pack in a terminal connection direction and movement of the battery pack from the lower surface toward the upper surface are thereby restricted.
US10476054B2	Portable battery pack comprising a battery enclosed by a wearable and replaceable pouch or skin A portable battery pack comprising a battery enclosed by a wearable and replaceable pouch or skin is disclosed, wherein the pouch or skin can be provided in different colors and/or patterns. Further, the pouch or skin can be MOLLE-compatible. The battery comprises a battery element housed between a battery cover and a back plate, wherein the battery element, battery cover, and back plate have a slight curvature or contour. Further, the battery comprises flexible leads.
US10476047B2	Battery cell comprising a housing covering plate having a raised central region The invention relates to a battery cell, in particular a lithium-ion battery cell, wherein a cover plate (23) forming a part of a battery cell housing, which is designed as a plane sheet in a conventional manner, is modified to avoid short circuits between the poles of the battery cell due to moisture, for example. To this end, the cover plate (23) is provided with a central area (33) and an edge area (35) surrounding said central area (33). The central area (33) is located above an opening (14) to be closed off by the cover plate (23) of a container (13) forming a part of the battery cell housing, whereas the edge area (35) extends inside said opening (14). Thus, occurring moisture can drain off the platform-like raised central area (33) sideways toward a channel (37) in the edge area (35), and evaporate from there.
US10476046B2	Flexible battery A flexible battery is provided. A flexible battery according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises: an electrode assembly; and an exterior material for encapsulating the electrode assembly together with an electrolyte, wherein the exterior material includes a first pattern part and a second pattern part for contraction and relaxation at the time of bending, which are formed on at least one surface of the exterior material, and the first pattern part and the second pattern part have different patterns.
US10476044B2	Alkaline and non-aqueous proton-conducting pouch-cell batteries Provided are sealed pouch-cell batteries that are alkaline batteries or non-aqueous proton-conducing batteries. A pouch cell includes a flexible housing such as is used for pouch cell construction where the housing is in the form of a pouch, a cathode comprising a cathode active material suitable for use in an alkaline battery, an anode comprising an anode active material suitable for use in an alkaline battery, an electrolyte that is optionally an alkaline or proton-conducting electrolyte, and wherein the pouch does not include or require a safety vent or other gas absorbing or releasing system. The batteries provided function contrary to the art recognized belief that such battery systems were impossible due to unacceptable gas production during cycling.
US10476043B2	Repair method A display including a back plate, a plurality of light emitting devices and a plurality of compensating light emitting devices is provided. The back plate has a plurality of pixels and at least one compensated region. The compensated region includes some of the pixels. The light emitting devices are arranged in all the pixels on the back plate. The compensated light emitting devices are disposed on the back plate and located in each pixel in the compensated region respectively. At least one of the pixels in the compensated region is dead pixel. Besides, a repair method of the display is also provided.
US10476039B2	Display device and method for manufacturing the same A display device and a method for manufacturing the same capable of preventing a defective drive of a gate-in-panel (GIP) driver by dissipating high heat generated in a large-sized thin film transistor of the GIP driver are disclosed. The display device includes a flexible substrate, a GIP driver and a display unit disposed on the flexible substrate, a protective member disposed under the flexible substrate, and a heat pad disposed between the flexible substrate and the protective member and overlapping the GIP driver.
US10476038B2	Display device A display device may include a switching composite layer, a first electrode, a pixel defining layer, an emission layer, a second electrode, an encapsulation layer, a light blocking layer, and a touch sensor. The first electrode is positioned on the switching composite layer. The pixel defining layer covers an edge of the first electrode and has a first opening and a second opening that are spaced from each other. The emission layer is positioned inside the first opening. The second electrode covers the switching composite layer, the pixel defining layer, and the emission layer. The encapsulation layer covers the second electrode. The light blocking layer is positioned on the encapsulation layer. The touch sensor is positioned on the light blocking layer and includes a sensing electrode set. A material portion is positioned inside the second opening of the pixel defining layer and overlaps the sensing electrode set.
US10476037B2	Flexible display apparatus Disclosed is a flexible display apparatus. The flexible display apparatus includes a display part, a first adhesive film, an optical film, a second adhesive film, and a window film sequentially stacked, and the second adhesive film has a water-vapor permeability of about 200 g/m2·24 hr or less, and the first adhesive film has a lower restoration force than the second adhesive film, as calculated by the Equation B set forth herein.
US10476036B2	Organic light emitting diode display device comprising capping layer An organic light emitting diode display device includes a substrate, an organic light emitting diode on the substrate and a capping layer on the organic light emitting diode. The capping layer includes metal iodide selected from alkali metal iodide and alkaline-earth metal iodide. The organic light emitting diode may have reduced driving voltage and improved luminous efficiency.
US10476035B2	Flexible display apparatus A flexible display apparatus is provided in the present disclosure and includes a flexible substrate, an organic electroluminescent device, and a plurality of thin film transistors disposed between the flexible substrate and the organic electroluminescent device. The organic electroluminescent device is controlled by the thin film transistors to emit light. The flexible substrate is doped with a plurality of nano-particles that are configured to refract the light emitted from the organic light-emitting layer to an external environment.
US10476029B2	Package structure of organic electroluminescent device and manufacturing method thereof, and display device A package structure of an organic electroluminescent device and a manufacture method thereof, and a display device are provided. The package structure of the organic electroluminescent device includes a base substrate; an organic electroluminescent unit disposed on the base substrate; and a first inorganic protection layer, disposed on the organic electroluminescent unit. The first inorganic protection layer is provided with a first opening penetrating the first protection layer along a thickness direction, and the first opening is filled with a first organic material.
US10476028B2	Packaging structure, a display device and a packaging method of an OLED device The present disclosure relates to a packaging structure of an OLED device, a display device, and a packaging method of an OLED device. The packaging structure of an OLED device comprises: a substrate, an OLED device on the substrate, a first layer on the OLED device, wherein, the packaging structure of the OLED device further comprises a first blocking layer positioned outside the first layer for defining the first layer, and wherein the first blocking layer has a margin portion in its corner position.
US10476018B2	Sing-junction organic photovoltaic devices having high open-circuit voltages and applications thereof In one aspect, single-junction organic photovoltaic devices are provided exhibiting high Voc values while employing single-junction architecture. A single-junction photovoltaic device described herein comprises an anode, a cathode and an active layer residing between the anode and cathode, the active layer comprising an organic electron donor and an organic electron acceptor, wherein the photovoltaic device generates a Voc of at least 1.4 V. Uniquely, high Voc photovoltaic devices described herein can be transparent to the majority of visible and/or infrared spectral irradiation in some embodiments.
US10476015B2	Organic electronic/optoelectronic devices An electronic or optoelectronic device including a semiconductor layer, wherein the semiconductor layer comprises at least a semiconductive organic material, water species, and at least one additive in an amount of at least 0.1% by weight relative to the semiconductive organic material, which additive at least partly negates a charge carrier trapping effect caused by the water species on the semiconductive organic material.
US10476014B2	Composition, electronic device, and thin film transistor A composition includes a product of a condensation reaction between a thermal cross-linking agent and a product of hydrolysis and condensation polymerization of a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1.
US10476011B2	Display device A display device is disclosed. The display device may comprise: a flexible display panel; a flexible plate being positioned at a rear of the flexible display panel, the flexible plate being coupled to the flexible display panel; and a flexible jig being positioned on a rear surface of the flexible plate, the flexible jig including a plurality of segments, wherein at least one of the plurality of segments is fixed to the rear surface of the flexible plate, and wherein at least another of the plurality of segments is slidably coupled to the rear surface of the flexible plate.
US10476005B2	Composition, laminate, method of manufacturing laminate, transistor, and method of manufacturing transistor Laminate, method of manufacturing laminate, transistor, and method of manufacturing transistor using a composition having the following (a) to (c): (a) a first organic compound represented by Formula (1) below (R represents a hydrogen atom or a glycidyl group. A plurality of Rs may be identical to or different from each other, but each of at least two Rs is a glycidyl group), (b) a second organic compound represented by Formula (2) below, and (c) a photocationic polymerization initiator
US10476004B2	Method of manufacturing flexible display panel A method for manufacturing a flexible display panel includes the steps of: step S1, providing a carrier substrate on which a groove conforming to a size of a flexible display panel is formed on one side of the carrier substrate; step S2, formed a flexible substrate in the groove; step S3, forming a thin film transistor, an organic light emitting diode layer, and an encapsulation layer on the flexible substrate to form the flexible display panel; and step S4, directly remove the flexible display panel from the carrier substrate.
US10476002B2	Method for thermally treating semiconductor structure before saving data A method for treating a semiconductor structure comprising memory devices is provided, wherein a forming process is conducted to initialize operation of the memory devices. The semiconductor structure is subjected to a forming thermal treatment, and step of saving data to the memory devices is performed after the forming thermal treatment.
US10476000B2	Method of forming a layer and a method of fabricating a variable resistance memory device using the same A method of forming a target layer in semiconductor fabrication is disclosed that includes steps of forming a first layer by performing a first process at least one time and forming a second layer by performing a second process at least one time, wherein the first process may include supplying a first source gas, supplying a second source gas several times, and supplying an inert gas several times.
US10475997B1	Forming resistive memory crossbar array employing selective barrier layer growth A method is presented for protecting resistive random access memory (RRAM) stacks within a resistive memory crossbar array. The method includes forming a plurality of conductive lines within an interlayer dielectric (ILD), forming a barrier layer over at least one conductive line of the plurality of conductive lines, the barrier layer directly contacting an entire upper surface of the at least one conductive line, and forming a RRAM stack including a bottom electrode, a high-k dielectric layer, and a top electrode over the barrier layer.
US10475994B2	Oxide memory resistor including semiconductor nanoparticles This invention relates to memory resistors, arrays of memory resistors and a method of making memory resistors. In particular, this invention relates to memory resistors having an on state and an off state, comprising: (a) a first electrode; (b) a second electrode; (c) a dielectric layer disposed between the first and second electrodes; wherein the dielectric layer comprises nanoparticles of semiconductor material, and wherein in the on state nanoparticles form at least one conductive filament encapsulated by the dielectric layer, thereby providing a conductive pathway between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US10475992B2	Durable miniature gas composition detector having fast response time A miniature oxygen sensor makes use of paramagnetic properties of oxygen gas to provide a fast response time, low power consumption, improved accuracy and sensitivity, and superior durability. The miniature oxygen sensor disclosed maintains a sample of ambient air within a micro-channel formed in a semiconductor substrate. O2 molecules segregate in response to an applied magnetic field, thereby establishing a measureable Hall voltage. Oxygen present in the sample of ambient air can be deduced from a change in Hall voltage with variation in the applied magnetic field. The magnetic field can be applied either by an external magnet or by a thin film magnet integrated into a gas sensing cavity within the micro-channel. A differential sensor further includes a reference element containing an unmagnetized control sample. The miniature oxygen sensor is suitable for use as a real-time air quality monitor in consumer products such as smart phones.
US10475990B2	Pillar contact extension and method for producing the same Methods of forming a pillar contact extension within a memory device using a self-aligned planarization process rather than direct ILD CMP and the resulting devices are provided. Embodiments include forming a photoresist layer over a low-K layer formed over an ILD having a first metal layer in a memory region and in a logic region and pillar-shaped conductors formed atop of the first metal layer only in the memory region; forming a trench through the photoresist layer over each pillar-shaped conductor; extending the trench through the low-K layer to an upper surface of each pillar-shaped conductor; forming a second metal layer over the low-K layer, filling the trench entirely; and planarizing the second metal layer until the second metal layer is removed from over the logic region, a pillar contact extension formed atop of each pillar-shaped conductor.
US10475988B2	High efficiency spin torque switching using a ferrimagnet In one embodiment, a spin torque device uses a thick (e.g., >1 nm, and preferably >=2-6 nm) ferrimagnet (FIM) layer, instead of a thin (e.g., <1-2 nm) FM layer in the device's stack. The FIM layer may be composed of a cobalt-gadolinium (Co—Gd) alloy, cobalt-terbium (Co—Tb) multilayers, or other materials that provide anti-ferromagnetic coupling between two sub-lattices. Negative exchange interaction between the two sub-lattices of the FIM may allow for low current switching. High thermal stability and external magnetic field resistance may also be achieved.
US10475987B1	Method for fabricating a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) structure A method for fabricating an improved magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) structure is described. A bottom electrode is provided on a substrate. A MTJ stack is deposited on the bottom electrode. A top electrode is deposited on the MTJ stack. A first stress modulating layer is deposited between the bottom electrode and the MTJ stack, or a second stress modulating layer is deposited between the MTJ stack and the top electrode, or both a first stress modulating layer is deposited between the bottom electrode and the MTJ stack and a second stress modulating layer is deposited between the MTJ stack and the top electrode. The top electrode and MTJ stack are patterned and etched to form a MTJ device. The stress modulating layers reduce crystal growth defects and interfacial defects during annealing and improve the interface lattice epitaxy. This will improve device performance.
US10475985B2	MRAM magnetic shielding with fan-out wafer level packaging Magnetic random access memory (MRAM) fan-out wafer level packages with package level and chip level magnetic shielding and methods of forming these magnetic shields processed at the wafer-level are disclosed. The method includes providing a MRAM wafer prepared with a plurality of MRAM dies. The MRAM wafer is processed to form a magnetic shield layer over the front side of the MRAM wafer, and the wafer is separated into a plurality of individual dies. An individual MRAM die includes front, back and lateral surfaces and the magnetic shield layer is disposed over the front surface of the MRAM die. Magnetic shield structures are provided over the individual MRAM dies. The magnetic shield structure encapsulates and surrounds back and lateral surfaces of the MRAM die. An encapsulation layer is formed to cover the individual MRAM dies which are provided with magnetic shield structures. A redistribution layer (RDL) is formed over and lines exposed front surfaces of the encapsulated MRAM dies and the encapsulated MRAM dies are separated into individual MRAM fan-out wafer level packages.
US10475984B2	Aluminum nitride piezoelectric thin film, piezoelectric material, piezoelectric component, and method for manufacturing aluminum nitride piezoelectric thin film A germanium-containing aluminum nitride piezoelectric film and a method for manufacturing an aluminum nitride piezoelectric film in which a germanium-containing aluminum nitride piezoelectric film is grown on a substrate by sputtering.
US10475983B1	Antenna-based qubit annealing method Systems and techniques facilitating antenna-based thermal annealing of qubits are provided. In one example, a radio frequency emitter, transmitter, and/or antenna can be positioned above a superconducting qubit chip having a Josephson junction coupled to a set of one or more capacitor pads. The radio frequency emitter, transmitter, and/or antenna can emit an electromagnetic signal onto the set of one or more capacitor pads. The capacitor pads can function as receiving antennas and therefore receive the electromagnetic signal. Upon receipt of the electromagnetic signal, an alternating current and/or voltage can be induced in the capacitor pads, which current and/or voltage thereby heat the pads and the Josephson junction. The heating of the Josephson junction can change its physical properties, thereby annealing the Josephson junction. In another example, the emitter can direct the electromagnetic signal to avoid unwanted annealing of neighboring qubits on the superconducting qubit chip.
US10475978B2	Light emitting device package having improved reliability, and lighting apparatus including the package Embodiments provide a light emitting device package including a substrate, a light emitting structure disposed under the substrate and including a first conductive semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductive semiconductor layer, first and second electrodes connected to the first and second conductive semiconductor layers, a first pad connected to the first electrodes in first-first through-holes penetrating the second conductive semiconductor layer and the active layer, and a first insulation layer disposed between the first pad and the second conductive semiconductor layer and between the first pad and the active layer to cover the first electrodes in a first-second through-hole, and a second pad connected to the second electrode through a second through-hole penetrating the first insulation layer and electrically spaced apart from the first pad. The second pad does not overlap the first insulation layer in the first-second through-hole in a thickness direction of the light emitting structure.
US10475977B2	Light emitting device A light emitting device includes an element container and a light emitting element. The element container has a first electrode lead, a second electrode lead, and a resin molded body integrated with the first electrode lead and the second electrode lead and includes an indentation at an outer surface, a wire covered with the resin molded body and extending from the first electrode lead to the indentation. The light emitting element is housed in the element container and electrically connected to the first electrode lead and the second electrode lead.
US10475974B2	Carrier, carrier leadframe, and light emitting device A carrier leadframe, including a frame body and a carrier, is provided. The frame body includes at least one supporting portion, and the carrier includes a shell and at least one electrode portion and is mechanically engaged with the frame body via the supporting portion. A method for manufacturing the carrier leadframe as described above, as well as a light emitting device made from the carrier leadframe and a method for manufacturing the device, are also provided. The carrier leadframe has carriers that are separate in advance and mechanically engaged with the frame body, thereby facilitating the quick release of material after encapsulation. Besides, in the carrier leadframe as provided, each carrier is electrically isolated from another carrier, so the electric measurement can be performed before the release of material. Therefore, the speed and yield of production of the light emitting device made from the carrier leadframe is improved.
US10475973B2	Light emitting device package A packaged light emitting device die 20 includes a package body having a profiled leadframe 10 embedded in a body 12 of reflecting material. The leadframe 10 is exposed on mounting surface 14 only on at least one solder bonding area 16. Solder 22 is present only on the at least one solder bonding area 16 and not elsewhere. The reflecting material provides the reflecting parts of the package so there is no need for a reflective layer to be deposited on leadframe 10. Moreover, the reflecting material can function as a solder resist to self-align the solder 22 to the at least one solder bonding area 16.
US10475972B2	Light-emitting diode package and method of manufacturing the same A light-emitting diode (LED) package includes: a reflective structure including a cavity, a bottom portion having a through hole, and a sidewall portion surrounding the cavity and the bottom portion and having an inclined inner side surface; an electrode pad inserted into the through hole; an LED on the bottom portion in the cavity, the LED including a light-emitting structure electrically connected to the electrode pad and a phosphor formed on the light-emitting structure; and a lens structure filling the cavity and formed on the reflective structure.
US10475969B2	Color converter having a plurality of spaced a part wavelength conversion layers A color converter and a method of manufacturing a color converter are provided. The color converter includes: a base substrate; a wavelength conversion pattern layer including a plurality of wavelength conversion layers disposed on the base substrate to be spaced apart from each other, and an overcoat layer disposed on the wavelength conversion pattern layer to cover at least a part of the wavelength conversion pattern layer, wherein the overcoat layer has an upper surface having a higher flatness than a lower surface.
US10475968B1	Optoelectronic component and a method for producing an optoelectronic component In one embodiment, an optoelectronic component includes a semiconductor chip, which is able to emit radiation. A conversion element comprises at least one wavelength converting phosphor dispersed in a matrix material. The matrix material is a low-melting phosphate glass and water resistant. The optoelectronic component emits in operation warm white light.
US10475966B2	Lighting emitting apparatus Embodiments provide a light-emitting device comprising: a light-emitting element configured for emitting excited light; a first wavelength conversion material to partially absorbs the excited light and emits light with a first emission wavelength; a second wavelength conversion material to partially absorbs the excited light and emits light with a second emission wavelength; and a third wavelength conversion material to partially absorbs the excited light and emits light with a third emission wavelength, wherein the first emission wavelength has a first emission peak at 530 nm to 540 nm, the second emission wavelength has a second emission peak at 550 nm to 560 nm, the third light-emitting device has a third emission peak at 620 nm to 650 nm.
US10475953B2	Optical analyzer and method for producing the same A passage (3) for a sample solution is formed in a sapphire base body (2) used as a substrate for semiconductor devices. An LED (4) and a photodiode (5) are formed on the base body (2) by a semiconductor manufacturing process so that they face each other across the passage (3). The LED (4) emits light into the base body (2). This light is transmitted through the sample solution in the passage (3), undergoing absorption according to the concentration and other properties of the solution. The transmitted light passes through the base body (2) and reaches the photodiode (5), producing a detection signal corresponding to the incident light amount. Since the light source and photodetector are integrated with the base body (2) serving as a flow cell, the present device is small and lightweight. Furthermore, no cumbersome task of aligning optical axes in the device-assembling process is needed.
US10475951B2	Optoelectronic semiconductor chip and method for the production thereof A method for producing an optoelectronic semiconductor chip is disclosed. A substrate is provided and a first layer is grown. An etching process is carrying out to initiate V-defects. A second layer is grown and a quantum film structure is grown. An optoelectronic semiconductor chip is also disclosed. The method can be used to produce the optoelectronic semiconductor chip.
US10475946B2	Method of manufacturing back surface junction type solar cell A method of manufacturing a solar cell includes: forming a conductive thin film layer on a semiconductor substrate; forming an insulating film on the conductive thin film layer; forming a conductive thin film layer exposed portion by removing a part of the insulating film; forming a plating film in the conductive thin film layer exposed portion; and removing the insulating film and the conductive thin film layer in an area not overlapping the plating film, wherein the plating film formed in the forming of a plating film is formed to cover the insulating film.
US10475944B2	Solar cell module and method for manufacturing the same A solar cell module is discussed. The solar cell module includes a plurality of solar cells each including a semiconductor substrate and a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes, which are formed on a back surface of the semiconductor substrate and are separated from each other, the plurality of solar cells disposed in a first direction; a plurality of first conductive lines connected to the plurality of first electrodes included in a first solar cell of the plurality of solar cells, and the plurality of first conductive lines extended in the first direction; a plurality of second conductive lines connected to the plurality of second electrodes included in a second solar cell of the plurality of solar cells which is adjacent to the first solar cell, and the plurality of second conductive lines extended in the first direction.
US10475941B2	Photodetector with conductive channel made from two dimensional material A photodetector has a two dimensional conductive channel and a quantum dot layer configured to generate charge on exposure to incident electromagnetic radiation. The surface texture of the quantum dot layer has texturing to provide surface roughness which increases the amount of electromagnetic radiation absorbed in the quantum dot layer in comparison to a photodetector having a flat (non-textured) incident electromagnetic radiation surface.
US10475939B2	Transparent conductive oxide film, photoelectric conversion element, and method for producing photoelectric conversion element Provided is a photoelectric conversion element comprising ITiO as a transparent electrode that is formed using an inline-type sputtering method, and utilizing the high transmittance up to the near-infrared ray region and excellent conductivity of ITiO. Using the inline-type sputtering method, a first transparent conductive oxide film 8 comprising indium oxide or tin-containing indium oxide that includes indium oxide as a main component and tin at an atomic ratio Sn/(In+Sn) of 19 atomic % or less is formed on a photoelectric conversion layer 7 side, and a second transparent conductive oxide film 9 comprising a titanium-containing indium oxide that includes indium oxide as a main component, and titanium at an atomic ratio Ti/(In+Ti) of 0.5 atomic % to 3.5 atomic % is laminated on an opposite side of the first transparent conductive film 8 from the photoelectric conversion layer 7.
US10475936B2	Thin film transistor and method for making the same The disclosure relates to a thin film transistor and a method for making the same. The thin film transistor includes a substrate; a gate on the substrate; a dielectric layer on the gate, wherein the dielectric layer includes a first sub-dielectric layer and a second sub-dielectric layer stacked on one another, and the first sub-dielectric layer is a first oxide dielectric layer formed by magnetron sputtering and in direct contact with the gate; a semiconductor layer on the dielectric layer, wherein the semiconductor layer includes nano-scaled semiconductor materials; and a source and a drain, wherein the source and the drain are on the dielectric layer, spaced apart from each other, and electrically connected to the semiconductor layer. The thin film transistor almost has no current hysteresis.
US10475931B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device that can be miniaturized or highly integrated is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first insulator over a substrate; a first oxide over the first insulator; a second oxide in contact with at least a portion of the top surface of the first oxide; a second insulator over the second oxide; a first conductor over the second insulator; a second conductor over the first conductor; a third insulator over the second conductor; a fourth insulator in contact with side surfaces of the second insulator, the first conductor, the second conductor, and the third insulator; and a fifth insulator in contact with the top surface of the second oxide and a side surface of the fourth insulator. The top surface of the fourth insulator is substantially aligned with the top surface of the third insulator.
US10475929B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a nanowire foundation layer on a semiconductor substrate. A first nanowire is formed on the nanowire foundation layer. A gate structure is formed over the nanowire foundation layer and wrapping the first nanowire. A second nanowire is formed on and in contact with the first nanowire in a bottom-up manner. A source/drain region is formed on the gate structure and wrapping the second nanowire.
US10475923B1	Method and structure for forming vertical transistors with various gate lengths Various methods and structures for fabricating a plurality of vertical fin FETs on the same semiconductor substrate in which a first gate length of a first gate in a first vertical fin FET is less than a second gate length of a second gate in a second vertical fin FET. A difference in gate lengths between different vertical fin FETs can be precisely fabricated by using atomic layer silicon germanium epitaxy. Gate length offset is formed at a bottom source/drain junction region of each vertical fin FET transistor, which allows downstream processing for all vertical fin FET transistors to be the same.
US10475922B2	Method for producing semiconductor device and semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a fin-shaped semiconductor layer on a semiconductor substrate and a first insulating film around the fin-shaped semiconductor layer. A first contact is on the fin-shaped semiconductor layer, where the first contact is metal contact. A first gate insulating film is around the first contact and a fourth contact on the first contact, and a second gate insulating film is around the fourth contact.
US10475921B2	Laterally diffused field effect transistor and a method of manufacturing the same An LDFET may be formed on the basis of manufacturing platforms designed for forming sophisticated small signal transistor elements. To this end, sidewall areas of trench isolation regions laterally positioned within the drift region may be used as current paths, thereby achieving increased design flexibility, since efficient current paths may still be established, even if the trench isolation regions have to extend into the substrate material due to design criteria determined by the sophisticated small signal transistor elements. In some illustrative embodiments, isolation of P-LDFETs with respect to the P-substrate may be accomplished without requiring a deep well implantation.
US10475919B2	Method of producing an integrated power transistor circuit having a current-measuring cell A method for producing an integrated power transistor circuit includes forming at least one transistor cell in a cell array, each transistor cell having a doped region formed in a semiconductor substrate and adjoining a first surface of the semiconductor substrate on a first side of the semiconductor substrate, depositing a contact layer on the first side, structuring the contact layer to form a contact structure from the contact layer, the contact structure having, in a projection of the cell array orthogonal to the first surface, a first section and, outside the cell array, a second section which connects the first section to an interface structure, and forming an electrode structure on and in direct contact with the first section in the orthogonal projection of the cell array, the electrode structure being absent outside the cell array.
US10475909B2	Electric assembly including a bipolar switching device and a wide bandgap transistor An electric assembly includes a bipolar switching device and a transistor circuit. The transistor circuit is electrically connected in parallel with the bipolar switching device and includes a normally-on wide bandgap transistor.
US10475907B2	Vertical tunnel field effect transistor (FET) Among other things, one or more techniques for forming a vertical tunnel field effect transistor (FET), and a resulting vertical tunnel FET are provided herein. In an embodiment, the vertical tunnel FET is formed by forming a core over a first type substrate region, forming a second type channel shell around a circumference greater than a core circumference, forming a gate dielectric around a circumference greater than the core circumference, forming a gate electrode around a circumference greater than the core circumference, and forming a second type region over a portion of the second type channel shell, where the second type has a doping opposite a doping of the first type. In this manner, line tunneling is enabled, thus providing enhanced tunneling efficiency for a vertical tunnel FET.
US10475906B2	Fabrication method of thin film transistor, fabrication method of array substrate, display panel, and display device A fabrication method of a thin film transistor, a fabrication method of an array substrate, a display panel, and a display device are provided. The fabrication method of the thin film transistor comprises: forming a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer and an oxide active layer; forming an inverted trapezoidal dissolution layer whose cross section is inverted trapezoidal on the oxide active layer, the inverted trapezoidal dissolution layer being soluble in an organic solvent; forming a source/drain layer on the oxide active layer, the gate insulating layer and the inverted trapezoidal dissolution layer, a thickness of the inverted trapezoidal dissolution layer being greater than a thickness of the source/drain layer; and dissolving and removing the inverted trapezoidal dissolution layer with the organic solvent and removing the source/drain layer on the inverted trapezoidal dissolution layer, to form a source electrode and a drain electrode.
US10475905B2	Techniques for vertical FET gate length control Techniques for VFET gate length control are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming a VFET device includes: patterning fins in a substrate; forming first polymer spacers alongside opposite sidewalls of the fins; forming second polymer spacers offset from the fins by the first polymer spacers; removing the first polymer spacers selective to the second polymer spacers; reflowing the second polymer spacers to close a gap to the fins; forming a cladding layer above the second polymer spacers; removing the second polymer spacers; forming gates along opposite sidewalls of the fins exposed in between the bottom spacers and the cladding layer, wherein the gates have a gate length Lg set by removal of the second polymer spacers; forming top spacers above the cladding layer; and forming top source and drains above the top spacers. A VFET device is also provided.
US10475903B2	Method of forming transistor with dual spacer A transistor with dual spacers includes a gate, a first dual spacer and a second inner spacer. The gate is disposed on a substrate, wherein the gate includes a gate dielectric layer and a gate electrode, and the gate dielectric layer protrudes from the gate electrode and covers the substrate. The first dual spacer is disposed on the gate dielectric layer beside the gate, wherein the first dual spacer includes a first inner spacer and a first outer spacer. The second inner spacer having an L-shaped profile is disposed on the gate dielectric layer beside the first dual spacer. The present invention also provides a method of forming said transistor with dual spacers.
