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US10610596B2	Methods of making solid vaccine compositions having reduced foaming Disclosed and claimed are methods for making solid vaccine compositions that have reduced foaming when mixed with liquid diluent. The methods include mixing an effective amount of a foam controlling agent with at least one anhydrous antigenic component, a stabilizer, and an effervescent agent. The foam controlling agent is a sugar alcohol, such as mannitol. The effective amount of sugar alcohol is about 15% to about 40% by weight of the solid vaccine composition. And, upon adding a diluent to the solid vaccine composition, the effervescent agent reacts to form gas in situ, and foam resulting from the gas is reduced.
US10610589B2	Method and apparatus for creating structured water by exposing water transversal and longitudinal to ultra- low frequency electromagmetic fields An apparatus and method is provided for healing and regeneration of live human and animal bodies and influencing interaction and intercommunication at the cellular level. The apparatus can include one or more environmental and/or body sensors. An electrical circuit can also be provided to produce a square or trapezoidal wave that is delivered to a transducer for application, preferably timed at specific frequencies Delta, Theta, Alpha, to Beta, based on information received from the one or more sensors. In certain embodiments, a DC power source can be provided which allows the apparatus to be portable. A wireless communication module can also be provided. An apparatus and method for structuring water is also disclosed.
US10610587B2	Adjuvant composition containing at least one influenza virus neutralizing and binding molecule and vaccine composition containing same This invention relates to an adjuvant composition containing at least one binding molecule for neutralizing influenza virus and a vaccine composition containing the same. The composition containing at least one binding molecule for neutralizing influenza virus is capable of increasing the effects of a vaccine, and can thus be used as an adjuvant, which increases an immune response upon vaccine administration, and is very useful in the prevention of diseases caused by viruses.
US10610580B2	Attenuated Bordetella strains A mutated Bordetella strain comprising at least a mutated ptx gene, a deleted or mutated dnt gene and a heterologous ampG gene is provided. The attenuated mutated Bordetella strain can be used in an immunogenic composition or a vaccine for the treatment or prevention of a Bordetella infection. Use of the attenuated Bordetella strain for the manufacture of a vaccine or immunogenic composition, as well as methods for protecting mammals against infection by Bordetella are also provided.
US10610578B2	Checkpoint inhibitor and a whole cell mycobacterium for use in cancer therapy An immunomodulator for use in the treatment, reduction, inhibition or control of a neoplastic disease in a patient intended to undergo checkpoint inhibition therapy, simultaneously, separately or sequentially with administration of the immunomodulator. The immunomodulator preferably comprises a whole cell Mycobacterium, for example, M. vaccae or M. obuense.
US10610577B2	Checkpoint inhibitor and a whole cell Mycobacterium for use in cancer therapy An immunomodulator is for use in the treatment, reduction, inhibition or control of a neoplastic disease in a patient intended to undergo checkpoint inhibition therapy, simultaneously, separately or sequentially with administration of the immunomodulator. The immunomodulator preferably includes a whole cell Mycobacterium, such as M. vaccae or M. obuense.
US10610576B2	Precision glycoconjugates as therapeutic tools The present description relates to glycoconjugates, glycoconjugate immunogens and glycoconjugate vaccines comprising carbohydrate antigens coupled to immunogenic carrier proteins, or materials used for detection and screening of resulting antibodies. Improved methods of more directly and precisely conjugating carbohydrate antigens to free thiol groups of immunogenic carrier proteins are described, including “click-chemistry” approaches based on photocatalytic thiol-ene reactions.
US10610575B2	Method for improving feed digestibility in bovine animals The invention relates to the use of at least one bacterial amylase in combination with a mixture of at least two essential oil compounds selected from the group consisting of thymol, eugenol, meta-cresol, vaniline and guajacol in feed for ruminant animals of the subfamily Bovinae for improving weight gain, milk yield and/or Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR). Examples of bovine animals are beef cattle and dairy cows.
US10610572B2	Compositions in the form of an injectable aqueous solution including at least human insulin A21G and a glucagon suppressor with prandial action A composition in the form of an injectable aqueous solution, with pH from 3.5 to 4.4, including at least human insulin A21G and at least one glucagon suppressor with prandial action. In an embodiment, the glucagon suppressor with prandial action is selected from an amylin analog or an amylin receptor agonist or a GLP-1 analog or a GLP-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA). In an embodiment, the glucagon suppressor with prandial action is an amylin analog or an amylin receptor agonist. In an embodiment, the glucagon suppressor peptide with prandial action is pramlintide. Also, a method for obtaining human insulin A21G, includes at least one step of reacting human insulin A21G, B31R, B32R (insulin glargine) with rat carboxypeptidase B at an insulin/carboxypeptidase ratio from 500 to 2000, at a pH from 7.5 to 8.5 and a temperature from 20 to 30° C. for 10 to 20 hours.
US10610570B2	Treating rotator cuff conditions This document provides methods and materials related to treating rotator cuff conditions (e.g., rotator cuff tendonitis or rotator cuff injuries such as partial rotator cuff tears). For example, methods and materials for using BMP-5 polypeptides to treat rotator cuff conditions as well as methods and materials for using inhibitors of SIRT6, SIRT7, and/or HDAC10 polypeptide expression or activity to treat rotator cuff conditions are provided.
US10610566B1	Inducing CNS neurite outgrowth with Momordica cochinchinensis extract Compositions and methods for preventing and treating central nervous system (CNS) diseases and disorders (e.g., Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, etc.). The composition includes an aqueous extract of the Momordica cochinchinensis seed, specifically total plant protein isolate containing Momordica cochinchinensis trypsin inhibitor II. The method of preventing/treating the CNS disease includes administering a therapeutically effective amount of the Momordica cochinchinensis seed extract to a patient. The seed extract functions as a nerve growth factor mimetic and can penetrate the BBB and initiate CNS neuronal outgrowth/regeneration.
US10610565B2	Prevention and treatment of ocular side effects with a cyclosporin Therapeutic methods including administration of cyclosporin to an eye of a mammal in combination with administration of a therapeutically active agent effective for treatment of a cancer to said mammal to treat an ocular condition associated with the use of said therapeutically active agent are disclosed herein.
US10610558B2	Prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent for NAFLD/NASH The present invention provides a prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), and particularly non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) comprising an ume (Japanese apricot) juice concentrate or a processed product thereof. The prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent is obtained by utilizing a component contained in a plant or a processed product thereof, and hence is safe and easily taken. It has been confirmed that when the ume juice concentrate or the processed product thereof is orally administered to a streptozocin (STZ)-induced NAFLD model mouse or an STZ-induced NASH model mouse, liver fibrogenesis can be reduced.
US10610557B2	Bauhinia extract and uses thereof Disclosed herein is the novel use of use of a Bauhinia spp. extract, which may upregulate neprilysin, induce autophagy, protect neuron from amyloidopathy or tauopathy, and/or promote neurite outgrowth, thus the Bauhinia spp. extract of the present disclosure may be used as a dietary supplement for the prophylaxis or treatment of amyloid related neurodegenerative diseases so as to ameliorate or alleviate symptoms associated with the amyloid related neurodegenerative diseases.
US10610554B2	Oncolytic expression vector comprising a nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding GADD34 Malignant tumors that are resistant to conventional therapies represent significant therapeutic challenges. An embodiment of the present invention provides an oncolytic virus capable of killing target cells, such as tumor cells. In various embodiments presented herein, the oncolytic viruses described herein are suitable for treatment of several types of cancer, including glioblastoma.
US10610553B2	Replication-competent vesicular stomatitis viruses This document provides methods and materials related to vesicular stomatitis viruses. For example, replication-competent vesicular stomatitis viruses, nucleic acid molecules encoding replication-competent vesicular stomatitis viruses, methods for making replication-competent vesicular stomatitis viruses, and methods for using replication-competent vesicular stomatitis viruses to treat cancer or infectious diseases are provided.
US10610550B2	Compositions comprising bacterial strains The invention provides compositions comprising bacterial strains for treating and preventing cancer.
US10610549B2	Composition comprising bacterial strains The invention provides compositions comprising one or more bacterial strains for use in a method of reducing the level of Enterobacteriaceae in the gastrointestinal tract.
US10610547B2	Microbiota restoration therapy (MRT), compositions and methods of manufacture Microbiota restoration therapy compositions and methods for manufacturing, processing, and/or delivering microbiota restoration therapy compositions are disclosed. An example method for manufacturing a microbiota restoration therapy composition may include collecting a human fecal sample and adding a diluent to the human fecal sample to form a diluted sample. The diluent may include a cryoprotectant. The method may also include mixing the diluted sample with a mixing apparatus and filtering the diluted sample. Filtering may form a filtrate. The method may also include transferring the filtrate to a sample bag and sealing the sample bag.
US10610546B2	Bacteria engineered to reduce hyperphenylalaninemia Genetically engineered bacteria, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of modulating and treating diseases associated with hyperphenylalaninemia are disclosed.
US10610544B2	Insulin resistance and beta cell function using lysine-based supplements A method of improving insulin resistance by using a supplement may include: administering the supplement including lysine, zinc, and vitamin C to a user; monitoring an insulin resistance level before and after the supplement is administered in a bio-sample; and determining a change in a dose of the supplement based on the insulin resistance level found in the bio-sample.
US10610543B2	Cholestyramine pellets and methods for preparation thereof The invention relates to small cholestyramine pellets that can be prepared by extrusion. The pellets have a high cholestyramine loading and are stable enough to be coated with one or more coating layers. The invention also relates to a process for the preparation of such pellets and to a multiparticulate drug delivery system comprising such pellets.
US10610542B2	Treatment of bone marrow edema (oedema) with polysulfated polysaccharides A method for the treatment of bone marrow edema in a mammal comprising administering an effective amount of a polysulfated polysaccharide including salts thereof, to a mammal in need of such treatment.
US10610539B2	Cardiac glycoside analogs and their use in methods for inhibition of viral infection The present invention provides methods for inhibition of human herpes virus replication in a subject comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a pharmaceutically acceptable composition comprising a cardiac glycoside analog, including for example, a digitoxin analog and pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Other methods of the present invention include administering a digitoxin analog along with at least one other biologically active compound and pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Methods for inhibition of the α3 subtype of the Na/K ATPase in a subject comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a pharmaceutically acceptable composition comprising a digitoxin analog are also provided.
US10610531B2	Concentrated methotrexate solutions Concentrated methotrexate solutions are described which are suitable for the use of an active substance in the production of a parenterally administered medicament for the treatment of inflammatory autoimmune diseases. The methotrexate is added to a pharmaceutically acceptable solvent at a concentration of more than 25 mg/ml.
US10610530B2	Salts of the Janus kinase inhibitor (R)-3-(4-(7H-pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidin-4-yl)-1H-pyrazol-1-yl)-3-cyclopentylpropanenitrile The present invention provides salt forms of (R)-3-(4-(7H-pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidin-4-yl)-1H-pyrazol-1-yl)-3-cyclopentylpropanenitrile that are useful in the modulation of Janus kinase activity and are useful in the treatment of diseases related to activity of Janus kinases including, for example, immune-related diseases, skin disorders, myeloid proliferative disorders, cancer, and other diseases.
US10610526B2	Nicotine replacement therapy products comprising synthetic nicotine A composition suitable for use in nicotine replacement therapy products includes a nicotine product that includes a synthetic nicotine that is substantially free of one or more contaminants and/or impurities normally associated with tobacco-derived nicotine. For example, the synthetic nicotine is substantially free of one or more of nicotine-1′-N-oxide, nicotyrine, nornicotyrine, 2′,3-bipyridyl, cotinine, anabasine, and/or anatabine. The composition further comprises one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients, additives and/or carriers. The nicotine replacement therapy products may include any number of such products, including transdermal nicotine delivery patches, nicotine gums, synthetic chewing tobacco, synthetic snuff, and synthetic strips (e.g., dissolvable synthetic tobacco). Additionally, a method of treating nicotine addiction includes administering a nicotine replacement composition, e.g., via a nicotine replacement therapy product, to a user.
US10610519B2	Methods and compositions for treating hyperhidrosis Aspects of the disclosure include methods for treating hyperhidrosis in a subject with a composition including a muscarinic antagonist and a muscarinic agonist. In practicing methods according to certain embodiments, a therapeutically effective amount of a composition including a muscarinic antagonist or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and a muscarinic agonist or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof is administered to a subject and is sufficient to reduce hyperhidrosis in the subject and to reduce a dry mouth side effect of the muscarinic antagonist. Compositions for practicing the subject methods are also described as well as dose units containing one or more of the subject compositions.
US10610518B2	Presbyopia treatments Described herein are methods and compositions for the treatment of ocular conditions and for the improvement of vision parameters using pharmaceutically acceptable ophthalmic pilocarpine formulations. A nonlimiting example of an ocular condition that may be treated with the methods and compositions disclosed herein is presbyopia.
US10610514B2	Composition comprising compound inhibiting interactions of MBD2 and P66α for anti-metastasis and prevention and treatment of cancer disease The present invention relates to a composition including an inhibitor against the function of an Mi-2/NuRD chromatin remodeling complex for inhibiting metastasis and preventing and treating cancer diseases, and more particularly, the composition may inhibit the MBD2-p66α (GATAD2A) interaction by means of the Mi-2/NuRD CRC function inhibitor, and thus is expected to be effectively used as a composition capable of inhibiting metastasis and preventing and treating cancer diseases.
US10610512B2	MDI related products and methods of use Provided herein are embodiments related to metered dose inhalers and formulations for such inhalers. In some embodiments, the inhalers are configured so as to allow a more comfortable experience for the subject receiving the formulation. In some embodiments, the formulation comprises various ingredients, such as terpenes and/or waxes, which can further enhance the level of comfort for the subject receiving the formulation.
US10610507B2	Methods for the treatment of sialorrhea The present invention provides safe and effective methods for the treatment of sialorrhea (excessive drooling) by administering an effective amount of N-desethyloxybutynin, or an optical R- or S-isomer thereof or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US10610501B2	Methods and materials for reducing ischemia-reperfusion injury This document provides methods and materials for reducing ischemia-reperfusion injury. For example, methods and materials for administering ABA to reduce tissue injury caused by reperfusion following ischemia are provided.
US10610500B2	Chemosensory receptor ligand-based therapies Provided herein are methods for treating conditions associated with a chemosensory receptor, including diabetes, obesity, and other metabolic diseases, disorders or conditions by administrating a composition comprising a chemosensory receptor ligand, such as a bitter receptor ligand. Also provided herein are chemosensory receptor ligand compositions, including bitter receptor ligand compositions, and methods for the preparation thereof for use in the methods of the present invention. Also provided herein are compositions comprising metformin and salts thereof and methods of use.
US10610495B2	Compositions for mitigating brain trauma and methods thereof Disclosed herein is a formulation for mitigating brain trauma including, in some embodiments, one or more ω-3 fatty acids, one or more curcuminoids, trans-resveratrol, α-glycerylphosphorylcholine (“α-GPC”), and uridine-5′-monophosphate (“UMP”). The formulation is an oil-based emulsion including the one or more ω-3 fatty acids, the one or more curcuminoids, the trans-resveratrol, the α-GPC, and the UMP for oral administration. Also disclosed herein is a packaged formulation for mitigating brain trauma including, in some embodiments, a sealed pouch containing a single dose of the oil-based emulsion including the one or more ω-3 fatty acids, the one or more curcuminoids, trans-resveratrol, α-GPC, and UMP. Also disclosed herein is a method for mitigating brain trauma including, in some embodiments, administering the formulation before participating in an activity having an increased incidence of brain trauma, after participating in an activity having an increased incidence of brain trauma, or after sustaining brain trauma.
US10610487B2	Salts of active ingredients with polymeric counterions Water-soluble polymeric salts of medicaments sparingly soluble in water consisting of a cationogenic medicament which, in uncharged form or as hydrochloride, has a solubility of less than 0.1% (m/m) in water, artificial intestinal juice or gastric juice, and an anionogenic water-soluble polymer having a solubility in water of at least 5% (m/m) in the pH range of 1 to 13 and which is obtained by free-radically initiated polymerization of a monomer mixture of i) 70 to 90% by weight N-vinylpyrrolidone and ii) 10 to 30% by weight acrylic acid, wherein the sum total of i) and ii) corresponds to 100% by weight.
US10610483B2	Vaporized medicants and methods of use A method and formulation for delivering an active analgesic compound, such as an opiate, in a vaporized state using low temperatures to vaporize the formulation. The formulation contains an inert non-reactive compound that lowers the heat of vaporization of the formulation, and the active compound. The formulation may optionally contain glycerin, alcohol, and/or water. Examples of inert non-reactive compounds that can sufficiently lower the heat of vaporization of the formulation include propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin and polysorbate. The formulation can be vaporized using a hand-held low temperature vaporizer or atomizer.
US10610480B2	Personal care composition for a keratin substrate comprising conditioning, color protecting and styling polymer A personal care conditioning, color protecting and/or styling composition for a keratin substrate comprising: (A) at least one conditioning and/or styling ter/tetra polymer obtained from polymerizing: (i) about 0.1 wt. % to 99 wt. % of acrylamidopropyl trimethylammonium chloride (APTAC), a cationic monomer; (ii) about 0.1 wt. % to 30 wt. % of at least one anionic monomer selected from the group consisting of (a) acrylic acid (AA), (b) acrylamido methylpropyl sulfonate (AMPS), and/or (c) sodium methyl allyl sulfonate (SMAS); and (iii) about 0.1 wt. % to about 20 wt. % of methacryloylaminopropyl lauryl-dimethyl ammonium chloride (MAPLDMAC), a hydrophobically modified cationic monomer; (B) at least one cosmetically acceptable excipient; and (C) optionally, at least one effective amount of personal care active ingredient.
US10610478B2	Stable silk fibroin based pharmaceutical formulations A composition is disclosed that includes pure silk fibroin-based protein fragments that are substantially devoid of sericin, wherein the composition has an average weight average molecular weight ranging from about 17 kDa to about 38 kDa, wherein the composition has a polydispersity of between about 1.5 and about 3.0, wherein the composition is substantially homogeneous, wherein the composition between 0 ppm to about 500 ppm of inorganic residuals, and wherein the composition includes between 0 ppm to about 500 ppm of organic residuals.
US10610477B2	Anhydrous foaming composition The subject-matter of the present invention is an anhydrous cosmetic composition comprising, in a physiologically acceptable medium: at least one nonionic surfactant, at least one anionic surfactant, at least 25% of at least one filler. The article is partially or completely soluble in water and it constitutes a foaming product used for cleansing the skin and hair and/or removing makeup from the skin and/or as scrubbing product.
US10610470B2	Oral care composition zinc-lysine complex The invention provides a zinc-lysine complex having the formula [Zn(C6H14N2O2)2Cl]+Cl− having antibacterial and antiperspirant properties, together with personal care compositions comprising the complex, and methods of making and using these complexes and compositions.
US10610465B2	Delivery of active ingredients from plant materials to skin Disclosed is an apparatus and methods for its use that is configured to be used to treat various skin conditions. The apparatus includes a water-permeable absorbent material and a plant material comprising a water-soluble skin-active ingredient. The plant material is enclosed within the water-permeable absorbent material, and the water-permeable absorbent material is configured to absorb water and allow the absorbed water to contact the plant material so as to release the active ingredient from the plant material. The active ingredient is then absorbed by the absorbent material, which is then topically applied to skin in need of skin treatment.
US10610463B2	Process for producing a cosmetic composition A process for producing a cosmetic composition that includes step a) inkjet printing onto a basic cosmetic composition, using an inkjet printer, at least one fluid composition in an amount chosen so as to impregnate the basic composition over only a part of its thickness, and step b), after at least one sampling of the impregnated layer, repeating step a) while optionally modifying the fluid composition inkjet-printed.
US10610462B2	Aqueous dental glass ionomer composition The present disclosure relates to an aqueous dental glass ionomer composition comprising a reactive particulate glass, a water-soluble, polymerizable polymer which is reactive with the particulate glass in a cement reaction, a hydrolysis-stable, water-soluble monomer having a single polymerizable double bond and optionally a carboxylic acid group or hydroxyl group; and a polymerization initiator system, wherein the polymerizable polymer is obtainable by a process comprising a step of polymerizing a mixture comprising a first polymerizable monomer comprising at least one optionally protected carboxylic acid group and a first polymerizable organic moiety, and optionally a second copolymerizable monomer comprising one or more optionally protected primary and/or secondary hydroxyl and/or amino group(s) and a second polymerizable organic moiety, for obtaining an water-soluble polymer; a step of coupling to the water-soluble polymer a compound having a polymerizable moiety and a functional group reactive with an optionally protected carboxylic acid group of repeating units derived from the first polymerizable monomer or an optionally protected hydroxyl and/or amino group of repeating units derived from the second copolymerizable monomer in the water-soluble polymer obtained in step a), wherein the optionally protected carboxylic acid group and the optionally protected hydroxyl and/or amine group are deprotected, so that polymerizable pendant groups are linked to the backbone by ester groups, urethane groups and/or amide groups, and, optionally, a step of deprotecting the protected carboxylic acid group for obtaining a polymerizable polymer.
US10610460B2	Nanocrystalline zirconia and methods of processing thereof Zirconia dental ceramics exhibiting opalescence and having a grain size in the range of 10 nm to 300 nm, a density of at least 99.5% of theoretical density, a visible light transmittance at or higher than 45% at 560 nm, and a strength of at least 800 MPa.
US10610457B1	System and method for storing medication and alerting users and caregivers for timely intake A computerized pill intake reminder device is disclosed. The computerized pill intake reminder device is used for storing pills, detecting the number of pills in each pouch of the blister pack, inventory management, reminding users to take their medication on time, alerting by providing an audible or a visual alarm if the medications are not taken on time and as a secondary mechanism alerting their caregiver if the user has not responded to the alert and taken the medication on time.The device includes a top housing and a bottom housing that can be rotated about each other to form a closed and sealed module. It also includes a processor that is communicatively coupled through an electronic circuit to a plurality of electronic components housed within the pill intake reminder device. These include a speaker, microphone, infrared sensors, cameras, LED lights, microphone, RFID scanner, non-volatile memory, transmitter, and a receiver. The LED lights can be programmed with various colors.The speaker is used to sound an audible alarm play an audible message at a specific time to remind the user to take their medication or provide an alert if the time has passed. The device also includes a pill storage module that has an upper and a lower packing plate. The space in between the plates is where the blister pack is inserted.The device includes a pill detection module. This module includes an infrared sensor (IR) and a camera. In operation, the processor causes the infrared sensor to detect the presence of a pill inside the pouch of the pill/blister pack and the processor causes the camera to quantify the number of pills in the pouch. The pill detection is performed by using a combination of IR Sensors, photodiodes, and a light emitting mechanism. A light beam, or an array of light beams, are passed from one side of the pouch to another and the light that passes through is read by the IR sensors and used for determining whether the pouch includes pills.The device includes a guidance system to guide the user of the pill intake reminder device to a specific pouch of the pill/blister pack for retrieving pills stored in that pouch. It does so by illuminating a light emitting diode (LED) on or around a specific pouch from which medication/pills are to be retrieved by the user. It operates by obtaining the hours of administration (HOA) schedule for the patient and then locating a pouch of the pill/blister pack that correlates with the HOA schedule. Once located, the pouch is illuminated for guidance.The device includes a display that can be used for providing visual alerts, videos, or recorded messages for instructing the user for taking the pills.The device uses a transmitter to send alerts to mobile phone for reminding the user to take the medication as well as sending an alert for missing or noncompliance.The radio frequency identification (RFID) reader is used to verify that a correct pill/blister pack, the one that is associated with the user/patient is being inserted into the device. The verifying process includes scanning an RFID tag located on the blister pack and matching it to patient information.The device also performs periodic inventory of the pills in the blister pack. This includes using an infrared sensor housed within the electronic module to determine the presence of one or more pills in the pouch and using a camera housed underneath the pouch to image and count the number of pills that are in the pouch. The inventory serves as an error check to ensure that the right number of pills from the right pouch were taken by the user at their HOA. The pill inventory system also is used to re-order more medication, if allowed by the prescription, when it detects that it is time to replenish them.
US10610453B2	Medication administration device According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a medication administration device may comprise a sucking part having outlets, a cylinder part having a discharge hole, coupled with the sucking part, and containing a medication, a piston part discharging the medication from the cylinder part through the outlets, and an operating part operating the piston part in the cylinder part. The discharge hole may extend to the outlets.
US10610448B2	Spa apparatus A spa apparatus may comprise a cart, a magnifying lamp, a phototherapy mask, a bed, and a bathtub. A computer, a storage battery, and a communicator are electrically connected and installed inside the cart, and the cart is electrically connected to a power outlet and a display, which enables the cart to be moved and used not limited by the location of power supply. Moreover, the cart has a drawer and a spacing for the storage of beauty products and tools, and through sequentially connecting to a front arm, a rear arm, and a base, the phototherapy mask is configured to be used in different angles and to be held above or in front of a user's in a preferable height.
US10610447B2	Device, system and method for facilitating breathing via simulation of limb movement A device, system and method for increasing air intake by a subject is described. The device includes a vibration motor and a control unit for controlling vibrational motion output by the vibration motor. The methods include positioning the vibration motor on one or more limbs of a subject, and stimulating nerves in the limbs via the generated vibrational motion, whereby the stimulated nerve signals the brain to increase breathing rate or air intake by the subject. Accordingly, embodiments of the device activate nerve fibers that carry kinesthetic cues from the limbs in a pattern that simulates normal limb motion, and thus triggers inherent reflexes that increase ventilation in response to such motion.
US10610446B2	Systems and methods for monitoring a subject's effective use of a self-contained portable positionable oscillating motor array In some embodiments, a method may include monitoring use of a medical device. The method may include positioning a wearable harness of a medical device on a subject. The method may include selectively positioning at least some of a plurality of engines on and/or adjacent to at least one treatment area. The method may include applying an oscillation force to at least one of the treatment areas using at least some of the engines. The method may include mobilizing at least some secretions in an airway within the subject substantially adjacent to the treatment areas. The method may include monitoring use of the medical device by the subject using a controller associated with the medical device to determine if the medical device has been used effectively as prescribed.
US10610443B2	Thermotherapy device Provided is a thermotherapy device, which includes a first housing (10), a second housing (20) disposed under the first housing (10), a transfer plate (30), at both sides of which transfer rollers (31) are provided, and a pair of guide rails (40) that is provided to the second housing (20) and on which the respective transfer rollers (31) of the transfer plate (30) are placed. The pair of guide rails (40) are integrally molded when the second housing (20) is injection-molded. Thus, since the guide rails on which the transfer rollers of the transfer plate travel are integrally molded when the second housing is injection-molded, inefficiency caused by mounting separate rails as in the related art is removed, and thereby assemblability, productivity, and economic efficiency of the thermotherapy device can be improved.
US10610442B2	Massage device There is provided a massage device for performing a grabbing massage such as to grab a to-be-massaged area.The massage device (1) comprises: a kneading massage member (2) having a kneading massager (9) at its front end; and a grabbing massage member (8) having a grabbing massager (7) at its front end, which is disposed on the base end side of the kneading massage member (2), and, the grabbing massage member (8) is designed to perform a grabbing massage by moving the grabbing massager of the grabbing massage member (8) close to and away from the kneading massager (9).
