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US10553956B2	Multimode antenna system and methods for use therewith In accordance with one or more embodiments, a communication device includes an antenna having a feed point and an aperture. A feedline is coupled to the feed point of the dielectric antenna. A multi-input multi-output (MIMO) transceiver is coupled to feedline, the MIMO transceiver facilitating a transmission of first electromagnetic waves to the feed point of the antenna, wherein the first electromagnetic waves are guided by the feedline, wherein the first electromagnetic waves propagate along the feedline via a plurality of guided wave modes without requiring an electrical return path, wherein the first electromagnetic waves convey first data in accordance with one or more MIMO techniques and wherein the first electromagnetic waves generate first free-space wireless signals at the aperture of the antenna in accordance with the one or more MIMO techniques.
US10553954B2	Wireless device According to an embodiment, a wireless device includes an interposer, a semiconductor chip, electrodes, and a slot antenna. The interposer includes conductive layers disposed at least at a side of a component mounting surface and a side of a reverse surface opposite to the component mounting surface. The semiconductor chip is mounted on the component mounting surface and includes a built-in transceiving circuit. The electrodes are disposed in a conductive layer disposed at the side of the reverse surface of the interposer so as to be electrically connected to an outside of the wireless device. At least a portion of the slot antenna is disposed in at least one of the conductive layers of the interposer. A shortest distance between an end in a width direction of the slot antenna and the electrodes is smaller than a sum of a minimum line width and a minimum line space of the interposer.
US10553951B2	Capacitively coupled patch antenna Systems and methods relating to patch antennas and signal combiner circuits. The invention relates to a circuit with discrete capacitors, inductors and amplifiers arrayed in an arrangement with 2 input ports and one output port. The circuit provides a high degree of reverse electrical isolation between the input ports and the output at the radio frequency. The circuit provides an output that is the vector sum of signals present at the first and second input ports. The circuit additionally provides for introduction of a 90 degree phase shift into either of the two inputs. This circuit can be used with dual feed patch antennas.
US10553949B2	Wireless communication antenna including magnetic body A wireless communication antenna includes: a magnetic body including a plurality of bar-shaped unit ribbons arranged in columns, wherein the unit ribbons have shape anisotropy and a radiation direction on a side of the wireless communication antenna; and a solenoid coil including conductive patterns disposed around the magnetic body.
US10553946B2	Aperiodic phased array antenna with single bit phase shifters An antenna array can include multiple radiating cells, each comprising a radiating element and a phase shifter. Further, each radiating element can comprise a first radiating element port and a second radiating element port. Each of the radiating cells can be configured to selectively connect the phase shifter to one of the radiating element ports. Each of the radiating cells can further comprise a phase delay difference between the signal paths associated with the radiating element ports. Further, the radiating cells can have physical polarization orientations that can be different from at least one other radiating cell.
US10553944B2	Slot line volumetric antenna A slot fed volumetric antenna structure that activates antenna beams in three axes by selective connection of feedpoints.
US10553942B2	Systems and methods for reconfigurable faceted reflector antennas Systems and methods are disclosed herein for a reconfigurable faceted reflector for producing a plurality of antenna patterns. The reconfigurable reflector includes a backing structure, a plurality of adjusting mechanisms mounted to the backing structure, and a plurality of reflector facets. Each of the plurality of reflector facets is coupled to a respective one of the plurality of adjusting mechanisms for adjusting the position of the reflector facet with which it is coupled. The reflector facets are arranged to produce a first antenna pattern of the plurality of antenna patterns. By adjusting the plurality of adjusting mechanisms, the position of each of the reflector facets coupled to the respective one of the plurality of adjusting mechanisms is adjusted so that the reflector facets are arranged to produce a second antenna pattern of the plurality of antenna patterns.
US10553930B2	Antenna system for wireless communication devices and other wireless applications An antenna system for wireless communications and other wireless applications is disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the antenna system may comprise a frame with at least three facets and an antenna element mounted on each of the at least three facets, wherein each of the antenna elements are electromagnetically isolated from each other.
US10553928B2	Antenna rotating head with a double grooves structure The present invention provides an antenna rotating head with a double grooves structure. The antenna includes an antenna body and an antenna rotating head. The antenna body receives signals. The antenna rotating head coupled to the antenna body. The antenna rotating head comprises a rotor, a housing and a base. The rotor has at least one groove, wherein the rotor is free to rotate. The housing coupled to the rotor to prevent the rotor from falling off. The base coupled to the housing to fix the housing. The rotor further comprises a rotor head, a rotor disc and a rotor body. The rotor head fixes the antenna body. The rotor disc coupled to the rotor head to abut against the housing. The rotor body coupled to the rotor disc, wherein the at least one groove is located on the rotor body.
US10553925B2	Tunable electromagnetic coupler and modules and devices using same An electromagnetic coupler includes a first transmission line connecting an input port to an output port and a second transmission line adjacent the first transmission line and connecting a coupled port to an isolation port. The electromagnetic coupler provides a coupled signal at the coupled port, which is representative of an input signal at the input port. The amplitude of the coupled signal is related to the amplitude of the input signal by a coupling factor. A tuning element is electromagnetically coupled to at least one of the first and second transmission lines. An adjustable impedance is coupled between the tuning element and a reference node. Varying resistive impedance components causes an adjustment to the coupling factor and reactive impedance components provide frequency filtering effects.
US10553919B2	Battery module with improved cooling performance A battery module is provided. The battery module includes a battery stack that has a plurality of secondary batteries stacked on each other in multiple stages along a predetermined stack direction. Additionally, the battery module includes at least one cooling fin which has a contact part disposed to contact at least one of the secondary batteries and a fitting part that extends from the contact part to expose at least a portion of the fitting part to the exterior of the battery stack. A cooling channel which has at least one fitting groove is provided and the fitting part is fitted into the fitting groove.
US10553910B2	Lithium-ion battery formation process A method of performing a formation process for a lithium-ion cell having an anode, a cathode, an electrolyte and a separator, the formation process including adding an additive to the electrolyte for improving a solid electrolyte interface build-up on the anode, performing a first charge of the cell at a first predetermined rate, performing a cycle of discharging/charging the cell at the first predetermined rate, repeating the cycle until a cycle maximum dQ/dV peak value is smaller than or equal to a predetermined dQ/dV value during charging of the cell and charging the cell to a fully charged capacity at a second predetermine rate, the second predetermined rate being greater than the first predetermined rate.
US10553909B2	Battery pack A battery pack includes a plurality of battery modules that includes a plurality of battery cells, a battery cell holder, a second-electrode assembly including a plurality of second-electrode bus bar plates, a first-electrode assembly, and a cover. The first-electrode assembly includes a plurality of first-electrode bus bar plates, a first-electrode terminal, a second-electrode terminal connected to one of the plurality of second-electrode bus bar plates, and an inter-electrode bus bar connecting the second-electrode bus bar plate and one of the first-electrode bus bar plate and the first-electrode terminal. The first-electrode assembly is in a first pattern or a second pattern. An arrangement of the first-electrode terminal and the second-electrode terminal in the battery module differs according to the pattern of the first-electrode assembly.
US10553906B2	Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery porous layer The present invention provides a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a porous layer which includes an organic filler in which Na element, Al element, and/or K element are contained, a total amount of the Na element, the Al element, and the K element contained falling within a certain range. The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery porous layer allows the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery to have an excellent battery capacity recovery rate after storage at a constant-voltage charge at a high temperature.
US10553903B2	Electrolyte for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery including the same The present invention relates to an electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the same, and particularly, to an electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery, which includes a lithium salt, an organic solvent, and an oligomer represented by Formula 1 described in the present specification, and a lithium secondary battery in which overall performance is improved by suppressing reactivity with lithium metal by including the electrolyte.
US10553900B2	Gel electrolyte and precursor composition thereof and battery A precursor composition of a gel electrolyte is provided, which includes (1) meta-stable nitrogen-containing polymer, (2) gelling promoter, (3) carbonate compound, and (4) metal salt. The (1) meta-stable nitrogen-containing polymer is formed by reacting (a) nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound with (b) maleimide compound, wherein (a) nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound and (b) maleimide compound have a molar ratio of 1:0.1 to 1:10.
US10553898B2	Thin-film lithium ion battery with fast charging speed A solid-state lithium-based battery having fast charging and recharging speeds (above 3 C) is provided by including a nitrogen-enriched lithiated cathode material surface layer between the lithiated cathode material layer and the lithium-based solid-state electrolyte layer. The nitrogen-enriched lithiated cathode material surface layer can be formed by introducing nitrogen into a lithiated cathode material. The nitrogen can be introduced during the final stage of a deposition process or by utilizing a different process, such as, for example, thermal nitridation, than a deposition process.
US10553897B2	Ambient temperature superionic conducting salt including metal cation and borate anion or carborate anion and process for making ambient temperature superionic conducting salt A process for making a superionic conducting salt includes: combining a primary salt and an impact member, the primary salt including an ordered phase and being an ionic conductor; impacting the primary salt with the impact member; and converting the primary salt to the superionic conducting salt in response to impacting the primary salt with the impact member at a conversion temperature to make the superionic conducting salt, the conversion temperature optionally being less than a thermally activated transition temperature that thermally converts the primary salt to the superionic conducting salt in an absence of the impacting the primary salt, and the superionic conducting salt including a superionic conductive phase in a solid state at less than the thermally activated transition temperature.
US10553891B2	Self-maintained flow cell device The present invention is notably directed to a flow cell device. The device comprises: an exchange membrane, extending essentially in a plane; an adhesive, at a periphery of the membrane; and two half-cells, each on a respective side of said plane, the half-cells sandwiching the membrane. The membrane spans a smaller area than each of the areas of the half-cells, whereby a peripheral space is defined at the periphery of the membrane between two opposing faces of the half-cells. This space is at least partly filled with an adhesive, so as to secure the two half-cells to each other with the membrane encapsulated therein. The present invention is further directed to a method of fabrication of such a flow cell device.
US10553886B2	Generation of oxygen depleted air by a fuel cell system The present disclosure is directed to a fuel cell system for generating oxygen depleted air. The fuel cell system may include a fuel cell having an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte positioned between the anode and the cathode. The cathode may be configured to receive an air flow and discharge an oxygen depleted air flow. The fuel cell system may further include a sensor configured to generate a first signal indicative of a presence of hydrogen in the oxygen depleted air flow and a controller in communication with the sensor and the fuel cell. The controller may be configured to detect the presence of hydrogen in the oxygen depleted air flow based on the first signal, and in response to detecting the presence of hydrogen in the oxygen depleted air flow, selectively cause a current density of the fuel cell to decrease and/or increase a flow rate of the air flow to the cathode.
US10553884B2	Driving control method of fuel cell system A method of controlling the driving of a fuel cell system includes: determining whether the fuel cell system enters idle stop in which air supply to the fuel cell stack stops; dropping a DC-link terminal voltage controlled by a DC-DC converter up to a first set voltage by controlling an operation of the DC-DC converter connected to a DC-link terminal outputting generation power of the fuel cell stack at the time of entering the idle stop; and dropping a voltage of the fuel cell stack to reduce an oxide of platinum which is a catalyst of a fuel cell by allowing the anode exhaust gas to flow backward into a cathode of the fuel cell stack by performing the hydrogen purge in an idle stop state of opening the hydrogen purge valve after the voltage of the DC-link terminal drops.
US10553882B2	Fuel cell system for an aircraft, method for operating a fuel cell system in an aircraft and aircraft with such a fuel cell system A fuel cell system includes a first fuel cell unit having a first fuel cell and a second fuel cell, a second fuel cell unit having a third fuel cell and a fourth fuel cell, a hydrogen tank coupled to all fuel cells, an oxygen supply unit and an air inlet. Oxidant inlets of the first fuel cell and the fourth fuel cell are couplable with the air inlet. Oxidant inlets of the second fuel cell and the third fuel cell are couplable with the oxidant supply unit couplable with at least one of the oxygen supply unit and the air inlet. Exhaust outlets of the first and fourth fuel cells are couplable with an inert gas outlet. Exhaust outlets of the second and third fuel cells are coupled with an exhaust switching unit couplable with the inert gas outlet and a water outlet.
US10553881B2	Fuel cell Provided is a fuel cell, the output voltage of which is improved by making a membrane moist state uniform. An anode-side gas diffusion layer and a cathode-side gas diffusion layer are joined to a membrane electrode assembly, and a separator is joined to the anode-side gas diffusion layer. The separator has a recess portion and a protrusion portion formed to constitute a gas flow path and a refrigerant flow path, respectively. The cross-sectional area of the recess portion is made relatively small at the downstream side in comparison with that at the upstream side, and the cross-sectional area of the protrusion portion is made relatively large at the downstream side in comparison with that at the upstream side, thereby improving the moist state.
US10553880B2	Fuel cell A fuel cell includes a MEA that includes a cathode, an anode, and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode and the anode, the solid electrolyte layer containing an ion-conducting solid oxide; at least one first porous metal body arranged to oppose at least one of the cathode and the anode; and an interconnector arranged to oppose the first porous metal body and having a gas supply port and a gas discharge port formed therein. The first porous metal body includes a porous metal body S that opposes the gas supply port and has a three-dimensional mesh-like skeleton, and a porous metal body H that has a three-dimensional mesh-like skeleton and is other than the porous metal body S. A porosity Ps of the porous metal body S and a porosity Ph of the porous metal body H satisfy a relationship: Ps
US10553878B2	Positive electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries The present disclosure is directed to a positive electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries that is capable of suppressing an increase in battery direct current resistance due to high-temperature storage (e.g., storage at 60° C. or higher). Positive electrode active material particles in one aspect of the present disclosure include secondary particles formed by aggregation of primary particles of a lithium transition metal oxide containing Ni and Mn and include a boron compound present in the inner part and surface of the secondary particles. The difference in composition ratio between Ni and Mn in the lithium transition metal oxide is more than 0.2. The proportion of the boron element content in the inner part of the secondary particles to the total boron element content in the inner part and surface of the secondary particles is in the range from 5% by mass to 60% by mass.
US10553877B2	Electrochemical catalyst structure and method of fabricating the same The present invention relates to an electrochemical catalyst structure and a method for producing the same. The electrochemical catalyst structure may include a catalyst layer including a perovskite based oxide as an electrochemical oxygen reduction catalyst; and a modifying layer being in contact with the catalyst layer and including a transition metal oxide capable of chemical interaction with a metal of the perovskite based oxide through electron orbital hybridization.
US10553876B2	Method and device for modifying catalyst layer A method is provided that modifies a catalyst layer of a membrane catalyst layer assembly, which is manufactured by transferring the catalyst layer formed on a transfer sheet onto an electrolyte membrane. In the catalyst layer correction method, presence or absence of a defect in the catalyst layer is detected. The defect is removed based on the size and position of the detected defect. The portion from which the defect has been removed is repaired by application thereto of a correcting ink corresponding to the catalyst layer.
US10553868B2	Negative electrode active material, nonaqueous electrolyte battery, battery pack and vehicle According to one embodiment, a negative electrode active material includes particles and a carbon material. The particles is represented by Li2+aAdTi6−bBbO14−c, where A is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Na, K, Mg, Ca, Ba, and Sr; B is a metal element other than Ti; and a, b, c, and d respectively satisfy 0≤a≤5, 0≤b≤6, 0≤c≤0.6, and 0≤d≤3. The carbon material covers at least a part of surfaces of the particles.
US10553867B2	Active material, nonaqueous electrolyte battery, battery pack, and vehicle According to one embodiment, an active material is provided. The active material includes a composite of a phase of a titanium-including composite oxide and a phase of a titanium dioxide. The titanium-including composite oxide has crystal structures which belong to a space group Cmca, a space group Fmmm, or both the space group Cmca and the space group Fmmm.
US10553865B2	Negative active material and negative electrode and lithium battery including the material A negative active material includes a silicon-based alloy, and the silicon-based alloy includes a Si single phase, a FeSi2 alpha phase, and a FeSi2 beta phase, wherein an intensity ratio of a second diffraction peak of the FeSi2 beta phase to a first diffraction peak of the FeSi2 alpha phase may be 0.1 or higher. A negative electrode includes the negative active material and a lithium battery includes the negative electrode. Lifespan characteristics of the lithium battery including the negative active material may improve.
US10553862B2	Positive electrode active material for secondary battery and secondary battery A positive electrode active material for a secondary battery contains second particles which are produced by aggregation of primary particles of a lithium transition metal oxide containing Ni and W, and a boron compound present inside and on the surfaces of the secondary particles.
US10553860B2	Covered lithium-nickel composite oxide particles, and method for manufacturing covered lithium-nickel composite oxide particles Provided are exceptional covered lithium-nickel composite oxide particles that have lithium ion conductivity, the high environmental stability of said particles making it possible to inhibit the generation of impurities from the absorption of water and carbon dioxide; high adhesiveness also being achieved, and the coating layer not peeling off easily. The covered lithium-nickel composite oxide particles for the positive electrode active material in a lithium ion cell, said particles being obtained by covering the surfaces of nickel-based lithium-nickel composite oxide particles with a polymer composition containing an electron-nonconductive polymer and an electron-conductive polymer, are covered nickel-based lithium-nickel composite oxide particles having excellent environmental stability and no adverse effect on cell characteristics.
US10553859B2	Electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery An electrode active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes: a core part including at least one of an inorganic oxide and a carbon-composite inorganic composite oxide; and a shell part for carbon coating on the core part. The electrode active material has a specific surface area of 6.0 m2/g or more. The electrode active material has a moisture content of 400 ppm or less, which is measured by a Karl Fischer method such that the electrode active material is heated in a heat-evaporating manner, and continuously maintained at 250° C. for 40 minutes without exposing to an atmosphere after the electrode active material is exposed to the atmosphere to absorb moisture to be saturated.
US10553858B2	Lithium electrode for a rechargeable lithium-ion battery and method for the manufacture thereof A lithium electrode includes a first lithium layer made of lithium or a lithium alloy, a current collector situated on a first side of the lithium layer, and a lithium-ion-conducting protective layer situated on a second side of the lithium layer opposite the first side. An intermediate layer completely covers the second side of the lithium layer and is situated between the lithium layer and the protective layer. The protective and intermediate layers have an electrical conductivity of less than 10−10 S/cm. The lithium electrode may be used as the anode of a rechargeable lithium-ion battery. A lithium layer is applied to a current collector, an intermediate layer is applied to the lithium layer so that the intermediate layer completely covers the lithium layer, and a lithium-ion-conducting protective layer is applied to the intermediate layer.
US10553855B2	Method for forming anode having silicon active material linked to current collector A secondary battery capable of improving the cycle characteristics and the initial charge and discharge characteristics is provided. The secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The anode has an anode active material layer on an anode current collector. The anode active material layer contains a crystalline anode active material having silicon as an element, and is linked to the anode current collector.
US10553854B2	Secondary battery An object of one embodiment of the present invention is to provide a secondary battery in which deterioration of charge-discharge cycle characteristics is suppressed, to suppress generation of defects caused by expansion and contraction of an active material in a negative electrode, or to prevent deterioration caused by deformation of a secondary battery. To prevent deterioration, a material that can be alloyed with lithium and fluidified easily is used for a negative electrode. To hold a negative electrode active material over a surface of a current collector, a covering layer that covers the negative electrode active material is provided. Furthermore, a portion where the current collector and the negative electrode active material are in contact with each other is alloyed. In other words, an alloy that is in contact with both the current collector and the negative electrode active material is provided in the negative electrode.
US10553844B2	Battery pack having hold down bracket Disclosed herein is a battery pack including a battery module assembly configured to have a structure in which two or more battery modules, each of which includes battery cells arranged in an upright state such that electrode terminals of the battery cells are directed upward, are arranged such that the battery modules are adjacent to each other, and outward protrusions are formed at a lower end of one side or lower ends of opposite sides of each of the battery modules, a base plate, on a top of which the battery module assembly is loaded, and a hold down bracket having one side region covering the outward protrusions of the battery modules and the other side region coupled to the base plate so as to correctly fix the respective battery modules of the battery module assembly to the base plate.
US10553840B2	Manufacturing method and manufacturing device for battery pack A manufacturing method of manufacturing a battery pack that includes: a cell group obtained by stacking unit cells in a stacking direction, and a bus bar electrically connecting the unit cells. Each of the unit cells has a cell body, an electrode tab and a spacer. The electrode tabs protrude out from the cell bodies, and are supported by the spacers. The method includes positioning joining portions of the electrode tabs to the bus bar at predetermined positions in a movement direction of the spacers by moving the spacers in one direction in a state in which the unit cells and the spacers are stacked, before the bus bar is joined to the electrode tabs. In addition, the method includes joining the bus bar to the electrode tabs in a state in which the joining portions of the electrode tabs are positioned at the predetermined positions.
US10553837B2	Secondary battery This application provides a secondary battery including an electrode assembly, a first terminal, a second terminal, a top cover plate and a contacting plate attached to the first terminal, the electrode assembly includes a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first terminal is electrically connected with the first electrode, the second terminal is electrically connected with the second electrode, the top cover plate is insulated from the first terminal and is electrically connected with the second terminal, when internal pressure of the secondary battery exceeds reference pressure, the contacting plate deforms under the internal pressure and contacts the top cover plate, so as to form an electrical connecting path through the first electrode, the first terminal, the contacting plate, the top cover plate, the second terminal and the second electrode.
US10553832B2	Lighting apparatus using organic light emitting device and method of fabricating thereof According to a lighting apparatus of the present disclosure, an organic light emitting material and a metal layer may be deposited in a state that an edge region of a film being transported is blocked by a shielding member not to form an organic light emitting layer and a second electrode in a region on which a pad is formed. A lighting apparatus may be completed by separating the film as it is cut in a width direction, wherein the organic light emitting layer and the second electrode are exposed to the outside through the cut surface, and an open region from which the organic light emitting layer and the second electrode are removed in parallel to both cut surfaces may be formed within the lighting apparatus spaced apart from the cut surface of the film to disconnect the organic light emitting layer.
US10553828B2	Light-emitting device having an intermediate layer located over a lateral side of the first electrode A substrate (100) is a light-transmitting substrate. A light-transmitting first electrode (110) is formed over the substrate (100). An insulating layer (150) is formed over the substrate (100) and the first electrode (110) and includes an opening (152) overlapping the first electrode (110). An organic layer (120) is located within at least the opening (152). A light-transmitting second electrode (130) is formed over the organic layer (120). An intermediate layer (200) is formed in at least a portion of a region of a lateral side of the first electrode (110) overlapping the first electrode (110). A refractive index of the intermediate layer (200) is between a refractive index of the substrate (100) and a refractive index of the first electrode (110).
US10553824B2	Encapsulation composition for organic electronic device, and encapsulation formed using same The present invention relates to a composition for an organic electronic device encapsulant and an encapsulant formed by using the same. A composition for an encapsulant according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises: 1) a first copolymer comprising the first unit represented by Chemical Formula 1, the second unit represented by Chemical Formula 2, and the third unit represented by Chemical Formula 3; 2) a second copolymer comprising the second unit represented by Chemical Formula 2 and the third unit represented by Chemical Formula 3; 3) one or more photoinitiators; 4) a reactive silicone-based oligomer; and 5) a silicone acrylate-based compound.
US10553821B2	Flexible display apparatus A flexible display apparatus includes: a substrate; a gate insulating layer including an inorganic layer disposed on the substrate; a gate line disposed on the gate insulating layer; an inter-insulating layer including an inorganic layer and covering the gate line; and a data line disposed on the inter-insulating layer, where the flexible display apparatus has a first region which is bendable and second regions at opposite sides of the first region, respectively, portions of the gate insulating layer and the inter-insulating layer in the first region are removed, and the gate insulating layer and the inter-insulating layer in the second region have a patterned structure.
US10553819B2	Display panel and electronic device including the same A display device may include a base substrate including display and peripheral regions adjacent to each other, an organic light emitting device, and an encapsulation member. A module hole, a first blocking groove, and a second blocking groove may be defined in the base substrate. The module hole may be defined in the display region to penetrate the base substrate from a front surface to a rear surface. The first and second blocking grooves may be provided to enclose the module hole. A distance from the rear surface of the base substrate to a top surface of the encapsulation member between the first and second blocking grooves is smaller than that in a region outside the second blocking groove.
US10553814B2	Array substrate, display panel, display device, method for manufacturing array substrate and method for manufacturing display panel An array substrate, a display panel, a display device, a method for manufacturing the array substrate and a method for manufacturing the display panel are provided. The array substrate includes a base substrate, and an organic layer and a passivation layer arranged above the base substrate. The base substrate includes a display region and a non-display region surrounding the display region. Each of the organic layer and the passivation layer is arranged in both the display region and the non-display region. A groove is arranged in the organic layer and the passivation layer in the non-display region, the groove penetrates the organic layer and the passivation layer and is of a closed pattern surrounding the display region. The groove is to be filled with a sealing material.
US10553805B2	Organic EL display panel and manufacturing method of organic EL display panel An organic EL display panel with improved visibility is disclosed which includes sub-pixels each emitting light of a color selected from R, G, and B and disposed in a matrix, pixel electrodes disposed above a substrate in the matrix corresponding to the sub-pixels, and column banks row-directionally arranged extending in the column direction. The organic EL display panel further includes pairs of auxiliary column banks extending parallel to the main column banks, disposed in gaps between pairs of the column banks adjacent to each other where the pixel electrodes corresponding to the sub-pixels emitting the B color are present, each pair of the auxiliary column banks covering both edges in the row direction of each of the pixel electrodes therebetween.
US10553799B2	Condensed cyclic compound and an organic light-emitting device including the same A condensed cyclic compound represented by Formula 1 and an organic light-emitting device including the same.
US10553797B2	Fluorene derivative, light-emitting elements, light-emitting device, electronic device, and lighting device An object is to provide a light-emitting element having high light-emission efficiency by provision of a novel fluorene derivative as represented by General Formula (G1) below. In the formula, R1 to R8 independently represent any of a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted biphenyl group. Further, α1 to α4 independently represent any of a substituted or unsubstituted arylene group having 6 to 12 carbon atoms. Furthermore, Ar1 and Ar2 independently represent any of an aryl group having 6 to 13 carbon atoms in a ring and Ar3 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 12 carbon atoms. J, k, m, and n each independently represent 0 or 1.
US10553796B2	Organic light emitting device and method of manufacturing the same An organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; an emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; a hole transport region between the first electrode and the emission layer; and an electron transport region between the emission layer and the second electrode, the electron transport region including an electron auxiliary layer, wherein the hole transport region includes at least one copolymer selected from i) a first copolymer of a first compound and a second compound and ii) a second copolymer of a third compound and a fourth compound, wherein the first compound and the second compound are each independently selected from compounds represented by Formula 1, and the third compound and the fourth compound are each independently selected from compounds represented by Formula 2, and wherein the electron auxiliary layer includes a metal oxide.
US10553790B1	Method of manufacuring a magnetic memory device A magnetic memory device includes a first magnetic tunnel junction pattern on a substrate, a second magnetic tunnel junction pattern on the first magnetic tunnel junction pattern, and a conductive line between the first magnetic tunnel junction pattern and the second magnetic tunnel junction pattern. The conductive line is configured such that a current flowing through the conductive line flows in parallel to an interface between the conductive line and each of the first and second magnetic tunnel junction patterns.
US10553787B2	Precessional spin current structure for MRAM A magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) is disclosed. MRAM device has a magnetic tunnel junction stack having a significantly improved performance of the free layer in the magnetic tunnel junction structure. The MRAM device utilizes a precessional spin current (PSC) magnetic layer in conjunction with a perpendicular MTJ where the in-plane magnetization direction of the PSC magnetic layer is free to rotate.
US10553784B2	Well-based vertical Hall element with enhanced magnetic sensitivity A vertical Hall element and method of fabricating are disclosed. The method includes forming a buried region having a first conductivity type in a substrate having a second conductivity type and implanting a dopant of the first conductivity type into a well region between the top surface of the substrate and the buried region. The buried region has a doping concentration increasing with an increasing depth from a top surface of the substrate and the well region has a doping concentration decreasing from the top surface of the substrate to the buried region. The method includes forming first through fifth contacts on the well region. First and second contacts define a conductive path and second and third contacts define another conductive path through the well region. The fourth contact is formed between first and second contacts and the fifth contact is formed between second and third contacts.
US10553779B2	Method of fabricating an acoustic transducer A method of fabricating an acoustic transducer comprising: fabricating a substrate; depositing a bottom electrode on the substrate; depositing an active layer on the bottom electrode; depositing a top electrode on the active layer; wherein at least one electrode is patterned to form at least two active elements; and, wherein a ratio of a thickness coupling coefficient kt to an effective lateral coupling coefficient k31,eff of the active layer is 1.3 or greater.
US10553773B2	Flexible encapsulation of a flexible thin-film based thermoelectric device with sputter deposited layer of N-type and P-type thermoelectric legs A method of encapsulating a thin-film based thermoelectric module includes forming the thin-film based thermoelectric module by sputter depositing pairs of N-type thermoelectric legs and P-type thermoelectric legs electrically in contact with one another on a flexible substrate having a dimensional thickness less than or equal to 25 μm, and rendering the formed thin-film based thermoelectric module flexible and less than or equal to 100 μm in dimensional thickness based on choices of fabrication processes with respect to layers of the formed thin-film based thermoelectric module. The method also includes encapsulating the formed thin-film based thermoelectric module with an elastomer to render the flexibility thereto. The elastomer encapsulation has a dimensional thickness less than or equal to 15 μm, and the flexibility enables an array of thin-film based thermoelectric modules to be completely wrappable and bendable around a system element from which the array is configured to derive thermoelectric power.
US10553772B2	Apparatus for manufacturing thermoelectric module An apparatus for manufacturing a thermoelectric module is provided. The apparatus includes a thermoelectric element interposed between a lower substrate that includes a lower electrode and an upper substrate that includes an upper electrode. Additionally, the apparatus includes a first block that is configured to support the lower substrate and a second block that is configured to move vertically with respect to the first block and support the upper substrate. A jig is configured to position the thermoelectric element in connection with the upper electrode and the lower electrode.
US10553771B2	High figure of merit p-type FeNbHfSb thermoelectric materials and the preparation method thereof The present invention discloses a type of high figure of merit p-type FeNbHfSb thermoelectric material, whose composition is FeNb1-xHfxSb, wherein x=0.06˜0.2. The present invention also discloses the method to prepare these p-type FeNbHfSb thermoelectric materials. The ingots with nominal composition FeNb1-xHfxSb are prepared by levitation melting of stoichiometric amounts of Fe, Nb, Hf and Sb under an argon atmosphere. The obtained ingots are mechanically milled to get submicron-scale powders. The obtained powders are compacted by spark plasma sintering to obtain the final bulk p-type FeNbHfSb thermoelectric materials. The compositional elements of these p-type FeNbHfSb thermoelectric materials are abundant in the earth crust. The p-type thermoelectric materials also shows good high temperature stability and the preparation method are simple and high-yield. Therefore, the industrial production cost would be relatively cheap. The maximum zT value of the p-type thermoelectric materials is ˜1.45 at 1200K, which is the highest value among the p-type half-Heusler system.
US10553767B2	Light emitting diodes with integrated reflector for a direct view display and method of making thereof An LED subpixel can be provided with a reflector layer that controls viewing angles. After formation of an array of nanowires including first conductivity type cores and active layers, a second conductivity type semiconductor material layer, a transparent conductive oxide layer, and a dielectric material layer are sequentially formed. An opening is formed through the dielectric material layer over the array of nanowires. The reflector layer can be formed around the array of nanowires and through the opening in the dielectric material layer on the transparent conductive oxide layer. A conductive bonding structure is formed in electrical contact with the reflector layer.
US10553765B2	Method for manufacturing light emitting device A method for manufacturing a light emitting device includes: providing a substrate; placing a light emitting element on a top surface of the substrate; arranging on the top surface of the substrate a translucent frame body that is spaced apart from the light emitting element and that surrounds the light emitting element so that a top surface of the translucent frame body is at a position higher than a top surface of the light emitting element; arranging a wavelength conversion member in a region surrounded by the translucent frame body so as to cover the top surface and a side surface of the light emitting element and to be in contact with an inside surface of the frame body; and forming a translucent member that covers the substrate, the translucent frame body, and the wavelength conversion member.
US10553763B2	Light emitting device A light emitting device includes a base including a support having a support surface. A light emitting element includes a semiconductor layer and a sapphire substrate provided on the semiconductor layer opposite to the support surface. A light-transmissive covering member is provided on the sapphire substrate to sandwich the sapphire substrate between the semiconductor layer and the reflecting film. A light emitted from the semiconductor layer is configured to be extracted from the sapphire substrate between the semiconductor layer and the reflecting film. A height of the light-transmissive covering member viewed in a direction in which a width of the light-transmissive covering member appears smallest is 0.5 times or less of the width of the light-transmissive covering member.
US10553760B2	Solid state transducer dies having reflective features over contacts and associated systems and methods Systems and methods for improved light emitting efficiency of a solid state transducer (SST), for example light emitting diodes (LED), are disclosed. One embodiment of an SST die in accordance with the technology includes a reflective material disposed over electrical connectors on a front side of the die. The reflective material has a higher reflectivity than a base material of the connectors such that light traveling toward the connectors reflects back out of the device.
US10553756B2	Light emitting device An embodiment of the present invention includes: a gallium nitride substrate; and a light-emitting structure disposed on the other surface of the substrate, wherein the substrate includes a plurality of light extraction structures formed on one surface thereof, the thickness of the substrate is 80 μm or more, and the average height of the plurality of light extraction structures is 10 μm or more.