US10475902B2	Spacers for nanowire-based integrated circuit device and method of fabricating same Nanowire-based integrated circuit devices and methods for fabricating such are disclosed herein. An exemplary method includes forming a heterostructure over a substrate. A gate structure is formed traversing the heterostructure, such that the gate structure separates a source region and a drain region of the heterostructure and defines a channel region between the source region and the drain region. A source/drain nanowire release process is performed on the heterostructure to release a nanowire in the source region and the drain region. Nanowire spacers are then formed in the source region and the drain region. The nanowire is disposed between the nanowire spacers. During a gate replacement process, a channel nanowire release process is performed on the heterostructure to release the nanowire in the channel region. Epitaxial source/drain features are formed over the nanowire and the nanowire spacers in the source region and the drain region before the gate replacement process.
US10475901B1	Cap removal for gate electrode structures with reduced complexity The present disclosure relates to manufacturing techniques and respective semiconductor devices in which the capping material of gate electrode structures may be removed together with portions of the capping material of resistors on the basis of a highly controllable directional etch process, wherein raised drain and source regions may be protected on the basis of a fill material.
US10475899B2	Method of forming gate-all-around (GAA) FinFET and GAA FinFET formed thereby A method of forming a GAA FinFET, including: forming a fin on a substrate, the substrate having a STI layer formed thereon and around a portion of a FIN-bottom portion of the fin, the fin having a dummy gate formed thereover, the dummy gate having a gate sidewall spacer on sidewalls thereof; forming a FIN-void and an under-FIN cavity in the STI layer; forming first spacers by filling the under-FIN cavity and FIN-void with a first fill; removing the dummy gate, thereby exposing both FIN-bottom and FIN-top portions of the fin underneath the gate; creating an open area underneath the exposed FIN-top by removing the exposed FIN-bottom; and forming a second spacer by filling the open area with a second fill; wherein a distance separates a top-most surface of the second spacer from a bottom-most surface of the FIN-top portion. A GAA FinFET formed by the method is also disclosed.
US10475893B2	Trench gate lead-out structure and manufacturing method therefor A trench gate lead-out structure comprises a substrate (10), a trench formed in the surface of the substrate (10) and a first dielectric layer (22) on the substrate (10), and also comprises a polysilicon gate (31) at the inner surface of the trench. The trench is partially filled by the polysilicon gate (31), so that a recess exists in the trench above the polysilicon gate (31). A second dielectric layer (41) is filled in the recess. The trench gate lead-out structure also comprises a metal plug (50). The metal plug (50) downwards penetrates through the first dielectric layer (22) and then is inserted between the second dielectric layer (41) and the polysilicon gate (31), and accordingly is connected to the polysilicon gate (31).
US10475891B2	Reliable non-volatile memory device Device and method for forming a device are disclosed. The method includes providing a substrate prepared with a memory cell region having a pair of non-volatile memory cells with a split gate. A split gate includes first and second gates. The first gate is an access gate and the second gate is a storage gate with a control gate over a floating gate. A common second S/D region is disposed adjacent to second gates of the first and second memory cells and first S/D regions are disposed adjacent to the first gates of the first and second memory cells. An erase gate is disposed over the common second S/D region. The erase gate is isolated by the second S/D and second gates by dielectric layers. A silicide block is disposed over the memory cell pair, covering the erase gate at least portions of the second gates of the memory cells.
US10475889B1	Gallium nitride power amplifier integration with metal-oxide-semiconductor devices Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a semiconductor device. One example semiconductor device generally includes a substrate, a semiconductor region disposed adjacent to the substrate, first fin(s) disposed adjacent to the semiconductor region, first gate region(s) disposed adjacent to the first fin(s), first drain contact(s) disposed above the first fin(s), first source contact(s) disposed below the substrate, a second fin disposed above the semiconductor region, and a second gate region, second source contact and second drain contact disposed adjacent to the second fin and above the semiconductor region. First path(s) are formed between the first drain contact(s) and the first source contact(s) for current flow(s) through the first fin(s) in a vertical direction along the first path(s). A second path is formed between the second source contact and the second drain contact for current flow through the second fin in a horizontal direction along the second path.
US10475887B2	Self-standing GaN substrate, GaN crystal, method for producing GaN single crystal, and method for producing semiconductor device An object is to provide a nonpolar or semipolar GaN substrate having improved size and crystal quality. A self-standing GaN substrate has an angle between the normal of the principal surface and an m-axis of 0 degrees or more and 20 degrees or less, wherein: the size of the projected image in a c-axis direction when the principal surface is vertically projected on an M-plane is 10 mm or more; and when an a-axis length is measured on an intersection line between the principal surface and an A-plane, a low distortion section with a section length of 6 mm or more and with an a-axis length variation within the section of 10.0×10−5 Å or less is observed.
US10475885B2	Semiconductor substrate structures and semiconductor devices A semiconductor substrate structure includes a semiconductor substrate (P-type), a first buried well region (N-type) disposed in the semiconductor substrate, a first buried layer (N-type) and a second buried layer (P-type) disposed in the semiconductor substrate and on the first buried well region. The first buried layer has a first portion and a second portion. The second buried layer is located between the first portion and the second portion. A top surface of the first portion, a top surface of the second buried layer, and a top surface of the second portion are level with a top surface of the semiconductor substrate, a sidewall of the first portion is aligned with a sidewall of the first buried well region, and a sidewall of the second portion is aligned with another sidewall of the first buried well region. A semiconductor device includes the semiconductor substrate structure and an epitaxial layer.
US10475882B2	Semiconductor device The reliability of a semiconductor device is improved. A contact trench for coupling a field plate and a field limiting ring situated at the corner part of a semiconductor device is formed of a first straight line part and a second straight line part arranged line symmetrically with respect to the crystal orientation <011>. Respective one ends of the first straight line part and the second straight line part are coupled at the crystal orientation <011>, and the first straight line part and the second straight line part are set to extend in different directions from the crystal orientation <010> and the crystal orientation <011>.
US10475880B2	Transistor device with high avalanche robustness A transistor device includes drain, source and gate nodes, a plurality of drift and compensation cells each including a drift region of a first doping type and a compensation region of a second doping type complementary to the first doping type, and a control structure connected between the drift region of each of the drift and compensation cells and the source node. Each drift region is coupled to the drain node and each compensation region cells is coupled to the source node. A first type doping concentration N1 of the drift region is higher than a first doping level L1, and a second type doping concentration N2 of the compensation region is higher than a second doping level L2.
US10475878B2	BEOL capacitor through airgap metallization A backend-of-the-line (BEOL) semiconductor capacitor made by method, apparatus, or computer program product, through an airgap metallization process, patterning a first electrode by removing a portion of inter-layer dielectric for a desired capacitor area, depositing a dielectric for a capacitor insulator, filling the desired capacitor area to form a second electrode, polishing and capping the second electrode, and interconnecting the first electrode and the second electrode. The manufactured product has a bottom electrode, composed of a conductor, electrically connected to upward conductive prominences; a low-K layer, above and conjoined to the bottom layer and surrounding the prominences, composed of a low-K dielectric; an isolation layer, above the low-K layer and surrounding the prominences, composed of a high-K insulator material, where modulating its material and thickness controls the capacitance; and a top electrode, composed of a conductor and electrically connected to downward prominences, where the bottom and top electrodes are interconnected.
US10475876B2	Devices with a single metal layer A single metal layer device, such as a display or sensor, comprises a substrate and a patterned metal layer. The patterned metal layer forms a two-dimensional array of spatially separated column line segments that each extend only partially across the display substrate in a column direction and forms a one-dimensional array of row lines extending across the display substrate in a row direction different from the column direction. The row lines and column line segments are electrically separate in the patterned metal layer. Spatially separated electrical jumpers are disposed on the display substrate and electrically connect pairs of column line segments adjacent in the column direction. Each electrical jumper has an independent jumper substrate independent of and separate from the display substrate. In certain embodiments, spatially separated light-emitting pixel circuits are disposed on a display substrate and are electrically connected to at least one row line and one column line.
US10475870B2	Display device Provided is a display device including a plurality of pixels at least one of which has a first transistor and a light-emitting element. The first transistor includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating film over the gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor film over the gate insulating film, and a first terminal and a second terminal electrically connected to the semiconductor film. The second terminal is electrically connected to the light-emitting element. A region in which the first terminal overlaps with the gate electrode can be smaller than a region in which the second terminal overlaps with the gate electrode.
US10475869B2	Display device including display element and transistor A display device with high luminance and excellent white balance is provided. The display device includes a first display element, a second display element, a first transistor, and a second transistor. The first display element includes a light-emitting layer and is electrically connected to the first transistor. The first transistor includes a first semiconductor film, a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode facing each other with the first semiconductor film provided therebetween, and a first source electrode and a first drain electrode over and in contact with the first semiconductor film. The second gate electrode is electrically connected to the first source electrode or the first drain electrode. The second display element includes a light-emitting layer and is electrically connected to the second transistor. The second transistor includes a second semiconductor film, and a third gate electrode and a fourth gate electrode facing each other with the second semiconductor film provided therebetween. The fourth gate electrode is electrically connected to the third gate electrode.
US10475868B2	Flexible organic light emitting diode display having edge bending structure A flexible display device according to an embodiment includes a flexible plate including a display area, a non-display area surrounding the display area, an edge bending area near the display area in the non-display area and a pad area extending from the edge bending area; a first thin film transistor in the display area on the flexible plate; a first line disposed in the edge bending area on the flexible plate; a first buffer layer covering the first line; a second line on the first buffer layer in the edge bending area; a second buffer layer covering the second line; a connecting electrode is electrically connected the first line and the second line in the edge bending area; and a plurality of trenches disposed at the edge bending area and penetrating the second buffer layer and the first buffer layer.
US10475863B2	Display device with integrated photodiode array A sheet display includes a display region including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix and photodiodes arranged on regions not overlapped with the plurality of pixels in the matrix; and a laminated structure including at least a metal layer and provided on the photodiode, in which in at least two layers including the metal layer in the laminated structure, slits or holes are provided such that external light is incident on the photodiode, and a slit or a hole formed on one of the at least two layers and a slit or a hole formed on another of the at least two layers are provided by being overlapped with each other.
US10475862B2	Display device having an input sensing unit A display device includes a display panel and an input-sensing unit located on the display panel. The input-sensing unit includes a plurality of sensor portions. At least one of the sensor portions is different from the others in terms of area or distance.
US10475860B2	Display panel and display device This application provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes an array substrate, an encapsulation layer and a fingerprint recognition module. The array substrate includes a first substrate and a plurality of light-emitting units on the first substrate. The encapsulation layer is disposed on top of the plurality of light-emitting units. The fingerprint recognition module is disposed on the encapsulation layer and includes at least one fingerprint recognition unit. The projection of the fingerprint recognition unit onto the array substrate is located in the non-light-emitting area of the first substrate. The non-light-emitting area is located between two adjacent light-emitting units.
US10475858B2	Nanostructures for color-by-white OLED devices The present disclosure describes nanostructured light extraction color filter laminates, and articles and methods of using nanostructured light extraction color filter laminates for the fabrication of an OLED including a nanostructure, using lamination techniques. Nanostructured OLED devices can exhibit enhanced light extraction efficiency. The methods involve transfer and/or replication of a film, layer, or coating in order to form a nanostructured surface that is in optical contact with the emitting surface of an OLED in, for example, a top emitting or a bottom emitting active matrix OLED (TE-AMOLED or BE-AMOLED) device. The articles having enhanced light extraction efficiency can be of particular use in color-by-white (CBW) OLED displays, which use white-light spectrum OLEDs with a color filter array.
US10475849B2	Device comprising a plurality of diodes A device including a plurality of interconnected concentric coplanar diodes.
US10475847B2	Semiconductor device having stress-neutralized film stack and method of fabricating same A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a first film having a first film stress type and a first film stress intensity over a substrate and forming a second film having a second film stress type and a second film stress intensity over the first film. The second film stress type is different than the first film stress type. The second film stress intensity is about same as the first film stress intensity. The second film compensates stress induced effect of non-flatness of the substrate by the first film.
US10475839B2	Semiconductor device with a radiation sensing region and method for forming the same A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a radiation-sensing region, at least one isolation structure, and a doped passivation layer. The radiation-sensing region is present in the semiconductor substrate. The isolation structure is present in the semiconductor substrate and adjacent to the radiation-sensing region. The doped passivation layer at least partially surrounds the isolation structure in a substantially conformal manner.
US10475835B2	Semiconductor device structure and manufacturing process thereof A semiconductor device structure for sensing an incident light includes a substrate, a wiring structure, and at least one passivation layer. The substrate has a device. The at least one passivation layer is disposed above the wiring structure. The at least one passivation layer includes a plurality of microstructures, and each of the microstructures has a cross-section in a shape of a triangle, trapezoid or arc. The wiring structure is disposed below the at least one passivation layer. A method for manufacturing the semiconductor device structure is also provided.
US10475833B2	Solid-state image sensor and camera which can detect visible light and infrared light at a high S/N ratio A solid-state image sensor includes a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels. Each of the plurality of first pixels includes a first filter having a visible light transmittance higher than an infrared light transmittance, and a first photoelectric converter configured to receive visible light transmitted through the first filter, and each of the plurality of second pixels includes a second filter having an infrared light transmittance higher than a visible light transmittance, and a second photoelectric converter configured to receive infrared light transmitted through the second filter. The plurality of second pixels are divided into a plurality of groups each includes at least two second pixels. The solid-state image sensor includes a synthesizer configured to synthesize a signal from signals of the at least two second pixels included in each group.
US10475832B2	High dynamic range pixel using light separation An image sensor may include pixels having nested sub-pixels. A pixel with nested sub-pixels may include an inner sub-pixel that has either an elliptical or a rectangular light collecting area. The inner sub-pixel may be formed in a substrate and may be immediately surrounded by a sub-pixel group that includes one or more sub-pixels. The inner sub-pixel may have a light collecting area at a surface that is less sensitive than the light collecting area of the one or more outer sub-pixel groups. Microlenses may be formed over the nested sub-pixels, to direct light away from the inner sub-pixel group to the outer sub-pixel groups in nested sub-pixels. A color filter of a single color may be formed over the nested sub-pixels. Hybrid color filters having a single color filter region over the inner sub-pixel and a portion of the one or more outer sub-pixel groups may also be used.
US10475831B2	Solid-state image sensing device, electronic device, and method for manufacturing solid-state image sensing device The present technology relates to a solid-state image sensing device for preventing a reduction in light receiving sensitivity of an avalanche photodiode, an electronic device, and a method for manufacturing the solid-state image sensing device. A solid-state image sensing device includes an avalanche photodiode having a first region of a first conductive type, a second region of a second conductive type different from the first conductive type, and an avalanche region sandwiched between the first region and the second region, which extend in a thickness direction of a semiconductor substrate, and a film formed on at least one side of the semiconductor substrate and including a metal oxide film, a metal nitride film, or a mix crystal-based film of metal oxide film and metal nitride film. The present technology can be applied to CMOS image sensors, for example.
US10475829B2	Semiconductor apparatus and equipment A semiconductor apparatus includes a conductive member including a polycrystalline silicon layer having a first, second and third portions, an interlayer insulation film that covers the conductive member, a first silicon nitride layer arranged between the interlayer insulation film and the third portion, a second silicon nitride layer arranged between the interlayer insulation film and the first portion and between the interlayer insulation layer and the second portion, a first contact plug disposed above the first portion and penetrating the interlayer insulation film and the second silicon nitride layer to connect to the conductive member, and a second contact plug disposed above the second portion and penetrating the interlayer insulation film and the second silicon nitride layer to connect to the conductive member. The first silicon nitride layer is disposed between the first and second contact plugs, and apart from the first and second contact plugs.
US10475827B2	Electronic image capture device An electronic image capture device includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is formed by a substrate wafer provided on one side with electronic circuits and a dielectric layer with a network of electrical connections and external electrical contacts on an outer surface. The second portion includes a pixel wafer capable of generating electrical signals under the effect of light, a substrate wafer mounted to the pixel wafer and provided with electronic circuits and a dielectric layer with a network of electrical connections and external electrical contacts on an outer surface. The outer surfaces and external electrical contacts are bonded to each other so as to mount the first portion to the second portion. A connection pad extends through a hole in the pixel wafer to make electrical connection to the network of electrical connections of the second portion.
US10475826B2	Thin film transistor and photoelectric device thereof A thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, a semiconductor layer, a gate dielectric layer, a first dielectric layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode. The gate electrode is disposed on a substrate. The semiconductor layer is disposed on the substrate and overlaps with the gate electrode. The gate dielectric layer is disposed between the gate electrode and the semiconductor layer. The first dielectric layer is disposed on the substrate and covers two sides of the gate electrode or the semiconductor layer. The dielectric constant of the first dielectric layer is less than the dielectric constant of the gate dielectric layer, and the dielectric constant of the first dielectric layer is less than 4. The source electrode and the drain electrode are disposed on the substrate. The source electrode is separated from the drain electrode, and the source electrode and the drain electrode separately contact the semiconductor layer.
US10475823B2	Method for manufacturing TFT substrate and structure thereof The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a TFT substrate and a structure thereof. The method for manufacturing the TFT substrate arranges a connection electrode (83) that connects two dual gate TFTs in a third metal layer to prevent the design rules of a connection electrode and a second metal layer of the prior art techniques from being narrowed due to the connection electrode being collectively present on the second metal layer with signal lines of a data line and a voltage supply line so as to facilitate increase of an aperture ratio and definition of a display panel. The present invention provides a TFT substrate structure, which has a simple structure and possesses a high aperture ratio and high definition.
US10475822B2	Array substrate, display panel and display apparatus having the same, and fabricating method thereof The present application discloses an array substrate, a display panel and a display apparatus having the same, and a fabricating method thereof. The array substrate includes a base substrate; a first electrode and a second electrode, the first electrode and the second electrode being two different electrodes selected from a pixel electrode and a common electrode; and a thin film transistor including an active layer, an etch stop layer on a side of the active layer distal to the base substrate, a first node, and a second node.
US10475820B2	Peeling method, display device, module, and electronic device To provide a peeling method that achieves low cost and high mass productivity. The peeling method includes the steps of: forming a first layer with a photosensitive material over a formation substrate; forming a first region and a second region having a smaller thickness than the first region in the first layer by photolithography to form a resin layer having the first region and the second region; forming a transistor including an oxide semiconductor in a channel formation region over the first region in the resin layer; forming a conductive layer over the second region in the resin layer; and irradiating the resin layer with laser light to separate the transistor and the formation substrate.
US10475816B2	Body current bypass resistor A radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) is described. The RFIC includes a switch field effect transistor (FET), including a source region, a drain region, a body region, and a gate. The RFIC also includes a body bypass resistor coupled between the gate and the body region. The RFIC further includes a gate isolation resistor coupled between the gate and the body region. The RFIC also includes a diode coupled between the body bypass resistor and the gate isolation resistor.
US10475814B2	Ferroelectric memory devices A ferroelectric memory device includes a substrate, an interfacial insulation layer disposed on the substrate, a recombination induction layer disposed on the interfacial insulation layer, a ferroelectric layer disposed on the recombination induction layer, and a gate electrode disposed on the ferroelectric layer. The recombination induction layer includes a material containing holes acting as a majority carrier.
US10475813B2	Ferroelectric memory device and method of manufacturing the same In an embodiment, a ferroelectric memory device includes a substrate having a source region and a drain region. The ferroelectric memory device includes a ferroelectric superlattice structure disposed on the substrate and having at least two kinds of different dielectric layers alternately stacked. Further, the ferroelectric memory device includes a gate electrode layer disposed on the superlattice structure.
US10475811B2	Memory device and method for fabricating the same A memory device memory device includes a multi-layers stack, a charge-trapping layer, a first channel layer and a SSL switch. The multi-layers stack includes a plurality of insulating layers, a plurality of conductive layers alternatively stacked with the insulating layers and at least one first through opening passing through the conductive layers. The charge-trapping layer blankets over a sidewall of the first through opening. The first channel layer is disposed in the first through opening. The SSL switch is disposed on the multi-layers stack and includes a second channel layer, a gate dielectric layer and a gate. The second channel layer is disposed on and electrically contacting to the first channel layer. The gate dielectric layer is disposed on the second channel layer and made of a material other than that for making the charge-trapping layer. The gate is disposed on the gate dielectric layer.
US10475810B2	Conductive components and memory assemblies Some embodiments include a memory assembly having memory cells proximate a conductive source. Channel material extends along the memory cells and is electrically coupled with the conductive source. The conductive source is over an insulative material and includes an adhesion material directly against the insulative material. The adhesion material comprises one or more of metal, silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride, silicon carbide, metal silicide, metal carbide, metal oxide, metal oxynitride and metal nitride. The conductive source includes metal-containing material over and directly against the adhesion material. The metal-containing material consists essentially of metal. The conductive source includes a metal-and-nitrogen-containing material over and directly against the metal-containing material, and includes a conductively-doped semiconductor material over the metal-and-nitrogen-containing material.
US10475808B2	Three dimensional memory device and method for fabricating the same A 3D memory device includes a substrate, a multi-layers stack and a dielectric material. The substrate has a concave portion extending along a first direction into the substrate from a surface thereof. The multi-layers stack includes a plurality of conductive layers and a plurality of insulating layers alternatively stacked along the first direction on a bottom of the concave portion. The multi-layers stack also has at least one recess passing through the conductive layers and the insulating layers along the first direction, wherein the recess has a cross-sectional bottom profile and a cross-sectional opening profile perpendicular to the first direction and the cross-sectional bottom profile has a size substantially greater than that of the cross-sectional opening profile. The dielectric material is at least partially filled in the recess.
US10475807B2	Three-dimensional memory device and manufacturing method thereof A method for manufacturing three-dimensional memory, comprising the steps of: forming a stack structure composed of a plurality of first material layers and a plurality of second material layers on a substrate; etching the stack structure to expose the substrate, forming a plurality of first vertical openings; forming a filling layer in each of the first openings; etching the stack structure around each of the first openings to expose the substrate, forming a plurality of second vertical openings; forming a vertical channel layer and a drain in each of the second openings; removing the filling layer by selective etching, re-exposing the first openings; partially or completely removing the second material layers by lateral etching, leaving a plurality of recesses; forming a plurality of gate stack structure in the recesses; forming a plurality of common sources on and/or in the substrate at the bottom of each of the first openings. In accordance with the three-dimensional memory manufacturing method of the present invention, the deep trenches of word-line in the TCAT three-dimensional device are replaced with deep-hole etching to realize the same function, thereby improving the integration density, simplifying the etching process of stacked structure, and maintaining the control performance of the metal gate.
US10475794B1	Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a first bit line structure on a substrate; forming a first spacer adjacent to the first bit line structure; forming an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer adjacent to the first spacer; removing part of the ILD layer and part of the first spacer to expose a sidewall of the first bit line structure; and forming a first storage node contact isolation structure adjacent to the first bit line structure, wherein the first storage node contact isolation structure contacts the first bit line structure and the first spacer directly.
US10475793B2	Capacitor cell and structure thereof A capacitor cell is provided. A first PMOS transistor is coupled between a power supply and a first node, having a gate coupled to a second node. A first NMOS transistor coupled between a ground and the second node, having a gate coupled to the first node. A second PMOS transistor, having a drain coupled to the second node, a gate coupled to the second node, and a source coupled to the power supply or the first node. A second NMOS transistor, having a drain coupled to the first node, a gate coupled to the first node, and a source coupled to the ground or the second node.
US10475787B2	Asymmetric transient voltage suppressor device and methods for formation A transient voltage suppression (TVS) device, may include: a substrate base formed in a substrate, the substrate base comprising a semiconductor of a first conductivity type; and an epitaxial layer, disposed on the substrate base, on a first side of the substrate, and comprising a semiconductor of a second conductivity type. The epitaxial layer may include: a first portion, the first portion having a first layer thickness; and a second portion, the second portion having a second layer thickness, less than the first layer thickness, wherein the first portion and the second portion are disposed on a first side of the substrate, and wherein the first portion is electrically isolated from the second portion.
US10475779B2	Semiconductor device and method of forming a vertical interconnect structure for 3-D FO-WLCSP A semiconductor device has an encapsulant deposited over a first surface of the semiconductor die and around the semiconductor die. A first insulating layer is formed over a second surface of the semiconductor die opposite the first surface. A conductive layer is formed over the first insulating layer. An interconnect structure is formed through the encapsulant outside a footprint of the semiconductor die and electrically connected to the conductive layer. The first insulating layer includes an optically transparent or translucent material. The semiconductor die includes a sensor configured to receive an external stimulus passing through the first insulating layer. A second insulating layer is formed over the first surface of the semiconductor die. A conductive via is formed through the first insulating layer outside a footprint of the semiconductor die. A plurality of stacked semiconductor devices is electrically connected through the interconnect structure.
US10475778B2	Optoelectronic component and method for producing an optoelectronic component An optoelectronic component and a method for producing an optoelectronic component are disclosed. In an embodiment the optoelectronic component includes a semiconductor chip subdivided into a plurality of pixels, the pixels being arranged next to one another in a lateral direction and being configured to be activated individually and independently and a metallic connecting element having an upper side and an underside, the connecting element including a contiguous metallic connecting layer, which is completely passed through by a plurality of first metallic through-connections arranged next to one another in the lateral direction, wherein the first through-connections are electrically insulated and spaced from the connecting layer by insulating regions, wherein each first through-connection is unambiguously assigned to one pixel, is electrically-conductively connected to this pixel and forms a first electrical contact to this pixel, and wherein the semiconductor chip is connected by the connecting element to a carrier.
US10475777B2	Semiconductor apparatus installing passive device A semiconductor apparatus that comprises a package, an active device, and a passive device is disclosed. The package includes a metal base, a shell, and a lid. The active device is mounted of the metal base. The passive device is soldered on the metal base. The passive device includes an insulating substrate with a rectangular outer shape and a bottom electrode with a plane shape reflecting the rectangular outer shape of the insulating substrate. The insulating substrate is made of material with brittleness greater than that of the metal base. A feature of the invention is that the bottom electrode has cut corners.
US10475776B2	Fan-out semiconductor package module A fan-out semiconductor package module includes a core member having first and second through-holes. A semiconductor chip is in the first through-hole and has an active surface with a connection pad and an inactive surface opposing the active surface. Another passive component is in the second through-hole. An first encapsulant covers at least portions of the core member and the passive component, and fills at least a portion of the second through-hole. A reinforcing member is on the first encapsulant. A second encapsulant covers at least a portion of the semiconductor chip, and fills at least a portion of the first through-hole. A connection member is on the core member, the active surface of the semiconductor chip, and the passive component, and includes a redistribution layer electrically connected to the connection pad and the passive component.
US10475771B2	Semiconductor device with an electrically-coupled protection mechanism and associated systems, devices, and methods A semiconductor device includes a first die; a first metal enclosure directly contacting and vertically extending below the first die, wherein the first metal enclosure peripherally encircles a first enclosed space; a second die directly contacting the first metal enclosure opposite the first die; a second metal enclosure directly contacting and vertically extending below the second die, wherein the second metal enclosure peripherally encircles a second enclosed space; and an enclosure connection mechanism directly contacting the first metal enclosure and the second metal enclosure for electrically coupling the first metal enclosure and the second metal enclosure.
US10475763B2	Die bonding apparatus comprising an inert gas environment A die bonding apparatus comprising a first inert gas container having a first inert gas concentration, and a second inert gas container having a second inert gas concentration enclosed within the first inert gas container. The second inert gas concentration is higher than the first inert gas concentration. The die bonding apparatus further comprises a bond head located in the second inert gas container for receiving a die for bonding, and a third inert gas container having an inert gas environment that is separate from the first and second inert gas containers and where a substrate is locatable for die bonding. The bond head is operative to move the die between a first position within the second inert container and a second position within the third inert gas container to bond the die onto the substrate located in the third inert gas container.
US10475762B1	3DIC structure and method of manufacturing the same A 3DIC structure includes a die, a conductive terminal, and a dielectric structure. The die is bonded to a carrier through a bonding film. The conductive terminal is disposed over and electrically connected to the die. The dielectric structure comprises a first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer. The first dielectric layer is disposed laterally aside the die. The second dielectric layer is disposed between the first dielectric layer and the bonding film, and between the die and the boding film. A second edge of the second dielectric layer is more flat than a first edge of the first dielectric layer.
US10475761B2	Method for producing electronic device with multi-layer contact A method for producing an electric device with a multi-layer contact is disclosed. In an embodiment, a method includes providing a carrier, the carrier having a metallic layer disposed on its surface, providing a semiconductor substrate, forming a layer stack on the semiconductor substrate and attaching the layer stack of the semiconductor substrate to the metallic layer of the carrier so that an intermetallic phase is formed between the metallic layer and the solder layer.
US10475756B2	Composite antenna substrate and semiconductor package module A composite antenna substrate and semiconductor package module includes: a fan-out semiconductor package including a semiconductor chip, an encapsulant encapsulating at least portions of the semiconductor chip, and a connection member including a redistribution layer electrically connected to connection pads; and an antenna substrate including an antenna member including antenna patterns, ground patterns, and feed lines, and a wiring member disposed below the antenna member and including wiring layers including feeding patterns electrically connected to the feed lines.