US10610437B2	Full-sized and keepsake-sized cremation urns A combination of a full-sized cremation urn and a keepsake-sized cremation urn comprises a full-sized container sized and configured to receive therein cremation remains of a deceased, the container including an externally threaded neck defining an opening and an internally threaded lid for closing the opening, and a keepsake-sized container sized and configured to receive therein only a portion of the cremation remains of the deceased, the container including a base plate, an upstanding externally threaded cylinder attached to the base plate and defining an opening, and an internally threaded lid for closing the opening. The full-sized container lid and the keepsake-sized container lid are substantially identical.
US10610435B2	Surgical table cladding protective device A cladding protection device is provided for protecting a height adjustment mechanism used to raise and lower the height of an operating room table. The cladding protection device includes a plurality of bodies seated upon the table base of the operating room table to surround a perimeter of the height adjustment mechanism to thereby inhibit contact with foreign objects. In one example, a complimentary coupler comprising a first coupler on one of the plurality of bodies removably engages a second coupler on another of the plurality of bodies to form the cladding protection device. In another example, a plurality of inwardly projecting stand-offs are located in close proximity with the perimeter of the height adjustment mechanism to inhibit directional movement of the cladding protection device.
US10610434B2	Infant medical device and method of use A medical device including a patient support and a radiant heater positioned above the patient support is disclosed. The radiant heater includes a reflector that partially surrounds a heating element. The reflector includes a plurality of layers of customized facets to direct radiant energy emitted by the heating element toward a predefined region of the patient support to maintain the predefined region at a predetermined temperature.
US10610433B2	Swivel seat system A swivel seat system comprising a base assembly, further comprising at least one first leg extending downward from a base plate, at least one second leg extending downward from the base plate, and a clamp plate assembly; a swivel assembly attached to an upper surface of the base plate; and a seat attached to an upper surface of the swivel assembly. The clamp plate assembly further comprises a clamp plate, a gear, a shaft extending downwardly from a center bore of the gear, an elongated handle extending outwardly from the shaft, and a rack coupled to the clamp plate, wherein the gear engages the rack via a plurality of teeth on the gear. The clamp plate assembly is structured and arranged to slide linearly along the bottom surface of the base plate by rotating the elongated handle.
US10610429B2	Rotary actuator having clutch assembly for use with patient support apparatus An actuator for use in effecting movement of a movable member with respect to a first member of a patient support apparatus. A motor is provided for generating rotational torque. A carrier is adapted to be secured to the first member. An input member is coupled to the motor for concurrent rotation. An output member is adapted to be coupled to the movable member. A reduction geartrain is supported between the input member and the output member. A clutch assembly is disposed in torque-translating relationship between the reduction geartrain and the output member and moves between: an engaged configuration wherein torque from the motor is translated across the reduction geartrain to move the movable member with respect to the first member, and a disengaged configuration wherein torque is at least partially interrupted across the reduction geartrain to allow movement of the movable member independent of rotation of the motor.
US10610428B1	Lightweight patient transporter A lightweight collapsible frame, a plurality of wheels, at least one supporting member for supporting a patient at least partially, and at least one guiding member for guiding the movement of the transporter is provided. At least one of the plurality of wheels is mounted on the lightweight collapsible frame and at least one of the plurality of wheels is mounted on the guiding member. The guiding member and the supporting member are mounted on the frame.
US10610426B2	Patient transport apparatus for transporting a patient over disturbances in floor surfaces A patient transport apparatus for moving a patient from one location to another. The patient transport apparatus comprises a suspension system to limit discomfort to the patient when the patient transport apparatus moves over disturbances in floor surfaces. The suspension system comprises suspension devices such as a spring and/or a damper. The suspension system is operable in an energy-absorbing mode in which the suspension system absorbs energy as wheels move over the disturbances during transport or a lockout mode in which the suspension system is relatively more rigid as compared to the energy-absorbing mode. A control system operates to place the suspension system in one of the modes.
US10610423B2	Absorbent article comprising a topsheet/acquisition web laminate An absorbent article for personal hygiene comprises a longitudinal axis, a transversal axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, a topsheet/acquisition web laminate, a liquid impermeable backsheet, and an absorbent core. The absorbent core is located between the topsheet/acquisition web laminate and the backsheet. The topsheet/acquisition web laminate comprises a liquid permeable topsheet and an acquisition web in a face to face relationship. The topsheet/acquisition web laminate comprises three-dimensional protrusions extending from a plane of the topsheet/acquisition web laminate. The acquisition web is a nonwoven fibrous web comprising an upper layer facing towards the topsheet and a lower layer facing towards the absorbent core. The average diameter of the fibers in the upper layer is higher than the average diameter of the fibers in the lower layer.
US10610415B2	Reduced-pressure, composite manifolds A reduced-pressure treatment system for treating a wound on a patient includes a composite manifold that may help prevent or minimize injury to a wound edge of the wound being treated with reduced pressure. The composite manifold includes a perimeter manifold member and an inboard manifold member. The perimeter manifold member is designed to not collapse substantially under reduced pressure in a therapy range. The perimeter manifold member may be more rigid with respect to compressibility than the inboard manifold member. A sealing member is used to form a fluid seal over the wound, and a reduced-pressure subsystem provides reduced pressure to the composite manifold. Other systems, methods, and dressings are presented.
US10610409B2	System and method for monitoring phototoxicity during ophthalmic surgery The present disclosure provides a system and method for monitoring phototoxicity caused by vitreous visualization device (“VVD”) illumination during ophthalmic surgery. The systems and methods determine the cumulative amount of optical energy incident on the retina, which corresponds to phototoxicity, the distance between a cutter of the VVD and the retina, and areas where the vitreous has been removed, or any combination thereof. The disclosure further provides a method for monitoring and preventing phototoxicity caused by VVD illumination during ophthalmic surgery. The method may further include determining the distance between a cutter of the VVD and the retina, and determining areas where the vitreous has been removed based on focus areas of the retina that the plurality of light spots has contacted.
US10610408B2	Illuminated infusion cannula Systems and methods for assembling an illuminated infusion cannula involving an optical fiber support assembly with an optical fiber support tube and a positioning insert that couples within a cannula and that can position an optical fiber in the tip of the cannula while supporting substantially laminar and minimally-restricted fluid flow through the cannula.
US10610404B2	Systems and methods for producing anterior guidance package (AGP) equipped splint An Anterior Guidance Package (AGP) equipped splint may be produced for a patient with bruxism, temporo mandibular disorder (TMD), or sleep apnea. The AGP equipped splint has maxillary and mandibular guidance components attached to respective retentive pieces to provide superior anterior guidance. Using the disclosed systems and methods for producing the AGP equipped splint, a patient with or without a severe malocclusion can receive a customized AGP equipped splint without visiting the dentist repeatedly.
US10610398B2	Ankle support device An ankle bracing apparatus has a curved support plate shaped to fit on the medial aspect of a user's lower leg above the ankle, with a first end at the front of the user's leg and a second end at the back, a strut extending downward having a pivotal fastener near the lowermost end, a first strap wrapped around the user's leg, a second strap having a width, a first end and a second end, the second strap attached at the first end to the first end of the curved support plate and at the second end to the second end of the curved support plate, and lateral strut having a buckle or opening to accommodate the second strap, and a pivotal fastener enabling fastening of the lateral strut to the shoe or foot plate, such that adjusting the length of the second strap shortens separation of the lateral strut and the curved support plate.
US10610396B2	Intragastric device Devices and methods for treating obesity are provided. More particularly, intragastric devices and methods of fabricating, deploying, inflating, monitoring, and retrieving the same are provided.
US10610393B2	Wire retention and release mechanisms Devices for delivering and deploying a prosthesis are disclosed and comprise a sheath, a prosthesis disposed within a distal end portion of the sheath, and a wire having a first end coupled to the prosthesis and a second end coupled to the sheath. A body portion of the wire comprises a slack in the wire, and the sheath, prosthesis, and wire are configured so that a proximal movement of the sheath relative to the prosthesis reduces the slack in the wire, and a subsequent proximal movement of the sheath relative to the prosthesis decouples the wire from the prosthesis. Additional devices, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US10610391B2	Stent alignment during treatment of a bifurcation A system for treating a bifurcation includes a first radially expandable stent and a second radially expandable stent. The first stent has a side hole and a plurality of lateral elements extending from the side hole. The second stent has a plurality of axial elements extending away from the proximal end of the second stent. The axial elements of the second stent interdigitate with the lateral elements of the first stent when both stents have been expanded.
US10610390B2	Implant delivery system and method of use An implant delivery system including a catheter having a delivery lumen; a pusher member slidably disposed in the catheter delivery lumen; a retaining member coupled to a distal end portion of the pusher member, the retaining member configured to retain an expandable implant in a collapsed configuration on the pusher member for delivery of the implant through the catheter delivery lumen; and an expandable actuator coupled to the distal end portion of the pusher member and operatively associated with the retaining member, wherein expansion of the actuator causes the retaining member to disengage from an implant carried on the pusher member, to thereby allow the implant to expand from the collapsed configuration.
US10610389B2	Braid implant delivery systems Embolic implants delivery systems and methods of manufacture and delivery are disclosed. The devices can be used for aneurysm and/or fistula treatment. The designs offer low profile compressibility for delivery to neurovasculature, while maintaining advantageous delivery and implant detachment control features.
US10610388B2	Stent delivery system having retention structure A stent delivery system including an elongate shaft of a medical device, a stent selectively coupled to a distal portion of the elongate shaft, and a coupling mechanism for selectively coupling the stent to the elongate shaft by inserting a tab on one of the stent or the elongate shaft into an opening in the other of the stent or the elongate shaft. The tab may be deflected from a first position to a second position to disengage the tab from the opening.
US10610385B2	Multi-modal upper limb prosthetic device control using myoelectric signals Methods of operating a prosthesis (10a) having at least one moveable component (12) and an electronic control device (18) are provided, where the at least one moveable component (12) has two or more operating modes (30) and at least one operating parameter (28). The method comprises receiving at least one input control signal (p1,p2,pn) from the wearer of the prosthesis (10a), comparing the at least one input control signal (p1,p2,pn) with an operating profile (26) stored in the electronic control device in order to determine a desired operating mode (30) and operating parameter (28), and instructing the moveable component (12) to move in accordance with the desired operating mode (30) and operating parameter (28). Prostheses are also provided, at least one such prosthesis (10a) comprising at least one moveable component (12) and an electronic device (18) operable to select both an operating mode (30) of the at least one moveable component (12) and at least one operating parameter (28) of the at least one moveable component (12) in response to an input command signal (P) from the wearer of the prosthesis.
US10610380B2	Devices and methods for minimally invasive spinal stabilization and instrumentation Described herein are devices and methods for fusion of adjacent vertebral bones using distractor platforms for exposure and resection of at least a portion of a facet joint, such as in performance of a TLiF procedure. In one embodiment, the distractor platform contains at least a first receptacle and/or extension adapted to couple to the implanted screw/bone marker, and the method includes advancing a threaded segment of a bone fastener assembly into the identified first pedicle of the first vertebral bone, the bone fastener assembly further comprises a second segment adapted to couple with a distraction platform, which is adapted to concurrently attach onto at least one tissue retention blade, and retain the tissue retention blade in the displaced position. Stabilization of a spinal segment is also provided by advancing a substantially concave orthopedic implant through an opening made in a posterior aspect of a disc space.
US10610379B2	Prosthesis installation systems and methods A system and method for allowing any surgeon, including those surgeons who perform a fewer number of a revision procedure as compared to a more experienced surgeon who performs a greater number of procedures, to provide an improved likelihood of a favorable outcome approaching, if not exceeding, a likelihood of a favorable outcome as performed by a very experienced surgeon with the revision procedure. An engine is operable in two distinctive selectable modes including a unidirectional mode providing only extractive forces and a bidirectional mode providing both extractive and insertional forces.
US10610378B2	Feedback for providing artificial bone flap Methods and systems for providing feedback to guide selection of an artificial bone flap. A user interface for planning a neurosurgical procedure is provided, the neurosurgical procedure including closing of an opening in a portion of a patient's skull using an artificial bone flap. 3D dimensions of the opening are determined using at least pre-operative three-dimensional (3D) imaging data. One or more parameters for selecting an artificial bone flap are determined, where the one or more parameters are based on at least the 3D dimensions of the opening. Output indicating one or more recommended available artificial bone flaps suitable for closing the opening is provided, the recommendation being based on the determined one or more parameters.
US10610374B2	Selectively expanding spine cage with enhanced bone graft infusion A selectively expanding spine cage has a minimized cross section in its unexpanded state that is smaller than the diameter of the neuroforamen through which it passes in the distracted spine. The cage conformably engages between the endplates of the adjacent vertebrae to effectively distract the anterior disc space, stabilize the motion segments and eliminate pathologic spine motion. Expanding selectively (anteriorly, along the vertical axis of the spine) rather than uniformly, the cage height increases and holds the vertebrae with fixation forces greater than adjacent bone and soft tissue failure forces in natural lordosis. Stability is thus achieved immediately, enabling patient function by eliminating painful motion. The cage shape intends to rest proximate to the anterior column cortices securing the desired spread and fixation, allowing for bone graft in, around, and through the implant for arthrodesis whereas for arthroplasty it fixes to endpoints but cushions the spine naturally.
US10610373B2	Spinal complex cage Disclosed is a spinal complex cage, which includes a cage which is made of a polymeric material, and metal covers which are formed on upper and lower portions of the cage, respectively, in which couplers formed on the metal covers are coupled to coupling grooves formed in the cage, such that the metal covers are detachably coupled to the upper and lower portions of the cage. Accordingly, because the cage and the metal cover are detachably coupled to each other, the manufacturing method is simple, and the metal cover is easily coupled to or separated from the cage, such that the spinal complex cage may be variously and quickly applied even during the surgery in accordance with shapes or intervals between the vertebral bodies, and as a result, a spinal fusion rate is excellent, and the accurate and precise surgical operation is enabled.
US10610372B2	Vertebral fixation plate system and method for use A vertebral fixation plate system and a method for its use in a surgical procedure to fuse adjacent spinal vertebrae to each other. A base member is fastened to a spinal interbody fusion device installed in place of an injured spinal disc. The base member is received within a receptacle defined in the vertebral fixation plate and mates with the plate, in a selected one of a plurality of available positions of the plate with respect to the base member, and thus with respect to the adjacent vertebrae between which the spinal interbody fusion device is installed. A locator member defined on the base member or the plate is mated in a locating cavity defined in the other one of the base member or the plate to keep the plate in the selected position.
US10610370B2	Polyaxial cannulated screw A polyaxial cannulated screw having a resilient expandable body capable of supporting compressive and cyclic loads. The expandable body provides an artificial disc prosthesis by use of the expandable body that mimics the properties of the natural disc by maintaining the intervertebral disc space through a full range of natural motion, absorbing shocks and permitting a natural range of motion. A U-shaped saddle attached to a spherical ball permits optimum positioning of a rod member by polyaxial placement.
US10610368B2	Ankle fusion system with expandable spacer System, including apparatus and methods, for ankle fusion using a device for separating a first bone and a second bone of an ankle region. In some embodiments, the device may comprise an expandable spacer including first and second bone-contacting surface regions facing away from one another and configured to be abutted with the first and second bones, respectively. A distance between the first and second bone-contacting surface regions may be adjustable to change the separation of the first and second bones. The first bone-contacting surface region may correspond to a portion of a sphere and may be configured to be disposed at least partially in a concavity formed surgically in the first bone. The expandable spacer offers improved control over the length of the lower limb and the orientation of the foot during ankle fusion surgery.
US10610367B2	Arthroplasty components Systems, kits and methods for long bone arthroplasty that include arrays of humeral head prosthesis components, each having on a first side a bone articulation surface that has an overall generally hemi elliptical convex shape defined by a major axis and a minor axis, the bone articulation surface having an apex and a base that each has an non-circular elliptical cross sectional shape, the prosthesis components having on an opposite side, adjacent the base, a bone contact surface. The humeral head prosthesis components in the arrays vary from having a base with a more circular cross sectional shape to a more elongated elliptical cross sectional shape with increasing size.
US10610364B2	Method for ameliorating joint conditions and diseases and preventing bone hypertrophy A method for ameliorating joint conditions and diseases and preventing bone hypertrophy, including facilitating cartilage regrowth and preventing bone overgrowth to a damaged bone at a treatment site within a body joint to promote healing. The method comprises providing a device having a first section comprising a joint-ward end having an inner surface and an outer surface and fenestrations between the inner and outer surfaces. A second section comprises an opposing leading end and a lateral wall extending between the joint-ward end and the leading end. The leading end is penetrated into the bone to a depth to substantially position: 1) the joint-ward end in a cartilage zone; wherein the outer surface of the joint-ward end is configured to facilitate cartilage regrowth; and 2) the second section in the bone; wherein the inner surface of the joint-ward end is configured to prevent bone overgrowth into the cartilage zone within the body joint when the device is positioned at the treatment site.
US10610357B2	Transcatheter stent and valve assembly Valves constructed from low porosity leaflets are disclosed. The valves disclosed herein may be integrated into a variety of structures, such as valved conduits and transcatheter stents, and may be constructed of one or more layers. Embodiments herein are also directed to methods of using the same and methods of making the same.
US10610354B2	Epicardial anchor devices and methods Apparatus and methods are described herein for anchoring a prosthetic heart valve. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a tether attachment member that includes a base member that defines at least a portion of a tether passageway through which a portion of a tether extending from a prosthetic heart valve can be received therethrough. The base member defines a locking pin channel that intersects the tether passageway. A locking pin is disposable within the locking pin channel and movable between a first position in which the locking pin is at a spaced distance from the tether passageway, and a second position in which the locking pin intersects the tether passageway and can engage the portion of a tether disposed therein to secure the tether to the tether attachment member.
US10610352B2	Heart valve prosthesis A heart valve prosthesis includes a valve frame (2), on which frame several valve leaflets (8) are fastened, as well as a fastening region which connects axially onto the valve frame (2), for fastening in a blood vessel. The fastening region includes a stabilizing ring (14, 14′, 14″, 14″′, 14″″) which defines a given shape and a given diameter and is connected to the valve frame (2) is a force-decoupled manner.
US10610351B2	Gas canisters and methods for making them Canisters are provided that include a cylindrical body and a cap welded to the body to define a cavity filled with carbon dioxide or other fluid. The canisters may be loaded into a medical device, e.g., to provide an energy source for operating the device. Methods for making such canisters are also provided.
US10610346B2	Delivery system for positioning and affixing surgical mesh or surgical buttress covering a surgical margin Embodiments include a surgical implant delivery system for positioning and affixing a surgical implant (e.g., a surgical mesh, a surgical buttress, etc.) covering a surgical margin. The system includes a cartridge releasably holding the surgical implant and a plurality of fixation elements associated with the surgical implant. The system also includes a introducer having an elongate body, a head pivotably coupled to receive the cartridge forming a combined head and cartridge, and a handle including a grip and an in-line trigger. The introducer also includes an actuation mechanism connected with the in-line trigger of the handle configured to affix the surgical implant to the surgical margin using the one or more fixation elements.
US10610340B2	Brush head for a toothbrush and method for producing the brush head The brush head of the toothbrush has filaments that are pointed at one end and led through clearances in the bristle carrier. These filaments have a length of about 10-20 mm. The tips of the pointed filaments produce a height profile other than that of a plane and the ends of the pointed filaments that are remote from the tips are melted.
US10610339B2	Docking and charging station and filling operation for a hand-held oral cleaning device A docking and charging station (100) for use in conjunction with a hand-held fluid droplet appliance (10) for dental cleaning, the docking and charging station (100) comprising a charging base (102) for recharging the hand-held fluid droplet appliance, a reservoir (110) for holding a larger amount of liquid (112) than can be held in a chamber of the hand-held fluid droplet appliance, and a docking refilling alignment mechanism for properly aligning and securing the hand-held fluid droplet appliance in the cradle (160) of the docking and charging station when the hand-held fluid droplet appliance is mounted into the docking and charging station to prevent spillage, leaking or non-refilling of the appliance from the reservoir if there is not proper alignment.
US10610337B2	Dental prosthesis and method for the production thereof A dental prosthesis, includes a metal framework having at least one cap, which can be joined to an abutment of a dental implant. The metal framework includes a connecting element which can be, or is, joined to the cap in the oral cavity of a patient, in particular by way of welding, soldering or gluing, wherein the cap has a tip and, on the inside, a cavity into which the abutment can be inserted through an opening located opposite the tip. It is the object to refine the dental prosthesis and/or the metal framework so as to allow improved handling and/or facilitated creation of the, in particular intra-oral, preferably welded, joint with low design complexity. This object is attained by providing a pin arranged as an axial extension in the region of the tip of the cap and the connecting element is joined to the pin.
US10610336B2	Tray appliance system for making a dental prosthesis A dental tray appliance system including a maxillary tray appliance and optionally a mandibular tray appliance. The maxillary tray appliance includes a first base portion, a first premolar tooth form, optionally a first contacting portion, optionally a contralateral first premolar tooth form, and optionally a central incisor tooth form. Each premolar tooth form has no lingual cusp as part of improvements in occlusal registration components. The mandibular tray appliance includes a second base portion, optionally a second contacting portion; and optionally a second bite material accepting portion.
US10610333B2	Restoration dental implant system and method An implant fixture is disclosed. The implant fixture contains an elongated shaft section, and a head section comprising a concavity along the head section's perimeter, wherein the concavity provides an area for bone growth therein to compensate for jawbone deterioration adjacent to the implant fixture due to craniofacial growth.
US10610330B2	Preformed dental composite crown, process of production and use thereof The invention relates to a preformed dental composite crown being characterized by its shape and chemical composition, the shape being characterized as follows: having an occlusal top surface and depending buccal, mesial, distal and lingual side surfaces, the side surfaces being connected to each other and forming a crown cervix, the wall thickness of the crown at the crown cervix being lower than 0.6 mm; at least two of opposing depending side surfaces having a concave shape; the chemical composition of the material the preformed dental composite crown is made of being a hardened composition comprising the following components: nano-filler(s) in an amount from 20 to 70 wt. %, resin matrix in an amount from 20 to 75 wt. %, wt. % with respect to the weight of the chemical composition, the resin matrix comprising urethane(meth)acrylate(s) and (meth)acrylate(s) not comprising a urethane moiety. The invention also relates to a kit of parts comprising such a preformed dental composite crown, processes for producing such crowns and the use of such a crown for treating a dental tooth.
US10610328B2	Sliding radiological marker documentation system to legally label X-ray images An imaging marker positioning system is provided. The imaging marker positioning system embodies a plurality of markers slidable along an elastic band. Guide clips may removably secure the elastic band to the imaging device so that a first portion of the elastic band may be disposed within a field of view of the imaging device. A user may slide one or more predetermined markers onto the first portion, whereby an image of the marker is captured in the resulting X-ray image. Additionally, the user may adjust the guide clips and/or the elastic band to reposition the first portion relative to the field of view of the imaging device.
US10610325B2	Medical guidance apparatus A medical guidance apparatus includes a base assembly including a base ring having an inner circumference defining an opening; and a guide rotateably mateable with the base assembly, the guide including: a frame comprising: an inner circumference defining an opening; and an outer circumference, wherein, in a configuration where the guide is mated with the base assembly, the opening of the frame overlays the opening of the base ring; a gap extending from the inner circumference of the frame to the outer circumference of the frame; and an arc member including a first end integrally formed with the frame and a second end integrally formed with the frame, wherein the first end of the arc member is diametrically opposed to the second end of the arc member.
US10610323B2	Telescoping control mechanism for controlling a medical instrument A telescoping control mechanism for controlling a medical instrument, the medical instrument includes a telescoping axis which intersects a patient at a work point, the telescoping control mechanism includes: a first rotary module disposed on a base, and including a first axis which extends through the work point; a second rotary module disposed on the base and including a second pivot which is pivoted to the base and has a second axis perpendicular to the first axis; a linkage module including a proximal linkage assembly disposed on the second pivot and parallel to the telescoping axis, and a distal linkage assembly for mounting of the medical instrument; and a telescoping module disposed on the proximal linkage assembly to drive the distal linkage assembly to reciprocate along the proximal linkage assembly, which consequently causes movements of the medical instrument along the telescoping axis.
US10610317B2	Image-guided therapy of a tissue Image-guided therapy of a tissue can utilize magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or another medical imaging device to guide an instrument within the tissue. A workstation can actuate movement of the instrument, and can actuate energy emission and/or cooling of the instrument to effect treatment to the tissue. The workstation and/or an operator of the workstation can be located outside a vicinity of an MRI device or other medical imaging device, and drive means for positioning the instrument can be located within the vicinity of the MRI device or the other medical imaging device. The instrument can be an MRI compatible laser probe that provides thermal therapy to, e.g., a tissue in a brain of a patient.
US10610310B2	User interface system and methods for overlaying surgical video output A surgical user interface system and methods, involving: an interface having at least one overlay element of: at least one menu bar, at least one tab, at least one sidebar, at least one window, at least one icon; at least one graphical control element, at least one haptic control element, and at least one voice control element, the interface configured to: communicate with at least one surgical system, the at least one surgical system having at least one of an imaging system, a guidance system, a control system, a tracking system, a navigation system, a drive system, and a voice recognition system; display information corresponding to at least one surgical parameter of the at least one surgical system; overlay a real-time streaming image from the imaging system; receive input by way of the at least one overlay element; transmit the input to the at least one surgical system; and update, in real-time, the at least one overlay element in response to a change in the at least one surgical parameter.
US10610306B2	Systems and methods for device-aware flexible tool registration A method comprises determining a shape of a device positioned at least partially within an anatomical passageway. The method further comprises determining a set of deformation forces for a plurality of sections of the device, where determining the set of deformation forces comprises determining a stiffness of each section of the plurality of sections of the device. The method further comprises generating a composite model indicating a position of the device relative to the anatomical passageway based on: the shape of the device, the set of deformation forces, including an effect of each section of the plurality of sections on a respective portion of the anatomical passageway, and anatomical data describing the anatomical passageway.
US10610302B2	Liver disease assessment in medical imaging For liver modeling from medical scan data, multiple modalities of imaging are used. By using multiple modalities of imaging in combination with generative modeling, a more comprehensive and informed assessment may be performed. The generative modeling may allow feedback of effects of proposed therapy on function of the liver. This feedback is used to update the liver function information based on the imaging. Based on the computerized modeling with information from various imaging modes, an output based on more comprehensive information and patient personalized modeling and feedback may be provided to assist the physician.