US10553750B2	Semiconductor nanocrystals, methods for making same, compositions, and products A semiconductor nanocrystal characterized by having a solid state photoluminescence external quantum efficiency at a temperature of 90° C. or above that is at least 95% of the solid state photoluminescence external quantum efficiency of the semiconductor nanocrystal at 25° C. is disclosed. A semiconductor nanocrystal having a multiple LO phonon assisted charge thermal escape activation energy of at least 0.5 eV is also disclosed. A semiconductor nanocrystal capable of emitting light with a maximum peak emission at a wavelength in a range from 590 nm to 650 nm characterized by an absorption spectrum, wherein the absorption ratio of OD at 325 nm to OD at 450 nm is greater than 5.5. A semiconductor nanocrystal capable of emitting light with a maximum peak emission at a wavelength in a range from 545 nm to 590 nm characterized by an absorption spectrum, wherein the absorption ratio of OD at 325 nm to OD at 450 nm is greater than 7. A semiconductor nanocrystal capable of emitting light with a maximum peak emission at a wavelength in a range from 495 nm to 545 nm characterized by an absorption spectrum, wherein the absorption ratio of OD at 325 nm to OD at 450 nm is greater than 10. A composition comprising a plurality of semiconductor nanocrystals wherein the solid state photoluminescence efficiency of the composition at a temperature of 90° C. or above is at least 95% of the solid state photoluminescence efficiency of the composition 25° C. is further disclosed. A method for preparing semiconductor nanocrystals comprises introducing one or more first shell chalcogenide precursors and one or more first shell metal precursors to a reaction mixture including semiconductor nanocrystal cores, wherein the first shell chalcogenide precursors are added in an amount greater than the first shell metal precursors by a factor of at least about 2 molar equivalents and reacting the first shell precursors at a first reaction temperature of at least 300° C. to form a first shell on the semiconductor nanocrystal cores. Populations, compositions, components and other products including semiconductor nanocrystals of the invention are disclosed. Populations, compositions, components and other products including semiconductor nanocrystals made in accordance with any method of the invention is also disclosed.
US10553748B2	Semiconductor component and illumination device A semiconductor component and an illumination device is disclosed. In an embodiment the semiconductor component includes a semiconductor chip configured to generate a primary radiation having a first peak wavelength and a radiation conversion element arranged on the semiconductor chip. The radiation conversion element includes a quantum structure that converts the primary radiation at least partly into secondary radiation having a second peak wavelength and a substrate that is transmissive to the primary radiation.
US10553747B2	Method of selectively transferring semiconductor device A semiconductor device comprises a substrate, a first semiconductor unit on the substrate, and an first adhesion structure between the substrate and the first semiconductor unit, and directly contacting the first semiconductor unit and the substrate, wherein the first adhesion structure comprises an adhesion layer and a sacrificial layer, and the adhesion layer and the sacrificial layer are made of different materials, and wherein an adhesion between the first semiconductor unit and the adhesion layer is different from that between the first semiconductor unit and the sacrificial layer.
US10553741B2	Method for producing a photodiode and photodiode The subject matter of the invention is a method for producing a lateral photodiode comprising a layer surmounted by a first pattern comprising an absorption region interposed between two contact regions. After encapsulation of the first pattern, a cavity is formed between the contact regions by etching through openings, and then filled with a material constituting the absorption region by lateral epitaxy of this material from the lateral walls of the cavity. According to one possibility, a first lateral epitaxy is effected in order to form a multiplication region, and then a second lateral epitaxy is effected in order to form a charge region before the lateral epitaxy of the material constituting the absorption region, so as to obtain a lateral avalanche photodiode having improved optical confinement. The lateral photodiode according to the invention has improved optical confinement.
US10553735B2	Trench double layer heterostructure A light sensor includes an N-type semiconductor. The light sensor further includes a P-type semiconductor stacked on at least a portion of the N-type semiconductor, partially defining a trench extending into the P-type semiconductor, and having a trench portion aligned with the trench and extending farther into the N-type semiconductor than other portions of the P-type semiconductor. The light sensor also includes a passivation layer stacked on and contacting the P-type semiconductor and partially defining the trench that extends through the passivation layer and into the P-type semiconductor. The light sensor further includes an electrical contact stacked on the passivation layer, positioned within the trench, and extending through the passivation layer into the P-type semiconductor such that photons received by the N-type semiconductor generate photocurrent resulting in a voltage at the electrical contact.
US10553729B2	Nonvolatile semiconductor storage device and method for manufacturing the same According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a nonvolatile semiconductor storage device including: a semiconductor substrate; a source region and a drain region that are formed in the semiconductor substrate so as to be separated from each other and so as to define a channel region therebetween; a tunnel insulating film that is formed on the channel region; an insulative charge storage film that is formed on the tunnel insulating film; a conductive charge storage film that is formed on the insulative charge storage film so as to be shorter than the insulative charge storage film in a channel direction; an interlayer insulating film that is formed on the conductive charge storage film; and a gate electrode that is formed on the interlayer insulating film.
US10553724B2	Array substrate, method for manufacturing the same, and display device Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an array substrate, a method for manufacturing an array substrate and a display device. The array substrate includes a base substrate and a transistor disposed on the base substrate, and the transistor includes a gate electrode and an active layer. A light absorbing layer is formed on a side of the gate electrode facing the active layer, and the light absorbing layer is configured to absorb light irradiated thereto.
US10553723B2	Method for forming doped extension regions in a structure having superimposed nanowires A method is provided of fabricating a microelectronic device including a semiconductor structure provided with semiconductor bars positioned above one another, the method including the following steps: creating, on a substrate, a stacked structure including an alternation of first bars containing a first material and having a first critical dimension and second bars containing a second material, the second material being a semiconductor, the second bars having a second critical dimension greater than the first critical dimension, then, surface doping protruding lateral portions of the second bars before forming a source and drain block on the portions.
US10553721B2	Semiconductor device and method of forming the same A semiconductor device includes a plurality of fins over a substrate. Each fin of the plurality of fins extends in a first direction substantially perpendicular to a bottom surface of the substrate, and each fin of the plurality of fins comprises a first doped region having a first dopant type. The semiconductor device further includes an isolation region over the substrate between a first fin of the plurality of fins and a second fin of the plurality of fins adjacent to the first fin. The semiconductor device further includes a second doped region extends continuously across the isolation region, the second doped region extends into each fin of the plurality of fins, and a dimension of the second doped region in the isolation region in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction is less than a dimension of the at least one isolation region in the second direction.
US10553718B2	Semiconductor devices with core-shell structures A device structure includes: a core structure formed on a support, and a shell material formed on the core structure and surrounding at least part of the core structure. The shell material is associated with a first bandgap; the core structure is associated with a second bandgap; and the first bandgap is smaller than the second bandgap. The shell material and the core structure are configured to form a quantum-well channel in the shell material.
US10553713B2	Semiconductor device The present invention provides a semiconductor device that can achieve both low on-resistance and high withstand voltage, while reducing the device size, improving the manufacturing yield, and reducing the cost. The semiconductor device 1 includes a substrate 5, an epitaxial layer 6 formed on the substrate 5 and formed with a gate trench 11, a gate insulating film 17 formed on the side surface 14 and the bottom surface 15 of the gate trench 11, a gate electrode 20 embedded in the gate trench 11 and opposed to the epitaxial layer 6 with the gate insulating film 17 therebetween, and a source layer 25, a channel layer 26, and a drift layer 27 formed in this order from a first surface to a second surface of the epitaxial layer 6, in which the on-resistance Ron represented by a variable “y” and the withstand voltage Vb represented by a variable “x” functionally satisfy the following relational expression (1): y≤9×10−7x2−0.0004x+0.7001 (1).
US10553710B2	Semiconductor device According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a semiconductor layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, a plurality of gate electrodes provided in the semiconductor layer and extending in a first direction, a plurality of gate interconnects provided in the semiconductor layer and connected with the gate electrodes, the gate interconnects extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, an insulating film provided between the gate electrodes and the semiconductor layer, and between the gate interconnects and the semiconductor layer, and an inter-layer insulating film provided between the gate electrodes and the second electrode, and between the gate interconnects and the second electrode.
US10553707B1	FinFETs having gates parallel to fins Methods form devices by patterning a lower layer to form a fin, and forming a sacrificial gate along sidewalls of the fin. Such methods form a mask with cut openings on the sacrificial gate and remove sections of the fin and the sacrificial gate exposed through the cut openings to divide the fin into fin portions and create cut areas between the fin portions. Additionally, these methods remove the mask, epitaxially grow source/drains in the cut areas, replace the sacrificial gate with a gate conductor, and form a gate contact on the gate conductor over a center of the fin portions.
US10553703B2	Array of elevationally-extending transistors and a method used in forming an array of elevationally-extending transistors A method used in forming an array of elevationally-extending transistors comprises forming spaced lower conductive lines over a substrate. A gate insulator is formed in openings that are individually directly above individual of the lower conductive lines. The openings are formed into laterally-spaced lines comprising sacrificial material and are spaced longitudinally there-along. Channel material is formed in the individual openings laterally adjacent the gate insulator and is electrically coupled to the individual lower conductive line there-below. The sacrificial material is replaced with conductive-gate material. Other methods are disclosed including arrays of elevationally-extending transistors independent of method of manufacture.
US10553698B2	Methods, apparatus and system for a self-aligned gate cut on a semiconductor device At least one method, apparatus and system disclosed herein involves adjusting for a misalignment of a gate cut region with respect to semiconductor processing. A plurality of fins are formed on a semiconductor substrate. A gate region is formed over a portion of the fins. The gate region comprises a first dummy gate and a second dummy gate. A gate cut region is formed over the first dummy gate. A conformal fill material is deposited into the gate cut region. At least one subsequent processing step is performed.
US10553697B1	Regrowth method for fabricating wide-bandgap transistors, and devices made thereby Methods are provided for fabricating a HEMT (high-electron-mobility transistor) that involve sequential epitaxial growth of III-nitride channel and barrier layers, followed by epitaxial regrowth of further III-nitride material through a window in a mask layer. The regrowth takes place on the barrier layer, only in the access region or regions. Devices made according to the disclosed methods are also provided.
US10553696B2	Full air-gap spacers for gate-all-around nanosheet field effect transistors Semiconductor devices and method of forming the same include forming a stack of vertically aligned, alternating layers including sacrificial layers and channel layers. The sacrificial layers are recessed relative to the channel layers to form recesses. A dual-layer dielectric is deposited. The dual-layer dielectric includes a first dielectric material formed conformally on surfaces of the recesses and a second dielectric material filling a remainder of the recesses. The first dielectric material is recessed relative to the second dielectric material. The second dielectric material is etched away to create air gaps. Outer spacers are formed using a third dielectric material that pinches off, preventing the third dielectric material from filling the air gaps.
US10553690B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A miniaturized transistor with reduced parasitic capacitance and highly stable electrical characteristics is provided. High performance and high reliability of a semiconductor device including the transistor is achieved. A first conductor is formed over a substrate, a first insulator is formed over the first conductor, a layer that retains fixed charges is formed over the first insulator, a second insulator is formed over the layer that retains fixed charges, and a transistor is formed over the second insulator. Threshold voltage Vth is controlled by appropriate adjustment of the thicknesses of the first insulator, the second insulator, and the layer that retains fixed charges.
US10553688B2	Semiconductor device having field plate A transistor type of field effect transistor (FET) having a field plate is disclosed. The FET provides an active region and two inactive regions sandwiching the active region therebetween, where the electrodes are provided in the active region. The FET further includes fingers and buses of the drain and the source. The fingers overlap with the electrodes of the drain and the source; while the busses are provided in respective inactive regions. The field plate includes a field plate finger and a field plate interconnection. The field plate finger extends parallel to the gate electrode in a side facing the drain electrode. The field plate interconnection connects the field plate finger with the source interconnection in the inactive region opposite to the inactive region where the drain bus exists.
US10553685B2	SiC semiconductor device with offset in trench bottom A semiconductor device includes a trench extending from a first surface into a SiC semiconductor body. The trench has a first sidewall, a second sidewall opposite to the first sidewall, and a trench bottom. A gate electrode is arranged in the trench and is electrically insulated from the SiC semiconductor body by a trench dielectric. A body region of a first conductivity type adjoins the first sidewall. A shielding structure of the first conductivity type adjoins at least a portion of the second sidewall and the trench bottom. A first section of the trench bottom and a second section of the trench bottom are offset to one another by a vertical offset along a vertical direction extending from the first surface to a second surface of the SiC semiconductor body opposite to the first surface.
US10553683B2	MOSFET and memory cell having improved drain current through back bias application A semiconductor metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) transistor with increased on-state current obtained through intrinsic bipolar junction transistor (BJT) of MOSFET has been described. Methods of operating the MOS transistor are provided.
US10553682B2	Vertical transistors with multiple gate lengths A pair of vertical fin field effect transistors (FinFETs) having different gate lengths, includes, a first bottom source/drain on a first region of a substrate, wherein the first bottom source/drain includes a first tier having a first height adjacent to a first vertical fin and a second tier having a second height greater than the first tier removed from the first vertical fin; and a second bottom source/drain on a second region of the substrate, wherein the second bottom source/drain includes a third tier having a third height adjacent to a second vertical fin and a fourth tier having a fourth height greater than the third tier removed from the second vertical fin, wherein the third height is less than the first height and the fourth height is equal to the second height.
US10553678B2	Vertically stacked dual channel nanosheet devices A semiconductor structure having electrostatic control and a low threshold voltage is provided. The structure includes an nFET containing vertically stacked and suspended Si channel material nanosheets stacked vertically above a pFET containing vertically stacked and suspended SiGe channel material nanosheets. The vertically stacked nFET and pFET include a single work function metal.
US10553676B2	Compound semiconductor device, method for producing same, and resin-sealed type semiconductor device In a semiconductor element having a compound semiconductor layer epitaxially grown on a silicon substrate, an object is to suppress generation of deficiency or problems of reliability deriving from the ends of the element that are generated when dividing into semiconductor devices by dicing. A compound semiconductor layer epitaxially grown on a silicon substrate is formed via a buffer layer made of aluminum nitride. In the periphery of the semiconductor device, a scribe lane is present to surround a semiconductor element region. Along the scribe lane, the aluminum nitride layer is covered with a coating film for protection against humidity and moisture.
US10553675B2	Isolation of semiconductor device with buried cavity In accordance with an embodiment of an integrated circuit, a cavity is buried in a semiconductor body below a first surface of the semiconductor body. An active area portion of the semiconductor body is arranged between the first surface and the cavity. The integrated circuit further includes a trench isolation structure configured to provide a lateral electric isolation of the active area portion.
US10553673B2	Methods used in forming at least a portion of at least one conductive capacitor electrode of a capacitor that comprises a pair of conductive capacitor electrodes having a capacitor insulator there-between and methods of forming a capacitor A method used in forming at least a portion of at least one conductive capacitor electrode of a capacitor that comprises a pair of conductive capacitor electrodes having a capacitor insulator there-between comprises forming an insulative first material comprising an amorphous insulative metal oxide. The amorphous insulative metal oxide is reduced in a reducing-ambient to form a conductive second material from the insulative first material. Such reducing in the reducing-ambient both (a) removes oxygen from and changes the stoichiometry of the metal oxide, and (b) crystallizes the metal oxide into a crystalline state that is conductive.
US10553668B2	Display device A display panel may include a detection line overlapped with a non-display region, detection pads connected to the detection line, and an input line connecting an input pad of the detection pads to the detection line. The detection line may include a first portion, which is provided at a level different from a level of the input line and includes an end connected to the input line through a first contact hole in a first contact region, and a second portion, which is provided at a level different from the level of the first portion and is connected to the first portion through a second contact hole in a second contact region. A distance between the first and second portions in a non-contact region may be less than a distance between the first contact hole and the second portion.
US10553667B2	Display device A display device, includes: a display area including an upper side, a lower side, a left side, a right side, and inclined corner portions where the upper, lower, left, and right sides meet; a demultiplexing circuit unit adjacent to the lower side of the display area and the corner portion connected thereto; and a scan transmission line which extends toward the display area from an outer side of the left side and overlaps with the demultiplexing circuit unit outside the corner portion, wherein the demultiplexing circuit unit includes a demultiplexer transistor, and the scan transmission line is formed of a different conductive layer from an electrode of a demultiplexer transistor.
US10553665B2	Flexible display device and method of manufacturing the same A flexible display device includes a substrate including a non-bending area and a bending area adjacent to the non-bending area, and a crack prevention pattern disposed in the bending area. The bending area includes a first area having a first stress when bending, a second area having a second stress less than the first stress when bending, and a third area having a third stress less than the second stress when bending. The crack prevention pattern includes a plurality of crack prevention lines. The number of the crack prevention lines in the first area is greater than the number of the crack prevention lines in the third area.
US10553664B2	Display device A display device includes a first panel including a pad side area at one side of the first panel, a first optically transparent adhesive member on one surface of the first panel, a printed circuit board including a first attachment portion attached to the one surface of the first panel at the pad side area, a window on the first optically transparent adhesive member, a second optically transparent adhesive member on the other surface of the first panel, and a second panel on the second optically transparent adhesive member opposite the first panel, wherein the pad side area has a connection area at which the printed circuit board is attached to the first panel, and at which an edge of the first optically transparent adhesive member extends beyond an edge of the second optically transparent adhesive member, and a non-connection area at which the printed circuit board is not attached.
US10553662B2	Light emitting display device including structure for reducing reflection A light emitting display device includes a substrate and a switching element disposed on the substrate. A pixel electrode is disposed on the substrate and is connected to the switching element. A pixel defining layer is disposed on the pixel electrode. The pixel defining layer defines a pixel area of the substrate. A light emitting layer is disposed on the pixel electrode. A common electrode is disposed on the light emitting layer and the pixel defining layer. A sealing layer is disposed on the common electrode. A first light blocking layer is disposed between the pixel defining layer and the sealing layer.
US10553661B2	Display substrate and display apparatus including the same A display substrate includes a data line extending in a first direction, a first transistor including a first channel area overlapping the data line and a first control electrode which overlaps the first channel area and has a substantially same shape as that of the first channel area in an overlap area in which the first control electrode overlaps the first channel area, a scan line extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, a first voltage line extending in the first direction and transfers a first driving signal, a first capacitor including an extension electrode which overlaps the first control electrode and extends in the second direction from the first voltage line and a second capacitor including an overlap electrode overlapping the data line.
US10553652B2	Organic light emitting display device and method for manufacturing the same Disclosed is an organic light emitting display device including a thin film transistor on a substrate, a planarization layer on the thin film transistor, a contact hole passing through the planarization layer to expose a source or drain electrode of the thin film transistor, a first electrode on the planarization layer, the first electrode being connected to the source or drain electrode of the thin film transistor through the contact hole, a hole between the first electrode and another first electrode adjacent thereto, the hole being a recessed portion of the planarization layer, a pixel defining layer covering the first electrode passing through the contact hole and the planarization layer disposed in the hole, a light emitting layer on the first electrode and the pixel defining layer, and a second electrode on the light emitting layer.
US10553650B2	Organic electroluminescent element, organic electroluminescent panel, and luminescent unit comprising a film thickness adjustment layer positioned outside of a resonator An organic electroluminescent element includes an organic electroluminescent part and a pair of partition walls. The organic electroluminescent part includes an organic material layer, a resonator, and a film-thickness adjustment layer. The film-thickness adjustment layer has a thickness that is adjusted to allow a difference between a height of a pinning position and a height of a middle position of an upper surface of the organic material layer to fall within a predetermined range. The pinning position is a position at which the upper surface of the organic material layer and each of the partition walls are in contact with each other.
US10553648B2	Light-emitting diode display device A light emitting diode (LED) display device including an array substrate, an opposite substrate, wall structures, at least one LED, an upper reflection layer, a first light barrier layer, a lower reflection layer and a light diffusion material layer. The array substrate, the wall structures and the opposite substrate define an accommodating region. The upper reflection layer is disposed on the LED, wherein the upper reflection layer at least partially covers an upper surface of the LED. The first light barrier layer is disposed on a side of the upper reflection layer away from the array substrate. An orthographic projection of the upper reflection layer on the array substrate is at least partially overlapped with an orthographic projection of the lower reflection layer on the array substrate. The light diffusion material layer is filled in the accommodating region.
US10553647B2	Methods and apparatus for three-dimensional non-volatile memory An apparatus is provided that includes a bit line above a substrate, a word line above the substrate, and a non-volatile memory cell between the bit line and the word line. The non-volatile memory cell includes a reversible resistance-switching memory element coupled in series with an isolation element. The isolation element includes a first selector element coupled in series with a second selector element. The first selector element includes a first snapback current, and the second selector element includes a second snapback current lower than the first snapback current.
US10553645B2	Resistive memory device by substrate reduction To provide enhanced data storage devices and systems, various systems, architectures, apparatuses, and methods, are provided herein. In a first example, a resistive memory device is provided. The resistive memory device comprises a substrate, and an active region having resistance properties that can be modified to store one or more data bits, the active region comprising region of the substrate with a chemically altered reduction level to establish a resistive memory property in the substrate. The resistive memory device comprises terminals formed into the substrate and configured to couple the active region to associated electrical contacts.
US10553644B2	Test circuit block, variable resistance memory device including the same, and method of forming the variable resistance memory device A test circuit block may include a first signal line, a second signal line, a high resistive path unit, and a low resistive path unit. The high resistive path unit may be connected between the first signal line and the second signal line. The low resistive path unit may have a resistance lower than that of the high resistive path unit. The low resistive path unit may be selectively connected in parallel with the high resistive path unit between the first signal line and the second signal line.
US10553641B2	Light emitting device package and display device using the same A light emitting device package includes a substrate for growth having a plurality of light-emitting windows, a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting units corresponding to the plurality of light-emitting windows, each semiconductor light-emitting unit having a first surface contacting the substrate for growth and a second surface opposite the first surface, and each semiconductor light-emitting unit having a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer stacked on each other, a plurality of wavelength conversion units respectively disposed inside the plurality of light-emitting windows, each wavelength conversion unit is configured to provide light having a wavelength different from light emitted by the respective semiconductor light-emitting unit, a metal support layer disposed on at least one surface of each of the plurality of semiconductor light-emitting units and having a lateral surface coplanar with a lateral surface of the substrate for growth, and an insulating layer disposed between each of the plurality of semiconductor light-emitting units and a respective metal support layer.
US10553640B2	Electrodeless light-emitting diode display and method for fabricating the same An electrodeless LED display and a method for fabricating the same are disclosed. In the method, an epitaxial layer is provided and a transparent conduction layer is formed on the epitaxial layer to bond a substrate. The epitaxial layer is etched to form dies deposition metal films on the transparent conduction layer. Conduction channels are formed on the substrate, and two ends of each conduction channel are respectively provided two conduction metal blocks. First metal members are formed on the metal film formed on the dies and the conduction metal blocks to connect with the dies on the different conduction channels. Then, second metal members are formed on the first metal members formed on the conduction metal blocks, whereby the second metal members and the first metal members formed on the dies are located on an identical plane.
US10553635B2	Image sensor, stacked image sensor, image processing apparatus, and method of fabricating image sensor chip package An image sensor includes a pixel array and a peripheral circuit. The peripheral circuit is electrically connected to the pixel array and includes a logic block and at least one redundancy block to replace the logic block when the logic block is a defective block.
US10553634B2	Photoelectric conversion apparatus and camera A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes an element isolating portion that is disposed on a side of a front surface of a semiconductor layer and constituted by an insulator, and a pixel isolating portion. The pixel isolating portion includes a part that overlaps an isolating region in a normal direction. The semiconductor layer is continuous across semiconductor regions in an intermediate plane. The part is located between a semiconductor region and another semiconductor region.
US10553632B2	Photoelectric detection device and photoelectric detection apparatus The present disclosure provides a photoelectric detection device and a photoelectric detection apparatus. The photoelectric detection device includes a substrate, a reflective structure provided on the substrate and a photoelectric conversion layer provided on the reflective structure, and has a plurality of pixel regions and a plurality of interval regions each provided between two adjacent pixel regions. The photoelectric conversion layer includes a pixel photoelectric conversion portion in the pixel region; the reflective structure includes a pixel reflective portion in the pixel region and an interval reflective portion in the interval region, and the interval reflective portion is configured to reflect light directed to the interval reflective portion from the pixel photoelectric conversion portion back to the pixel photoelectric conversion portion.
US10553630B2	Image pickup device, image pickup apparatus, and production apparatus and method An image pickup device according to the present disclosure includes: a photoelectric conversion device that photoelectrically converts incident light that has entered from outside; an organic film that is formed by being laminated on a light-incident surface side of the photoelectric conversion device; and an inorganic film that is formed by being laminated on a light-incident surface and side surfaces of the organic film and seals the organic film, the side surface of the organic film being tilted by an angle at which a thickness of the inorganic film that is formed by being laminated on the side surfaces becomes a predetermined thickness. The present disclosure is applicable to an image pickup device, an image pickup apparatus, a production apparatus for image pickup device, and the like.
US10553629B2	Solid-state image pickup device, method of manufacturing solid-state image pickup device, and electronic apparatus There is provided a solid-state image pickup device including: a semiconductor substrate; a photodiode formed in the semiconductor substrate; a transistor having a gate electrode part or all of which is embedded in the semiconductor substrate, the transistor being configured to read a signal electric charge from the photodiode via the gate electrode; and an electric charge transfer layer provided between the gate electrode and the photodiode.
US10553625B2	Method of manufacturing display device including multilayered lines arranged at fine intervals A method of manufacturing a display device, includes providing a substrate including a first stepped part, forming a metal layer on the substrate and the first stepped part, forming an organic layer pattern on the metal layer at a position corresponding to a sidewall of the stepped part, forming a photosensitive layer on the metal layer and the organic layer pattern, patterning the photosensitive layer to form a photosensitive layer pattern adjacent to the organic layer pattern, and forming a metal line by removing the organic layer pattern and an exposed portion of the metal layer through an etching process using the photosensitive layer pattern as a mask.
US10553621B2	Thin-film transistor structure and manufacturing method thereof, display panel and display device Embodiment of the present disclosure provide a thin-film transistor structure, a manufacturing method thereof, a display panel and a display device. The thin-film transistor structure includes: a base substrate; and a first thin-film transistor and a second thin-film transistor formed on the base substrate, wherein a first active layer of the first thin-film transistor is doped with hydrogen; a material of a second active layer of the second thin-film transistor is metal oxide; and a first isolation barrier surrounding the first thin-film transistor and/or a second isolation barrier surrounding the second thin-film transistor are disposed on the base substrate.
US10553618B2	Display device By applying an AC pulse to a gate of a transistor which easily deteriorates, a shift in threshold voltage of the transistor is suppressed. However, in a case where amorphous silicon is used for a semiconductor layer of a transistor, the occurrence of a shift in threshold voltage naturally becomes a problem for a transistor which constitutes a part of circuit that generates an AC pulse. A shift in threshold voltage of a transistor which easily deteriorates and a shift in threshold voltage of a turned-on transistor are suppressed by signal input to a gate electrode of the transistor which easily deteriorates through the turned-on transistor. In other words, a structure for applying an AC pulse to a gate electrode of a transistor which easily deteriorates through a transistor to a gate electrode of which a high potential (VDD) is applied, is included.
US10553617B2	Pixel array having a plurality of pixel unit A pixel array including a first scan line, a first data line, a first signal line, a first pixel unit, and a second pixel unit is provided. The first pixel unit includes a first common electrode and a second common electrode. The first common electrode and the second common electrode are respectively located on a first side and a second side of the first scan line. The second common electrode is electrically connected to the first signal line through a first conductive structure. The second pixel unit includes a third common electrode and a fourth common electrode. The third common electrode and the fourth common electrode are respectively located on the first side and the second side of the first scan line. The third common electrode is electrically connected to the first signal line through a second conductive structure.
US10553616B2	Array substrate and method of manufacturing the same The present disclosure provides an array substrate and a method of manufacturing the same. The array substrate includes a substrate, a buffer layer, an active layer, a gate insulating layer with a second via hole, a gate, an interlayer insulating layer with a first via hole, a source electrode contacting the active layer through the first and second via holes, a planarization layer with a third via hole, a common electrode with a fourth via hole and a passivation layer sequentially disposed on the substrate, and a pixel electrode disposed on the passivation layer contacts the active layer through a fifth via hole passing through the fourth and third via holes, the interlayer insulating layer, and the gate insulating layer. According to present disclosure, static electricity generated in manufacturing is effectively prevented from being transferred to the active layer to cause Electro-Static discharge, which further improves the product quality.
US10553615B2	Array substrate with via holes having gradually decreased areas, photomask for manufacturing array substrate, and display device comprising array substrate Provided is an array substrate, a photomask, and a display device. The array substrate includes a substrate, a common electrode layer on which a plurality of first via holes are provided at predetermined positions, a passivation layer having a plurality of second via holes disposed concentrically with the first via holes, and a pixel electrode layer having a plurality of pixel electrodes. Areas of the first via holes are configured to gradually decrease in the direction from an output proximal end to an output distal end of a gate line.
US10553604B2	Through array contact structure of three-dimensional memory device Embodiments of through array contact structures of a 3D memory device and fabricating method thereof are disclosed. The 3D NAND memory device includes an alternating layer stack disposed on a substrate. The alternating layer stack includes a first region including an alternating dielectric stack, and a second region including an alternating conductor/dielectric stack. The memory device further comprises a barrier structure extending vertically through the alternating layer stack to laterally separate the first region from the second region, and multiple through array contacts in the first region each extending vertically through the alternating dielectric stack. At least one through array contact is electrically connected with a peripheral circuit.
US10553603B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a substrate, first to third conductors, and first and second contacts. The first conductor is provided in a first layer above the substrate. The first contact extends in a first direction, and is provided on the first conductor. The second conductor is provided in the first layer and is insulated from the first conductor. The third conductor is provided between the second conductor and the substrate. The second contact extends in the first direction through the second conductor, and is provided on the third conductor. A width of the second contact, as viewed in a second direction, differs between a portion above a boundary face that is included in the first layer and is parallel to the surface of the substrate, and a portion that is below the boundary face.
US10553599B1	Three-dimensional memory device containing drain select isolation structures and on-pitch channels and methods of making the same without an etch stop layer A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a substrate, memory openings vertically extending through the alternating stack, and memory opening fill structures located in the memory openings and including a respective memory-level semiconductor channel and a respective memory film. Drain-select-level gate electrodes overlie the alternating stack. Drain-select-level pillar structures extend through a respective one of the drain-select-level gate electrodes. Each drain-select-level semiconductor channel is electrically connected to an underlying one of the memory-level semiconductor channels. A planar insulating spacer layer having a homogeneous composition throughout directly contacts top surfaces of the memory films and bottom surfaces of the drain-select-level gate electrodes.
US10553594B2	Apparatuses and methods for reading memory cells Apparatuses and methods for reading memory cells are described. An example method includes sharing a first voltage to increase a voltage of a first sense line coupled to a first capacitor plate of a ferroelectric capacitor of a memory cell, sharing a second voltage to decrease a voltage of a second sense line coupled to a second capacitor plate of the ferroelectric capacitor of the memory cell, sharing a third voltage to increase the voltage of the second sense line, and sharing a fourth voltage to decrease the voltage of the first sense line. A voltage difference between the first sense line and the second sense line that results from the voltage sharing is amplified, wherein the voltage difference is based at least in part on a polarity of the ferroelectric capacitor.
US10553591B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. At least one bit line structure including a first metal layer, a bit line capping layer, and a first silicon layer located between the first metal layer and the bit line capping layer is formed on a semiconductor substrate. A bit line contact opening penetrating the bit line capping layer is formed for exposing a part of the first silicon layer. A first metal silicide layer is formed on the first silicon layer exposed by the bit line contact opening. A bit line contact structure is formed in the bit line contact opening and contacts the first metal silicide layer for being electrically connected to the bit line structure. The first silicon layer in the bit line structure may be used to protect the first metal layer from being damaged by the process of forming the metal silicide layer.
US10553589B2	Semiconductor device An object of one embodiment of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device with a novel structure in which stored data can be stored even when power is not supplied in a data storing time and there is no limitation on the number of times of writing. The semiconductor device includes a first transistor which includes a first channel formation region using a semiconductor material other than an oxide semiconductor, a second transistor which includes a second channel formation region using an oxide semiconductor material, and a capacitor. One of a second source electrode and a second drain electrode of the second transistor is electrically connected to one electrode of the capacitor.
US10553583B2	Boundary region for high-k-metal-gate(HKMG) integration technology The present disclosure relates to an integrated circuit (IC) that includes a boundary region defined between a low voltage region, and a method of formation. In some embodiments, the integrated circuit comprises a first gate boundary dielectric layer disposed over a substrate in the low voltage region. A second gate boundary dielectric layer is disposed over the substrate in the high voltage region having a thickness greater than that of the first boundary dielectric layer. The first boundary dielectric layer meets the second boundary dielectric layer at the boundary region. A first polysilicon component is disposed within the boundary region over the first boundary dielectric layer and the second gate boundary layer. A second polysilicon component is disposed within the boundary region over the first polysilicon component. A hard mask component is disposed over the first polysilicon component and laterally neighbored to the second polysilicon component.
US10553579B2	Semiconductor resistor and manufacturing method therefor The present disclosure relates to a technical field of semiconductors and discloses a semiconductor resistor and a manufacturing method therefor. The method includes: providing a substrate structure, where the substrate structure includes a substrate having a well region and a fin structure in the well region, and where the fin structure includes a semiconductor fin and an insulating layer at a surface of the semiconductor fin; forming a first dummy gate structure and a second dummy gate structure at two end portions of the fin structure, respectively; forming a mask layer having a first opening and a second opening, where the first opening exposes the first dummy gate structure and a part of the fin structure that abuts against the first dummy gate structure, and the second opening exposes the second dummy gate structure and a part of the fin structure that abuts against the second dummy gate structure; etching an exposed part of the fin structure that abuts against the first dummy gate structure using the mask layer as a mask and etching an exposed part of the fin structure that abuts against the second dummy gate structure using the mask layer as a mask, so as to form a first recess and a second recess; removing the mask layer, and epitaxially growing a semiconductor material in the first recess and the second recess, so as to respectively form a first contact area and a second contact area; and forming a first contact connected to the first contact area and a second contact connected to the second contact area.