US10475753B2	Advanced crack stop structure An integrated circuit (IC) structure includes an active area of the IC structure insulator positioned over a substrate. The active area includes an interconnection structure comprised of a plurality of levels, each of the interconnect structure levels including an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer, a barrier layer disposed over the ILD and a conductor metal layer over the barrier layer. The IC structure also includes a crack stop area which includes a crack stop structure having an equal plurality of levels as the interconnect structure. Each of the crack stop structure levels includes at least one of the layers of the interconnection structure at a same level. At least one crack stop structure level also includes a high modulus layer unique to the crack stop structure level as compared to the corresponding interconnect structure level. In another aspect of the invention, a method for producing the structure is described.
US10475751B2	Fan-out semiconductor package A fan-out semiconductor package includes: a core member having at least one through-hole formed therein and having a metal layer disposed on an internal surface thereof; an electronic component disposed in the through-hole; an encapsulant encapsulating the core member and the electronic component; a metal plate disposed on an upper surface of the encapsulant; and a wall penetrating the encapsulant to connect the metal layer and the metal plate to each other. The wall includes sections spaced apart from each other.
US10475748B2	Fan-out semiconductor package A fan-out semiconductor package includes: a frame including insulating layers, wiring layers, and connection via layers, and having a recess portion having a stopper layer; a semiconductor chip having connection pads and disposed in the recess portion so that an inactive surface is connected to the stopper layer; a first encapsulant covering at least portions of the semiconductor chip and filling at least portions of the recess portion; an electronic component disposed on the other surface of the frame opposing one surface of the frame in which the semiconductor chip is disposed; a second encapsulant covering at least portions of the electronic component; and a connection member disposed on the frame and an active surface of the semiconductor chip and including a redistribution layer, wherein the connection pads and the electronic component are electrically connected to each other through the wiring layers and the redistribution layer.
US10475743B2	Semiconductor device having a metal adhesion and barrier structure and a method of forming such a semiconductor device According to an embodiment of a semiconductor device, the semiconductor devices includes a metal structure electrically connected to a semiconductor body and a metal adhesion and barrier structure between the metal structure and the semiconductor body. The metal adhesion and barrier structure includes a first layer having titanium and tungsten, and a second layer having titanium, tungsten, and nitrogen on the first layer having titanium and tungsten.
US10475739B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate comprising a lower wire, an etch stop layer on the substrate, an interlayer insulating layer on the etch stop layer, an upper wire disposed in the interlayer insulating layer and separated from the lower wire and a via formed in the interlayer insulating layer and the etch stop layer and connecting the lower wire with the upper wire, wherein the via comprises a first portion in the etch stop layer and a second portion in the interlayer insulating layer, and wherein a sidewall of the first portion of the via increases stepwise.
US10475737B2	Stack of horizontally extending and vertically overlapping features, methods of forming circuitry components, and methods of forming an array of memory cells A method of forming circuitry components includes forming a stack of horizontally extending and vertically overlapping features. The stack has a primary portion and an end portion. At least some of the features extend farther in the horizontal direction in the end portion moving deeper into the stack in the end portion. Operative structures are formed vertically through the features in the primary portion and dummy structures are formed vertically through the features in the end portion. Horizontally elongated openings are formed through the features to form horizontally elongated and vertically overlapping lines from material of the features. The lines individually extend from the primary portion into the end portion, and individually laterally about sides of vertically extending portions of both the operative structures and the dummy structures. Sacrificial material that is elevationally between the lines is at least partially removed in the primary and end portions laterally between the horizontally elongated openings. Other aspects and implementations are disclosed.
US10475732B2	3DIC package integration for high-frequency RF system A three-Dimensional Integrated Circuit (3DIC) Chip on Wafer on Substrate (CoWoS) packaging structure or system includes a silicon oxide interposer with no metal ingredients, and with electrically conductive TVs and RDLs. The silicon oxide interposer has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The electrically conductive TVs penetrate through the silicon oxide interposer. The electrically interconnected RDLs are disposed over the first surface of the silicon oxide interposer, and are electrically coupled or connected to a number of the conductive TVs.
US10475728B2	Apparatus for bonding flexible part including inclined leads An apparatus for bonding a flexible part including inclined leads is provided, more particularly, an apparatus for bonding a flexible part including inclined leads, which aligns parts to bond the parts is provided. According to the apparatus for bonding a flexible part including inclined leads, an electronic part may be easily bonded to a part having an inclined surface.
US10475720B2	S-contact thermal structure with active circuitry An integrated circuit architecture that provides a path having relatively low thermal resistance between one or more electronic devices and one or more thermal structures formed on an insulator layer on a substrate. Independent parallel thermal conduction paths are provided through the insulator layer, such as a buried oxide (“BOX”) layer, to allow heat to flow from the substrate layer to a collector column having a portion in common with a thermal structure disposed upon the BOX layer. In some cases, the substrate is a silicon substrate layer supporting the thermal structure and the collector column and a heat source, such as an electronic device (e.g., power amplifier, transistor, diode, resistor, etc.).
US10475719B2	Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor structure includes a substrate comprising a die pad disposed over the substrate, and a passivation disposed over the substrate and surrounding the die pad, a redistribution layer (RDL) comprising a dielectric layer disposed over the passivation and an interconnect structure disposed within the dielectric layer and electrically connecting with the die pad, a conductive bump disposed over and electrically connected with the interconnect structure; and an isolation layer surrounding the substrate and the RDL.
US10475718B2	Semiconductor device package comprising a dielectric layer with built-in inductor A semiconductor device package includes a dielectric layer, a first RDL, a second RDL, an inductor, a first electronic component and a second electronic component. The first RDL is adjacent to a first surface of the dielectric layer, and the first RDL includes first conductive pieces. The second RDL is adjacent to a second surface of the dielectric layer, and the second RDL includes second conductive pieces. The inductor is disposed in the dielectric layer. The inductor includes induction pillars, wherein each of the induction pillars is disposed through the dielectric layer, and each of the induction pillars is interconnected between a respective one of the first conductive pieces of the first RDL and a respective one of the second conductive pieces of the second RDL. The first electronic component and the second electronic component are between the first RDL and the second RDL, and electrically connected to each other through the inductor.
US10475713B2	Controllable integrated capacitive device An integrated circuit includes several metallization levels separated by an insulating region. A hollow housing whose walls comprise metallic portions is produced within various metallization levels. A controllable capacitive device includes a suspended metallic structure situated in the hollow housing within a first metallization level including a first element fixed on two fixing zones of the housing and at least one second element extending in cantilever fashion from the first element and includes a first electrode of the capacitive device. A second electrode includes a first fixed body situated at a second metallization level adjacent to the first metallization level facing the first electrode. The first element is controllable in flexion from a control zone of this first element so as to modify the distance between the two electrodes.
US10475709B1	Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of: providing a substrate having a first region and a second region; forming a first fin-shaped structure on the first region; removing part of the first fin-shaped structure to forma first trench; forming a dielectric layer in the first trench, wherein the dielectric layer comprises silicon oxycarbonitride (SiOCN); and planarizing the dielectric layer to form a first single diffusion break (SDB) structure.
US10475704B2	Method of manufacturing element chip and element chip In a plasma processing step that is used in the method of manufacturing the element chip for manufacturing a plurality of element chips by dividing a substrate having a plurality of element regions, the substrate is divided into element chips 10 by exposing the substrate to a first plasma. Therefore, element chips having a first surface, a second surface, and a side surface connecting the first surface and the second surface are held spaced from each other on a carrier. A protection film covering the element chip is formed only on the side surface and it is possible to suppress creep-up of a conductive material to the side surface in the mounting step by exposing the element chips to second plasma in which a mixed gas of fluorocarbon and helium is used as a raw material gas.
US10475699B2	Semiconductor device with contact plug The semiconductor device includes a substrate, an epi-layer, a first etch stop layer, an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer, a second etch stop layer, a protective layer, a liner, a silicide cap and a contact plug. The substrate has a first portion and a second portion. The epi-layer is disposed in the first portion. The first etch stop layer is disposed on the second portion. The ILD layer is disposed on the first etch stop layer. The second etch stop layer is disposed on the ILD layer, in which the first etch stop layer, the ILD layer and the second etch stop layer form a sidewall surrounding the first portion. The protective layer is disposed on the sidewall. The liner is disposed on the protective layer. The silicide cap is disposed on the epi-layer. The contact plug is disposed on the silicide cap and surrounded by the liner.
US10475697B2	Integrated memory, integrated assemblies, and methods of forming memory arrays Some embodiments include an integrated memory having an array of capacitors. The array has edges. The capacitors along the edges are edge capacitors, and the other capacitors are internal capacitors. The edge capacitors have inner edges facing toward the internal capacitors, and have outer edges in opposing relation to the inner edges. An insulative beam extends laterally between the capacitors. The insulative beam is along upper regions of the capacitors. First void regions are under the insulative beam, along lower regions of the internal capacitors, and along the inner edges of the edge capacitors. Peripheral extensions of the insulative beam extend laterally outward of the edge capacitors, and second void regions are under the peripheral extensions and along the outer edges of the edge capacitors. Some embodiments included integrated assemblies having two or more memory array decks stacked on atop another. Some embodiments include methods of forming memory arrays.
US10475696B2	Method of manufacture of a semiconductor on insulator structure A method is provided for preparing a semiconductor-on-insulator structure comprising a multilayer dielectric layer.
US10475692B2	Self aligned buried power rail The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to self-aligned buried power rail structures and methods of manufacture. The method includes: forming at least one fin structure of a first dimension in a substrate; forming at least one fin structure of a second dimension in the substrate; removing at least a portion of the at least one fin structure of the second dimension to form a trench; filling the trench with conductive metal to form a buried power rail structure within the trench; and forming a contact to the buried power rail structure.
US10475690B2	Apparatus and method for automatically setting, calibrating and monitoring or measuring pickup head position and force during component pickup operations A system is disclosed for calibrating the compressive forces exerted on a component during a component retrieval process from a carrier or support surface by a component handling device. The system includes a sensor, a component pickup assembly having a reference structure, a housing and a spring guide holder coupled to a suction tip. A resilient member may reside within the housing and the reference structure such that the spring guide holder and the housing are spaced from each other to define a variable first gap thereinbetween. A gate is formed by the reference structure and a sheath located on the housing whereby the reference structure is spaced from the housing to define a variable second gap thereinbetween. A detection structure is located within the variable second gap such that the sensor is able to detect portions of the detection structure. The detected portion of the detection structure or element at the second gap size is correlated to the height of the variable first gap and the height of the variable first gap is correlated to a reference predetermined threshold compressive force exerted on the component by the resilient member.
US10475685B2	Substrate loading system Methods, systems, and apparatus for a substrate transfer method, including positioning a tray handler device in a first position with i) cutouts of an aperture of the first tray in superimposition with respective pedestals of a pedestal platform and ii) a distal end of the pedestals extending away from a top surface of the first tray; increasing a distance between the top surface of the first tray and a top surface of the pedestal platform to transfer a first substrate from the pedestals to the tabs defined by the aperture of the first tray, while concurrently engaging the second tray handler with the second tray; and increasing a distance between the top surface of the second tray and the bottom surface of a chuck to transfer a second substrate from the chuck to the tabs defined by the second tray.
US10475683B2	Method for charging gas into cassette pod A method for transporting a cassette pod for containing semiconductor waters is provided. The method includes transporting a cassette pod configured to receive a semiconductor wafer with a transporting apparatus. The method further includes supplying a gas from a cylinder into a housing of the cassette pod. The cylinder is externally positioned on the housing. The method also includes detecting a gas pressure in the cylinder with a detection element. In addition, the method includes issuing a signal to the transporting apparatus when the gas pressure in the cylinder is lower than a predetermined limit.
US10475682B2	Wafer support column with interlocking features A substrate support assembly for a substrate container. The assembly may include a pair of substrate support columns each including a stack of a plurality of shelf members and a plurality of support rods inserted through the stack for securing the stack together. Each shelf member may include a blade portion having first and second opposing surfaces and an inner and outer periphery. Each surface of the blade portion may include a rib structure and a plurality of bosses positioned towards the outer periphery and extending from a forward portion to a rearward portion of the blade portion. Interlocking features may be defined on the rib structures. The stack of the shelf members may include each shelf member stacked with one or more adjacent shelf members via the rib structures, thereby interlocking each shelf member with the one or more adjacent shelf members via the interlocking features.
US10475674B2	Light irradiation type heat treatment apparatus and method for manufacturing heat treatment apparatus A sealing structure is achieved by sandwiching an O ring between an upper chamber window and a chamber side portion and pressing a clamping ring against a top of a peripheral portion of the upper chamber window. Grooving is performed on a lower surface and an upper surface of the peripheral portion of the upper chamber window, to thereby form a plurality of grooves thereon. Flash light traveling into the peripheral portion of the upper chamber window during irradiation with flash light is reflected by the plurality of grooves and is prevented from traveling toward the O ring. This significantly reduces an amount of flash light reaching the O ring, and thus degradation of the O ring due to the irradiation with the flash light can be prevented.
US10475673B2	Apparatus for manufacturing a silicon carbide wafer Various embodiments provide a reaction chamber including a support, a receptacle, and a sponge. The support includes a plurality of bars that are spaced from each other by a plurality of openings. Each of the bars has side surfaces that are slanted or tilted downward such that melted material may readily flow through the openings. The support is covered with a coating of silicon carbide to prevent materials from adhering to the support. The receptacle underlies the support and is configured to collect any melted material that is drained through the openings of the support. The sponge is positioned in the receptacle and under the support. The sponge is configured to absorb any melted material that is collected by the receptacle.
US10475670B2	Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method In parallel with a substrate heating step, a liquid surface sensor is used to monitor the raising of an IPA liquid film. An organic solvent removing step is started in response to the raising of the IPA liquid film over the upper surface of the substrate. At the end of the organic solvent removing step, a visual sensor is used to determine whether or not IPA droplets remain on the upper surface of the substrate.
US10475669B2	Method for fabricating Mach-Zehnder modulator, Mach-Zehnder modulator A method for fabricating a Mach-Zehnder modulator includes: forming a resin body embedding a semiconductor mesa for an arm waveguide, the resin body having an opening on an upper face of the semiconductor mesa; forming an electrode on the semiconductor mesa and the resin body, the electrode being in contact with the upper face of the semiconductor mesa through the opening of the resin body; forming an inorganic insulating protective layer on the electrode and the resin body, the inorganic insulating protective layer having an arrangement of multiple first openings therethrough to the electrode; and forming a metal body on the inorganic insulating protective layer and the electrode, the metal body being in contact with the electrode through the multiple first openings of the inorganic insulating protective layer.
US10475666B2	Routable electroforming substrate comprising removable carrier A routable electroforming substrate for assembling a semiconductor package is manufactured by providing a carrier and plating a patterned first metallic layer onto the carrier which is configured to function as a surface mount pad or input/output pad in an assembled semiconductor package. A patterned second metallic layer comprising copper is plated over the first metallic layer, and a third metallic layer, which is configured for mounting a plurality of semiconductor dice, is plated over the second metallic layer. The carrier is then removed to expose the first metallic layer.
US10475660B2	Method for fin formation with a self-aligned directed self-assembly process and cut-last scheme A method of making a semiconductor device includes disposing a first hard mask (HM), amorphous silicon, and second HM on a substrate; disposing oxide and neutral layers on the second HM; removing a portion of the oxide and neutral layers to expose a portion of the second HM; forming a guiding pattern by selectively backfilling with a polymer; forming a self-assembled block copolymer (BCP) on the guiding pattern; removing a portion of the BCP to form an etch template; transferring the pattern from said template into the substrate and forming uniform silicon fin arrays with two types of HM stacks with different materials and heights; gap-filling with oxide followed by planarization; selectively removing and replacing the taller HM stack with a third HM material; planarizing the surface and exposing both HM stacks; and selectively removing the shorter HM stack and the silicon fins underneath.
US10475659B2	Method of processing target object A method of processing a target object is provided. In the method, the target object including a first protrusion portion, a second protrusion portion, an etching target layer and a groove portion, the etching target layer having a region belonging to the first protrusion portion and a region belonging to the second protrusion portion, the groove portion being provided on a main surface of the target object, being provided on the etching target layer and being defined by the first protrusion portion and the second protrusion portion, and an inner surface of the groove portion being included in the main surface of the target object is prepared, and a first sequence is repeatedly performed N times (N is an integer equal to or larger than 2). The first sequence includes (a) forming a protection film conformally on the main surface; and (b) etching a bottom portion of the groove portion with plasma of a gas generated after the process a is performed. A mask is formed on the region belonging to the first protrusion portion while the mask is not formed on the region belonging to the second protrusion portion, and a deposition film is formed on the mask.
US10475654B2	Wrap-around contact plug and method manufacturing same A method includes forming a source/drain region, and in a vacuum chamber or a vacuum cluster system, preforming a selective deposition to form a metal silicide layer on the source/drain region, and a metal layer on dielectric regions adjacent to the source/drain region. The method further includes selectively etching the metal layer in the vacuum chamber, and selectively forming a metal nitride layer on the metal silicide layer. The selectively forming the metal nitride layer is performed in the vacuum chamber or a vacuum cluster system without vacuum break.
US10475653B2	Methods of fabricating ferroelectric memory devices A method of fabricating a ferroelectric memory device is provided. The method includes preparing a substrate, forming an interfacial insulation layer on the substrate, forming a ferroelectric layer on the interfacial insulation layer, applying a surface treatment process to the ferroelectric layer to form an oxygen vacancy region in the ferroelectric layer, forming a gate electrode layer on the ferroelectric layer, and annealing the ferroelectric layer to crystallize the ferroelectric layer.
US10475652B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor device, substrate processing apparatus, and recording medium There is provided a technology includes: heating a heat insulating plate, which is held by a substrate holder configured to hold a substrate, to a processing temperature, at which the substrate is processed, by an electromagnetic wave supplied from a heating device, and measuring a temperature change of the heat insulating plate until the heat insulating plate reaches the processing temperature; heating the substrate, to the processing temperature and measuring a temperature change of the substrate until the substrate reaches the processing temperature; obtaining a correlation between the temperature change of the heat insulating plate and the temperature change of the substrate and heating the substrate by controlling the heating device based on the temperature of the heat insulating plate and the correlation.
US10475648B1	Method for patterning a semiconductor structure A method for patterning a semiconductor structure is provided, including forming an additional third material layer on a thinner portion of a second material layer to be an etching buffer layer. The removed thickness of the thinner portion of the second material layer covered by the third material layer during an etching back process is therefore reduced.
US10475643B2	Deposition apparatus and method for manufacturing semiconductor device using the same A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes introducing a gas into a chamber from a showerhead. The chamber has a sidewall surrounding a pedestal. The temperature of the showerhead is increased. The showerhead is thermally connected to the sidewall of the chamber, and a temperature of the sidewall of the chamber is increased by increasing the temperature of the showerhead.
US10475638B2	Substrate processing apparatus, substrate processing method, and computer-readable recording medium having stored thereon substrate processing program A substrate processing apparatus includes a substrate rotating unit 11 configured to hold and rotate a substrate 3; a processing liquid supplying unit 13 configured to supply a processing liquid to the substrate; and a replacement liquid supplying unit 14 configured to supply, to the substrate, a replacement liquid with which the processing liquid supplied from the processing liquid supplying unit is replaced. While the replacement liquid supplying unit 14 supplies the replacement liquid to the substrate, the processing liquid supplying unit 13 supplies the processing liquid to a position on the substrate positioned at an outer peripheral side thereof than a supply position of the replacement liquid to form a liquid film of the processing liquid. It is possible to maintain a state in which the entire surface of the substrate is covered with the liquid film without increasing consumption amount of the replacement liquid.
US10475637B2	Semiconductor substrate and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor substrate and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The semiconductor substrate has an epitaxy region located at a central portion of a main plane of the semiconductor substrate, a periphery region surrounding the epitaxy region and an injured region distributed inside the periphery region.
US10475633B2	RF ion guide A mass spectrometer is provided having an ion source for generating ions from a sample in a high pressure region, a first vacuum chamber having an inlet aperture, and an exit aperture. The at least one ion guide can be between the inlet and exit apertures and can include an entrance end and an exit end. The at least one ion guide can have a plurality of electrodes arranged around a central axis defining an ion channel, each of the plurality of electrodes being tapered, a planar surface of each of the plurality of tapered electrodes facing the interior of the at least one ion guide, and the surface gradually being narrowed and tilted inward to provide a smaller inscribed radius at the exit; and a power supply for providing an RF voltage to the at least one ion guide.
US10475631B2	Oxide sintered body and method for manufacturing the same, sputtering target, and semiconductor device There is provided an oxide sintered body including indium, tungsten and zinc, wherein the oxide sintered body includes a bixbite type crystal phase as a main component and has an apparent density of higher than 6.6 g/cm3 and equal to or lower than 7.5 g/cm3, a content rate of tungsten to a total of indium, tungsten and zinc in the oxide sintered body is higher than 0.5 atomic % and equal to or lower than 5.0 atomic %, a content rate of zinc to the total of indium, tungsten and zinc in the oxide sintered body is equal to or higher than 1.2 atomic % and equal to or lower than 19 atomic %, and an atomic ratio of zinc to tungsten is higher than 1.0 and lower than 60. There are also provided a sputtering target including this oxide sintered body, and a semiconductor device.
US10475627B2	Carrier ring wall for reduction of back-diffusion of reactive species and suppression of local parasitic plasma ignition A carrier ring configured to support a substrate during transport to or from a pedestal of a process tool and surrounding the substrate during processing is defined by, an inner annular portion having a first thickness, the inner annular portion defined to be adjacent a substrate support region of the pedestal; a middle annular portion surrounding the inner annular portion, the middle annular portion having a second thickness greater than the first thickness, such that a transition from a top surface of the inner annular portion to a top surface of the middle annular portion defines a first step; an outer annular portion surrounding the middle annular portion, the outer annular portion having a third thickness greater than the second thickness, such that a transition from the top surface of the middle annular portion to a top surface of the outer annular portion defines a second step.
US10475622B2	System and method for plasma ignition This disclosure is generally directed to controlling energy distribution to a load, especially when anomalous events are detected. Benefits of the present disclosure include minimizing the length of a discharge event, mitigating the effects of an electrical discharge, and to improvements in inducing the ignition of a plasma. Methods and systems consistent with the present disclosure improve the control of operating conditions within a chamber and improve the ability for more rapidly initiating plasma ignition in a chamber.
US10475621B2	Drawing device and drawing method A drawing device according to an embodiment includes: a stage configured to be capable of having a processing target mounted thereon; an aperture member including a plurality of apertures corresponding to a plurality of beams irradiated to the processing target; a data generator configured to generate gradation data indicating irradiation time data with n bits (n is a positive integer) with respect to positions of respective coordinates of the beams; a calculator configured to perform a logical addition operation of the gradation data of the respective positions of the coordinates; and a controller configured to control the aperture member based on the gradation data and a result of the logical addition operation.
US10475619B2	Multilayer X-ray source target The present disclosure relates to the production and use of a multi-layer X-ray source target. In certain implementations, layers of X-ray generating material may be interleaved with thermally conductive layers. To prevent delamination of the layers, various mechanical, chemical, and structural approaches are related, including approaches for reducing the internal stress associated with the deposited layers and for increasing binding strength between layers.
US10475618B2	Electron gun capable of suppressing the influence of electron emission from the cathode side surface To suppress both influence of electron emission from a cathode side surface and consumption of energy to be supplied to a heater, while being provided with a grid, an electron gun of the present invention includes: a cathode capable of emitting electrons by heating; a grid capable of controlling the electron emission; and a cathode shield which is an conductor including a material portion located in the vicinity of a side surface of the cathode and facing at least a portion of the side surface via a gap or a heat insulating material, and not being made in direct physical coupling nor in direct physical contact with the cathode.
US10475616B2	Method for manufacturing nanostructures for a field emission cathode The present invention relates to the field of field emission lighting, and specifically to a method for forming a field emission cathode. The method comprises arranging a growth substrate in a growth solution comprising a Zn-based growth agent, the growth solution having a pre-defined pH-value at room temperature; increasing the pH value of the growth solution to reach a nucleation phase; upon increasing the pH of the solution nucleation starts. The growth phase is then entered by decreasing the pH. The length of the nanorods is determined by the growth time. The process is terminated by increasing the pH to form sharp tips. The invention also relates to a structure for such a field emission cathode and to a lighting arrangement comprising the field emission cathode.
US10475612B2	Electrical relay system with failure detection An electrical relay system is configured to allow for failure detection of a relay by injecting a signal at a common contact of the relay and looking for the signal at a normally closed contact of the relay. If the relay is commanded to be “off,” or closed, and the injected signal is not detected through the normally closed contact of the relay, then the system can determine that a failure condition has occurred. In one aspect, the system can include multiple relays with the signal being injected at a common node of the relays. In another aspect, the system can include multiple controllers for controlling and/or monitoring the electrical relay system. The electrical relay system can be coupled to screw terminals for connecting to a field device as part of an industrial automation system.
US10475609B2	Disconnecting device for a power line and method for disconnecting a power line Disconnecting device for a power line, having at least one disconnecting means which is spatially arranged between a first and a second connector when the disconnecting device is in a closed state, the disconnecting means having at least one connecting element forming an electrical connection between the connectors when the disconnecting device is in the closed state, wherein the connecting element is electrically connected to the first connector via a first contact point and to the second connector via a second contact point when the disconnecting device is in the closed state, and wherein the disconnecting means is arranged in such a way that a breakdown voltage between the first and the second connector when the disconnecting device is in an open state is greater than between the first connector and the first contact point of the connecting element and/or between the second connector and the second contact point of the connecting element.
US10475608B2	Slidable magnetic switch for actuating a magnetic sensor A slidable magnetic switch for controlling the electronic functions of an appliance on the Jewish Sabbath is disclosed herein. A housing with an integrated magnetic slider is permanently attached to the appliance surface directly adjacent to and above its embedded magnetic sensor, whereupon the magnetic force of the extended slider opens the sensor's electrical circuit and disables various auxiliary electronic functions whose operation is prohibited on the Sabbath. The slider is pushed back inside the housing after the Sabbath ends, allowing the sensor's electrical circuit to return to its regularly closed position, enabling the appliance's electronic functions for normal weekday operation. A timer alarm switch mounted within the housing provides an audible reminder to manually activate the magnetic switch each week before the Sabbath begins, or alternatively, to automatically extract the slider from the housing before the Sabbath commences, and retract the slider into the housing after the Sabbath concludes.
US10475607B2	Gas circuit breaker In a gas circuit breaker, arc-extinguishing gas is filled in a container. A movable portion housed in the container includes a movable arc contact. The movable portion includes a pressure accumulator that increases pressure of an arc-extinguishing gas. An opposing portion housed in the container includes an opposing arc contact, an exhaust pipe, and a shielding portion. The shielding portion includes a first shielding wall intersecting with an axial direction of the pipe and a second shielding wall having a cylindrical shape extending from the first shielding wall toward the movable portion along the axial direction of the pipe. The second shielding wall includes through-holes. Lengths of the respective through-holes along the axial direction are from 18 millimeter's to 55 millimeters inclusive. An arc-extinguishing gas whose pressure has been increased in the pressure accumulator flows into a space to extinguish arc discharge, and flows into the second shielding wall.
US10475606B2	Adjustable force tactile switch Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for a user input device, such as a game controller, that includes a finger-pressable (“tactile”) switch. The switch is adjustable to change the amount of force used to actuate the switch. In an example implementation, a tactile switch comprises a housing, a button interposer, a dome switch, and an adjustment mechanism. A user or other entity may press the button interposer. The dome switch is contained in the housing, and is actuated by the button interposer being pressed. The adjustment mechanism is contained at least partially in the housing, and is configured to enable an amount of force used to press the button interposer to actuate the dome switch to be adjusted.
US10475604B2	Vehicle control panel comprising a switch The present invention relates to a vehicle control panel comprising a switch cap comprising electrical connection pads arranged on a side of the switch cap, and an electric circuit printed on an inside surface of the switch cap associated with selecting a state of the function. A panel member has an opening in which the switch cap is pivotally and releasably attached. The panel member has electrical circuit closing members attached on an inner surface of the panel member. Pairs of the electrical connection pads are adapted to coincide and make contact with a respective one of the electrical circuit closing members to close an electric circuit portion in the switch cap such that an external electrical circuitry operates the function.
US10475602B2	Key coupling unit and electronic device having the same An electronic device and a key coupling unit therefor are disclosed. The key coupling unit includes a key configured in a specific shape, a key guide frame configured to guide pressing of the key, and a key circuit board configured to input a signal corresponding to the pressing of the key. The key coupling unit is fixed in a settling area of a bracket. A bumper is formed to protrude from the lower part of the key circuit board. A pressing part is formed in the bracket to face the bumper of the key circuit board. A command signal of a corresponding key is transmitted to the key circuit board by converting to an electric signal if the bumper presses the pressing part. The bumper and the pressing part are located by moving in a lateral direction from the center of the settling area of the bracket.
US10475601B2	Tunneling nanomechanical switches and tunable plasmonic nanogaps Devices comprising at least two electrodes with a layer disposed therebetween are disclosed. In some embodiments, the layer disposed therebetween may be an insulator. In some embodiments, the layer may be capable of being deformed. Deforming the layer may cause a change in one or more materials properties of the device, such as the electrical properties and/or the optical properties of the device.