US10610300B2	Method for evaluating treatment-relevant spatial information The invention relates to a method for evaluating treatment-relevant spatial anatomical information among different data sets of the heart, the method comprising the steps of: —determining a reference anatomical 3 dimensional data set of the heart, —providing a first anatomical 3 dimensional data set of the heart, the first anatomical 3 dimensional data set comprising first treatment-relevant spatial anatomical information, —providing a second anatomical 3 dimensional data set of the heart, the second anatomical 3 dimensional data set comprising second treatment-relevant spatial anatomical information, —registering the reference data set to the first and the second data sets, —transferring the treatment relevant spatial anatomical information of the first and the second data set to the reference data set in order to generate a first transferred treatment-relevant spatial anatomical information on the reference data set and a second transferred treatment-relevant spatial anatomical information on the reference data set —evaluating the first and the second transferred treatment-relevant spatial anatomical information.
US10610299B2	Technique for generating a bone plate design A computer-implemented technique for generating a data set that geometrically defines a bone plate design is presented. A method implementation of this technique comprises visualizing, based on shape data of a bone, a bone model on a display device, deriving, responsive to a user interaction signal that is indicative of a user interaction relative to the bone model, plate design data representative of a plate-specific design property, and generating a data set that geometrically defines a bone plate design from at least the plate design data and one or more generic plate parameters.
US10610295B2	Septotomy catheter for aortic dissection Medical methods and devices for treating aortic dissections. A catheter-based cutting device permits cutting a septum of acute or chronic aortic dissections, in a retrograde manner. The catheter includes a base section having a central lumen therethrough and two flexible arms extending from a distal end thereof. The flexible arms can each have a guide wire channel therethrough. With distal ends of the two flexible arms separated, the two arms form a Y-shape with the base section. In one embodiment, with distal ends of the two flexible arms together, the two arms have a longitudinal profile, about a periphery thereof, identical to a longitudinal profile of the base section. A cutting component resides between the two arms. The cutting component can face distally outward between the two arms with the distal ends of the two flexible arms separated.
US10610294B2	Devices and methods for transurethral bladder partitioning Systems, devices, and methods to treat a urinary bladder are disclosed. An expandable member is introduced and expanded in the urinary bladder to appose one or more elongate conductors on the outer surface of the expandable member against the inner wall of the urinary bladder. The one or more elongate conductors are used to create a predetermined pattern of electrically isolated tissue regions having reduced electrical propagation such that electrical propagation through the urinary bladder as a whole is reduced. A mucus layer may be removed from the inner bladder wall prior to the ablation. Ablation may be regulated by impedance measurement with the one or more elongate conductors. The urinary bladder may be filled with a fluid to facilitate the impedance measurement.
US10610293B2	Deflectable catheter bodies with corrugated tubular structures A guidable, or steerable, or deflectable catheter is provided that includes a proximal portion and a distal portion for insertion into a body cavity. A selectively deflectable segment having an anisotropic bending stiffness for deflection in individual planes is incorporated into the distal portion of the catheter shaft. The deflectable segment comprises a corrugate structure that provides smooth curvatures of desirable configurations, deflection planarity, and easiness.
US10610289B2	Devices, systems, and methods for grasping, treating, and dividing tissue A surgical system includes an end effector assembly, a motor assembly, an energy source, and a controller. The controller activates the motor assembly, once it is determined that tissue is present between jaw members of the end effector assembly, to move the jaw members from a spaced-apart position to an approximated position to grasp tissue. The controller further activates the energy source, once tissue is grasped between the jaw members, to supply energy to the jaw members to seal tissue grasped between the jaw members. The controller further activates the motor assembly, once it is determined that tissue sealing is complete, to move the jaw members from the approximated position to the spaced-apart position to release sealed tissue. The system may further be configured to cut tissue once it is determined that tissue sealing is complete but before moving the jaw members to the spaced-apart position.
US10610287B2	Advanced simultaneous activation algorithm An electrosurgical generator includes: a power supply configured to output a DC waveform; a power converter coupled to the power supply and configured to generate a radio frequency waveform based on the DC waveform; an active terminal coupled to the power converter and configured to couple to a first electrosurgical instrument and a second electrosurgical instrument; at least one sensor coupled to the power converter and configured to sense at least one property of the radio frequency waveform; and a controller coupled to the power converter. The controller is configured to: determine a first impedance associated with a first electrosurgical instrument and a second impedance associated with a second electrosurgical instrument based on the at least one property of the radio frequency waveform; and adjust at least one parameter of the radio frequency waveform based on the first impedance and the second impedance.
US10610284B2	Electrical connector for an electrosurgical apparatus An electrosurgical apparatus comprising an electrosurgical instrument for delivering RF energy and/or microwave frequency energy into biological tissue, an interference cable for conveying radiofrequency (RF) and/or microwave frequency energy between an electrosurgical generator and the electrosurgical instrument, wherein a sterile barrier sheath surrounds a connection interface between the instrument and interface cable. The sterile barrier sheath and instrument may be a sterilisable unit suitable for repeated use.
US10610280B1	Surgical method and apparatus for destruction and removal of intraperitoneal, visceral, and subcutaneous fat The embodied invention is a method of removing intraperitoneal fat by using a freezing cryoprobe and inserting it into the abdominal cavity. The freezing cryoprobe is covered by a vacuum sleeve which provides for a method for abdominal fat removal once the cells are damaged. A multi-step surgical procedure is used to freeze, irrigate, and remove the destroyed fat tissue. Also, an ultrasonic transmitter is inserted into an outer cryoprobe sheath to assess organ position with the advantage of an internal transmitter which greatly aids in organ identification.
US10610275B2	Device for variable fixation of bone fragments Device for bone fixation with a head portion (5), a tapering front portion (8) and a shaft (3) between said head portion (5) and said tapering front portion (8), said shaft (3) having a distal portion (3a) adjacent to said tapering front portion (8) and a proximal portion (3b) adjacent to said head portion (5); whereby said distal portion (3a) being provided with a thread and having a constant outer diameter DA and an inner core diameter DI; at least the proximal portion (3b) of said shaft (3) has a core (2) consisting of a biologically non-degradable material with degradation rate BND and having a diameter d≤DI; a sleeve (9) surrounding said core and consisting of a biologically degradable material with degradation rate BD, whereby BD>BND and said sleeve (9) being fixed to said core in a non-rotatable manner.
US10610274B2	Instrument for fracture alignment and plate compression An instrument and method of using the instrument for setting a fracture in a bone and applying a bone plate to the fractured bone. The instrument includes a connector for connecting the instrument to the intramedullary rod. At least two tines are movably connected to the connector and configured to orient the fractured bone with respect to the rod. Each tine has a distal end configured to contact the bone. At least one plate carrier is configured to receive the bone plate. The at least one plate carrier is movably connected to the connector and configured to move relative to the connector and the tines to position the bone plate adjacent the bone in a predetermined alignment with the intramedullary rod.
US10610264B2	Polyaxial vertebral anchoring device for straightening a vertebra A vertebral anchor device comprising a bone anchor screw having a screw body and a screw head for coupling a link element to the screw body, the screw head being mounted to move on the screw body; the screw body comprising a threaded shank of a longitudinal axis AA for anchoring the screw body in a vertebra, and provided at one of its ends with a coupling head for coupling the screw body to the screw head; the screw head comprising a head body of a longitudinal axis BB and through which a channel passes longitudinally that is suitable for receiving, in the head body bottom portion, the coupling head; said vertebral anchor device further comprising assembly means for assembling together the coupling head and the screw head, the coupling head having a portion of cylindrical shape and of axis perpendicular to the threaded shank.
US10610262B2	Spinal distraction system A spinal distraction system including a bearing connector fastened to a fixated rod and a sliding rod, wherein the sliding rod includes a spring and a stop ring is disclosed. A method of distracting vertebrae is also disclosed.
US10610255B2	Intravascular catheter having an expandable incising portion and medication delivery system An intravascular device is provided having a catheter tube and an expandable portion including a plurality of struts capable of being moved between an open and a closed position. An incising element is provided on at least one of the struts and has a sharpened edge for creating an incision in atherosclerotic material located within a blood vessel when the expandable portion is in the opened position. A medication delivery device may be located on one or more of the struts and may be configured to deliver a substance to an area of interest.
US10610250B2	Tissue shavers Various arthroscopic shavers are provided that minimize contact between bodily fluid and the shaver hand piece. Arthroscopic shavers generally include a cutting assembly mated to a hand piece. In one embodiment, the shaver includes a hub that connects the cutting assembly with the hand piece and has an exit port configured to transport cut tissue and fluid from the device. In another embodiment, the shaver includes a hub configured to retrofit existing shaver hand pieces having interior lumens for removing cut tissue and fluid. The hub further includes an exit port that diverts fluid away from the hand piece.
US10610247B2	Spring-biased nasal molding device A spring-biased nasal molding device for presurgical molding of cleft lip deformities, the device having a pair of intra-nasal shaping members for insertion into the nostrils and having an extra-nasal shaping member to be positioned external to the nostrils connected to each intra-nasal shaping member, wherein the intra-nasal and extra-nasal shaping members are brought together by the spring member to mold the nasal anatomy into the desired shape.
US10610245B2	Self-rolling thrombectomy apparatuses and methods Self-rolling mechanical atherectomy aka thrombectomy apparatuses for removing a clot from a vessel include a tractor tube portion that rolls and inverts over itself in a continuous motion, tractor-like, to draw material into the tractor tube, wherein the tractor tube rolls over itself without requiring any additional internal support at the distal-facing region of the tractor tube.
US10610244B2	Joint fusion instrumentation and methods Systems and methods for joint preparation and fusion are disclosed. The system includes a cutting device having a handle, and rigid blade member. The blade member may include cutting edges on first and second sides, and may be curved in one or more planes. The blade member may be deployed to project outside of an outer tube, and the cutting device may be rotated to create a circular cavity. In a method of use, a cannula provides access to a procedure site such as a joint. A pathway to the joint is created, and the cutting device is inserted and deployed to undercut a cavity in the joint. A fusion device may be implanted across the joint to provide compression and fuse the joint. The system may also include instrumentation for creating access to a joint, bone graft insertion and implant insertion.
US10610243B2	System and method for installing a bicortical implant in bone Orthopedic systems and methods for installing an implant and/or boring a bone bicortically. The system may include a drill having a proximal boring portion configured to bore a larger hole in a bone more efficiently when the drill rotates in a first direction compared to an opposite second direction, and a distal boring portion configured to bore a smaller hole in the bone more efficiently when the drill rotates in the second direction. The implant may be configured to be implanted at least partially in the bone, such that a first region of the implant is located in the larger hole and a second region of the implant is located in the smaller hole. In an exemplary method, the larger hole and the smaller hole may be bored in the bone's near cortex and far cortex, respectively, by a shaft and a nose of the drill rotated in opposite directions.
US10610239B2	Non-invasive cerebral perfusion increasing device A non-invasive cerebral perfusion increasing device including four cuffing pad units and a control unit which is connected to the cuffing pad units and is equipped with a blood pressure sensing module and a compression control module. In the non-invasive cerebral perfusion increasing device each cuffing pad unit respectively includes a compression pad, a compression control member and a blood pressure sensing member. The blood pressure sensing module uses the blood pressure sensing members to sense the systolic blood pressure values of the portions of each of the limbs where they are attached and the compression control module controls the degree of compression of each compression pad by controlling the compression control member to a setting desired by the user based on the sensed blood pressure value, such that the blood flow applied to the limbs is blocked and, indirectly, cerebral perfusion is increased.
US10610235B2	Tissue fastening tool A tissue fastening tool fastens a first biological tissue to a second biological tissue. The tissue fastening tool is made of two elastic wire rods, each shape set into a coil shape. Each of elastic wire rods are separately shape set, then ends of the rods are connected such that the second elastic wire rod coils back over the first elastic wire rod.
US10610229B2	Temporary embolic protection device and medical procedure for delivery thereof An embolic protection device, kit, and medical procedure prevent embolic material from entering into side branch vessels of the aortic arch. The device is a collapsible embolic protection device devised for temporary transvascular delivery to an aortic arch of a patient and has a protection unit that comprises a selectively permeable unit adapted to prevent embolic material from passage with a blood flow into a plurality of aortic side branch vessels at the aortic arch. The protection unit is permanently attached to a transvascular delivery unit and a first support member that is at least partly arranged at a periphery of the selectively permeable unit. In an expanded state of the device, the connection point is enclosed by the first support member or arranged at said support member.
US10610225B2	Surgical stapler having a powered handle A powered handle for a surgical stapler can have a drive system including an electric motor. The powered handle can include a manual articulation mechanism to articulate a jaw assembly coupled to a reload shaft connected to the handle. The manual articulation mechanism can include a ball screw mechanism that translates an articulation member responsive to rotation of an articulation knob. The articulation mechanism includes a release function that allows the jaw assembly to return to a longitudinally centered orientation. The powered handle includes a battery pack serving as a power supply for the drive system. A control system can control actuation of the motor based on user inputs and operating parameters of the stapler. The powered handle can include a manual return mechanism.
US10610224B2	Lockout arrangements for surgical end effectors and replaceable tool assemblies Surgical end effectors are disclosed. The surgical end effectors can include a first jaw, a second jaw rotatably coupled to the first jaw, and a lockout arrangement configured to prevent rotational movement of the second jaw toward the first jaw unless an unfired staple cartridge is positioned in the first jaw. The lockout arrangement can comprise a pivotable lock configured to pivot between a locked orientation and an unlocked orientation, a shiftable lock bar, and/or a spring-loaded lockout lever.
US10610219B2	Surgical stapler with curved outer surface on anvil A surgical instrument and method of manipulating colon tissue of a patient includes a body having a firing mechanism, a shaft assembly, and an end effector operatively connected to the firing mechanism via the shaft assembly. The end effector is configured to receive a cartridge selectively actuated by the selective manipulation of the firing mechanism. A distal end portion of the end effector includes a first end, a second end laterally opposite the first end, and a distal crest laterally positioned between the first and second ends that projects distally beyond the first and second ends. The distal end portion also includes an arcuate distal surface extending along the distal with a radius of curvature configured to be received against the pelvic bowl of the patient to position the end effector relative to colon tissue for manipulating the colon tissue with the cartridge.
US10610218B2	Staples for generating and applying compression within a body A staple comprising: a bridge configured to be elastically stretchable; a first leg connected to said bridge and configured to be elastically bendable; and a second leg connected to said bridge and configured to be elastically bendable; said first and second legs being connected to said bridge so that they are angled toward one another when they are in an unstrained state; such that when said bridge is elastically strained into an elongated condition, and said first and second legs are elastically strained so that they extend substantially parallel to one another, and said first and second legs are disposed in appropriate holes on opposing sides of a fracture line, and when the strain on said staple is thereafter released, compression will be provided across the fracture line by both said bridge and said first and second legs.
US10610216B2	Suturing devices and methods for suturing an anatomic valve Suturing apparatuses configured to suture biological tissue, such as an anatomical valve. The suturing apparatuses can comprise an elongate member having a proximal end, a distal end, one or more arms, and one or more needles. A protective member may be used to inhibit contact between a distal end of a needle and surrounding tissue. Methods for suturing bodily tissue such as an anatomical valve may be performed with the suturing apparatuses. The suturing apparatuses may be used to suture adjacent valve leaflets or the base of a valve in order to treat or repair the valve.
US10610212B2	Locking suture construct A locking suture construct having suture material with a first end and a second end, each attached to a first body in a slidable manner, a constricting member formed in the second end of the suture material, and a bight in the suture material between the first end and the second end. The bight can be pulled through the constricting member around a second body to create a locking loop. The first end and the second end are passed through the locking loop. Pulling the first end increases a perimeter of the locking loop and moves the constricting member toward the second body. When the constricting member reaches the second body, pulling the first end reduces the perimeter of the locking loop and moves/rotates the constricting member around the second body toward the first body to hold the first body in relative position to the second body.
US10610209B2	Articulation joint with bending member The present disclosure provides an articulation joint that can include a plurality of articulation links, wherein each articulation link can include an elongate body having a proximal end, a distal end, an outer surface, and a first lumen extending from the proximal end to the distal end. Each articulation link can further include a plurality of arms extending radially outward from the elongate body, wherein each arm includes an inner end attached to the outer surface of the elongate body and a second lumen extending from a proximal side of the arm to a distal side of the arm. The articulation joint can also include a bending member positioned within the first lumen of the elongate body and a control member positioned within a plurality of second lumens, wherein each of the plurality of second lumens includes a common longitudinal axis.
US10610208B2	Subxyphoid epicardial ablation Methods and devices described herein facilitate ablation patterns on the heart within a pericardial sac and without opening or deflating the lungs.
US10610207B2	Articulating cranial bolt A catheter guiding device includes a bolt including a shaft configured to be inserted within a hole drilled in a bone and a passageway extending longitudinally therethrough along a bolt axis and a guide member received within the passageway of the bolt and extending longitudinally along a guide axis. The guide member includes a guide channel extending therethrough along the guide axis, wherein, in a first configuration, the guide member is arrangeable to a desired position relative to the bolt to align the guide axis with a target area and, in a second configuration, the guide member is fixed in the desired position relative to the bolt such that the guide axis is at a desired angle relative to the bolt axis within a permitted range of angulations.
US10610199B2	Acoustic lens, method for producing same, ultrasound probe, and ultrasound imaging apparatus An acoustic lens contains silicone rubber and metal oxide particles. The metal oxide particles are added into the silicone rubber. The metal oxide particles have a number-average particle diameter of 30 to 2,000 nm, a specific gravity of 3.5 g/cm3 or more, a content of 30 to 150 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the silicone rubber, and an oil absorption amount of 20 mL or less per 100 g.
US10610198B2	Automated sweep and export of 2D ultrasound images of 3D volumes An ultrasound system (10) which is capable of biplane imaging is able to display, store and export independent image frames of only the reference image or only the variable orientation image, or the standard display of both images. The system is also able to sweep through a range of image plane orientations and to automatically acquire an image in each orientation over the range of plane orientations. The system is preferably operable in the biplane tilt mode, the biplane rotate mode, or the biplane elevation tilt mode.
US10610193B2	Continuous ultrasonic monitoring A system for continuous ultrasonic monitoring includes an ultrasound transducer. The ultrasound transducer includes an array of ultrasonic transducer elements. The ultrasonic transducer elements are operable to steer and focus an ultrasound beam to a selectable location and to receive an ultrasound signal from the selectable location. A holder is provided for holding the ultrasound transducer, the holder being attachable to a skin surface of a patient. A controller is configured to repeatedly steer and focus the ultrasound beam to identify a target section of an object inside the body of the patient and to acquire an ultrasound image such that the target section is maintained within the acquired ultrasound image.
US10610192B2	High volume rate 3D ultrasonic diagnostic imaging A 3D ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system produces 3D display images at a 3D frame rate of display which is equal to the acquisition rate of a 3D image dataset. The volumetric region being imaged is sparsely sub-sampled by separated scanning beams. Spatial locations between the beams are filled in with interpolated values or interleaved with acquired data values from other 3D scanning intervals depending upon the existence of motion in the image field. A plurality of different beam scanning patterns are used, different ones of which have different spatial locations where beams are located and beams are omitted. In a preferred embodiment the determination of motion and the consequent decision to use interpolated or interleaved data for display is determined on a pixel-by pixel basis.
US10610189B2	X-ray irradiating device including motion sensor and X-ray imaging method using same Disclosed are an X-ray irradiating device having a function of selecting an automatic radiographic mode and an X-ray imaging method using the same. The X-ray irradiating device includes an X-ray source, a motion sensor configured to detect an X-ray source pointing direction, and a controller configured to select any one of a plurality of radiographic modes according to a pointing angle signal received from the motion sensor. The X-ray imaging method, which uses the above described X-ray imaging apparatus, includes setting a reference plane as a reference value for a pointing angle in which an X-ray source is directed, detecting the pointing angle relative to the reference plane by using a motion sensor and selecting a radiographic mode corresponding to the detected pointing angle, and performing a radiography by controlling the X-ray source with a set value corresponding to the selected radiographic mode.
US10610188B2	X-ray imaging condition modification method and x-ray system An x-ray imaging condition modification method includes modifying a first imaging condition to a second imaging condition by changing a value of at least one parameter among parameters included in the first imaging condition to an arbitrary value, and changing values of remaining parameters that are parameters other than the at least one parameter using the arbitrary value and an approximate function.
US10610184B2	Medical-information processing apparatus and X-ray CT apparatus A medical-information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires medical image data that is obtained during imaging on the subject in a resting state in the time phase where the relationship between the volume of blood flow and the pressure in a blood vessel in the cardiac cycle of the subject indicates a proportional relationship. The processing circuitry extracts the structure of a blood vessel, included in the medical image data, applies fluid analysis to the structure of the blood vessel to obtain a first index value, which is obtained based on the pressure in the blood vessel on the upstream side of a predetermined position within the blood vessel and the relation equation between the volume of blood flow and the pressure in the blood vessel in the resting state, and a second index value, which is obtained based on the pressure in the blood vessel on the downstream side of the predetermined position and the relation equation, and calculates the pressure ratio, which is the ratio of the first index value to the second index value.
US10610182B2	Converting low-dose to higher dose 3D tomosynthesis images through machine-learning processes A method and system for converting low-dose tomosynthesis projection images or reconstructed slices images with noise into higher quality, less noise, higher-dose-like tomosynthesis reconstructed slices, using of a trainable nonlinear regression (TNR) model with a patch-input-pixel-output scheme called a pixel-based TNR (PTNR). An image patch is extracted from an input raw projection views (images) of a breast acquired at a reduced x-ray radiation dose (lower-dose), and pixel values in the patch are entered into the PTNR as input. The output of the PTNR is a single pixel that corresponds to a center pixel of the input image patch. The PTNR is trained with matched pairs of raw projection views (images together with corresponding desired x-ray radiation dose raw projection views (images) (higher-dose). Through the training, the PTNR learns to convert low-dose raw projection images to high-dose-like raw projection images. Once trained, the trained PTNR does not require the higher-dose raw projection images anymore. When a new reduced x-ray radiation dose (low dose) raw projection images is entered, the trained PTNR outputs a pixel value similar to its desired pixel value, in other words, it outputs high-dose-like raw projection images where noise and artifacts due to low radiation dose are substantially reduced, i.e., a higher image quality. Then, from the “high-dose-like” projection views (images), “high-dose-like” 3D tomosynthesis slices are reconstructed by using a tomosynthesis reconstruction algorithm. With the “virtual high-dose” tomosynthesis reconstruction slices, the detectability of lesions and clinically important findings such as masses and microcalcifications can be improved.
US10610178B2	X-ray imaging apparatus, method of controlling the same, and x-ray imaging system An x-ray imaging apparatus and a method of controlling the x-ray imaging apparatus are provided. The x-ray imaging apparatus includes x-ray detectors, and a user interface configured to display sizes of the x-ray detectors, and display a modality in which an x-ray detector, among the x-ray detectors, is usable, while a size of the x-ray detector is displayed.
US10610175B2	Radiation treatment delivery system with translatable ring gantry Systems, methods, and related computer program products for image-guided radiation treatment (IGRT) are described. For one preferred embodiment, an IGRT apparatus is provided comprising a ring gantry having a central opening and a radiation treatment head coupled to the ring gantry that is rotatable around the central opening in at least a 180 degree arc. For one preferred embodiment, the apparatus further comprises a gantry translation mechanism configured to translate the ring gantry in a direction of a longitudinal axis extending through the central opening. Noncoplanar radiation treatment delivery can thereby be achieved without requiring movement of the patient. For another preferred embodiment, an independently translatable 3D imaging device distinct from the ring gantry is provided for further achieving at least one of pre-treatment imaging and setup imaging of the target tissue volume without requiring movement of the patient.
US10610173B2	System and method to improve spatial resolution in computed tomography The present approach relates to avoiding azimuthal blur in a computed tomography context, such as in dual energy imaging with fast kV switching. In accordance with certain aspects, the focal spot position is held stationary in the patient coordinate system within each respective view and the detector signals within the view are summed. In one embodiment, this results in the low and high energy views within the signal being collected from the same position within the patient coordinate system.
US10610170B2	Patient position monitoring system based on 3D surface acquisition technique A method acquires reflectance image content from patient anatomy that is within a volume of an imaging apparatus defined between a radiation source and a detector and generates a surface contour image from the acquired reflectance image content. The generated surface contour image is compared with surface contour image metrics stored for the imaging apparatus and a recommended adjustment to the position of the patient anatomy is reported according to the comparison.
US10610166B2	Determination of a hemodynamic parameter Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for determining a hemodynamic parameter. An exemplary method comprises: receiving data associated with at least one heart beat; calculating a first standard deviation for at least a portion of the data; interpolating a second standard deviation for at least a second portion of the data; and determining the hemodynamic parameter based on the first standard deviation and the second standard deviation.
US10610165B2	Methods and kits for assessing neurological and ophthalmic function and localizing neurological lesions The invention provides methods and kits for detecting, screening, quantifying or localizing the etiology for reduced or impaired cranial nerve function or conduction; localizing a central nervous system lesion; detecting, diagnosing or screening for increased intracranial pressure, pressure or disruption of central nervous system physiology as seen with concussion; or detecting, diagnosing, monitoring progression of or screening for a disease or condition featuring increased intracranial pressure or concussion by tracking eye movement of the subject.
US10610162B2	Method for the detecting electrocardiogram anomalies and corresponding system A heart-rate associated with a heartbeat signal is determined. A transform is selected based on the determined heart-rate associated with the heartbeat signal and a reference heart-rate associated with a dictionary of a sparse approximation model. The transform is selected independent of other factors associated with generation of the heartbeat signal. The selected transform is applied to the dictionary of the sparse approximation model, generating an adjusted dictionary of the sparse approximation model. Anomalous heartbeats in the heartbeat signal are detected using the adjusted dictionary of the sparse approximation model.
US10610161B1	Diagnosis using a digital oral device A system and method for instant tongue sampling and diagnosis includes acquiring a plurality of tongue images from a plurality of digital oral devices, and a current health conditions, building a diagnosis framework for diagnosing a current health condition of a user by: i) analyzing the collected tongue images with a visual recognition engine to determine tongue characteristics of each tongue captured in the tongue images, and ii) correlating the tongue characteristics with the current health condition, identifying tongue characteristics from a received image of the tongue using the visual image recognition engine, applying the diagnosis framework to the tongue characteristics of the tongue to diagnosis the current health condition of the user, and modifying a graphical user interface of the digital oral device to display a custom health report indicative of the current health condition of the user, in response to applying the diagnosis framework.
US10610160B1	Stream-based alarm filtering Systems and methods are provided for evaluating an alarm condition for a monitored patient in a population of one or more patients. One or more physiological parameters pertaining to the patient, or physiological variables, are used to form a time series describing the patient status. A quantile threshold is determined for a patient. A monitor is initialized and begins generating a binary raw alarm signal. The binary signal is filtered with a low pass filter, and the filtered data is subjected to a quantile operation to determine if a particular sample exceeds the determined quantile threshold. If the quantile threshold is exceeded, then a check is performed to see if the raw binary alarm signal also indicates an alarm. If both the preliminary alarm indication and the raw binary signal indicate an alarm, then an alarm is emitted; otherwise monitoring continues.