US10553576B2	Method for filling patterns A method for filling patterns includes the steps of: providing a substrate having a cell region defined thereon; forming main patterns on the substrate and within the cell region; and filling first dummy patterns adjacent to the main patterns. Preferably, each of the first dummy patterns comprises a first length along X-direction between 2 μm to 5 μm and a second length along Y-direction between 3 μm to 5 μm.
US10553568B2	Light emitting device A light emitting device of a side-surface light emission type includes a package defining a recess and having a shape elongated in a lateral direction, the package including a pair of lead electrodes arranged next to each other in the lateral direction and forming main portions of a bottom of the recess, and a molded body integrally formed with the pair of lead electrodes and defining sidewalls of the recess, and a light emitting element disposed on at least one of the pair of lead electrodes at the bottom of the recess. The molded body has a reinforcing portion connecting between two sidewalls of the recess opposite to each other in a longitudinal direction. The reinforcing portion is made of two end portions respectively connected to the two sidewalls, and an intermediate portion provided between the two end portions.
US10553567B2	Chip stack packages A chip stack package includes first and second semiconductor chips. A first redistribution line structure is disposed on a front surface of the first semiconductor chip, and the first redistribution line structure extends onto a side surface of the first semiconductor chip. A second redistribution line structure is disposed on the front surface of the first semiconductor chip, and the second redistribution line structure extends onto the side surface of the first semiconductor chip. A third redistribution line structure is disposed on a front surface of the second semiconductor chip, and the third redistribution line structure extends onto a side surface of the second semiconductor chip to be electrically connected to the second redistribution line structure.
US10553565B2	Methods and systems for adjusting wafer deformation during wafer bonding Embodiments of methods and systems for adjusting wafer deformation during wafer bonding are provided. The method comprises: releasing inner rings of a first wafer, and applying a first gas pressure to the inner rings of the first wafer, such that the inner rings of the first wafer are in contact with a second wafer; releasing middle rings of the first wafer, such that the middle rings of the first wafer are deformed under a second gas pressure and in contact with the second wafer; releasing inner rings of the second wafer, and applying a third gas pressure less than the first gas pressure to the inner rings of the second wafer; releasing middle rings of the second wafer; and releasing outer rings of the first wafer and releasing outer rings of the second wafer simultaneously.
US10553562B2	Methods of forming bonded semiconductor structures, and semiconductor structures formed by such methods Methods of forming bonded semiconductor structures include providing a first semiconductor structure including a device structure, bonding a second semiconductor structure to the first semiconductor structure below about 400° C., forming a through wafer interconnect through the second semiconductor structure and into the first semiconductor structure, and bonding a third semiconductor structure to the second semiconductor structure on a side thereof opposite the first semiconductor structure. In additional embodiments, a first semiconductor structure is provided. Ions are implanted into a second semiconductor structure. The second semiconductor structure is bonded to the first semiconductor structure. The second semiconductor structure is fractured along an ion implant plane, a through wafer interconnect is formed at least partially through the first and second semiconductor structures, and a third semiconductor structure is bonded to the second semiconductor structure on a side thereof opposite the first semiconductor structure. Bonded semiconductor structures are formed using such methods.
US10553561B2	Mechanisms of forming connectors for package on package A method of forming a semiconductor device includes preparing a first semiconductor die package with conductive elements embedded in a molding compound, wherein the conductive elements are exposed on a surface of the molding compound. A top surface of the conductive elements is above or co-planar with a top-most surface of the molding compound. The method further includes providing a second semiconductor die package; and bonding the conductive elements of the first semiconductor die package to contacts on the semiconductor die package.
US10553553B2	Method of forming a solder bump structure A method of the present invention includes preparing a substrate having a surface on which a electrode pad is formed, forming a resist layer on the substrate, the resist layer having an opening on the electrode pad, filling conductive paste in the opening of the resist layer; sintering the conductive paste in the opening to form a conductive layer which covers a side wall of the resist layer and a surface of the electrode pad in the opening, a space on the conductive layer leading to the upper end of the opening being formed, filling solder in the space on the conductive layer and removing the resist layer.
US10553550B2	Semiconductor device, method of manufacturing semiconductor device, and antenna switch module Disclosed is a semiconductor device having a radio frequency switch. Also disclosed are an antenna switch module and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a metal wiring insulating film bonded to a silicon substrate. In the semiconductor device, a crystal defect layer extends into the silicon substrate from a surface of the silicon substrate. Crystal defects are throughout the crystal defect layer. The semiconductor device and an integrated circuit are in the antenna switch module. The integrated circuit in the antenna switch module is mounted with the radio-frequency switch device and the silicon substrate. The method of manufacturing the semiconductor device includes a step of forming crystal defects throughout a silicon substrate. Radiation or a diffusion is used to form the crystal defects. After the step of forming the crystal defects, the method includes a step of implanting ions into a surface of the silicon substrate to form a crystal defect layer.
US10553544B2	Shielded package assemblies with integrated capacitor Package assemblies including a die stack and related methods of use. The package assembly includes a substrate with a first surface, a second surface, and a third surface bordering a through-hole extending from the first surface to the second surface. The assembly further includes a die stack, a conductive layer, and a lid. The die stack includes a chip positioned inside the through-hole in the substrate. A section of the conductive layer is disposed on the third surface of the substrate. A portion of the lid is disposed between the first chip and the section of the conductive layer. The conductive layer is configured to be coupled with power, and the lid is configured to be coupled with ground. The portion of the lid may act as a first plate of a capacitor, and the section of the conductive layer may act as a second plate of the capacitor.
US10553543B2	Guard bond wires in an integrated circuit package An integrated circuit package is provided. The integrated circuit package comprises a first and second guard bond wire. The first guard bond wire has a first and second end coupled to ground. The second guard bond wire has a first and second end coupled to ground. The integrated circuit package further comprises a die. The die is mounted between the first and second guard bond wires such that the first and second guard bond wires distort a magnetic field between at least an input terminal and an output terminal of the die.
US10553541B2	Fan-out semiconductor package The present disclosure relates to a fan-out semiconductor package in which a plurality of semiconductor chips are stacked and packaged, and are disposed in a special form to be thus electrically connected to a redistribution layer of a connection member through vias rather than wires. The fan-out semiconductor package can further include a connection member having a through-hole, and at least one of the semiconductor chips can be disposed in the through-hole.
US10553540B2	Fabric-based items with electrical component arrays A fabric-based item may include fabric layers and other layers of material. An array of electrical components may be mounted in the fabric-based item. The electrical components may be mounted to a support structure such as a flexible printed circuit. The flexible printed circuit may have a mesh shape formed from an array of openings. Serpentine flexible printed circuit segments may extend between the openings. The electrical components may be light-emitting diodes or other electrical devices. Polymer with light-scattering particles or other materials may cover the electrical components. The flexible printed circuit may be laminated between fabric layers or other layers of material in the fabric-based item.
US10553538B2	Semiconductor package having a variable redistribution layer thickness Semiconductor packages having variable redistribution layer thicknesses are described. In an example, a semiconductor package includes a redistribution layer on a dielectric layer, and the redistribution layer includes first conductive traces having a first thickness and second conductive traces having a second thickness. The first thickness may be different than the second thickness, e.g., the first thickness may be less than the second thickness.
US10553535B1	Formation of semiconductor devices including electrically programmable fuses A method for fabricating a semiconductor device including an electrically programmable fuse includes patterning dielectric material formed on a first electrode including a first conductive material to create one or more openings, and forming second conductive material within the one or more openings. Forming the second conductive material includes forming one or more voids encapsulated by the second conductive material such that the one or more voids have boundaries defined in part by portions of the second conductive material disposed between the one or more voids and the dielectric material. The portions of the second conductive material correspond to fuse links.
US10553534B2	Method for fabricating contact electrical fuse A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of first forming a first dielectric layer on a substrate, in which a first conductor is embedded within the first dielectric layer. Next, a second dielectric layer is formed on the first dielectric layer, part of the second dielectric layer is removed to form a contact hole, and a lateral etching process is conducted to expand the contact hole to form a funnel-shaped opening. Next, a metal layer is formed in the funnel-shaped opening, and the metal layer is planarized to form a second conductor.
US10553528B2	Method for manufacturing printed-wiring assembly, and printed-wiring assembly manufactured according to the same A method for manufacturing a printed-wiring assembly is provided. The method includes a first step of forming a first pattern of printed wiring extending to an end face of a substrate by copper or silver on the substrate. The method includes a second step of cutting the first pattern into a first portion on the end face side from a predetermined position and a second portion on the inner side of the predetermined position, and the cut surface in the second portion is inclined by a predetermined angle with respect to a surface perpendicular to the substrate. The method further includes a third step of forming a protective layer of the second portion so as to cover the cut surface.
US10553527B2	Substrate and semiconductor device package A substrate including a dielectric layer and a patterned conductive layer adjacent to the dielectric layer is provided. The patterned conductive layer comprises a first conductive pad, the first conductive pad comprises a first portion having a first concave sidewall. The substrate further includes a protection layer disposed on the patterned conductive layer, and the protection layer covers the first portion of the first conductive pad.
US10553525B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of semiconductor device A semiconductor device has a semiconductor chip, a signal lead that is arranged in a periphery of the semiconductor chip and has a main surface and a rear surface opposed to the main surface, a wire that electrically connects the semiconductor chip and the main surface of the signal lead, and a sealing body made of sealing resin that seals the semiconductor chip, the signal lead and the wire. The signal lead has, in an extending direction of the signal lead, one end located inside the sealing body, the other end located outside the sealing body, and a wire connection region which is the main surface of the signal lead and to which the wire is connected, and an inner groove is provided in the main surface of the signal lead between the one end and the wire connection region.
US10553524B2	Integrated circuit (IC) die attached between an offset lead frame die-attach pad and a discrete die-attach pad An integrated circuit (IC) package, e.g., a power MOSFET package, may include a lead frame including (a) a main lead frame structure including a plurality of leads and defining or lying in a main lead frame plane, and (b) an offset lead frame die-attach pad (DAP) defining or lying in an offset plane that is offset from the main lead frame plane. The power IC package may further include a semiconductor die having a first side attached to the offset lead frame DAP, and a conductive element attached to both (a) a second side of the semiconductor die and (b) the main lead frame structure. The lead frame including the offset DAP may emulate the functionality of a copper clip, thus eliminating the need for the copper clip. The power IC package may also exhibit enhanced heat dissipation capabilities.
US10553522B1	Semiconductor microcooler A semiconductor microcooler is fabricated by forming fins in a semiconductor substrate and forming a metal layer upon the fins. A stacked microcooler may be formed by stacking a plurality of semiconductor microcoolers. The microcoolers may be positioned such that the fins of each microcooler are aligned. One or more microcoolers may be thermally connected to a surface of a coolant conduit that is thermally connected to an electronic device heat generating device, such as an integrated circuit (IC) chip, or the like. Heat from the electronic device heat generating device may transfer to the one or more microcoolers. A flow of cooled liquid may be introduced through the conduit and heat from the one or more microcoolers may transfer to the liquid coolant.
US10553519B2	Heat radiating member and method for producing the same A heat radiating member includes: a composite portion composed of a composite material which contains particles of a satisfactorily thermally conductive material in a metal matrix; and a metal layer formed on at least one surface of the composite portion and composed of a metal. A method for producing a heat radiating member includes: a preparation step to prepare a composite material which contains particles of a satisfactorily thermally conductive material in a metal matrix; a powder arrangement step to dispose a metal powder composed of metal particles on at least one surface of the composite material; and a heating step to heat the composite material and the metal powder, with the metal powder disposed on the composite material, to form a metal layer composed of a metal of the metal powder on a composite portion composed of the composite material.
US10553518B2	Heat dissipation substrate and method for producing same The present invention relates to a heat dissipation substrate, which is a composite substrate composed of two layers, and which is characterized in that a surface layer (first layer) (1) is configured of single crystal silicon and a handle substrate (second layer) (2) is configured of a material that has a higher thermal conductivity than the first layer. A heat dissipation substrate of the present invention has high heat dissipation properties.
US10553517B2	High power module semiconductor package with multiple submodules In one general aspect, a package can include a first submodule including a first semiconductor die coupled to a first substrate and a first spacer, and disposed between the first spacer and the first substrate. The first submodule includes a second spacer disposed lateral to the first semiconductor die. The package includes a second submodule including a second semiconductor die coupled to a second substrate and a third spacer, and disposed between the third spacer and the second substrate. The second submodule includes a fourth spacer disposed lateral to the second semiconductor die. The package includes an inter-module layer disposed between the first submodule and the second submodule. The first spacer of the first submodule is electrically coupled to the fourth spacer of the second-submodule via the inter-module layer. The second spacer of the first submodule is electrically coupled to the third spacer of the second-submodule via the inter-module layer.
US10553516B1	Semiconductor microcooler A semiconductor microcooler is fabricated by forming fins in a semiconductor substrate and forming a metal layer upon the fins. A stacked microcooler may be formed by stacking a plurality of semiconductor microcoolers. The microcoolers may be positioned such that the fins of each microcooler are vertically aligned. The microcoolers may include an inlet passage to accept coolant and an outlet passage to expel the coolant. One or more microcoolers may be thermally connected to an electronic device heat generating device, such as an integrated circuit (IC) chip, or the like. Heat from the electronic device heat generating device may transfer to the one or more microcoolers. A flow of cooled liquid may be introduced through the passages and heat from the one or more microcoolers may transfer to the liquid coolant.
US10553514B2	Substrate strip including conductive plane around periphery of chip mounting regions and method of manufacturing semiconductor package using the same A substrate includes a substrate body including a plurality of chip mounting regions and a peripheral region surrounding the plurality of chip mounting regions, each of the chip mounting regions including a conductive plane. The substrate further includes a conductive support structure located in the peripheral region, first conductive lines connected between the conductive planes of adjacent chip mounting regions, and second conductive lines connected between the conductive support structure and the conductive planes of chip mounting regions located adjacent the peripheral region.
US10553505B2	Assessment method, and semiconductor device manufacturing method To easily assess a feedback capacitance of a semiconductor element. An assessment method of assessing a feedback capacitance of a semiconductor element is provided, the assessment method including: acquiring a first characteristic correlated with the feedback capacitance and a second characteristic correlated with the feedback capacitance; and assessing the feedback capacitance based on the first characteristic and the second characteristic. The first characteristic may be a characteristic that corresponds to a withstanding voltage of the semiconductor element, and the second characteristic may be an on-resistance of the semiconductor element. In the assessing, the feedback capacitance may be assessed based on a ratio between the first characteristic and the second characteristic.
US10553504B2	Inspection of substrates Concepts presented herein relate to approaches for performing substrate inspection. In one aspect, the concepts relate to detecting anomalies or candidate defects on the substrate based on contrast in images obtained of the substrate.
US10553503B2	Method and structure for flip-chip package reliability monitoring using capacitive sensors groups Flip-chip package reliability monitoring and systems of monitoring using capacitive sensors are disclosed. The monitoring is conducted in situ and in real-time without the need for destructive testing of the packages. The capacitive sensors can be used for flip-chip package reliability monitoring.
US10553502B2	Two etch method for achieving a wafer thickness profile A system and method for performing a wet etching process is disclosed. The system includes multiple processing stations accessible by a transfer device, including a measuring station to optically measure the thickness of a wafer before and after each etching steps in the process. The system also includes a controller to analyze the thickness measurements in view of a target wafer profile and generate an etch recipe, dynamically and in real time, for each etching step. In addition, the process controller can cause a single wafer wet etching station to etch the wafer according to the generated etching recipes. In addition, the system can, based on the pre and post-etch thickness measurements and target etch profile, generate and/or refine the etch recipes.
US10553498B2	Integrated circuit with replacement gate stacks and method of forming same A first aspect of the invention provides for a method including: forming an interfacial layer in a first opening in a pFET region and a second opening in an nFET region, each opening being in a dielectric layer in the pFET region and the nFET region; forming a high-k layer over the interfacial layer in each of the first and second openings; forming a wetting layer over the high-k layer in each of the first and second openings; forming a first metal layer in each of the first and second openings, the first metal layer including tungsten; and forming a first gate electrode layer over the first metal layer to substantially fill each of the first and second openings, thereby forming a first replacement gate stack over the pFET region and a second replacement gate stack over the nFET region.
US10553494B2	Breakdown resistant semiconductor apparatus and method of making same A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first transistor on the substrate, and a second transistor on the substrate. The first transistor has a first threshold voltage, and a channel region and source/drain regions of the first transistor are N-type. The second transistor has a second threshold voltage, a channel region of the second transistor is N-type and source/drain regions of the second transistor are P-type, and an absolute value of the first threshold voltage is substantially equal to an absolute value of the second threshold voltage.
US10553493B2	Fabrication of a vertical transistor with self-aligned bottom source/drain A method of forming a vertical fin field effect transistor (vertical finFET) with a self-aligned bottom source/drain, including forming a doped layer on a substrate, forming one or more vertical fins on the doped layer, forming a protective layer on the one or more vertical fins, wherein the protective layer has a thickness, and forming at least one isolation trench by removing at least a portion of the protective layer on the doped layer, wherein the isolation trench is laterally offset from at least one of the one or more vertical fins by the thickness of the protective layer.
US10553492B2	Selective NFET/PFET recess of source/drain regions A method includes forming an inter-layer dielectric over a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region. The first source/drain region and the second source/drain region are of n-type and p-type, respectively. The inter-layer dielectric is etched to form a first contact opening and a second contact opening, with the first source/drain region and the second source/drain region exposed to the first contact opening and the second contact opening, respectively. A process gas is used to etch back the first source/drain region and the second source/drain region simultaneously, and a first etching rate of the first source/drain region is higher than a second etching rate of the second source/drain region. A first silicide region and a second silicide region are formed on the first source/drain region and the second source/drain region, respectively.
US10553489B2	Partitioned wafer and semiconductor die A wafer includes a first set of dies and a second set of dies. The wafer further includes a scribe line separating the first set of dies from the second set of dies, wherein the scribe line has a first width. The wafer further includes a plurality of trenches between adjacent dies of the first set of dies and connected to the scribe line, wherein the plurality of trenches has a second width less than the first width, and a depth of each trench of the plurality of trenches is less than a thickness of the wafer.
US10553480B2	Selective deposition of dielectric materials The present disclosure relates to a method for selectively forming a dielectric material on a first area of a top surface of a substrate. In an embodiment, the method involves providing the substrate including the top surface, the top surface including the first area and a second area, the first area having a hydrophilicity characterized by a water contact angle of at least 45° and the second area having a hydrophilicity characterized by a water contact angle of less than 40°. The method also involves providing a precursor aqueous solution on the substrate, the precursor aqueous solution including: a solvent, a dielectric material precursor, a catalyst for forming a dielectric material from the dielectric material precursor, and an ionic surfactant. Further, the method involves removing the solvent.
US10553479B2	Semiconductor device with contact pad and fabrication method therefore A method of fabricating a semiconductor structure includes forming a conductive structure over a first passivation layer, depositing a first dielectric film continuously over the conductive structure, depositing a second dielectric film continuously over the first dielectric film, and depositing a third dielectric film over the second dielectric film. A portion of the third dielectric film is in contact with a portion of the first dielectric film.
US10553476B2	Semiconductor device including polysilicon structures having differing grain sizes and including a barrier layer therebetween A semiconductor device includes a substrate. The semiconductor device further includes a first polysilicon structure over the substrate. The first polysilicon structure has a first grain size. The semiconductor device further includes a first barrier layer over the first polysilicon structure. At least one grain boundary of the first polysilicon structure contacts the first barrier layer. The semiconductor device further includes a second polysilicon structure over the first barrier layer. The second polysilicon layer has a second grain size smaller than the first grain size.
US10553472B2	Apparatus, system and method for providing a bernoulli-based semiconductor wafer pre-aligner An apparatus, system and method for providing a Bernoulli-based wafer pre-aligner. The pre-aligner may be capable of accommodating semiconductor wafers of varying sizes, and may include: a wafer support; a bearing arm capable of interfacing with at least one robotic element, and at least partially bearing the wafer support at one end thereof; and a plurality of Bernoulli pads on the wafer support for providing an interface between the wafer support and a one of the semiconductor wafers, wherein the interface comprises a gap there between.
US10553470B2	Wafer alignment method and apparatus for overlay measurement A substrate alignment device includes a plurality of state detection units, each of which is configured to move from a standby position to a detection position for detecting a positional state of a substrate and return back from the detection position back to the standby position, and a multidimensional robot arm configured to receive and support the substrate, transfer the substrate to a substrate detection site, and adjust the substrate in at least one orientation or position according to the detected positional state of the substrate to position the substrate to a target position for overlay mark measurements.
US10553466B2	Semiconductor wafer carriers This specification describes semiconductor wafer carriers, methods for manufacturing the semiconductor wafer carriers, and methods for using the semiconductor wafer carriers. The semiconductor wafer carriers can include features for avoiding double-slotting, for preventing glove marks on semiconductor wafers, and for providing additional sitting and storage options for the wafer carrier. In some examples, a semiconductor wafer carrier includes multiple notched left-side rods that are parallel in a vertical direction and multiple notched right-side rods that are parallel in the vertical direction. The semiconductor wafer carrier includes one or more bottom rods. The left-side rods, the right-side rods, and the one or more bottom rods are joined to define semiconductor wafer slots.
US10553465B2	Control of water bow in multiple stations A system for controlling of wafer bow in plasma processing stations is described. The system includes a circuit that provides a low frequency RF signal and another circuit that provides a high frequency RF signal. The system includes an output circuit and the stations. The output circuit combines the low frequency RF signal and the high frequency RF signal to generate a plurality of combined RF signals for the stations. Amount of low frequency power delivered to one of the stations depends on wafer bow, such as non-flatness of a wafer. A bowed wafer decreases low frequency power delivered to the station in a multi-station chamber with a common RF source. A shunt inductor is coupled in parallel to each of the stations to increase an amount of current to the station with a bowed wafer. Hence, station power becomes less sensitive to wafer bow to minimize wafer bowing.
US10553462B2	Planar transmission line resonator frequency control of localized transducers Localized heating can be provided using fixed-frequency planar transmission line resonators arranged along a main-line, and tuning an electromagnetic input signal frequency applied to the main line to selectively address and energize one or more planar resonators for also addressing and energizing one or more correspondingly located active substrate transducer heat sources for depositing heat in an adjacent active substrate. More generally, adjusting input signal frequency to select one or more planar resonators arranged along a main line can be used to selectively address and energize an electromagnetic-to-heat, an electromagnetic-to-vibration, or other transducer to controllably direct energy toward a desired transducer load.
US10553461B2	Film annealing apparatus and method The present disclosure provides a film annealing apparatus and method. The film annealing apparatus includes: a carrying platform configured to carry a substrate formed with a film layer thereon; a heater configured to individually heat respective regions of the film layer such that the film layer is annealed; a carrier detector configured to detect carrier concentrations of the respective regions of the film layer; and a controller electrically connected with the carrier detector and the heater respectively and configured to, according to the carrier concentrations of the respective regions of the film layer detected by the carrier detector, adjust at least one of a heating temperature and a heating time of the heater for heating a corresponding one of the regions of the film layer such that the carrier concentrations of the respective regions of the annealed film layer become the same.
US10553458B2	Chip packaging method The method of chip packaging comprises: S1: providing a carrier, and forming an adhesive layer on a surface of the carrier; S2: forming a first dielectric layer on a surface of the adhesive layer, and forming a plurality of first through holes corresponding to electrical leads of a semiconductor chip in the dielectric layer; S3: attaching the semiconductor chip with the front surface facing downwards to the surface of the first dielectric layer; S4: forming a plastic encapsulation layer covering the chip on the surface of the first dielectric layer; S5: separating the adhesive layer and the first dielectric layer to remove the carrier and the adhesive layer; and S6: forming a redistribution layer for the semiconductor chip based on the first dielectric layer and the first through holes.
US10553453B2	Systems and methods for semiconductor packages using photoimageable layers Various embodiments of the disclosure are directed to a semiconductor package and a method for fabrication of the semiconductor package. Further, disclosed herein are systems and methods that are directed to using a photoimagable dielectric (PID) layer with substantially similar mechanical properties as that of a mold material. The disclosure can be used, for example, in the context of bumpless laserless embedded substrate structures (BLESS) technology for wafer/panel level redistribution layer (RDL) and/or fan-out packaging applications. The disclosed embodiments may reduce the need for multiple dry resist film (DFR) lamination steps during various processing steps for semiconductor packaging and can also facilitate multiple layer counts due to the availability of thin PID materials.
US10553451B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device and a semiconductor device produced thereby. For example and without limitation, various aspects of this disclosure provide a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, and a semiconductor device produced thereby, that comprises an interposer without through silicon vias.
US10553450B2	Method for providing lateral thermal processing of thin films on low-temperature substrates A method for thermally processing a minimally absorbing thin film in a selective manner is disclosed. Two closely spaced absorbing traces are patterned in thermal contact with the thin film. A pulsed radiant source is used to heat the two absorbing traces, and the thin film is thermally processed via conduction between the two absorbing traces. This method can be utilized to fabricate a thin film transistor (TFT) in which the thin film is a semiconductor and the absorbers are the source and the drain of the TFT.
US10553445B2	Stacked nanowires Techniques for producing stacked SiGe nanowires using a condensation process without parasitic Ge nanowires as an undesired by-product. In one aspect, a method of forming SiGe nanowires includes the steps of: forming a stack of alternating Si and SiGe layers on a wafer; patterning fins in the stack; selectively thinning the SiGe layers in the fins such that the Si and SiGe layers give the fins an hourglass shape; burying the fins in an oxide material; and annealing the fins under conditions sufficient to diffuse Ge from the SiGe layers in the fins to the Si layers in the fins to form the SiGe nanowires. A FET device and method for formation thereof are also provided.
US10553443B2	Pattern formation method According to one embodiment, a pattern formation method includes forming a structure body on a first surface of a patterning member, the structure body having protrusions and a recess. The protrusions are arranged at a first pitch along a first direction. The first direction is aligned with the first surface. The recess is between the protrusions. The method further includes forming a resin film of a block copolymer on the structure body. The block copolymer includes first portions and second portions. The first and second portions are arranged alternately at a second pitch along the first direction. The structure body includes first and second regions. The first portions are on the first regions. The second portions on the second regions. The method further includes removing the second portions and the second regions, introducing a metal to the first regions, and etching the patterning member using the first regions.
US10553442B2	Etching method The present disclosure relates to an etching method including: a first step of forming an etching assistance layer on a surface of at least one of a plurality of silicon-containing regions by plasma of a processing gas generated in a processing container; and a second step of imparting energy to the etching assistance layer. The energy is equal to or greater than energy at which the etching assistance layer is removed, and smaller than energy at which a region located immediately below the etching assistance layer is sputtered, and a sequence including the first step and the second step is executed repeatedly.
US10553439B2	Multiple nanosecond laser pulse anneal processes and resultant semiconductor structure Semiconductor structures and methods of fabricating the same using multiple nanosecond pulsed laser anneals are provided. The method includes exposing a gate stack formed on a semiconducting material to multiple nanosecond laser pulses at a peak temperature below a melting point of the semiconducting material.
US10553435B2	Method for obtaining patterns in a layer The invention relates in particular to a method for producing subsequent patterns in an underlying layer (120), the method comprising at least one step of producing prior patterns in a carbon imprintable layer (110) on top of the underlying layer (120), the production of the prior patterns involving nanoimprinting of the imprintable layer (110) and leave in place a continuous layer formed by the imprintable layer (110) and covering the underlying layer (120), characterized in that it comprises the following step: at least one step of modifying the underlying layer (120) via ion implantation (421) in the underlying layer (120), the implantation (421) being carried out through the imprintable layer (110) comprising the subsequent patterns, the parameters of the implantation (421) being chosen in such a way as to form, in the underlying layer (120), implanted zones (122) and non-implanted zones, the non-implanted zones defining the subsequent patterns and having a geometry that is dependent on the prior patterns.
US10553434B2	Methods for manufacturing semiconductor devices A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes performing a first ion implantation process on a substrate to form a lower dopant region in the substrate, patterning the substrate having the lower dopant region to form active patterns, and performing a second ion implantation process on the active patterns to form an upper dopant region in an upper portion of each of the active patterns. The lower and upper dopant regions have a same conductivity type.
US10553433B2	Method for preparing a semiconductor structure A method for preparing a semiconductor structure includes the following steps: providing a substrate including a first region and a second region defined thereon, forming a first mask structure over the substrate, forming a plurality of first features in the first mask structure in the first region, forming a second mask structure over the first mask structure, simultaneously forming a plurality of second features in the second mask structure in the second region and a plurality of third features in the second mask structure in the first region, and transferring the second features and the third features to the first mask structure to simultaneously form a plurality of islanding features in the first region and a plurality of line features in the second region.
US10553432B2	Method to improve adhesion of photoresist on silicon substrate for extreme ultraviolet and electron beam lithography An etch process that includes removing an oxide containing surface layer from a semiconductor surface to be etched by applying a hydrofluoric (HF) based chemistry, wherein the hydrofluoric (HF) based chemistry terminates the semiconductor surface to be etched with silicon-hydrogen bonds, and applying a vapor priming agent bearing chemical functionality based on the group consisting of alkynes, alcohols and a combination thereof to convert the silane terminated surface to a hydrophobic organic surface. The method continues with forming a photoresist layer on the hydrophobic organic surface; and patterning the photoresist layer. Thereafter, the patterned portions of the photoresist are developed to provide an etch mask. The portions of the semiconductor surface exposed by the etch mask are then etched.
US10553431B2	Cut last self-aligned litho-etch patterning The present disclosure relates to a method of performing a semiconductor fabrication process. The method may be performed by forming a spacer material having vertically extending segments along sidewalls of a masking layer and a horizontally extending segment connecting the vertically extending segments. A cut material is formed over a part of the horizontally extending segment, and the horizontally extending segment of the spacer material not covered by the cut material is removed. A layer under the masking layer is patterned according to the masking layer and the spacer material.
US10553426B2	Method for obtaining a semi-polar nitride layer on a crystalline substrate A process allowing at least one semipolar layer of nitride to be obtained, which layer is obtained from a least one among gallium, indium and aluminum on a top surface of a single-crystal layer based on silicon, wherein the process comprises the following steps: etching, from the top surface of the single-crystal layer, a plurality of parallel grooves comprising at least two opposite inclined facets, at least one of two opposite facets having a crystal orientation; masking the top surface of the single-crystal layer such that the facets having a crystal orientation are not masked; and epitaxial growth of the semipolar layer of nitride from the not masked facets; wherein the etching is carried out on a stack comprising the single-crystal layer and at least one stop layer that is surmounted by the single-crystal layer and wherein the etching etches the single-crystal layer selectively with respect to the stop layer so that the etching stops on contact with the stop layer.
US10553424B2	Sulfur-containing thin films In some aspects, methods of forming a metal sulfide thin film are provided. According to some methods, a metal sulfide thin film is deposited on a substrate in a reaction space in a cyclical process where at least one cycle includes alternately and sequentially contacting the substrate with a first vapor-phase metal reactant and a second vapor-phase sulfur reactant. In some aspects, methods of forming a three-dimensional architecture on a substrate surface are provided. In some embodiments, the method includes forming a metal sulfide thin film on the substrate surface and forming a capping layer over the metal sulfide thin film. The substrate surface may comprise a high-mobility channel.
US10553423B2	Atomic layer deposition of GeO2 Atomic layer deposition processes for forming germanium oxide thin films are provided. In some embodiments the ALD processes can include the following: contacting the substrate with a vapor phase tetravalent Ge precursor such that at most a molecular monolayer of the Ge precursor is formed on the substrate surface; removing excess Ge precursor and reaction by products, if any; contacting the substrate with a vapor phase oxygen precursor that reacts with the Ge precursor on the substrate surface; removing excess oxygen precursor and any gaseous by-products, and repeating the contacting and removing steps until a germanium oxide thin film of the desired thickness has been formed.
US10553422B2	Substrate treatment method of treating substrate, and substrate treatment apparatus A substrate treatment apparatus includes a substrate retainer that horizontally retains the substrate. A blocking portion has a lower surface facing an upper surface of said substrate and a tapered surface extending diagonally upward from an inner periphery of the lower surface toward a center of the lower surface. A rotary portion rotates the substrate and the blocking portion about a vertical rotary axis. A first supply unit supplies treatment liquid and a second supply unit supplies rinse liquid toward a tapered surface from the center of the rotated blocking portion through said opening of said blocking portion. The first supply unit supplies the treatment liquid during a first period and the second supply unit supplies the rinse liquid during a second overlapping period.
US10553419B2	Electrode body and high-pressure discharge lamp An electrode module includes an electrode and a core wire inserted into a core wire insertion hole of the electrode. When inserting the core wire into the core wire insertion hole of the electrode, the core wire can be inserted smoothly, thereby avoiding occurrence of chipping or cracking in the core wire insertion hole. A low-friction layer is provided on the inner surface of the core wire insertion hole of the electrode and/or the outer periphery of the inserted portion of the core wire.
US10553418B2	Space focus time of flight mass spectrometer A Time of Flight mass spectrometer is disclosed wherein a fifth order spatial focusing device is provided. The device which may comprise an additional stage in the source region of the Time of Flight mass analyser is arranged to introduce a non-zero fifth order spatial focusing term so that the combined effect of first, third and fifth order spatial focusing terms results in a reduction in the spread of ion arrival times ΔT of ions arriving at the ion detector.