US10475595B2	Ultracapacitor for use at high temperatures An ultracapacitor that is in contact with a hot atmosphere having a temperature of about 80° C. or more is provided. The ultracapacitor contains a first electrode, second electrode, separator, nonaqueous electrolyte, and housing is provided. The first electrode comprises a first current collector electrically coupled to a first carbonaceous coating and the second electrode comprises a second current collector electrically coupled to a second carbonaceous coating. The capacitor exhibits a capacitance value within the hot atmosphere of about 6 Farads per cubic centimeter or more as determined at a frequency of 120 Hz and without an applied voltage.
US10475594B2	Electronic device comprising nanogap electrodes and nanoparticle An electronic device includes a substrate and at least two electrodes spaced by a nanogap, wherein the at least two electrodes are bridged by at least one nanoparticle and wherein the at least one nanoparticle has an overlap area with the at least two electrodes higher than 2% of the area of the at least one nanoparticle. A method of manufacturing of the electronic device and the use of the electronic device in photodetector, transistor, phototransistor, optical modulator, electrical diode, photovoltaic cell or electroluminescent component are also described.
US10475591B2	Solid electrolytic capacitor for use in a humid atmosphere A capacitor that is capable of exhibiting good properties under humid conditions is provided. The ability to perform under such conditions is due in part to selective control over the particular nature of the solid electrolyte and cathode coating that overlies the solid electrolyte. For example, the solid electrolyte contains pre-polymerized conductive polymer particles, which can help act as a blocking layer for any silver ions migrating through the capacitor. Likewise, the cathode coating also contains conductive metal particles (e.g., silver particles) that are dispersed within a resinous matrix. The resinous matrix includes a polymer that absorbs only a small amount of water, if any, when placed in a humid atmosphere.
US10475589B2	Tantalum capacitor including an anode lead frame having a bent portion and method of manufacturing the same A tantalum capacitor includes a capacitor body; a tantalum wire protruding from one surface of the capacitor body; a molded part enclosing the capacitor body and the tantalum wire; an anode lead frame connected to the tantalum wire and exposed to an outer surface of the molded part; and a cathode lead frame disposed on an outer surface of the capacitor body and exposed to the outer surface of the molded part. The anode lead frame includes a bend portion.
US10475586B2	Oxynitride thin film and capacitance element The object of the present invention is to provide a dielectric thin film and a capacitance element having excellent dielectric property.A dielectric thin film comprising a main component comprised of an oxynitride expressed by a compositional formula of AaBbOoNn (a+b+o+n=5), wherein said “A” is one or more selected from the group consisting of Sr, Ba, Ca, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, and Na, said “B” is one or more selected from the group consisting of Ta, Nb, Ti, and W, and crystalline particles constituting said dielectric thin film are polycrystalline which are not aligned to a particular crystal plane orientation, and a size of a crystallite of the crystalline particles included in the dielectric thin film is 100 nm or less.
US10475582B2	Multilayer ceramic capacitor and method of manufacturing the same A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes: a body including dielectric layers and first and second internal electrodes alternately disposed with respective dielectric layers interposed therebetween; and first and second external electrodes disposed on the body and connected to the first and second internal electrodes, respectively, wherein the body includes first dummy patterns formed adjacent to the first internal electrodes in a width direction to be spaced apart from the first internal electrodes, and the first dummy patterns are stacked to partially overlap the second internal electrodes.
US10475579B2	Multi-layer ceramic capacitor and method of producing the same A multi-layer ceramic capacitor includes a multi-layer unit and a side margin. The multi-layer unit includes ceramic layers laminated in a first direction, and internal electrodes disposed between the ceramic layers. The side margin covers the multi-layer unit from a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, the side margin having a higher concentration of a rare-earth element and a higher concentration of vanadium than center portions of the ceramic layers in the second direction.
US10475577B2	Dielectric composition, dielectric element, electronic component and multi-layer electronic component A dielectric composition, a dielectric element, an electronic component and a multi-layer electronic component are disclosed. In an embodiment the dielectric composition includes a perovskite crystal structure containing at least Bi, Na, Sr and Ti, wherein the dielectric composition includes at least one selected from among La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Yb, Ba, Ca, Mg and Zn, wherein the dielectric composition includes specific particles having a core-shell structure that has at least one core portion including SrTiO3 and wherein α is set to 0.20≤α≤0.70, where α is the ratio of the number of specific particles with respect to the total number of particles contained in the dielectric composition.
US10475576B2	Dielectric composition, dielectric element, electronic component and laminated electronic component A dielectric composition, a dielectric element, an electronic component and a laminated electronic component are disclosed. In an embodiment the dielectric composition includes particles having a perovskite crystal structure including at least Bi, Na, Sr and Ti, wherein the content of the at least one element selected from La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Yb, Ba, Ca, Mg or Zn is between 0.5 molar parts and 11.1 molar parts, taking the Ti content of the dielectric composition as 100 molar parts, wherein 0.17≤α≤2.83, where α is the molar ratio of Bi with respect to Sr in the dielectric composition, and wherein at least some of the particles include a high-Bi phase having a Bi concentration of at least 1.2 times the mean Bi concentration of the dielectric composition as a whole.
US10475575B2	In-situ oxidized NiO as electrode surface for high k MIM device A high dielectric constant metal-insulator structure, including an electrode comprising NiOx wherein 1
US10475574B2	Multilayer ceramic capacitor and board having the same A multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) includes a body including first dielectric layers and second dielectric layers, the body including first to sixth surfaces, a second surface, a third surface, a fourth surface, a fifth surface and a sixth surface; first internal electrodes disposed on the first dielectric layers, exposed to the third surface, the fifth surface, and the sixth surface, and spaced apart from the fourth surface by first spaces; second internal electrodes disposed on the second dielectric layers to oppose the first internal electrodes with the first dielectric layers or the second dielectric layers interposed therebetween, exposed to the fourth surface, the fifth surface, and the sixth surface, and spaced apart from the third surface by second spaces; first dielectric patterns disposed in at least a portion of the first spaces, and second dielectric patterns disposed in at least a portion of the second spaces; and lateral insulating layers.
US10475573B2	Installation and method for winding an elongated flexible inductor The present invention relates to an installation and method for winding an elongated flexible inductor, the proposed installation comprising a first conveyor (11) for moving the elongated flexible inductor (1) in a conveyance direction, supported on a conveyance surface (12); a retaining device (13) for fixing the flexible inductor (1) to said conveyance surface (12); winding means for winding a metallic lead wire (30) around a section of the flexible inductor (1) not supported on said conveyance surface (12), comprising at least one lead wire reel (31), a lead wire feed device (32) and a turning device (33), a holding device (20) provided for holding a portion of the already wound flexible inductor (1), being located opposite and spaced from the end of the first conveyor by a minimum predetermined distance, defining a winding area (50) susceptible to being accessed by said lead wire feed device (32); said turning device (33) causing the simultaneous turning of the first conveyor and of said holding device.
US10475561B2	RFeB system magnet production method, RFeB system magnet, and coating material for grain boundary diffusion treatment A method for producing an RFeB system magnet with high coercivity by preventing a coating material from peeling off the surface of a base material during a grain boundary diffusion treatment is provided. A method for producing an RL2Fe14B system magnet which is a sintered magnet or a hot-deformed magnet containing, as the main rare-earth element, a light rare-earth element RL which is at least one of the two elements of Nd and Pr, the method including: applying, to a surface of a base material M of the RL2Fe14B system magnet, a coating material prepared by mixing a silicone grease and an RH-containing powder containing a heavy rare-earth element RH composed of at least one element selected from the group of Dy, Tb and Ho; and heating the base material together with the coating material. Improved coating and base materials adhesion facilitates transfer of RH into base material grain boundaries.
US10475560B1	Magnetic fabric items Items such as electronic devices, fabric-based items, and other items may include strands of magnetic material. The magnetic material may be formed from particles of a rare-earth alloy or other magnetic materials in a binder. Strands of magnetic material may have magnetic cores surrounded by one or more additional layers such as non-magnetic layers or may have non-magnetic cores surrounded by one or more additional layers including a magnetic layer. The strands of material may be uniform along their lengths or may be segmented into non-magnetic and magnetic portions. Items may include fabric formed from intertwined strands of magnetic material. Magnetic material may interact with permanent magnets and electromagnets. Magnetic sensors may monitor for the presence of magnetic portions of a fabric or other structure.
US10475557B2	Spiraling electric wire bundles for loss reduction The electric wire bundles includes a first reference axial line and a second reference axial line which are spaced apart from each other and fixed and arranged in parallel with each other, and a first wire and a second wire which are wound in a spiral pattern on the first and second reference axial lines in the first rotating direction or the second rotating direction, wherein the first wire and the second wire intersect at a central axis between the first reference axial line and the second reference axial line.
US10475553B2	Submarine cable having heterogeneous armor The present invention relates to a submarine cable having a bimetallic armor. In particular, the present invention relates to a submarine cable capable of effectively suppressing damage to and corrosion of an armor formed of different types of metals due to a local decrease in tensile strength thereof and capable of avoiding an increase in an external diameter of the cable, the structural instability of the cable, and damage to the cable during the manufacture and installation thereof.
US10475552B2	Strand for wiring harness and wiring harness A strand for a wiring harness includes a first element wire and a second element wire twisted around the first element wire and made of copper or a copper alloy. The first element wire includes a core portion made of stainless steel and a covering layer covering the core portion and made of copper or a copper alloy.
US10475547B2	Aluminum-alloy sheet for bus bar and manufacturing method thereof An aluminum-alloy sheet for a bus bar has a chemical composition containing Mg: 0.3%-0.9% (mass %, likewise below), Si: 0.2%-1.2%, Cu: 0.2% or less, and Fe: 0.5% or less, the remainder being Al and unavoidable impurities. In addition, acicular particles containing Mg and Si are present in the Al matrix at 900-4,000 particles/μm2. In addition, Fe-based particles present in the above-mentioned Al matrix have an average circle-equivalent diameter of 5 μm or less, and the number of particles having a circle-equivalent diameter of more than 2 μm is 10,000 particles/mm2 or less.
US10475546B2	Conductors comprising a functionalized organosiloxane network and methods for the preparation thereof The present disclosure relates to conductors comprising a conducting member comprising silver and a functionalized organosiloxane network having at least one functional group capable of trapping silver or a silver ion as well as to methods of preparing the same. For example, the functionalized organosiloxane network can at least substantially inhibit dendrite formation between a first conducting member and a second conducting member. For example, the conductors may be used in an electronic circuit such as a printed electronic circuit.
US10475544B2	Method for oxidative degradation of ion exchange resin A method of oxidative degradation is provided for waste of ion exchange resin. Therein, oxidative deactivation is processed through a fluidized bed. A column-type reactor is used to fluidize solid of the ion exchange resin. The reactor schematizes the input and output of an ion exchange resin, an oxidant, a catalyst and a fluid. The reactor controls the reaction temperature. The reactor separates solid and liquid, and uniformly distributes fluid. The present invention fluidizes the ion exchange resin in the reactor. The present invention processes oxidation within a controlled temperature range with the oxidant and catalyst added. The oxidation is maintained at high efficiency with easy control. The original structure and the characteristic of ion exchange of the ion exchange resin are destroyed.
US10475542B2	Nuclear fuel rod A Gland Seal End Plug closure for a nuclear fuel rod cladding composed of silicon carbide or other materials that cannot be welded. The sealant is, preferably, made from one or more forms of pure graphite and the ram, seat and other components of the Gland Seal End Plug are formed from high temperature metallic or ceramic materials.
US10475540B2	Impactability scoring Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for creating a model that enables a health system with a population of patients to better understand its patient population by being able to track which patients are being well-managed and which patients may be in need of some type of clinical intervention are provided. The methods, systems, and computer-readable media create a model that enables a health system to assess its patient population in terms of wellness, complexity, and impactability. Wellness provides a measure of resource consumption of patients within the population, complexity measures the long-term complexity of patients within the population, and impactability provides an indication of how in-need a patient is of some type of clinical intervention.
US10475539B2	Systems and methods for predicting treatment-regimen-related outcomes Systems and methods are provided for predicting treatment-regimen-related outcomes (e.g., risks of regimen-related toxicities). A predictive model is determined for predicting treatment-regimen-related outcomes and applied to a plurality of datasets. An ensemble algorithm is applied on result data generated from the application of the predictive model. Treatment-regimen-related outcomes are predicted using the predictive model. A combination of machine learning prediction and patient preference assessment is provided for enabling informed consent and precise treatment decisions.
US10475538B2	System for predicting computed tomography data from surface data A system and method includes operation of a generation network to generate first generated computed tomography data based on a first instance of surface data, determination of a generation loss based on the first generated computed tomography data and on a first instance of computed tomography data which corresponds to the first instance of surface data, operation of a discriminator network to discriminate between the first generated computed tomography data and the first instance of computed tomography data, determination of a discriminator loss based on the discrimination between the first generated computed tomography data and the first instance of computed tomography data, determination of discriminator gradients of the discriminator network based on the discriminator loss, and updating of weights of the generation network based on the generation loss and the discriminator gradients.
US10475535B2	Systems and methods for managing an electronic database An embodiment provides a method, including: accessing, using a processor of an electronic device, a list of on-call clinicians; accessing, using the processor, a list of requirements for a healthcare facility on-call clinician schedule; producing, using the processor, an initial on-call clinician schedule based on the list of on-call clinicians; determining, using the processor, whether the list of requirements is satisfied by the initial on-call clinician schedule; and providing an indication as a result of the determining. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10475533B2	Medication adherence monitoring system and method A medication management system is described that is operable to determine whether a user is actually following a protocol, provide additional assistance to a user, starting with instructions, video instructions, and the like, and moving up to contact from a medication administrator if it is determined that the user would need such assistance in any medical adherence situation, including clinical trial settings, home care settings, healthcare administration locations, such as nursing homes, clinics, hospitals and the like. Suspicious activity on the part of a patient or other user of the system is identified and can be noted to a healthcare provider or other service provider where appropriate.
US10475531B2	Method for collecting, processing, and storing discrete data records based upon a single data input A method for the collection, capture, processing, storage and tracking of data for both electronic source health records and for electronic clinical trial purposes by electronically collecting clinical trial data at a clinical trial site, instantly preserving all of the clinical trial data as an electronic source document, archiving the clinical trial data in a trusted data server maintained by a third party, transmitting an acknowledgement upon successful archiving of the clinical trial data, and transmitting the clinical trial data to a clinical trial database only after successful archiving of said clinical trial data. A method for electronically gathering clinical trial data. A method of maintaining discrete data records based upon a single clinical data input.
US10475530B2	System and method for activation and deactivation of cued health assessment A system for activating a cued health assessment, which includes an audio receiver for receiving voice samples to measure one of a plurality of voice biomarkers, an audio processing module for extracting one of a plurality of biomarkers from the received voice samples, the audio processing module further classifies the received voice samples to one of plurality of predetermined health states according to the extracted biomarkers, and a voice sample scheduler for activating a cued health assessment module when the classified health state is a clinically actionable health state.
US10475521B2	Semiconductor storage device and test method thereof using a common bit line Provided is a semiconductor storage device including: first memory cells; first word lines; first bit lines; a first common bit line; second memory cells; second word lines; second bit lines; a second common bit line; a first selection circuit that connects the first common bit line to a first bit line selected from the first bit lines; a second selection circuit that connects the second common bit line to a second bit line selected from the second bit lines; a word line driver that activates any one of the first and second word lines; a reference current supply unit that supplies a reference current to a common bit line among the first and second common bit lines, the common bit line not being electrically connected to a data read target memory cell; and a sense amplifier that amplifies a potential difference between the first and second common bit lines.
US10475520B2	Memory circuit including at least one marking cell and method of operating said memory circuit A memory circuit includes electrically programmable memory cells arranged in a non-volatile memory cell array along rows and columns, word lines, each word line coupled with one or more memory cells, non-volatile marking memory cells, wherein at least one word line of the word lines is associated with one or more marking memory cells, and marking bit lines, each associated with marking memory cells, marking source lines, each associated with marking memory cells, wherein, for marking memory cells, a physical connection from an associated marking source line and/or from an associated marking bit line to the marking memory cells defines those marking memory cells to a non-changeable state, wherein the marking memory cells are configured to identify the associated word line of respective marking memory cells in the non-changeable memory state.
US10475519B2	Methods for detecting and mitigating memory media degradation and memory devices employing the same Memory devices, system, and methods for operating the same are provided. The memory device can comprise a non-volatile memory array and control circuitry. The control circuitry can be configured to store a value corresponding to a number of activate commands received at the memory device, update the value in response to receiving an activate command received from a host device, and trigger, in response to the value exceeding a predetermined threshold, a remedial action performed by the memory device. The control circuitry can be further configured to store a second value corresponding to a number of refresh operations performed by the memory device, update the second value in response to performing a refresh operation, and trigger, in response to the value exceeding a second predetermined threshold, a second remedial action performed by the memory device.
US10475515B2	Multi-decks memory device including inter-deck switches Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods of forming such apparatuses. One of the apparatus includes first memory cells located in different levels in a first portion of the apparatus, second memory cells located in different levels in a second portion of the apparatus, a switch located in a third portion of the apparatus between the first and second portions, first and second control gates to access the first and second memory cells, an additional control gate located between the first and second control gates to control the switch, a first conductive structure having a thickness and extending perpendicular to the levels in the first portion of the apparatus, a first dielectric structure between the first conductive structure and charge-storage portions of the first memory cells, a second dielectric structure having a second thickness between the second conductive structure and a sidewall of the additional control gate, the second thickness being greater than the first thickness.
US10475513B2	Resistive memory and resistance window recovery method of resistive memory cell thereof A resistive memory and a resistance window recovery method for a resistive memory cell thereof are provided. During a first period, an over reset voltage difference is applied between a top electrode and a bottom electrode of the resistive memory cell, wherein the over reset voltage difference falls in a reset complementary switching (reset-CS) voltage range of the resistive memory cell. During a second period, a set voltage difference is applied between the top electrode and the bottom electrode of the resistive memory cell to increase a compliance current of the resistive memory cell. During a third period, a reset operation is performed on the resistive memory cell.
US10475511B1	Read operation with data latch and signal termination for 1TNR memory array Two-terminal memory can be formed into a memory array that contains many discrete memory cells in a physical and a logical arrangement. Where each memory cell is isolated from surrounding circuitry by a single transistor, the resulting array is referred to as a 1T1R memory array. In contrast, where a group of memory cells are isolated from surrounding circuitry by a single transistor, the result is a 1TnR memory array. Because memory cells of a group are not isolated among themselves in the 1TnR case, bit disturb effects are theoretically possible when operating on a single memory cell. Read operations are disclosed for two-terminal memory devices configured to mitigate bit disturb effects, despite a lack of isolation transistors among memory cells of an array. Disclosed operations can facilitate reduced bit disturb effects even for high density two-terminal memory cell arrays.
US10475509B2	Method for managing the endurance of a non-volatile rewritable memory and device for programming such a memory A method for managing the endurance of a non-volatile rewritable memory including a dielectric material layer that switches between a high resistance state, with a first resistance value, and a low resistance state, with a second resistance value, the method including at least one of the following operations: at the end of each erasure operation: reading the first resistance value and comparing it with a first predetermined median resistance value, and determining the writing programming conditions from the comparison results; and at the end of each writing operation: reading the second resistance value and comparing it with a second predetermined median resistance value, and determining the erasure programming conditions from the comparison results, linking the programming conditions and the first and second read resistance values, the writing and erasure programming conditions being applied to the electrodes of the stack during the following writing and/or erasure operations.
US10475503B2	Circuit for selecting row to be refreshed A circuit for selecting a row of memory cells of a memory device to be refreshed may include: a cold table suitable for storing as a cold row a row selected as a hammered row when the row selected as the hammered row is neither one of cold rows stored in the cold table nor one of hot rows stored in a hot table; and the hot table suitable for storing, as a hot row, the row selected as the hammered row when the row selected as the hammered row is one of the cold rows stored in the cold table.
US10475502B2	Word-line driver and method of operating a word-line driver Word-line drivers, memories, and methods of operating word-line drivers are provided. A word-line driver coupled to an array of memory cells includes a decoder powered by a first power supply. The decoder is configured to decode an address to provide a plurality of word-line signals. The word-line driver also includes a plurality of output stages powered by a second power supply that is different than the first power supply. Each of the output stages includes a first transistor having a gate controlled by a first control signal and an inverter. The inverter is coupled between the first transistor and a ground and has an input coupled to the decoder to receive one of the word-line signals. The word-line driver also includes pull-down circuitry coupled between the gates of the first transistors and the ground and activated by a second control signal.
US10475494B2	Memory device and memory system including the same A semiconductor device may include: a holding control circuit suitable for generating a holding control signal and an option setting information signal, based on a first command signal; a holding circuit suitable for generating a held option setting information signal based on the holding control signal and the option setting information signal; an operation control circuit suitable for generating an operation mode signal based on a second command signal; a setting control circuit suitable for generating a setting control signal based on the operation mode signal and the held operation setting information signal; and a memory region suitable for performing an operation based on the setting control signal and the operation mode signal.
US10475486B2	Electronic devices An electronic device includes a pulse generator, a signal synthesizer, and a first storage circuit. The pulse generator generates a mode active pulse and a mode pre-charge pulse in response to an operation mode signal. The signal synthesizer synthesizes an active signal and the mode active pulse to generate a synthesized active signal. The signal synthesizer synthesizes a pre-charge signal and the mode pre-charge pulse to generate a synthesized pre-charge signal. The first storage circuit performs an active operation, a read operation, or a pre-charge operation in response to the synthesized active signal, a read signal, and the synthesized pre-charge signal in each of a first read mode and a second read mode.
US10475485B2	Systems and methods for power and thermal throttling of memory devices via capacity reduction In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a processor, a memory system communicatively coupled to the processor, a cooling system configured to provide thermal control for information handling resources of the information handling system, and a memory capacity control agent embodied as a program of instructions configured to, when executed determine a capability of the cooling system for cooling memory devices of the memory system based on a configuration of the information handling system and manipulate a memory capacity of the memory system based on the capability.
US10475481B2	Magnetic tape having characterized backcoat layer and method of manufacturing the same The magnetic tape has a magnetic layer and a backcoat layer. The Ra on the magnetic layer side surface is less than or equal to 1.8 nm, the coefficient of friction measured on the base portion of the magnetic layer side surface is less than or equal to 0.35, and the Ra measured on the backcoat layer side surface is less than or equal to 5.0 nm. The backcoat layer contains a fatty acid ester. In addition, the FWHMbefore measured on the backcoat layer side surface before vacuum heating is greater than 0 nm but less than or equal to 10.0 nm, the FWHMafter after vacuum heating is greater than 0 nm but less than or equal to 10.0 nm, and the difference between the spacing measured on the backcoat layer side surface after and before vacuum heating is greater than 0 nm but less than or equal to 8.0 nm.
US10475476B2	Flexure of hard disk drive A flexure of a hard disk drive includes a metal base, and a conductive member formed on the metal base. The conductive member includes an insulating layer and a conductive layer. The insulating layer has a flat portion and an elevated portion projected from the flat portion. The conductive layer has a connecting terminal formed along the side surface.
US10475475B2	Disk apparatus and dual actuator assembly having a wiring board with a bent connection portion A disk apparatus includes recording disks and a first and a second actuator assembly that rotate about a support shaft and that each include: an actuator block; a wiring board having connection terminals and installed on an installation surface of the actuator block; and head assemblies each attached to the actuator block via an arm and each including a head and an interconnection member. The wiring board of each of the first and the second actuator assembly has a connection portion connected to one of the connection terminals and located adjacently to a boundary between the first and the second actuator assembly, and the connection portion of the first or the second actuator assembly is bent with respect to the installation surface.
US10475474B2	Storage element A storage element is provided. The storage element includes a memory layer; a fixed magnetization layer; an intermediate layer including a non-magnetic material; wherein the intermediate layer is provided between the memory layer and the fixed magnetization layer; wherein the fixed magnetization layer includes at least a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer, and a non-magnetic layer, and wherein the first magnetic layer includes a CoFeB composition. A memory apparatus and a magnetic head are also provided.
US10475473B2	Recording head with multiple magnetic writers simultaneously writing to adjacent tracks A recording head has a first magnetic writer and a second magnetic writer offset from the first magnetic writer in a downtrack and crosstrack direction. The recording head has leads configured to deliver respective first and second write and/or laser currents to the first and second writers. The first and second write and/or laser currents enable the first and second writers to simultaneously write to adjacent tracks of a magnetic disk.
US10475470B2	Processing result error detection device, processing result error detection program, processing result error detection method, and moving entity A processing result error detection device includes: a behavior recognition unit which recognizes behavior of a user; a processing unit which executes a process dependent on the behavior of the user; an emotion presumption unit which presumes an intensity of emotion of the user based on reaction of the user to a processing result; and a judgment unit which judges that the processing result includes an error when the presumed intensity of emotion of the user is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold.
US10475468B1	Monitoring industrial equipment using audio Systems, methods, and devices for monitoring industrial equipment using audio are described herein. One system includes two computing devices. The first computing device can receive, from an audio sensor, audio sensed during operation of industrial equipment, extract a plurality of features from the audio, determine whether any portion of the audio is anomalous, and send, upon determining a portion of the audio is anomalous, the anomalous portion of the audio to the second, remotely located, computing device. The second computing device can provide the anomalous portion of the audio to a user to determine whether the anomalous portion of the audio corresponds to a fault occurring in the equipment, and receive, from the user upon determining the anomalous portion of the audio corresponds to a fault occurring in the equipment, input indicating the anomalous portion of the audio corresponds to the fault to learn fault patterns in the equipment.
US10475466B2	Adaptive vehicle state-based hands-free phone noise reduction with learning capability This disclosure generally relates to a system, apparatus, and method for achieving an adaptive vehicle state-based hands free noise reduction feature. A noise reduction tool is provided for adaptively applying a noise reduction strategy on a sound input that uses feedback speech quality measures and machine learning to develop future noise reduction strategies, where the noise reduction strategies include analyzing vehicle operational state information and external information that are predicted to contribute to cabin noise and selecting noise reducing pre-filter options based on the analysis.
US10475465B2	Method and system for enhancing a speech signal of a human speaker in a video using visual information A method and system for enhancing a speech signal is provided herein. The method may include the following steps: obtaining an original video, wherein the original video includes a sequence of original input images showing a face of at least one human speaker, and an original soundtrack synchronized with said sequence of images; and processing, using a computer processor, the original video, to yield an enhanced speech signal of said at least one human speaker, by detecting sounds that are acoustically unrelated to the speech of the at least one human speaker, based on visual data derived from the sequence of original input images.
US10475463B2	Transmission device, transmission method, reception device, and reception method for audio streams It is attempted to reduce the processing load of a receiver at the time of integrating plural audio streams.A predetermined number of audio streams are generated, and a container of a predetermined format including these predetermined number of audio streams is transmitted. The audio streams are constituted by an audio frame including a first packet that includes encoded data as payload information and a second packet that includes configuration information representing a configuration of the payload information of this first packet as payload information. Common index information is inserted in payloads of related first packet and second packet.
US10475461B2	Periodic ambient waveform analysis for enhanced social functions In particular embodiments, one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embody software that is operable when executed to receive an audio waveform fingerprint and a client-determined location from a client device. The received audio waveform fingerprint may be compared to a database of stored audio waveform fingerprints, each stored audio waveform fingerprint associated with an object in an object database. One or more matching audio waveform fingerprints may be found from a comparison set of audio waveform fingerprints obtained from the audio waveform fingerprint database. Location information associated with a location of the client device may be determined, and the location information may be sent to the client device. The client device may be operable to update the client-determined location based at least in part on the location information.
US10475460B2	Audio downmixer operable in prediction or non-prediction mode The invention provides methods and apparatuses for encoding a stereo audio signal having a left channel and a right channel. The apparatus includes a prediction coefficient estimator, downmixer, and multiplexer. The downmixer is configured operate either in a prediction mode or a non-prediction mode.
US10475457B2	Time-domain inter-channel prediction A method includes decoding a low-band portion of an encoded mid channel to generate a decoded low-band mid channel. The method also includes filtering the decoded low-band mid channel according to one or more filter coefficients to generate a low-band filtered mid channel. The method also includes generating an inter-channel predicted signal based on the low-band filtered mid channel and the inter-channel prediction gain. The method further includes generating a low-band left channel and a low-band right channel based on an up-mix factor, the decoded low-band mid channel, and the inter-channel predicted signal.
US10475454B2	Directional display and audio broadcast Systems, devices, and techniques for directional display and audio broadcast are described. It is determined whether a spoken query includes an individual query, a group query, and a display request. For an individual query, an audio response is broadcast in a directional manner towards the source of the spoken query. For a group query, an audio response is broadcast in more than one direction, such as towards directions of sources in an environment. For a display request, an image (e.g., picture, video, web page, and the like) is projected on a surface that is detected so the image is viewable by one or more users, such as the source of the spoken query.