US10610158B2	Physiological monitoring devices and methods that identify subject activity type Methods and apparatus for monitoring a subject are described. A monitoring device configured to be attached to a body of a subject includes a sensor that is configured to detect and/or measure physiological information from the subject and a motion sensor configured to detect and/or measure subject motion information. The physiological sensor and motion sensor are in communication with a processor that is configured to receive and analyze signals produced by the physiological sensor and motion sensor. The processor is configured to process motion sensor signals to identify an activity characteristic of the subject. Once an activity characteristic is determined, the processor is configured to select a biometric signal extraction algorithm or circuit in response to the activity characteristic of the subject, and then process physiological sensor signals via the biometric signal extraction algorithm or circuit to produce physiological information about the subject.
US10610152B2	Sleep state detection method, apparatus and system Aspects of the disclosure include a sleep state detection method. The sleep state detection method includes: upon detecting that current status of a user satisfies a preset sleep condition, sending, by a smart wearable device, a state checking request to a terminal associated with the smart wearable device, the state checking request instructing the terminal to provide state information based on sensor data or an operation event of a predetermined application on the terminal; receiving the state information from the terminal; and determining whether the user enters a sleep state based on the state information.
US10610150B2	Remote microelectromechanical labor detection system The present invention provides an improved light system for labor detection by monitoring the status of a cervix, including dilation, during pregnancy and for monitoring vaginal pH at the cervix to detect the leakage of amniotic fluid, including a MEMS receiver programmed to receive and process MEMS cervical data into cervical status data for transmission to a remote network monitor a first cervical MEMS device positioned at a first cervix location and a second cervical MEMS device positioned at a second cervix location providing MEMS cervical data for transmission to the short range wireless receiver for detecting labor.
US10610147B2	Neurodegenerative disease screening using an olfactometer Systems and methods of the present invention provide for an olfactometer for delivering one or more odors and one or more computing devices configured to: receive user input for an odor memory test and an odor discrimination test; calculate a score for the odor memory test and the odor discrimination test; calculate a first and second confidence interval threshold and a second confidence interval threshold for a first and second predicted odor memory score respectively, based on a relationship between, respectively, the odor memory test score and odor discrimination test score, and previously-entered performance data queried from the database; and responsive to the score for the odor memory test not being greater than the first confidence interval threshold and the score for the odor discrimination test not being greater than the second confidence interval threshold, generate a report identifying a user as high risk for a neurodegenerative disease.
US10610145B2	Safety driving system A method for monitoring physical conditions of an operator of a driving apparatus is described. The method includes obtaining an identity of the operator, acquiring signals indicating a physical condition of the operator, and determining whether the physical condition as indicated by the signals has breached a predetermined threshold. Further, when it is determined that the physical condition as indicated by the signals has breached a predetermined threshold, the method includes generating a first status indicating the operator suffers an abnormal physical condition, obtaining a current location of the driving apparatus, generating a first notification based on the first status, the first notification indicating the identity of the operator and the current location of the driving apparatus, the first notification describing the first user suffers the abnormal physical condition, and transmitting the first notification to a data receiver in a healthcare facility.
US10610138B2	Multi-stream data collection system for noninvasive measurement of blood constituents The present disclosure relates to noninvasive methods, devices, and systems for measuring various blood constituents or analytes, such as glucose. In an embodiment, a light source comprises LEDs and super-luminescent LEDs. The light source emits light at at least wavelengths of about 1610 nm, about 1640 nm, and about 1665 nm. In an embodiment, the detector comprises a plurality of photodetectors arranged in a special geometry comprising one of a substantially linear substantially equal spaced geometry, a substantially linear substantially non-equal spaced geometry, and a substantially grid geometry.
US10610134B2	Methods and devices for analyte sensing in potential spaces Use of the peritoneal space provides a more direct tracking of blood glucose, capturing faster glucose kinetics, avoiding membrane/encapsulation effects, having less lag time and lag time variability, and eliminating the effect of variations in skin temperature, cardiac output, and body position during sleep. A peritoneal sensor system may be implanted within the peritoneal space and may generally include a sensor/sampler portion, which is implanted in the peritoneal space, and a control portion/controller, which may be implanted elsewhere, such as subcutaneously, or may be external to the patient.
US10610130B2	Measuring limb range of motion A system, method, and computer readable medium for measuring limb range of motion. The method includes initializing a scanning area. A classifier trained to recognize limbs is loaded into memory. A frame representing a 3D point cloud having at least one limb of a person in motion is captured. A box fitting algorithm is performed on the captured at least one limb to enable the classifier to identify the at least one limb. One or more boxes generated from the box fitting algorithm are sliced into a plurality of 2D point clouds to measure and record the circumference of each 2D point cloud to obtain limb range of motion parameters. The limb range of motion parameters are a maximum and a minimum size of the at least one limb as a function of soft tissue expansion and contraction of the limb while under pressure, force, and/or motion.
US10610129B1	Systems and methods for portable monitoring of incentive spirometry A portable incentive spirometry monitoring device and method of use. The device connected to the base of an incentive spirometer and is capable of monitoring inspiration within the incentive spirometer. The portable incentive spirometry monitoring device has a user interface for inputting a variety of different parameters, including a desired air volume, as well as attempt thresholds. Results can be stored such that medical personnel can review attempts by a patient to monitor therapeutic use, as well as encouraging patient use. The portable incentive spirometry monitoring device may be reused with different incentive spirometers without the need for extensive sterilization.
US10610127B2	Electrophysiology laboratory system for use with magnetic resonance imaging systems An electrophysiological laboratory system comprises a subsystem configured to perform diagnostic and/or therapeutic functions, a medical device, and an interface module disposed therebetween. The medical device comprises a shaft having proximal and distal portions, high- and low-impedance electrical pathways disposed within the shaft, and an electrode disposed at the distal portion of the shaft and electrically coupled to one or both of the high- and low-impedance electrical pathways. The electrode is configured to perform diagnostic and/or therapy delivery functions. The interface module comprises a high-impedance channel configured to couple the high-impedance pathway of the medical device to the subsystem, and to attenuate magnetic resonance RF and gradient field pulses generated by the MRI system. The interface module further comprises a low-impedance channel configured to couple the low-impedance pathway of the medical device to the subsystem.
US10610122B2	Linear velocity imaging tomography The invention describes a new Imaging modality based on Linear Velocity Imaging Tomography; its applications include differentiating between malignant and benign tissues, the ability to correlate an ECG trace with actual disorders of the heart and Imaging Brain communications.
US10610118B2	Textile substrate for measuring physical quantity A textile substrate with a measuring sensor for measuring a physiological signal. The textile substrate has integrated irremovably therewith a base structure component for electronics, such as for example a plastic base for a transmitter for attaching the transmitter and other electronics to the substrate irremovably by way of said base structure component. In addition, signal transfer elements from the measuring sensor are adapted to extend in a watertight manner to the electronics through said base structure component integrated irremovably with the textile substrate.
US10610115B1	Methods and systems for the delivery of accurate and precise measurements from the body-surface electrocardiogram Described here are methods, devices, and systems for characterizing a physiological signal, and more specifically an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. Generally, the method includes receiving an ECG signal generated by an ECG device coupled to a patient. The ECG signal may comprise a plurality of cardiac beat intervals. A set of evaluable replicates may be identified using a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for each cardiac beat, a repolarization signal, and an isoelectric line. Interval measurements may be determined from the set of evaluable multi-beat sequences. An ECG signal characteristic may be determined from the interval measurements.
US10610108B2	Portable device and portable device assembly A portable device is provided, including a wearable frame capable of switching at least between a first status and a second status for a user to wear on different body parts. In the first status, the wearable frame forms a wristband for the user to wear, and in the second status, the wearable frame forms a hair clip for the user to wear on head. The wearable frame is provided with a physiological status information collection unit, used to collect physiological status information of a skin or hair of the user; and an environment information collection unit, used to collect external environment information of an environment where the user is located; and a communication unit, used to send the physiological status information and the external environment information to an external terminal. A portable device assembly is also provided.
US10610104B2	Gastrointestinal tract detection methods, devices and systems The present disclosure relates to gastrointestinal (GI) tract detection methods, devices and systems.
US10610102B2	Transcutaneous analyte sensor The present invention relates generally to systems and methods for measuring an analyte in a host. More particularly, the present invention relates to systems and methods for transcutaneous measurement of glucose in a host.
US10610100B2	Controlling electromagnetic (EM) transmission based on pressure parameters A method of controlling an analysis of electromagnetic (EM) signal of a human subject. The method comprises positioning an EM transducer unit in front of a skin area above a target intrabody volume of a human subject, the EM transducer unit having at least one EM transducer, a pressure applying unit that applies a variable pressure on the skin area, and a pressure sensor, measuring at least one pressure parameter indicative of the variable pressure using the pressure sensor, capturing EM signal using the at least one EM transducer, and performing an analysis of the EM signal to infer at least one intrabody parameter of the target intrabody volume. The analysis is controlled according to the at least one pressure parameter.
US10610099B2	Systems and methods for simultaneous position and impedance control for myoelectric interfaces Systems and methods for simultaneous position and impedance control for myoelectric interfaces are disclosed herein. Properties such as control refinement, retention, generalization, and transfer allow users to learn simultaneous and proportional motion simply by interacting with a myoelectric interface, regardless of its initial intuitiveness. The presently disclosed technology expands on these motor learning approaches by implementing a multidirectional impedance controller in this framework. Using sEMG inputs from upper limb muscles, users simultaneously control both the stiffness and set-point of 3-DOFs. Users stabilize control in the presence of external forces in an analogous way to natural limb movements. Despite having no haptic feedback, subjects learn to tune the stiffness of the object being controlled to stabilize movement along desired paths.
US10610098B1	Generalized retinal image screening system (GRIS) Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method to automatically screen images from a plurality of fundus cameras for a plurality of retinal diseases. The system comprises stacked autoencoders, amplitude modulation-frequency modulation filters, and artificial neural networks. An embodiment of the present invention uses a multi-class classifier, such as a support vector machine (multi-class SVM) classifier, to determine a plurality of retinal pathologies. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention is validated on a proprietary database of thousands of images (for example over 250,000 retinal images) from multiple cameras, ranging from the table-top fundus cameras to portable hand-held cameras.
US10610097B2	System and a method for corrective lens determination A component for a mobile computer device, such as a smartphone, can be secured to the housing of the mobile computer device. The component can deflect the light of a built-in light source of the mobile computer device with an optical element and optionally filter the same, or can provide its own light source to improve the option of measuring eccentric photorefraction using the mobile computer device.
US10610094B2	Multiple off-axis channel optical imaging device with secondary fixation target for small pupils An optical imaging device includes a plurality of imaging channels. Each imaging channel of the plurality of imaging channels may include a discrete optical imaging pathway, and the plurality of imaging channels may be disposed within a support structure. The plurality of imaging channels may be aimed at different angles relative to each other. The optical imaging device may also include a secondary fixation target within at least one imaging channel of the plurality of imaging channels such that at least one corresponding optical imaging pathway fits through a pupil diameter that is smaller than a minimum pupil diameter for multi-channel image acquisition with primary fixation.
US10610093B2	Method and system for automatic eyesight diagnosis Embodiments of the invention are related to a method and a system for eyesight diagnosis. The system includes a vision test unit and a controller. The vision test unit includes at least one eye movement tracking unit configured to track the movement of a portion of the eye, at least one screen for visual stimulation and a shuttering unit configured to controllably block the field of view (FOV) of each eye separately. In some embodiments, the controller includes a processor and a non-volatile memory that store thereon instructions that when executed by the processor causes the controller to: display to a patient a first visual stimulation on the at least one screen, cause the shuttering unit to block the FOV of a first eye of the patient while unblocking the FOV of a second eye, receive a first signal indicative of the second eye movement of the patient from the at least one eye movement tracking unit and diagnose the patient's eyesight based on the received first signal.
US10610092B2	Endoscope unblocking flush system An endoscope unblocking flush system for back flushing a suction lumen of an endoscope includes a flush source providing pressurized water and a valve mechanism to cut off a suction source from the suction lumen and to open the suction lumen to flow of back flush water from the flush source. The valve mechanism includes a valve housing with ports to connect to the suction lumen, the suction source, and the flush source. A valve member within the housing has passages to connect the suction source to the suction lumen in a run state and to connect the flush source to the suction lumen in a flush state.
US10610088B2	Multi-wavelength endoscopic system and image processing method using same There is disclosed a multi-wavelength endoscopic system for imaging an observation site labeled with a plurality of fluorescent materials having different colors. The system includes an imaging unit configured to acquire image data by polarizing incident light reflected from the observation site in a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, dividing a spectrum region of the incident light polarized in the first direction and the second direction into a plurality of spectrum channels and measuring the intensity of light for each of the spectrum channel. The system further includes a computing unit configured to store a single fluorescence spectrum extracted from sample image data obtained by single-treating the observation site with each of the fluorescent materials and configured to separate and output the image data obtained in the imaging unit using the single fluorescence spectrum so that each of the fluorescent materials is displayed separately.
US10610085B2	Optical sensing-enabled interventional instruments for rapid distributed measurements of biophysical parameters An interventional instrument, system and method include an elongated flexible member (100) having one or more segmented sections (101) disposed longitudinally. An optical fiber (104) is disposed internally in the flexible member. A plurality of optical sensors (102) are coupled to the optical fiber and distributed along a length of the flexible member such that the optical sensors are positioned to monitor parameters simultaneously at different positions or at different data sources along the flexible member to provide distributed sensing.
US10610083B2	Observation apparatus and endoscope system A light source illumination unit has operation modes including at least a normal electric power mode to operate with first electric power consumption, and a low electric power mode to operate with second electric power consumption lower than the first electric power consumption. A controller selects at least one of the operation modes in accordance with the current usage, and controls the light source illumination unit in accordance with the selected operation mode.
US10610082B2	Endoscope apparatus An endoscope apparatus includes: a first semiconductor light-emitting element; a light source drive section; a first detection section; a storage section configured to store a threshold value indicating whether or not the first detection section can correctly detect an intensity; and a control section configured to, if the intensity detected by the first detection section exceeds the threshold value stored in the storage section, control the current value of the drive signal based on the intensity detected by the first detection section, for the light source drive section, and if the intensity detected by the first detection section does not exceed the threshold value, perform control so as to make the current value of the drive signal constant to provide pulsed light emission and change a duty cycle or a number of pulses to perform light adjustment, for the light source drive section.
US10610073B1	Housekeeping cart drawer with a battery-powered charging dock for storing, charging, transporting, and deploying a robotic vacuum A housekeeping cart drawer and battery-powered charging dock for storing, charging, transporting, and deploying a robotic vacuum is disclosed. The housekeeping cart drawer and battery-powered charging dock for storing, charging, transporting, and deploying a robotic vacuum includes a deployable ramp enabling a robotic vacuum to enter and exit the trolley. The robotic vacuum ingress/egress ramp may be deployed and retracted by a foot pedal, a mechanical hand lever, or electronically. The mobile maid trolley includes an internal docking station with battery to recharge batteries of the robotic vacuum and a connection to a dust bin whereby the robotic vacuum can empty the contents of its recovery bin into a larger dust bin inside the trolley, which can be cleaned by sliding a container out the bottom. The trolley enables the robotic vacuum to have increased power from larger batteries, be fully charged all day, and removes the need for a person or staff to bend down to deploy and pick up the robot on the floor of a room.
US10610065B2	Cleaning scrubber for household surfaces A system for a cleaning brush comprises a cleaning scrubber for cleaning household surfaces. The cleaning scrubber includes an elongated handle having a gripping portion at the proximal end and a means for removably attaching a cleaning disk at the distal end. The cleaning disk comprises a foam or sponge cleaning pad and means for attachment to the handle. The handle may include means for releasing the cleaning disk from the end of the handle without the need for the user to manually handle the cleaning disk. A caddy for storage of the cleaning scrubber and spare cleaning disks is also described.
US10610064B2	Electronic dispenser for flexible rolled sheet material An electronic dispenser for dispensing flexible sheet material. A control circuit receives a plurality of signals and controls dispensing of the sheet material. A tear bar is mounted within the housing for severance of sheet material by the user. A pivotally mounted pawl member is located proximate to the tear bar such that movement of sheet material into the tear bar for severance pivots the pawl member from a first position to a second position. Movement of the pawl member to the second position causes a signal to be sent to notify the control circuit that the sheet material has been removed. The dispensing mechanism is operative in a first mode to be responsive to a signal from a proximity sensor to dispense a sheet of material, and is operative in a second mode to dispense a next sheet in response to the signal generated by movement of the pawl member to the second position in response to dispensed sheet material being removed from the dispenser.
US10610061B2	Tamper-proof and ligation resistant dispenser for liquids A tamper-proof and ligation-resistant apparatus for dispensing a liquid from a liquid container contained within a dispenser. The apparatus includes a back housing, a cover pivotally coupled to the back housing, a liquid cartridge coupled to the back housing, and an actuator coupled to the cover. The apparatus includes plates coupled to the cover and back housing to strength the apparatus or reduce gaps to prevent ligation. The actuator includes a dispensing hole small enough to prevent ligation. A pump nozzle insert compressibly fitted inside the pump nozzle reduces the liquid stream diameter and extends the pump nozzle so that the liquid stream passes through the dispensing hole unimpeded.
US10610058B2	Over the tub double sided step stool The present invention is directed to an over-the-tub double-sided step stool for providing a user, preferably a toddler or small child, with a means of un-assisted ingress and egress into a bathtub. The device may comprise an outer side and an inner side oriented such that they engage an outer and inner side, respectively, of a standard tub wall. Said outer and inner sides of the device may each further comprise a first step and a second step to provide elevation to a user of the device. Such outer and inner sides of the device may be connected to each other, whether permanently or removably, by a top step that may engage a top side of a standard tub wall. Said outer and inner sides of the device may further comprise a plurality of attachment receivers to which a plurality of non-slip foot attachments or suction foot attachments may be engaged to provide traction to the device.
US10610056B2	Tongs for food preparation and a method for preparing food using tongs Tongs for food preparation and a method for preparing food using tongs are presented. The tongs include a first and second arm connected to a connecting portion, the arms including each a head portion including a gripper portion for grabbing a food item when the first and second heads are brought toward each other, the gripper portion defining a portion of a cavity for holding the food item, and a spreader portion for inserting into and spreading portions of a receiving food item when the first and second heads are moved away from each other, the gripper portions of the first and second head portions being both disposed on a first side of a center plane, the spreader portions of the first and second head portions being both disposed on a second side of the center plane.
US10610053B2	Portable stove for s'mores A portable stove for cooking s'mores is disclosed herein wherein a gel chafing fuel is centrally disposed within a shell and away from the shell so that heat generated by the gel chafing fuel does not heat up the shell excessively so that a person would burn his or her fingers if the person touches the exterior surface of the shell. The portable stove has a gel chafing fuel holder for positioning the gel chafing fuel within the shell.
US10610049B2	Beverage brewing machine and method of preparing beverage Automatic beverage preparation machine with a brewing assembly; brewing material supply device to supply a brewing material dose to the brewing assembly at the beginning of each beverage production cycle; water supply means to supply the brewing assembly with a metered amount of water required to produce a beverage; a beverage-dispensing nozzle in fluid communication with a fluid outlet of the brewing assembly; and brewing process repeating means of the designed to reverse the beverage flow one or more times through the brewing material dose in the brewing assembly before being dispensed into a collection receptacle.
US10610048B2	Beverage preparation machine A beverage machine (300) comprises a pump (106) for pumping water (104) from a water tank (102) through a heater (108) and a hollow injection needle (200) into a beverage capsule (202), a pressurization device (302) comprising a cavity (304), a water line (116) connecting an outlet of the pump (106) to said cavity (304), a pressurization device valve (316) between the pump (106) and said pressurization device (302), a gas line (312) connecting the pressurization device (302) to said hollow injection needle (200), and a discharge valve (314), such that the pressurization device (302) receives a volume of water (104) from the pump (106) to compress a volume of gas (310) held in the cavity (304) of said pressurization device (302), and such that said compressed volume of gas (310) is discharged through the hollow injection needle (200) when the discharge valve (314) is opened.
US10610046B2	Highly flexible use automatic coffee machine The automatic coffee machine (1) comprises a single infuser unit (2) for producing a coffee infusion, coffee infusion dispensing means (4) located in front of a front wall (5) of the machine (1) in a distanced position above a surface (6) for resting one or more cups (7, 8) for collecting the coffee infusion, a hydraulic circuit (9) for distributing the coffee infusion to the coffee infusion dispensing means (4), and valve interception means (10) present along said hydraulic circuit (9), the coffee infusion dispensing means (4) comprise a first coffee infusion dispensing unit (16) equipped with at least one coffee infusion dispensing nozzle (17, 18) and at least a second coffee infusion dispensing unit (19) equipped with at least one coffee infusion dispensing nozzle (20, 21), the hydraulic circuit (9) comprising a first supply pipe (34) for said first coffee infusion dispensing unit (16) and a second supply pipe (35) for said second coffee infusion dispensing unit (19), said valve means (10) comprising a first interception valve (36) of the flow along said first pipe (34) and a second interception valve (37) of the flow along said second pipe (35).
US10610040B2	Brewing and squeezing cup Disclosed is a brewing and squeezing cup, including a brewing and squeezing device (10), a bottom cover (20) and a cup body (30), wherein the brewing and squeezing device (10) comprises a cone (110) with an accommodating chamber and a cup cover (120) in a penetrating shape, a bottom end of the cone (110) is provided with a filter plate (130) extending towards an outer periphery thereof, the filter plate (130) is provided with a plurality of first filter holes (132), the bottom end of the cone (110) is provided with an opening (112) in communication with the accommodating chamber, an outer wall of the cone (110) is provided with a plurality of scraping strips (114) or a plurality of protrusions, the outer wall of the cone (110) is also provided with a plurality of second filter holes (116) penetrating to the accommodating cavity, the filter plate (130) is connected to the cup cover (120), the cup cover (120) is connected to the cup body (30) in a detachable manner, the cone (110) can be arranged with a tip facing upwards or downwards with respect to the cup body (30), and the bottom cover (20) covers the opening (112) of the cone (110), and the bottom cover (20) is connected to the cup cover (120) in a detachable manner. The brewing and squeezing cup can not only squeeze for fruit juice but can also brew tea by providing the brewing and squeezing device (10); it can also control the concentration of the tea with a simple structure, convenient to clean and carry.
US10610038B2	Device for retaining a shoe tongue A device for retaining a shoe tongue in a fixed position includes a first portion adapted to be retained within an eyelet of a shoe and a second portion adapted to retain a shoe tongue in a fixed position.
US10610036B1	Container holder or cooler, system, and electronic device and method for locating the container holder or cooler A locatable container holder or cooler having a wireless interconnection device is presently provided. At least one reporter such as a buzzer or light is held with the container holder or cooler and is in electrical communication with the wireless interconnection device. The wireless interconnection device is configured to wirelessly connect with a portable electronic device and report the location of the container holder or cooler by energizing the at least one reporter, upon receiving a location report command from the portable electronic device. A system and an electronic device and method for locating a container holder or cooler are also provided.
US10610035B2	Spreading device A spreading device comprises a container comprising a dispensing end and an exterior surface, and at least one gripping or handling surface extending from the container for gripping or handling the spreading device, squeezing or applying pressure against the exterior surface of the flexible container, and causing the dispensing of a spreadable substance out of the dispensing end of the container.
US10610034B2	Easy change mattress sheet attachment system An example easy change mattress sheet attachment system includes a bed sheet having four sewn-on fabric casings in an arch shape and a cord inserted through the casings forming a set of accessible sections of drawstring at exposed between-casing cord regions at four corners, and a bottom mat having means for trapping drawstrings at four corners. After having installed the bottom mat under the mattress, one can install and remove the top sheet onto and from the mattress without having to lift up the mattress. To install the top sheet, first put the top sheet on the mattress, then execute drawstring-trapping maneuvers at four bed corners. To remove the top sheet, detach the engaged drawstrings at four bed corners.
US10610033B2	Template kit for drilling holes and mounting objects A template kit for assisting with the drilling of holes and the mounting of objects to a planar surface. The template kit includes an impactor, a plurality of punch heads removably securable to the impactor, and a sheet of material having a first side and a second side. The first side includes a first adhesive that can releasably secure the object to be mounted. The second side includes a second adhesive that can secure the device to a wall or other planar surface. The second adhesive has increased adhesive strength relative to the first adhesive. Each punch head includes an inner and outer edge that can cut a disc member from the sheet of material, wherein the impactor drives the punch head through the sheet of material. In use, the disc members are secured to a wall and serve as a guide for drilling a hole to hang the object.
US10610028B2	Mattress with microcoil cells A mattress includes a top face, a bottom face, a pair of opposing sides defining a mattress width there between, a first microcoil support foam layer and a second microcoil support foam layer. The first microcoil support foam layer includes a plurality of first pockets and a plurality of first protrusions, and the second microcoil support foam layer includes a plurality of second pockets and a plurality of second protrusions. A plurality of separate microcoil cells are formed as lines of microcoils having a width of a single microcoil and a length containing sufficient number of microcoils such that the line of microcoils spans the mattress width. Each one of the microcoil cells is disposed between a given second protrusion and first pocket or a given first protrusion and second pocket.
US10610026B2	Foldable, stand-alone mattress with internal spring system An internal spring system resiliently supports a mattress in an item of furniture. The spring system includes a system of sinuous springs arranged between upper and lower wire grids. A movable extender assembly is mounted on the grids to accommodate a longitudinal shift between the upper and lower grids during folding of the spring system between open and closed positions.
US10610024B2	Seating and/or lounging furniture Seating and/or lounging furniture with a footrest coupled to a frame via a linkage mechanism designed as a scissor mechanism. A drive mechanism extends and retracts the footrest, and includes: at least one first linkage articulatedly fastened at one end to a first hinge point on the frame, and having a second end with a second hinge point, at least one second linkage articulatedly coupled at a first end to the first linkage at the second hinge point, and having a second end coupled to a third hinge point provided on the linkage mechanism, and the first and second hinge points defining a first straight line, and the second and third hinge points defining a second straight line, in an extended position of the footrest, the first and second straight lines enclosing an angle of 180°+/−5° relative to one another.
US10610019B2	Synchronized mechanism for an office chair A mechanism is provided for an office chair. In order to accomplish an advantageous motion characteristic of the mechanism and thus of the office chair, a synchronized mechanism provides a correlated seat/backrest movement of an office chair. The backrest support is connected to the seat support not directly and immediately, but via a coupling element. The force applied to the seat support upon swiveling the backrest support is applied to the seat support solely via the coupling element. Two guide element pairs are provided to guide the seat support relative to the base support.
US10610018B1	Dual cam recliner mechanism A recliner mechanism for a seat. The recliner mechanism may have first and second cams that may be rotatable about an axis. The first cam may engage and hold a pawl in an engaged position. The second cam may be spaced apart from the pawl when the pawl is in the retracted position.
US10610017B2	System, method, and apparatus for installing and modifying pallet rack beam shelving A system, method, and apparatus for installing or modifying the configuration of a pallet rack beam shelving system. A pallet rack assembly tool includes a mounting stub that is configured to be positioned below a cross member of a pallet rack system. A beam carrier is then operatively coupled to the mounting stub to place an upper support surface subjacent to a bottom edge of the cross member. The beam carrier includes upstanding beam stop extending forwardly from and above the upper support surface. The beam stop is configured to retain a released end of the cross member while the worker may attach or detach an opposite end of the cross member to or from the upright support member.