US10553414B2	Apparatus and method for trapping multiple ions generated from multiple sources Devices, methods, and systems for trapping multiple ions are described herein. One device includes two or more ovens wherein each oven includes a heating element and a cavity for emitting atoms of a particular atomic species from an atomic source substance, a substrate having a number of apertures that allow atoms emitted from the atomic source substance to exit the oven and enter an ion trapping area and wherein each oven is positioned at a different ion loading area within the ion trapping area, and a plurality of electrodes that can be charged and wherein the charge can be used to selectively control the movement of a particular ion from a particular loading area to a particular ion trap location.
US10553412B2	System and method of data-dependent acquisition by mass spectrometry Systems, computer-readable media, and methods using mass spectrometry to analyze a sample are provided. For example, a method includes: acquiring a precursor ion spectrum; analyzing the precursor ion spectrum to identify precursor ions that preliminarily match one or more peptides that each belong to at least one protein of interest for the analysis; selecting each of the identified precursor ions in an order according to a ranking protocol for maximizing the number of proteins that are identified in the sample; for each selected precursor ion: acquiring a corresponding product ion spectrum, determining whether the acquired product ion spectrum matches one of the peptides that belong to the set of proteins of interest, and identifying a matched peptide as being present in the sample; and identifying proteins of interest that are present in the sample based on the peptides that are identified as being present in the sample.
US10553407B2	Plasma processing method and plasma processing apparatus A decrease of an etching rate of a substrate can be suppressed, and energy of ions irradiated to an inner wall of a chamber main body can be reduced. A plasma processing apparatus includes a DC power supply configured to generate a negative DC voltage to be applied to a lower electrode of a stage. In a plasma processing performed by using the plasma processing apparatus, a radio frequency power is supplied to generate plasma by exciting a gas within a chamber. Further, the negative DC voltage from the DC power supply is periodically applied to the lower electrode to attract ions in the plasma onto the substrate placed on the stage. A ratio occupied, within each of cycles, by a period during which the DC voltage is applied to the lower electrode is set to be equal to or less than 40%.
US10553406B2	Plasma generating apparatus and substrate processing apparatus Provided are a plasma generating apparatus and a substrate treating apparatus. The plasma generating apparatus includes a plurality of ground electrodes arranged inside a vacuum container and extending parallel to each other and power electrodes arranged between the ground electrodes. An area where a distance between the ground electrode and the power electrode is constant exists, and the power electrodes are tapered in a direction facing the substrate. The power electrodes are connected to an RF power source, and height of the power electrode is greater than that of the ground electrode in the direction facing the substrate.
US10553401B2	Antenna, microwave plasma source including the same, plasma processing apparatus, and method of manufacturing semiconductor device Embodiments of the inventive concepts provide an antenna, a microwave plasma source including the antenna, a plasma processing apparatus including the antenna, and a method of manufacturing method of a semiconductor device. The antenna includes a lower ring having a plurality of output slits, and an upper ring disposed on the lower ring. The upper ring has an input slit transmitting microwave power from an outside of the upper ring onto the lower ring. The upper ring is configured to rotate with respect to the lower ring.
US10553400B2	Methods and apparatus for frequency generator and match network communication Methods and apparatus for providing RF power to a semiconductor process chamber including generating an analog radio frequency (RF) power waveform with a frequency generator for transmission to a match network over a first connection, determining information associated with characteristics of the RF power waveform with the frequency generator and transmitting the information to the match network over a second connection, and adjusting the match network to the RF power waveform based, at least partially, on the information associated with characteristics of the RF power waveform from the second connection.
US10553399B2	Pulsed plasma chamber in dual chamber configuration Embodiments for processing a substrate in a pulsed plasma chamber are provided. A processing apparatus with two chambers, separated by a plate fluidly connecting the chambers, includes a continuous wave (CW) controller, a pulse controller, and a system controller. The CW controller sets the voltage and the frequency for a first radio frequency (RF) power source coupled to a top electrode. The pulse controller is operable to set voltage, frequency, ON-period duration, and OFF-period duration for a pulsed RF signal generated by a second RF power source coupled to the bottom electrode. The system controller is operable to set parameters to regulate the flow of species between the chambers to assist in the negative-ion etching, to neutralize excessive positive charge on the wafer surface during afterglow in the OFF period, and to assist in the re-striking of the bottom plasma during the ON period.
US10553387B1	Fuse with arc-suppressing housing walls Various embodiments are generally directed to providing a fuse with one or more walls for suppressing an arc during a fuse explosion and one or more methods for making the same. A fuse may include: a housing having an interior cavity and an outer cavity, a fuse element disposed within the interior cavity, a plurality of terminals extending out of the housing and electrically connected to the fuse element, and an arc-suppression wall disposed in the interior cavity that is configured to suppress an electric arc associated with the fuse element opening.
US10553386B2	High voltage, reinforced in-line fuse assembly, systems, and methods of manufacture Fuse assemblies, systems and methods of manufacture include reinforcement materials and arc absorbent materials to provide overcurrent protection for 1500 VDC power systems without enlarging the body of the fuse.
US10553385B2	Chip fuse and method for producing same Provided is a chip fuse and a method for producing the same, which is improved to facilitate balanced release of impact and vapor generated upon fusion. The chip fuse includes a fuse body having a pair of facing upper and lower ceramic substrates, a fuse wire support having a vertical through hole in its center and held between the ceramic substrates, and a fuse wire mounted between the two ends of the fuse wire support across the through hole, and a pair of metal caps fitted on the two ends of the fuse body, wherein the upper ceramic substrate and the fuse wire support, and the lower ceramic substrate and the fuse wire support, are respectively adhered together on their mutually facing surfaces to hermetically close the through hole, partially leaving a non-adhered region on the adhered surfaces.
US10553383B2	Electrical fuse element An electric fuse element for arrangement on a printed circuit board is specified. The fuse element is formed as an SMD component and has a cuboidal insulating housing, two contact elements for electrical connection to the printed circuit board and at least one support element. The contact elements are arranged on a bottom side of the insulating housing, wherein the contact elements emerge at the bottom side of the insulating housing by way of a subregion, which has a contact area on the end side. The emerging subregion having the contact areas is of angled form.
US10553381B2	Electrical switchgear for overcurrent protection using critical temperature device The present disclosure discloses an electrical switchgear configured to control an electro-magnet by using the electro-magnet, a critical temperature device, and an electro-magnet control unit without using a bimetal and a mechanical contact. The electro-magnet switches power applied through a power line in response to a flow of control current to a power device connected to a load side. In a critical temperature device, an output current value varies when a temperature of a heating wire, which is connected to the power line, exceeds a critical temperature by supply current flowing to the power device. An electro-magnet control unit, which is realizable with an SCR, allows a flow of control current of the electro-magnet to be generated or cut off in response to the output current value of the critical temperature device.
US10553380B2	Dual switched circuit The present disclosure reveals a dual switched circuit for turning an electrical device on and off at set intervals of on and set intervals of time so that current is sent to the electrical device for a designated period of time, followed by the interruption of the flow of current to the electrical device for the designated period of time, and so that this pattern can be repeated over and over again.
US10553378B2	Electrical circuit breaker device with particle trap An electric switching device filled with a dielectric insulating medium includes first and second arcing contact, first exhaust volume downstream of first arcing contact and second exhaust volume downstream of second arcing contact. The exhaust volumes includes several first openings in their walls, through which the insulating medium exits into third volume. The third volume is arranged around the first or second exhaust volume and is radially delimited by the wall of the exhaust volumes and by an exterior wall having second openings through which the insulating medium exits the third volume. One baffle device is provided inside third volume such that vortex flow of the insulating medium is generated when it passes the baffle device on its way towards the second openings. Turbulent flow conditions are chosen such that gravitational force allows to trap or contributes to trap particles in the baffle device. The baffle device comprises baffle plates or fins, that are arranged to form cavities for capturing the particles by gravitational force.
US10553375B2	Keyboard device A keyboard device includes plural key structures, an electronic paper display element and an illumination module. The electronic paper display element is disposed under the plural key structures. The plural key symbols corresponding to the plural key structures are displayed on the electronic paper display element. The illumination module is disposed over the electronic paper display element to provide a light beam to the electronic paper display element. Consequently, the plural key symbols are illuminated.
US10553374B2	Switching device A switching device includes a switch and an actuating element. The actuating element for a switch includes a U-shaped actuating section. The actuating section includes two different arms with different lengths. The long arm is configured to transfer force to a button of the switch and a free end of the long arm is configured for holding the actuating element. The short arm is configured for the force input and is arranged aligned obliquely to the long arm.
US10553368B2	Galvanic pellicle removable attachment tool A tool (10) includes a base (12) made of contact and projection woven, metallic, compression screens (16, 18) secured to each other. A plurality of linear projections (30) extend away from the base (12). A shortest distance between adjacent linear projections (30) may be between about 20 μm and about 20 mm. The tool (10) is forced upon an uncompressed galvanic pellicle (52) so that the projections (30) compress and bond connected areas (56) of the pellicle (52) to a conductive surface (54) to form an electrode (50).
US10553366B2	Electrolytic capacitor An apparatus is disclosed which includes an electrolytic capacitive element with multiple capacitor sections, a pressure interrupter cover assembly, and a conductor configured to electrically connect a common terminal of the multiple capacitor sections to a common cover terminal. Each first terminal of the multiple capacitor sections is electrically connected to one of a plurality of capacitor cover terminals.
US10553359B1	Multilayer ceramic capacitor and method of manufacturing the same A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes: a ceramic body including dielectric layers and having first and second surfaces opposing each other, third and fourth surfaces connecting the first and second surfaces to each other, and fifth and sixth surfaces connected to the first to fourth surfaces and opposing each other; a plurality of internal electrodes disposed in the ceramic body, each exposed to the first and second surfaces and having one ends exposed to the third or fourth surface; and a first side margin portion and a second side margin portion disposed, respectively, on the first and second surfaces, in which a metal or a metal oxide is disposed in the dielectric layer, and a ratio of a diameter of the metal or the metal oxide to a thickness of the dielectric layer is 0.8 or less.
US10553347B2	Module A module includes: an insulating layer; an annular coil core in the insulating layer; a coil electrode having outer metal pins arranged along an outer circumferential surface of the coil core, inner metal pins arranged along an inner circumferential surface of the coil core to form pairs with corresponding outer metal pins 7, bonding wires, each connecting one end surface of each outer metal pin and inner metal pin that form a pair, and wiring electrode patterns, each connecting another end surface of each outer metal pin to another end surface of an inner metal pin adjacent in a predetermined direction to the inner metal pin that forms a pair with the outer metal pin; and a buffer layer, formed from a non-conductive material having a lower elastic modulus than the insulating layer, that covers the surface of the coil core.
US10553345B2	Coil device and apparatus including the same A coil device includes a board, a first pattern formed on one surface of the board, and a second pattern formed on the other surface of the board. At least one pattern via electrically connects the first pattern and the second pattern to each other. A via region, corresponding to a region in which the pattern via is formed in the first pattern, includes n first conducting wires (where n is a natural number of 1 or more). At least a portion of the first pattern, excluding the via region in the first pattern, includes m first conducting wires (where m is greater than n and is a natural number of 2 or more).
US10553342B2	Deformable inductor having a liquid magnetic core A deformable inductive device includes an elastomer material having at least one deformable electrode and a liquid magnetic core formed in the elastomer material and containing a magnetic liquid. Depending on the device's configuration, the deformable element may be embedded in, attached to, or in close proximity with the liquid magnetic core. In some embodiments, the deformable inductive device may be configured as an inductor, solenoid, or transformer and the deformable electrode is at least partially embedded in the liquid magnetic core, for instance. In another embodiment, the deformable inductive device may be configured as part of a wireless power transfer system which includes a coil and a magnetic backplane having the liquid magnetic core with the coil being attached to or in close proximity to the magnetic backplane.
US10553339B1	Common-mode choke with integrated RF inductor winding A combination of a common-mode choke and two integrated RF inductors includes first and second E-core. At least one E-core includes first and second protrusions extending from a body portion. Each protrusion is configured to accommodate a respective winding. In a first embodiment, each protrusion extends from the body portion at an angle perpendicular to legs extending from the body portion. In a second embodiment, each protrusion extends from the body portion in an opposite direction from the legs extending from the body portion, and each protrusion includes a respective channel to receive a respective winding. In a third embodiment, each protrusion extends from the body portion in an opposite direction from the legs extending from the body portion, and each protrusion is sized and shaped to extend into a respective opening in a printed circuit board. Each opening is surrounded by a respective printed circuit winding.
US10553337B2	Magnet arrangement for position sensor device and corresponding position sensor device A magnet arrangement having at least one magnetic element providing a modulated magnetization in a first direction and an essentially constant magnetization in a second direction different from the first direction.
US10553335B1	Varistor module A varistor module includes a base, a case, and a varistor body. The base and the case are assembled with each other to form a closed space. The varistor body includes a plurality of ceramic chips and a bridging element. The ceramic chips are disposed in the closed space. Each ceramic chip has an electrode layer on two opposite sides, respectively. The bridging element has at least two bridging segments and a crossing segment. The bridging segments are connected to electrode layers of different ones of the ceramic chips. The crossing segment is disposed between the bridging segments.
US10553331B2	Edge insulation structure for electrical cable A cable includes one or more conductor sets, one or more dielectric unitary blocks or reservoirs, first and second conductive shielding films disposed on opposite first and second sides of the conductor sets and the dielectric blocks or reservoirs, and an adhesive layer. The shielding films include cover portions and pinched portions arranged such that, in cross-section, the cover portions of the shielding films in combination substantially surround each conductor set and each unitary block or reservoir, and the pinched portions of the shielding films in combination form pinched portions of the cable on each side of the conductor set and on at least one side of the unitary block or the reservoir. The adhesive layer bonds the first shielding film to the second shielding film in the pinched portions of the cable.
US10553328B2	Aluminum alloy wire, aluminum alloy strand wire, covered electrical wire, and terminal-equipped electrical wire An aluminum alloy wire is composed of an aluminum alloy. The aluminum alloy contains equal to or more than 0.005 mass % and equal to or less than 2.2 mass % of Fe, and a remainder of Al and an inevitable impurity. In a transverse section of the aluminum alloy wire, a surface-layer crystallization measurement region in a shape of a rectangle having a short side length of 50 μm and a long side length of 75 μm is defined within a surface layer region extending from a surface of the aluminum alloy wire by 50 μm in a depth direction, and an average area of crystallized materials in the surface-layer crystallization measurement region is equal to or more than 0.05 μm2 and equal to or less than 3 μm2.
US10553327B2	Aluminum alloy conductor wire, aluminum alloy stranded wire, coated wire, wire harness and method of manufacturing aluminum alloy conductor wire An aluminum alloy conductor wire has a composition comprising Mg: 0.1-1.0 mass %, Si: 0.1-1.20 mass %, Fe: 0.01-1.40 mass %, Zr: 0.01-0.50 mass %, Ti: 0-0.100 mass %, B: 0-0.030 mass %, Cu: 0-1.00 mass %, Ag: 0-0.50 mass %, Au: 0-0.50 mass %, Mn: 0-1.00 mass %, Cr: 0-1.00 mass %, Hf: 0-0.50 mass %, V: 0-0.50 mass %, Sc: 0-0.50 mass %, Co: 0-0.50 mass %, Ni: 0-0.50 mass %, and the balance: Al and inevitable impurities, where Ti, B, Cu, Ag, Au, Mn, Cr, Hf, V, Sc, Co and Ni are arbitrary additive components of which at least one component may be contained or none of the components may be contained. A density of a compound having a particle size of 0.5-5.0 μm and containing Fe is 1 to 300 particles/10000 μm2. Mg/Si ratio, which is a ratio of Mg in mass % to Si in mass %, is greater than 1.
US10553326B2	Carbon nanotube compositions Metal-carbon nanotube composites having nanotubes which are uniformly dispersed within the metal matrix of the composite, and which are unbundled or substantially unbundled, have high lengths, and which can be controllably aligned are disclosed herein. Such metal-carbon nanotube composites can show improved electrical, thermal, and mechanical properties, as compared to a pristine metal or metal alloy which does not contain nanotubes dispersed therein. Facile and scalable methods of fabricating such metal-nanocarbon composites are also disclosed.
US10553325B2	Scattered radiation grid with an amorphous material and its use in a scattered radiation grid A scattered radiation grid for an x-ray imaging is disclosed. In an embodiment, the scattered radiation grid includes alternately arranged layers permeable to x-ray radiation and absorbing x-ray radiation. The layers absorbing the x-ray radiation are formed from an amorphous material. Further, a method is disclosed for using an amorphous metal for the layers of a scattered radiation grid absorbing the x-ray radiation.
US10553324B2	Process for the removal of 99Tc from liquid intermediate level waste of spent fuel reprocessing Provided herein is a process for removal of 99Tc from liquid intermediate level waste (ILW) of spent fuel reprocessing including the steps of: adding HNO3 to ILW till the pH is 2 to destroy the carbonates, transferring the ILW derived of carbonates to a tank containing mild steel wool (msw) for 4 to 48 hrs, subjecting the ILW and MS Wool to the step of separation, discharging the supernatant solution free of 99Tc and retaining the corrosion products (goethite(FeOOH/magnetite), subjecting the said corrosion products to the step of vitrification, and storing the said vitrified 99Tc bearing waste.
US10553321B2	Estimating impact of property on individual health—personal profile Embodiment of the invention provide a method for determining health sensitivities of a user. The method comprises acquiring personal data associated with a user, determining a first health sensitivity data of the user based in part on the personal data acquired, determining a first potential impact data of a first pollutant data on health of the user based in part on the first health sensitivity data, and generating a personal profile for the user, wherein the personal profile comprises a personal profile score representing health sensitivities of the user to pollutants based in part on the first potential impact data.
US10553318B2	Individual and cohort pharmacological phenotype prediction platform For patients who exhibit or may exhibit primary or comorbid disease, pharmacological phenotypes may be predicted through the collection of panomic data over a period of time. A machine learning engine may generate a statistical model based on training data from training patients to predict pharmacological phenotypes, including drug response and dosing, drug adverse events, disease and comorbid disease risk, drug-gene, drug-drug, and polypharmacy interactions. Then the model may be applied to data for new patients to predict their pharmacological phenotypes, and enable decision making in clinical and research contexts, including drug selection and dosage, changes in drug regimens, polypharmacy optimization, monitoring, etc., to benefit from additional predictive power, resulting in adverse event and substance abuse avoidance, improved drug response, better patient outcomes, lower treatment costs, public health benefits, and increases in the effectiveness of research in pharmacology and other biomedical fields.
US10553314B2	Biological clock time calculating apparatus and biological clock time calculating method A biological clock time calculating apparatus includes: a measuring portion which measures bio-information that changes on a daily basis; and an arithmetic processing portion which calculates biological clock time based on a measurement result of the measuring portion. A biological clock time calculating method may be configured to include: measuring bio-information which changes on a daily basis; and calculating biological clock time based on the measurement result.
US10553310B2	Device and method for food management A medical device is disclosed. The medical device includes an RFID reader for receiving information from at least one RFID transponder. The medical device also includes a memory for storing a database and at least one processor for processing information. Also, a remote controller for a medical device is disclosed. The remote controller includes an information receiver for receiving information related to food. The infusion device also includes a memory for storing a database and at least one processor for processing information. A method for use in a medical device is also disclosed. The method includes receiving information from an RFID transponder related to food. Also, the processing the information by comparing the information to a database is included in the method. The method also includes determining the acceptability of the food and providing information related to acceptability to the user.
US10553309B2	Treatment analysis systems and methods A dental treatment planning system includes an input form to receive one or more dental patient inputs; and an engine adapted to receive the dental patient data from the input form and validating the dental patient data in a predetermined sequence.
US10553305B2	Dynamic setup configurator for an electronic health records system In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method presents a dynamically configured electronic health record system. In the method, registration information associated with a medical service provider is received for registering with an electronic health record system. A rules database is queried for a rule associated with the received registration information. Based on the rule, configuration information for the provider is generated and a user interface is transmitted to the provider based on the configuration information.
US10553302B2	Built-in self-test (BIST) engine configured to store a per pattern based fail status in a pattern mask register A BIST engine configured to store a per pattern based fail status during memory BIST run and related processes thereof are provided. The method includes testing a plurality of patterns in at least one memory device and determining which of the plurality of patterns has detected a fail during execution of each pattern. The method further includes storing a per pattern based fail status of each of the detected failed patterns.
US10553296B2	Memory device and operating method thereof A memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells coupled to a plurality of word lines and a plurality of bit lines; a read/write circuit including a plurality of page buffers coupled to the plurality of bit lines; a power supply circuit suitable for generating voltages to be applied to the memory cell array and the read/write circuit; and a control circuit suitable for receiving a read command and an address signal from an external device, and controlling the memory cell array, the read/write circuit and the power supply circuit based on the read command and the address signal.
US10553293B2	3D NAND array with divided string architecture A 3D NAND array with divided string architecture. In one aspect, an apparatus includes a plurality of charge storing devices connected to form a cell string. The apparatus also includes one or more internal select gates connected between selected charge storing devices in the cell string. The one or more internal select gates divide the cell string into two or more segments of charge storing devices. Selectively enabling and disabling the one or more internal select gates during programming operates to isolate one or more selected segments to reduce program-disturb to remaining segments. In another embodiment, a method is provided for programming a memory cell of a cell string having internal select gates that isolate the memory cell to reduce the effects of program-disturb. In another embodiment, multiple memory cells of a cell string having internal select gates are programmed with reduced program-disturb.
US10553292B1	Memory system with memory region read counts and a memory group read count and operating method thereof A memory system includes a storage medium including a memory region group having a plurality of memory regions; a memory configured to store a plurality of region read counts respectively corresponding to the plurality of memory regions and a group read count corresponding to the memory region group; a count management circuit configured to, when a first memory region among the plurality of memory regions is read-accessed, based on a first region read count corresponding to the first memory region among the plurality of region read counts, increase the group read count and reduce remaining region read counts other than the first region read count among the plurality of region read counts; and a reliability management circuit configured to perform a reliability management operation for the memory region group, based on the group read count.
US10553290B1	Read disturb scan consolidation A processing device in a memory system determines that a first read count of a first data block on a first plane of a memory component satisfies a first threshold criterion. The processing device further determines whether a second read count of a second data block on a second plane of the memory component satisfies a second threshold criterion, wherein the second block is associated with the first block, and wherein the second threshold criterion is lower than the first threshold criterion. Responsive to the second read count satisfying the second threshold criterion, the processing device performs a multi-plane scan to determine a first error rate for the first data block and a second error rate for the second data block in parallel.
US10553287B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes a memory block, a plurality of bit lines, a plurality of select gate lines, a plurality of word lines, and a controller. The memory block includes a plurality of memory strings, each memory string including a selection transistor and a plurality of memory cells. The plurality of bit lines are arranged in the first direction and connected to the respective memory strings. The plurality of select gate lines are arranged in the second direction and connected to gates of the respective selection transistors of the memory strings. The plurality of word lines are arranged in the third direction and connected to gates of the respective memory cells of the memory strings. The controller is configured to perform an erase operation in a unit of the memory block, and perform a sequence of erase verify operations.
US10553286B2	Tailoring timing offsets during a programming pulse for a memory device Technology for a memory device is described. The memory device can include an array of memory cells and a memory controller. The memory controller can receive a request to program a memory cell within the array of memory cells. The memory controller can select one or more timing offsets for a programming pulse based on one or more of a polarity of access for the memory cell, a number of prior write cycles for the memory cell, or electrical distances between the memory cell and wordline/bitline decoders within the array of memory cells. The memory controller can initiate, in response to the request, the programming pulse with the one or more selected timing offset to program the memory cell within the array of memory cells.
US10553284B2	Transmitter and receiver According to one embodiment, a transmitter includes a 1st circuit configured to execute a 1st band limitation by waveform shaping in a time region with respect to 1st data relating to a 1st channel to generate a 1st signal; a 2nd circuit configured to execute a 2nd band limitation by the waveform shaping in the time region with respect to 2nd data relating to a 2nd channel to generate a 2nd signal; a 3rd circuit configured to generate a 3rd signal based on the 1st signal and a 1st frequency relating to the 1st channel; a 4th circuit configured to generate a 4th signal based on the 2nd signal and a 2nd frequency relating to the 2nd channel; and a 5th circuit configured to generate a 5th signal by multiplexing the 3rd signal and the 4th signal.
US10553274B2	Low active power write driver with reduced-power boost circuit Techniques for implementing a storage array write driver with a reduced-power boost circuit. An apparatus may include a bit cell configured to store data, a bit line circuit coupled to convey data to the bit cell, a write driver circuit configured to transmit write data to the bit cell via the bit line circuit, and a boost circuit that is distinct from the write driver circuit. The boost circuit may be selectively coupled to drive the bit line circuit below a ground voltage dependent on activation of a boost signal and the write data being in a logic low state. The boost circuit may also be coupled to the bit line circuit at a location that is closer to the bit cell than to the write driver circuit, and may be sized to discharge the bit line circuit without being sized to discharge internal capacitance of the write driver.
US10553270B2	Data storage device and operating method thereof A data storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device including a plurality of memory blocks; and a device controller configured to control the nonvolatile memory device such that, when a first refresh scan command is received from a host device, a first refresh scan operation for the plurality of memory blocks is performed and then a first refresh scan result for the first refresh scan operation is transmitted to the host device, and when a first refresh operation command is received from the host device, a first refresh operation for the nonvolatile memory device is performed.
US10553268B2	Methods and apparatus to perform complex number generation and operation on a chip Methods and apparatus for complex number generation and operation on a chip are disclosed. A disclosed logic device includes a first magnet with a first preferred direction of magnetization to polarize a spin of electrons in the first direction. The example logic device includes a second magnet with a second preferred direction of magnetization that polarizes a spin of electrons in the second direction. The example logic device includes a third magnet providing a free layer without a preferred direction of magnetization that is connected to the first and second magnets, wherein the third magnet encodes a vector based on a flux of electrons spin polarized in the first direction and a flux of electrons spin polarized in the second direction.
US10553267B2	Semiconductor device for initializing memory cells A semiconductor device may include a power supply circuit, a word line control circuit, and a memory circuit. The power supply circuit may drive a pre-charge voltage to a level of an external voltage based on a write initialization signal which is enabled if a command has a predetermined level combination. The word line control circuit may generates two or more word line selection signals that are sequentially counted based on the write initialization signal. The memory circuit may sequentially select a plurality of word lines based on the word line selection signals. The memory circuit may drive bit lines of memory cells connected to the selected word line to the pre-charge voltage. The memory circuit may store data, which are loaded on the bit lines to have a level of the pre-charge voltage, into the memory cells connected to the selected word line.
US10553266B2	Semiconductor device chip selection A method for accessing a plurality of DRAM devices each having a plurality of banks, the plurality of DRAM devices being interconnected to receive common address and command signals. The method includes receiving a first chip selection address and a first bank address with an active command to activate a first bank in a first DRAM device of the plurality of DRAM devices. A first bank active flag is set, corresponding to the first bank address, in the first DRAM device of the plurality of DRAM devices. A second bank address with a column command is received. A second bank is accessed in a second DRAM device of the plurality of DRAM devices having a set bank active flag corresponding to the second bank address.
US10553265B2	Memory circuit having tracking circuit including series-connected transistors A memory circuit including: memory cells, each including a storage cell transistor; a first tracking bit line; and a tracking circuit, electrically coupled between a first tracking word line and a reference voltage node, including a first set of first tracking cells, each first tracking cell including a first cell transistor having a same transistor configuration as each storage cell transistor; and wherein: a driving capacity of the storage cell transistors of the memory cells has a storage cell statistical distribution that exhibits a weak bit current value; a driving capacity of the first cell transistors of the first set of tracking cells has a first tracking cell statistical distribution that exhibits a first strong bit current value; and a first quantity of the first tracking cells is sufficient to cause the first strong bit current value to be equal to or less than the weak bit current value.
US10553264B2	Clock synchronizing method of a multiple clock domain memory device A memory device includes: a first clock receiver configured to receive a first clock signal; a second clock receiver configured to receive a second clock signal when data is input or output, wherein the second clock signal has a first clock frequency in a preamble period, and has a second clock frequency different from the first clock frequency after the preamble period; a command decoder configured to receive a clock synchronization command synchronized with the first clock signal and generate a clock synchronization signal, wherein the clock synchronization signal is generated during the preamble period; and a clock synchronizing circuit configured to generate a plurality of division clock signals in response to the second clock signal, latch the clock synchronization signal during the preamble period, and selectively provide the plurality of division clock signals as internal data clock signals according to a result of the latching.
US10553258B2	Integrated thermoelectric cooler for three-dimensional stacked Dram and temperature-inverted cores Managing temperature of a semiconductor device having a temperature inverted processor core and stacked memory by operation of an integrated thermoelectric cooler. The thermoelectric cooler is operated to pump heat from a stacked memory device that requires a cool operating temperature to a temperature inverted processor core that maintains a higher operating temperature until threshold operating temperatures are achieved.
US10553254B2	Method and device for processing video Disclosed are a method and device for processing a video. The method includes: acquiring a processing instruction to an original video, in which the processing instruction includes information on a target length of a target video; comparing an original length of the original video to the target length, to obtain a compared result; selecting a main position interval of the original video according to a preset selection rule; and generating the target video having the target length according to the compared result and the main position interval.
US10553250B2	Automatic high quality recordings in the cloud Techniques are disclosed for producing high quality losslessly compressed audio tracks based on conversations between participants remote from one another, such as conversations that occur during a telephonic interview or online conference, or other conversations that take place over a network between two or more participants. In an embodiment, each participant's device includes an audio chat client configured to record that participant's audio contribution to the conversation and store a non-compressed version of the contribution locally. A first version of the captured audio is generated with lossy compression and pushed in real time to a cloud-based service, for purposes of the live conversation. A second version of the captured audio for subsequent playback is generated and stored with lossless compression and is pushed asynchronously to the service. The service is configured to automatically provide a multitrack project with high quality audio tracks from each participant.
US10553248B1	Magnetic disk device and head position control method According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device reads servo information from a recording surface of a magnetic disk using a head, detects a position of the head based on the servo information, and estimates a vibration frequency of a disturbance applied to the head and filtering the estimated vibration frequency from a drive signal of the head. In the filtering, a position error is calculated using a target position of the head given when driving the head and the detected position of the head, a plurality of the vibration frequencies is estimated by executing the vibration frequency estimation based on the position error in a plurality of stages in series, and estimation results of the vibration frequencies are filtered in parallel from the drive signal of the head.
US10553240B2	Conversation evaluation device and method A conversation evaluation device includes a storage medium and a processor. The storage medium stores a program configured to evaluate a conversation that includes first voice and second voice as a response to the first voice. The processor executes the program. The program causes a processor to acquire first pitch information related to the first voice. The program also causes the processor to acquire second pitch information related to the second voice. The program also causes the processor to evaluate comfortableness of the second voice based on the acquired first and second pitch information.
US10553229B2	Coding device, decoding device, and method and program thereof A technology of accurately coding and decoding coefficients which are convertible into linear prediction coefficients even for a frame in which the spectrum variation is great while suppressing an increase in the code amount as a whole is provided. A coding device includes: a first coding unit that obtains a first code by coding coefficients which are convertible into linear prediction coefficients of more than one order; and a second coding unit that obtains a second code by coding at least quantization errors of the first coding unit if (A-1) an index Q commensurate with how high the peak-to-valley height of a spectral envelope is, the spectral envelope corresponding to the coefficients which are convertible into the linear prediction coefficients of more than one order, is larger than or equal to a predetermined threshold value Th1 and/or (B-1) an index Q′ commensurate with how short the peak-to-valley height of the spectral envelope is, is smaller than or equal to a predetermined threshold value Th1′.
US10553224B2	Method and system for inter-channel coding A method for performing inter-channel encoding of a multi-channel audio signal comprising channel signals for N channels, with N being an integer, with N>1, is described. The method comprises determining a basic graph comprising the N channels as nodes and comprising directed edges between at least some of the N channels. Furthermore, the method comprises determining an inter-channel coding graph from the basic graph, such that the inter-channel coding graph is a directed acyclic graph, and such that a cumulated a cumulated cost of the signals of the nodes of the inter-channel coding graph is reduced.
US10553213B2	System and method for processing multi-modal device interactions in a natural language voice services environment A system and method for processing multi-modal device interactions in a natural language voice services environment may be provided. In particular, one or more multi-modal device interactions may be received in a natural language voice services environment that includes one or more electronic devices. The multi-modal device interactions may include a non-voice interaction with at least one of the electronic devices or an application associated therewith, and may further include a natural language utterance relating to the non-voice interaction. Context relating to the non-voice interaction and the natural language utterance may be extracted and combined to determine an intent of the multi-modal device interaction, and a request may then be routed to one or more of the electronic devices based on the determined intent of the multi-modal device interaction.
US10553211B2	Mobile terminal and method for controlling the same A mobile terminal including a wireless communication processor configured to provide wireless communication; a microphone; a low-power image sensor configured to detect a subject based on a black and white image sensed by the low-power image sensor; and a controller configured to control the microphone to be in an inactivate state, in response to detecting a face image included in the black and white image sensed by the low-power image sensor, and switch the microphone from the inactive state to an active state and execute a voice recognition function to receive voice information from the subject.
US10553210B2	System, apparatus, and method for processing natural language, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium A system, apparatus, and method for processing a natural language, and a computer readable recording medium are provided. The system includes a user device configured to receive a compound or complex sentence and a natural language processing apparatus configured to generate a plurality of control commands for the user device based on whether operations intended by a user are sequentially performable in the compound or complex sentence received from the user device.
US10553207B2	Systems and methods for employing predication in computational models The disclosed method may include (1) determining whether a next operation of a plurality of operations of a computational model is dependent upon a Boolean predication value, (2) based on the next operation not being dependent on the Boolean predication value, performing the next operation, where a state of the computational model is updated as a result of performing the next operation, and (3) based on the next operation being dependent on the Boolean predication value, performing at least one of (a) allowing, based on the Boolean predication value being a first value, the next operation to update the state of the computational model, and (b) preventing, based on the Boolean predication value being a second value different from the first value, the next operation from updating the state of the computational model. Various other methods and systems are also disclosed.