US10475450B1	Multi-modality presentation and execution engine Techniques for synchronously outputting content by one or more devices are described. A system may receive a user command and may receive content responsive to the command from an application(s). The content may include various kinds of data (e.g., audio data, image data, video data, etc.). The system may also receive a presentation framework from the application, with the presentation framework indicating how content responsive to the input command should be synchronously output by one or more devices. The system determines one or more devices proximate to the user, determines which of the one or more devices may be used to output content indicated in the presentation framework, and causes the one or more devices to output content in a synchronous manner.
US10475448B2	Speech recognition system A speech recognition system, which continuously recognizes speech uttered by at least one user and controls a navigation system on the basis of a recognition result, includes: a speech-operation-intention determination unit for determining whether or not the user has made a recognized speech with the intention of operating the navigation system through speech; and a control mode altering unit for changing, when the speech-operation-intention determination unit determines that the user has no operation intention, the control mode of the navigation system in such a manner that the user is less aware of or pays less attention to the control mode than the case in which the speech-operation-intention determination unit determines that the user has an intention of operating the navigation system.
US10475446B2	Using context information to facilitate processing of commands in a virtual assistant A virtual assistant uses context information to supplement natural language or gestural input from a user. Context helps to clarify the user's intent and to reduce the number of candidate interpretations of the user's input, and reduces the need for the user to provide excessive clarification input. Context can include any available information that is usable by the assistant to supplement explicit user input to constrain an information-processing problem and/or to personalize results. Context can be used to constrain solutions during various phases of processing, including, for example, speech recognition, natural language processing, task flow processing, and dialog generation.
US10475445B1	Methods and devices for selectively ignoring captured audio data Systems and methods for selectively ignoring an occurrence of a wakeword within audio input data is provided herein. In some embodiments, a wakeword may be detected to have been uttered by an individual within a modified time window, which may account for hardware delays and echoing offsets. The detected wakeword that occurs during this modified time window may, in some embodiments, correspond to a word included within audio that is outputted by a voice activated electronic device. This may cause the voice activated electronic device to activate itself, stopping the audio from being outputted. By identifying when these occurrences of the wakeword within outputted audio are going to happen, the voice activated electronic device may selectively determine when to ignore the wakeword, and furthermore, when not to ignore the wakeword.
US10475444B1	Listening devices for obtaining metrics from ambient noise A device may receive audio data based on a capturing of sounds associated with a structure. The device may obtain a model associated with the structure. The model may have been trained to receive the audio data as input, determine a score that identifies a likelihood that a sound is present in the audio data, and identify the sound based on the score. The device may determine at least one parameter associated with the sound. The device may generate a metric based on the at least one parameter associated with the sound, and perform an action based on the metric.
US10475442B2	Method and device for recognition and method and device for constructing recognition model A method and a device for recognition, and a method and a device for constructing a recognition model are disclosed. A device for constructing a recognition model includes a training data inputter configured to receive additional training data, a model learner configured to train a first recognition model constructed based on basic training data to learn the additional training data, and a model constructor configured to construct a final recognition model by integrating the first recognition model with a second recognition model generated by the training of the first recognition model.
US10475441B2	Voice end-point detection device, system and method A voice end-point detection device, a system and a method are provided. The voice end-point detection system includes a processor that is configured to determine an end-point detection time to detect an end-point of speaking of a user that varies vary for each user and for each domain. The voice end-point detection system is configured to perform voice recognition and a database (DB) is configured to store data for the voice recognition by the processor.
US10475439B2	Information processing system and information processing method There is provided an information processing system enabling a user to provide easily an instruction on whether to continue speech recognition processing on sound information, the information processing system including: a recognition control portion configured to control a speech recognition portion so that the speech recognition portion performs speech recognition processing on sound information input from a sound collection portion. The recognition control portion controls whether to continue the speech recognition processing on the basis of a gesture of a user detected at predetermined timing.
US10475437B2	Service provider support platform Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for helping service providers. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of obtaining a mobile computing device identifier, identifying a customer corresponding to the mobile computing device identifier, obtaining information regarding the customer that is identified, determining a likely intent of the customer from the information regarding the customer, and providing, using the likely intent of the customer, information that helps a provider.
US10475432B2	Process for manufacturing an acoustic panel reinforced by at least one thermoplastic composite layer A process for manufacturing an acoustic panel including at least one acoustically resistive layer, at least one cellular structure and a reflective wall. The process includes steps of depositing the parts of the acoustic panel made of thermosetting composite, depositing a film made of thermoplastic resin that is miscible with the thermosetting composite at the polymerization temperature of the thermosetting composite, polymerizing the parts of the acoustic panel made of thermosetting composite, and depositing and consolidating at least one layer made of thermoplastic composite against the film made of thermoplastic resin in order to form the reflective wall.
US10475430B2	Hi-hat cymbal sound generation apparatus, Hi-hat cymbal sound generation method, and recording medium A hi-hat cymbal sound generation apparatus according to the present invention includes an input part, a recording part, a trigger part and a sound volume control part. The input part acquires distance information on a distance between a top pad and a bottom pad, state information and vibration information on a vibration of the top pad. The input part acquires the state information by determining the state information based on a corrected distance, which is obtained by adding a distance correction value, which corresponds to a magnitude of the vibration indicated by the vibration information, to the distance indicated by the distance information. The recording part records data on a hit sound in each state indicated by the state information. The trigger part checks whether the vibration indicated by the vibration information falls within a predetermined range in which a sound generation procedure is to be started.
US10475422B1	Intonation tool for fine tuning bridge The angle adjustment structure of intonation tools for guitar bridges which have fine tuners. There are intonation tools for guitar bridges which have fine tuners like U.S. Pat. No. 4,497,236, but these bridges have some patterns of baseplate portion, so it is difficult to match to some patterns of baseplate portion by one intonation tool. This invention makes the intonation tool capable of matching to some patterns of baseplate portion by giving angle adjustment structure.
US10475421B1	Adjusting member and sound post applied thereto An adjusting member is pivoted on a sound post to adjust a length of the sound post from the outside of the sound box of a musical instrument. The adjusting member comprises a main body and at least one adjusting arm arranged on the main body. Through the sound post provided with the adjusting member, a user can easily adjust the tightness of the sound post against the upper and lower plates of the sound box through a hole of the sound box, such as F sound hole, connected with the outside to achieve the effect of adjusting timbre of the musical instrument.
US10475419B2	Data compression method and apparatus A method of compressing image data involves determining an active area of an image to be displayed, at least part of which changes from frame to frame to provide a moving image. Color values for each pixel in at least part of the active area that has changed are determined (S73) and a resolution of a blue component of the color values is dynamically reduced (S75) relative to resolutions of green and red components of the color values. The image data is then transmitted, together with error correction information indicating how to correct the blue component when the image data is displayed. The active area may be a particularly fast changing part of the image or an area on which a user is focused.
US10475414B2	Display apparatus for selectively displaying images on transparent display region based on aspect ratios of images and the transparent display region A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes: a display panel unit which comprises a first panel region corresponding to an opaque display region, and a second panel region corresponding to a transparent display region, a panel driving unit which drives the first panel region and the second panel region independently, and a controller which controls to display a main image on the opaque display region and display an additional image on the transparent display region.
US10475409B2	Gate drive circuit, display panel, and driving method for the gate drive circuit The present disclosure discloses a gate drive circuit, a display panel and a driving method for the gate drive circuit. The gate drive circuit includes a plurality of shift register units connected in cascade; and further includes: buffer units which are in a one-to-one correspondence with shift register units at all levels, and touch control switch units which are in a one-to-one correspondence with shift register units at even levels. Each buffer unit in the gate drive circuit can increase the holding time of the effective pulse signal output by the shift register unit at a corresponding level by one line before resetting, and the effective pulse signal output by a buffer unit at an even level under the control of a touch control unit and the effective pulse signal output by a buffer unit at an adjacent previous odd level are reset at the same time.
US10475407B2	GOA circuit and display device A GOA circuit and a display device are provided. The GOA unit includes multiple GOA units, and each GOA unit includes a pull-up circuit for outputting a scanning driving signal of a current stage, a pull-down circuit including a first pull-down switch for pulling down the scanning driving signal of the current stage to a low voltage level, and a pull-down holding circuit including a first pull-down holding switch for holding the scanning driving signal of the current stage at a low voltage level. Each of the first pull-down switch and the first pull-down holding switch is a dual-gate TFT switch, a top gate electrode of each of the first pull-down switch and the first pull-down holding switch receives the first direct-current voltage. Accordingly, the present invention can reduce the current leakage, and increase the reliability of the entire GOA circuit.
US10475405B2	Dynamic control of display refresh rate based on user interface activity Techniques are described for controlling the display refresh rate of a display panel. A display driver may determine a display refresh rate based on user activity. One example of user activity is a rate at which a user is scrolling image content being displayed on the display panel. One example of user activity is a duration or pressure of a user interaction with a display panel or a pressure sensor.
US10475400B2	Digital display A method for controlling a digital display device and a digital display system implementing the method are provided in which a required luminance level for a pixel is controlled according to a store provided for each pixel, the contents of which indicate the number of discrete display update periods during an image refresh period for the pixel for which the pixel is to be illuminated to achieve the required luminance level, the content being read at each update period and the content determining whether the pixel is to be illuminated for that update period, the content being updated at each update period for which the pixel is illuminated to indicate that the number of update cycles for which the pixel is to be illuminated is thereby reduced by one and wherein the content of the store may be updated at any update cycle in response to changes in required pixel luminance level indicated by received image data.
US10475399B2	Color electrophoretic displays using same polarity reversing address pulse An electrophoretic display comprising a fluid including a first species of particles and a charge control agent disposed between first and second electrodes. When a first addressing impulse have an electrical polarity is applied to the medium, the first species of particles move in one direction relative to the electric field, but when a second addressing impulse, larger than the first addressing impulse but having the same electrical polarity, is applied to the medium, the first species of particles move in the opposed direction relative to the electric field.
US10475395B2	Display method and device of dynamically controlling backlight A display method and a display device of dynamically controlling backlight are provided. The present disclosure obtains a modified grayscale value of the input image in each of partitions by using the whole backlight reference value, the RGBW grayscale values of the input image in each of partitions, the normalized backlight output brightness value, and the spatial distribution function of the backlight brightness in each of partitions. The normalized backlight output brightness value of each of partitions is processed as a real backlight output brightness value which is outputted to a backlight driving circuit. The modified grayscale value is processed as a real grayscale value and then the real grayscale value is outputted to a display panel for display. The backlight and image grayscale of each of partitions are adjusted dynamically, thereby improving contrast space and power consumption and further, normally displaying the HDR contents in the HDR display.
US10475393B2	Electroluminescent display device An electroluminescent display device includes a pixel area including a plurality of sub-pixels displaying an image signal at a specific refresh rate, a plurality of ELVDD lines electrically connected to the plurality of sub-pixels, a plurality of data lines electrically connected to the plurality of sub-pixels, a plurality of scan lines electrically connected to the plurality of sub-pixels, a plurality of EM lines electrically connected to the plurality of sub pixels, a scan driver sequentially supplying a scan signal to the plurality of scan lines and sequentially supplying an EM signal having a specific duty ratio pattern configured to control a dimming level of the pixel area to the plurality of EM lines, and a driving unit electrically connected to the plurality of data lines and the scan driver, and configured to control the dimming level according to a dimming control signal.
US10475388B2	Light emitting element display device A light emitting element display device with a narrow frame and high light emission efficiency is provided even when high definition is achieved. The light emitting element display device includes: a light emitting element which emits light at each of a plurality of subpixels forming one pixel; a drive transistor in which one of a source and a drain is connected to an anode of the light emitting element; and an output control circuit which selectively sets the other of the source and the drain of the drive transistor into one of a state of being connected to a power-supply voltage, a state of being connected to a reset voltage that is a lower voltage than the power-supply voltage, and a high-impedance state of not being connected to any of these voltages.
US10475383B2	Pixel circuit, display device, and method of driving pixel circuit A pixel circuit, display device, and method of driving a pixel circuit enabling source-follower output with no deterioration of luminance even with a change of the current-voltage characteristic of the light emitting element along with elapse, enabling a source-follower circuit of n-channel transistors, and able to use an n-channel transistor as an EL drive transistor while using current anode-cathode electrodes. The circuit includes a source of a TFT used as a drive transistor that is connected to an anode of a light emitting element, and a drain of the TFT is connected to a power source potential. A capacitor is connected between a gate and source of the TFT, and a source potential of the TFT is connected to a fixed potential through a TFT used as a switching transistor.
US10475382B2	Display device having compensation for degradation of driving transistors and electronic device having the same A display device includes a display panel including a first pixel, a second pixel, and a third pixel, a scan driver configure to provide a scan signal to the first through the third pixels, a data driver which provides a data signal to the first through the third pixels, a reference voltage generator which provides a first reference voltage that compensates a degradation of a first driving transistor, a second reference voltage that compensates a degradation of a second driving transistor, and a third reference voltage that compensates a degradation of a third driving transistor, and a timing controller which generates a control signal that controls the scan driver, the data driver, and the reference voltage generator.
US10475380B2	Organic light-emitting display apparatus having sub-dummy pixels An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes: a plurality of emitting pixels coupled to a plurality of scan lines extending in a row direction and a plurality of data lines extending in a column direction; a plurality of dummy pixels arranged in the row direction; a plurality of first repair lines extending in the column direction, that are coupled to the plurality of dummy pixels, and that are adapted to be coupled to the plurality of emitting pixels; a plurality of second repair lines extending in the column direction, and that are coupled to the plurality of dummy pixels; and a plurality of repair switching devices arranged in a matrix array and adapted to be coupled to the plurality of scan lines and the plurality of second repair lines and adapted to be coupled to the plurality of data lines.
US10475379B2	Charged-based compensation and parameter extraction in AMOLED displays A system reads a desired circuit parameter from a pixel circuit that includes a light emitting device, a drive device to provide a programmable drive current to the light emitting device, a programming input, and a storage device to store a programming signal. One embodiment of the extraction system turns off the drive device and supplies a predetermined voltage from an external source to the light emitting device, discharges the light emitting device until the light emitting device turns off, and then reads the voltage on the light emitting device while that device is turned off. The voltages on the light emitting devices in a plurality of pixel circuits may be read via the same external line, at different times. In-pixel, charge-based compensation schemes are also discussed, which can be used with the external parameter extraction implementations.
US10475377B2	Display device and method of driving the same The present invention provides a display device and a method of driving the same. The display device includes: a light-emitting device; a first capacitor connected between a first contact point and a second contact point; a driving transistor including an input terminal connected to a first voltage, an output terminal, and a control terminal connected to the second contact point; a first switching transistor controlled by a first control signal and connected between a data voltage and the first contact point; a second switching transistor controlled by a second control signal and connected between a second voltage and the first contact point; a third switching transistor controlled by a third control signal and connected between the second contact point and the second voltage; a fourth switching transistor controlled by the first control signal and connected between the second contact point and the output terminal of the driving transistor; and a fifth switching transistor controlled by the second control signal and connected between the light-emitting device and the output terminal of the driving transistor.
US10475376B2	Systems and methods of pixel calibration based on improved reference values What is disclosed are systems and methods of compensation of images produced by active matrix light emitting diode device (AMOLED) and other emissive displays. The electrical output of a pixel is compared with a reference value to adjust an input for the pixel. In some embodiments an integrator is used to integrate a pixel current and a reference current using controlled integration times to generate values for comparison.
US10475374B2	Display device A display device includes at least one pixel circuit. A pixel circuit of the at least one pixel circuit includes a light emitting diode, a thin film transistor, a capacitor, and an adaptive voltage source. The light emitting diode has a first electrode, and a second electrode. The thin film transistor is coupled to the light emitting diode. The thin film transistor has a first terminal, a second terminal, and a control terminal for receiving a data voltage. The capacitor is coupled between the first terminal and the control terminal of the thin film transistor. The adaptive voltage source is coupled to the thin film transistor and fixes a voltage between the first terminal and the second terminal of the thin film transistor.
US10475373B2	Display device A display device including a display unit including a plurality of light emitting elements, and a control unit that individually controls the plurality of light emitting elements in each of a plurality of main frames according to the gradation data externally input based on output from an external device. The plurality of main frames each include a plurality of sub-frames. The control unit turns on predetermined ones of the plurality of light emitting elements in a predetermined one of the plurality of main frames such that a difference between a gradation value of one or more of the plurality of sub-frames having a maximum gradation value and a gradation value of one or more of the plurality of sub-frames having a minimum gradation value is at least 2.
US10475371B2	Pixel circuit in an electroluminescent display A circuit includes an electroluminescent (EL) device, a transistor, a first capacitor and a second capacitor. The transistor includes a gate coupled to a first node and a first terminal coupled to a second node. The first capacitor is coupled between a supply voltage and the first node. The second capacitor is coupled between the first node and the second node. The first capacitor and the second capacitor are configured to establish a compensation voltage associated with a threshold voltage of the transistor at the gate of the transistor in response to a first control signal, and establish the compensation voltage at the first terminal of the transistor in response to a second control signal. The transistor is configured to pass a current through the EL device. Moreover, the current has a magnitude independent of the threshold voltage of the transistor.
US10475366B2	Display device and method for driving display device A display device includes: an image display panel having a display area; a light source device configured to illuminate the image display panel with light sources; and a controller configured to control a lighting amount of each light source. The display area includes segment areas each illuminated by one or more of the light sources. Each segment area includes subsegment areas. The controller is configured to: calculate luminance required for each subsegment area, based on an image signal for each subsegment area; temporarily set luminance values of the respective segment areas for determining the lighting amounts of the light sources based on maximum luminance among the required luminance values of the respective subsegment areas of each segment area; and reset, based on at least the maximum luminance, the luminance value of at least the segment area adjacent to the corresponding subsegment area having the required luminance of the maximum luminance.
US10475364B2	Color film substrate, display panel and display device thereof A color film substrate, a display panel and a display panel are provided. The display panel comprises a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a first sub-pixel and a plurality of second pixels. The first sub-pixel has a white color, and the plurality of second pixels has a plurality of colors different from the white color. The first sub-pixel having the white color has a reduced effective aperture area compared with the plurality of sub-pixels having the plurality of colors different from the white color.
US10475358B2	Indicium illumination by light-generating sources An electronic device comprising a housing having a front and a back; a component embedded within the front or the back of the housing; and an array of light-generating sources (LGSs) deposited on a substrate disposed in the housing, the array of LGSs being disposed adjacent at least a portion of the component of the electronic device.
US10475355B2	Method of providing markings to precious stones including gemstones and diamonds, and markings and marked precious stones marked according to such a method An identifiable mark on a portion of a polished facet of a surface of an article and being identifiable by an optical magnifying viewing device, the identifiable mark comprising a nano-structure formed by a two-dimensional or a three-dimensional lattice of a plurality of discrete nanometer sized recessed or protruded entities, wherein the entities are arranged within a predefined region of the polished facet in a predetermined arrangement in relation to each other. The predetermined arrangement of the entities is non-uniform and non-periodic arrangement, and wherein the entities are sized and shaped so as to cause optical scattering upon reflection of incident light having one or more predetermined wavelengths by the lattice at a predetermined angle of incidence to the lattice and the distance from the inner interface surface to the outer interface surface is greater than the amplitude of the non-marked portion of the polished face.
US10475353B2	System for characterizing manual welding operations on pipe and other curved structures A system for characterizing manual welding exercises and providing valuable training to welders that includes components for generating, capturing, and processing data. The data generating component further includes a fixture, workpiece, at least one calibration device having at least two point markers integral therewith, and a welding tool. The data capturing component further includes an imaging system for capturing images of the point markers and the data processing component is operative to receive information from the data capturing component and perform various position and orientation calculations.
US10475350B1	System and method for a driving simulator on a mobile device A system and method facilitates a driving simulator on a mobile device. A driver may input data related to the desired simulation. A simulation may be determined based on the received data. The simulation may include a particular vehicle, road, driving condition, etc. The determined simulation may then be transmitted to a client devices. The client device may then render the simulation and collect driving data during the simulation. The collected driving data may be received and analyzed to determine a driving competency score.
US10475348B2	Method for assisting a person in acting in a dynamic environment and corresponding system The invention regards a method and a system for assisting a person in acting in a dynamic environment. At first, information on states at least two entities in a common environment is obtained. A future behaviour of each of the entities is then predicted based on the obtained information and a time to event for at least one predetermined event involving the at least two entities and a position of occurrence of the event relative to the person is estimated. Then, a signal indicative of the relative direction of the predicted event with respect to the person and indicative of the time to event for driving an actuator is generated, the signal causing a stimulation being perceivable by the person by its perceptual capabilities, wherein the time to event is encoded such that the signal's saliency is the higher the smaller the time to event is.
US10475344B2	Systems and methods for adaptive filtering of vehicle-to-vehicle messages from remote vehicles Communication systems and methods for a vehicle are provided and include a memory storing a high priority queue and a low priority queue, the high priority queue storing first communication messages from first remote vehicles and the low priority queue storing second communication messages from second remote vehicles. A controller receives a communication message from a remote vehicle, applies a filter criteria to the communication message from the remote vehicle, and stores the communication message in one of the high priority queue or the low priority queue based on applying the filter criteria. The controller processes and decodes the first communication messages in the high priority queue at a first processing rate and processes and decodes the second communication messages in the low priority queue at a second processing rate. The first processing rate is higher than the second processing rate.
US10475343B2	Vehicle ice strike prediction A computer includes a processor that is programmed to identify, in a first vehicle, a second vehicle based on first vehicle sensor data. The processor is programmed to determine, based on at least one of the sensor data and additional environmental data, a risk of ice from the second vehicle striking the first vehicle. The processor is further programmed to cause an action in the first vehicle based on the determined risk.
US10475341B1	System and method of maintaining traffic apparatus location information A system and method of acquiring and maintaining location information associated with traffic apparatus deployed in connection with a traffic flow monitoring or regulation system are disclosed. In some implementations, an apparatus identifier may distinguish a particular traffic apparatus from others that are deployed in proximity, and a functional identifier may define a functionality of the particular traffic apparatus; positioning, orientation, and movement or acceleration data may also be provided for real-time or near real-time system applications. These apparatus data may be used to derive and to maintain a record of location data associated with each traffic apparatus deployed in a particular application.
US10475340B2	Traffic hindrance risk indication apparatus An apparatus for indicating a traffic hindrance risk having a traffic hindrance information generating server that generates traffic hindrance information for links that define a driving route on a mesh map. In the apparatus, the congestion degree information is colored in a color assigned in accordance with a numerical value defined to diminish with increasing congestion degree and is drawn the colored congestion degree information on the mesh map with respect to each of the links defining the driving route. And a traffic hindrance occurrence risk predictive value meaning possibility of traffic hindrance occurrence with respect to the driving route is calculated based on the drawn congestion degree information and is indicated to be viewed by an operator of the vehicle.
US10475339B2	Method for processing message and electronic device implementing the same In an example embodiment, an electronic device includes a communication module comprising communication circuitry, a display, a sound output device comprising sound output circuitry, a processor, and a memory. Instructions stored in the memory, when executed by the processor, causes the electronic device to control the communication module to transmit and/or receive a plurality of pieces of wireless access in vehicular environment (WAVE) information. In addition, the electronic device identifies a plurality of events, based on the plurality of pieces of WAVE information, and generates a plurality of messages related to the plurality of events. The electronic device further determines priorities of the plurality of messages, based on status information of the electronic device, and outputs the plurality of messages based on the determined priorities through at least one of the display and the sound output device.
US10475336B2	System for forecasting traffic condition pattern by analysis of traffic data and forecasting method thereof The present invention relates to a system for forecasting the traffic condition pattern by an analysis of traffic data. The forecasting system thereof according to Example 1 of the present invention comprises a queue length estimation unit, which receives from a cloud server the information about vehicle passage time and speed of a first intersection or a second intersection, measured by a first beacon installed in the first intersection or a second beacon installed in the second intersection adjacent to the first intersection, and from the vehicle passage time and speed information of the first intersection or the second intersection, estimates the queue length of vehicles that entered the first intersection but did not pass the second intersection; a traffic estimation unit that uses the estimated queue length to calculate the traffic density by road segment between the first intersection and the second intersection, to thereby estimate the traffic; a traffic correction unit that corrects the estimated traffic data based on the historical data by road segment stored in the cloud server; and a traffic condition information calculation unit that applies data mining and pattern matching method to the corrected traffic data, to thereby calculate the traffic condition pattern and the traffic turning rate by time period and road segment.
US10475335B1	Systems and methods for visualizing telematics data Systems and methods are described for the visualization of vehicular-based telematics data. In various aspects, telematics data may be aggregated for a plurality of vehicles where the telematics data can include telematics data observation(s) for each vehicle. Each observation can indicate a coordinate value of the vehicle and a timestamp for the observation, and can further indicate any of a device identifier for a telematics device associated with the vehicle, a speed value of the vehicle, a g-force value of the vehicle, a trip identifier associated with the vehicle, a distance value of the vehicle, or a stop indicator value of the vehicle. A visualization may also be generated based on at least a subset of the telematics data such that the visualization can indicate one or more image features associated with the one or more of the plurality of vehicles.
US10475334B1	Accessible pedestrian pushbutton station An accessible pedestrian pushbutton station. The station includes an articulating rear mounting structure to facilitate accurate positioning of the station on either a curved or flat surface. Additionally, slots in the rear mounting structure allow for minor positional adjustments during installation. The crossing direction arrow is easily repositioned on the front of the station without disassembling the housing. After removing the screw-mounted arrow, the plunger can be turned clockwise or counter-clockwise using only a flat-head screw driver. The plunger is balanced between oppositely biased springs. The spring-balanced plunger indirectly actuates an offset piezo bender using a flexible spring actuator and a second, offset stem bumper. This protects the piezo bender from direct pressure and potential damage. The station includes an internal speaker and the housing includes bilateral sound vents to project the sound emitted by the speaker. Baffles may be inserted in one or both of the sound vents.
US10475330B2	Communicating with law enforcement agencies using client devices that are associated with audio/video recording and communication devices Communicating with law enforcement agencies using client devices that are associated with audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices are provided. In one embodiments, a method for a client device for preventing redundant calls to an emergency call center is provided, the method comprising: receiving, at the client device, a notification, along with video footage associated with the notification, about an event generated by an A/V recording and communication device, the video footage captured by a camera of the A/V recording and communication device; receiving a request for contacting the emergency call center; informing one or more backend devices, in communication with the client device and a home security monitoring center that monitors a security system, of the received request to suppress a potential redundant call to the emergency call center from the home security monitoring center; and contacting the emergency call center.
US10475328B2	Safe zones in tracking device environments A tracking system determines if a tracking device is located within a safe zone based on whether a set of safe conditions are satisfied. The set of safe conditions includes a geographic boundary or a geographic location and corresponding threshold distance. The set of safe conditions can also include a time window during which a safe zone is active. When a tracking device is within a safe zone (e.g., geographically and temporally), the tracking device is determined to be safe, and notifications associated with the tracking device can be minimized. The safe zones may be user-selected, user-defined, or determined based on data analytics. If a set of safe conditions are not satisfied, the tracking system generates and sends a notification to the user of the tracking device indicating that the tracking device may be lost.
US10475326B2	System and method for tracking interaction between monitored population and unmonitored population A method and system for detecting interaction between monitored individuals and unmonitored individuals is provided. The method includes at each monitored individual: identifying a short range wireless access point that is proximate to the monitored individual; first determining the location of the monitored individual when the identified short range wireless access point was detected; and uploading, from the monitored individual to a central monitoring location, data corresponding to the identified short range wireless access point and the location of the monitored individual when the short range wireless access point was detected. The method include at the central monitoring location: second determining whether: (a) the identified short range wireless access point is a mobile wireless access point; and (b) two or more of the monitored individuals encountered the identified short range wireless access point.
US10475322B1	Earthquake alarm device An earthquake alarm device, including an alarm lamp and a base. Inside the alarm lamp, there is a power supply module and an earth magnetic field detection module. The earth magnetic field detection module emits a sound and light early warning signal when identifying any earth field abnormality. The vibration sensing module I senses slight vibration and emits a sensing signal I. The vibration sensing module II senses strong vibration and emits a sensing signal II. The control chip II emits sound and light alarm signals after receiving the sensing signal II or the sensing signal I and sound and light early warning signal at the same time. The alarm lamp gives a light alarm after receiving a sound and light early warning signal. The lighting module receives sound and light early warning signals or sound and light alarm signals and provides lighting.
US10475320B2	Adaptive roaming algorithm for a mobile patient monitoring device using movement classification A mobile patient monitoring device (10) includes a radio (14) having a scan threshold and a roam threshold that is lower or equal to than the scan threshold. The radio (14) is configured to scan to identify available access points when current access point power is below the scan threshold but above the roam threshold and roam to an available access point when current access point power is below the roam threshold. An accelerometer (12) is configured to measure acceleration. Device electronics (16) include at least one processor (24, 28) programmed to classify patient movement from the acceleration measured by the accelerometer and to assign values for the scan and the roam thresholds of the radio (14) based on the patient movement classification. Alternatively, the device electronics (16) may assign the values for the scan and the roam thresholds of the radio (14) based on received vital sign data acquired from an associated physiological sensor (32).