US10610014B2	Clamp assembly A clamp assembly having a clamp, a handle, and a clip. The handle is shaped so as to provide a novel and improved method and apparatus to hold shoes to a golf bag. The topline of the shoe is securely held by the clamp. The handle is attached to the clamp. And the clip is attached to the handle and can clip to a golf bag. The clip may be a carabiner clip.
US10610010B2	Multi-positional articulating platform system A variable height workstation system comprises a base, a variable height platform, a lift mechanism, a lower adjustable pivot assembly, and an upper adjustable pivot assembly. The base is configured to be mounted to a support surface. The lift mechanism is configured to move the variable height platform between a fully lowered and raised position. The lower adjustable pivot assembly is configured to be connected be to the base and the lift mechanism. The lower adjustable pivot assembly comprises a lower adjustable force regulator configured to adjust a force required to rotate a lower pivot member about its first vertical rotational axis. The upper adjustable pivot assembly is configured to be connected to the lift mechanism and the variable height platform. The upper adjustable pivot assembly comprises an upper adjustable force regulator configured to adjust a force required to rotate an upper pivot member about its second vertical rotational axis.
US10610009B1	Removable table leg A table leg has an elongate leg having, a locking rod, and an annular knob having an internally threaded hole threadedly receiving the locking rod therethrough. Top and bottom fixed plates are provided for sandwiching the annular knob therebetween. An L-shaped bracket having a vertical portion that extends from a bottom edge to a corner, and a horizontal portion that extends from the corner to a terminal edge, is attached to the top and bottom fixed plates for clamping the table between the horizontal portion and the locking rod.
US10610008B2	Brushing device with illumination features The present disclosure relates to an oral cleansing device with illumination features. In one example, the device includes a housing including an aperture, such as a button aperture, defined therethrough, a diffuser connected to the housing and configured to span over the aperture. The device also includes a blocking member positioned over a portion of the diffuser and connected thereto and a lighting array received within the housing and at least partially aligned with the blocking member such that light emitted from the lighting array is transmitted to an exterior of the housing by traveling around the blocking member and through the diffuser.
US10610006B2	Angle adjustable paint applicator assembly An angle adjustable paint applicator assembly for painting at different angles includes a head that has an outer end, an inner end and a perimeter wall that is attached to and extends between the outer and inner ends. A plurality of bristles is attached to the head and extends outwardly away from the outer end. A handle is included and has a first end and a second end. A coupler is pivotally couples the first end of the handle to the inner end of the head. The coupler includes a securing member to releasably secure the head a selected angle relative to the handle.
US10610005B2	Adjustable end mascara A cosmetic applicator comprises a grip, a holder shaft that extends from the grip, the holder shaft comprising a longitudinal axis, an applicator region, one end of the applicator region being connected to a ball stud, and a buffer element that is disposed inside the holder shaft and is in contact with one end of the ball stud. The applicator region pivots at a desired angle of up to 90° around the longitudinal axis, and is adjusted to any desired angles and any directions off the longitudinal axis. The ball stud is connected to the holder shaft. The holder shaft comprises an eye which acts as a socket for the ball stud to fit securely into and allows adjustments to be made in any direction.
US10610004B1	Multipurpose holder The present invention relates to a multipurpose holder. A central portion of a strap is bends or spreads out as one end portion moves closer to or away from an opposite end portion and a stopper is provided at the opposite end portion. When the strap is disposed at one face of a pad, one end portion of the strap is fixed at one edge of the pad, and when the strap is spread out, the opposite end portion is supported at opposite edge of the pad, and an area other than where the strap is disposed and operates is formed to be protruded. A strap guide has two end portions connected to one face of the pad while the strap guide partially covers the strap to guide the operation of the strap, and limits the proximity movement of the strap in a bent state by catching against the stopper.
US10610002B2	Golf bag strap systems and methods to manufacture golf bag strap systems Golf bag strap systems and methods to manufacture the same are generally described herein. In one example, a strap system may include a strap connector having a body portion. A first strap arm portion may extend from the body portion and may have a first channel extending through the body portion and configured to receive a first strap. A second strap arm portion may extend from the body portion and may have a second channel extending through the body portion and configured to receive a second strap. The first and second channels may be at least partially separate from each other. The first and second straps may freely move relative to each other without contacting each other inside the strap connector. Other examples may be described and claimed.
US10609999B2	Hair elastic accessory A hair elastic accessory with a first member comprising magnetic material and a structure that is constructed and arranged to releasably grip a hair elastic. There is a second member comprising magnetic material. The first and second members are adapted to be releasably magnetically coupled together.
US10609997B2	Telescopically-extendable handle and rechargeable power supply assembly for luggage A telescopically-extendable handle and rechargeable power supply assembly for mounting in a piece of luggage. The assembly includes a pair of spaced apart guide tubes supporting a pair of telescopically-extendable rods joined to a handle structure. A base housing component is mounted in an aperture formed in the luggage, and has a top surface. A battery module casing is mounted to and beneath the base housing component, and disposed substantially in the same plane as and between the pair of spaced apart guide tubes. A rechargeable DC battery power module is contained in the battery module casing, and provides a DC battery recharging port and a set of DC power supplying ports. Each such port is directly accessible through the top surface of the base housing component. A power port cover panel is hinged to the base housing component and has a closed configuration and an open configuration.
US10609995B2	Portable electronic device case Systems and methods are involved with but are not limited to: a portable electronic device case including a case cover including a first cover portion, and a second cover portion, the first cover portion hingedly coupled to the one or more first peripheral portions of the enclosure periphery, the first cover portion hingedly coupled to the second cover portion wherein in a first configuration the first cover portion and the second cover portion cover a display of a tablet shaped electronic device being received by the enclosure base and the enclosure periphery and in a second configuration the first cover portion and the second cover portion form a stand. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.
US10609992B2	Mobility devices having smart features and charging mounts for same Examples described herein include mobility devices that may include a variety of enhanced features. For example, mobility devices are described which may more accurately assess a fall of a user by determining if a user is in proximity to a portion of the mobility device after a fall of the mobility device is detected. Examples of wall mounted chargers for mobility devices are also described. Moreover, examples of mechanisms for detaching and attaching tips to mobility devices (e.g. canes) are described which may facilitate swapping of different tips for different situations.
US10609986B2	Articles of footwear having a leno woven upper with stretch zones An article of footwear includes a sole and an upper. The upper includes a leno woven fabric having a continuous leno weave pattern of a plurality of warp yarns extending in a longitudinal direction and a plurality of weft yarns extending in a transverse direction. The leno woven fabric includes zones having different stretch characteristics.
US10609981B1	Insole sandal and shoe system Embodiments provide an insole sandal and a shoe without a tongue. The insole sandal has a first surface configured to interface with a foot of a wearer; and a second surface configured to interface with a ground surface, and a bottom of an interior of a shoe. The insole sandal further has a strap configured to hold the insole to the foot of the wearer when the insole sandal is worn as a sandal. The first surface and the second surface are on opposite sides of one another. The insole sandal is configured to fit within the interior of the shoe. The shoe is configured to receive the insole sandal in its interior. The bottom of the insole sandal and an inner sole of the shoe may have complementary protrusions and depressions.
US10609980B2	Modular shoe The present invention relates to a modular shoe (1700) in particular a sports shoe, with a sock like outer shoe (1750) and a frame (1710). The sock like outer shoe is provided for a releasable arrangement around the frame. The sock like outer shoe may comprise a plurality of profile elements (1765), wherein at least one of the profile elements extends from an outer side of the sock like outer shoe. A region of the at least one of the profile elements may be configured to releasably engage in a formfitting manner with a lower side of the frame of the modular shoe.
US10609976B2	Quick wearing tool for magnetic eyelashes A quick wearing tool for a pair of magnetic eyelashes members, which includes a handle, a clip unit, an upper clip plate connected to a top end of the clip unit; and a lower clip plate moveable connected to the handle allowing upward and downward movement. The two clip plates have a magnetic polarity opposite to the magnetic eyelashes members, are made of iron materials or magnetic materials for forming a magnetic loop with the magnetic eyelashes members. The magnetic properties of the two clip plates are lower than that of the magnetic eyelashes members, therefore the magnetic eyelashes members are pre-loaded onto the two clip plates through magnetic attraction and then detached from the two clip plates to secure into position on real eyelashes by attraction between the two eyelashes members when the lower clip plate is moved upward towards the upper clip plate.
US10609975B2	Systems and methods for fabricating custom eyelash prostheses Systems and methods for manufacturing eyelash prostheses are described.
US10609973B2	Systems and methods for making soap flowers Methods and systems for making artificial flowers are disclosed. The method can include wrapping a first flower wrapper having between 1 and 5 petals around a foam core to form a first flower construct, or bud. The method can include wrapping a second flower wrapper having between 1 and 5 petals around the first flower construct, or bud. The method can include wrapping a third flower wrapper having between 1 and 5 petals around the second flower construct. The method can include wrapping additional layers of flower wrappers around flower constructs, including, but not limited to, 3 more layers of flower wrappers. Wrapping a flower wrapper around a core or a flower construct may be done manually or in an automated fashion. Wrapping a flower wrapper around a core or a flower construct may be done petal by petal or all petals simultaneously.
US10609972B2	Hand covering apparatus In one embodiment, a hand apparatus, such as a glove or a mitten, with attachable securing members is disclosed. The hand apparatus can have a hand receiving portion, one or more finger portions, a thumb portion, and a body portion. The body portion comprises a dorsal side, a palm side, a first securing member, and a second securing member. The body portion can also comprise of a third securing member attached between the far side and near side of the body portion. The securing members can be attachable to the other securing members by fasteners.
US10609966B2	Pressure-distributing undergarment This invention relates to undergarments for use in active environments, where the wearer of such an undergarment is engaged in an activity that results in accelerating movements. In some preferred embodiments, these undergarments may be athletic or sports bras that redirect momentum related to a wearer's accelerating movements, for example, during exercise.
US10609962B2	Mouth to lung convertible electronic cigarettes and methods of using the same Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a mouth to lung convertible electronic cigarette. In certain embodiments, mouth to lung convertible electronic cigarette includes: a cartridge top portion, a cartridge bottom portion, and a control circuit. The cartridge top portion includes an E-liquid storage tank and a convertible vaporizer. E-liquid vapor volume generated by convertible vaporizer is selectable by a user and selectable E-liquid volume includes a small E-liquid vapor volume generated by a first set of heating element for mouth smoking and a large E-liquid vapor volume generated by a second set of heating element for lung smoking. In certain embodiments, the first set of heating element includes a first heating element. The second set of heating element may include: a second heating element, the first heating element and the second heating element connected in serial, and the first heating element and the second heating element connected in parallel.
US10609961B2	Method for assembling a cartridge for a smoking article The present disclosure relates to systems, apparatuses, and methods for assembling cartridges for aerosol delivery devices. The cartridges may be assembled by transporting carriages between various substations at which parts are added to a base. In another assembly method, the base may be moved between a plurality of robots which direct the base downwardly into contact with components to couple the components therewith. An inspection system may inspect the cartridges at various stages of completion.
US10609960B2	Atomizing device for electronic cigarette An atomizing device for an electronic cigarette includes: an atomizing sleeve defining a liquid storage chamber for containing e-liquid; a heating element positioned in the atomizing sleeve and configured to heat the e-liquid to generate vapor; a liquid absorbing unit configured to absorb the e-liquid in the liquid storage chamber and transfer the e-liquid to the heating element; and a holder defining a hollow cavity. The holder fixes the liquid absorbing unit and the heating element, and the heating element is positioned in the hollow cavity. A temporary storage cavity is positioned under the holder. The holder defines at least one airflow through hole which is configured to communicate with the temporary storage cavity with the hollow cavity, the temporary storage cavity is configured to communicate with an air inlet, and the air inlet is in a higher position than a bottom of the temporary storage cavity.
US10609957B2	Vapor delivery device A vapor delivery device having a reservoir for containing an amount of fluid. An ejector receives the fluid, and a controller fires the ejector to express a given dosage of the fluid through a number of nozzles in the ejector into an airstream at a firing frequency and for a firing duration. As the amount of the fluid within the reservoir decreases, the controller also at least one of reduces the firing frequency of the ejector, increases the number of nozzles, and increases the firing duration.
US10609956B2	Non-burning-type flavor inhaler A non-burning type flavor inhaler, comprises: a housing having an airflow path that continues from an inlet to an outlet; an atomizer configured to atomize an aerosol source without burning; a sensor including a capacitor, the sensor outputting a value indicating electric capacitance of the capacitor, the electric capacitance changed depending on a puff action of a user; and a controller configured to detect a start or an end of a puff duration on the basis of an output value that is output from the sensor. The controller detects the start or the end of the puff duration when an inclination formed by two or more of the output values has a predetermined sign and when an absolute value of the inclination having the predetermined sign is larger than a predetermined value.
US10609955B2	Filtered cigarette comprising a tubular element in filter The invention provides a cigarette with a filter element comprising at least one longitudinally extending section of filter material. The section of filter material comprises a smoke-altering material therein that is useful for removing a quantity of vapor phase chemicals from the mainstream smoke. The section of filter material further comprises one or more tubes inserted into and extending through section of filter material. The one or more tubes each define a channel adapted for passage of mainstream smoke through the section of filter material while substantially avoiding contact of the portion of mainstream smoke therein with the smoke-altering material. The provision of a portion of mainstream smoke substantially unaltered by the smoke-altering material can be useful to retain certain desirable taste and other sensory properties of the mainstream smoke.
US10609952B2	Tobacco industry rod assembly apparatus A tobacco industry rod assembly apparatus comprising a tobacco industry rod article infeed (2) having an epicyclic drum arrangement (3) is disclosed. The tobacco industry rod article infeed (2) is configured to transfer tobacco industry rod articles towards an assembly stage.
US10609949B2	Tobacco or non-tobacco product comprising magnesium carbonate There is provided a tobacco product or a non-tobacco snuff product, including a magnesium carbonate, for conferring pH stability to the product and preventing growth of bacteria and fungi therein. The magnesium carbonate may contain hydroxide, oxide, and crystal water. The amount of magnesium carbonate ranges from 0.01 and 30% by weight of the dry bulk material. The product may be combined with additional pH regulators. The magnesium carbonate significantly increase the pH-stability in snus and non-tobacco snuff at the normal pH-range used in these products. The final product, which may be oral snuff or snus, or any tobacco-free snuff product, may be in particulate form, or shaped in a variety of forms. The product may be an oral product. The product may be packaged in a box, can or canister. Use of a magnesium carbonate for producing the products is also described.
US10609948B2	3D printer system and method for filling a cartridge of such a system A cartridge assembly (3) of a 3D printer system for printing a plastic substance, such as a dough, comprises a refillable cartridge (31) and a punch-fill adapter (32) having a circumferential cutting edge (26) and being provided with a punch-fill connector (24) to form a manually releasable interconnection between the cartridge and the punch-fill adapter. When said interconnection is effective, the cartridge assembly is effective as a manual tool for punching, by means of said circumferential cutting edge, punched slices out of a supply slice of said plastic substance, and thereby for automatically inserting said punched slices into the inner space of the cartridge. Thanks to this punch-fill connector the manual (re)filling of the cartridge can be performed more easily and more reliably.
US10609947B2	Sweetened food product and methods of preparation Described are coated food products having a sugar (sucrose) coating, the coating exhibiting desirable levels of sucrose crystallinity and a desired sucrose ratio (total sucrose per total soluble solids), as well as methods or preparing such coated food products and coating.
US10609945B2	Compositions comprising 2FL and LNnT to control food intake and growth in infants or young children The present invention relates to a nutritional composition comprising at least one fucosylated oligosaccharide and at least one N-acetylated oligosaccharide, for use in reducing and/or controlling food intake in an infant or a young child, and/or for use in promoting a healthy growth in an infant or a young child.
US10609944B1	Compositions comprising 2-[(1R,6R)-6-isopropenyl-3-methylcyclohex-2-en-1-yl]-3-hydroxy-5-pentylphenolate and 2-[(1R,6R)-6-isopropenyl-3-methylcyclohex-2-en-1-yl]-5-pentylbenzene-1,3-diol Various aspects of the disclosure relate to compositions comprising 2-[(1R,6R)-6-isopropenyl-3-methylcyclohex-2-en-1-yl]-3-hydroxy-5-pentylphenolate and 2-[(1R,6R)-6-isopropenyl-3-methylcyclohex-2-en-1-yl]-5-pentylbenzene-1,3-diol.
US10609943B2	Koji starter for fermentation, koji for fermentation, and seasoning A seed koji (Aspergillus starter) for brewing is provided. The seed koji is obtained by inoculating koji mold(s) belonging to an Aspergillus genus into a seed koji raw material, where the seed koji raw material is a pea.
US10609942B2	Compositions and methods for sweeteners Various embodiments of the present technology provide compositions and methods for a sweetener composition comprising stevia leaf extract, stevia glycosides, and/or Luo Han Guo fruit extract. The sweetener composition provides enhanced taste and/or flavor properties as compared to other non-caloric or low-caloric sweeteners. The sweetener composition has a reduced aftertaste relative to stevia leaf extract and/or purified steviol glycoside. The sweetener composition may be formulated into any edible sweetened substances.
US10609939B2	Coconut water removal device and method therefor A device from draining coconut water from a coconut has a handle. A tubular member extends down from the handle. A plurality of teeth extends down from a distal end of the tubular member. An end cap member is positioned over the distal end of the tubular member.
US10609938B2	Feed composition for reducing ammonia produced in animal agriculture and methods for making and using the feed composition A feed composition for ruminants may include feed particles that contain a saturated fatty acid component as well as a urease inhibitor such that ingestion of the feed by lactating ruminants may provide for an increase in the amount of milk produced by the ruminant and/or an increase in the fat content of the milk produced, and a decrease in ammonia production from breakdown of urea.
US10609936B2	Treating soluble coffee The present invention provides a method for treating soluble coffee, the method comprising: providing a soluble coffee powder; providing a coffee oil in an amount of from 0.5 to 4 wt % relative to the soluble coffee powder; providing water in an amount of from 1 to 3 wt % relative to the soluble coffee powder; and mixing the soluble coffee powder with the coffee oil and then with the water.
US10609935B2	Beverage compositions containing Bacillus coagulans MTCC 5856 The present invention discloses beverage compositions comprising probiotic Bacillus coagulans and water soluble prebiotic fibers that have been subjected to treatments under extreme stress, temperature and pressure conditions like brewing or aeration wherein the spore viability is maintained post said treatments.
US10609928B2	Uses of 2-(2,4-dichlorophenyl)methyl-4,4-dimethyl-3-isoxazolidone as foliar herbicide The present invention is directed to new uses of the herbicidal active compound 2-(2,4-dichlorophenyl)methyl-4,4-dimethyl-3-isoxazolidone (compound I) as foliar herbicide. Furthermore, the present invention is directed to combinations comprising active compound 2-(2,4-dichlorophenyl)methyl-4,4-dimethyl-3-isoxazolidone (compound I) and to a method for controlling undesired weeds by applying the herbicidal active compound 2-(2,4-dichlorophenyl)methyl-4,4-dimethyl-3-isoxazolidone (compound I) or combinations comprising compound I to weeds or to the area in which the weeds grow after emergence of the crop.
US10609923B2	Antimicrobial solid and method of making same A solid material adapted to kill bacteria in planktonic, spore and biofilm states is lethal toward a wide spectrum of gram positive and gram negative bacteria as well as other microbes. The solid material includes a significant amount of one or more surfactants entrained in a crosslinked polymeric network.
US10609914B2	Gear mechanism for a fishing reel A gear mechanism for a fishing reel includes first and second gears. The first gear has first gear teeth including a first driving side face, and a first reverse side face opposite the first driving side face. The second gear has second gear teeth including a second driven side face that meshes with a respective first driving side faces, and a second reverse side face that faces a respective first reverse side face, and opposite the second driven side faces. At least one of each of the first reverse side faces and each of the second reverse side faces includes an interference prevention portion to prevent interference with the other of the opposing first reverse side faces and second reverse side faces.
US10609909B2	Photon modulation management system for stimulation of a desired response in birds Embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for stimulating a desired response, such as ovulation and egg laying, fertility, hunger, growth, mood and sexual maturity in birds or ayes, by controlling the pulsing of two or more different wavelength bands, duty cycle, and frequency of photon bursts within a photon signal to a bird, where the photon modulation and duty cycle is based upon the specific needs of the bird.
US10609907B2	Management apparatus, individual management system, and individual search system To provide a management apparatus capable of capturing a position of a specific individual satisfying a predetermined condition. A management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a control unit. The control unit extracts, on the basis of first information that is generated by a sensor device worn by an individual and is related to a living body of the individual, a specific individual satisfying a predetermined condition, and generates, on the basis of position information related to a position of the specific individual, search information for causing a mobile object to move to the position of the specific individual.
US10609904B2	Lure chasing system A lure chasing system comprises: a motorized pulley unit disposed at a first location, the motorized pulley unit including a drive housing enclosing a motor and a drive pulley connected to the motor; a transfer pulley unit disposed at a second location, the transfer pulley unit including a transfer housing enclosing a transfer pulley; a lure line engaging the drive pulley and the transfer pulley so as to form a loop configuration for the lure line; and a lure attached to the lure line.
US10609901B2	Unmanned aerial vehicle for generating geolocation exclusion zones An unmanned aerial vehicle for determining geolocation exclusion zones of animals. The unmanned aerial vehicle includes a processor-based monitoring device to track geolocation information associated with an animal from the unmanned aerial vehicle, an identification device mounted on the unmanned aerial vehicle to identify the animal and to track a position of the animal over time, and a mapping device coupled to the monitoring device to determine locations where the animal has traversed and to identify where an encounter with the animal is reduced.
US10609900B2	Treat holder A holder for rigid and semi-rigid pet treats, to protect the pet from choking on the treat and other hazards, keep the treat in one location, and provide a base around the treat that makes it more conducive for pet enjoyment. The pet treat holder includes inner clamps, an outer clamp and a handle having a bolt for moving the clamps, to secure the treat within a transverse mouth opening of the holder.
US10609898B2	Animal food dispenser An animal food dispenser, includes a base portion and a roller portion. The base portion has first and second upwardly extending members. The roller portion has an opening, and is configured to be held by the upwardly extending members such that the roller portion is capable of freely rotating and dispensing food through the opening.
US10609897B2	Pivotable feed mixer In order to provide a feed mixture, a feed mixer is proposed which has a container. The container has a bottom and a wall which is connected to the bottom and delimits a filling opening, the area of which is greater than the area of the bottom. A rotatable auger is provided which can be rotated about an axis, the axis running substantially perpendicularly with respect to the bottom. The feed mixer has a pivoting device which is intended and suitable for pivoting the container during a mixing operation, in particular after a predefined time period or after a predefined number of revolutions of the at least one auger.
US10609894B1	Tack room curtain hanging apparatus, system and method A tack room curtain hanging apparatus, system and method. A system for hanging display curtains includes a display curtain hung on a display curtain frame including a door frame, a plurality of horizontal planks and a plurality of vertical planks coupled together by a set of brackets to form the display curtain frame, the set of brackets including a tee bracket and a corner bracket, the tee bracket including a horizontal socket mated to an end of a particular one of the plurality of horizontal planks, and a vertical socket mated to a top end of a particular one of the plurality of vertical planks, the top end aligned with a bottom of the horizontal socket, a first single fastener coupling the top end of the vertical plank to the vertical socket, and a second single fastener coupling the end of the horizontal plank to the horizontal socket.
US10609893B2	Kennel latching mechanism A latching mechanism for a kennel includes a first horizontally extending latching bar, a second horizontally extending latching bar, the second bar extending substantially parallel to the first horizontally extending latching bar, and a vertically extending handle, the handle being coupled to the first horizontally extending latching bar at a first end and being coupled to the second horizontally extending latching bar at a second end, and being configured such that when moved in the vertical direction, the handle rotates the first and second horizontally extending latching bars.
US10609892B2	Closed-loop, short interval flushing method and system for use in automated milking system dairies A method and system for flushing an area of a robotic harvest dairy barn is presented. The method is based upon defining areas within the dairy barn that, by virtue of use of robots for “cow-initiated” milking will be maintained in a hygienically clean and dry condition with frequent flushings of short duration. The four areas of the barn felt to benefit from this frequent flushing including any of: an area immediately surrounding a robot; a holding area for staging cows for milking at the robot; a robot control room; and a milk collection room. In the relevant areas the flooring deck is configured to slope at its upper surface to define a drain area, the drain area including at least one grated drain positioned to collect any liquid deposited on the upper surface of the provided flooring deck. A collecting pipe network conducts liquid collected to a baffled tank.
US10609891B1	Pea variety SV0962QB The invention provides seed and plants of pea line SV0962QB. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of pea line SV0962QB and to methods for producing a pea plant produced by crossing a plant of pea line SV0962QB with itself or with another pea plant, such as a plant of another line. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of pea line SV0962QB, including the seed, pod, and gametes of such plants.
US10609889B1	Soybean cultivar 89001711 A soybean cultivar designated 89001711 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 89001711, to the plants of soybean cultivar 89001711, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 89001711, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 89001711. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 89001711. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 89001711, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 89001711 with another soybean cultivar.
US10609885B2	Lettuce named wingman Novel lettuce, such as lettuce designated WINGMAN is disclosed. In some embodiments, the invention relates to the seeds of lettuce WINGMAN, to the plants and plant parts of lettuce WINGMAN, and to methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the lettuce WINGMAN with itself or another lettuce plant. The invention further relates to methods for producing a lettuce plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other lettuce plants derived from the lettuce WINGMAN.
US10609874B1	Utility vehicle mounting accessory for landscaping blower A landscaping blower mounting accessory for use with a utility vehicle includes a blade connecter mounted to the utility vehicle. A receiving coupler is attached to the landscaping blower and shaped to receive the blade. A landscaping blower is oriented so that a housing covering a blower impeller is positioned between the utility vehicle and the blower motor. The mounting assembly allows the blade to frictionally engage within the coupler for holding the landscaping blower in a fixed position above the ground on the front of the utility vehicle.
US10609872B2	Pot device and method related thereto The present invention relates to a pot device having an external frame for holding a pot inside the frame. The frame has a lower end constituting a support base. The pot device includes connection means arranged for connecting the frame to the pot. The connection means has locking means arranged for locking the pot in an upright position. According to the invention, the extension of the frame in a horizontal plane is adjustable. The diameter of the frame in a horizontal plane is variably adjustable and the frame includes a plurality of circumferentially distributed sections. These sections are telescopically connected to each other in the circumferential direction.The invention further relates to the use of said pot device in a method for transporting a plurality of pots devices on a conveyor system wherein each pot device houses at least one plant, Moreover, the invention also relates to a method for transporting a plurality said pots devices on a conveyor system wherein each pot device houses at least one plant.