US10553204B2	Personalization of conversational agents through macro recording A computer-implemented conversational agent engages in a natural language conversation with a user, interpreting the natural language conversation by parsing and tokenizing utterances in the natural language conversation. Based on interpreting, a set of utterances in the natural language conversation to be recorded as a macro is determined. The macro is stored in a database with an associated macro identifier. Replaying of the macro executes a function specified in the set of utterances.
US10553198B1	Voice-activated customer service assistant A method, apparatus and non-transitory computer readable storage medium, in one embodiment, interpreting at least one input from a user via a wireless device, receiving at least one user account with the at least one input, deriving at least one representation of user intent, identifying at least one task based on the at least one representation of user intent, contacting at least one service to perform the identified at least one task and synthesizing speech to communicate a result of the contact to the wireless device.
US10553195B2	Dynamic compensation in active noise reduction devices The technology described in this document can be embodied in a method that includes receiving an input signal representing audio captured by one or more sensors of an active noise reduction (ANR) headphone, and generating, based on the input signal, a first signal by a compensator disposed in an ANR signal flow path. The method also includes determining one or more characteristics of the first signal, and selecting, based on the one or more characteristics of the first signal, a plurality of filter coefficients for a digital filter disposed in series with the compensator in the ANR signal flow path. The filter coefficients are selected in accordance with a target frequency response of the digital filter. The method further includes generating, by processing the input signal using the plurality of filter coefficients of the digital filter, a feedback control signal for an electroacoustic transducer of the ANR headphone.
US10553193B2	Polymer interlayers having improved sound insulation properties A polymer interlayer comprising a layer comprising a poly(vinyl acetal) resin having a residual hydroxyl content and a residual acetate content, and a plasticizer, wherein the residual hydroxyl content, the residual acetate content and the plasticizer are selected such that the polymer interlayer has at least one glass transition temperature less than about 20° C. and a peak tan delta of greater than 1.29, and a glass panel having a configuration of 2.3-mm glass//interlayer//2.3-mm glass and at 20° C. has a transmission loss, TLw, of greater than 41 decibels as measured by weighted average sound transmission loss at 2000 to 8000 Hz, and a transmission loss, TLc, of greater than 38 decibels at the coincident frequency is disclosed.
US10553190B2	Keyboard apparatus A keyboard apparatus includes: a key; a hammer assembly; a first member having a step; a second member slidable relative to the first member and configured to be moved in a direction in which the second member moves over the step, when the key is pressed; and a third member configured to guide the second member such that the second member is not located at a distance greater than or equal to a predetermined distance from the first member. The third member has a shape at a region of the third member such that the third member does not contact the second member in a state in which the second member is in contact with the first member. When the second member moves over the step, the region is opposed to the second member in the direction in which the second member moves over the step.
US10553188B2	Musical attribution in a two-dimensional digital representation Musical attribution is performed in a two-dimensional (2D) digital representation. A piece of music representing a musical score is inputted. An abstracted representation of blanks of the score, called a digital audio canvas, is produced. Interactive, dynamic attribution is performed by a user to bring to life the musical score of abstracted blanks. Instrumentation selection, relative volume, scale selection, and score tempo are all musical attributes that are conveyed to the score of abstracted blanks. The score of the digital audio canvas is played back using the attributed blanks. The playback of the score is enabled by selecting appropriate abstracted blanks. The appropriate abstracted blanks are included among other blanks for increased educational and enjoyment value. The modified score is converted back into the format of the original inputted piece of music.
US10553182B1	Display system with light bars along the edges of the display A display system includes a first display, a first light bar, and an electronic device. The first display displays a first image. The first light bar includes a plurality of light units disposed along part of a first edge of the first display. The electronic device includes an image capturing unit and a control unit. The image capturing unit captures an image of the first display and the first light bar whenever a light unit of the first light bar is turned on. The control unit identifies at least a first light unit and a last light unit of the first light bar along the first edge of the first display, and generates relative positions of the first light unit and the last light unit according to images captured by the image capturing unit and positions of edges of the first display.
US10553177B2	Techniques for robust reliability operation of a thin-film transistor (TFT) display The present disclosure provides devices and techniques for dynamically adjusting the bias voltage (V) levels (e.g., low level gate voltage (VGL) and high level gate voltage (VGH)) for display screens made with thin-film transistor (TFT) technology based on a display run time. Thus, as the positive bias temperature stress for the TFTs increases over the course of the display lifetime, features of the present disclosure adjust the bias voltage levels to maintain operation margin (e.g., the ratio between the high level gate voltage (VGH) value and the voltage value which the display can maintain with normal operation). By dynamically adjusting the bias voltage levels, the TFT displays of the present disclosure consume lower power than their conventional counterparts and improve the lifetime of the display itself.
US10553175B2	Source driver circuit and display device for reducing power consumed by non-display area of display panel A source driver circuit includes a receiver, a plurality of amplifying buffers, and a control logic circuit. The receiver receives a data signal and a control signal through an input terminal. Each of the amplifying buffers outputs a driving signal generated based on the image data signal through an output terminal. The control logic circuit controls the receiver and the plurality of amplifying buffers based on the control signal. When a power-down signal is provided to the receiver, the control logic circuit is to turn off at least one of the receiver and the plurality of amplifying buffers.
US10553172B2	Drive system for TN LC base LCOS displays A liquid-crystal display (LCD) system with reduced artifact has LCD pixel cells with transparent and pixel electrodes. A timing control that switches one of the transparent and pixel electrodes in a sequence of high, common, low, and common voltages; synchronized to a timing control that switches a second electrode in a sequence of a first data-dependent, common, a second data-dependent, and common voltages. This new timing base LC voltage control enables smooth polarity switching that prevents optical side effects by excessive voltage across LC.
US10553168B2	Black frame insertion (BFI) processing method and device and display device A black frame insertion (BFI) processing method and device and a display device thereof. The BFI processing method includes: determining whether a piezoelectric signal detected in response to a touch operation is greater than a pressure threshold; generating a trigger signal when determining that the piezoelectric signal is greater than the pressure threshold; and controlling a display panel to perform BFI display based on the trigger signal and a logic determination signal.
US10553162B2	Grayscale compensating method and apparatus for self-luminous display, and self-luminous display device A grayscale compensating method, an apparatus for a self-luminous display and a self-luminous display device are provided. The method includes: obtaining each driving voltage corresponding to each grayscale signal of the self-luminous display; determining, according to intervals to which each driving voltage belongs, each preset driving function corresponding to each driving voltage; determining each first driving current corresponding to each driving voltage according to each preset driving function; detecting each second driving current of pixel units of the self-luminous display in case of being driven at each driving voltage; comparing the first driving current with the second driving current, and determining compensating voltages corresponding to each grayscale signal according to each preset driving function, and differences between each first driving current and each second driving current.
US10553161B2	Gate driving unit, gate driving circuit, display driving circuit and display device A gate driving unit, a gate driving circuit, a display driving circuit and a display device. The gate driving unit comprises: an input circuit; a first control circuit, configured to provide a first power voltage signal to a first control node in a case that a pull-up node is at an active voltage level; a second control circuit, configured to provide a third clock signal of a third clock terminal to a second control node in a case that the pull-up node is at the active voltage level, and pull down the second control node to a second power voltage signal of a second power voltage terminal in a case that the pull-up node is at a non-active voltage level; and an output circuit, configured to output the first power voltage signal of a first power voltage terminal to the output terminal.
US10553160B2	Display panel and driving method thereof Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an OLED display panel and a driving method thereof. The OLED display panel includes a plurality of power lines, each power line connecting to a plurality of pixels, and one end of each power line connecting to a power source. The method includes acquiring a current value of the power line and comparing it to a preset threshold, when a current value of the power line is less than or equal to the threshold, providing an original data voltage to the pixels connected to the power line, when a current value of a power line is greater than the threshold, providing a compensating data voltage to the pixel connected to the power line. The compensating data voltage is equal to the difference between the original data voltage and the compensation voltage.
US10553158B2	EL display apparatus An electroluminescent (EL) display apparatus and corresponding method of control are provided. A display screen includes gate signal lines which are arranged to intersect source signal lines. A pixel provided with an EL device corresponds to each intersection of the gate signal lines and the source signal lines. A driving transistor is provided for each pixel to supply a current to the EL device. A first switch transistor is provided for each pixel on a current path through which the current is supplied to the EL device. A gate driver circuit is connected to the gate signal lines. The gate driver circuit is configured to turn the first switch transistor on and off to simultaneously generate band-shaped non-display regions and band-shaped display regions on the display screen and to move the band-shaped non-display regions and the band-shaped display regions relative to the display screen.
US10553155B2	Current limiting circuit, display device, and current limiting method A current limiting circuit is used in a display device which includes a display panel having pixels each of which includes a light emitting element and a panel power source which supplies an application voltage to be applied to each of the light emitting elements included in the pixels. The current limiting circuit detects a supply current supplied from the panel power source to the display panel, and reduces the application voltage when a value of the supply current detected is greater than a threshold.
US10553154B2	Method and apparatus for detecting driving circuit A method and an apparatus for detecting a driving circuit. The method includes: inputting a data signal, a gate line scanning signal, a voltage signal, and a first control signal with a first voltage level into a data input end, a gate scanning input end, a power source end and a voltage sensing end of the driving circuit, respectively; by inputting a second control signal with a second voltage level into a sensing-scanning input end, controlling a pixel storage capacitor to be charged, and measuring a first voltage of an OLED anode end; by inputting the second control signal with a third voltage level to the sensing-scanning input end, controlling the pixel storage capacitor to be discharged, and measuring a second voltage of the OLED anode end; and determining whether the driving circuit has abnormity or not according to the first voltage and the second voltage.
US10553153B2	Method, circuit and display device for driving an organic light emitting diode A method, a circuit and a display device for driving an organic light emitting diode, wherein a driving transistor (DTFT) for driving a display element is turned off by jumping one or more of a reference voltage input (Vref), a reset voltage input (Vinit) and a data signal input (Vdata) before beginning to output an EL high level (ELVDD) of a pixel compensation circuit and after beginning to output an EL low level (ELVSS), to overcome the splash screen phenomenon during power-up and direct current-direct current driving failure.
US10553152B2	Pixel structure A pixel structure including a data transistor, a switching transistor, a driving transistor, a compensation transistor, an illumination transistor, an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and a first capacitor is provided. The data transistor transmits a data signal to a node according to a scan signal. The switching transistor provides a first reference signal to the node according to a first illumination signal. The driving transistor includes a gate, a source receiving a first operation voltage and a drain. The compensation transistor is coupled between the gate and the drain and receives a control signal. The illumination transistor receives a second illumination signal and is coupled to the drain. The OLED includes an anode coupled to the illumination transistor and a cathode receiving a second operation voltage. The first capacitor is coupled between the node and the gate.
US10553149B2	Method and electronic device for switching operating mode of display An electronic device includes a display panel, a first power regulator to supply first power to an anode of light emitting diode (LED) and to supply second power to a cathode of the LED, and a DDI including a second power regulator to supply third power to the anode of the LED and to supply fourth power to the cathode of the LED, and connected with the first power regulator, and a processor. The processor outputs first content based on the first power and the second power, in a first operating mode, outputs second content based on the third power and the fourth power, in a second operating mode, and controls the third power and fourth power respectively to be maintained to be higher than the first power, and the second power when an operating mode is switched.
US10553144B2	Display device, display device correction method, display device manufacturing method, and display device display method Provided is a correction method performed in a display device including a matrix of pixels each including an organic EL element that emits light in accordance with a luminance signal. The method includes: obtaining, in advance, first correction data for correcting the luminance signal; transforming the first correction data into second correction data smaller in data size than the first correction data; and correcting the luminance signal using the second correction data. The first and second correction data respectively include first color correction data for correcting first sub pixel luminance, second color correction data for correcting second sub pixel luminance, and third color correction data for correcting third sub pixel luminance. In the transforming, the first correction data is transformed such that a data reduction amount of the second color correction data is greater than a data reduction amount of the first color correction data.
US10553143B2	Display apparatus and electronic appliance A display apparatus according to the present disclosure is configured in such a manner that unit pixels each constituted by a plurality of subpixels having different light emission colors are arranged in a matrix form and the subpixels having different light emission spectra of light emission colors are mixed in units of pixels or subpixels. Additionally, an electronic appliance according to the present disclosure is configured in such a manner as to include the display apparatus having the above configuration.
US10553137B2	Visual display having adjustable diffusion strength A display apparatus uses an LED array having an LED pixel pitch, having LED pixels emitting light with viewing angles θ. A transmissive diffuser panel is mounted with the LED array, having a directly-lit, diffuser panel surface spaced away from the LED array by an adjustable distance D. The distance D and the viewing angles θ being are effective to merge illumination from multiple LED pixels in the LED array on the directly-lit diffuser panel surface. A controller is connected to the LED array having circuitry to control the LED array in response to image data to induce display via the diffuser panel of a time varying image with spatially varying colors and intensities.
US10553132B2	Central pressurized cadaver model Provided are methods for creating a pressurized cadaver model used for surgical procedure training. In the method the internal jugular veins, common carotid arteries, brachial arteries, superficial femoral arteries and femoral veins thereof of a cadaver are exposed. One internal jugular vein is ligated and a drainage tube is disposed in the other internal jugular vein. An arterial catheter is inserted into one brachial artery and connected to a pressure transducer and an arterial cannula is placed in a carotid artery and connected to a fusion pump. Fluid is injected into the artery through the cannulated carotid artery. A representative example of the surgical procedure includes resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta.
US10553131B2	Central line simulation and training device An anatomical simulation training device is disclosed in an embodiment herein. The anatomical device includes an anatomical model comprising a quadrant of a torso. The model includes a first opening and a second opening, wherein a first passageway connects between the first and the second opening. The model further includes a third opening, wherein a second passageway connects between the third opening and the second opening. The first passageway is configured to receive a first conduit, and the second passageway is configured to receive a second conduit. The first and second conduits are removable and replaceable. The model is comprised of, in part or in whole, a hydrogel, and said model quadrant torso mimics at least a portion of a human or non-human animal quadrant torso, and simulates at least one predetermined physical characteristic of a human or non-human animal torso with at least fifty percent or more similarity.
US10553124B2	System and method of penalty data compilation, analysis and report generation The present invention relates generally to a system and method for reviewing and evaluating performance. In particular, the present invention relates to a system, method, and computer program produce for reviewing and evaluating performances of an official or group of officials at an event or events. Even more specifically, according to embodiments of the present invention, the system and method can involve reviewing and evaluating an official or group of official's performance during a sporting event or events, such as a football game or games or a basketball game or games.
US10553118B1	Method and device for learning generating lane departure warning (LDW) alarm by referring to information on driving situation to be used for ADAS, V2X or driver safety required to satisfy level 4 and level 5 of autonomous vehicles A method for generating a lane departure warning (LDW) alarm by referring to information on a driving situation is provided to be used for ADAS, V2X or driver safety which are required to satisfy level 4 and level 5 of autonomous vehicles. The method includes steps of: a computing device instructing a LDW system (i) to collect information on the driving situation including information on whether a specific spot corresponding to a side mirror on a side of a lane, into which the driver desires to change, belongs to a virtual viewing frustum of the driver and (ii) to generate risk information on lane change by referring to the information on the driving situation; and instructing the LDW system to generate the LDW alarm by referring to the risk information. Thus, the LDW alarm can be provided to neighboring autonomous vehicles of level 4 and level 5.
US10553117B1	System and method for determining lane occupancy of surrounding vehicles System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to determining whether lanes in a surrounding environment of an ego vehicle are occupied. In one embodiment, a method includes, in response to detecting a surrounding vehicle from sensor data acquired about the surrounding environment by the ego vehicle, updating a vehicle track for the surrounding vehicle in relation to the ego vehicle. The method includes computing a position probability indicating a probable lateral position of the surrounding vehicle in relation to the ego vehicle as a function of the vehicle track. The method includes generating an occupancy indicator specifying which of the lanes the surrounding vehicle is occupying according to the position probability satisfying an occupancy threshold for a respective one of the lanes.
US10553114B2	Method, apparatus, and computer program product for parking availability estimation based on probe data collection A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for predicting parking availability for one or more road segments based on the map-matched probe data points. A method may include: receiving probe data points from a vehicle, where each probe data point includes a location; determining, from the probe data points, a parking location of the vehicle on a road segment, where the relative location along the road segment on which the vehicle parked can be determined; and estimating availability of other parking spaces along the road segment based on the relative location.
US10553113B2	Method and system for vehicle location A method for vehicle location preferably includes determining vehicle information, and can optionally include facilitating location of the vehicle. In variants, the method can guide the user to the general vehicle vicinity by presenting the user with an imprecise vehicle location, and locally guide the user to the vehicle using vehicle information.
US10553111B2	Traffic information update method and apparatus A traffic information update method includes recognizing, by a terminal, a first traffic sign from a road image; detecting whether traffic information of the terminal includes first alert information corresponding to the first traffic sign; if the traffic information of the terminal does not include the first alert information, generating a traffic sign adding instruction corresponding to the first traffic sign; and sending the traffic sign adding instruction to a server. After finding a new traffic sign, the terminal may report a content indication and a location indication of the traffic sign to the server such that the server can directly update traffic information according to the information reported by the terminal.
US10553107B2	Communicating discovery information from remote control devices A set top box receives from a remote control device one or more of a codeset identifier, data indicative of a brand and model for a consumer electronic device, and remote control diagnostic information. The set top box then causes information representative of the received codeset identifier, data indicative of a brand and model for a consumer electronic device, and remote control diagnostic information to be displayed in a display device associated with the set top box.
US10553105B2	Remote controller and control method thereof A remote controller includes a communicator and a processor configured to control the communicator to transmit an identification information request signal to a plurality of electronic apparatuses paired with the remote controller. Based on a signal that includes identification information being received from two or more of the plurality of electronic apparatuses in response to the identification information request signal, the processor controls the communicator to identify a direction of the remote controller based on a direction from which each of the signals is received. The processor causes communication to be performed via an exclusive communication channel between the remote controller and one of the plurality of electronic apparatuses based on the identified direction.
US10553093B2	Security system and method to detect motions and features associated with a traveler A security system to detect motions and/or features associated with a traveler, the security system includes a camera configured to capture an image series of the traveler in an Eulerian or Lagrangian frame of reference, wherein the captured image series contains motions and features associated with the traveler; an alarm system configured to produce an alert signal; and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to magnify the motions and features associated with the traveler to generate frame of reference perceptible motions and features, detect characteristic kinematic behaviors of the perceptible motions and features, measure characteristic kinematic quantities of the characteristic kinematic behaviors, determine the presence of features that deviate from a threshold value for the characteristic kinematic quantities, and activate the alarm system to produce the alert signal.
US10553092B2	Passing vehicle filters for audio/video recording and communication devices Passing vehicle filters for audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure are provided. In one embodiment, an A/V recording and communication device is provided, the device comprising a camera configured to capture image data of an object within a field of view of the camera, wherein the field of view comprises at least one active motion zone; a communication module; and a processing module comprising: a processor; and a motion detection application that configures the processor to: detect motion of the object within the field of view; capture image data; assign an object ID; determine a speed and a direction of movement; determine an aspect ratio; create an object boundary and determine a distance between a center of the object boundary and the at least one active motion zone; and determine whether the object is a passing vehicle.
US10553086B2	Social safety network system having portable light for both wireless disaster fire detection and crime prevention An embodiment of the present invention implements a detection sensor unit, a plurality of wireless intelligent control boards, and a remote control server, thereby enabling the implementation of a wireless detecting and recognizing function, a function of lighting disaster fire locations, a function of lighting a peripheral environment of the lighting and simultaneously ensuring site images through a camera photographing function so as to transmit the site images to a control center or a management center, a function of quickly extinguishing a fire by using a private fire extinguisher, a function of wirelessly warning and providing warning-light when surroundings suddenly become dark, a function of quickly informing a management center or a neighboring control center, and a function of quickly discovering the location of a disaster victim outside by using a location tracking function embedded as a wireless function, when an exit of a building has fallen.
US10553083B2	Spatialized haptic feedback based on dynamically scaled values A system provides haptic feedback based on media content. The system processes the media content into components including a first component and a second component. The system further determines a first priority value related to the first component and a second priority value related to the second component. The system further compares the first priority value with the second priority value. The system further generates a first control signal and a second control signal based on the comparison, where the first control signal is configured to cause a first haptic feedback to be output and the second control signal is configured to cause a second haptic feedback to be output that is the same or different than the first haptic feedback.
US10553080B2	Systems, apparatuses and methods for enhancing gaming experiences Systems, apparatuses and methods for enhancing winning result opportunities in gaming activities. Embodiments involve identifying award-enhancing opportunities using dice during a current game to determine award-enhancing opportunities for subsequent games based on the dice results. Award-enhancing opportunities may continue over multiple games until a terminating condition is activated, or single bonus rolls of dice may be used to determine multipliers or other modifiers to enhance awards only in a single subsequent game. The award-enhancing opportunities may be triggered by a mystery or random selection process, or may be based on at least a portion of the outcome of the current game.
US10553076B2	Systems and methods for providing skill-based selection of prizes for games of chance Systems and methods include a gaming device configured to receive a monetary value and a user interface configured to enable a player to select a wager for a game of chance and enable the player to initiate a cash out operation. The gaming device also includes a processor programmed to add the monetary value to a credit balance for the player, deduct the selected wager from the credit balance, and decrease the credit balance in response to the cash out operation. A prize selector is also provided that includes a plurality of randomly or skill based or partially skill based selectable bonus prizes that are selectable by operating the prize selector to oscillate or rotate the prize selector until the prize selector stops at a stopping position. The player is enabled to influence the stopping or starting position of the prize selector to influence the prize that is selected.
US10553074B2	Optimizing drawing prize awards A promotional game is conducted over participants' cell phones. During a play period, a participant advances on a virtual game board using cell phone commands. During the player period drawing entries are generated proportional to play on electronic gaming devices, play of the promotional game, or retail purchases. Some players receive a multiplier for their drawing entries to enhance chances of winning the promotional game. In one embodiment, the multiplier is removed for a player after a cutoff threshold for prizes awarded to that player is reached.
US10553072B2	System and method for measuring gaming player behavior Embodiments of the present invention are directed to analyzing recorded game information to determine information about a player's behavior. This is accomplished by analyzing the player's actions following a positive increase in credits within credit meter data. This analysis can be utilized in automatically altering a game parameter of the gaming device being played by the player or in providing operators trend information that can be used in modifying the game device or designing future gaming devices. An analysis station may be included in a gaming system using this analysis process to allow an operator to view and manipulate a graphical representation of the credit meter data.
US10553068B2	Gaming system and method for providing awards based on accumulating symbols over a predefined quantity of games played In various embodiments, the present disclosure relates generally to gaming systems and methods for providing one or more awards based on the accumulation of symbols over a predefined quantity of plays of a game.
US10553066B2	Gaming machine, control method for machine, and program for gaming machine A gaming machine provides an operation unit, a display unit, and a control unit. The display unit displays a display area with a plurality of cells in a grid. A respective symbol, from a set of symbols, is displayed in each cell. The symbols in the set of symbols having a ranking from lowest to highest and include first and second sub-groups. The symbols in the second sub-group of symbols have a higher ranking than the symbols in the first sub-group. The control unit randomly selects one of the symbols from the second sub-group of symbols. The selected symbols from the second sub-group of symbols and the first sub-group of symbols forming an instant sub-group of symbols. The control unit being further configured to randomly select a plurality of symbols associated with the display area from the instant sub-group of symbols.
US10553065B2	Money management system, money handling apparatus, and money management method A first money handling apparatus (for example, money change machine) has a first writing unit that writes information on an inventory amount of money in the first money handling apparatus, in a storage medium disposed at a storage cassette. A second money handling apparatus (for example, money depositing/dispensing machine) has a second reading unit (for example, reading unit) that reads information from the storage medium disposed at the storage cassette, and an inventory amount management unit that manages an inventory amount of money in the first money handling apparatus based on the information read by the second reading unit.
US10553064B2	Medium storage box, financial device, and method of controlling the same A medium storage box according to an embodiment includes: a cassette body having a storage space in which a medium is stored; a cassette door coupled to the cassette body to open or close the storage space; a door opening detection unit for generating an open detection signal when the cassette door is opened; a microcomputer for determining that the cassette door is opened when receiving the open detection signal, and for storing the determined opening information of the cassette door in a cassette memory; and a battery for supplying power to the door detection unit and the microcomputer, wherein when the open detection signal is generated in the door opening detection unit, the battery supplies power to the microcomputer.
US10553062B2	Method for generating winning numbers and apparatus A method for generating target winning numbers is provided. The method implemented by a first node includes: receiving, in a first period of time, n encrypted random parameters sent by n second nodes in a system, where n is a positive integer; receiving, in a second period of time, n mapping relationships and n keys that are sent by the n second nodes, where each mapping relationship is a one-to-one mapping relationship between an encrypted random parameter and a key; and decrypting, in a third period of time, the n encrypted random parameters by using the n mapping relationships and the n keys, to obtain a target random parameter set, and generating target winning numbers by using the target random parameter set, so that each node can generate the winning numbers and verify impartiality of the winning numbers, thereby increasing randomness of a random parameter.
US10553060B2	Method and apparatus for implementing multi-vendor rolling code keyless entry systems The present invention relates generally a system and method for providing rolling code remote device functions to provide keyless entry to multiple makes and models of cars. The present invention is adapted to produce the radio signal type and transmitted data of an original manufacturer's keyless entry remote device system by implementing multiple modulation schema and data encoding techniques.
US10553056B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a locking control unit configured to execute a first process of processes for causing a locking unit to unlock, on the basis of detection of access of a first communication terminal; and a detection unit configured to detect an unlocking request by a user of the first communication terminal. The locking control unit executes a second process of the processes for causing the locking unit to unlock, when the unlocking request is detected and the first process is completed.
US10553051B2	Access credential reader connector An apparatus including a central access control system and an access reader. The access reader is structured to receive an access credential from the central access control system, and includes a first connector connected with a second connector with the second connector connected to a cable, and with the cable in electronic communication with the central access control system. Connection of the first connector and the second connector places the access reader in electronic communication with the central access control system.
US10553050B1	System to register users to pre-authorize them to enter preselect locations A system to preauthorize visitors prior to entering a given area private community such as a residential community that records the visitors contact information and hours and frequency of admissions approved by a community's resident. Upon the resident's approval, the guest using their mobile application will communicate with a second mobile phone within the gate's motor assembly. Upon the second mobile phone authenticating the guest based on the parameters set by the host, the second mobile phone through a USB connection sends instructions to an adapter within the motor assembly that opens the barrier.
US10553042B1	Driving trip and pattern analysis A driving analysis server may be configured to receive vehicle location data and/or operation data from one or more vehicle systems, identify driving trips and/or driving patterns based on the vehicle data, determine risk assessment values corresponding to the driving trips and driving patterns, and calculate driver scores based on the analyzed driving trip and driving pattern data. Destination locations may be identified for a vehicle's driving trips, and information relating to the destination locations may be retrieved and analyzed to determine risk factors and risk assessment values associated with driving to and from the destination, as well as parking at the destination. Specific driving trip types or purposes may be identified, and driving scores may be calculated based on the vehicle location and time data, including the risk factors, risk assessment values, and the determined trip types or purposes.
US10553041B2	Method and apparatus for vehicle system wear prediction A system includes a processor configured to wirelessly receive first usage data in conjunction with a wear-state report, indicating a sensed level of system wear, from a plurality of vehicles. The processor is also configured to aggregate and analyze the first usage data to determine common parameters and corresponding values indicative of the sensed level of system wear. The processor is further configured to wirelessly receive second usage data from a vehicle lacking a sensor capable of sensing the sensed level of system wear. Also, the processor is configured to compare values of the common parameters in the second usage data to the determined values indicative of the sensed level of system wear and report a likely wear-state to the vehicle lacking the sensor, responsive to the comparison indicating a level of system wear similar to the sensed level of system wear.
US10553037B2	Providing error correction for particles of destructible objects A system and method for providing positional error correction for particles of destructible objects in a three-dimensional volume in a virtual space includes electronic storage to store center-of-mass information of a set of objects, using a high-precision floating point format. Prior to runtime and/or interactive manipulation of the set of objects, a texture map is generated that includes positional information in a floating point format having less precision than the high-precision floating point format. A simulation uses this texture map to determine simulated center-of-mass information of the set of objects. This simulated center-of-mass information is compared with the previously stored center-of-mass information to determine which objects have positional errors, and which offsets are needed to correct the positional errors. The stored center-of-mass information is adjusted by the determined offsets, such that subsequent use, during interactive runtime, has no or reduced positional errors and/or artifacts caused by positional errors.
US10553036B1	Manipulating objects within an immersive environment Views of a virtual environment can be displayed on mobile devices in a real-world environment simultaneously for multiple users. The users can operate selections devices in the real-world environment that interact with objects in the virtual environment. Virtual characters and objects can be moved and manipulated using selection shapes. A graphical interface can be instantiated and rendered as part of the virtual environment. Virtual cameras and screens can also be instantiated to created storyboards, backdrops, and animated sequences of the virtual environment. These immersive experiences with the virtual environment can be used to generate content for users and for feature films.
US10553034B2	Co-viewing in virtual and augmented reality environments Techniques are described that facilitate co-viewing in an experiential reality environment such as a virtual reality or augmented reality environment. These techniques include prioritizing a main view of experiential reality content over side views of the experiential reality content.
US10553028B2	Presenting virtual objects based on head movements in augmented or virtual reality systems One embodiment is directed to a user display device comprising a housing frame mountable on the head of the user, a lens mountable on the housing frame and a projection sub system coupled to the housing frame to determine a location of appearance of a display object in a field of view of the user based at least in part on at least one of a detection of a head movement of the user and a prediction of a head movement of the user, and to project the display object to the user based on the determined location of appearance of the display object.
US10553027B1	Systems and methods for navigating a user in a virtual reality model Systems and methods for navigating a user in a three-dimensional model of a property are disclosed. An exemplary system includes a storage device configured to store data associated with a plurality of point positions. Each point position corresponds to a camera position at which images of the property are captured by the camera. The system further includes at least one processor configured to determine connectivity among the point positions and determine a plurality of candidate routes connecting a first introduction position and a second introduction position. Each candidate route links a subset of the point positions based on the connectivity. The at least one processor is further configured to select a route from the candidate routes and sequentially display views corresponding to the point positions on the selected route. The views at each point position are rendered from the images captured at the camera position corresponding to the point position.
US10553026B2	Dense visual SLAM with probabilistic surfel map A novel map representation called Probabilistic Surfel Map (PSM) for dense visual SLAM is disclosed. The PSM maintains a globally consistent map with both photometric and geometric uncertainties encoded in order to address inconsistency and sensor noise. A key aspect of the visual SLAM method disclosed herein is the proper modeling and updating of the photometric and geometric uncertainties encoded in the PSM. Strategies for applying the PSM for improving both the front-end pose estimation and the back-end optimization are disclosed. Moreover, the PSM enables generation of a high quality dense point cloud with high accuracy.
US10553023B2	System and method for determining alpha values for alpha shapes Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores a program. The program receives, from a client device, a percentage value for a set of points. The program further determines a triangulation based on the set of points. The program also determines an alpha value based on the triangulation and the percentage value. The program further determines an alpha shape based on the alpha value. The program also provides the client device the alpha shape.
US10553014B2	Image generating method, device and computer executable non-volatile storage medium An image generating method, includes: establishing a 3D scene model that includes a virtual 3D object, a virtual display screen and at least one sight point set; determining a plurality of intersection points between a plurality of virtual light paths from each sight point to a plurality of virtual object points on the surface of the virtual three dimensional object and the virtual display screen, all virtual light paths {lk1, lk2, . . . , lkS} corresponding to the virtual object point Tk intersect at the virtual object point Tk; wherein, 1≤k≤n, 1≤i≤S, S is the total number of established sight points, and the plurality of virtual object points are all located within the viewing angle range of the virtual display screen; forming S frames of rendered images, including: determining color parameters of a plurality of intersection points on the virtual display screen to obtain the ith rendered image.
US10553007B1	Systems, devices, and methods for displaying visual symbols Systems, devices, and methods that display visual symbols are described. A visual symbol has a color and a linewidth. Multiple instances of the symbol are concurrently and progressively drawn, one on top of the other, in the display area of a display device. Each respective instance has a respective intermediate color. The respective intermediate colors combine to produce the color of the symbol where the respective instances overlap in the display area. Each respective instance also has a respective linewidth and the respective linewidths converge to the linewidth of the symbol as each instance is progressively drawn. A backwards progression through the same sequence is employed to regressively undraw a symbol from the display area of the display device. Computer program products comprising processor-executable instructions for performing the methods are also described.
US10553001B2	Master page overlay In an example embodiment, a system and method to provide a master page overlay is provided. The example method may comprise receiving a transformation of a master page where the transformation is associated with a page layout, applying the transformation to the master page, and outputting the page layout, where the page layout incorporates graphical elements from the transformed master page. The system and method may further include providing an interface to receive instructions from a user to display a master page overlay, display the master page overlay, and receive the transformation of the master page associated with the page layout.
US10552999B2	Generating graphical indicators of various data for linked parallel presentation Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for generating graphical indicators of various data for parallel presentation. Example methods include determining a set of data with first data and second data for a first segment and a second segment, determining a first ranking using the first data, where the first segment is ranked in a first position and the second segment is ranked in a second position, generating a first discrete visualization with a first graphical indicator for the first segment in a first location and a second graphical indicator for the second segment in a second location. Example methods may include determining a second ranking using the second data, where the first segment is ranked in the second position and the second segment is ranked in the first position, generating a second discrete visualization with a first graphical indicator and a second graphical indicator in the same respective locations.