US10475319B2	Portable generator including carbon monoxide detector A generator includes an engine, an air-fuel mixing device coupled to the engine, where the air-fuel mixing device is structured to receive air from an air intake and combine the air with fuel to create an air/fuel mixture, an exhaust outlet positioned on a first side of the generator and coupled to the engine, wherein the exhaust outlet is structured to emit exhaust gases from the engine, and a carbon monoxide (CO) sensor positioned on a second side of the generator opposite the exhaust outlet, where the CO sensor is structured to detect CO concentration near the generator.
US10475318B2	Battery-powered device having a battery and loud sound detector using passive sensing A communication device comprises a processing circuit having at least two modes, a sleep mode and an awake mode, a wireless communications circuit that can wirelessly send a message as to whether an alarm has been triggered, and a passive sensor, powered by audio signals impinging on the passive sensor, that provides at least an approximation of an audio signal to the processing circuit so as to cause the processing circuit to switch between the at least two modes. The communication device can be housed in a housing sized to fit into a battery compartment.
US10475315B2	System and method for configuring surveillance cameras using mobile computing devices A method and system for configuring surveillance cameras can be used to leverage emerging trends in surveillance camera systems, while also enabling the configuration of cameras to operate in such systems. The method comprises displaying configuration images on mobile computing devices and enabling the cameras to view and capture those images within image data. The configuration images are then derived from image data from the surveillance cameras using integrated or separate analytics systems. Then, configuration information from the mobile device can be paired with corresponding surveillance cameras by reference to the configuration images. In one example, cloud image data storage is allocated as part of this setup and configuration process.
US10475313B2	Image processing system and image decoding apparatus To provide an image processing system and an image decoding apparatus that can limit compression ratio decrease and image quality deterioration and efficiently reduce an information amount.An image processing system that compresses and transmits an input image signal including pixel values corresponding to respective pixels, including: a dynamic range compression unit configured to compress, by a predetermined coefficient, a dynamic range of each of the pixel values corresponding to a background region other than a region of interest (ROI) designated as a desired region for the pixel values in an image based on the input image signal, to generate a low dynamic range image signal; a coding compression unit configured to compress the low dynamic range image signal in accordance with a predetermined image coding scheme to generate compressed image data; and a bit stream transmitter configured to output a bit stream signal including ROI information, the predetermined coefficient and the compressed image data.
US10475311B2	Dynamic assessment using an audio/video recording and communication device Dynamic identification of threat levels associated with persons using audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure are provided. In one embodiment, a method for notifying a user of a threat level associated with a person within the field of view of a camera of an A/V recording and communication device is provided, the method comprising receiving, from the camera, identification data for the person; transmitting the received identification data to at least one backend server; receiving, from the backend server, information about a threat level associated with the person; and notifying the user of the threat level.
US10475300B2	Self adapting haptic device Methods and apparatuses are disclosed that allow an electronic device to autonomously adapt one or more user alerts of the electronic device. For example, some embodiments may include a method for operating a haptic device including driving a haptic device using a control signal, measuring a frequency related to the operation of the haptic device and comparing the measured frequency with a target frequency. A control signal is adjusted based on the comparison to drive the haptic device to the target frequency.
US10475295B2	Media replenishment management A method of method of managing media replenishment at a media terminal, the method comprising: receiving a media event from a media terminal; retrieving a next scheduled media replenishment event for that media terminal; evaluating if the next scheduled media replenishment event is scheduled to occur within an acceptable delay period; and initiating an unscheduled replenishment event only if the next scheduled media replenishment event is scheduled to occur after the acceptable delay period.
US10475293B2	Gaming system and method for redistributing funds amongst players of skill games A gaming system which employs a community skill award pool funded based on one or more awards that lower-skilled players (or no-skill players) failed to win in association with one or more skill-based games.
US10475291B1	System, apparatus and method for drawing-based lottery play with wagering event integrity A lottery host, ticket generator, retailer terminal(s) and specially adapted draw-based lottery game tickets provide embodiments of a wagering event integrity control system, method and apparatus as disclosed. In various embodiments, purchased but unactivated tickets for a lottery drawing are activated based upon key codes associated with unsold tickets received by the lottery host at the end of a game. The lottery host and ticket generator can store different sets of information about the draw-based lottery game tickets, which can be pre-printed with game indicia and activated when desired by the player.
US10475289B2	Method, system, and device for conducting a side bet for a poker game A method of providing a house-banked side game that includes receiving a side bet in the side game associated with the base game from one or more players in the base game, the side bet corresponding to a side game having a payout triggering event associated with a group of community playing cards being the same as at least one preset combination of playing cards, dealing at least two of the playing cards to at least two of users participating in the base game, dealing at least three community playing cards to the group of community playing cards shared by a at least two users participating in the base game, comparing the first three community playing cards with the preset combination, awarding a payout to the players from which a side bet is received responsive to the payout triggering event, and maintaining the side bets thereafter.
US10475286B2	Gaming system and method for utilizing an additional gaming currency across a plurality of gaming platforms In various embodiment, the gaming system provides a new gaming currency which is in addition to and different than current known land-based gaming establishment currencies, such as monetary credits, promotional credits and player tracking points and also in addition to and different than current known casual or social game currencies, such as virtual currencies. This gaming currency is accumulated and redeemed in association with the plays of games occurring at land-based gaming establishments as well as in association with the plays of casual or social games.
US10475284B2	Managing virtual currencies in a gaming environment A method for converting a game award earned during play of a first wager-based game into a game award in a second wager-based game includes, but is not limited to any of combination of: receiving, over a network, a request to convert a first award earned by a player in the first wager-based game into at least one award in the second wager-based game; converting, by one or more processors, the first award earned during play of the first wager-based game to at least one award associated with the second wager-based game based on award conversation data; and storing, by the one or more processors, data associated with result of the conversion of the first award into the at least award of the second wager-based game in a data storage system.
US10475281B2	Gaming system and method for providing symbol combinations with dynamic awards The gaming system and method disclosed herein provides a plurality of symbol combinations that are each associated with a dynamic award. Such dynamic awards increase based, at least in part, on one or more random events which occur in association with one or more plays of a game. In one embodiment, the gaming system increases the dynamic award of a designated symbol combination based on the random generation of another, different symbol combination. In this embodiment, if the gaming system randomly generates the other symbol combination, the gaming system: (i) provides any award associated with this other symbol combination, and (ii) increases the dynamic award of the designated symbol combination. Additionally, if the gaming system randomly generates the designated symbol combination, the gaming system provides to a player the dynamic award of the designated symbol combination.
US10475279B2	Method and system for revealing a prize embedded in a candle A candle with an embedded item and methods for manufacturing same are disclosed. A method for manufacturing a candle having an embedded item can include a prize and a redeemable code. The redeemable code can be associated with a value. The value can be used to select a prize based on the associated value. A method, system and non-transitory computer-readable medium for revealing a value associated with the prize and redeemable code is also disclosed.
US10475277B2	Systems and methods for modifying a graphical user interface for facilitating a roulette game In accordance with some embodiments, a gaming apparatus provides for facilitating a roulette game which allows for wagering on multi-spin wagers, wherein a win result of the multi-spin wager is dependent on a plurality of independently-determined results of the roulette game, and further wherein the wager defines a predetermined relationship the plurality of independently-determined results must bear to one another in order for the player to win the wager. The gaming apparatus is, in accordance with some embodiments, operable to modify a graphical user interface to indicate progress in a game instance of the multi-spin wager.
US10475276B2	Gaming machine having door with extended opening and closing control A gaming machine has a cabinet which defines one or more interior areas and has at least one access door or panel which is movably mounted to the cabinet to selectively provide access to the interior area(s). A door control comprises a scissor arm and a door shock. The scissor arm comprises first and second links which are rotatably connected at a joint and connect to the cabinet and access door, thus permitting a wide range of movement of the access door. The door shock mounts to the cabinet and the scissor arm, thus controlling movement of the scissor arm.
US10475273B2	Architecture for access management Disclosed are techniques that render a graphical user interface on a display device for performing transactions with a security system. The techniques include listening by a user device for a beacon from the security system, the beacon including a message and imitating by the user device the transaction with the security system in response to the message, with the message causing the user device to render a graphical user interface that has fields for entering an email address and a password to register the user device with a security server, with the graphical user interface rendering on the display a public key stored in a user digital wallet and a user digital wallet identification and sending in response to the message, a user's public key that is stored in the user's wallet and which is embedded in a code.
US10475272B2	Architecture for access management Disclosed are techniques that use devices with corresponding identity wallet applications that execute on an electronic processor device of the devices, and which identity wallets store identity information and encrypt the stored identity information. A distributed ledger system, and a broker system that interfaces to the wallet and the distributed ledger are used for various information exchange cases pertaining to access to facilities.
US10475269B2	Covert secure document registration system A method for creating a secure document, registering the secure document and verifying the authenticity of the secure document includes receiving a print object that has content. A security feature, including an identifier, is created and is associated with the content. The identifier may be a barcode. The barcode may represent a character string. The security feature may include the identifier barcode and a decoy barcode that is not associated with the content. The identifier barcode (or the character string represented by the barcode) and the content are transmitted to a database for storage. Once stored, the identifier and the content are considered to be registered. A print object that includes the security feature and the content is then transmitted to a printer for printing.
US10475266B2	Lock control device, information processing method, program, and communication terminal There is provided a lock control device attachable to a locking mechanism, the lock control device including circuitry configured to receive key information and a process request from a first communication device, the key information including authorization information of the first communication device related to a plurality of types of functions of the lock control device, and determine whether the process request is permitted based on the key information, wherein the key information further includes identification information of the first communication device.
US10475262B2	Providing virtual and physical access to secure storage container A device may obtain a first image depicting contents included in a secure storage container at a first point in time and first user account data associated with the secure storage container. The device may store the first image in a data structure associated with the first user account data. In addition, the device may receive data indicating that an individual associated with a second user account accessed the secure storage container, and receive a second image depicting contents included in the secure storage container at a second point in time. The second image may be stored in the data structure. The device may further receive, from a user device associated with the first user account data, a request to access the data structure, and the device may provide, to the user device, data that causes display of the second image.
US10475254B2	Methods and apparatus to align components in virtual reality environments Systems, devices, methods, computer program products, and electronic apparatuses for aligning components in virtual reality environments are provided. An example method includes detecting a first input from a handheld controller of a virtual reality system, responsive to detecting the first input, instructing a user to orient a handheld controller in a designated direction, detecting a second input from the handheld controller; and responsive to detecting the second input, storing alignment data representative of an alignment of the handheld controller.
US10475249B2	Safety for wearable virtual reality devices via object detection and tracking The technology disclosed can provide improved safety by detecting potential unsafe conditions (e.g., collisions, loss of situational awareness, etc.) confronting the user of a wearable (or portable) sensor configured to capture motion and/or determining the path of an object based on imaging, acoustic or vibrational waves. Implementations can enable improved safety to users of virtual reality for machine control and/or machine communications applications using wearable (or portable) devices, e.g., head mounted displays (HMDs), wearable goggles, watch computers, smartphones, and so forth, or mobile devices, e.g., autonomous and semi-autonomous robots, factory floor material handling systems, autonomous mass-transit vehicles, automobiles (human or machine driven), and so forth, equipped with suitable sensors and processors employing optical, audio or vibrational detection.
US10475248B1	Real-time compositing in mixed reality A system may include a memory device to store instructions and data, and at least one processing device to execute the instructions stored in the memory device to: receive a background image and a digital object to be composited onto the background image in a mixed reality view, generate a 2D bounding region for the digital object, select a version of the background image at a pre-defined resolution, overlay the 2D bounding region on the selected version of the background image and obtain a set of samples of the colors of pixels of the selected version along a perimeter of the 2D bounding region, and determine a value for one or more digital lighting sources to illuminate the digital object in the mixed reality view, based, at least in part, on the set of samples.
US10475247B1	Configuration for resuming/supplementing an augmented reality experience A process determines, with a content presentation device, a recognition indicium that corresponds to an identifier of the content presentation device. Further, the process provides, with the content presentation device, the recognition indicium to an output device so that the output device emits the recognition indicium. In addition, the process receives, at the content presentation device from the server, remaining content of an augmented reality experience that was paused by a processor in operable communication with an augmented reality device. The augmented reality device is distinct from the output device. Further, the processor sends the identifier and a position of the remaining content to the server. In addition, the process sends, with the content presentation device, the remaining content to the output device so that the output device emits the remaining content.
US10475246B1	Systems and methods to provide views of virtual content in an interactive space A system configured to provide views of virtual content in an interactive space may comprise one or more of a light source, an optical element, one or more physical processor, non-transitory electronic storage, and/or other components. The optical element being configured to provide light emitted from the light source into one or more eyes of a user. The non-transitory electronic storage may be configured to store virtual content information defining virtual content. The virtual content may include one or more of a virtual gallery, one or more virtual objects, and/or other virtual content. The virtual gallery may comprise a set of supports. The virtual gallery may be configured to simulate removable engagement of individual virtual objects to individual supports.
US10475241B2	Super-resolution displays and methods of operating the same Super-resolution displays, and methods of operating the same are disclosed herein. An example disclosed method includes emitting light from a pixel at a first location in a display assembly, and emitting light from the pixel at a second different location in the display assembly.
US10475240B2	System, method, and apparatus to display three-dimensional robotic workcell data A system and a method for displaying a three-dimensional robotic workcell data includes generating the robotic workcell data, a display device including a web browser for receiving the robotic workcell data in a standard format and displaying a three-dimensional rendering of the robotic workcell data, and manipulating the three-dimensional rendering on the display device.
US10475237B2	Image processing apparatus and control method thereof Provided is an image processing apparatus that can flexibly control the position of a virtual light source used for re-lighting processing and correct shading of an object, and a control method thereof. A shading condition detection unit calculates an evaluation value representing the condition of the shading for an object region within an image. A virtual light source control unit then sets a virtual light source based on the evaluation value, and a virtual light addition unit applies the effects of virtual light irradiated by the virtual light source in the image.
US10475236B2	Medical device visualization Systems and methods present multiple images of a three-dimensional model, including a three-dimensional representation of an anatomic structure and a representation of a medical device relative to the anatomic structure, on a graphical user interface. The multiple images correspond to different views (e.g., in multiple, different planes) of the three-dimensional model to provide complementary spatial information regarding a position of the medical device relative to the anatomic structure during a medical procedure performed on the anatomic structure. Such complementary spatial information can, for example, provide spatial context to facilitate controlling the position of the medical device relative to the anatomic structure during the medical procedure.
US10475235B2	Three-dimensional image processing apparatus, three-dimensional image processing method, and three-dimensional image processing program A three-dimensional image processing apparatus includes a three-dimensional image acquisition unit that acquires a three-dimensional image obtained by imaging a test object; a graphical structure generation unit that generates a graphical structure of a tubular structure included in the three-dimensional image; a contour information acquisition unit that acquires contour information on the tubular structure at each point on the graphical structure; a viewpoint information acquisition unit that acquires viewpoint information in the tubular structure; a projection point specification unit that specifies projection points from respective points on the graphical structure on the basis of the viewpoint information and the graphical structure; and a projection image generation unit that generates a projection image obtained by projecting the contour information at the projection points on a two-dimensional plane.
US10475234B2	Multi-stage method of generating 3D civil site surveys A method of creating a three-dimensional model, based on two-dimensional (hereinafter “2D”) images is provided. The method includes acquiring a number of images of a number of physical locations, wherein each image is associated with one image group of a number of hierarchical image groups, the number of hierarchical image groups including a base image group, converting images within a group to a number of 3D models, wherein each 3D model is associated with one model group of a number of hierarchical model groups, the number of hierarchical model groups including a base model group, merging a number of the 3D models from the base model group and a number of 3D models from another 3D model group to create a multi-scale 3D model, and utilizing the multi-scale 3D model.
US10475231B2	Methods and systems for surface fitting based change detection in 3D point-cloud Methods and systems for change detection utilizing three dimensional (3D) point-cloud processing are provided. The method includes detecting changes in the surface based on a surface fitting approach with a locally weighted Moving Least Squares (MLS) approximation. The method includes acquiring and comparing surface geometry of a reference point-cloud defining a reference surface and a template point-cloud defining a template surface at local regions or local surfaces using the surface fitting approach. The method provides effective change detection for both, rigid as well as non-rigid changes, reducing false detections due to presence of noise and is independent of factors such as texture or illumination of an object or scene being tracked for changed detection.
US10475225B2	Avatar animation system Avatar animation systems disclosed herein provide high quality, real-time avatar animation that is based on the varying countenance of a human face. In some example embodiments, the real-time provision of high quality avatar animation is enabled at least in part, by a multi-frame regressor that is configured to map information descriptive of facial expressions depicted in two or more images to information descriptive of a single avatar blend shape. The two or more images may be temporally sequential images. This multi-frame regressor implements a machine learning component that generates the high quality avatar animation from information descriptive of a subject's face and/or information descriptive of avatar animation frames previously generated by the multi-frame regressor. The machine learning component may be trained using a set of training images that depict human facial expressions and avatar animation authored by professional animators to reflect facial expressions depicted in the set of training images.
US10475224B2	Reality-augmented information display method and apparatus This application discloses a reality-augmented information display method performed by a first terminal that is communicatively connected to a remote server. The method includes: obtaining a first geographical location of the first terminal and a first orientation of the camera; transmitting the first geographical location and the first orientation to the server; receiving, from the server, first information, wherein the first information is released by a second terminal at a second geographical location that is within a region defined by the first geographical location and the first orientation; determining a display location of the first information on the display of the first terminal according to the second geographical location within the region defined by the first geographical location and the first orientation; and displaying, at the display location, presentation information used to represent the first information while displaying a real-time image captured by the camera on the display.
US10475223B2	Generating multiple data-bound graphic objects Methods and systems are provided for creating a plurality of data-bound graphic objects using an existing graphic object displayed within a graphical user interface. A visual property of an existing graphic object is selected and associated with a selected variable identified from a received data set. The data has a plurality of observations, each with a variable value for the selected variable. Once associated, additional graphic objects are created or adjusted to correspond to the observations in the data such that the additional graphic objects and the initial graphic object represent each observation in the data set. Further, property values of the selected visual property for each graphic object are determined by variable values of corresponding observations. Accordingly, the graphic objects have different appearances reflecting different variable values for all the observations in the data set.
US10475218B2	Graph expansion mini-view A graphical representation of a service model provides a full view of a portion of the graphical representation. A sub graph view may be displayed for nodes of the graphical representation of the service model that are associated with a selected node, including nodes that may not be visible in the full view. The sub graph view may be interactive, providing additional information regarding the nodes displayed in the sub graph view, and allowing making nodes in the sub graph view visible or invisible in the full view. Information may be displayed in the sub graph view about the status of the components being modeled by the service model corresponding to nodes displayed in the sub graph view.
US10475217B2	Systems and methods for progressive imaging An imaging system includes an imaging unit, a display unit, and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to acquire a first type of diagnostic imaging information of the patient; reconstruct a first image using the first type of diagnostic imaging information; if a first stop criterion for terminating imaging is not satisfied, acquire a second type of diagnostic imaging information having an increased level of acquisitional burden; reconstruct a second image; if a second stop criterion for terminating imaging is not satisfied, acquire a third type of diagnostic imaging information having an increased level of acquisitional burden, wherein the patient is maintained on a table of the imaging unit during the acquisition of the second type of diagnostic imaging information, reconstruction of the second image, and acquisition of the third type of diagnostic imaging information; reconstruct a third image; and display the third image.
US10475215B2	CBCT image processing method A method for multi-dimensional image processing obtains a multi-dimensional image having a plurality of data elements, each data element having a corresponding data value. The method forms a reduced noise image by repeated iterations of a process that adjusts the data value for one or more data elements p of the obtained image by: for each data element k in a group of data elements in the image, calculating a weighting factor for the data element k as a function of the difference between an estimated data value for data element p and the corresponding data value of data element k, updating the estimated data value for the data element p according to the combined calculated weighting factors and the data value of the data element k; and displaying, storing, or transmitting the reduced noise image.
US10475211B2	Method, information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium A method performed by a computer, the method includes obtaining a plurality of images each of which includes a plurality of animals, the plurality of animals being attached with a plurality of attachment objects respectively, the attachment objects having respective different colors, using at least one image among the plurality of images, detecting the colors of the plurality of attachment objects respectively, using the plurality of images, detecting movements of the plurality of respective attachment objects, based on the colors of the plurality of attachment objects, and in accordance with the respective movements of the plurality of attachment objects, determining respective activity quantities of the plurality of animals.
US10475205B2	Positioning and measuring system based on flexible feature image scale A positioning and measuring system includes: an image capturing device performing image capturing operations on an object; a driving mechanism mechanically connected to one or both of the image capturing device and the object to cause a relative movement between the image capturing device and the object; and a processor electrically connected to the image capturing device and the driving mechanism and performing steps of: controlling the image capturing device to capture N portions of the object to generate N images before and after controlling the driving mechanism to cause M relative movements between the object and the image capturing device; and extracting feature points of each of the N images corresponding to unique surface morphology of the object and respectively performing cross-image feature point matching according to the feature points of every neighboring two of the N images to obtain information of the M relative movements.
US10475204B2	Fast multi-object detection and tracking system The present invention relates to the fast multi-object detection and tracking system. According to the system of the present invention, only a few frames are to be detected and the other frames are split into different size of steady motion segments in a binary way, and then the system of the present invention can predicted accurately. The system can help to achieve high tracking speed with multi-persons in high-definition videos and gain high accuracy as well.
US10475199B2	Optical measurement device and the method using thereof An optical measurement device and an optical measurement method for measuring a gap on an electronic device are provided. The optical measurement device includes an image capture device and an image processing device. The image capture device is used to capture an image including a gap. The electronic device includes a body and a component assembled on the body. The gap of the electronic device is existed between the body and the component. The image processing device is coupled to the image capture device. The image processing device is used to receive the image, and the image scanning operation is executed to the image to measure the breadth of the gap. The precise measurement result is quickly obtained.
US10475196B2	Hybrid depth detection and movement detection A head-mounted device (HMD) is configured to perform depth detection in conjunction with movement tracking. The HMD includes a stereo camera pair comprising a first camera and a second camera, both of which are mounted on the HMD. The fields of view for both of the cameras overlap to form an overlapping field of view. These cameras are configured to detect both visible light and infrared (IR) light. The HMD also includes an IR dot-pattern illuminator that is configured to emit an IR dot-pattern illumination. The HMD uses the IR dot-pattern illumination to determine an object's depth. The HMD also includes one or more flood IR light illuminators that emit a flood of IR light. The HMD uses the flood of IR light to track at least its own movements, and sometimes even hand movements, in various environments, even low light environments.
US10475195B2	Automatic global non-rigid scan point registration Techniques are provided for global (non-rigid) scan point registration between a scanned object and an associated model, from an arbitrary initial starting position, based on a combination of iterative coarse registration and fine registration. A methodology implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes generating a model transformation based on a coarse registration between the model and the point scan. The method further includes calculating an alignment metric based on a distance measurement between the point scan and the transformed model. If the alignment metric exceeds a selected threshold value, a fine registration is performed between the transformed model and the point scan. Otherwise, the method continues by performing a random rotation of the model; a translation of the rotated model towards a centroid of the point scan; and iterating the coarse registration using the translated model until the alignment metric is achieved, after which the fine registration is performed.
US10475189B2	Content aware, spatially adaptive automated thresholding of images Techniques are described for obtaining at least one image using at least one processor. The techniques may include selecting a plurality of objects defined by a plurality of pixels within the at least one image. The techniques may include determining perceptual information associated with each of the plurality of objects and generating a context for each of the plurality of pixels that define the plurality of objects. The techniques may also include automatically thresholding the at least one image to generate an output image that represents the at least one image.
US10475187B2	Apparatus and method for dividing image into regions An image processing apparatus includes a dividing unit configured to divide an image into a plurality of regions based on an attribute of a pixel, the image having an image coordinate system set therein; a converting unit configured to set a region coordinate system for each of the regions obtained by the dividing unit and to convert coordinate values of a pixel in the image on the image coordinate system into coordinate values on the region coordinate system set for a region to which the pixel belongs; and a calculating unit configured to calculate a feature amount of the region by using the converted coordinate values.
US10475186B2	Segmentation of objects in videos using color and depth information Techniques are provided for segmentation of objects in video frames. A methodology implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes receiving image frames, including an initial reference frame, and receiving a mask to outline a region in the reference frame that contains the object to be segmented. The method also includes calculating Gaussian mixture models associated with both the masked region and a background region external to the masked region. The method further includes segmenting the object from a current frame based on a modelling of the pixels within an active area of the current frame as a Markov Random Field of nodes for cost minimization. The costs are based in part on the Gaussian mixture models. The active area is based on the segmentation of a previous frame and on an estimation of optical flow between the previous frame and the current frame.
US10475183B2	Image analysis device, image analysis method, image analysis system, and recording medium A relationship between constituents of a structure is objectively and appropriately assessed. An image analyzing device includes: a Betti number calculating section (42) configured to calculate the numbers of holes from respective plurality of binarized images, after the plurality of binarized images are generated by binarizing a single captured image, which is obtained by capturing a structure, while making binarization reference values differ from each other; a function specifying section (43) configured to specify a characteristic numerical value that characterizes a correspondence between (i) the respective binarization reference values and (ii) the respective numbers of holes; and an output information generating section (44) configured to generate output information corresponding to the characteristic numerical value.
US10475178B1	System, method and computer program product for inspecting a wafer using a film thickness map generated for the wafer A system, method, and computer program product are provided for inspecting a wafer using a film thickness map generated for the wafer. In use, a plurality of locations on a wafer are determined from a design of the wafer. Additionally, a measured brightness at each of the determined locations on the wafer is obtained. Further, a film thickness map for the wafer is generated from the obtained measurements. The wafer is then inspected using the film thickness map.
US10475176B2	Inspection system for wire electrical discharge machine Provided is an inspection system for a wire electrical discharge machine, capable of automatically performing inspection of a constituent element and the like. The inspection system for a wire electrical discharge machine is provided with the wire electrical discharge machine, a robot for inspecting the constituent element of the wire electrical discharge machine, an image pickup device provided on a movable part of the robot and configured to image the constituent element, an image processing unit configured to acquire an image of the constituent element by means of the image pickup device, and a maintenance necessity determination unit configured to determine the necessity of maintenance of the constituent element based on the image acquired by the image processing unit.
US10475174B2	Visual anomaly detection system A generative adversarial network (GAN) system includes a generator neural sub-network configured to receive one or more images depicting one or more objects. The generator neural sub-network also is configured to generate a foreground image and a background image based on the one or more images that are received, the generator neural sub-network configured to combine the foreground image with the background image to form a consolidated image. The GAN system also includes a discriminator neural sub-network configured to examine the consolidated image and determine whether the consolidated image depicts at least one of the objects. The generator neural sub-network is configured to one or more of provide the consolidated image or generate an additional image as a training image used to train another neural network to automatically identify the one or more objects in one or more other images.
US10475172B2	Techniques for predicting perceptual video quality In one embodiment of the present invention, a quality trainer and quality calculator collaborate to establish a consistent perceptual quality metric via machine learning. In a training phase, the quality trainer leverages machine intelligence techniques to create a perceptual quality model that combines objective metrics to optimally track a subjective metric assigned during viewings of training videos. Subsequently, the quality calculator applies the perceptual quality model to values for the objective metrics for a target video, thereby generating a perceptual quality score for the target video. In this fashion, the perceptual quality model judiciously fuses the objective metrics for the target video based on the visual feedback processed during the training phase. Since the contribution of each objective metric to the perceptual quality score is determined based on empirical data, the perceptual quality score is a more accurate assessment of observed video quality than conventional objective metrics.
US10475169B2	High dynamic range illumination estimation Systems and techniques for estimating illumination from a single image are provided. An example system may include a neural network. The neural network may include an encoder that is configured to encode an input image into an intermediate representation. The neural network may also include an intensity decoder that is configured to decode the intermediate representation into an output light intensity map. An example intensity decoder is generated by a multi-phase training process that includes a first phase to train a light mask decoder using a set of low dynamic range images and a second phase to adjust parameters of the light mask decoder using a set of high dynamic range image to generate the intensity decoder.
US10475167B2	Method and device for image rotation, and apparatus for image formation Method and device for image rotation, and apparatus for image formation are provided. The method includes obtaining a tilt angle and size information of a to-be-processed image data, and obtaining position information of a target pixel corresponding to each rotated original pixel by performing a calculation based on the tilt angle and the size information and position information of each original pixel. The method also includes obtaining an enhancement parameter value and an edge parameter value by filtering the original pixel. Further, the method includes performing a two-dimensional interpolation process based on neighboring pixels of the original pixel, the enhancement parameter value and the edge parameter value, and obtaining a target pixel value of the target pixel according to an original pixel value of the original pixel, the enhancement parameter value, and the edge parameter value, thereby obtaining a target image corresponding to the rotated to-be-processed image data.
US10475166B2	Video image enhancement method There is provided is a method for enhancing a video image capable of achieving high image quality improvement for both a texture area and an edge area. A maximum limit value and a minimum limit value of a video signal value enhanced on the basis of a pixel signal value in an area set around the target pixel are calculated, the maximum limit value and the minimum limit value are corrected according to a texture value calculated as a scale value that indicates a variation of the pixel signal value in the corresponding area, and the corrected maximum limit value and minimum limit value are applied to the enhanced video signal value.