US10609869B2	Baler and method of baling A baler includes a baling chamber that includes a bale-forming channel including at least one adjustable friction control element, a plunger mounted within the channel, and a rotary drive mechanism for driving reciprocating movement of the plunger. A control system controls operation of the baler, the control system configured to determine an actual maximum torque value associated with the rotary drive mechanism, compare the actual maximum torque value with a selected desired maximum torque value, and adjust the friction control element to regulate the actual maximum torque value according to the desired maximum torque value.
US10609868B2	Module wrap guide arrangement A wrap guide arrangement is provided for an agricultural harvesting machine having a module-forming chamber and wrapping system having a source of a wrapping material and a wrap conveyor arrangement for guiding the wrapping material from the source to the conveyor arrangement. The wrap guide arrangement has a wrap roll extending along an axis of rotation and having an outer circumference receiving the wrapping material. A guide plate has an axially extending body and at least one finger extending from the body toward the wrap roll. At least a part of the at least one finger extends proximate the outer circumference of the wrap roll between the wrap roll and the wrapping material.
US10609867B1	Concaves for an agricultural combine A concave for an agricultural combine includes threshing bars carried by a base frame and forming openings therebetween for grain to pass through. Each threshing bar includes an inner extremity, a deflecting extremity including a deflecting surface, a separating grate between the inner extremity and the deflecting extremity, the separating grate extends across an adjacent one of the openings between the inner extremity and the deflecting extremity for separating grain from threshed crop material, the deflecting surface projects angularly upward relative to the separating grate, and the deflecting surface and the separating grate are arranged at an obtuse angle therebetween forming a grain-collecting trough between the deflecting surface and the separating grate.
US10609866B2	Combine header reel apparatus for sunflowers A plant pushing apparatus for mounting on a reel of a combine where the reel comprises a center shaft rotatably mounted at each end thereof to the combine header, a plurality of contact members mounted to the center shaft in a horizontal orientation radially spaced from the center shaft, and a drive operative to rotate the center shaft such that the contact members below the center shaft move in a rearward direction toward the combine header. For each contact member, a projecting shield member is adapted at an inner portion thereof for attachment to the contact member such that an outer edge of the projecting shield member is substantially horizontal and rearward of the contact member, and such that the outer edge of the projecting shield member contacts plant stalks, particularly sunflower plant stalks, and pushes the plant stalks toward the combine header ahead of the following attached contact member.
US10609864B2	Predicting grain tank levels when on slopes or hills An embodiment includes a combine including a feeder housing for receiving harvested crop, a separating system for threshing the harvested crop to separate grain from residue, a grain tank for storing the separated grain, a grain tank level sensor for detecting a level of grain in the grain tank, an inclination sensor for detecting inclination of the combine, and a controller that controls the combine. The controller configured to receive the grain tank level from the grain tank level sensor, receive an inclination value from the inclination sensor, adjust the grain tank level based on the inclination value, and alert an operator of the adjusted grain tank level.
US10609863B2	Mower deck gauge wheel adjustment mechanism A mower deck gauge wheel adjustment mechanism includes a support attached to a multi-blade mower deck having a vertical bore. A post is welded to a yoke holding a gauge wheel, and includes a plurality of horizontal grooves, and may be inserted through the vertical bore and positioned at a selected gauge wheel height. A horizontal latch hole may be provided through the support and has a diameter that overlaps the vertical bore. A latch may be inserted through the latch hole, with a first side that engages one of the horizontal grooves when the latch is pivoted downwardly to an engaged position.
US10609857B2	Systems, methods, and apparatus for agricultural implement trench depth control and soil monitoring Systems, methods and apparatus are provided for monitoring soil properties including soil moisture and soil temperature during an agricultural input application. Embodiments include a soil moisture sensor and/or a soil temperature sensor mounted to a seed firmer for measuring moisture and temperature in a planting trench. Additionally, systems, methods and apparatus are provided for adjusting depth based on the monitored soil properties.
US10609852B2	Method and apparatus for seed bed preparation An implement for preparing a seed bed has a front row of vertical discs, followed by three rows of shanks, followed by harrows and then rolling baskets. A hydraulic cylinder is mounted between each shank and the implement frame and exerts a constant selected trip bias force on the shanks that is adjustable up to 1300 pounds. The implement frame is configured such that a total weight on the wheels when the ground engaging tools are in the raised transport position is greater than about 850 pounds per foot of width of the implement frame. The implement is towed at speeds of at least seven miles per hour with the shanks penetrating the soil to a depth of three inches or more. Residue is cut and buried and the field surface left firm and smooth.
US10617051B2	Component mounter and component mounting method An interference-prevention Q-axis rotation height position is set as a height position at an intermediate point of raising operation of suction nozzle, and a height position at which the component does not interfere with central protruding member on the lower surface of rotary head. Performed is control of large component interference prevention mode, in which, after picking up the component using suction nozzle at a component pickup height position that is the lower limit height position of lowering operation, the direction of the component is corrected by raising the suction nozzle to the interference-prevention Q-axis rotation height position that is a height position at an intermediate point of raising operation of suction nozzle and then rotating the component held by suction nozzle by Q-axis driving operation, and subsequently raising suction nozzle to a maximum height position of the raising operation, and then moving rotary head in the XY direction.
US10617049B2	Component mounting device and gripping members A mounting device is provided with a mechanical chuck that picks up a component housed in a tray by gripping the component in a state with a cam follower contacting tray housing the component at a predetermined height. The mechanical chuck is provided with a first holding member including a first gripping member, and a second holding member including a second gripping member. The cam follower is a rotatable roller, and when the first holding member moves when picking up the component from tray, the cam follower rotates according to this movement in a state contacting tray.
US10617046B2	Electromagnetic wave absorbing body and method for manufacturing electromagnetic wave absorbing body The present invention relates to an electromagnetic wave absorbing body which is a sheet-like electromagnetic wave absorbing body in which particles including a soft magnetic material are dispersed in a matrix including a non-metal material, in which the electromagnetic wave absorbing body satisfies a relationship: α≥⅕, in which α is a parameter given by Equation (1): α=Ad(εμ)0.5/(μ″+ε″μ/ε), in which d is a thickness of the electromagnetic wave absorbing body, ε, ε″, μ, and μ″ are a permittivity of the electromagnetic wave absorbing body, a loss term of ε, a permeability of the electromagnetic wave absorbing body, and a loss term of μ, respectively, and A is equal to 8×104/π(Ω/m).
US10617042B2	Liquid cooling of rack information handling system with a plurality of liquid flow paths that enable continued cooling of liquid cooled nodes when one flow path is disrupted A direct-interface liquid-cooled (DL) Rack Information Handling System (RIHS) includes liquid cooled (LC) nodes each comprising a chassis received in a respective chassis-receiving bay of a rack and containing heat-generating functional components. Each LC node is configured with a system of conduits to receive direct injection of cooling liquid to regulate the ambient temperature of the node and provide cooling to the functional components inside the node by removing heat generated by the heat-generating functional components. A cooling subsystem has a liquid rail formed by more than one node-to-node, Modular Liquid Distribution (MLD) conduits, each including first and second terminal connections attached on opposite ends of a central conduit that can be rack-unit dimensioned. The MLD conduits seal to and enable fluid transfer between a port of a selected LC node and a port of an adjacent LC node.
US10617034B2	Heat dissipation system of enclosed electronic module with single/multiple active components The present disclosure relates to an enclosed electronic module with single/multiple active components and an integrated heat dissipation system, including a top housing formed with one or more openings, a heat sink mounted on an outer surface of the top housing over the opening(s) thereof, a bottom housing coupled with the top housing, one or more active components mounted on a PCB between the top and bottom housings, and at least one thermal block or vapor chamber thermally connected between the heat sink and the active component(s), thereby forming one or more thermal dissipation paths extending from the active component(s), through the at least one thermal block or vapor chamber, and to the heat sink.
US10617033B2	Heat-radiating structure and electronic device including the same A portable communication device is provided. The portable communication device includes a battery, a printed circuit board including one or more circuit devices driven using power from the battery, and a bracket including a first area for receiving the battery and a second area for receiving the printed circuit board, wherein a slit is formed in at least a portion of a boundary area of the first area and the second area to reduce heat spread. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, in an electronic device, a heat-radiating structure is provided between a PCB and a bracket where a battery is seated, rerouting the path along which heat radiation from some circuit devices on the PCB flow to the battery to suppress a rise in temperature in the battery.
US10617029B2	Bracket device A bracket device includes a bracket, a mounting member and a locking member. The bracket has a side plate and an end plate connected to the slide plate. The mounting member is arranged on the end plate of the bracket. One of the bracket and the locking member provides a moving area for allowing the locking member to move between a first position and a second position relative to the bracket.
US10617023B2	Wearable electronic device A wearable electronic device includes a primary bead, two spacer beads and a bead string. The two spacer beads each defines a first side and a second side opposite to each other. The first sides of the two spacer beads are respectively disposed on two opposite sides of the primary bead. Two ends of the bead string are respectively connected to the second sides of the two spacer beads.
US10617021B1	Electronic assembly with retention of cable An electronic assembly comprises a circuit board having one or more electronic components mounted on the circuit board. The circuit board has a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The electronic assembly has a lower enclosure and an upper enclosure for mating with the lower enclosure to form a housing to hold the circuit board. A frame overlies the first side or the second side of the circuit board. The frame comprises a first retainer for retaining coaxial cable. The first retainer comprises a first pair of opposing arcuate members extending from the frame.
US10617018B2	Circuit board and control device A circuit board includes a board, circuitry provided on the board that supplies electric power to a motor, a positive-electrode-side power source terminal portion connected to a positive electrode terminal of the circuitry, and a negative-electrode-side power source terminal portion connected to a negative electrode terminal of the circuitry. The circuitry includes a first capacitor connected to the positive-electrode-side power source terminal portion, and a second capacitor connected to the negative-electrode-side power source terminal portion. The first and second capacitors are connected in series between the positive-electrode-side and the negative-electrode-side power source terminal portions. The board includes a through hole, at least a portion of which is between at least two of the first capacitor, the second capacitor, the positive-electrode-side power source terminal portion, and the negative-electrode-side power source terminal portion.
US10617013B2	Lead component mounting machine and lead component mounting method A lead component mounting machine is provided in which lead wires are pinched and held from both sides by a pair of pawl portions, and the lead wires are inserted into through-holes of a board. The holding by the pawl portions is loosened, and a component main body is pushed in by a pushing-in device until the component main body comes into contact with the pawl portions. Subsequently, the strength of the holding by the pawl portions is increased, and the cutting and clinching of the lead wires is performed. Sliding movement of the lead wires is in a state of being suppressed by the pawl portions.
US10617011B2	Micro-fabricated group electroplating technique Methods, and devices produced by the methods, for electroplating a multitude of micro-scale electrodes that are electrically isolated from each other on a cable or other device is described. A localized area of connections on another end of the cable is shorted together by depositing a metal sheet or other conductive material over the localized area. The metal sheet is connected to a terminal of a power supply, and the electrode end of the cable is immersed in an electrolyte solution for electrodeposition by electroplating. After the electrodes are electroplated, the metal sheet is removed from the cable in order to re-isolate the electrodes.
US10617009B1	Printed circuit board connection for integrated circuits using two routing layers Methods, systems, and apparatus, including printed circuit boards (PCBs) with trace routing topologies are disclosed. In one aspect, a PCB includes an external layer that includes multiple integrated circuit (IC) installation regions that are each configured to receive an IC, a first trace routing layer having a first conductive trace that is routed along a first path from a first IC installation region to a second IC installation region, a second trace routing layer having a second conductive trace that is routed along a second path from the first IC installation region to the second IC installation region, a first via region having one or more first vias that extend from the first trace routing layer to the second trace routing layer, and a second via region having one or more second vias that extend from the first trace routing layer to the second trace routing layer.
US10617002B2	Circuit board and manufacturing method thereof A circuit board is obtained by providing a wiring pattern on an insulating board. The circuit board includes a first region and a second region. In the first region, a first wiring pattern is provided on which a first surface treatment is applied. In the second region, a second wiring pattern is provided on which a second surface treatment having a cutting fluid resistance and/or a humidity resistance lower than the first surface treatment is applied.
US10616995B2	RF cable connection device and electronic device having same An RF cable connection device and an electronic device having the same are provided. The electronic device comprises: a housing; a printed circuit board located in the housing and including a first surface facing a first direction, a second surface facing a second direction opposite the first direction, and a third surface facing at least one direction other than those of the first and second surfaces; a first conductive contact located on the first surface of the printed circuit board; a second conductive contact located on the first surface of the printed circuit board; and at least one electrically conductive line, wherein the electrically conductive line comprises a first end part electrically connected to the first conductive contact, a second end part electrically connected to the second conductive contact, and at least one insulation member for electrically insulating a part of the at least one electrically conductive line, and the at least one electrically conductive line and the at least one insulation member can comprise a first part extending on at least one lateral surface of the printed circuit board. Other examples are possible.
US10616993B1	Heatsink backing plate A backing plate is provided. The backing plate is configurable to attach with at least one fastener to a heatsink with the heatsink on a first face of a printed circuit board and in thermal contact with a surface of a component mounted to the first face of the printed circuit board and the backing plate on a second, opposed face of the printed circuit board and in thermal contact with the second face of the printed circuit board. The backing plate has a plurality of fins and configurable to act as a further heatsink for the component and remove heat from the component through a solid portion of the printed circuit board.
US10616992B2	Circuit board and method for manufacturing the same A circuit board with a heat-recovery function includes a substrate, a heat-storing device, and a thermoelectric device. The heat-storing device is embedded in the substrate and connected to a processor for performing heat exchange with the processor. The thermoelectric device embedded in the substrate includes a first metal-junction surface and a second metal-junction surface. The first metal-junction surface is connected to the heat-storing device for performing heat exchange with the heat-storing device. The second metal-junction surface is joined with the first metal-junction surface, in which the thermoelectric device generates an electric potential by a temperature difference between the first metal-junction surface and the second metal-junction surface.
US10616989B2	Plasma generation apparatus including measurement device and plasma thruster A plasma generation apparatus, and a plasma thruster configured to use the plasma generation apparatus are disclosed. The plasma generation apparatus includes a discharge vessel, a light-emitting monitor, a probe measuring instrument, a control device, and an optical axis driving unit. The discharge vessel is configured to ionize gas which is introduced to an inside thereof so as to generate plasma. The light-emitting monitor is configured to measure electron density of the plasma by emission spectra of the plasma. The probe measuring instrument is configured to measure the electron density of the plasma by a probe in the discharge vessel.
US10616988B2	Electromechanical linearly actuated electrode Approaches herein provide a plasma arc torch including a tip surrounding an electrode, the electrode having a proximal end and a distal end, and a shield surrounding the tip, the shield including an exit orifice proximate the distal end of the electrode. The torch may further include a linear actuating device coupled to the electrode for actuating the electrode such that the distal end of the electrode moves axially relative to the tip and the exit orifice of the shield. In some approaches, the linear actuating device is operable to actuate the electrode along a central longitudinal axis extending through the tip. In some approaches, the linear actuating device may include one of: a micro linear drive motor, a micro linear stepper motor, a voice coil, a solenoid coil, and a magnetostrictive actuator. In some approaches, the electrode is actuated during a welding or cutting cycle of the torch.
US10616986B2	Bipolar voltage multiplier with reduced voltage gradient An x-ray source can have a reduced voltage gradient and a consistent voltage gradient, thus allowing less insulation, reduced arcing failure, or both. The x-ray source can comprise a bipolar voltage multiplier and an x-ray tube. The bipolar voltage multiplier can include a negative voltage multiplier and a positive voltage multiplier. An axis extending from an input voltage of the negative voltage multiplier to a negative output bias voltage defines a negative axis. An axis extending from an input voltage of the positive voltage multiplier to a positive output bias voltage defines a positive axis. An angle A1 between the negative axis and the positive axis can be selected for optimal voltage gradient.
US10616982B1	Single live-wire power fetching system capable of preventing flickering and enhancing power fetching efficiency A single live-wire power fetching system capable of preventing flickering and enhancing power fetching efficiency, that includes a single live-wire power fetching switch module, a High Side Buck ac/dc, and a multifunction rectifying unit. The single live-wire power fetching module is provided with a live-wire input end and a live-wire output end, connected in series to a single live-wire to perform single live-wire power fetching, and to supply power for normal operation of circuits in the single live-wire power fetching switch module. The High Side Buck ac/dc is used to provide part of power for single live-wire power fetching, with input end of the High Side Buck ac/dc connected in parallel to the single live-wire power fetching switch module through multifunction rectifying unit, and with output end of the High Side Buck ac/dc connected to the single live-wire power fetching switch module to provide power.
US10616981B2	Smart LED lighting system and method Various embodiments of a smart LED lighting system are described. The system includes a control module coupled over a wireless connection to one or more smart LED drivers, each of which controls one or more LED lighting units. The system optionally includes one or more sensors for gathering information from the surrounding environment and a gateway for establishing a wireless network and for communicating with one or more cloud computing systems. The control module can control individual lighting units, modules of individual lighting units, or zones of modules to alter the intensity, color, or character of the lighting. The control module can execute pre-programmed configurations of the lighting system to implement, for example, lighting that mimics circadian patterns or lighting that is suited for a particular event such as a meeting or a concert. The control module also can implement instructions provided by a user through a mobile device or other input device.
US10616975B2	Dimmer A bidirectional switch is switched so as to conduct and interrupt a bidirectional current between a pair of input terminals. A power supply is electrically connected between the pair of input terminals and produces control power by electric power from an AC power supply. A controller receives the control power from the power supply to be activated. The controller causes the bidirectional switch to be in an off-state from a start point of a half cycle of AC voltage to a first time point when a first time period elapses. The controller causes the bidirectional switch to be in an on-state from the first time point to a second time point when a second time period according to the dimming level elapses. The controller causes the bidirectional switch to be in an off-state from the second time point to an end point of the half cycle.
US10616973B2	Charging an input capacitor of a load control device A load control device for controlling the amount of power delivered to an electrical load may include a rectifier circuit configured to receive a phase-control voltage and produce a rectified voltage. A power converter may be configured to receive the rectified voltage at an input and generate a bus voltage. An input capacitor may be coupled across the input of the power converter. The input capacitor may be adapted to charge when the magnitude of the phase control voltage is approximately zero volts. The power converter may be configured to operate in a boost mode, such that the magnitude of the bus voltage is greater than a peak magnitude of the input voltage. The power converter may be configured to operate in a buck mode to charge the input capacitor from the bus voltage when the magnitude of the phase-control voltage is approximately zero volts.
US10616969B2	Configurable lighting system A luminaire can include a housing having at least one outer surface that forms a cavity. The luminaire can also include at least one electrical component disposed, at least in part, within the cavity. The luminaire can further include an electrical cable having a first end and a second end, where the first end is coupled to the at least one electrical component. The luminaire can also include a switch coupled to the electrical cable, where the switch is disposed remotely from the housing, where the switch has multiple positions, wherein each position of the switch corresponds to a discrete lumen output emitted by one or more light sources of the luminaire.
US10616967B1	Dimmer with snubber control circuit A dimmer includes a processing unit structured to generate a dimming control signal, wherein in the on state the dimming control signal has a constant voltage with a low pulse a predetermined time after each zero-crossing in power flowing through the hot conductor and in the off state the dimming control signal has a constant voltage, a load control circuit structured to electrically connect between the hot conductor and the load conductor and to selectively electrically connect the hot conductor to the load conductor based on the dimming control signal, and a snubber control circuit including a snubber structured to electrically couple between the hot conductor and the load conductor, wherein the snubber control circuit is structured to activate the snubber when the dimming control signal has the on state and to deactivate the snubber when the dimming control signal has the off state.
US10616966B2	Apparatus, method and system for providing AC line power to lighting devices An apparatus, method and system are disclosed for providing AC line power to lighting devices such as light emitting diodes (“LEDs”). A representative apparatus comprises: a plurality of LEDs coupled in series to form a plurality of segments of LEDs; first and second current regulators; a current sensor; and a controller to monitor a current level through a series LED current path, and to provide for first or second segments of LEDs to be in or out of the series LED current path at different current levels. A voltage regulator is also utilized to provide a voltage during a zero-crossing interval of the AC voltage. In a representative embodiment, first and second segments of LEDs are both in the series LED current path regulated at a lower current level compared to when only the first segment of LEDs is in the series LED current path.
US10616964B2	Elongated lamp tube, ballast and kit thereof An elongated lamp tube has an elongated tube shell, two caps, a LED light source, a first power supply circuit, a second power supply circuit and a frequency switch circuit. The elongated lamp tube may be connected to first electrodes of a lamp fixture without a ballast or a lamp fixture with a ballast. The ballast converts an external power of an industrial frequency to a converted power of a working frequency. The frequency switch circuit is connected to the first power supply and the second power supply for blocking one of the first power supply circuit and the second power supply to supply driving current to the LED light source according to an input frequency of a received power.
US10616962B2	Heating device for cooking A heating cooker includes a heating chamber in which an object to be heated is stored, a heating unit heating the object to be heated stored in the heating chamber, an imaging unit imaging an inside of the heating chamber, and a reading unit extracting a character of heating control information from an attachment attached to the object to be heated and reading that character. The heating cooker further includes a heating control unit controlling the heating unit based on the heating control information read by the reading unit. In this manner, heating time can be automatically set without a clerk having to input a product heating time or select a button corresponding to a product and a hassle attributable to registration of a relationship between a product code and the heating time can be avoided.
US10616961B2	Side wire rack fixing device for a cooking appliance with microwave heating function The present invention relates to a fixing device for use in a cooking appliance with microwave heating function, comprising a chamber and side wire racks which are disposed onto the opposing side walls of the chamber. The fixing device of the present invention comprises a heat resistant and electrically insulating retaining member for keeping the respective side wire rack at a discharge safe distance from the side wall; a groove which is formed into the retaining member and adapted to fit to the side wire rack; a metallic fastener for fastening the retaining member to the respective hole on the side wall without contacting the respective side wire rack and a bore which is formed into the retaining member and adapted to receive and insulate the fastener against discharge.
US10616958B2	Heating furnace A heating furnace includes a bolt inserted through an insertion hole in a part of a heater and further inserted into a hole on a tip surface of an electrode rod. A first washer is between a bearing surface of the bolt and one face of the heater. A second washer is between another face of the heater and the tip surface. The relation of: \|L0·α0−(TH·αH+TB·αB+TE·αE)\|·ΔT≤0.15(TB+TE) is satisfied, where L0 is an interval between the bearing surface and the tip surface, α0 is a linear expansion coefficient (LEC) of the bolt, TH, TB and TE are thicknesses of the part, first and second washers and αH, αB and αE are their LECs, respectively, and ΔT is a temperature increment quantity of a part where the heater and the electrode rod are fastened by the bolt.
US10616957B2	Heat generating system for a motor vehicle A heat generating system for a motor vehicle includes a carbon nanotube heating element and a controller. The controller is configured to activate the carbon nanotube heating element in response to a wireless activation signal received from a remote communication device. A related method of heating a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle is also disclosed.
US10616956B2	Heating element including nano-material filler A heating element includes a matrix material and a nanomaterial filler, wherein the nanomaterial filler includes at least one of a nano-sheet and a nanorod.
US10616955B1	Personal sauna unit with integrated chromotherapy lighting A personal sauna unit with an integrated chromotherapy unit. The sauna unit is configured for use by a single person lying generally prone on a surface. The sauna unit includes a cabin that is disposed to overlie the user and that includes a plurality of infrared heating elements that direct infrared energy toward the user's body. When using the sauna unit, the user's head extends from an open end of the cabin. A chromotherapy light unit is integrated with the cabin to extend along the perimeter of the open end of the cabin and to direct a selected spectrum of visible light toward the user's face for therapy. A pad with additional heating elements may be provided beneath the cabin to provide additional heating and comfort to the user. A control unit is provided to control the heating elements and the light element during a sauna session.
US10616947B1	TCP performance over cellular mobile networks The technique herein optimizes delivery performance from a content delivery network (CDN) edge node, preferably by using knowledge of radio link allocation behavior. According to the technique herein, an IP address of a cellular end user (or equivalent) is recognized by the CDN edge. Then, preferably by tracking idle times both in consecutive downloading bursts in the end user session and in an on/off style radio link allocation pattern, the CDN edge adjusts transport layer network protocol parameters. The approach (which leverages the cross-layer intelligence obtainable from existing CDN infrastructure) thus enables the transport layer protocol implemented at the edge to optimize the delivery performance over the cellular mobile network.
US10616942B2	Information transmission method, apparatus, and system for coverage class of terminal A method to transmit information includes: obtaining, by a terminal in a disconnected state, information about a current coverage class of the terminal; and sending, by the terminal, a first message to an access network device, where the first message carries information about a coverage class of the terminal. The terminal in the disconnected state actively reports the information about the coverage class, so that a network device learns of the information about the coverage class of the terminal in a timely manner. In this way, during communication, a communication limitation or communication resource waste caused by inconsistency between information about a coverage class of the terminal that is stored on a network side and information about an actual coverage class can be avoided, and network resources can be fully used.
US10616940B2	Configuring sidelink communications Systems and methods to configure sidelink resources in a dual connectivity operation are provided. In some aspect, a method comprising: transmitting, from a user equipment (UE), a first message to a first evolved Node B (eNB), wherein the first message indicates a request to establish a sidelink communication; receiving, at the UE, a second message from the first eNB, wherein the second message indicates a frequency that is used by a secondary evolved Node B (SeNB); transmitting, from the UE, a measurement result to the first eNB; and receiving, at the UE, sidelink configuration information from the first eNB, wherein the sidelink configuration information indicates sidelink resources managed by the secondary eNB.
US10616939B2	Ad-hoc peer-to-peer communications to access various services via a cellular network A method for accessing a network. In one embodiment, the method includes at least one computer processor identifying a request from a first device to utilize wireless communication capabilities of a second device to communicate with a wireless network. The method further includes generating a secure peer-to-peer communication link between the first device and the second device. The method further includes establishing a wireless communication link between the second device and the wireless network. The method further includes transmitting one or more communications from the first device to the wireless network, via the wireless communication capabilities of the second device.
US10616938B1	Systems and methods for providing discrete access to an online service Systems and methods are provided for facilitating a discreet connection between a user and a service. A system includes a service for a user to connect to without any detectable direct contact with the service. A first reverse proxy connection is configured to receive a connection from the user to set up the discreet connection, where an invitation indicating a mechanism for accessing the first reverse proxy connection is provided to the user. Access credentials are transmitted to the user over the first reverse proxy connection, the access credentials including an address for accessing a second reverse proxy connection, the first reverse proxy connection being deleted following delivery of the access credentials. The second reverse proxy connection facilitates the discreet connection between the user and the service without any detectable direct contact with the service.
US10616937B2	Method and apparatus for supporting management actions for very high throughput in wireless communications A method and apparatus may be used to establish a communication link between devices such as VHT access points (APs) or VHT wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs). For example, an AP or a WTRU may transmit management action request frames such as Association, Direct Link Setup (DLS) or Tunneled Direct Link Setup (TDLS) request frames. The management action frame may include VHT Capability information of the AP or the WTRU. In response to the management action request frame, the receiving AP or WTRU may transmit management action response frames to establish a communication link. Existing 802.11 management action frames may be used to include the VHT Capability information. The VHT Capability information may be used to implement various VHT features such as channel configurations or Beamforming.