US10552996B2	Systems and techniques for determining associations between multiple types of data in large data sets Systems and methods disclosed herein identify multivariate relationships that exist across all types data collected from numerous observed users over one or more networks. Electronic data collected from observed users include categorical data and non-categorical/numeric data. To compare and analyze the collected data, a marketing entity converts the numeric data to categorical data via a binning algorithm, which reduces the numeric data into two or more discrete categories. The marketing entity analyzes the data variables to compute pairwise associations on the collected categorical and numeric data (which has been converted to categorical data). The marketing entity also determines hierarchical clusters to group the pairwise associations of data variables based on the strength of the associations. The pairwise relationships and hierarchical clusters are displayed on a user interface.
US10552995B2	Hierarchical information visualizer and editor Techniques are disclosed for generating a visualization of an organized hierarchy structure. An editor tool may receive, via a user interface displaying a graphical representation of a tree structure of a plurality of elements, a selection of an element. The tree structure is generated from a plurality of subtrees based on reference data associated with the underlying organized hierarchy structure. The editor tool identifies one or more hierarchy paths in the tree structure associated with the selected element. A visualization of the identified hierarchy paths is generated and presented via the user interface.
US10552992B2	Poly-energetic reconstruction method for metal artifacts reduction A method for reducing metal artifacts in a volume radiographic image acquires a first set of projection images of an object on a radiographic detector at different acquisition angles. An initial estimate of the volume that includes the object using the acquired projection images is generated. The estimated volume is updated by one or more iterations of generating a second set of scatter-corrected projection images using the acquired first set of projection images and the estimated volume; generating a third set of estimated projection images using forward ray-tracing through the estimated volume; and reconstructing the estimated volume according to a signal quality factor obtained from analysis of the detector signal and used in a comparison of the second set of scatter-corrected projection images with the third set of estimated projection images. One or more images rendered from the updated estimated volume are displayed.
US10552990B2	Electronic apparatus and control method thereof An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes an image receiver configured to receive an input image corresponding to an azimuthal range where a viewpoint is movable; a communicator configured to communicate with a first display apparatus; and at least one processor configured to control the communicator to receive information of a first viewpoint from the first display apparatus, and control the communicator to transmit an image comprising a first area and a second area within the input image to the first display apparatus, the first area corresponding to the first viewpoint and being displayed on a screen of the first display apparatus, the second area being adjacent to the first area and including one or more widths corresponding to a moving characteristic of the first viewpoint.
US10552989B2	Point cloud attribute compression method based on KD tree and optimized graph transformation Provided is a point cloud attribute compression method based on a KD tree and optimized graph transformation, wherein same, with regard to point cloud data, reduces the influence of a sub-graph issue on the graph transformation efficiency by means of a new transformation block division method, optimizes a graph transformation kernel parameter, and improves the compression performance of the graph transformation, and comprises: point cloud pre-processing, point cloud KD tree division, graph construction in the transformation block, graph transformation kernel parameter training, and a point cloud attribute compression process. The present invention optimizes the division method for a point cloud transformation block, and makes the number of points in the transformation block the same, and also realizes that the dimensionality of a transformation matrix is basically the same, so as to facilitate parallel processing of subsequent graph transformations; also optimizes the graph establishment in the transformation block, and avoids the sub-graph issue caused by the existing method; and at the same time optimizes, by training the kernel parameter of the graph transformation, the sparsity of a graph transformation Laplacian matrix, so as to achieve a better point cloud attribute compression performance.
US10552988B2	Ordering segments of an image for encoding and transmission to a display device Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to order a plurality of segments of an image for encoding and wireless transmission to a display device. The apparatus includes a segment orderer to arrange the segments in an encoding order for encoding. The encoding order is different than a scan line order, and encoding order is such that a center segment of the plurality of segments is to occupy a first position in the encoding order. The first position precedes a second position occupied by the center segment in the scan line order and the center segment corresponds to a center of the image. The apparatus also includes an encoder to encode the segments in the encoding order, and a wireless transmitter to transmit the encoded portions to the display device in the encoding order in which the encoded segments are encoded.
US10552987B2	Encoding and decoding of texture mapping data in textured 3D mesh models The invention relates to the encoding and decoding of texture mapping data of a textured 3D object. A 3D object is usually represented by connectivity, geometry and property data. The texture data, belonging to the property data, include a texture image; a texture coordinates table having entries, each entry defining coordinates in the texture image; and texture indexes associating each vertex of a polygon in the 3D object with an entry in the texture coordinates table. The present invention proposes to search for and delete entry duplicates from the texture coordinates table. To reduce encoding complexity, the search and deletion are based on the connectivity data. This is to exploit redundancies between the mesh connectivity for the polygons within the 3D object and the texture connectivity for the texture polygons within the texture image.
US10552983B1	Camera calibration Methods, systems, and devices for calibrating a camera device are described. The camera device may capture a first set of images of a physical environment and a second set of images of the physical environment having at least one illuminated reference point. The camera device may use a multi-dimensional target for calibration that may be formed by a quantity of illuminated reference points. That is, the illuminated reference points may be part of the multi-dimensional target. The camera device may determine a location of at least one illuminated reference point in an image of the second set based on an image of the first set and the image of the second set, and determine an association between the location of the at least one illuminated reference point in the image of the second set to a physical location of the illuminated reference point in the physical environment. As a result, the camera device may be calibrated.
US10552982B2	Method for automatically establishing extrinsic parameters of a camera of a vehicle A method for automatically establishing extrinsic parameters of a camera of a vehicle includes repeatedly establishing the extrinsic parameters of the camera during a measurement run, wherein sensor data are generated by a sensor each time the extrinsic parameters of the camera are established. The established parameters and the associated sensor data respectively are stored in a database. A convolutional neural network is trained based on the extrinsic parameters stored in the database and based on the sensor data. The extrinsic parameters of the camera are subsequently determined online by utilizing the trained convolutional neural network.
US10552979B2	Output of a neural network method for deep odometry assisted by static scene optical flow A method of visual odometry for a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs is disclosed. The one or more programs includes instructions, which when executed by a computing device, causes the computing device to perform the following steps comprising: performing data alignment among sensors including a LiDAR, cameras and an IMU-GPS module; collecting image data and generating point clouds; processing, in the IMU-GPS module, a pair of consecutive images in the image data to recognize pixels corresponding to a same point in the point clouds; and establishing an optical flow for visual odometry.
US10552975B2	Ranking target dimensions In one example implementation, a system for ranking target dimensions includes a model engine to generate a three-dimensional (3D) model of an object from a scan of the object, an analysis engine to analyze the 3D model of the object and determine target dimensions of the object, a ranking engine to rank the target dimensions based on target dimension characteristics, historical scan information related to the target dimension characteristics, or a combination thereof, and a display engine to display information relating to the ranked target dimensions of the object.
US10552974B2	Association methods and association devices This application provides an association method and device, and relates to the field of communications. The method comprises: obtaining image data in a visual field area of an imaging device; dividing the visual field area into multiple visual field subareas; obtaining first attribute information of an object in any one of the multiple visual field subareas by means of beam scanning; and establishing a correspondence between the first attribute information of the object in the visual field subarea and image data corresponding to the visual field subarea. By means of the association method and device, a high-accuracy correspondence between the object in the visual field area of the imaging device and the first attribute information of the object can be established, which is beneficial to presenting a user with the attribute information of the corresponding object in a more accurate and intuitive way.
US10552971B2	Measurement method, and terminal A method can measure the size of an object using a terminal having two cameras. The method includes obtaining, by a terminal using a first camera, a first image that includes a to-be-measured object, and obtaining, using a second camera, a second image that includes the to-be-measured object, where the first camera and the second camera are disposed in a same plane. The method also includes comparing locations of the to-be-measured object in the first image and in the second image, so as to obtain a total location offset of the to-be-measured object. Additionally, the method includes receiving a measurement point selection instruction entered by a user based on the first image, and calculating a distance between selected measurement points according to the total location offset, a distance between a center of the first camera and a center of the second camera, and a focal length of the first camera.
US10552968B1	Dense feature scale detection for image matching Dense feature scale detection can be implemented using multiple convolutional neural networks trained on scale data to more accurately and efficiently match pixels between images. An input image can be used to generate multiple scaled images. The multiple scaled images are input into a feature net, which outputs feature data for the multiple scaled images. An attention net is used to generate an attention map from the input image. The attention map assigns emphasis as a soft distribution to different scales based on texture analysis. The feature data and the attention data can be combined through a multiplication process and then summed to generate dense features for comparison.
US10552964B2	Object tracking device and a control method for object tracking device In an object tracking device that obtains image data, detects an object, and tracks a target object, a matching unit collates image data of a characteristic model that represents a tracking object, which is a tracking target, with input image data, and outputs a candidate region of the tracking object. An object region determination unit determines an object region from the candidate region that is output by the matching unit. A depth map calculation unit calculates depth information relating to the input image. An object depth setting unit obtains the object region that has been determined by the object region determination unit in the past and the depth information that has been calculated by the depth map calculation unit, and sets a predetermined depth range where the object can exist. The object region determination unit determines an object region relating to the tracking object based on a region corresponding to the depth in a predetermined range set by the object depth setting unit and the candidate region that is extracted by the matching unit.
US10552958B2	Fractional flow reserve determination The present invention relates to a device (1) for fractional flow reserve determination, the device (1) comprising: a model source (10) configured to provide a first three-dimensional model (3DM1) of a portion of an imaged vascular vessel tree (VVT) surrounding a stenosed vessel segment (SVS) and configured to provide a second three-dimensional model (3DM2) of a pressure wire insertable into the vascular vessel tree (VVT); and a processor (20) configured to calculate a first blood flow (Q1) through the stenosed vessel segment (SVS) with the pressure wire (PW) inserted into the vascular vessel tree (VVT) based on the first and the second three-dimensional model and to calculate a second blood flow (Q2) through the stenosed vessel segment (SVS) without the pressure wire (PW) inserted into the vascular vessel tree (VVT) based on the first three-dimensional model (3DM1) and to determine a first fractional flow reserve value (FFR1) to be measured with the pressure wire (PW) inserted into the vascular vessel tree (VVT) based on the first blood flow (Q1) and to determine a second fractional flow reserve value (FFR2) to be measured without the pressure wire (PW) inserted into the vascular vessel tree (VVT) based on the second blood flow (Q1).
US10552957B2	Methods and systems for determining quality of an oocyte Methods and systems for determining quality of an oocyte to reach various reproductive milestones, including fertilizing, developing into a viable embryo (blastocyst), implanting into the uterus, and reaching a clinical pregnancy, through visual assessment (non-invasive) from a single image using artificial intelligence software.
US10552956B2	Reconstruction method of biological tissue image, apparatus therefor, and image display apparatus using the biological tissue image The present invention provides a method for classifying biological tissues with high precision compared to a conventional method. When measuring a spectrum which has a two-dimensional distribution that is correlated with a slice of a biological tissue, and acquiring a biological tissue image from the two-dimensional measured spectrum, the method includes dividing an image region into a plurality of small blocks, and then reconstructing the biological tissue image by using the measured spectrum and a classifier corresponding to each of the regions.
US10552955B2	Imaging acceleration methods for MRI parameter mapping The present invention provides novel methods of accurately and efficiently reconstructing parameter maps in MRI data. In certain embodiments, the methods have reduced data acquisition time or improved spatial resolution when compared to methods standard in the art. In other embodiments, the methods have reduced acquisition and reconstruction time when compared to other acceleration methods in the art in parametric mapping. In other embodiments, the methods are less susceptible to influence of eddy currents when compared to other acceleration methods in the art in parametric mapping.
US10552954B2	Method and apparatus for generation of a physiologically-derived map correlated with anatomical image data In a method and a computer for generating a physiologically-derived map correlated with anatomical image data spatially resolved physiologically-derived values within a value range are provided to a computer, as are anatomical image data. A frequency of occurrence of the provided physiologically-derived values is determined in the computer, depending on the occurrence of physiologically-derived values within the value range. A portion of the value range is selected in or via the computer, based on the determined frequency of the provided physiologically-derived values. Color coding is assigned in the computer to the physiologically-derived values of the value range outside the selected portion. A physiologically-derived map is generated by the computer by assigning a physiologically-derived value corresponding to the assigned color coding to its spatially resolved position in relation to the anatomical image data, and the map is shown at a display screen of the computer.
US10552946B2	Display control apparatus and method for controlling the same based on orientation In a case where an orientation of a display control apparatus is a first orientation, a first display object is displayed in a first direction; in a case where the orientation of the display control apparatus changes to a second orientation without a specific operation performed, the first display object is displayed in a second direction; when a switch instruction to switch a display object is given in this state, a second display object is displayed in the second direction; in a case where the orientation of the display control apparatus changes to the second orientation with the specific operation performed, the display direction of the first display object is not changed; and when the switch instruction is given in this state, the second display object is displayed in the first direction.
US10552944B2	Image upscaling with controllable noise reduction using a neural network Systems and techniques for converting a low resolution image to a high resolution image include receiving a low resolution image having one or more noise artifacts at a neural network. A noise reduction level is received at the neural network. The neural network determines a network parameter based on the noise reduction level. The neural network converts the low resolution image to a high resolution image and removes one or more of the noise artifacts from the low resolution image during the converting by the using the network parameter. The neural network outputs the high resolution image.
US10552943B2	Image synthesizer and a method for synthesizing an image An image synthesizer for a driver assisting system includes a receiving module and a combining module. The driver assisting system includes a first camera configured to capture a first image from a first scene and a second camera configured to capture a second image from a second scene, wherein the first scene and the second scene partly overlap in an overlapping region. The receiving module configured to receive the first image from the first camera and the second image from the second camera. The combining module is configured to combine the first image and the second image in the overlapping region using a binary mask.
US10552939B1	Image processor complex transfer functions Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for supporting complex transfer functions on an image processor. One of the methods includes traversing, by each execution lane of an image processor using a shift-register array, a respective local support region and storing input pixels encountered during the traversal into local memory of the image processor. Each execution lane obtains from the local memory of the image processor one or more input pixels according to a complex transfer function. Each execution lane computes a respective output pixel for the kernel program using one or more input pixels obtained from the local memory according to the complex transfer function.
US10552927B2	Luggage information processing Luggage is scanned when placed on a luggage conveyor belt. The scanned information reported to a luggage manager. The luggage manager pushes individual customer luggage information directly to one or more of a digital signage or a mobile application of a mobile device operated by the customer.
US10552921B2	Method and system for implementing semantic analysis of internal social network content Disclosed is a method, system, and computer program product for semantically analyzing the content within an internal social network. Using the results of the analysis, the executives can gain a better understanding of, and insight into, the organization and its employees. A dashboard tool may be used in some embodiments of the invention to visualize the results of the semantic analysis.
US10552918B2	Method and system for formatting data from one software application source into a format compatible for importing into another software application A method and system electronically pull, using an extension of a launched program, accounting data from a launched accounting software application. The pulled data is converted, by the extension, into a format compatible with a second accounting software application. The converted data is written into the launched application associated with the extension. The written data is converted, by another extension, into a format compatible for importing into another accounting software application. The format compatible data is pushed into the second accounting software application by the extension.
US10552915B1	Machine structured plan description A plan authoring tool can receive user input describing parameters of benefits of a benefit plan. The plan authoring tool can convert the user input into a machine structured plan description (MSPD) that defines the benefit plan. The MSPD can be used by a plan documentation generator to generate one or more plan documents that explain the benefits and/or indicate how to manually adjudicate claims submitted in association with the benefit plan. The MSPD can also be used to automatically adjudicate claims. Plan analysis tools can be used to evaluate an MSPD to validate a new or edited benefit plan and/or provide user feedback on the benefit plan so that users, if desired, can revise the MSPD via the plan authoring tool.
US10552913B1	Enhanced claims damage estimation using aggregate display Systems and methods provide for an automated system for analyzing damage to process claims associated with an insured item, such as a vehicle. An enhanced claims processing server may analyze damage associated with the insured item using photos/video transmitted to the server from a user device (e.g., a mobile device). The enhanced claims processing server may submit a signal that locks one or more portions of an application on the mobile device used to submit the photos/videos. The mobile device may receive feedback from the server regarding the acceptability of submitted photos/video. The photos may further be annotated using, for example, a touch screen display. An estimate, such as a cost estimate, may be determined for the damage associated with the insured item based on the photos and/or annotations.
US10552909B2	Fund of funds analysis tool Systems and techniques are disclosed to analyze fund of funds investments. The system is configured to provide at least one objective analytic that indicates the level of risk associated with a fund of funds investment strategy. The system provides both a quantitative and qualitative risk measurement value using actual portfolio holdings data of underlying funds that can be used to compare multi-faceted investment portfolios.
US10552908B2	Virtual over-the-counter financial product exchange system A virtual over-the-counter exchange system that allows brokers to negotiate and complete exchanges of financial products between traders within a plurality of financial product markets includes a data converter that converts financial product market information received from a broker into a standard financial product data format, a virtual broker database that stores the financial product market information in the standard financial product data format, a plurality of virtual trader databases, each virtual trader database storing, in the standard financial product data format, at least a portion of the financial product market information selected by the broker to be distributed to a corresponding one of a plurality of traders, and a data distributor that distributes the at least a portion of the financial product market information in each of the virtual trader databases to a corresponding one of the plurality of traders in one of a plurality of proprietary formats.
US10552907B2	Charting multiple markets The present embodiments relate to charting multiple markets. In some embodiments, charting multiple markets may include receiving market data for a plurality of tradeable objects. The plurality of tradeable objects may include an anchor object and at least one non-anchor object. The market data may include anchor object price data for the anchor object and non-anchor price data for the at least one non-anchor object. The non-anchor object price data may be converted based on the anchor object price data such that converted non-anchor object price data has a price scale of the anchor object price data. The anchor object price data and the non-anchor object price data may be displayed along a normalized price axis.
US10552905B2	Device, system, and method for transfer of commodities A device, system, and method transfer commodities using tokens. The method performed by a first entity includes receiving a first request from a second entity to transfer tokens from the second entity to a third entity, the tokens including data representing an ownership position of a commodity by the second entity, at least a portion of the commodity being in a physical possession of the first entity. The method includes receiving a second request from the third entity to transfer the tokens from the second entity to the third entity. The method includes when the first request matches the second request, verifying the ownership position of the tokens by the second entity. The method includes upon the successful verification of the ownership position of the tokens, updating the ownership position of the tokens from the second entity to the third entity.
US10552904B2	Device, system, and method for transfer of commodities A device, system, and method transfer commodities using tokens. The method performed by a first entity includes receiving from a second entity a request for tokens, the request indicating an unallocated position of a commodity of the second entity, the unallocated position managed by a third entity. The method includes transmitting to the third entity a further request for a transfer of the unallocated position of the second entity to the first entity. The method includes receiving from the third entity an indication of the transfer of the unallocated position from the second entity to the first entity. The method includes generating the tokens for the second entity that correspond to the unallocated position of the second entity of the request. The method includes generating and transmitting data including first data corresponding to the generation of the tokens and second data corresponding to an ownership of the tokens.
US10552903B2	Systems and methods for displaying order performance metrics Systems and methods for generating a graphical representation for and displaying order performance metrics for one or more user orders of one or more market instruments. A graphical representation of the order performance metrics can be aligned with a graphical representation of market data relating to prices and volume of user orders, market orders, user order executions, and market trades. The order performance metrics can be displayed as one or more performance bars or ribbons divided into segments, which can be assigned a color based on a user order's performance with respect to a market benchmark. The graphical representations can be displayed using a display device.
US10552899B2	Anomaly tracking system and method for detecting fraud and errors in the healthcare field An electronic data analysis system and method of anomaly tracking decision trees for identifying anomalies to detect errors or fraud in multiple healthcare operational functions. The unique aspects of such electronic tools include the contemporaneous data mining and data mapping aspects of Health Information Pipelines, Private Health Information, Operational Flow Activities, Accounts Receivable Pipelines, Product Market Activity, Service Market Activity, and Consumer Market Activity in large quantities. The contemporaneous data analytics provide an effective and efficient tool for market problems such as waste, fraud, abuse, and general aberrations that impact the cost and delivery of healthcare services and products. The tool is interactive and self learning.
US10552898B2	User trainable user interface page classification system A user trainable user interface page classification system applies a rule set to information associated with a user interface page to determine whether the user interface page satisfies a domain page condition. If the user interface page does not satisfy the domain page condition, a user trains the system such that the user interface page classification system classifies the user interface page as a domain page. The rule set of the user interface page classification system is updated, and the updated rule set is applied to the information associated with the user interface page. The user interface page classification system then classifies the user interface page as a domain page.
US10552896B2	Method and system for virtual inventory management Methods and systems for virtually managing product inventory from an application on a smart device through at least one of a bar code scanning feature, an integration of a virtual toolbox component and a shopping cart component, and a checkout selection option to request a purchase order associated with a user token authorization.
US10552895B2	Computer system and stored program for certifying contractors A certification computer system electronically receives contractor data from contractor devices. The certification computer system electronically stores at least a portion of the contractor data as certification data in a storage device(s). The certification computer system automatically certifies third-party contractors as certified contractors based, at least in part, on the certification data. The certification computer system electronically receives an electronic service request communicated from an e-commerce computer system. The electronic service request is based, at least in part, on a purchase(s) of a product(s) with a contractor service(s) made in electronic communication with a purchaser computer system. The certification computer system automatically creates an electronic service work order based, at least in part, on the electronic service request. The certification computer system automatically selects a certified contractor from the certified contractors. The certification computer system electronically communicates the electronic service work order to the certified contractor.
US10552894B2	Techniques for filling orders A system includes location indicators, a central computing system, and a mobile scanning device. The location indicators transmit location signals and are arranged in a store that includes stocked items. The central computing system stores an item association table that maps location values to the stocked items. The location values indicate locations of the stocked items in the store. The mobile scanning device receives ordered items from the central computing system, detects location signal(s), and determines a first location value based on the detected location signal(s). The mobile scanning device arranges the ordered items on a display based on the first location value, scans a first ordered item, and transmits data to the central computing system indicating that the first ordered item is associated with the first location value. The central computing system updates the item association table based on the data.
US10552891B2	Systems and methods for recommending cold-start items on a website of a retailer Systems and methods including one or more processing modules and one or more non-transitory storage modules storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processing modules and perform acts of training one or more first models to recommend a first item after a user has had an interaction on the web site of the online retailer with a second item, determining static features common to both the first item and the second item, training a second model to determine whether to coordinate a display of any new item as one of one or more recommended items with any of a plurality of items, and coordinating the display of the new item as one of the one or more recommended items when the one or more of the plurality of items are displayed on the website of the online retailer based on the static features of the new item.
US10552886B2	Methods and apparatus for merchandise generation including an image The present disclosure provides methods and an apparatus for quickly and easily facilitating the creation of certain merchandise based on a user selection of at least one of a collection of images. It is contemplated that the user can browse the selection of images, choose a desired image or images, and quickly convert the image or images into, for example, photo reprints, photo books, coffee mugs, or wall calendars.
US10552885B2	Systems and methods for acquiring structured inputs in customer interactions A computer-implemented method and a system facilitate an acquiring of structured inputs from customers in turn-based online interactions. A UI displayed on a customer device and configured to facilitate a turn-based interaction between a customer and an agent facilitates receipt of a free-form textual input entered by the customer. The free-form textual input is indicative of an assistance desired by the customer from the agent. An interactive form including a plurality of questions is displayed within the UI to enable the customer to provide answers to one or more questions in a pre-defined format. At least one reply to be provided to the customer in response to the free-form textual input is determined based on the answers received from the customer for the one or more questions. The at least one reply is displayed within the UI for facilitating provisioning of the assistance desired by the customer.
US10552879B1	Real-time assessment tool to determine valuation of rolling stock A method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium for determining a real-time valuation of a rolling stock vehicle. The method may include obtaining weather data from a weather data source, load data from a load data source, grade data from a grade data source, and damage data from a damage data source; performing a determination of a rate of depreciation for the rolling stock vehicle; calculating, for a trip, a current valuation based at least in part on the weather data, the load data, the grade data, the damage data, the rate of depreciation, trip mileage data, and trip time data; and upon exiting a taxing jurisdiction: calculating, for a taxing jurisdiction across a network in real-time, a taxing jurisdiction exiting valuation for the taxing jurisdiction based at least in part on the weather data, the load data, the grade data, the damage data, the rate of depreciation, taxing jurisdiction mileage data, taxing jurisdiction time data, and taxing jurisdiction mapping data; and providing the current valuation and the taxing jurisdiction exiting valuation to a business management application (BMA), where the current valuation and the taxing jurisdiction exiting valuation are used to determine a tax amount owed during a tax period.
US10552877B2	Engine and system for the transcription and assessment of media files A system and method for publishing endorsed media is disclosed herein. The system receives a media file and then transcribes a portion of the media file to produce a transcribed script for the media portion. The system then extracts one or more sentiments based on the transcribed script and media data of the media file. Next, the system associates the one or more extracted sentiments to one or more keywords in the transcribed script. Trending topic around the Internet is then determined. In one aspect, the system then publishes the media portion over the network based on a match between the trending topic and the one or more keywords associated with the one or more extracted sentiments.
US10552876B2	Method and apparatus for chroma reconstruction A method and apparatus for predicting chroma values including the steps of having a decoder provide an image frame to an up-sample filter, the image frame having luma and chroma components, and applying an analysing algorithm on a subset of said image frame to obtain the subset content type, and, depending on the content type, select a reconstruction algorithm to reconstruct the chroma components.
US10552872B2	Systems, apparatuses, and method for mapping a space In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to mapping a space. In some embodiments, a system for mapping a space comprises a communication device configured to receive location data from a portable user device in a user space, a device location database configured to store location data, and a control circuit. The control circuit being configured to aggregate, over time, the location data in the user space from the portable user device and store the location data in the device location database, the location data comprising coordinates and timestamps associated with a plurality of locations, determine a plurality of dwell locations in the user space corresponding to locations where the portable user device rests based on the timestamps of the location data, and identify one or more objects in the user space based at least on the coordinates of the plurality of dwell locations.
US10552868B1	Seamless promotion redemption Systems and related methods of providing seamless transactions, including payments and promotion redemptions, are discussed herein. Some embodiments may provide for a system including a communication beacon and one or more servers. The communication beacon may be configured to communicate with consumer devices via a direct wireless connection when the consumer devices are within a wireless direct communicable range of the communication beacon. The one or more servers may be configured to associate the communication with a merchant and receive consumer presence data from the communication beacon such that consumer presence at the merchant may be determined. In response, the one or more servers may be configured to perform a seamless transaction on behalf the consumer that allows the consumer to provide payments or redeem promotions, among other things, simply by self-identifying with the merchant while carrying the consumer device.
US10552867B2	Method and apparatus for providing a colloborative reply over an ad-hoc mesh network An approach is provided for providing a collaborative reply to a flooding message over an ad-hoc mesh network. A reply message to a flooding message is received by a wireless node within the ad-hoc network. The wireless node monitors for an acknowledgement of receipt of the reply message according to a routing table and initiates a scheduled transmission of the reply message based on the monitoring.
US10552866B2	Intelligent content and navigation The disclosure includes technology for providing custom content for display. In an example embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes storing unique customer types in a non-transitory computer storage device; storing in the computer storage device custom contents in association with one or more of the different customer types; receiving at a user device or a server coupled to the user device interaction data from the user device of a user describing an interaction by the user with a site presented for display to the user on the user device; determining by the user device or the server a customer type for the user; querying by the user device or the server the custom contents stored on the computer storage device for a custom content matching the customer type and associated with the interaction data; and presenting the custom content to the user via the display of the user device.
US10552864B2	Methods and apparatus to de-duplicate impression information An example apparatus includes means for identifying a pattern in first cookies received via the Internet and stored in a storage device, the first cookies corresponding to devices accessing media via the Internet, means for determining an error between a first demographic estimate based on a potential pattern in the first cookies and a second demographic estimate based on user identifiers corresponding to the devices and received via the Internet, the means for determining the error to determine the potential pattern to be the pattern when the error is less than a threshold, means for accessing impression information received from a database proprietor via the Internet, the impression information including second cookies, and means for identifying a subset of the second cookies that are associated with a same person based on the pattern, the means for identifying the subset to associate impressions corresponding to the identified subset with the same person.
US10552862B2	Interruption point determination The present disclosure provides a method, computer system and computer program product for determining interruption points based on emotion values in a content. According to the method, emotion values of one or more emotion catalogs at one or more time points of the content to be interrupted can be determined, and one or more interruption points can be determined based on the determined emotion values.
US10552861B2	Dual redemption path with shared benefits system and method A system and method is presented for product substantiation and promotion redemption. A purchased product list is transmitted from a retail store system to a promotion analysis server along with a user identifier. The promotion analysis server identifies promotions available to the user, and then considers whether the benefits under the promotions are still available to the user. Discounts for available promotions related to the purchased product list are calculated and transmitted to the retail store system for deduction from the transactions. A promotion product filter can be provided that filters the purchased product list before transmittal. The promotion product filter can include promotions from a plurality of programs.
US10552858B1	Reconciliation of disjoint user identifer spaces A system is described that receives first user identifiers from a first user space and a first set of hash values generated from a hash function applied to first information that identify users associated with the set of first user identifiers. The system determines a hash value included in both of the first set of hash values and a second set of hash values that are generated from the hash function being applied to second information that identify users associated with second user identifiers from a second user space. The system generates a mapping between the first user identifiers and the second user identifiers that each correspond to the same hash value. The system determines targeted information directed to the first user identifiers and based on the mapping, outputs the targeted information to user devices associated with the second user identifiers.
US10552857B2	System and method for providing external notifications of events in a virtual space to users External notifications of events that take place within a virtual space may be provided to users. External notifications may be sent, for example, via email, text message, instant message (external from the virtual space), push notification and/or through other external communication media. These external notifications may be generated based on parameters, such as user parameters, event parameters, and/or other parameters. The parameters may include one or more parameters that are dynamic and/or one or more parameters that are static. The notifications may include incentive offers. The incentive offers may include offers of virtual items within the virtual space. The incentive offers may require a response to the notification for redemption. The incentive offers may enhance engagement with the virtual space by users.
US10552852B1	Service monitor for monitoring and tracking the performance of applications running on different mobile devices Some embodiments provide a service monitor that operates on a number of different mobile devices to track and monitor services that an application is using. An application may depend on a number of services, such as network services to access various cloud services. The service monitor operates in conjunction with the application to gather data relating to the services and send the gathered data to an API server. The gathering of the data can occur in many mobile devices that are of different types, that are from various different vendors, and/or that operate on different mobile operating systems.
US10552850B2	Store intelligence—in-store analytics Store intelligence—in-store analytics (“in-store analytics”) techniques are provided that, by combining analytics with experience, improve the shopping, managing, monitoring, etc., experience of an end user. In-store analytics can be integrated with workflow for optimizing and assisting prioritizing operations.
US10552846B2	Authenticated barcode patterns A system and method for hidden security feature detection, analysis and authentication using a smart device is disclosed. The smart device can detect and analyze hidden security features using the camera capability of the smart device to capture a digital image, and then analyze and authenticate that image using a security service including a database of security feature data, processing rules, and other information. The security service can support a variety of smart devices and security features. The smart device includes a security-specific autofocus function that allows the smart device to be positioned within a range of distances and angles from a target document that includes hidden/covert security feature(s). The smart device can display an enhanced image showing the hidden security feature(s) and/or report if the security feature is valid or invalid, along with related information, via beeps, vibration, display, text messaging, or other reporting capabilities.
US10552844B2	Smart box for initiating an in-home customer service experience The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods for providing a personalized customer service experience using a customer service application. A sensor associated with a container configured to house one or more devices can determine whether the container has been opened. A processor can access a profile associated with the container and the devices that includes at least a first value uniquely identifying the container. The processor can activate a communication module to send a first message via a communication network to a backend system. The first message can include some of the accessed profile. The first message can prompt the backend system to search for a customer record using the first value and to send a second message to a mobile device that prompts execution of an application on the mobile device. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described.
US10552840B2	Speeding up chip transaction at the point of sale A payment transaction is performed at a POS (point of sale) device. The device includes a terminal component and a reader component. The reader component includes a contact interface for establishing a data signal path via conductive contact with an integrated circuit (IC) payment card. A payment transaction is initiated. The data signal path is established between the reader component and the IC payment card. The IC payment card is commanded to generate a cryptogram for verification by an issuer of the card. The cryptogram is received from the card. In response to receiving the cryptogram, a command is issued to disable contact reading operation by the reader component.
US10552839B2	Intuitive real-time money management dashboard There are provided systems and methods for providing an interactive transaction dashboard. An exemplary system includes a first data store storing and a processing device in communication with the first data store. The processing device receives, over a network communication link, authentication information associated with a user device operated by the first user and transmits transaction data associated with a first transaction to be rendered in a graphical user interface provided by the user device, the graphical user interface visually depicting the first transaction as an icon positioned along a visual axis element representing a period of time. The processing device receives a command generated by an interaction of the first user with the icon and transmits secondary transaction data associated with the first transaction to be rendered in the graphical user interface, the secondary transaction data being responsive to the command.
US10552838B2	System and method for evaluating fraud in online transactions Systems and methods for evaluating trustworthiness for an online transaction are provided. The methods may include providing a detection script to a user device alongside content requested by the user device. The detection script is executable on a web browser or web-based application of the user device and configured to cause the user device to send feedback from at least one sensor on the user device that is accessible by the web browser or web-based application. The system receives the feedback from the user device at a server and evaluates the feedback from the at least one sensor on the user device. The script further allows the server to obtain location information for the user device. The server calculates a trustworthiness factor for the user device based on the obtained feedback and location for the user device.