US10475164B2	Artifact detection in a contrast enhanced output image One or more processors may perform one or more lookup table (LUT)-based image processing operations on an input image to produce an output image, wherein performing the one or more image processing operations on the input image introduces one or more banding artifacts in the output image. The one or more processors may determine one or more sub-regions of the output image that include the one or more banding artifacts. The one or more processors may perform one or more artifact reduction operations on the one or more sub-regions of the output image without performing the one or more artifact reduction operations on remaining sub-regions of the output image.
US10475153B1	Apparatus and computer program products for object rendering method that renders object efficiently using a plurality of processor cores A system, method, and apparatus provide an improvement to image rendering and the computing resources used to render processing intensive image objects. Exemplary embodiments receive an image object and depending on the type of image object, the image object size, or complexity, a determination is made as to whether the image object should be divided up and processed using multiple threads with a multi-core computer processor. When multiple threads are used, a different thread is assigned to each section of the divided-up image object. Each section may then be processed by its respective thread until converted and mapped into an output image space that yields a final rendered image.
US10475142B2	Evidence-based healthcare information management protocols Structures and protocols are presented for signaling a status or decision (processing or transmitting a medical record or other resource, e.g.) conditionally. Such signaling may be partly based on one or more symptoms, regimen attributes, performance indicia (compliance indications, e.g.), privacy considerations (patient consent, e.g.), contextual considerations (being in or admitted by a care facility, e.g.), sensor data, or other such determinants. In some contexts this may trigger an incentive being manifested (as a dispensation of an item, e.g.), an intercommunication (telephone call, e.g.) beginning, a device being configured (enabled or customized, e.g.), data distillations being presented or tracked, or other such results.
US10475134B2	Sponsored recommendation in a social networking system A social networking system presents suggestions to a user of a social networking system to use or install one or more applications accessible in the system. The social networking system offers suggestions by ranking candidate applications for a particular user and selecting applications to recommend based on the rankings. Advertisers associated with some applications may bid to boost the rankings of an application, making it more likely to appear for a given user.
US10475133B1	System and method for automated data gathering for completing form A computer-implemented method for gathering user-related tax data for use with tax preparation software includes a computing device executing a data capture utility configured to connect to one or more remotely located data sources, wherein the data capture utility captures user-specific tax data from the one or more remotely located data sources and stores the captured data in a data store. The computing device executes a tax logic engine configured to read data from the data store and determine the completeness of the data contained within the data store. The computing device communicates a message to the user regarding the level of completeness of the data contained within the data store.
US10475123B2	Coupon blending of swap portfolio Systems and methods for blending a plurality of swaps may include determining a fixed rate for use in blending a plurality of swaps, each of the plurality of swaps having matching economics and a different associated fixed rate. A computing device may determine a first remnant swap for blending fixed rate components of the plurality of swaps using the fixed rate. In some cases, the computing device may determine second remnant swap for blending floating rate components of the plurality of swaps based on the first remnant swap.
US10475120B2	Directed order A directed order process and related market center are disclosed, wherein a market center grants permission to order sending firms to send directed order flow to participating designated market makers. Such designated market makers create a virtual guarantee order book for each permissioned order sending firm. If an order sending firm sends a directed order to the market center that is marketable against a virtual guarantee order, then the market center automatically pairs the orders in a two-sided directed cross order instruction, which executes against any superior trading interest in the marketplace first before crossing.
US10475116B2	Method to identify a suggested location for storing a data entry in a database A method and system to identify a suggested location for storing a data entry in a database including a plurality of divisions is provided. The method includes receiving entry criteria associated with the data entry, and searching the database using the entry criteria to locate similar stored data entries. At least one division for data entries is identified wherein the stored data entries are located. The at least one division is then presented to a user as the suggested location. The method and system may be applied in a network-based auction facility and the data entry may then be a user listing. The method may thus include identifying at least one potentially relevant category for the user listing as the suggested location.
US10475113B2	Method system and medium for generating virtual contexts from three dimensional models Techniques for generated and presenting images of items within user selected context images are presented herein. In an example embodiment, an access module can be configured to receive a first environment model and a first wearable item model. A simulation module coupled to the access module may process the environment model to identify placement volumes within the environment model and to place a clothed body model within the placement volume to generate a context model. A rendering module may then generate a context image from the context model. In various embodiments, the environment model used for the context, the wearable item positioned within the environment model, and rendering values used to generate context images may be changed in response to user inputs to generate new context images that are displayed to a user.
US10475105B1	Systems and methods for providing improved recommendations Systems and methods for providing improved recommendations are disclosed. In some embodiments, the systems and methods may be used for vehicle recommendations. The system may include a server system configured to receive user historical vehicle preferences, user vehicle preferences, generate weighted feature data sets, and apply a similarity model to the generated weighted feature data set in order to determine a vehicle recommendation data set. A visual representation of the vehicle recommendation data set may then be provided to an interface associated with a user.
US10475103B2	Method, medium, and system for product recommendations based on augmented reality viewpoints Provided are methods and techniques for providing a product recommendation to a user using augmented reality. A product recommendation system determines a user viewpoint, the viewpoint including an augmented product positioned in a camera image of the user's surroundings. Based on the viewpoint, the product recommendation system determines the position of the augmented product in the viewpoint and the similarity between the augmented product and other candidate products that are similar to the augmented product. The product recommendation system then creates a set of recommendation images, each recommendation image including an image of the candidate product that is substituted for the augmented product in the viewpoint. The product recommendation system can then evaluate the recommendation images based on overall color compatibility. Based on the evaluation, for example, the product recommendation system selects a recommendation image that is provided to the user.
US10475102B2	Providing personalized item recommendations using scalable matrix factorization with randomness Providing personalized item recommendations using scalable matrix factorization with randomness. Various embodiments involve ecommerce websites, an item interaction matrix, item interaction weightings, factorizing into a user feature matrix and an item feature matrix, computing a thin matrix, generating a random Gaussian matrix, decomposing a matrix Y by a QR factorization, performing a singular value decomposition, performing alternative least squares, computing item interaction scores, selecting at least one item for recommendation to an Internet user based on the item interaction scores, or a combination thereof.
US10475101B1	Determining potential causes of an issue associated with recommendations and changing recommendation filter settings based on the outcome of an action Techniques for analyzing recommendations may be described. In particular, an item offered from a network-based resource may be selected based at least in part on past orders for the item. Recommended items offered from the network-based resource may also be identified. A determination may be made as to whether the recommended items may include the item. Based on this determination, an indication of an issue associated with recommending the item may be generated. Based on the indication, a workflow to identify a potential cause of the issue may be initiated.
US10475099B1	Displaying relevant content Various approaches provide for determining the selection and/or ranking of items to display based at least in part upon the probabilities of a user being interested in those items. The probabilities can be based on profile information of a user. The profile information can include a three-dimensional virtual model of the user. When a search for content is received, the information for the three-dimensional virtual model can be used to determine a set of items. For each item, a matching score quantifying a visual appreciation can be determined based on how well an item virtually “fits” the three-dimensional virtual model. Based on the matching score, the selection and/or ranking of items to display can be determined. In some situations, the items can be shown to appear to be worn by the three-dimensional virtual model. The user can purchase items, cause item information to be presented to other users or sent to other devices, and/or perform other such actions.
US10475097B2	Systems and methods for providing an interactive virtual environment A system includes one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform steps of a method for providing an interactive virtual environment. The system may receive environmental data, and generate virtual environmental data based on the environmental data. The system may then provide the virtual environmental data to at least a first computing device to create a virtual environment. The system may then receive user input, and modify the virtual environment to display enhanced content in response to the user input.
US10475094B2	Systems and methods for search result comparison In some embodiments, a method can comprise receiving a search query and performing a search based at least in part on the search query. In many embodiments, the search can return a plurality of search results, the plurality of search results can comprise a plurality of attributes. In some embodiments, the method can further comprise selecting at least two of the plurality of search results and sorting an order of the at least two of the plurality of search results by a ranking of the plurality of attributes of the at least two of the plurality of search results, the ranking of the at least two of the plurality of attributes of the plurality of search results based at least in part on a context of the search query. In many embodiments, the method can comprise facilitating display of the at least two of the plurality of search results. Other embodiments of related methods and systems are also provided.
US10475092B1	System and method for online time-price based marketplace and unique manipulations of listings A system and method host an electronic marketplace in which the initial product prices are set by the selling party and the final purchase price is determined by the time between product posting and payment from a buyer. Gamification is implemented using purchasable powerups to allow users to manipulate the prices during a product listing. The seller has two options for the increment or decrement rate of the price of the product: automatic or manual. In the automatic incrementation, the system increments or decrements the final price by cross-referencing the time and the product seller's inputted choice of UP or DOWN at the time of posting. In the manual incrementation, the seller selects the speed in which the price is increased or decreased from the start to the end of the product listing based on the seller's inputted choice of UP or DOWN at the time of posting.
US10475091B2	Dynamic provisioning system for communication networks According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a virtualized communication device dynamic provisioning system includes a computer-based set of instructions that are executed to generate a user interface for receiving selection of one or more virtualized communication devices. The instructions may then receive provisioning information associated with the selected virtualized communication devices from the user interface, and provision the virtualized communication devices in accordance with the received provisioning information to prepare and equip the virtualized communication devices according to the financial transaction.
US10475089B2	Virtual receptionist system A method and apparatus for providing a synchronous communication session comprising a customer service session and a video conferencing session are provided. The customer service session is established by a distribution service in response to a request received from a cabinet application that is geographically remote from a virtual receptionist application. The request includes a computer identifier of the cabinet application that is then used by the virtual receptionist application to request a video conferencing session from a video conferencing service that is separate from the distribution service. During the synchronous communication session, the virtual receptionist can cause a display at the cabinet application to display a screen at the virtual receptionist application.
US10475086B2	Web application tool for increasing sales in stores where through the user interface operators are connected to internet pages displayed on screens throughout the store and via the user interface the store can centrally direct, even in real time, the selling/offering of products to the customers choosing products in the sections covered by the internet pages displayed on suitable screens The invention and product form a process enhancement with which one centrally in a simple way can increase and direct sales efforts “individually” to customers at different sections of a store. This creates an added service, is convenient, effectivises, creates worker wellbeing, is inexpensive and can lead to considerable financial gain.
US10475080B2	Radio communication apparatus and radio communication method A radio communication apparatus performing radio communication based on either role, a master or a slave, includes: a role change receiver receiving a role change request from a master to a slave when the radio communication apparatus has a role of master and has established connection to another radio communication apparatus operating as a slave; and an identification information transmitter transmitting identification information to the other radio communication apparatus on a given channel at shorter time intervals when the role change receiver receives the change request than a given comparison criterion for when the role change receiver does not receive the change request.
US10475075B2	Correlated consumer telephone numbers and user identifiers for advertising retargeting A method and system that performs cross-channel advertisement targeting based on consumer telephone numbers. The system utilizes a targeting database to determine which consumers should be re-engaged on behalf of a business. The targeting database correlates a telephone number associated with a consumer with a masked user identifier associated with the tracking of online behavior of that consumer. The targeting database may include a confidence level representing the likelihood of correspondence between the telephone number and masked user identifier. The targeting database is used by the system to target advertisements to consumers. A telephone number of a consumer is used to identify a masked identifier of the consumer. Advertisements are then targeted to the consumer using the masked identifier. The stored confidence level may be used by the system to control the aggressiveness of re-targeting.
US10475072B2	System and method for providing dynamic product offerings A system and method for dynamically selecting products for presentation to consumers in a hands-on environment of a merchant, based upon social signals acquired from consumers in an online environment.
US10475069B2	Automatic aftercall directory and phonebook entry advertising This disclosure provides methods, services, and platforms that automatically prompt mobile phone users to add contact information to their phone book after a triggering event such as calling a phone number. The methods, services, and platforms allow mobile network operators to provide a service that allows businesses to potentially have their numbers added to the phonebook of a mobile phone after a disconnected call.
US10475066B1	Targeted online multimedia advertising A server system accesses a branding profile that includes one or more demographics associated with the user. The system selects an advertising campaign in accordance with the one or more demographics. The advertising campaign includes a pool of multimedia advertisements and a pool of questions, and is associated with a subset of the one or more demographics. The system selects a multimedia advertisement from the pool of multimedia advertisements and a question from the pool of questions. The question is associated with a plurality of predefined answers to the question. The system transmits, to a client, instructions that cause: the multimedia advertisement to be presented by the client device; the question to be presented by the client device concurrently with the multimedia advertisement; and an affordance to be provided corresponding to each of the predefined answers to the question. The system receives a response and updates the branding profile accordingly.
US10475060B2	Systems and methods to reward user interactions A system includes a transaction handler, a data warehouse to store transaction data recording transactions processed at the transaction handler and to store account data identifying an account of a user, and a portal to receive a user selection of a first portion of an announcement of a reward. The portal tracks user interactions associated with the announcement to determine whether the user is qualified for the reward. Upon a determination that the user has completed the user interactions for the reward, the transaction handler provides the reward to the account of the user via statement credit.
US10475056B2	Sales prediction systems and methods Computer implemented sales prediction system collects data relating to events of visitors showing an interest in a client company from plural data sources, an organization module which organizes collected data into different event types and separates collected event counts in each event type between non-recent and recent events occurring within a predetermined time period, a first processing module which periodically calculates weighting for each event type based on recent and non-recent events for the event type compared to totals for other selected event types, a second processing module which periodically calculates sales prediction scores for each visitor and companies with which visitors are associated based on accumulated event data and weighting, and a reporting and data extract module which is configured to detect variation in sales prediction scores over time to identify spikes which can predict upcoming sales and to provide predicted sales information and leads to the client company.
US10475055B2	Automated business reviews based on patron sentiment Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to a method and system of determining an overall sentiment of a facility. A computing system receives a video stream, including a plurality of frames, of one or more patrons in a facility over a first time period. The video stream includes data indicative of a sentiment of each of the one or more patrons. The computing system parses the plurality of frames to determine the sentiment of the patron based at least on audio and visual cues of the patron captured in the video stream during the first time period. The computing system aggregates one or more sentiments corresponding to the one or more patrons in a data set indicative of an overall sentiment of the facility. The computing system generates a sentiment value corresponding to the overall sentiment of the facility. The computing system outputs the overall sentiment of the facility.
US10475051B2	Shopping pattern recognition Shopping patterns for a customer with respect to a particular product that is repeatedly purchased by the customer with a given frequency are recognized across multiple communication channels by mining transaction histories for the customer over each of the channels. The shopping patterns are processed on a per-communication channel basis for making recommendations, providing reminders, and/or providing default shopping lists on behalf of the customer.
US10475050B2	Identifying similar items based on global interaction history One embodiment sets forth technique for computing a similarity score between two digital items is computed based on interaction histories associated with global users and interaction histories associated with local users. Global counts indicating the number of interactions associated with each unique pair of digital items are weighted based on a mixing rate. The weighted global counts are then combined with local counts to compute total counts. An effective interaction probability indicating the likelihood of a user interacting with one digital item in the pair of digital items after interacting with the other digital item in the pair is computed based on the total counts. The effective interaction probability is then corrected for noise, resulting in a similarity score indicating the similarity between the pair of digital items.
US10475047B2	Method and apparatus for delivering targeted content to website visitors A method of selecting a website for delivery of targeted content to an audience member computer based on attitude values associated with audience members who participate in a computer implemented survey is disclosed. The survey response information, as well as website visitation information, and demographic information associated with the audience members may be collected and stored in a central database. An attitude value may be determined from the survey response information and/or the other information for the audience members. The attitude value may indicate the audience member's view about an issue, topic, product, service or the like. The attitude value in conjunction with other website visitation information may be used to select a website for delivery of the targeted content to the audience members.
US10475042B2	Public non-company controlled social forum response method Users may post issues and questions on public social media websites and other public forums. A business or product of the business may be the subject of the post. With a properly trained system the business can determined if another community member is likely provide and accurate, sufficient, and timely response to the post. If so, the business can avoid allocating resources to respond to such posts. However, if it is determined that an appropriate response is not likely, or not likely within an acceptable timeframe, the business may notify an agent to provide an appropriate response. As a benefit, the business may leverage a community of knowledgeable users to provide assistance to other users and thereby not expend resources unnecessarily.
US10475037B2	Method for configuring guest checkout options A computer implemented method of payment. The method includes receiving, via a digital communication network, guest data corresponding to a transaction. The method also includes securely storing guest identifying information in a guest database and determining, via one or more processors, a guest transaction total based on the number of prior transactions associated with the guest identifying information. The method also includes comparing, via the one or more processors, the guest transaction total to a predetermined threshold number of transactions and determining, via the one or more processors, that the guest transaction total is greater than the predetermined threshold number of transactions. Finally, the method includes, in response to the determination that the guest transaction total is greater than the predetermined number threshold number of transactions, removing a guest transaction option.
US10475036B2	Restricting account use by controlled replenishment A restriction request message, including a restriction parameter for a secondary account, is received from a device that is associated with a primary account, via a network node that is outside of a secure authorization network. A replenishment request message, including a password and an account replenishment parameter for the secondary account, is also received via a network node that is outside of the authorization network. Authentication is performed based on the password, and the restriction parameter for the secondary account is identified responsive to receiving the replenishment request message. Responsive to determining that the account replenishment parameter satisfies the restriction parameter, a replacement key is generated and associated with the account replenishment parameter for the secondary account. A replenishment response message including the replacement key is transmitted to a device that is associated with the secondary account, via a network node that is outside of the authorization network.
US10475034B2	Physical and logical detections for fraud and tampering A payment terminal may include payment interfaces to receive payment information from payment devices such as chip cards and NFC payment devices. Monitoring components may monitor these payment interfaces. In addition, test requests may be transmitted to a payment device in order to elicit responses. The monitored information and the responses may be used by the payment terminal to determine whether a transaction is fraudulent or if a tamper attempt is ongoing, based on local test criteria. In addition, the monitored information and responses may be provided to a server, which may store the monitored information and responses, test for fraudulent transactions and tamper attempts based on server test criteria, and determine updates to the local test criteria.
US10475028B1	Methods and systems for making a pre-payment Methods and systems are provided for making a pre-payment. In some embodiments, a user is provided with a mobile wallet; information populating at least one payment instrument to the mobile wallet is received; information that the mobile wallet is usable with respect to the vehicle is received; information that the mobile wallet has been presented by the vehicle to a payment location is received; an authorized pre-payment corresponding to items or an amount associated with the payment location is received; a token is received from the user at the payment location; and the pre-payment is settled using the payment instrument.
US10475026B2	Secure management of transactions using a smart/virtual card A method, system, and/or computer program product securely manages smart card transactions. A processing entity receives a smart card identifier from a smart card. The smart card identifier is a transaction-specific identifier for a transaction, and contains no financial data about a holder of the smart card. The smart card identifier is hidden from a second party to the transaction. The processing entity receives transaction data for the transaction from the second party, where the transaction data is blocked from the smart card. In response to determining that the transaction is valid, the processing entity issues a transaction confirmation to the smart card and a transaction approval to the second party to the transaction.
US10475023B2	Method and apparatus of processing symbology interactions between mobile stations and a control system Disclosed are an apparatus and method of creating, displaying and utilizing quick response (QR) codes to perform processing an application on a mobile device and a control system network. One example method of operation may include identifying a user information parameter and generating a symbology code image that includes the user information parameter and displaying the symbology code on a mobile device display.
US10475021B2	Mobile device, method, and computer storage medium for determining an order of stored data items/payment account numbers based on location A mobile device having: a position determination device configured to determine a location of the mobile device; a transceiver configured to communicate with a transaction terminal via near field communication; a communication device configured to communicate with at least one server over internet; a memory storing a plurality of data items and a set of instructions of a mobile application; and at least one microprocessor coupled with the memory to execution the instructions of the mobile application. The mobile application is configured to: communicate the location of the mobile device, using the communication device, to the at least one server over internet; determine, via communications with the at least one server based on the location of the mobile device, an order of data items; and communicate, using the transceiver via near field communication, with the transaction terminal in accordance with the order of the data items.
US10475020B2	Mobile device roaming status subscription Methods, computer-readable media and devices for authorizing a pending payment transaction using mobile device roaming status information are disclosed. For example, a method includes a processor receiving an authorization to monitor the roaming status information of a mobile device, sending a request to a cellular service provider network to monitor the roaming status information of the mobile device, and receiving from the cellular service provider network a notification of the roaming status information of the mobile device. The method may further include the processor receiving a notification of a payment transaction of a payment device associated with a user of the mobile device at a payment location and sending an authorization to continue processing the pending payment transaction when the roaming status information indicates that a location of the mobile device corresponds to the payment location.
US10475018B1	Updating account data for multiple account providers Disclosed are various embodiments for updating account data with multiple account providers. Account management logic determines that personal information associated with a user has been updated. Multiple accounts of the user that may use the personal information are determined. The accounts are with multiple account providers. Corresponding account update requests for the accounts are sent to the account providers. The account update requests specify the personal information that has been updated.
US10475017B2	Point-of-sale method, terminal, and computer-readable medium There is disclosed a method, a point-of-sale terminal, and a computer-readable storage medium. The point-of-sale terminal may generate transaction information for a commercial transaction, the transaction information including customer information and purchase information. The point-of-sale terminal may generate nutritional information based on the purchase information. The point-of-sale terminal may send the customer information, the purchase information, and location information identifying a location of the POS terminal to an advertising server, and may receive responsive advertising content from the advertising server. The point-of-sale terminal may print a receipt including the transaction information, the nutritional information, and the advertising content.
US10475014B1	Payment device security This disclosure is directed, in part, to providing payment device security by storing security information in a payment device that, when received by a point-of-sale (POS) device, initiates a security request by the POS device that is used to protect the payment device against fraudulent use or misuse by unauthorized people. The payment device may store a code that, when received by the POS device, may allow the POS device to determine a security request associated with the code. The POS device may determine the security request by converting the code locally or the POS device may transit the code to a security provider that returns the security request. The POS device may then implement and/or enforce the security request. In some embodiments, the authorized user of the payment device may specify at least part of the security request, thereby enabling customization the security request.
US10475010B2	Federated entertainment access service This document describes tools capable of managing digital content from multiple content providers based on a user's identity. By so doing, the tools may free people from the limitations of their storage media and devices. The tools may perform these and other actions through an indirect relationship with users, such as when third-party content providers use the tools but provide their own direct interface with users.
US10475007B2	Device, method, and medium for tokenized data having split payment instructions for multiple accounts in a chain transaction There are provided systems and methods for tokenized data having split payment instruction for multiple accounts in a chain transaction. A user may provide a payment to a merchant that sells one or more items to the user. In order to sell items, the merchant may utilize a partner service that provides resources for the merchant to sell the items, such as an online marketplace. The partner service may require a payment for each transaction by the merchant using the partner service. Thus, when a payment request is generated to the merchant for items sold to the user, the partner service may attach to the payment request and provide a split payment request for a split payment from the payment request. The payment between the user and merchant may be processed, and a separate transaction may provide the split payment automatically to the partner service from the merchant.
US10475004B2	Methods of securing a paper check, and methods of constructing a secure paper check For a consumer having a bank checking account but who is without a preprinted paper check, a signed paper check is electronically constructed for the consumer on a transaction basis, by a computer system. The system captures GPS location from the consumer's phone and prints numerical GPS coordinates onto the check as part of electronically constructing the signed check. One usage context is a system used by creditors obtaining payment from debtors who are overdue on their accounts.
US10475002B2	Wireless-enabled kiosk for recycling consumer devices Wireless-enabled kiosk systems and associated methods for recycling and performing other processes with mobile phones and other electronic devices are described herein. In various embodiments, the present technology includes systems and methods for wirelessly connecting a consumer-operated kiosk with an electronic device to facilitate processing (e.g., purchasing) the device. In some embodiments, the present technology includes using a wireless link to identify a device, evaluate a device, resolve device issues to enable purchase of the device, locate a device, etc. Various other aspects of the present technology are described herein.
US10474995B2	Method and computer-readable media for managing governing documents in complex business transactions A method, and computer-readable media for performing the method, for managing governing documents in business transactions. Electronic transaction documents are received from authenticated users and stored in an on-line transaction document database. Governing document rules are defined with transaction participants categorized in user categories. Governing documents corresponding to those user categories are stored and provided to the transaction participants for agreement according to the governing document rules as a condition to access to the on-line transaction document database.
US10474994B2	Computationally efficient restocking display A computer-implemented method includes displaying a plurality of fill group identifiers and a map on a user interface. Each fill group identifier represents a separate collection of products that are restocked as a group, and the map has a plurality of flags, each flag indicating the location of a product that needs to be restocked. A request is received through the user interface to set a restocking task for one of the fill groups. When the restocking task is completed, the user interface is updated so that the fill group identifier associated with the request is removed from the user interface and the flags for any products in the fill group associated with the request are removed from the map.
US10474988B2	Predicting inventory events using foreground/background processing Systems and techniques are provided for tracking puts and takes of inventory items by subjects in an area of real space. A plurality of cameras with overlapping fields of view produce respective sequences of images of corresponding fields of view in the real space. In one embodiment, the system includes first image processors, including subject image recognition engines, receiving corresponding sequences of images from the plurality of cameras. The first image processors process images to identify subjects represented in the images in the corresponding sequences of images. The system includes second image processors, including background image recognition engines, receiving corresponding sequences of images from the plurality of cameras. The second image processors mask the identified subjects to generate masked images. Following this, the second image processors process the masked images to identify and classify background changes represented in the images in the corresponding sequences of images.
US10474985B2	Automaton-based framework for asset network routing A rule handler may receive a first routing rule and a second routing rule, each routing rule characterizing at least one potential physical transportation route. A rule converter may convert the first routing rule and the second routing rule into a first finite automaton (FA) and a second finite automaton, respectively, and may combine the first finite automaton and the second finite automaton into a finite automaton network graph. A graph comparator may then compare the finite automaton network graph to existing physical transportation routes, and a route selector may select, based on the comparing, at least one feasible physical transportation route from the existing physical transportation routes, the at least one feasible physical transportation route being an instance of the at least one potential physical transportation route.
US10474983B2	Method and apparatus for dispatching an airborne drone to carry an item to a customer A control circuit dispatches towards a delivery zone a terrestrial vehicle that carries at least one airborne drone and at least one item to be delivered to a customer. When the terrestrial vehicle is in the delivery zone, the drone is dispatched to carry the item to the customer. By one approach the drone exits the terrestrial vehicle without bearing the item. The item can be automatically moved from within the terrestrial vehicle to a position such that the item is at least partially exposed external to the terrestrial vehicle. The airborne drone, subsequent to exiting the terrestrial vehicle, can engage the item in order to then deliver that item to the customer. By one approach the terrestrial vehicle includes one or more platforms that support one or more airborne drones and that can be moved from within the terrestrial vehicle to a deployed position external to the terrestrial vehicle.
US10474982B2	Systems and methods utilizing nanotechnology insulation materials in limiting temperature changes during product delivery In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided that limit the change in temperature and/or control a temperature of a product during delivery. Some embodiments provide systems comprising an unmanned delivery vehicle (UDV) comprising: a body comprising a nanotechnology insulation material, wherein the nanotechnology insulation material comprises material having been manipulated at a molecular level during the macroscale fabrication of the nanotechnology insulation material to enhance insulation effectiveness; at least one propulsion system; a control circuit coupled with the at least one propulsion system to control the operation of the at least one propulsion system and control a direction of travel of the UDV, wherein the body physically supports the propulsion system and the control circuit; and a product cavity defined within the body and configured to receive at least one product while the at least one product is transported by the UDV to a delivery location.
US10474979B1	Industry review benchmarking Review data associated with a plurality of entities is received. Each of the entities is associated with a particular industry and the review data comprises review data obtained from a plurality of review sites. From at least a portion of the received review data, a review benchmark for the industry is determined. The benchmark is provided as output.
US10474978B2	Systems and methods for commute analysis and modeling A method and system for analyzing employee retention across an enterprise based on commuter modeling is disclosed. The method can be implemented in a computer system which includes: mapping longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates of address information of a plurality of employees and a work location onto a map, which shows a predefined geographic location encompassing the work location surrounded by the longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates of the address information; obtaining calculated analytics data of employee turnover rate for the plurality of employees based on a commute distance from the work location to each of the longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates of the plurality of employees; and graphically overlaying the analytics data of the turnover rate for the plurality of employees onto the map to show employee turnover rate for different segments of the map.
US10474976B2	Hierarchical satellite task scheduling system A task scheduling system that can be used to improve task assignment for multiple satellites, and thereby improve resource allocation in the execution of a task. In some implementations, configuration data for one or more satellites is obtained. Multiple objectives corresponding to a task to be performed using the satellites, and resource parameters associated with executing the task to be performed using the satellites are identified. A score for each objective included in the multiple objectives is computed by the terrestrial scheduler based on the resource parameters and the configuration data for the one or more satellites. The multiple objectives are assigned to one or more of the satellites. Instructions are provided to the one or more satellites that cause the one or more satellites to execute the task according to the assignment of the objectives to the one or more satellites.
US10474973B2	Aircraft fleet maintenance system According to one example embodiment, an aircraft fleet maintenance system includes a maintenance analysis engine and an operator feedback system. The maintenance analysis engine is configured to receive, from each of a plurality of aircraft maintainers, feedback information associated with how each of the aircraft maintainers performed an aircraft maintenance action and to compile the received feedback information from two or more of the plurality of aircraft maintainers to yield compiled maintenance trend data. The operator feedback system is configured to transmit the compiled maintenance trend data to at least one of the plurality of aircraft maintainers.