US10616936B2	Method for (re)selection of control plane and user plane data transmission The invention describes a method for dynamic switching between a control plane data transmission and user plane data transmission avoiding the Detach and consecutive re-attach procedure or TAU procedure. In particular the decision for switch between the different transmission schemes is based on various criteria like the size of the data packet or on total amount of data, etc.
US10616935B2	Emergency calls In some examples, a device detects a calling identifier received as part of initiating a call matches an emergency identifier, the emergency identifier associated with information from which to derive a Uniform Resource Name (URN). The device detects that the device is in a first network different from a second network, where the second network configured the emergency identifier. In response to detecting that the device is in the first network different from the second network, the device includes a URN, urn:service:sos, in a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) INVITE message to be transmitted.
US10616931B2	Optimized user equipment supporting relay communication, and related method The invention relates to a method for relaying a communication in a network, wherein a user equipment (UER) relays a communication between a network node entity (eNB) and a target entity (UET), the method including the steps, generating a logical channel at least between the user equipment relay (UER) and the target entity (UET), and assigning at least one identifier (LC_ID_R) to said logical channel, and upon reception from the network node entity (eNB), at the user equipment relay (UER), of data received with said identifier (LC_ID_R), the user equipment relay (UER) forwards the received data to the target entity (UET).
US10616930B2	Communication data processing method, apparatus, and system Embodiments of the present invention provide a communication data processing method, an apparatus, and a system. A communication data processing method includes: acquiring, by a processing apparatus, a data distribution policy, where the data distribution policy includes storage information of a storage apparatus, where the storage apparatus is configured to store context information of a user equipment UE; and saving, by the processing apparatus, context information of a UE into the storage apparatus according to the data distribution policy, or acquiring context information of a UE from the storage apparatus according to the data distribution policy. In this case, a service of the UE may be resumed according to the acquired context information, and uninterrupted service processing is achieved even if the processing network element is faulty or the processing node is faulty, thereby improving security and reliability of processing.
US10616927B2	Method by which terminal transmits V2X signal in wireless communication system, and terminal using method Provided are a method by which a terminal transmits a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) signal in a wireless communication system, and a terminal using the method. The method comprises: reserving a plurality of V2X transmission resources on the basis of one scheduling assignment; reselecting a V2X transmission resource if a resource collision occurs for a certain time or more among the plurality of reserved V2X transmission resources; and transmitting a V2X signal by using the reselected V2X transmission resource.
US10616922B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting data Provided is a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present disclosure provides a method for transmitting data, including: performing, by a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) equipment, Clear Channel Assessment (CCA) in one channel of a unlicensed band; and determining, by the LTE equipment, whether the channel can be occupied according to a CCA measurement value in the channel, and determining a data transmission parameter if it is determined that the channel can be occupied. The present disclosure also provides a corresponding apparatus. According to the method and apparatus provided by the present disclosure, the transmission power of the apparatus on the unlicensed band may be controlled, channel seizing opportunity is increased and effective coexistence is ensured.
US10616919B2	Wireless communication device, wireless communication terminal and wireless communication method A wireless communication device is described. The wireless communication device includes a transmitter configured to transmit a first frame including first information required for uplink multi-user transmission without receiving a transmission request for the first information. The wireless communication device includes a receiver configured to receive a second frame. A wireless communication terminal is also described.
US10616917B2	Grouping uplink grants and listen before talk classes A wireless device receives uplink grants for licensed assisted access (LAA) cells. An uplink grant in the uplink grants comprises a listen before talk class indicating a maximum channel occupancy time. The uplink grants are grouped into grouped grants. A first grouped grant of the grouped grants comprises a first plurality of uplink grants each indicating a listen before talk class of a same maximum channel occupancy time. Radio resources, indicated by the first grouped grant, are allocated to one or more first logical channels. Transport blocks corresponding to the first plurality of uplink grants are generated. The wireless device transmits the transport blocks.
US10616913B2	Method for supporting multiple scheduling requests in next-generation mobile communication system The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5G communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4G system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G and IoT-related technologies, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present disclosure provides methods and apparatus for scheduling transmission resources between a user equipment and a base station. A method includes detecting a buffer status report (BSR) triggering event based on a BSR retransmission timer, identifying a highest priority logical channel (LCH) having data available for transmission in response to the detected event, identifying SR configuration information corresponding to the highest priority LCH and transmitting, to a base station, an SR based on the identified SR configuration information.
US10616911B2	Two-step signaling of uplink scheduling assignments A method including receiving at a wireless communication device first and second scheduling information indicative of attributes related to a data transmission. The first scheduling information including information indicative of contents attributes of the data transmission, and the subsequently received second scheduling information being indicative of time attributes of the data transmission.
US10616909B2	D2D operation method performed by means of terminal in wireless communication system and terminal using same The present invention provides a device-to-device (D2D) operation method performed by means of a terminal in a wireless communication system. In the method, uplink transmission and D2D transmission are determined to be contended or not. If the uplink transmission and the D2D transmission are contended, the D2D transmission is determined to be performed or not. And if the D2D transmission is determined to be performed, the D2D transmission is performed. The D2D transmission is determined to be performed or not on the basis of the priority of the uplink transmission and the priority of the D2D transmission.
US10616908B2	MU-MIMO communication in systems with antenna subarrays A network entity and method for co-scheduling receivers in a multi-user, multiple-input multiple-output communication system of the kind that uses antenna subarrays are described. In a method implementation candidate precoder matrix indicators are received. Interference estimates are computed relating to the interference caused by the transmission signal to one receiver on the transmission signal(s) to the other receiver(s). On that basis, a co-scheduling combination is chosen which is predicted to provide an adequately low interference based on these interference estimates. The interference estimate calculation includes at least one parameter specific to the antenna subarrays of the transmitting antenna array.
US10616907B2	Method and device for transmitting control channel on basis of hybrid beamforming in wireless communication system Provided is a method for transmitting control information for hybrid beamforming in a wireless communication system. A base station groups a plurality of terminals on the basis of feedback information on analog beams, and multiplexes and transmits control information of terminals within each group by using a specific time-frequency resource. A plurality of terminals can be grouped on the basis of feedback information on a plurality of analog beams through various methods. In addition, control information of terminals within each group can be multiplexed through various methods.
US10616905B2	EPC enhancements for proximity services Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed to describe reporting and/or reacting to a mobility event. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may comprise a processor configured, at least in part, to establish a proximity service (ProSe) session with a second WTRU, detect the occurrence of a mobility event in a cellular network while the ProSe session is ongoing, determine a type of action to be performed with respect to the ProSe session based on one or more of the type of mobility event and type of ProSe session, and transmit a notification to a node in the cellular network, wherein the notification includes an indication of an action to be performed on the ProSe session. The node may be one of an evolved Node B (eNB), proximity server, or mobility management entity (MME). The node may be the second WTRU.
US10616902B2	Radio communication network with radio scheduler A radio communication network includes: at least one base station configured to transmit a data flow to at least one user equipment by using radio resources scheduled to the at least one base station for transmission of the data flow; a radio scheduler configured to schedule the radio resources to the at least one base station according to a scheduling metric; a monitoring entity, configured to monitor performance information from the at least one base station; a controller, configured to adjust the scheduling metric of the radio scheduler based on the monitored performance information of the monitoring entity; and a database configured to store a plurality of scheduling metrics. The controller is configured to replace the scheduling metric with one of the scheduling metrics stored in the database or with a combination of scheduling metrics stored in the database.
US10616895B2	Resource scheduling method, apparatus, and device Embodiments provide resource scheduling methods and apparatus that reduce transmission resource overhead in resource scheduling. The method can be applied to a wireless local area network, where a next generation protocol followed by the wireless local area network predefines locations of resource units potentially allocated from a to-be-assigned frequency domain resource. The method includes: generating, by a sending end, resource scheduling information, where the resource scheduling information includes a bit sequence to indicate an actual allocation of a resource unit(s) from the to-be-assigned frequency domain resource, and at least some bits in the bit sequence to indicate whether one or more of the resource unit locations potentially allocated for the to-be-assigned frequency domain resource are the actually allocated resource units.
US10616892B2	User equipments, base stations and methods A UE includes receiving circuitry that receives a radio resource control (RRC) message including information indicating a subcarrier spacing of a block comprising, at least, a primary synchronization signal (PSS) and a secondary synchronization signal (SSS) and a physical broadcast channel (PBCH). The receiving circuitry also receives, based on the information, the block comprising, at least, the PSS and the SSS and the PBCH. The information is used only for a case where the UE is in a RRC connected. In a case that the information is not configured, the receiving circuitry receives, based on a default value of the subcarrier spacing, the block comprising, at least, the PSS and the SSS and the PBCH. The default value of the subcarrier spacing is given based on a frequency band.
US10616891B2	Wireless communication device and wireless communication method According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device, includes: a transmitter configured to transmit a first frame that contains first information specifying a plurality of frequency components and does not include second information specifying other wireless communication devices to which the plurality of frequency components are allocated; a receiver configured to receive at least one second frame to be transmitted via at least one of the plurality of frequency components; and allocate a first frequency component selected from among the plurality of frequency components based on third information to a transmitting device of the second frame out of the other wireless communication devices, wherein the receiver is configured to receive the third information through the second frame or a third frame transmitted before the second frame is transmitted.
US10616884B2	Techniques for signaling a transmit power headroom in a control field Techniques for wireless communication at a station are described. One method for wireless communication at a station includes identifying a plurality of control parameters including at least one of a transmit power headroom parameter of the station, a buffer status report of the station, a transmit parameter of the station, a receive parameter of the station, channel quality information, a link parameter, or a combination thereof. The method may further include identifying a soliciting frame received from a second station, determining an allocation of resources for a physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) packet data unit (PPDU) including one or more Medium Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data Units (MPDUs) to be sent in response to the soliciting frame, determining whether to include one or more control parameters of the plurality of control parameters in at least one of the MPDUs, and transmitting the PPDU to the second station.
US10616883B2	Wireless communication device According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device, includes: a receiver configured to receive a first frame that requests permission of transmission; and controlling circuitry configured to perform control to prevent transmission in a case where the first frame is not addressed for the own device, wherein the controlling circuitry is configured to keep prevention of the transmission even when a second frame notifying the permission of transmission is not received after a lapse of a first time period following receipt of the first frame.
US10616871B2	Uplink data processing method and apparatus therefor Provided are a method and an apparatus for processing uplink data. In particular, a method of a terminal for processing uplink data may include receiving configuration information for indicating uplink transmission configuration for an LTE-WLAN Aggregation (LWA) bearer from a base station; determining an uplink transmission path for the LWA bearer based on the configuration information and a transmittable data amount; and transmitting uplink data to the base station through the determined uplink transmission path, wherein the LWA bearer is a bearer configured to transmit the uplink data using at least one of a base station radio resource and a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) radio resource.
US10616865B2	Techniques for reporting radio resource management (RRM) measurements for a shared radio frequency spectrum band Techniques are described for wireless communication. One method includes performing a plurality of radio resource management (RRM) measurements for a number of active downlink carriers in a shared radio frequency spectrum band; associating each of the RRM measurements with a measurement time indication; and transmitting data corresponding to the RRM measurements and the measurement time indications to a base station. Another method includes receiving an indication of co-located downlink carriers in a shared radio frequency spectrum band; performing a plurality of RRM measurements for the downlink carriers; combining the RRM measurements over a time interval in the shared radio frequency spectrum band based at least in part on the received indication; and transmitting a report based at least in part on the combined RRM measurements to a base station.
US10616863B2	Wireless communication system, device, and control method for searching multiple communication frequency channels and processing cryptographic communication in an infrastructure mode using a received communication parameter including information of an encrypted key This invention has as its object to set a one-to-one relationship upon establishing a wireless communication channel between a wireless communication device on the information transmitting side and a wireless communication device that receives and processes the information even in an environment including a plurality of wireless communication devices, and to assure simple user's operations at least until the communication channel is established. To this end, when the user inputs a wireless communication channel establishment instruction to both a digital camera and printer having wireless communication functions, these devices execute wireless communication establishment processes within an allowable time period which is specified by a time set in a timer and a retry count. When the devices can seize each other within that time period, the communication channel is established. After that, the digital camera sends a sensed image to the printer, which prints the sensed image.
US10616862B2	Paging for mmW shared radio frequency spectrum bands Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. The described techniques provide for transmitting, at a base station, a contention exempt broadcast paging message that includes partial paging information for a user equipment (UE), receiving a random access request message transmitted by a UE in response to the broadcast paging message, and transmitting a unicast paging message which includes complete paging information. The described techniques further provide for determining, at a base station, a first paging opportunity window (POW) and a second POW for a UE, performing a LBT procedure during the first POW, transmitting a broadcast paging message including partial paging information for the UE during the first POW, performing a second LBT procedure during the second POW, transmitting a unicast paging message to the UE during the second POW, the unicast paging message including complete paging information for the UE.
US10616860B2	Wireless control of stored media presentation A system for wireless control of stored media presentations is provided. In some examples, a media player is operative to wirelessly communicate with an associated portable electronic device and control presentation of a stored media content file according to a control signal converted from an audio signal received by the associated portable electronic device. In another example, a portable electronic device is operative to generate and wirelessly transmit a signal to control presentation of a stored media content file by an associated media player according to audio data received via a microphone. In yet another example, a system for using a portable electronic device to control a media presentation device includes the portable electronic device that generates and wirelessly transmits a signal according to audio data received via a microphone and a media player that receives the signal and controls presentation of a stored media content file.
US10616853B2	Location determination using acoustic-contextual data Systems and methods of determining a location of a mobile computing device associated with a real-time locating system are provided. For instance, a mobile computing device can determine a first location of the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device can then receive acoustic-contextual data that is correlated with the first location of the mobile computing device. The acoustic-contextual data can include data associated with one or more transmitting devices, and data associated with an environment proximate the one or more transmitting devices. The mobile computing device can receive one or more signals from at least one of the one or more transmitting devices, and can determine a more accurate second location of the mobile computing device based at least in part on the acoustic-contextual data and the one or more received signals.
US10616850B2	Periodic timer synchronization logic for RRC inactive state A method performed by an AMF is provided. The method includes determining an elapsed time value (δRAN). The method further includes determining whether the elapsed time value is less than a negotiated NAS periodic timer (τNAS-per). The AMF is configured such that, as a result of the AMF determining that δRAN<τNAS-per, the AMF transitions the UE to CM-IDLE state and starts a NAS periodic timer with a value equal to τNAS-per−δRAN.
US10616848B2	RF carrier synchronization and phase alignment methods and systems A method is disclosed for synchronization, comprising obtaining baseband signal samples of a baseband information signal having an in-phase signal sample and a quadrature signal sample, the baseband information signal having been generated by mixing a received modulated carrier signal with a local oscillator (LO) signal having an LO frequency, the modulated carrier signal being an in-phase signal and quadrature signal having a substantially uncorrelated nature and derived from different input data sets; determining an offset frequency rotation based on an estimated residual correlation between the in-phase signal samples and the quadrature signal samples; and, deriving synchronization information from the offset frequency rotation, wherein the received modulated carrier signal is a quadrature-modulated signal with arbitrary orthogonal in-phase and quadrature signal components.
US10616845B2	Coordinated resource discovery Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described that provide for discovery of resources in a wireless communications system. The wireless communications system supports operations for multiple network operating entities that share a radio frequency spectrum. To discover and perform synchronization with the wireless communications system, a common preamble may be transmitted by nodes associated with multiple network operating entities. The common preamble may include information common to each of the multiple network operating entities which may be used by a device to identify neighboring wireless nodes, available network operating entities, or sub-intervals designated for prioritized or opportunistic use by one or more network operating entities.
US10616844B2	Systems and methods for operation of wireless user devices with cellular and Wi-Fi interfaces An embodiment method for wireless communication includes grouping a plurality of user equipments (UEs) wirelessly coupled to a cellular base station (BS) into a UE cluster to function as a Wi-Fi virtual station (V-STA), and communicating with an access point (AP) to contend for a Wi-Fi transmission opportunity (TXOP) for the V-STA. In a further embodiment, the cellular BS contends for the TXOP on behalf of the UE cluster using a carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA-CA) procedure. In an alternative embodiment, one UE in the UE cluster is selected as a leader UE to contend for the TXOP on behalf of the UE cluster using a CSMA-CA procedure.
US10616841B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting D2D synchronization signals Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method, an apparatus, a network node, and a computer program product for transmitting D2D synchronization signals. According to the method, D2D synchronization signals are received from a first network node. A hop number of the D2D synchronization signals is determined based on radio resources of the D2D synchronization signals. Whether to transmit the D2D synchronization signals to a second network node is determined based on the hop number.
US10616840B2	Detection method, synchronization method, and terminal for symmetrical synchronization signal The present invention discloses a detection method, a synchronization method, and a terminal for a symmetrical synchronization signal. The detection method includes the following steps: obtaining a received signal of a synchronization signal for synchronous detection, and subsequently, performing an auto-correlation calculation on the received signal twice in the time domain, where the received signal includes a first-part received signal whose length is N and a second-part received signal whose length is NCP, the first-part received signal is symmetrical about a first central point, and the second-part received signal is symmetrical about a second central point. With low complexity of calculation and good detection performance, and being insensitive to a carrier frequency offset (CFO), the present invention is particularly applicable to an Internet of Things (IoT) environment.
US10616839B2	Over-the-air phase synchronizatin for reciprocity-based comp joint transmission Over-the-air phase synchronization for reciprocity-based coordinated multipoint (CoMP) joint transmission is discussed. The base stations of the CoMP group and served user equipment (UEs) each transmit phase synchronization reference signals (PSRS). The receiving nodes will compute co-phasing values representing the phase difference between pairs of the PSRS. For example, the difference between two downlink PSRS computed at the UE for a downlink co-phasing value, and the difference between a single PSRS received at two base stations computed at the base station for an uplink co-phasing value. The base stations of the CoMP group may determine a phase compensation by computing the differences between the uplink and downlink co-phasing values and use that phase compensation to adjust communications by the base stations in the CoMP group. In other aspects, the computed co-phasing values may be used to modulate each nodes transmission of its respective PSRS.
US10616837B2	V2X operation method performed by terminal in wireless communication system and terminal using same method The present invention provides a device-to-device (D2D) operation method performed by a tenninal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: determining whether a transmission time point of a first message having a high priority overlaps a transmission time point of a second message having a priority lower than that of the first message; and transmitting the second message using transmission power lower than transmission power of the first message on the basis of the determination, wherein the transmission of the second message is configured to repeat a predetermined number of times.
US10616833B2	Apparatus and method for performing paging process in wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as a long term evolution (LTE). A method for performing a paging process by a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes identifying that paging for a mobile station (MS) is initiated, and transmitting a paging indicator including a first part indicating a paging identifier (ID) and a second part indicating a group in which at least one MS which needs to receive a paging message is included.
US10616832B2	User equipment and access node and respective methods A user equipment (UE) for which an analog beamforming scheme is applied and a measuring method performed by the UE are provided. Also an access node (AN) and a method performed by the AN are provided. The measuring method performed by the UE comprising: transmitting, to a serving access node, a measurement request for measuring a neighbouring access node that is working at a same frequency as the user equipment; receiving, from the serving access node, information related to a series of measurement time gaps; and after a delay, performing a measurement to the neighbouring access node within the series of measurement time gaps.
US10616829B2	Method for selecting PLMN of terminal in wireless communication system and apparatus for same A method for a UE to perform public land mobile network (PLMN) selection associated with ProSe direct communication in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: selecting a PLMN; and registering with the PLMN, wherein the UE performs ProSe direct communication in the selected PLMN without executing PLMN selection any more, even if the UE fails to register with the selected PLMN, wherein ProSe direct communication in the selected PLMN is performed in a limited service state, wherein the UE is in the limited service state when the UE has not discovered a suitable cell, when the UE receives “PLMN not allowed” or when the UE receives “GPRS not allowed”.
US10616827B2	System and method for dynamically configurable air interfaces A method of transmitting includes categorizing a transmission between the first device and a second device as one of a plurality of transmission types, and selecting an air interface from a plurality of air interface candidates in accordance with the transmission as categorized. The method also includes sending the transmission to the second device using the selected air interface.
US10616821B2	Method for transferring information between base station and terminal, base station, terminal, and system A base station, a terminal, a system, and a method for transferring information between the base station and the terminal includes receiving a broadcast channel, where the broadcast channel is used to transfer basic physical layer configuration information of a cell and to transfer first specific content agreed between the terminal and the base station, wherein the first specific content includes configuration information required by the terminal to access a network; and parsing out the first specific content from the broadcast channel.
US10616815B2	Cell measurement reporting method and user equipment Described herein is a cell measurement reporting method and a related device and system. The method includes receiving, by a user equipment, measurement configuration information configured by a network side, and selecting a serving cell according to the measurement configuration information; and measuring, by the user equipment, the selected serving cell according to the measurement configuration information, and when determining that a measurement result of the serving cell meets the trigger event, sending, by the user equipment to the network side according to an indication of the measurement configuration information, a measurement report that carries the trigger event.
US10616814B2	Load balancing in femtocells A method may be provided for load balancing in femtocells. Determination may be made as to whether a cell load status of the femtocell base station exceeds a certain load level. When the cell load status of the femtocell base station reaches and/or exceeds the certain load level, handover of at least one user equipment coupled to the femtocell base station to a target base station may be initiated by shrinking cell coverage of the femtocell base station.
US10616811B2	Methods and apparatus for using a communication protocol based on a wireless network Methods and apparatus for using a communication protocol based on a wireless network are described herein. Some methods include detecting a wireless connection between a first electronic device and a second electronic device, determining if the second electronic device is connected to a cellular network, such that the first electronic device connects to the cellular network via the second electronic device, and responsive to determining that the second electronic device is connected to the cellular network, adjusting a communication protocol of the wireless connection between the first electronic device and the second electronic device. Apparatus and computer program products for performing the above methods are also described herein.
US10616807B2	System and method for generating CS fallback analytics in 4G networks Key processing times (such as call setup delay, call failure rate, call success rate, etc.) and other relevant metrics are measured in their respective networks (i.e., in LTE or 3G/2G networks) from raw signaling by various time-synchronized probes in real-time. Raw signaling data are collected from such probes in run-time, and various KPIs such as the end-to-end call setup times, success rates or causes of failure from call initiation in the LTE network to call completion in a 2G/3G network by correlating various raw signaling data collected by the probes in real-time.
US10616804B2	Radio communication system, base station device and management method thereof A system includes: nodes, configured to provide computing resources and network resources of a base station and virtualize the computing resources and the network resources into logical resources; a switch device, configured to perform data exchange between the nodes; a node management device, configured to form a resource pool and schedule the resources in the resource pool to a cloud based virtual base station for use; a cloud based virtual base station management device, configured to manage and control resources of the cloud based virtual base station; and the cloud based virtual base station, configured to obtain, according to the management of the cloud based virtual base station management device and the scheduling of the node management device, logical resources provided by the nodes, and provide base station services based on the logical resources.
US10616800B2	Method and apparatus for receiving CPRI data stream, method and apparatus for receiving ethernet frame, and system A method and an apparatus for receiving a common public radio interface (CPRI) data stream, a method and an apparatus for receiving an Ethernet frame, and a system, where a first network apparatus receives a first CPRI data stream using a CPRI of the first network apparatus, where the first network apparatus generates a segment of the first CPRI data stream according to the first CPRI data stream, the first network apparatus generates an Ethernet frame, where the Ethernet frame includes the segment of the first CPRI data stream and a CPRI data identifier, and the CPRI data identifier indicates that the Ethernet frame carries CPRI data, and the first network apparatus sends the Ethernet frame to a second network apparatus using an Ethernet interface of the first network apparatus.
US10616799B2	Caching and providing data to a device based on available resources In response to detecting, at the first time period, that the available amount of the first resource on the computing device is below the first threshold level, the computer system switches the computing device to a first low resource mode, wherein the switching the computing device to the first low resource mode includes intercepting a first data intended to be transmitted to the computing device, the first data corresponding to a first set of one or more applications on the computing device. In response to detecting, at a second time period that is after the first time period, that the available amount of the first resource on the computing device meets or exceeds the first threshold level, the computer system switches the computing device back to a normal operating mode.
US10616796B2	Method and device for data transmission The present disclosure provides a method and a device for data transmission. The method for data transmission includes steps of: determining, by a transmitting end, a protocol layer structure and/or a protocol layer function to be used for uplink/downlink data transmission in accordance with a configuration at a network side, the protocol layer structure and/or protocol layer function configured at the network side being determined in accordance with a transmission requirement of a terminal; and transmitting, by the transmitting end, data in accordance with the determined protocol layer structure and/or protocol layer function.
US10616787B2	Method for reporting reference signal measurement information by terminal in wireless communication system, and apparatus supporting same Disclosed are: a method for reporting reference signal measurement information for a secondary base station by a terminal, connected to both a master base station and the secondary base station according to a dual connectivity scheme, in a wireless communication system comprising the master base station and the secondary base station that is operated under the control of the master base station and employs multiple analog beams; and an apparatus supporting the same.
US10616780B2	Mobility manager destructive testing A mobility manager of a cellular communication network is tested using a test network. The test network has a mobility manager, multiple actual and simulated base stations, and multiple actual and simulated communication devices. To test one aspect of the mobility manager, the number of simulated base stations is increased to nearly the rated capacity of the mobility manager. In addition, simulated communication sessions are established, again so that the number of communication sessions is near the rated capacity of the mobility manager. Communications are then interrupted between the base stations and the mobility manager. Behavior of the mobility manager is monitored after the interruption to determine, among other things, how many communications sessions are lost as a result of the interruption.
US10616778B2	Method, device and terminal for realizing coexistence of miracast and hotspot A method, a device and a terminal for realizing coexistence of Miracast and Hotspot are provided. The method for realizing coexistence of Miracast and Hotspot includes steps of: receiving a coexistence instruction; judging whether Miracast of a terminal is turned off or turned on; judging whether Hotspot of the terminal is turned on or turned off in a case where Miracast of the terminal is turned off; turning off Hotspot of the terminal and then turning on Miracast of the terminal in a case where Hotspot of the terminal is turned on, and directly turning on Miracast of the terminal in a case where Hotspot of the terminal is turned off; turning on Hotspot of the terminal after turning on Miracast of the terminal.
US10616774B2	Method and device for communications in millimeter-wave networks Methods and apparatus are provided to realize mm-wave communication. In an embodiment, a network device inputs a user equipment (UE) location into a beam prediction engine to generate a set of mm-wave beams, and the beam prediction engine generating the set of mm-wave beams based on at least one static object within a coverage area of an access device. The network device inputs at least one mobile object location of at least one mobile object into the beam prediction engine to select a subset of mm-wave beams from the set of mm-wave beams, and the beam prediction engine selecting the subset of mm-wave beams based on the at least one static object and the at least one mobile object. The network device selects a mm-wave beam from the subset of mm-wave beams.