US10552830B2	Deletion of credentials from an electronic device Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for managing credentials are provided. In one example embodiment, an electronic device may include a secure element with a security domain element stored on the secure element. The electronic device may also include a processor component that may be configured to, inter alia, permanently terminate the functionality of the security domain element, after the functionality has been permanently terminated, communicatively couple the electronic device to a trusted service manager, and transmit data to the communicatively coupled trusted service manager that may be usable by the trusted service manager to determine that the functionality has been permanently terminated. Additional embodiments are also provided.
US10552829B2	Obfuscation of intent in transactions using cryptographic techniques Methods and systems described herein prevent traders from using order intent and hardware solutions to advance their order position by obfuscating the order until execution and by using a digital ledger to assign priority of the orders. As described herein, using a series of cryptographic key pairs, one side of a transaction can be created, matched, and executed while a public record is recorded and maintained but obfuscated (i.e., not publicly transparent) until after the transaction is completed.
US10552828B2	Multiple tokenization for authentication Embodiments of the present invention are directed generally to systems, methods, and apparatuses for authenticating a cardholder using multiple tokenization authentication. Embodiments of the invention are directed at a method. The method includes receiving at a first entity a first token from a consumer and determining a second token associated with the first token. Once the second token is determined, the second token is sent to a server computer at a second entity. The server computer then determines an account identifier associated with the second token and processes a transaction using the account identifier.
US10552827B2	Dynamic digital certificate updating Providing backup digital certificates comprises an application provider, such as a digital wallet system, that obtains signed digital certificates from a certificate authority. The digital wallet system provides an application, such as a digital wallet application, to a user computing devise along with a primary digital certificate and a backup digital certificate. The user computing device utilizes the primary digital certificate to ensure a secure connection with the digital wallet system. If the primary digital certificate is compromised, the digital wallet system may communicate the backup digital certificate to the digital wallet system when a subsequent secure connection is requested. The user computing device may access the backup digital certificate and verify the provided digital certificate. The digital wallet system provides a new backup digital certificate to the user computing device, and the user computing device deletes the compromised digital certificate.
US10552824B2	Transaction processing platform for facilitating electronic distribution of plural prepaid services A transaction processing platform capable of facilitating the distribution to consumers of various types of prepaid products is disclosed. The transaction processing platform is configured to interface with one or more providers of such prepaid products in order to facilitate the procurement or activation of the products. The platform includes a conduit interface through which service request messages are received and respectively utilized to generate transaction requests for corresponding types of prepaid services. A supply interface arrangement, operatively coupled to the conduit interface, is configured to route a first of the transaction requests through a first supply interface associated with a first type of prepaid service. The supply interface arrangement also routes a second transaction request through a second supply interface associated with a second type of prepaid service. The platform is also configured to provide supplier response information received through the supply interfaces to the conduit interface.
US10552822B2	System and method for processing financial transactions using a mobile device for payment A method for processing a financial transaction includes: storing, in a database, a plurality of wallet data entries, wherein each wallet data entry includes at least a mobile device identifier and payment details associated with at least one payment account; receiving, by a receiving device, an authorization request for a financial transaction, wherein the authorization request includes at least a mobile device identifier and transaction data; transmitting, to a mobile computing device associated with the mobile device identifier, at least the transaction data; receiving, from the mobile computing device, an indication of a payment account for funding of the financial transaction; identifying, in the database, payment details associated with the indicated payment account in a wallet data entry including the mobile device identifier included in the authorization request; and transmitting, to an issuer associated with the indicated payment account, at least the payment details and the transaction data.
US10552816B2	Transaction system, processing device, and control device A recording device in a transaction processing system extracts extraction information that is used in a process executed by a control server to provide a service from transaction information based on a transaction process, and outputs a code containing a URL of the control server to which extraction information and identification information are added. When accessed by a terminal reading the code, the control server acquires and stores the extraction information and uniform identification information added to the URL, and uses the stored extraction information to execute a process providing a service.
US10552813B2	Rapid checkout after payment A user's checkout information is stored for a certain amount of time, e.g., 10 minutes, after checkout, and the user is given the option of selecting a button to add one or more items for purchase and completing the purchase by adding the additional item(s) and approving the payment, without having to go through a complete checkout flow again.
US10552812B2	Scenario based logging This disclosure provides a computer implemented method comprising: determining whether an input to a program matches a predetermined scenario; and recording, at least partially in response to the determination that the input matches the predetermined scenario, execution information of execution of at least part of the program, the execution of the at least part of the program being in response to the input.
US10552811B2	Cash machine security systems and methods Systems and methods described herein may provide automated teller machine (ATM) security. For example, an ATM security system may comprise an ink staining system, an electronic lock, and a processor in communication with the electronic lock and the ink staining system. The processor may be configured to determine that the lock is being opened, disable the ink staining system in response to the determining, and enable the ink staining system when the lock has been closed.
US10552810B1	System and method for remote deposit of financial instruments Methods and systems for remote deposit of financial instruments are disclosed. The method may include using a mobile device such as a tablet computer or smart phone to automatically review live video data to determine a location of a check in the video image, and to obtain a still photo of the check image in response to determining that the mobile device is being held at a desired steadiness. The method may include providing a user with visual feedback that the mobile device is actively tracking the check. The method may further include cropping the captured check image and sending only a portion of the image to a remote server to verify a check MICR line has been captured. The method may further include a virtual endorsement module executable by the mobile device to apply endorsement information to a check image. A mobile device with a processor and memory containing instructions to execute the method is also disclosed.
US10552809B2	Programmable card Embodiments of the invention are directed to programming a payment device that can be in the same form factor as a typical credit or debit card and which can be programmed and reprogrammed with various payment profiles. The payment device is interfaced with a mobile device, such as through insertion into a module capable of holding the payment device within proximity to a main housing of the mobile device. The payment device can include both a magnetic stripe and an IC chip which is capable of near field communication. In embodiments of the invention, the mobile device, such as a cellular phone, includes a memory element. The memory element securely stores payment profiles of financial accounts which are commonly found on credit, debit, gift, transit and loyalty cards. When a payment profile stored in the memory element of the mobile phone is selected, the mobile phone writes the profile onto the payment device. The payment device can then be utilized to communicate payment profile information to a payment device reader during contact or contactless transaction.
US10552806B2	Aqua index A method and system for computing a stable index value of a regulated substance by computing a virtual value of the substance based on the value of a freely marketed product of the substance. Particularly the invention may be applied to develop a stable investment instrument for investing in fresh water.
US10552805B2	Systems and methods for monitoring referrals A system includes a first client device that is coupled to a second client device. An apparatus, coupled to the first and second devices, includes a storage device coupled to a processor. The storage device stores software instructions for controlling the processor that when executed configures the processor to generate a listing of expected values and referral events associated with a tracked matter. Each referral event corresponds to a different expected value and the distributed listing includes a sequence of units corresponding to different expected values and corresponding referral events. The processor receives a notification from one of the first or second device that is representative of a referral operation between the first and second location. The processor determines an outcome value for the referral operation and identifies whether the determined outcome value is accurate based on the distributed listing.
US10552800B2	Visually indicating a calendar event among different time zones A calendared event may be visually indicated. A proposed time for the calendared event can be identified and each of a plurality of event participants can be associated with the calendared event. For each of the participants, a local time of the participant that corresponds to the proposed time for the calendared event can be identified and displayed.
US10552799B2	Upload of attachment and insertion of link into electronic messages An option is presented with an electronic message to automatically upload and permission an attachment to the electronic message. A single click may be received to upload the attachment to a shared location (e.g. network share, online service, and the like). Permissions may be automatically set for the message recipients of the electronic message. For example, a default set of permissions and/or custom permissions may be set for each of the recipients listed on the To:/Cc:/Bcc: lines. A link to the shared location may also be automatically inserted into the electronic message along with or in place of the attachment.
US10552791B2	Systems and methods for monitoring and reconciling inventory In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to monitoring and reconciling inventory. In some embodiments, there is provided a system including: an inventory location for one type of merchandise item intended for the inventory location; a first sensor configured to collect data regarding the presence of the merchandise item at the inventory location; a second sensor configured to collect identification data of the merchandise item at the inventory location; a memory configured to store the identification data; a database including identification information corresponding to the merchandise item intended for the inventory location; a control circuit configured to: compare the identification data collected by the second sensor with the identification information from the database corresponding to the merchandise item; verify that the identification data from the second sensor corresponds to the identification information from the database; and calculate a quantity of inventory at the inventory location.
US10552787B2	Store planogram to image registrations Embodiments of the present invention may provide automated techniques for checking store shelves for compliance with planograms that can handle unknown arrangements in a uniform way, with little user involvement, and with relatively low processing complexity. For example, a computer-implemented method for determining compliance with a planogram may comprise receiving at least one image of a plurality of shelves containing objects, receiving at least one planogram representing desired positions of the objects on the shelves, wherein each row of the planogram corresponds to one shelf, adjusting positions of objects in the planogram to reflect a size of the shelves, determining a tolerance for inaccuracy in object position in the image using object dimension data, detecting object positions in the image, aligning each row of the planogram individually to the detected object positions, and comparing the detected object positions with the adjusted planogram positions to generate compliance information.
US10552782B2	Deriving comparable planned and actual service delivery cost metrics Aspects generate costs for a business plan from normalized cost metric values by mapping (via a processor implementing an automated process) text artifacts of a business plan to different tags that each include a cost as a function of a time period for delivery of a service that is associated with a computer service element. Aspects also generate a summary view cost estimation as a function of the time period, costs of the mapped tags and a geographic region productive factor that is assigned to a region identified as providing delivery of the service that is associated with the computer service element. The summary view cost estimation estimates a total cost of delivering the computing services of the computer service element over time as a function of the normalized, mapped tag cost metrics.
US10552781B2	Task transformation responsive to confidentiality assessments A task transformation architecture meets the technical challenges of geographically distributed task assignment and completion, e.g., by crowd-sourced workers who are external to any given enterprise that needs the task completed. The architecture delivers task information to the workers while maintaining confidentiality. In one aspect, the architecture determines when task descriptions include confidential information, transforms the task to remove the confidential information, and delivers the transformed task to the worker. When the worker responds with a completed project, e.g., source code for executing the transformed task, the architecture transforms the completed project into a form that restores the confidential information.
US10552777B2	Prioritizing workload A method and system for determining work ticket priority is provided. The method includes enabling a work ticket for a work assignment associated with an entity. The work ticket is assigned an initial priority value. Relevant data from multiple sources is associated with the work ticket and an updated priority value is requested. In response, multiple priority scores for the work ticket with respect to additional work tickets are published to an enterprise service bus (ESB) and an aggregate score for work ticket is calculated from the multiple priority scores.
US10552774B2	Cost-minimizing task scheduler Methods and systems for cost-minimizing job scheduling are disclosed. A definition of a task is received. The definition comprises a need-by time. The need-by time comprises a deadline for completion of execution of the task. An estimated duration to complete the execution of the task is determined for each of a plurality of computing resources. One or more of the computing resources are selected based on an estimated cost of completing the execution using the computing resources. The execution of the task is initiated at a scheduled time using the selected one or more computing resources. The scheduled time is earlier than the need-by time by at least the estimated duration.
US10552771B2	Analyzing data management-related and/or contract management-related operations of an organization A device may receive first data that identifies operations of an organization. The operations may be associated with a first manner in which the organization stores second data or a second manner in which the organization generates a contract. The device may process the first data to identify the operations of the organization. The device may perform a first analysis of the first data to determine whether the operations of the organization satisfy a set of rules. The set of rules may indicate the first manner in which the organization is to store the second data. The device may perform a second analysis of the second data to identify an error associated with the second data. The device may perform an action to modify the operations of the organization or to facilitate fixing of the error based on a result of the first analysis or the second analysis.
US10552770B2	Efficient schedule item creation Efficient creation of a new schedule item is provided. Aspects include a quick create system for enabling an efficient schedule item creation experience when utilizing a scheduling application, such as a calendar application, a task list application, or a to-do list application, or an application with scheduling functionalities. A user can select a quick create option to cause a display of one or more icons designating predefined or learned schedule item types, which can be automatically or selectively moved to a desired timeslot in the user's schedule. In some examples, an icon can be dragged laterally within a timeslot to toggle between schedule item types. When a commitment input is received, a new schedule item is inserted into the user's schedule, and schedule item details are automatically populated into the schedule item based on existing schedule items or based on preset schedule item types.
US10552768B2	Flexible departure time for trip requests A travel coordination system allows a rider to request a trip with a flexible departure time. The rider can specify a pick-up location, a trip destination, a target trip price, and a departure timeframe for the trip. The travel coordination system attempts to assign the rider to a provider at a point in time during the departure timeframe when the trip price would be less than or equal to the target trip price. The travel coordination system may also guarantee that the rider will pay no more than the target trip price if the travel coordination system determines that the trip price is likely to be lower than the target trip price at some point in time during the departure timeframe.
US10552766B2	System implementing electronic case versioning Techniques disclosed herein provide electronic case versioning in a case management system. A request to capture a snapshot of an electronic case at a current point in time is received. The snapshot provides a record of the electronic case at the current point in time. Information associated with the electronic case at the current point in time is identified. The information is stored in an object representing the snapshot.
US10552756B2	Superconducting system architecture for high-performance energy-efficient cryogenic computing An energy efficient rapid single flux quantum (ERSFQ) logic register wheel includes a circular shift register having a plurality of destructive read out (DRO) cells. Each entry of the circular shift register includes a data block, a tag, and a valid bit. A compare and control logic is coupled to the circular shift register to compare a source specifier or a destination register specifier against a register tag stored in the wheel following each cycle of the register wheel. At least one or more read ports and at least one or more write ports are coupled to the circular shift register to write to or to read from a different entry each in the register wheel following each cycle of the register wheel. A RSFQ clearable FIFO with flushing and a crosspoint memory topology for integrating MRAM devices with ERSFQ circuits are also described.
US10552751B2	Conversation branching for more efficient resolution A method for conversation branching may include storing a plurality of messages communicated in an online conversation and generating a fingerprint for each message. The fingerprint for each message may be stored in a lookup table. The method may also include detecting a new message from one of the users and processing the new message to generate an artifact that correlates to the new message. The lookup table may be queried using the artifact to determine a similarity between the new message and each of the stored messages. One or more proposed reply messages to the new message may be generated for branching the online conversation to a new conversation point that corresponds to a selected one of the one or more proposed reply messages. The one or more proposed reply messages are based on one of the stored messages that has a closest similarity to the new message.
US10552748B2	Electromagnetic noise signal based predictive analytics In an approach to predicting user touch events, one or more computer processors receive a detected electromagnetic noise signal of an object. The one or more computer processors compare the detected electromagnetic noise signal of the object to one or more stored electromagnetic noise signals associated with one or more objects. Based, at least in part, on the comparison, the one or more computer processors determine the identity of the object. Responsive to determining the identity of the object, the one or more computer processors store metadata associated with at least one of the objects and an electromagnetic noise signal detection event. The one or more computer processors determine whether an amount of the metadata associated with the object meets a learning threshold. If the amount of metadata meets the learning threshold, the one or more computer processors predict a subsequent electromagnetic noise signal detection event associated with the object.
US10552746B2	Identification of time lagged indicators for events with a window period A method and system to identify a time lagged indicator of an event to be predicted are described. The method includes receiving information including an indication of a factor, the factor being a different event than the event to be predicted, and identifying a window period within which the event is statistically correlated with the factor. The method also includes collecting data for a duration of the window period, the data indicating occurrences of the factor and the event, and identifying a time lagged dependency of the event on the factor based on analyzing the data.
US10552745B2	Predictive auto scaling engine Techniques for predictively scaling a distributed application are described. Embodiments could monitor performance of an application within a cloud computing environment over a first window of time to collect historical performance data. Here, the application comprises a plurality of application instances. A workload of the application could be monitored over a second window of time to collect historical workload data. Embodiments could analyze both the historical performance data and the historical workload data to determine one or more scaling patterns for the application. Upon determining a present state of the application matches one of the one or more scaling patterns, a plan for predictively scaling the application could be determined. Embodiments could then predictively scale the plurality of application instances, based on the determined plan.
US10552737B2	Artificial neural network class-based pruning Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for configuring an artificial neural network to a particular surveillance situation. A number of object classes characteristic for the surveillance situation are selected. The object classes form a subset of the total number of object classes for which the artificial neural network is trained. A database is accessed that includes activation frequency values for the neurons within the artificial neural network. The activation frequency values are a function of the object class. Those neurons having activation frequency values lower than a threshold value for the subset of selected object classes are removed from the artificial neural network.
US10552736B1	Counter data generation for data profiling using only true samples A method for generating a dual-class dataset is disclosed. A single-class dataset and a context dataset are obtained. The context dataset can be labeled. A model can be trained using the combination of the single-class dataset and the labeled context dataset. The model can be run on the context dataset. The data points that are classified the same as the data points included in the single-class dataset, can be removed from the labeled context dataset and added to the single-class dataset. These steps can be repeated until no data points are classified by the model.
US10552732B2	Multi-layer neural network A multi-layer artificial neural network having at least one high-speed communication interface and N computational layers is provided. N is an integer larger than 1. The N computational layers are serially connected via the at least one high-speed communication interface. Each of the N computational layers respectively includes a computation circuit and a local memory. The local memory is configured to store input data and learnable parameters for the computation circuit. The computation circuit in the ith computational layer provides its computation results, via the at least one high-speed communication interface, to the local memory in the (i+1)th computational layer as the input data for the computation circuit in the (i+1)th computational layer, wherein i is an integer index ranging from 1 to (N−1).
US10552728B2	Automated anomaly detection for event-based system Described herein is a technology that facilitates the production of and the use of automated datagens for event-based systems. A datagen (i.e., data-generator or data generation system) is a component, module, or subsystem of computer systems that searches, monitors, and analyzes machine data. Existing datagens are not capable of detecting an anomaly in machine data. An anomaly is a variance in the input data stream that exceeds some acceptable amount of deviation from the norm (i.e., standard, expectation, etc.). An embodiment of datagen, in accordance with the technology described herein, detects anomalies in the input machine data.
US10552725B2	Transponder apparatus A transponder apparatus for a transponder unit has a UHF and HF transponder The UHF transponder has a transponder support, a UHF antenna and a UHF chip. The HF transponder has an HF antenna and an HF chip. The UHF antenna is at the transponder support and is made up of conducting UHF antenna structures in transponder support planes which are spatially separated from one another. The transponder apparatus includes an electrically-insulating attachment layer connecting the UHF transponder to the HF antenna. The transponder apparatus includes an electrically-insulating spacer element connected to the HF transponder and which spatially separates the UHF transponder and the HF transponder relative to a body. The UHF transponder is disposed on the HF antenna. A conducting HF antenna structure of the HF antenna extends beyond a covering surface of the UHF transponder and the HF antenna structure.
US10552724B2	RFID tag and article having RFID tag attached thereto An RFID tag that includes a radio IC chip, an antenna pattern, a matching circuit, a capacitive coupling member connected to the antenna pattern and capacitively coupled to a metal surface, and an insulating substrate. The antenna pattern includes a first antenna pattern connected to the radio IC chip with the matching circuit interposed therebetween and a second antenna pattern having one end connected to the radio IC chip with the matching circuit interposed therebetween and the other end connected to the capacitive coupling part. Moreover, the RFID tag includes a capacitive member between the first antenna pattern and the capacitive coupling part, and the antenna pattern, the capacitive coupling part, and the capacitive part are connected in a loop.
US10552723B2	Oscillation maintenance circuit with trigger-based pulse generation in half-duplex RFID transponders A half-duplex RFID oscillation maintenance circuit with trigger-based pulse generation is provided, including: a resonance inductor and a resonance capacitor forming an L-C resonance circuit coupled to an external radio frequency field to generate alternating current for a rectifier circuit, which is connected to an energy-storage capacitor. A first antenna end is connected to a trigger circuit through a switch unit and a resistor connected in series; and an output end of the trigger circuit is connected to a control end of the switch unit. The trigger circuit is configured to sample an oscillation signal at the first antenna end to generate a rectangular wave signal, whose pulse width can be self-adaptively adjusted, to control OFF/ON of the switch unit and, when the switch unit is ON, to form a current injection loop from the energy-storage capacitor to the L-C resonance circuit.
US10552720B2	Systems, methods, and devices for commissioning wireless sensors In one embodiment the present invention comprises a smartphone and encoders for commissioning RFID transponders. The present invention further includes novel systems, devices, and methods for commissioning RFID transponders with unique object class instance numbers without requiring a realtime connection to a serialization database.
US10552719B2	Tamper-proof quality management barcode indicators A tamper-proof barcoded quality indicator operative to provide a machine-readable indication of exceedance of time and temperature thresholds following actuation thereof, including a first barcode including a first colorable area and being machine-readable before exceedance of the time and temperature thresholds, a second barcode including a second colorable area and not being machine-readable before exceedance of the time and temperature thresholds, a coloring agent located at a first location on the indicator, a coloring agent pathway operative to allow the coloring agent to move, at a rate which is at least partially a function of time, from the first location to the first and second colorable areas simultaneously for simultaneous coloring thereof upon exceedance of the time and temperature thresholds, thereby causing the first barcode to become unreadable and at the same time causing the second barcode to become machine-readable, and a tamper-proof actuator element operative to actuate the indicator.
US10552718B2	Mobile terminal capable of wireless communication and including a lock screen, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor A mobile terminal that is capable of reducing time and effort of a user when the user gives an execution instruction to an image processing apparatus. A memory device stores a set of instructions. At least one processor executes the set of instructions to detect an image processing apparatus that performs wireless communication, display, on a display unit, a lock screen that accepts an unlocking operation by a user, display, on the display unit, a screen of a control application for controlling an image processing apparatus, after the unlocking operation is accepted, accept, while displaying the lock screen, an execution instruction for controlling the detected image processing apparatus, without accepting the unlocking operation by a user.
US10552717B2	Image processing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium An image processing apparatus uses a first rendering processor that performs rendering of a first area within a page based on print data and a second rendering processor that performs rendering of a second area within the page based on the print data. The image processing apparatus includes a controller, having a processor which executes instructions stored in a memory or having circuitry, being configured to acquire image data arranged across the first area and the second area based on the print data, cause the first rendering processor having accessed the image data to acquire all pixels of the image data and to perform rendering with pixels within the first area of all the pixels of the image data, and cause the second rendering processor having accessed the image data to acquire all the pixels of the image data and to perform rendering with pixels within the second area of all the pixels of the image data.
US10552715B2	Personalized printed product and related method Disclosed is an advertisement product and method that allows a user of said product to create durable, weatherproof and professional signage and similar type product, more specifically advertisement signage.A single said advertisement product and related methods provide the user with several custom and/or standard signage creation options; whereby signs are created by printing predefined and in some cases customizable data group data to durable sign stock.Another disclosed and said advertisement product and method provides the user with an option of creating custom sized and printed labels for application to specific areas of related third party advertisement products, displays, apparatuses and signage, and in doing so creating a professional looking and legible advertisement display products.Further disclosed is a method and process by which system linked contact information as applied to said created advertisement products make available powerful system services to aid in advertising processes.
US10552712B2	Training device and training method for training image processing device The disclosure relates to a training device and method for an image processing device and an image processing device. The training device is used for training first and second image processing units, comprising: a training unit to input a first realistic image without a specific feature into the first image processing unit to generate a first generated image with the specific feature through first image processing, and to input a second realistic image with the specific feature into the second image processing unit to generate a second generated image without the specific feature through second image processing; and a classifying unit performing classification processing to discriminate realistic and generated images, wherein the training unit performs first training processing of training the classifying unit based on the realistic and generated images, and performs second training processing of training the first and second image processing units based on the training result.
US10552711B2	Apparatus and method for extracting sound source from multi-channel audio signal Disclosed is an apparatus and method for extracting a sound source from a multi-channel audio signal. A sound source extracting method includes transforming a multi-channel audio signal into two-dimensional (2D) data, extracting a plurality of feature maps by inputting the 2D data into a convolutional neural network (CNN) including at least one layer, and extracting a sound source from the multi-channel audio signal using the feature maps.
US10552710B2	Hierarchical sequential clustering Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for analyzing sequential data. Analyzing the sequential data can include grouping or clustering data that are similar in some way, e.g., similar ranges of quantities, similar categories, etc. More specifically, a method for hierarchical clustering of sequential data can comprise creating a dotplot of the sequential data. The dotplot can represent a plurality of sequences within the sequential data. A number of clusters represented by the plurality of sequences can be initialized, e.g., one cluster per sequence. A pair of sequences of the plurality of sequences having a longest sequential match can be identified, e.g., based on a line fitting technique, and merged into a single cluster. Identifying a pair of sequences of the plurality of sequences having a longest sequential match and merging the identified pair of sequences into a single cluster can be repeated until a single cluster remains.
US10552709B2	Method, system, and device for learned invariant feature transform for computer images A method for training a feature detector of an image processing device, including the steps of detecting features in the image to generate a score map, computing a center of mass on the score map to generate a location, extracting a patch from the image at the location by a first spatial transformer, estimating an orientation of the patch, rotating the patch in accordance with the patch orientation with a second spatial transformer, and describing the rotated patch to create a description vector.
US10552707B2	Methods and devices for image change detection Pixel values may be obtained for a scene at two or more exposure levels, each exposure level corresponding to at least one of an exposure time interval different from that of another exposure level or an applied gain different from that of another exposure level. The pixel values may be aggregated into superpixel values, wherein each of the superpixel values includes a plurality of pixel values. A background model corresponding to each exposure level may be obtained. The superpixel values corresponding to each exposure level may be compared with the background model corresponding to each exposure level, to obtain an image change detection result for each exposure level. The image change detection results for each exposure level may be aggregated to obtain a combined image change detection result. A region of interest and/or a background region for the scene may be determined according to the combined image change detection result.
US10552703B2	Article recognition apparatus, settlement apparatus and article recognition method According to one embodiment, an article recognition apparatus includes a first interface, a second interface, and a processor. The first interface acquires an image captured by photographing a photography range including an area where articles that are recognition targets are arranged. The second interface acquires depth information from a predetermined position relative to an area corresponding to the photography range. The processor extracts image areas of all products existing in the image by using the depth information, and determines whether an unidentified area due to overlapping of a plurality of the products exists in the image, based on the image areas of the products extracted from the image.
US10552702B2	Method and system for optical character recognition of series of images Systems and methods for performing OCR of a series of images depicting text symbols. An example method comprises: receiving, by a processing device, a current image of a series of images of an original document, wherein the current image at least partially overlaps with a previous image of the series of images; performing optical symbol recognition (OCR) of the current image to produce an OCR text and a corresponding text layout; associating, using a coordinate transformation, at least part of the OCR text with a first cluster of a plurality of clusters of symbol sequences, wherein the OCR text is produced by processing the current image and wherein the symbol sequences are produced by processing one or more previously received images of the series of images; identifying a first median string representing the first cluster of symbol sequences based on a first subset of images of the series of images; identifying a first template field of a document template corresponding to the first cluster based on the first median string representing the first cluster and the text layout of the current image; analyzing the symbol sequences from the first cluster to identify suitable symbol sequences, wherein the suitable symbol sequences satisfy first parameters of the first template field; identifying, for the first cluster, a second-level median string representing the cluster of symbol sequences based on a plurality of the suitable symbol sequences; producing, using the second-level median string, a resulting OCR text representing at least a portion of the first template field of the original document.
US10552698B2	System for multiple algorithm processing of biometric data A system performs processing of biometric information to create multiple templates. This allows biometric systems to be flexible and interact with a plurality of vendors' technologies. Specifically, a biometric sample is captured from a sensor and transmitted to a processing component. The biometric sample is then processed by a first algorithm to yield a biometric template and the template is stored and associated with a record identifier. The biometric sample is also processed by a second algorithm to yield a second template. The second template is stored and associated with the record identifier.
US10552696B2	Electronic device having a biometric sensor An electronic device having a biometric sensor is provided. The electronic device includes a first region including a plurality of first pixels arranged in a first manner and a second region including a plurality of second pixels arranged in a second manner, a biometric sensor disposed in at least a part of the first region, and a processor electrically coupled with the display and the biometric sensor, and configured to receive a user input through the first region, and control the biometric sensor to detect biometric information corresponding to the user input.
US10552692B2	Color learning A computing device, programmed to: acquire a color image and transform the color image into a color-component map. The computer can be further programmed to process the color-component map to detect a traffic sign by determining spatial coincidence and determining temporal consistency between the color-component map and the traffic sign.
US10552688B2	Method and device for detecting objects in the surroundings of a vehicle A method for detecting objects in the surroundings of a vehicle. The method includes reading in a first image, of a vehicle camera, which represents the surroundings taken using a first exposure time and reading in a second image of the vehicle camera, which was taken after the first image and using a second exposure time, the second exposure time differing from the first exposure time, and extracting an image detail from the second image, the image detail representing a smaller area of the surroundings than the first image. During the extracting, a position of the image detail in the second image is determined based on at least one parameter which represents information on travel of the vehicle and/or a position of an infrastructure measure in front of the vehicle and/or which is independent of a moving object that was detected in a preceding step in the image detail.
US10552683B2	Ingesting streaming signals The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for ingesting streaming signals. Signal ingestion modules sample a frame from a raw streaming signal. A preliminary severity or possible event type is computed from the sampled frame. A deeper inspection request is triggered of the raw streaming signal or of another raw streaming signal. Segments of content from the raw streaming signal or the other raw streaming signal are inspected. An actual severity or actual event type is computed from the inspected content. The actual severity or actual event type can be included in a normalized signal.
US10552681B2	User location determination based on augmented reality An augmented reality (AR) client terminal identifies initial location information for a location of a user. A scene picture associated with the location of the user is captured. Image matching is performed between the captured scene picture and scene pictures in a scene picture set. The scene picture set is generated based on the initial location information. Each scene picture in the scene picture set is associated with detailed location information. In response to the captured scene picture matching a particular scene picture in the scene picture set, refined location information for the location of the user is determined based on the detailed location information of the particular scene picture.
US10552680B2	Method, apparatus and computer program product for disambiguation of points of-interest in a field of view A method, apparatus, and computer program product are therefore provided for disambiguating non-deterministic spoken dialog commands as they relate to points-of-interest and information regarding points-of-interest within or near the field of view of a user. An apparatus may include a processor and a memory including program code instructions. The program code instructions are configured to, when executed, cause the apparatus to at least: receive an indication of a user location; receive an indication of a field of view of the user at the location; receive a natural language utterance; generate, from the natural language utterance, a query, where the query includes at least one request determined from the natural language utterance, the location, and the field of view of the user; determine a point-of-interest associated with the query by conducting a search of a database using the generated query; and provide information associated with the point-of-interest via a user interface.
US10552674B2	Computer, document identification method, and system A computer, which is configured to extract an attribute being a character string indicating a feature of a paper-based document, the computer stores template information dictionary information. The computer is configured to: execute character recognition processing on image data on the paper-based document; extract an attribute corresponding to each of the at least one type of attribute, which is defined in each of the plurality of templates, through use of a result of the character recognition processing and the plurality of templates; calculate a score regarding the extracted attribute for each of the plurality of templates; select one of the plurality of templates that has the highest extraction accuracy of the attribute based on the score; and generate output information through use of the selected template.
US10552672B2	Medical image processing apparatus, medical image processing method, and program A medical image processing apparatus includes a unit configured to analyze a target medical image, a unit configured to register information representing an aptitude of each doctor with respect to interpretation of a specific lesion and a modality used by each doctor, and a unit configured to, when the analysis result includes information associated with a lesion, decide an assigned doctor based on information representing the aptitude of each doctor with respect to interpretation of the specific lesion, and, when the analysis result includes no information associated with a lesion, decide an assigned doctor based on the modality.
US10552669B2	System and method for supporting an exercise movement The invention relates to a system for supporting an exercise movement, comprising an object, a detection device (101) for detecting an actual position of the object, a determination device (103) for determining a desired position of the object, and a display device (105) for displaying information on the desired position if the actual position and the desired position are different from each other.
US10552668B2	Automated relationship categorizer and visualizer Aspects differentially drive the graphic display of links overlaid between people in a group photograph as a function of associated relationship type. Individuals are distinguished within the photograph and relationships are identified among the individuals that differ from one another with respect to type of relationship, by extracting relationship data via natural language processing relative to social network data of one or more of the identified individuals. Thus, a graphic display device is driven to display the identified relationships via each of different overlay elements that are depicted directly on the photograph, link respective ones of the identified individuals, and use different graphic elements to convey differences in respective types of the relationships that are determined among the identified individuals.
US10552661B2	Systems and methods for biometric identification Embodiments of an automated method of processing fingerprint images, identity information is extracted from prints typically classified as having “no identification value” because of sparse or missing minutiae by capturing ridge contour information. Bezier approximations of ridge curvature are used as Ridge Specific Markers. Control points arising from Bezier curves generate unique polygons that represent the actual curve in the fingerprint. The Bezier-based descriptors are then grouped together and compared to corresponding reference print Ridge Specific Marker data. The method makes it possible to fuse a plurality of individual latent print portions into a single descriptor of identity and use the resulting data for comparison and identification. Processing of poor quality reference prints according to the methods disclosed renders these prints useable for reference purposes.
US10552659B2	Latent fingerprint development on porous surfaces The disclosed invention pertains to latent fingerprint development, in general, on absorbent surfaces, and more specifically, to make visible latent finger print images of friction ridge material on porous surfaces thereby facilitating comparison of evidence with known finger print images. The preferred embodiment utilizes a contact dry ninhydrin treatment of porous surfaces which are heated by external electromagnetic radiation, such as that obtained from an ordinary microwave oven, to elicit fingerprint images visible without the need for organic solvents or alternate light sources.