US10474969B1	Methods and arrangements to adjust communications Logic may adjust communications between customers. Logic may cluster customers into a first group associated with a first subset of synonyms and a second group associated with a second subset of the synonyms. Logic may associate a first tag with the first group and with each of the synonyms of the first subset. Logic may associate a second tag with the second group and with each of the synonyms of the second subset. Logic may associate one or more models with pairs of the groups. A first pair may comprise the first group and the second group. The first model associated with the first pair may adjust words in communications between the first group and the second group, based on the synonyms associated with the first pair, by replacement of words in a communication between customers of the first subset and customers of the second sub set.
US10474965B2	Methods and systems for advanced content cacheability determination The embodiments provide systems and methods for efficiently and accurately differentiating requests directed to uncacheable content from requests directed to cacheable content based on identifiers from the requests. The differentiation occurs without analysis or retrieval of the content being requested. Some embodiments hash identifiers of prior requests that resulted in uncacheable content being served in order to set indices within a bloom filter. The bloom filter then tracks prior uncacheable requests without storing each of the identifiers so that subsequent requests for uncacheable requests can be easily identified based on a hash of the request identifier and set indices of the bloom filter. Some embodiments produce a predictive model identifying uncacheable content requests by tracking various characteristics found in identifiers of prior requests that resulted in uncacheable content being served. Subsequent requests with identifiers having similar characteristics to those of the predictive model can then be differentiated.
US10474963B1	Network-based organization classification Described is a system for discriminating between individual accounts and organization accounts in a social media network. The system processes data from a social media network comprising a set of user accounts. A directed mention network, a bi-directed mention network, and a set of computer-observable network metrics are generated. A classification model is trained using the set of computer-observable network metrics and a set of ground-truth user accounts. The trained classification model is used to classify each user account in the set of user accounts as an individual account or an organization account, resulting in a set of classified user accounts.
US10474962B2	Semantic entity relation detection classifier training Semantic entity relation detection classifier training implementations are presented that are generally used to train a semantic entity relation detection classifier to identify relations expressed in a natural language query. In one general implementation, queries are found in a search query click log that exhibit relations and entity types found in a semantic knowledge graph. Explicit relations are inferred from the found queries and an explicit relations data set is generated that includes queries associated with the inferred explicit relations. In addition, implicit relations are inferred from the found queries and an implicit relations data set is generated that includes queries associated with the inferred implicit relations. A semantic entity relation detection classifier is then trained using the explicit and implicit data sets.
US10474956B2	Detecting deviations between event log and process model A method for detecting deviations between an event log and a process model includes converting the process model into a probability process model, the probability process model comprising multiple nodes in multiple hierarchies and probability distribution associated with the multiple nodes, a leaf node among the multiple nodes corresponding to an activity in the process model; detecting differences between at least one event sequence contained in the event log and the probability process model according to a correspondence relationship; and identifying the differences as the deviations in response to the differences exceeding a predefined threshold; wherein the correspondence relationship describes a correspondence relationship between an event in one event sequence of the at least one event sequence and a leaf node in the probability process model.
US10474955B1	Network device management A device may receive, from a set of elements of a set of network devices, information associated with a set of parameters. The device may determine an event based on the set of parameters. The device may determine a rule set based on the event. The device may determine other events that are associated with the event based on the rule set. The device may determine statuses of the other events based on the information associated with the set of parameters. The device may evaluate a rule, of the rule set, based on the event and the statuses of the other events. The device may determine an action to be performed based on evaluating the rule. The device may cause the action to be performed in association with the element of the set of elements.
US10474954B2	Feedback and customization in expert systems for anomaly prediction Systems and methods may include receiving, by an expert system, performance data for a monitored system. The systems and methods may include generating a prediction for the monitored system in response to determining that the performance data satisfies a condition. The prediction may identify an anomaly that is predicted to occur. The systems and methods may include receiving, by a filter system, the prediction, information identifying the condition, and user information. The user information may include user preference information and user feedback information. The systems and methods may include determining a filter criteria based on the user information. The filter criteria may be based on the preferences for predictions to be provided to the user and on the historical user feedback regarding the historical predictions. The systems and methods may include providing the prediction to the user in response to determining that the particular prediction satisfies the filter criteria.
US10474953B2	Systems and methods for multi-objective optimizations with decision variable perturbations Systems and methods are provided for providing an optimized solution to a multi-objective problem. Potential solutions may be generated from parent solutions to be evaluated according to multiple objectives of the multi-objective problem. If the potential solutions are infeasible, the potential solutions may be perturbed according to a perturbation model to bring the potential solution to feasibility, or at least a reduced level of constraints. The perturbation models may include a weight vector that indicates the amount of perturbation, such as in a forward and/or reverse direction, of decision variables of the potential solutions. In some cases, the perturbation models may be predetermined. In other cases, the perturbation models may be learned, such as based on training constraint data. Additionally, potential solutions may be generated in a secondary optimization where a constraint based optimization may be performed to drive to generating a feasible solution for further evaluation according to objective values.
US10474951B2	Memory efficient scalable deep learning with model parallelization Methods and systems for training a neural network include sampling multiple local sub-networks from a global neural network. The local sub-networks include a subset of neurons from each layer of the global neural network. The plurality of local sub-networks are trained at respective local processing devices to produce trained local parameters. The trained local parameters from each local sub-network are averaged to produce trained global parameters.
US10474950B2	Training and operation of computational models A processing unit can acquire datasets from respective data sources, each having a respective unique data domain. The processing unit can determine values of a plurality of features based on the plurality of datasets. The processing unit can modify input-specific parameters or history parameters of a computational model based on the values of the features. In some examples, the processing unit can determine an estimated value of a target feature based at least in part on the modified computational model and values of one or more reference features. In some examples, the computational model can include neural networks for several input sets. An output layer of at least one of the neural networks can be connected to the respective hidden layer(s) of one or more other(s) of the neural networks. In some examples, the neural networks can be operated to provide transformed feature value(s) for respective times.
US10474945B2	Systems and methods for generating secure tags Systems and methods are provided for decoding secure tags using an authentication server and secure tag reader. The system can include at least one processor and at least one non-transitory memory. The memory can contain instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the secure tag reader to perform operations. The operations can include detecting a potential secure tag in an image and generating a normalized secure tag image using the image and a stylesheet. The operations can further include providing an identification request to an authentication server, the identification request including the normalized secure tag image. The operations can additionally include receiving rules for decoding tag data encoded into the secure tag as tag feature options and decoding the tag data using the received rules.
US10474932B2	Detection of anomalies in multivariate data Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods for detecting anomalies in multivariate data received from an asset-related data source, such as signal data and/or other data from an asset. According to an example, a platform may receive multivariate data from an asset in an original coordinate space and transform the data in the original coordinate space to a transformed coordinate space having a relatively fewer number of dimensions. Additionally, the platform may standardize the data in the transformed coordinate space and modify the standardized data based on a comparison between the standardized data and a set of threshold values previously defined via training data reflective of normal asset operation. Thereafter, the platform may inversely transform the modified data back to the original coordinate space and perform an analysis to detect anomalies.
US10474929B2	Cyclic generative adversarial network for unsupervised cross-domain image generation A system is provided for unsupervised cross-domain image generation relative to a first and second image domain that each include real images. A first generator generates synthetic images similar to real images in the second domain while including a semantic content of real images in the first domain. A second generator generates synthetic images similar to real images in the first domain while including a semantic content of real images in the second domain. A first discriminator discriminates real images in the first domain against synthetic images generated by the second generator. A second discriminator discriminates real images in the second domain against synthetic images generated by the first generator. The discriminators and generators are deep neural networks and respectively form a generative network and a discriminative network in a cyclic GAN framework configured to increase an error rate of the discriminative network to improve synthetic image quality.
US10474928B2	Dynamic self-learning system In an example, a computerized neural fabric is created by representing each pattern of learned weights of one or more machine learning algorithm-trained models specifying a specific set of products as a column in the computerized neural fabric, each pattern comprising one or more clusters representing combinations of convolutional filters, each cluster learning low level features and sending output via a vertical flow up the corresponding column to a final classification within the corresponding pattern. One or more potential lateral flows between patterns in the computerized neural fabrics is dynamically determined based on resemblance of a new product in a candidate image to the specific sets of products in each of the patterns and identifying possible mutations of the patterns based on the resemblance. Then, one of the one or more potential lateral flows is selected as a new model.
US10474927B2	Accelerated precomputation of reduced deformable models Technologies are disclosed for precomputation of reduced deformable models. In such precomputation, a Krylov subspace iteration may be used to construct a series of inertia modes for an input mesh. The inertia modes may be condensed into a mode matrix. A set of cubature points may be sampled from the input mesh, and cubature weights of the set of cubature points may be calculated for each of the inertia modes in the mode matrix. A training dataset may be generated by iteratively adding training samples to the training dataset until a training error metric converges, wherein each training sample is generated from an inertia mode in the mode matrix and corresponding cubature weights. The reduced deformable model may be generated, including inertia modes in the training dataset and corresponding cubature weights.
US10474926B1	Generating artificial intelligence image processing services Features related to systems and methods expediting generation of a machine learning model, such as an image recognition model, are described. Existing machine learning models are analyzed to identify a starting point for creating the new machine learning model. An existing machine learning model can suggest learning parameters (e.g., training parameters or structural features of the model) that can be used to expedite the generating and training process along with training data that can augment the training of the new machine learning model.
US10474920B2	Automated robotic microscopy systems The present disclosure provides automated robotic microscopy systems that facilitate high throughput and high content analysis of biological samples, such as living cells and/or tissues. In certain aspects, the systems are configured to reduce user intervention relative to existing technologies, and allow for precise return to and re-imaging of the same field (e.g., the same cell) that has been previously imaged. This capability enables experiments and testing of hypotheses that deal with causality over time with greater precision and throughput than conventional microscopy methods.
US10474915B2	System for comparing a head position of a passenger of a motor vehicle, determined by a determination unit, with a reference measurement A system for comparing a head position of a passenger of a motor vehicle, determined with the aid of a determination unit, with a reference measurement. The system includes at least one marking element which has at least one marking and is able to be fastened to the head of the passenger, and at least one movement detection element for detecting the position of the at least one marking of the marking element for the reference measurement.
US10474914B2	Apparatus detecting driving incapability state of driver Apparatus detecting driving incapability state of a driver includes: a head detection portion that successively detects a head portion, which is higher than a neck of the driver, based on an image of a driver's seat captured by an imaging device mounted in a vehicle; and an out-of-frame state detection portion that detects that the driver is incapable of driving, when the head portion detected by the head detection portion is out of a predetermined scope in the image during travelling of the vehicle.
US10474911B2	Smart parking assist apparatus and method A smart parking assist apparatus and method are provided. The smart parking assist apparatus operates a smart parking assist function after a vehicle stops and searches a parking slot using a plurality of imaging devices. In addition, the searched parking slot is set to a target parking slot and parking slot information regarding the target parking slot is output. The apparatus recognizes a parking line of the target parking slot and an object adjacent to the target parking slot and sets a parking reference line based on the recognized information, after the parking slot information is output. The vehicle is then operated to be parked in the target parking slot based on the parking reference line.
US10474909B2	Vehicular vision system with image processing A vehicular vision system includes a camera and an image processor that processes frames of captured image data to determine a path of travel of the vehicle. The system determines some image data points to be ground and tracks image data of a three dimensional object present in the field of view of the camera to determine movement of the image data of the object relative to the determined ground. Responsive to a determined ground location of a determined bicycle and responsive to the known height of the camera, the system determines distance to the bicycle. At least in part responsive to the bicycle being within a threshold distance to the vehicle and in the determined path of travel of the vehicle, the system generates an output indicative of determination of the bicycle being in the determined path of travel of the vehicle.
US10474904B1	System and method for parking a vehicle in a camera's field of view Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for parking a vehicle in a camera's field of view. The method may include actions of determining that a vehicle is parked within a predetermined distance of a property, obtaining data from a monitoring system component, determining, based on the obtained data, that the vehicle is not parked within a field of view of a camera, determining that (i) the vehicle should be parked within a field of view of the camera and (ii) that an image captured by the camera should include a representation of the vehicle, and performing an operation to instigate movement of the vehicle to a different location that is (i) within a field of view of a camera and (ii) where an image captured by the camera includes a representation of the vehicle.
US10474903B2	Video segmentation using predictive models trained to provide aesthetic scores Systems and methods for segmenting video. A segmentation application executing on a computing device receives a video including video frames. The segmentation application calculates, using a predictive model trained to evaluate quality of video frames, a first aesthetic score for a first video frame and a second aesthetic score for a second video frame. The segmentation application determines that the first aesthetic score and the second aesthetic score differ by a quality threshold and that a number of frames between the first video frame and the second video frame exceeds a duration threshold. The segmentation application creates a video segment by merging a subset of video frames ranging from the first video frame to an segment-end frame preceding the second video frame.
US10474901B2	Video interpretation apparatus and method Disclosed herein are a video interpretation apparatus and method. The video interpretation apparatus includes an object information generation unit for generating object information based on objects in an input video, a relation generation unit for generating a dynamic spatial relation between the objects based on the object information, a general event information generation unit for generating general event information based on the dynamic spatial relation, a video information generation unit for generating video information including any one of a sentence and an event description based on the object information and the general event information, and a video descriptor storage unit for storing the object information, the general event information, and the video information.
US10474900B2	Real-time tracking-compensated image effects A mobile device can generate real-time complex visual image effects using asynchronous processing pipeline. A first pipeline applies a complex image process, such as a neural network, to keyframes of a live image sequence. A second pipeline generates flow maps that describe feature transformations in the image sequence. The flow maps can be used to process non-keyframes on the fly. The processed keyframes and non-keyframes can be used to display a complex visual effect on the mobile device in real-time or near real-time.
US10474899B2	Social engagement based on image resemblance The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for identifying and providing a user of a networking system with other users of the networking system that have a facial resemblance to the user (e.g., look-alike users). In particular, a facial resemblance system uses an image of a user to identify other users that have a facial resemblance to the user (e.g., look-alike users). The facial resemblance system can present look-alike users to the user based on a resemblance score and/or a commonality score. Further, the facial resemblance system can employ feedback from users to improve the accuracy of the facial resemblance system. Upon receiving one or more look-alike users, the user can then engage (e.g., communicate or socially connect) with one or more of the look-alike users.
US10474898B2	Image processing apparatus for vehicle An image processing apparatus for a vehicle includes a viewpoint image generation portion generating a viewpoint image in which a three-dimensional virtual projection surface surrounding a periphery of a vehicle is viewed from a virtual viewpoint, and a captured image of vehicle surroundings is projected onto the virtual projection surface, and the apparatus includes a marking image generation portion generating a marking image indicating a specific position on the virtual projection surface, and an output image generation portion generating an output image including the viewpoint image and the marking image.
US10474897B2	Smart security inspection system and method The disclosure relates to smart security inspection systems and methods. One illustrative method may comprise distributing, by the system, a security inspection tray to a person to be inspected through an unpacking station and associating/binding information regarding the person to be inspected to a baggage identifier, and identifying the baggage identifier, obtaining the information of the person to be inspected according to the baggage identifier, obtaining pre-stored risk information according to the information of the person to be inspected, performing differentiated security inspections on the person to be inspected and/or baggage according to the risk information, and associating/binding the obtained data to the information of the person to be inspected. Further implementations relate to features such as processing identity information, controlling flow in the baggage handling area(s), imaging baggage, packing the baggage, and finishing the security inspection.
US10474887B2	Identifying a layout error First object model data from a first application state generated in a first browser mode may be collected. The first object model data may comprise a code-based representation of a first layout element and a second layout element of the first application state. According to a layout detection rule, a first attribute of the first layout element may be compared with a second attribute of the first layout element or of a second layout element. A layout error corresponding to the first layout element may be identified based on the comparison of the first attribute with the second attribute.
US10474885B2	Monitoring fitness using a mobile device Athletic performance monitoring and tracking may provide multiple ways in which to track athletic movement and activity. Workouts may also be tagged with various parameters including mood, weather, terrain, athletic equipment, friends used and the like. Workout information may be shared to social messaging and networking outlets. Workout information shared may include map information including images of maps, interactive maps, links to maps, route information and the like and/or combinations thereof. Additionally or alternatively, an application may be configured to execute within a context of a social networking system to facilitate athletic activity data transfer and generation of workout entries in the social networking site.
US10474884B2	Action determination device An action determination device includes: an extraction unit that extracts feature points of an object from captured images; a tracking unit that generates tracking information indicating a moving direction of the object based on the feature points respectively extracted from the captured images temporally preceding and succeeding each other; and a determination unit that determines whether or not an action is performed based on a comparison result between a tracking information group in which a plurality of pieces of the tracking information are accumulated in time series and a registered information group registered in advance in association with the action of the object.
US10474883B2	Siamese reconstruction convolutional neural network for pose-invariant face recognition A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product is provided for pose-invariant facial recognition. The method includes generating, by a processor using a recognition neural network, a rich feature embedding for identity information and non-identity information for each of one or more images. The method also includes generating, by the processor using a Siamese reconstruction network, one or more pose-invariant features by employing the rich feature embedding for identity information and non-identity information. The method additionally includes identifying, by the processor, a user by employing the one or more pose-invariant features. The method further includes controlling an operation of a processor-based machine to change a state of the processor-based machine, responsive to the identified user in the one or more images.
US10474877B2	Automated effects generation for animated content Various embodiments relate generally to a system, a device and a method for automating effects generation for media content. A media content item is received in a media content management system. Data representing one or more static regions associated with the media content item are determined. A canvas mapping object comprising the data representing the one or more static regions of the media content item is generated based on the frames of the media content item. The media content item is stored in a database in the media content management system in association with the canvas mapping object, and the media content item and the canvas mapping object are provided in response to a search request associated with the media content item.
US10474876B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including: a priority degree setting section configured to set a degree of priority for each of surrounding regions of a plurality of people detected from an input image; and a pose estimation section configured to estimate poses of human body models for human body regions extracted from the input image one after another, on the basis of the surrounding regions of one or more of the people selected using the degrees of priority set by the priority degree setting section.
US10474868B2	Fan-out semiconductor package A fan-out semiconductor package includes: a first connection member having a through-hole; a semiconductor chip disposed in the through-hole of the first connection member and having an active surface with connection pads disposed thereon and an inactive surface opposing the active surface; an encapsulant encapsulating at least portions of the first connection member and the semiconductor chip; and a second connection member disposed on the first connection member and the semiconductor chip. The first connection member and the second connection member respectively include first redistribution layers and second redistribution layers electrically connected to the connection pads and formed of one or more layers, at least one of the first redistribution layers is disposed between a plurality of insulating layers of the first connection member, and at least one of the second redistribution layers includes sensor patterns recognizing a fingerprint.
US10474861B2	Method and electronic device for driving fingerprint sensor An electronic device includes: a wireless communication module configured to perform wireless communication in a first state; a fingerprint sensor configured to sense a fingerprint in a second state; and at least one processor electrically connected to the wireless communication module and the fingerprint sensor, wherein the processor changes the first state or the second state based on at least part of an operating state of the wireless communication module or the fingerprint sensor.
US10474859B2	Barcode reader and docking station for charging the barcode reader A barcode-reading system may include a barcode reader that includes an illumination system, an image sensor, an optic system, a supercapacitor, and a first wireless point-to-point interface. The illumination system may be configured to illuminate a target area. The image sensor may be configured to capture an image of the target area. The optic system may be configured to focus reflected light from the target area onto the image sensor. The supercapacitor may be configured to provide operating power to the barcode reader. The barcode-reading system may also include a docking station configured to provide charging power to charge the supercapacitor of the barcode reader. The docking station may include a second wireless point-to-point interface. The first wireless point-to-point interface and the second wireless point-to-point interface may be configured to establish a wireless point-to-point communication link between the barcode reader and the docking station.
US10474858B2	Methods of identifying barcoded items by evaluating multiple identification hypotheses, based on data from sensors including inventory sensors and ceiling-mounted cameras A variety of technologies having practical application in retail stores are detailed. One is an improved method of identifying items selected by customers. This method includes receiving sensor data from plural sensors, including (a) ceiling-mounted cameras that monitor tracks of customers through aisles of the store, and (b) inventory sensors that are positioned to monitor removal of stock from store shelves. This received sensor data is employed in evaluating plural alternate item identification hypotheses. These hypotheses include a first hypothesis that a customer selected an item having a first identity, and a second hypothesis that the customer selected an item having a second identity. A confidence score is associated with each of the first and second item selection hypotheses. These confidence scores are refined as sensor data is received, e.g., increasing a confidence score of one hypothesis, and reducing a confidence score of another. Such refining continues until one of the hypotheses becomes a winner, due to an associated confidence score fulfilling a predetermined criterion (e.g., reaching a threshold value), at which time the item can be added to a tally for that individual. The winning item identification hypothesis may identify a barcoded item, without that item's barcode ever having been read by a barcode reader. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
US10474853B2	Multi-coil RFID sensor assembly A communication assembly including at least one sensor assembly made up of interrogation circuitry and one or more antennae is described. The interrogation circuitry comprises at least one inductor comprising at least two sensing coils for reception of signals from the MEMS data sensors.
US10474852B2	Charging long-range radio frequency identification tags A system for charging long-range radio frequency identification tags includes a plurality of physically separated transmitters. Each transmitter is configured to direct a respective energy beam to an energy location. A tag is at the energy location. The tag is configured to store a received energy from the energy location, to sense a sensor data and to transmit the sensor data to a reader after a capacitor connected to the tag charges to an operating voltage level. The capacitor is charged by the received energy. A controller is configured to align at the energy location for each of the plurality of transmitters, a respective frequency, and at least one of a respective phase, and a respective polarity of each respective energy beam to maximize an energy level at the energy location in response to a device response of the tag.
US10474851B2	Systems and methods for collision avoidance in a multiple RFID interrogator environment A method for collision avoidance in a multi-reader environment comprising a plurality of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) interrogators, the method comprises each of the plurality of interrogators entering a quiet state during which none of the interrogators transmits, each of the plurality of interrogators selecting a transmit time after the quiet period during which each of the interrogator will attempt to transmit, each of the plurality of interrogators monitoring their associated receive path, an interrogator of the plurality of interrogators transmitting an instruction during its selected transmit time indicating the beginning of a session when the interrogator does not detect data on its receive path prior to its select transmit time, the interrogator comparing its receive path to its transmit path when it transmits the instruction, the interrogator returning to the quiet state when the receive path does not match the transmit path, and the interrogator completing the session when the receive path matches the transmit path.
US10474846B1	Processor power supply glitch detection A transaction device includes circuitry that provides a power supply to a processor of the transaction device. Attackers may attempt to glitch the processor power supply in a manner that causes processor to operate incorrectly such as by skipping instructions. A monitoring circuit may be coupled to the processor power supply circuitry to identify conditions that are indicative of a glitch attempt. Glitch attempts may be stored in a memory and reported to the processor to induce the execution of counter-measures.
US10474841B2	System and method of owner application control of electronic devices Systems and methods of owner application control of an electronic device are provided. Owner application control information is stored on the electronic device and/or one or more remote servers. Owner application control information is consulted to determine if one or more required applications are available for execution on the electronic device. If not, one or more required applications not available are downloaded and installed. This could be in a manner transparent to the user of the electronic device. If one or more required applications are not available on the electronic device, the device can be functionally disabled in whole, or in part, until one or more required applications are available.
US10474835B2	Zero-knowledge databases Provided is a process of operating a zero-knowledge encrypted database, the process including: obtaining a request for data in a database stored by an untrusted computing system, wherein the database is stored in a graph that includes a plurality of connected nodes, each of the nodes including: an identifier, accessible to the untrusted computing system, that distinguishes the respective node from other nodes in the graph; and an encrypted collection of data stored in encrypted form, wherein: the untrusted computing system does not have access to an encryption key to decrypt the collections of data, the encrypted collections of data in at least some of the plurality of nodes each include a plurality of keys indicating subsets of records in the database accessible via other nodes in the graph and corresponding pointers to identifiers of the other nodes.
US10474834B1	Data sharing via distributed ledgers Systems as described herein may include authorizing the sharing of data and sharing data between a variety of systems. A request to share data may be provided to a first system. The system may create sharing session data on a distributed ledger accessible by a number of systems. Sharing session data may be stored using a transaction stored on a distributed ledger. A second system may obtain the sharing session account and verify the sharing session. On verification of the sharing session, a variety of data may be shared between the systems identified in the sharing session data. The sharing session data may be established between two or more systems. The distributed ledger may be maintained by the systems themselves and/or a distributed network system. In a variety of embodiments, encrypted data may be stored and/or obtained using the distributed ledger.
US10474833B2	Enhanced processing and verification of digital access rights The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods that provide a network environment that enables reassignment platforms to provide authentic access rights for reassignment to user devices. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to systems and methods in which a reassignment platform can execute a protocol implemented using code (e.g., an Application Programming Interface (API)) to validate the authenticity of access rights made available for reassignment, and once reassigned, reissue the access rights to a new user and transmit those access rights to user devices natively in a mobile application.
US10474832B2	Method for controlling file input-output in virtualization system The present invention relates to a technology that performs: checking an integrity of a paravirtualization agent before executing the paravirtualization agent; protecting the paravirtualization agent by obstructing the modulation of a memory region to which the paravirtualization agent is allocated; when file input-output is generated in the paravirtualization agent, transmitting information associated with the generated file input-output to a host-based file system protection service to inquire about accessibility; determining an authority for access to the generated file input-output through a reasoning engine in the host-based file system protection service; and transmitting a result of the determination to the paravirtualization agent, and processing the generated file input-output, thereby protecting a file in a file system.
US10474829B2	Virtual service provider zones A service proxy services as an application programming interface proxy to a service, which may involve data storage. When a request to store data is received by the service proxy, the service proxy encrypts the data and stores the data in encrypted form at the service. Similarly, when a request to retrieve data is received by the service proxy, the service proxy obtains encrypted data from the service and decrypts the data. The data may be encrypted using a key that is kept inaccessible to the service.
US10474826B2	Methods and apparatuses for improved app security testing Embodiments are disclosed for performing static and/or non-emulated dynamic analysis of mobile computing device software to improve app security testing. In the context of a method, an example embodiment includes processing, by a security analysis system, an app for analysis. This example embodiment of the method further includes analyzing the app by diagnostic circuitry of the security analysis system. In this regard, analyzing the app includes at least one of performing static analysis on the app or causing performance, by a lab rig, of non-emulated dynamic analysis on the app. In turn, this example embodiment further includes generating, by the security analysis system and based on analyzing the app, a set of risk issues presented by the app, and outputting, by the security analysis system, the set of risk issues. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided.
US10474823B2	Controlled secure code authentication Systems, methods, circuits and computer-readable mediums for controlled secure code authentication are provided. In one aspect, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a method including: sending a request to a client device, the request including a challenge for a property of a particular portion from among a plurality of portions of code stored within the client device, the challenge including data indicating a particular memory address range corresponding to the particular portion of the code, receiving a response to the request from the client device, the response including information associated with the property of the code, verifying correctness of the response based on the received information, and based on verifying correctness of the response, determining that the code is an authorized code.
US10474822B2	Simultaneous multi-processor (SiMulPro) apparatus, simultaneous transmit and receive (STAR) apparatus, DRAM interface apparatus, and associated methods Infection by viruses and rootkits from data memory devices, data messages and data operations are rendered impossible by construction for the Simultaneous Multi-Processor (SiMulPro) cores, core modules, Programmable Execution Modules (PEM), PEM Arrays, STAR messaging protocol implementations, integrated circuits (referred to as chips herein), and systems composed of these components. Greatly improved energy efficiency is disclosed. A system implementation of an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) communicating with a DRAM controller interacting with a DRAM array is presented with this resistance to virus and rootkit infection, and simultaneously capable of 1 Teraflop (Tflop) FP16, 1 TFlop FP32 and 1Tflop FP64 performance while accessing 1 Tbyte of DRAM with a power budget comparable to today's desktop or notebook computers accessing 8 Gbytes of DRAM. Innovations to the STAR communication apparatus will enable the optical communication between chips to carry at least ½ Tbit/second data to and from DRAMs, and each other.
US10474821B2	Secure module build center An apparatus including a secure module build center, configured generate modules corresponding to consumer computing systems that each run one of a plurality of operating system types and versions. The center has a coordination server that receives configuration and makefile data associated with one of the consumer computing systems, places the data in a queue, and provides a built module to the one of the consumer computing systems; and a build server that receives the data from the queue, and generates the built module based on commands within the makefile data.
US10474818B1	Methods and devices for detection of malware An apparatus includes a database configured to store a collection of files. The apparatus also includes a counter module configured to calculate a frequency of a data feature in the collection of files. The apparatus also includes a signature generation module operatively coupled to the counter module. The signature generation module is configured to generate a malware signature based on the frequency of the data feature in the collection of files. The malware signature includes an indication of one or more criterion for the data feature, and the malware signature is associated with a malware. The apparatus also includes a communication module configured to receive a target file, and a detection module operatively coupled to the communication module. The detection module is configured to classify the target file as the malware when the target file meets the one or more criterion of the malware signature.

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