US10552654B2	Support for the reposition and finding of objects in a repository facility As disclosed herein, an apparatus receives data from sensors that are arranged in a repository facility so they can capture repository locations of the repository facility and a path in the repository facility. It derives an identification and a position of an object in the repository facility from the received data. It causes storage of the position of the object in association with its identification if a position is not yet stored for the object. If a position is already stored for the object, the apparatus checks the position on the basis of the derived position and causes storage of the derived position in the event of a change. On obtaining an enquiry in regard to the position of an object in the repository facility, the apparatus reads a position of the object, stored in association with the identification of the object, and provides information regarding the position.
US10552653B2	Event timing system and method having integrated participant event location tracking A system and method for determining and tracking a location of a participant traveling along a route wherein the participant being tracked with a radio frequency tag using a radio frequency tag reader and a timing system, the system includes a location device associated with the tag and has a location data receiver for receiving location information from a location providing source, and a wireless communication interface and time stamps each received location information, and transmits tag location data over the wireless interface, and a location detection device that is in wireless communication with the location device receives the transmitted tag location data, and transmits the received location data to the timing system, with the timing system associating the received location data with the tag number as provided by the tag reader provided tag reads of the tag associated with the location device.
US10552651B1	Frequency multiplexed radio frequency identification A radio frequency identification (RFID) system for frequency multiplexing includes, in an exemplary embodiment, an RFID interrogator configured for generating an RFID signal, wherein a channel frequency of the RFID signal changes over time; at least one antenna or transmission line; and a diplexer coupling the RFID interrogator and the antennas or transmission lines and configured for distributing the RFID signal to each of the antennas or transmission lines, respectively, depending on the channel frequency of the RFID signal generated. The antennas or transmission lines are configured to transmit an electromagnetic wave in response to and at the channel frequency of the RFID signal distributed thereto. Other embodiments include RFID systems and methods including a frequency selective surface and both similar and different components and aspects for frequency multiplexing.
US10552645B2	Method for secure communications using NFC cryptographic security module A cryptographic security token having a secure microprocessor, a secure bus connected to said secure microprocessor, a bus isolation microcontroller connected to said secure bus wherein said bus isolation microcontroller comprises firmware for controlling communications through said secure bus to said secure microprocessor, a first NFC antenna connected to said bus isolation microcontroller, and a second NFC antenna connected to said secure microprocessor. The secure microprocessor and said bus isolation microprocessor are powered by energy received through said first NFC antenna and said second NFC antenna. The cryptographic security token receives data from outside said cryptographic security token only through said first NFC antenna. The token or module may further have a bi-state or bi-stable display and a secure memory, each connected to the secure microprocessor by a secure bus.
US10552644B2	Method and apparatus for displaying information content A computing device receives information content, which is rendered in a predefined display area of the display. When the information content satisfies predefined conditions privacy requirement), the computing device generates a shielding layer for the information content before rendering the shielding layer and displays the shielding layer on top of the display area such that the information content becomes invisible. Subsequently, the computing device receives a shielding layer hiding instruction from a user of the computing device. In response to the shielding layer hiding instruction, the computing device hides the shielding layer from the display area and restores the shielding layer on top of the display area after a predefined hiding period in accordance with a shielding layer hiding mechanism.
US10552640B2	In-situ data verification for the cloud Example methods and apparatus asynchronously verify data stored in a cloud data storage system. One embodiment comprises a monitoring circuit that determines if a data auditing condition associated with a cloud storage system or archived data stored in the cloud storage system has been met, a metadata mirror circuit that controls a metadata mirror to provide metadata, including a first checksum, associated with the archived data to the apparatus, a checksum circuit that computes a second checksum based on the archived data, a verification circuit that generates an audit of the first checksum and the second checksum by comparing the second checksum with the first checksum, and a reporting circuit that generates a log of the audit, that provides the log to the data storage system, and that provides a notification of a data integrity failure to a user associated with the archived data.
US10552638B2	Integrity protection of a mandatory access control policy in an operating system using virtual machine extension root operations Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for conducting a signature verification of a mandatory access control policy and provisioning the mandatory access control policy into kernel memory if the signature verification is successful. Additionally, the kernel memory may be protected from unauthorized write operations by one or more processes having system level privileges. In one example, the mandatory access control policy is provisioned without a system reboot.
US10552635B2	Encoding method, encoding device, decoding method and decoding device An encoding program causes a computer to execute a process of inputting thereto a CSV file having a plurality of records each including a plurality of item which are separated by a delimiter. The encoding program causes the computer to execute a process of generating an encoded file having encoded data and an encoded dictionary each in which a specific item included in the records of the input CSV file is encoded by word or numerical value. The encoding program causes the computer to execute a process of generating an encrypted file including an encrypted dictionary in which the encoded dictionary is encrypted, from the generated encoded file.
US10552630B1	System and method to produce a virtually trusted database record System and method to produce a virtual trusted database record, the method including receiving, by a processor coupled to a user-facing communication interface and to a memory, a request for the virtual trusted database record, the virtual trusted database record including a plurality of record data fields. Then identifying a business context of the request and assigning a respective priority to each of the record data fields, based upon the business context. Mapping each of the record data fields to a respective database source for data to populate the respective data field, the respective database source having a predetermined level of authoritativeness based upon the assigned priority. Retrieving data for each data field from the database source mapped to the respective data field, and assembling the retrieved data for each data field to produce the virtual trusted database record.
US10552628B2	Method and device for accessing and processing image A method and device for processing and accessing image are provided. The image processing method includes: one or more protected areas are determined in an original picture to be processed, image data of the one or more protected areas are protected by adding access rights, one or more independent sub-image data corresponding to the one or more protected areas are obtained, and then the one or more protected areas in the original picture are shielded to obtain main image data, the images in the protected areas being invisible in the shielded original picture; and the one or more obtained independent sub-image data and the obtained main image data are associatively stored.
US10552622B2	Multi-layer system for privacy enforcement and monitoring of suspicious data access behavior A method for controlling data access in a data-at-rest system includes executing a link intrusion prevention analysis between multiple layers of the data-at-rest system, introducing a privacy policy at enforcement points that span multiple system layers, and dynamically altering the privacy policy.
US10552618B2	Method and apparatus for transmission of visually encoded data A method for secured data transmission of visually encoded data from a mobile end device to a processing unit includes supplying on a security element of the end device a datum to be transmitted. The datum is encrypted in session-specific fashion through the security element. From the encrypted datum visually encoded image data are generated in the form of a bar code or a sequence of bar codes. The visually encoded image data are displayed through the end device.
US10552617B2	Using biometric verification to grant access to redacted content Some embodiments provide an electronic device with a novel content redaction engine. The content redaction engine of some embodiments determines whether to redact content for output based on whether a user is biometrically verified. When the content redaction engine receives verification data indicating that the user is biometrically verified, the device displays content without any portion redacted. On the other hand, when the content redaction engine does not receive such verification data, the device displays the content with at least a portion redacted. The electronic device of some embodiments additionally includes a biometric reader and a biometric verification engine. The biometric reader reads a person's uniquely identifying biometric data (e.g., thumbprint/fingerprint, iris scan, voice, etc.). This biometric information is then read by the biometric verification engine for comparison to a stored set of verified user biometric data. When the biometric data matches the stored data, the person is verified.
US10552615B2	Threat response systems and methods A security operations system may receive an alarm in response to a detected threat. The alarm may include characteristics of the threat. The system may then generate a record in response to the alarm and populate a form with the characteristics of the threat. The form may be associated with the record and selected in response to a type of the threat. The system may further generate a workflow including at least one but potentially multiple actions. The system also receives security contextual information in response to a request including the characteristics of the threat or associated indicators of the threat and then updates the form to include the security contextual information. The security operations system can evaluate contextual information and request additional information, as well as leverage workflow to take iterative changes to rulesets and configurations, to provide additional security protection or gamer additional information on a threat.
US10552614B2	Authentication system and method An example method includes receiving an indication of a first level of authentication for an electronic device, the first authentication being associated with a first authentication device associated with the user; receiving an indication of a second level of authentication for the electronic device, the second authentication being associated with a second authentication device associated with the user, the second authentication device being different from the first authentication device; and upon receiving the indication of at least the first level of authentication and the second level of authentication, allow access to the electronic device.
US10552610B1	Adaptive virtual machine snapshot update framework for malware behavioral analysis A method for updating a virtual machine disk snapshot for use in instantiating one or more virtual guest instances for malware detection is described. The method features (i) detecting a guest image update package that includes information for updating one or more software components included as part of the virtual machine disk snapshot, and (ii) determining whether the guest image update package is currently contained in a contiguous storage area that is part of the virtual machine disk snapshot. Responsive to determining that the guest image update package is more recent than content currently contained in the contiguous storage area, the guest image update package is inserted into the contiguous storage area that is part of the virtual machine disk snapshot to generate a revised virtual machine disk snapshot that includes the one or more updated software components.
US10552607B2	Moving target defenses for data storage devices Systems and methods for actively securing data storage devices utilize the technique of storage virtualization. In embodiments, would-be cyberattackers are presented with many possible “ports” or “channels” by which to communicate over a network with a data storage device. Unknown to the attacker, at any given time, only one of these ports or channels is the “correct,” or “active,” port; all of the other ports are dummies that do not permit communication with the storage device. The active port is dynamically, randomly, and/or continually reconfigured, seriously impeding the ability of the attacker to access the data storage device through the active port.
US10552606B2	Threat defense techniques In an approach, an intermediary guest manager operates within a virtual machine hosted by a host machine and managed by a hypervisor. The intermediary guest manager manages one or more guest operating systems operating within the virtual machine and implements one or more security services for the guest operating systems. The security services provided to the guest operating systems may include system call filtering, memory protections, secure memory dumps, and others. In some cases, the intermediary guest manager consults a threat defense policy which contains a number of records, where each record has one or more triggers representing suspicious activity and one or more actions to take in response to being triggered. When the intermediary guest manager identifies a request, such as a system call or memory access, that meets the trigger of a particular record, the intermediary guest manager executes the associated actions to remediate the suspicious activity.
US10552603B2	Malicious mobile code runtime monitoring system and methods A system provides for monitoring information received, determining whether received information does or is likely to include executable code, and if so, causes as sandboxed package including the received information and mobile protection code (MPC) to be transferred to a destination device of the received information. At a destination device, the sandboxed package is unbundled such that upon initiating the Downloadable, malicious Downloadable operating attempts are received by the MPC causing (predetermined) corresponding operations to be executed in response to the attempts.
US10552601B2	Deferred subscription activation using blockchain Deferred subscription activation using blockchain is disclosed. A first plurality of blockchain blocks that contain authorized transactions that authorize corresponding activation request transactions associated with software instances of a plurality of software instances is received. A first grace period that differs from a current grace period based at least in part on at least one characteristic of the first plurality of blockchain blocks is determined. A request for activation associated with a first software instance is received. An execution timer for the first software instance is set to the first grace period to allow the first software instance to execute for at least the first grace period.
US10552599B2	Authentication system and method An authentication system and method is provided. The system: (a) provides a keyboard comprising a letters in a m×n format, ‘m’ represents rows, and n represents columns, each row or column includes a sub-set of the letters, (b) provides input receiving identifiers, each input receiving identifier specific to at least one row or column, (c) processes an input on at least one input receiving identifier from the set of input receiving identifiers, (d) identifies a first intended letter from a first sub-set of letters from a corresponding row or column based on the input, (e) repeats steps (c) and (d) until a last intended letter from a last sub-set of letters is identified to obtain intended identified letters, (f) performs a comparison between the intended identified letters with a pre-registered set of letters stored in a memory, and (g) triggers at least one action based on the comparison.
US10552592B2	Multi-modal fusion method for user authentication and user authentication method A user authentication method includes receiving a first input image including information on a first modality; receiving a second input image including information on a second modality; determining at least one first score by processing the first input image based on at least one first classifier, the at least one first classifier being based on the first modality; determining at least one second score by processing the second input image based on at least one second classifier, the at least one second classifier being based on the second modality; and authenticating a user based on the at least one first score, the at least one second score, a first fusion parameter of the at least one first classifier, and a second fusion parameter of the at least one second classifier.
US10552589B2	Controlling access to an interface with a dongle A dongle (100) for controlling access to an interface (200) is provided. The dongle (100) includes a dongle memory (120) configured to communicatively couple to the interface (200), the dongle memory (120) comprising a program code (122) that includes authorized menus (122a), wherein the program code (122) is configured to authorize access to one or more menus on the interface (200).
US10552588B2	Enabling a software application to be executed on a hardware device The invention provides a method, a hardware circuit and a hardware device for enabling a software application to be executed on a hardware device in dependence of the hardware circuit, while preventing the execution of a binary copy of the application in another hardware device. Challenge data originating from the software application is input to a hardware circuit of the hardware device, wherein the hardware circuit is configured to perform a deterministic function. Response data is generated by the hardware device, which is used to manipulate at least a part of the software application to thereby enable the software application to be executed.
US10552586B1	Systems, apparatus and methods for management of computer-based software licenses Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, are disclosed for managing resources, such as computer software licenses, in container systems, including multi-cloud systems. The use of supply chain economics alone and in combination with other techniques offers a unified platform to integrate, optimize or improve, and automate resource management in a container system. These techniques may be used to monitor and control the delivery of service level agreements and software licenses. They may also be used to monitor and control contention of computing resources in a container system, and to suspend or terminate computing resources.
US10552584B1	Content access control across media devices Described herein are systems and methods for controlling access by a user to content. Access content limits may be set and enforced across the plurality of media devices. A user exceeding the limits may be disallowed from access to the content on any or all of the plurality of media devices, regardless of authorization by a digital rights management system. The content access limits for a user may be specified by one or more of time, cost, content category, and so forth.
US10552583B2	Secure portable computer and security method A computer includes a processor, position determining means for determining the location of the computer, and control means for controlling the operation of the processor. The control means are in communication with the position determining means and control the operation of the processor in response to location information provided to the control means by the position determining means.
US10552582B2	System and method using a combined modality optical probe A system and method using a combined modality optical probe is provided. The system comprises: light source(s) providing excitation light; a first optical analysis device configured to receive light in a first range and analyze it using a first optical modality; a second optical analysis device configured to receive light in a second range and analyze it using a second optical modality slower than the first modality; an optical probe configured to: convey the excitation light to a tissue sample; receive the light in the first and second ranges from the sample; and, one or more optical conduits configured to: convey the excitation light from the light source(s) to the optical probe; convey the light in the first range from the optical probe to the first optical analysis device; and convey the light in the second range from the optical probe to the second optical analysis device.
US10552581B2	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.
US10552577B2	Medication requisition fulfillment system and method A system and associated method are provided for fulfillment of medication requisitions corresponding to contained medication units. Requisition fulfillment logic may be included to provide decision data to a patient care provider for use in selecting one of a plurality of different fulfillment sites to fill a given medication requisition. A requisition router may route the medication requisition to a selected one of the plurality of fulfillment sites. The fulfillment sites may provide medication requisition metadata (e.g., data relating to the preparation and handling of medication units) to a medication requisition database in corresponding relation to the corresponding medication requisitions fulfilled by the fulfillment sites. The medication requisition metadata may be stored in the medication requisition database and accessed to facilitate enhanced management functionalities in relation to medication units dispensed by patient care providers.
US10552574B2	System and method for identifying a medical device Systems and methods for medical device identification are described. One embodiment is A medical device identification system including a medical device having an identifying symbol for providing information to a user about the medical device, and a monitoring system comprising a processing circuit and a communications interface. The processing circuit includes a device identification module configured to receive input from a detection device, via the communications interface, for identifying the medical device, and a device information module configured to provide identifying information about the medical device. The medical device may be a tool or an implant. The identifying symbol may be a shape, and the symbol may further include an identifying color.
US10552569B2	Method for calculating non-correctable EUV blank flatness for blank dispositioning The present disclosure generally relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to mask structures and methods of manufacture. The method includes determining a plane through a frontside surface and a backside surface of a mask, each plane representing a flatness of the frontside surface and the backside surface, respectively; subtracting, using at least one computing device, a difference between the plane of the frontside surface and the plane of the backside surface to find a thickness variation; generating, using the at least one computing device, a fitting to fit the thickness variation; and subtracting, using the at least one computing device, the fitting from the thickness variation to generate a residual structure for collecting a residual flatness measurement.
US10552568B2	Method of modifying cell and global connection routing method A method of modifying a cell includes identifying a maximum overlapped pin group. The method further includes determining a number of pins in the maximum overlapped pin group. The method further includes determining a span region of the maximum overlapped pin group. The method further includes comparing the number of pins and the span region to determine a global tolerance of the cell. The method further includes increasing a length of at least one pin of the maximum overlapped pin group in response to the global tolerance failing to satisfy a predetermined threshold. The method further includes fabricating a mask based on the increased length of the at least one pin.
US10552566B2	Method of designing semiconductor device A method of designing a semiconductor device including a memory device, a buffer, and a plurality of head circuits connected to the buffer is disclosed. The method includes generating a layout pattern of a power line of the semiconductor device, generating an improved layout pattern of a pre-routing line that connects the buffer to the head circuits, and generating a layout pattern of signal lines of the semiconductor device. The signal lines include both normal signal lines and signal lines for a central clock of the semiconductor device. A layout of the semiconductor device includes a plurality of layers.
US10552562B2	Leverage cycle stealing within optimization flows A method, computer program product, and system for calculating an input timing slack at an input to a latch by subtracting an input arrival time to the latch from an input required arrival time, calculating an output timing slack at an output to the latch by subtracting an output arrival time of the latch from an output required arrival time from the latch, performing cycle stealing to improve the output timing slack by modifying the input required arrival time and the output arrival time, reducing the output timing slack by a pessimism amount, performing optimization in the integrated circuit to improve the input timing slack and the output timing slack, and increasing the output timing slack by the pessimism amount.
US10552561B2	Hybrid out of context hierarchical design flow for hierarchical timing convergence of integrated circuits for out of context signoff analysis A computer-implemented method for a hierarchical design flow for deterministic or statistical timing convergence of VLSI circuits enabling design reuse, concurrency and out of context signoff analysis includes: defining, by a computing device, component clock definitions; performing static timing analysis on a lower level component of a circuit design; performing a timing closure for the lower level component based on performing the static timing analysis; generating a timing abstract associated with the lower level component; performing static timing analysis on a higher level component of the circuit design using the timing abstract and the results of the out-of-context timing analysis of the lower level component; generating smart guidance assertions based on performing the static timing analysis on the higher level component; and storing the smart guidance assertions for performing a subsequent timing analysis on the lower level component.
US10552560B2	Controlling real time during embedded system development Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of methods, systems, and apparatus that can used to control real-time events (e.g., the real-time clock) during the design, simulation, or verification of an embedded system. In one exemplary embodiment disclosed herein, for example, a real-time clock signal is generated and tasks defined by an embedded software application are triggered with the real-time clock signal. In this embodiment, the embedded software application is executed by an embedded processor with a real-time operating system (“RTOS”), and the real-time clock signal is controllable independent of a processor clock signal driving the embedded processor in a manner that allows the real-time clock to have a different time base than the processor clock.
US10552556B2	System and method for performance testing of scalable distributed network transactional databases A system for performance testing of scalability implementations and testing of stability in blockchain database implementations. The testing system comprises a cluster of private blockchain nodes instantiated on a network and a control console that allows the user to set the number of nodes in the network and the number of clients for testing of a particular blockchain implementation. Performance metrics are established and tested. The test system allows for staged testing using generated databases, wallets, and accounts starting with simple 5-node networks, expanding to larger networks, then testing with decreased block validation times, continuing to testing using alternative, faster trust schemes, then testing implementation on divided blockchains, and finally testing on shared blockchains.
US10552555B2	Method for the prediction of turbomachine performances Computer implemented method for prediction of performances of a compressor includes modelling a CFD gas path, modelling vanes and blades as non-adiabatic solids, building a model of the rotor including at least a first rotor solid domain facing a plurality of vanes non-adiabatic solids and at least a second plurality of rotor solid domains attached to a plurality of blades non-adiabatic solids, building a model of the stator including at least a first casing solid domain attached to a plurality of vanes non-adiabatic solids and at least a second casing solid domain facing a plurality of blades non-adiabatic solids, modelling one or more solid rotor interfaces, each solid rotor interface providing an heat exchange link between a respective pair of adjacent rotor solid domains, and modelling one or more solid stator interfaces, each solid rotor interface providing an heat exchange link between a respective pair of adjacent stator solid domains.
US10552553B2	Capillary pressure analysis for petrophysical statistical modeling A multiple curve capillary pressure data set derived from a core sample is discriminated into groups of similar curves representing similar pore structure groups. Primary reservoir development controlling factors (RDCFs) are identified for each pore structure group and a set of capillary pressure type curves are created for each pore structure group to statistically characterize saturation-pressure response. Data is processed from a core sample log to derive identified RDCFs from the log data. A preliminary reservoir development designation log is derived by applying cutoffs to the log-based RDCFs and a preliminary saturation distribution equivalent to the preliminary reservoir development designation log is obtained by applying the capillary pressure type curves. A capillary pressure type uncertainty envelope is compared with saturation measurements from the log. The modelled saturation from the average capillary pressure type curve is recalculated to generate an optimized reservoir development designation.
US10552551B2	Generation of tool paths for shore assembly A tool path for treating a shoe upper may be generated to treat substantially only the surface of the shoe bounded by a bite line. The bite line may be defined to correspond to the junction of the shoe upper and a shoe bottom unit. Bite line data and three-dimensional profile data representing at least a portion of a surface of a shoe upper bounded by a bite line may be utilized in combination to generate a tool path for processing the surface of the upper, such as automated application of adhesive to the surface of a lasted upper bounded by a bite line.
US10552550B2	Technologies for physical programming Technologies for physical programming include a model compute system to determine one or more physical blocks assembled in a constructed model. The model compute system determines rules associated with the one or more physical blocks in which at least one rule defines a behavior of the constructed model and determines a program stack for execution by the model compute system based on the rules associated with the one or more physical blocks.
US10552547B2	Real-time translation evaluation services for integrated development environments Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer-implemented method of real-time translation evaluation service. A plurality of text translations are received for an input text from a plurality of different machine translation servers. A similarity analyzer is executed that generates a first similarity score for each given text translation of the plurality of text translations by comparing the given text translation with others of the plurality of text translations. A translation evaluator is executed that generates a second similarity score for each given text translation by comparing similarity of the given text translation with a plurality of comparison factors that include company word/term usage guidelines and product translation consistency rules. A best translation is identified and transmitted to an integrated development environment. The identification being based at least in part on the first similarity scores and the second similarity scores.
US10552543B2	Conversational authoring of event processing applications A computer natural language conversational agent authors an event-processing rule by carrying out a dialog in natural language with a user. A data model that customizes a dialog and building of the event-processing rule is received. A partial tree data structure is constructed based on a rule's grammar, and specialized based on tokens extracted from the data model. An utterance is received from a user and interpreted according to the grammar as specialized to the data model. Based on the interpreting of the utterance, the grammar, the data model, and context of interactions with the user, a natural language prompt is determined for the computer natural language conversational agent to output to the user. The partial tree data structure is filled based on the natural language prompt and the utterance from the user. The event-processing rule is generated based on the partial tree data structure filled during the dialog.
US10552538B2	Validating topical relevancy of data in unstructured text, relative to questions posed Techniques disclose validating user-provided text feedback for topical relevance relative to a question asked. A form with at least a first field is received. The first field includes unstructured text content provided as feedback in response to a question. The unstructured text content of the first field is evaluated to identify an answer type. A measure of relevance of the unstructured text content relative to the question is determined based on the evaluation.
US10552536B2	System and method for analyzing and categorizing text A system and method are provided for analyzing elements of text for comparative purposes. Text is provided to the system in an electronic format readable by the system. The system divides the text data into scenes, which may then be compared against a range of various values across a database of scenes from different texts. Data from one text can be used to identify other texts with similar styles, or identify texts with different styles, and to rank those differences on a spectrum. The system may use data from one text to identify other texts that a user may like, and present information about the text to the user in various forms.
US10552529B2	Data change alerts in a collaborative environment A method for generating data change alerts in a collaboration environment and highlighting changes. The method generates a message that contains information on a data change event, in response to a first user changing data in a cell of a data table. The method further determines whether there is a representational object that is based on the data being changed, and if so, alerting a second user, who is associated with the representational object, of the data change. Moreover, the data change is highlighted in the representational object.
US10552527B2	Multiplexed forms A system for presenting and executing a multiplicity of interactive forms as a single document includes a server having one or more copies of a multi-form package and configured to deliver a copy of the package to a requesting device upon request. The system also includes a client computing device configured to request and receive the multi-form package, the first computing device including an application program and a multi-form document engine configured to receive commands from the application program and, in response, cause forms from the multi-form package to be presented and executed.
US10552526B2	Graphical user interface for field calculations Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores a program executable by at least one processing unit of a device. The program provides, through a graphical user interface (GUI), a tool for creating a field calculation that operates on data defined in a relational data model. The program also receives, through the GUI, the field calculation created using the tool. The program further generates data for a data integration operation based on the field calculation. The program also performs the data integration operation based on the generated data.
US10552525B1	Systems, methods and apparatuses for automated form templating Systems and methods are disclosed for the automated templating of electronic forms. The templates can include user input fields corresponding to user input elements of the electronic form. The attributes of the user input field can be determined based on contextual data proximate to the user input element, such as the surrounding text. The templates can be used in various collaborative environments and electronic workflows.
US10552524B1	Systems and methods for in-line document tagging and object based data synchronization Systems and methods are provided for in-line document tagging and object-based synchronization. An exemplary system may comprise one or more processors and a non-transitory computer-readable memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform a method. The method may comprise: receiving, via an in-line tagging interface, user input, the user input being associated with one or more fields of a document; applying one or more first document tags to the document, the one or more first document tags being applied in-line with the received user input; and generating a data object from the document based on the one or more documents tags, the data object being associated with an object-based data modeling framework.
US10552523B2	Automatically identifying synonyms within a token-based database management system In some embodiments, a system for automatically identifying synonyms within a token-based data management system includes a database configured to store a plurality of records, and a computing device having a synonym locator configured to create a token synonym mapping by automatically identifying token synonyms within the plurality of records based on a statistical analysis of the plurality of records. The token synonym mapping includes a first token linked to a second token, where the second token is a valid synonym of the first token. The computing device includes a synonym standardizer configured to standardize at least one record of the plurality of records based on the token synonym mapping such that, when the at least one record includes the second token, the synonym standardizer is configured to automatically replace the second token with the first token.
US10552521B2	Analyzing a click path in a spherical landscape viewport Generating reports. Identifying user webpage interaction information and source webpage content. Determining a portion of the source code that corresponds to the user webpage interaction information. Determining interactions of the one or more interactions associated with each of a plurality of users. Determining a click path associated with each user. Determining a similarity score between a first and a second source webpage. Determining the similarity score exceeds a threshold value. Combining a portion of each click path associated with the first source webpage with a portion of each click path associated with the second source webpage. Merging a first portion of source code associated with the first source webpage with a second portion of source code associated with the second source webpage. Creating a three-dimensional representation that includes the combined portion of each click path associated with the first and the second webpage and the merged source code.
US10552519B2	Auto-scroll on in-context modules Systems and methods are disclosed which may provide modules that may be displayed in the context of a website that allow for autoscrolling between the modules upon entering required information in the modules or completing actions required by the modules. The modules may be modules for paying for items via PayPal and may include modules for entering payment information, billing information, a shipping address, creating an account, and accepting terms and conditions. The modules may be displayed within the context of the webpage when selecting a pay with PayPal link without navigating away from the webpage. As a user enters information into a module, the module will automatically scroll to the next module if the module permits automatic scrolling.
US10552518B2	Administration of web page Manipulation of a Web page displayed through a first device as a function of user interaction with a second device is contemplated. The manipulation may include operating the second device as a touchscreen or other gesture-based controllable device and automatically providing corresponding navigation within the Web page as a function of interactions registered through the second device.
US10552517B2	Aggregating content from one or more documents A computer implemented methods to allow a user to copy content from a rendered document into a target document using a linking command. The target document can be a new document or an existing document, that is not rendered. The copied content can include a link to the document from which the content was copied from. The linking command can be a refer command or a send to file command. A refer command allows a user to copy and paste the content from a rendered document into a target document with text associated with the refer command remaining in the rendered document. A send to file command allows a user to copy and paste the content from a rendered document into a target document with no trace left in the rendered document.
US10552512B2	System and method for determining sensor margins and/or diagnostic information for a sensor Systems and techniques for determining sensing margins and/or diagnostic information associated with a sensor are presented. A statistics component generates statistical data based on sensor data associated with a sensing device. A margin component generates sensing margins for the sensing device based on the statistical data. An output component generates an indicator for a changing condition associated with the sensing device based on the sensing margins. In an aspect, a diagnostic component generates diagnostic data for the sensing device based on the statistical data.
US10552510B2	Vector-by-matrix multiplier modules based on non-volatile 2D and 3D memory arrays Systems and methods for a vector-by-matrix multiplier (VMM) module having a three-dimensional memory matrix of nonvolatile memory devices each having a charge storage, an activation input, a signal input and an output signal in a range that is based on a stored charge and an input signal during assertion of the activation signal. The memory devices are arranged in two dimensional (XY) layers that are vertically disposed along (Z) columns. The activation inputs of each layer are connected to a same activation signal, the memory devices of rows in a first dimension (X) of each layer have signal inputs connected to different input signals and have signal outputs connected in series to a common output. The memory devices of rows in a second dimension (Y) of each layer have signal inputs connected to a set of the same inputs along the first dimension.
US10552506B2	Contextual breadcrumbs during navigation A system and method of providing contextual breadcrumbs is disclosed. A current page may be caused to be displayed on a device. Contextual breadcrumbs may be caused to be displayed on the current page. The contextual breadcrumbs may comprise a simplified representation of a first different page. The first different page may be different from the current page. The simplified representation of the first different page may comprise context information regarding a function of the first different page. The context information regarding a function of the first different page may comprise a visual representation of functional options of the first different page. At least one of the contextual breadcrumbs may be configured to enable the user to act upon the functional options of the first different page from the current page.
US10552504B1	Selecting, ranking, and/or presenting microsite content A server device is configured to receive criteria that indicate when a microsite is to be provided to a user device. The user device is configured to obtain sensor data and user profile data and send the sensor data and the user profile data to the server device. The server device is configured to receive the sensor data and the user profile data, identify a relevant microsite, and provide information regarding the relevant microsite to the user device. In some cases, the service device is configured to identify that a particular microsite has been purchased by a user of the user device and provide information, to the user device, identifying that the particular microsite has been purchased.
US10552503B2	Content evaluation method and server in network environment The present invention relates to a content evaluation method and a content evaluation server in a network environment. The present invention compares a content tag of an applicant with an evaluator tag for evaluating contents such that contents may be evaluated by an evaluator in accordance with the content tag, ensuring a more reliable evaluation through content evaluation by suitable evaluators.
US10552499B2	Landmark recommendation method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium integrated with life behavior analysis and social network A landmark recommendation method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium integrated with life behavior analysis and social network. The aforementioned method analyzes device time information and device location information of a user device operated by a user so as to provide life behavior information related to the user, analyzes the life behavior information so as to provide a user preference value, weights a plurality of landmarks located in an inquiring landmark area according to the user preference value and a social recommendation value, and then selects a recommendation list from the landmark which meets a threshold value.
US10552498B2	Ground truth generation for machine learning based quality assessment of corpora A mechanism is provided in a computing device configured with instructions executing on a processor of the computing device to implement a ground truth generation system for quality assessment scoring of articles in a corpus. The ground truth generation system receives recommendations of a set of recommended articles from subject matter experts. The ground truth generation system identifies a set of non-recommended articles. A topic clustering component within the ground truth generation system performs topic clustering on a combination of the set of recommended articles and the set of non-recommended articles to form a set of topic clusters containing recommended articles and non-recommended articles. The ground truth generation system identifies a first number of recommended articles and a second number of non-recommended articles in each of the set of topic clusters to form a quality assessment training set. The mechanism trains a quality assessment machine learning model using the quality assessment training set.
US10552486B2	Graph method for system sensitivity analyses A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and system for determination of critical parts and component correlations in a circuit using a correlation graph and centrality analysis including; receiving a circuit layout portion of a larger circuit layout, converting the circuit layout portion into a correlation graph representing components as nodes and connecting wires as edges, determining, using ground truth and Naïve Bayes to determine correlation weighting, scaling the correlation graph to represent the larger circuit, and presenting the larger correlation graph on a graphical user interface (GUI).
US10552485B1	Performance percentile determination and display A system for determining percentiles for a performance data includes an interface configured to receive a request to determine a percentile value for the performance data and a processor configured to determine relevant data based at least in part on the request, determine an ordered data list map, determine the percentile value based at least in part on the ordered data list map, and provide the percentile value for the performance data.
US10552480B1	Package management for asset processing A digital asset, such as may be created as part of a game development process, can go through various stages of development where various types of processing are performed. Some of this processing requires the asset to be in specific formats. In order to ensure that a computing device has the appropriate packages installed for processing the asset, an asset processor tool can monitor the assets and send information to a package management service regarding an asset that is unable to be processed on the computing device. The package management service can attempt to determine an appropriate package for the processing, and provide that package to the computing device. In some cases the identification and installation of packages can be performed automatically, while in other cases a user may need to select a recommended package, approve installation, or provide payment, among other such options.
US10552477B2	Identifying product metadata from an item image A metadata extraction machine accesses an image that depicts an item. The item depicted in the image may have an attribute that describes a characteristic of the item and an attribute descriptor that corresponds to the attribute of the item and specifies a value of the attribute. The metadata extraction machine performs an analysis of the image. The analysis may include identifying the attribute descriptor corresponding to the attribute based on image segmentation of the image. The metadata extraction machine transmits a communication to a device of a user based on the identifying of the attribute descriptor corresponding to the attribute of the item depicted in the image.

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