US10616773B2	MIMO training method and wireless device An MIMO training method including performing transmission sector sweeping using an initiator including a plurality of transmitting antennas, selecting a set of at least one transmission sector for each of the transmitting antennas using a responder including a plurality of receiving antennas; performing reception sector sweeping using the initiator, selecting a set of at least one reception sector for each of the plurality of receiving antennas using the responder, performing beam combination training using the initiator; and selecting a determined number of sector pairs consisting of a transmission sector and a reception sector from among the selected set of transmission sectors and the selected set of reception sectors using the responder, wherein the transmitting antennas in the selected sector pairs differ from one another, and the receiving antennas in the selected sector pairs differ from one another.
US10616772B2	Systems and methods for using femtocell functionality in user devices A first user equipment is provided with femtocell functionality. The femtocell is instantiated based upon a user defined trigger. A second user equipment inside the area of coverage of a stationary transmitting component receives a message from the first user equipment that is outside the area of coverage of a stationary transmitting component. The second user equipment transmits the message to the stationary transmitting component.
US10616771B2	Opportunistic reclaiming of resources in new radio-spectrum sharing (NR-SS) Wireless communications systems and methods related to reclaiming of resources in a shared frequency spectrum shared by multiple operators are provided. A first wireless communication device associated with a first operator of a plurality of operators identifies a transmission opportunity in a shared frequency spectrum shared by the plurality of operators, wherein the first operator has priority among the plurality of operators for accessing the shared frequency spectrum in the transmission opportunity. The first wireless communication device communicates with a second wireless communication device associated with the first operator, in the transmission opportunity without a prior reservation of the transmission opportunity.
US10616770B2	Communication control apparatus, communication control method, program, and communication system There is provided a communication control apparatus including an information acquisition unit that acquires information about channels, among frequency channels assigned to a primary system, available to a secondary system, a generation unit that generates a list of channels, among the channels available, recommended for a secondary usage node operating the secondary system, and a notification unit that notifies the secondary usage node of the list generated by the generation unit to allow the secondary usage node to select a channel for secondary usage.
US10616769B2	Radio (NR) procedures for accessing shared spectrum Techniques for spectrum sharing among operators are provided. A base station (BS) licensed to a first operator monitors, while operating on a first carrier frequency assigned to the first operator, a reservation period on a second carrier frequency assigned to a second operator that shares spectrum with the first operator. The BS determines, based on the monitoring, availability of the second carrier frequency for use by the BS during at least one subsequent data period. The BS determines whether to attempt to reserve access on the second carrier frequency for use during the at least one subsequent data period based on the determined availability.
US10616767B2	Methods, systems, and media for authenticating a connection between a user device and a streaming media content device Mechanisms for authenticating a connection between a user device and a streaming media content device comprising: identifying a collection of candidate streaming media content devices based on beacon(s) detected by a user device; receiving an indication that one of the content devices is to be selected for connection to the user device; transmitting instructions to the content devices to broadcast a signal, wherein the signal broadcast by each of the content devices contains a value that indicates an identity of the content device; receiving, from the user device, an audio signal that includes a detected signal; processing the audio signal to extract the value indicating the identity of a particular content device associated with the detected signal contained in the received audio signal; identifying the particular content device based on the determined value; and transmitting an indication that the user device and the particular content device are authenticated to communicate.
US10616764B2	Methods and devices for selecting network partition in untrusted WLAN access A method implemented in a user equipment (UE) includes connecting to a WLAN access point. The method further includes constructing a domain name for a packet system network, the domain name including network partition information for the packet system network. The method further includes transmitting, to a DNS server via the WLAN access point, the constructed domain name. The method further includes receiving, from the server, at least one address corresponding to a network node associated with the network partition information.
US10616762B2	Method for controlling according to state and electronic device thereof A method of an electronic device is provided. The method includes obtaining first state information related to a motion of the electronic device by using a first sensor operatively coupled to the electronic device while the electronic device is in a first state, transitioning, if the first state information satisfies a first designated condition, the electronic device from the first state to a second state, obtaining second state information related to at least a part of a user's body corresponding to the electronic device by using a second sensor operatively coupled to the electronic device while the electronic device is in the second state, and transitioning, if the second state information satisfies a second designated condition, the electronic device from the second state to a third state.
US10616758B2	Server device, method of processing masking of route information and program for the method In a server device, an acquisition unit acquires positional information on a communication terminal. An extraction unit extracts route information including a start point and an end point from the positional information. An identification unit identifies a type of a means of movement of the communication terminal based on the positional information. A masking unit masks a segment of the route information including the start point and a segment including the end point to generate output route information. The masking unit defines a masked segment of the route information in accordance with a type of the means of movement.
US10616754B2	Profile download method and system, and related device A profile download method and system, and a related device, where the method includes obtaining, by a user terminal, local profile assistant (LPA) indication information, obtaining download information required for downloading a target profile, and sending, by the user terminal, the download information to an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) when the LPA indication information instructs to download the profile using an LPA in the eUICC such that the eUICC downloads, using the LPA in the eUICC, the target profile from a download server indicated by the download information. Hence, the profile can be downloaded when an LPA is deployed in both the user terminal and the eUICC.
US10616748B2	Content-based delivery service There is provided a method comprising: receiving a request for a content-based delivery service from at least one first user device of a plurality of user devices with device-to-device communications capability for a delivery of an information element; obtaining information in relation to the delivery of the information element; determining, based on the obtained information in relation to the delivery, if the information element is to be delivered using an access node or at least one second user device or both the access node and the at least one second user device or if information on absence of the requested information element is conveyed, and in response to the determination, carrying out resource configuration for the delivery of the information element or for conveyance of the information on the absence of the requested information element by using the content-based delivery service.
US10616744B2	Presence indicator signal In one embodiment a method for providing presence information in a smart environment is implemented on a personal computing device associated with a user and includes; broadcasting a presence indicator signal in the smart environment, where the presence indicator signal indicates presence of the user in the smart environment, and the personal computing device is not provided by an operator of the smart environment.
US10616742B2	Multifunction pass-through wall power plug with communication relay and related method A pass through wall power plug is equipped with multiple transceivers for remote communication. The power plug may be equipped with transceivers operative in different modes or protocols. The power plug may function as a bridge between radio devices. It may function as a centralized access point for receiving and/or storing information from and transmitting information multiple connected electronic devices. The power plug may be equipped with a night light, power meter, relay switch, voltage meter, beacon, proximity sensor or other electronic components. The power plug may be made rotatable around its prongs, and may be configured to be stackable within a standard column of electrical outlets.
US10616740B2	Wireless ambulatory care network A method for connecting wireless devices using Bluetooth® low energy can be used to connect wireless computing devices with a medical device in an ambulatory care setting. The wireless computing devices can receive measured vital sign data and transmit the vital sign data to a patient's electronic medical record. The wireless computing devices can be configured to include a user-friendly name and the transmitter power in one or more advertising broadcasts. The medical device can receive advertising broadcasts from one or more wireless computing devices and sort the devices by proximity, last use, number of times used, or alphabetically. After the devices exchange information over Bluetooth® low energy, the devices can connect in Bluetooth® Classic. Systems for implementing the method are also disclosed.
US10616736B2	Contextual deep linking of applications A contextual deep linking server receives a request associated with a valid contextual deep link from a client device, the contextual deep link associated with link data indicating a particular configuration of an application. The server also receives, after determining that the client device has stored a previously generated fingerprint, stored contextual information for the client device identified by a locally stored fingerprint that matches the previously generated fingerprint. The server then generates, after determining that the client device does not have the previously generated fingerprint, a unique fingerprint of the client device based on a plurality of characteristics of the client device and determining contextual information of the request based on a characteristic of the client device. The server also transmits a response to the client device that is selected based on the contextual information of the client device such that the response is operable on the client device.
US10616735B2	Data update system, remote configuration device and data update method [Problem] A data update system of the present invention allows a user to update a data of a server while security of the server is maintained.[Solution] The present invention is provided with a main server for storing a configuration data, a terminal device to which update data for updating a part of or whole of the configuration data is input, a remote configuration device for communicating with the terminal device for receiving and storing the update data input to the terminal device, and a communication server for communicating with the main server and the remote configuration device. The remote configuration device transmits the update data received from the terminal device to the communication server. The communication server updates the configuration data stored in the main server with the update data received from the remote configuration device.
US10616729B2	Data assistance application for mobile devices A data assist application allows people to share structured data, and update and/or collaborate in real time. Companies can use embodiments of the invention to send and/or receive structured data. Embodiments of the data assist application work standalone or while a user is talking to a person or a company. In use, information is spread when people share data with non-users. The data are preferably owned and/or controlled by the user and stored on user devices. Further embodiments of the invention integrate with OS-supplied data and third party apps.
US10616728B2	Wireless connecting method, backup device, and non-transitory backup device-readable storage medium A wireless connecting method is disclosed. The wireless connecting method includes the following operations: executing an application of an electronic device by the electronic device; establishing a BLUETOOTH connection between the electronic device and a backup device by the backup device; and keeping the application alive at a background of the electronic device through the BLUETOOTH connection by the backup device.
US10616724B2	Method, device, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for supporting relay broadcasting using mobile device Provided are a method, device, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for supporting relay broadcasting using a mobile device. It is possible to reduce a computing load of a relay device by distributing a computing load required to produce relay broadcasting content to a plurality of photographer devices and thus widen the range of photographer devices that may participate in relay broadcasting.
US10616718B2	Method and system for providing information about time zone of a wireless communication device A method and mobile device configured to display time zone information of a destination mobile device to which the mobile device connects based on time zone information of the mobile device and the destination mobile device.
US10616715B2	Tracking devices, systems and methods using patch packages with embedded electronic circuits A tracking device for global tracking of objects is provided including a patch package comprised of a flexible material and an electronic circuit embedded within the patch package. The electronic circuit includes a controller, a secured basic input/output (BIOS) system, a memory unit, a radio unit, and an antenna. The radio unit and the antenna transmit the location of the tracking device. The antenna may be a wire antenna or a ball antenna. The flexible material may be sticky such that the tracking device may be affixed to an object. The electronic circuit may also include an affix sensor configured to determine whether the tracking device is affixed to and removed from an object. Methods of tracking objects using tracking device are also provided in which the tracking device is affixed to an object and a transmission is received from the electronic circuit providing location information of the tracking device.
US10616714B2	WiFi device zoning using micro-location data Methods, systems and computer readable media for wireless device zoning using micro-location data are described.
US10616708B2	Interactive advisory system for prioritizing content A method for passing content to at least one communicator device. The user of a communicator device registers with at least one service provider for delivering a plurality of different types of content to be passed to the at least one communicator device. A user defined priority is assigned to the at least one type of content. The user defined priority is stored on a computer readable medium. The different types of content are passed to the at least one communicator device based on the user defined priority.
US10616706B1	Estimating room acoustic properties using microphone arrays An audio analysis system receives a first recording of a speech signal from an origin audio assembly and a second recording of at least a portion of the speech signal from a receiving audio assembly. The speech signal originates from a speaking user of the origin audio assembly and the second recording is recorded by a receiving audio assembly operated by a different user. Both the origin audio assembly and the receiving audio assembly are located within a room. The audio analysis system selects one or more audio frames in the first recording and one or more audio frames in the second recording that both occur over the same time period. The audio analysis system determines a transfer function for the room based in part on the selected one or more audio frames in the first recording and the selected one or more audio frames in the second recording.
US10616703B2	MEMS sound transducer element and method for producing a MEMS sound transducer element A method for producing a MEMS sound transducer element includes, inter alia, providing a first substrate. The first substrate has a first substrate side, an opposite second substrate side and a membrane layer arranged on the first substrate side. A further method step includes performing a first etching from the second substrate side in a first surface section that is situated opposite the membrane layer, as far as a first depth. A further method step includes performing a second etching of the first substrate from the second substrate side in a second surface section in order to expose the membrane layer in the first surface section and to produce a back volume for the membrane layer, where the second surface section is larger than the first surface section and includes the first surface section.
US10616702B2	Method and device for audio recording An acquisition system includes a processor, one or more sensors operatively coupled to the processor where the one or more sensors acquire at the ear, on the ear or within an ear canal, one or more of acceleration, blood oxygen saturation, blood pressure or heart-rate, and the one or more sensors configured to monitor a biological state or a physical motion or both for an event. The event can be a detection of a discrepancy when compared with a set of reference data by the one or more sensors or the biological state or the event can be one of a detection of an abrupt movement of a headset operatively coupled to the processor, a change in location of an earpiece operatively coupled the processor, a touching of the headset, a recognizing of a voice command, a starting or ending of a phone call, or a scheduled time.
US10616698B2	Fixation of a bone conduction floating mass transducer An implantable bone conduction transducer has a center rotational axis radially surrounded by an outer surface, and at least one radial projection projecting radially outward from the outer surface. An implantable transducer receptacle has a receptacle outer surface configured to fit into a receptacle recess in skull bone of a recipient patient, a receptacle inner surface configured to fit around the outer surface of the transducer, and at least one projection bracket projecting radially inward away from the receptacle inner surface. The at least one projection bracket and the at least one radial projection are configured to cooperate so that rotation of the transducer around the center rotational axis creates increased lateral force between the transducer and the skull bone surrounding the receptacle recess so as to securely engage the transducer with the skull bone.
US10616693B2	System and method for efficiency among devices A wearable multifunction device or earpiece or a pair of earpieces includes one or more processors, at least one microphone coupled to the one or more processors, a biometric sensor coupled to the one or more processors, and a memory coupled to the one or more processors, the memory having computer instructions causing the one or more processors to perform the operations of sensing a remaining battery life and based on the sensing, prioritizing one or more of the functions of always on recording, biometric measuring, biometric recording, sound pressure level measuring, voice activity detection, key word detection, key word analysis, personal audio assistant functions, transmission of data to a tethered phone, transmission of data to a server, transmission of data to a cloud device.
US10616692B1	Optical microphone for eyewear devices An audio system includes a transducer assembly, an optical sensing pathway, a laser, a detector assembly, and a controller. The transducer assembly is coupled to a user's ear and produces an acoustic pressure wave based on an audio instruction. The optical sensing pathway moves, at least in part, with a detected acoustic pressure wave. The laser emits light that is separated into a reference beam and a sensing beam that is coupled into the optical sensing pathway. The detected acoustic pressure wave interacts with the sensing beam to alter its optical path length. The detector assembly detects the reference and sensing beams from the optical sensing pathway, and measures the detected acoustic pressure wave based on changes in optical path length between the reference beam and the sensing beam. The controller adjusts the audio instruction based on the measurement of the detected acoustic pressure wave.
US10616687B2	Microphone and manufacturing method thereof A microphone includes a substrate including an acoustic hole; a supporting layer disposed along a circumference of the substrate; and a vibrating film disposed on the supporting layer and spaced apart from the substrate, wherein the vibrating film includes a first vibrating region positioned at a portion corresponding to the acoustic hole; a second vibrating region connected to the first vibrating region, and including an air inlet; and a third vibrating region connected to the second vibrating region through a plurality of connection parts.
US10616678B2	Tunable bass reflex ceiling mounted speaker system A tunable bass reflex ceiling mounted speaker system and a method for tuning same is disclosed. In accordance with at least one embodiment, a speaker system is provided that includes a port tube and a transducer assembly within the interior volume of a back box. The transducer assembly generates a reflexive airwave within the interior volume of the back box. The reflexive airwave moves into and out of the interior volume through the port tube to create a better broadcast sound in a room. The port tube length has a fixed port and an adjustable port that is tunable by an adjustment mechanism.
US10616677B2	Utility lightweight headphones Disclosed is a multifunction personal audio emulation device having a cushioned headband with noise cancelling ear cups. The cushioned headband is approximately half an inch thick and with cups being one inch thick. Fitted into the headband further is an independent rechargeable battery source a USB connection for data and electric power input and at least one other universal serial bus output. The personal audio device may connect to an external audio output device using a wired or a wireless connection. The personal audio device is further capable of data storage, including storage for replay of content via the sound drivers of the device.
US10616666B1	Interactive sentiment-detecting video streaming system and method Embodiments of the systems, methods, and computer readable medium devices disclosed herein provide a sentiment analysis system that can determine sentiment from an input of a user received from a device. Once the input is received, parsing and analysis can be performed to determine a particular sentiment corresponding to the input. The system can determine an overall sentiment of some or all of the users or viewers watching a particular video stream, such as a live video stream. The determined overall sentiment can represent a metric indicating what users generally feel about a portion of the video stream, and the system can use the determination to cause modification of the video stream or a future video stream to enhance the user experience.
US10616664B2	System and method for providing location-dependent emergency alert services Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that performs operations including receiving user input associated with a group of emergency alert service messages, assigning a plurality of severity codes to the group of emergency alert service messages according to the user input, each of the plurality of severity codes indicating a presentation format, determining a first location of a mobile communication device, determining a second location of a premises of a user of the mobile communication device. The operations can also include, responsive to detecting a first emergency alert service message associated with the first location, determining a first severity code of the plurality of severity codes assigned to the first emergency alert service message and providing the first emergency alert service message to the mobile communication device for presentation in a first format according to the first severity code. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10616660B2	Automatic detection of ticker speed Embodiments are directed towards presenting text along with video content to a user at a speed specific for that user. Various features regarding the user and the text, such as how fast the user can read, the user's native language, the language of the text, user speed selection, user profile information, or other characteristics of the user or text, are determined and utilized to select a speed at which to display text to the user. The text is then presented along with the video content such that the text moves on the screen at the selected speed.
US10616657B1	Presenting video content to online system users in response to user interactions with video content presented in a feed of content items An online system generates a feed of content items for a user subject to a limitation restricting the number of content items including video data (“video content items”) included in the feed. If the user interacts with a video content item the feed, the online system selects candidate video content items based on characteristics of the video content item in the feed and characteristics of the user. The online system determines likelihoods of the user interacting with various candidate video content items and selects candidate video content items based on the determined likelihoods. To present the user with additional video content items, the online system generates an interface including the selected candidate video content items and presents the interface to the user. The interface may be presented in place of the feed or may be presented as within the feed and presents different video content items based on user interactions.
US10616655B2	Systems and methods for transmitting media associated with a measure of quality based on level of game play in an interactive video gaming environment Systems and methods for incorporating online user generated media content (e.g., videos) into an interactive video gaming environment are provided. Media assets that are associated with different measures of quality generated by users are stored on a remote server. A player action is received by the remote server. A determination is made as to which one of the plurality of levels of the interactive video gaming environment corresponds to the action. One of the videos associated with one of the measures of quality is selected based on the determination of the level corresponding to the action. The selected video is transmitted to the player.
US10616653B2	Method and apparatus for inhibiting the interruption of content being consumed by a user The present disclosure provides a method (1100) and apparatus (702) for inhibiting the interruption of the content being consumed by a user that is provided by an entertainment system. The method (1100) and apparatus (702) of the present disclosure may detect an interruption event and determine, based on the current state of a user, whether the interruption event matches the current state of the user. If the method (1100) and apparatus (702) of the present disclosure determine that the interruption event does not match the current state of the user, the method (1100) and apparatus (702) of the present disclosure may inhibit the interruption of the content being consumed by the user.
US10616651B2	Event based video generation A computer implemented method of event based video generation, comprising: on the device, receiving a feed of video captured by a camera, on a memory of the device, maintaining at least one buffer storing a most recent portion of the video feed being received, on a display of the device, presenting at least one GUI element, each one of the GUI elements being associated with a respective predefined video length, and upon actuation of one of the GUI elements by a user of the device, forwarding at least a sub-portion of the video feed portion stored in the buffer for further processing, the forwarded sub-portion having the predefined video length associated with the GUI element actuated by the user.
US10616650B2	System and method for dynamically selecting supplemental content based on viewer environment Embodiments are directed towards providing supplemental content to a viewer based on the viewer's environment while the viewer is viewing content. Content is provided to a content receiver for presentation to the viewer. While the viewer is viewing the content, an image of the viewer's environment is captured and analyzed to detect the context of the environment. Supplemental content is selected based on this detected context and presented to the viewer, which allows the supplemental content to be tailored to the viewer. One or more additional images of the viewer's environment are captured while the viewer is viewing the supplemental content and the context of the viewer's environment emotion while the viewer is viewing the supplemental content is detected. This subsequent context is analyzed to determine if the viewer had an expected response to the supplemental content, which can be used to determine the efficiency of the supplemental content.
US10616646B2	Virtual set-top box that executes service provider middleware A virtual set-top box (vSTB) for executing a middleware component, designed originally for use with the physical STB, including emulating hardware capabilities of the physical STB to process IPTV content received over a connection for presenting the IPTV content on a display of the electronic device.
US10616645B2	Method for filtering a multimedia catalogue received by satellite link and filtering device A method for filtering a set of contents broadcast over a satellite link includes: a first reception of a user filter by at least one piece of user equipment, the user filter including a user identifier and a first list of multimedia contents, the first list being selected from a catalogue of multimedia contents that is available on a remote data server; a second reception of a set of multimedia contents of the catalogue by at least one piece of user equipment; filtering the contents by the piece of user equipment broadcast by the satellite depending on the user filter; storing the received and filtered contents in a memory of the piece of user equipment.
US10616643B1	Creating customized programming content In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method of creating customized programming content for a user of a video content system includes accessing a user interest profile for the user, the user interest profile comprising a ranked list of a plurality of interest categories; locating at least one video segment corresponding to each of the interest categories of the user interest profile; calculating the correlation between the user interest profile and data describing each of the located video segment, and ranking the video segments based on the correlation; assembling the video segments into a customized video programming stream based on the ranking; and displaying the customized video programming stream to the user.
US10616640B2	Over the top media integration with over the air broadcast media Various arrangements for providing bimodal digital video recording are presented. A plurality of over-the-air (OTA) television programs received via an antenna input port may be recorded to a local processor-readable storage medium. Record instructions may be transmitted to a cloud-based television programming service provider server system to remotely record and store scheduled streaming television programs to storage of the cloud-based television programming service provider server system. OTA television programs received via the antenna input port and recorded to the local processor-readable storage medium may be determined. Indications of television programs stored by the cloud-based television programming service provider server system may be received. Data may be output to a display device to present the bimodal DVR interface having a unified interface that simultaneously comprises indications of the recorded OTA television programs and indications of the scheduled streaming television programming.
US10616639B2	Display apparatus, content recognizing method thereof, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium A display apparatus, a content recognizing method thereof, and a non-transitory computer readable recording medium are provided. The display apparatus includes a display, a memory configured to store information regarding a fingerprint which is generated by extracting a characteristic of a content, and a content corresponding to the fingerprint, a communication device configured to communicate with a server, and at least one processor configured to extract a characteristic of a screen of a content currently reproduced on the display and generate a fingerprint, to search presence/absence of a fingerprint matching the generated fingerprint in the memory, and, based on a result of the searching, to determine whether to transmit a query comprising the generated fingerprint to the server to request information on the currently reproduced content.
US10616637B2	Digital radio frequency signal distribution system There is disclosed a system configured to receive one or more radio frequency signals comprising a UHF frequency range comprising a plurality of UHF channels. The system comprises: one or more corresponding analog to digital converters, configured to convert the corresponding RF signal after which a digital multi-switch module and a corresponding plurality of digital channelizers generate modified digital RF signals preferably comprising a digital signal comprising at least one selected, frequency translated and leveled UHF channel.
US10616636B2	Setting integrated remote controller of display device A method for setting an integrated remote control of a display device, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: displaying a first image outputted from an external device connected to the display device; confirming a service providing company of the external device by using information included in the displayed first image; acquiring a remote control model, among a plurality of remote control models provided from the confirmed service providing company, for controlling the external device; and transmitting a key code set of the acquired remote control model to a remote control device.
US10616633B2	System for connecting a mobile device and a common display A method of connecting a mobile device to a common display associated with a display computer controlling the common display, including, for each mobile device downloading a display application onto the mobile device, selecting the display computer for the common display in the display application, connecting the mobile device to the display computer, selecting, on the mobile device, what is to be displayed on the common display, and sending a data stream of the selection to the display computer to be displayed in a window on the common display corresponding to the mobile device.
US10616627B2	Viewer-authored content acquisition and management system for in-the-moment broadcast in conjunction with media programs A method, apparatus, and system for providing viewer-derived content for broadcast presentation in conjunction with a broadcast of a media program by a provider of the media program is disclosed. The disclosed system and method (1) simplifies the process for viewers to provide viewer-authored media to broadcasters, while minimizing the data transmission requirements between portable viewer devices and the broadcaster, (2) allows advance approval for the broadcasters to use that viewer-generated content to generate and disseminate viewer-authored-content and (3) provides for management of viewer-generated content (4) integrates with social networks that can be used to at least preliminarily assess the popularity and suitability of the viewer-generated content for broadcast to other viewers.
US10616623B2	Optimized near-simultaneous distribution of multimedia content The “swarming” behavior of multimedia content distribution network subscribers—numerous, near-simultaneous requests for the same content by different users—is predicted, based on analysis of past viewing habits. Users are grouped based on correlations in the multimedia content requested and the time at which it is requested. When a set of users of a group requests particular multimedia content, that content is autonomously distributed, via a shared distribution channel, to the terminal equipment of all users in the group, where it is buffered. As other users in the group request the same multimedia content, an initial portion is distributed to each requesting user via an individual channel. As the rendered content catches up to the buffered content, the terminal equipment switches from the content delivered via the individual distribution channel to the buffered content. The individual distribution is then terminated, and the individual distribution channel released.
US10616615B2	Channel usage management in terrestrial distribution systems Devices, methods, and storage media provide for receiving ad schedules for an upcoming programming timeslot for a network lineup; identifying an opportunity to insert a selected ad via a set of hidden channels during the upcoming programming timeslot based on the ad schedules; retrieving, based on the identifying, stored hidden channel usage data for previous programming timeslots that correspond to the upcoming programming timeslot; determining whether an availability likelihood of a hidden channel during the upcoming programming timeslot exceeds a threshold; retrieving, when the threshold is exceeded, ad insertion collision data for the previous programming timeslots; determining, based on the collision data, whether a likelihood of a collision occurring on the hidden channels during the upcoming programming timeslot exceeds another threshold; and sending, when the other threshold is not exceeded, an instruction to a user interface device to insert the selected ad via the hidden channel during the upcoming programming timeslot.
US10616607B2	Method for encoding video of multi-layer structure supporting scalability and method for decoding same and apparatus therefor The present invention relates to a method for encoding and decoding a video in a multi-layer structure supporting scalability and an apparatus therefor, and a method for decoding a video according to the present invention includes the steps of: deriving a prediction sample for the present block; restoring the present picture based on the prediction sample; applying the de-blocking filtering for the block edges in the restored present picture; and applying an offset for a sample of the restored picture.
US10616606B2	Method and apparatus for decoding an enhanced video stream A method of decoding an enhanced video stream composed of base layer video access units and enhancement layer video access units, each access unit comprising a plurality of syntax structures, includes passing the syntax structures of the base layer access units to a base layer buffer, passing syntax structures of the enhancement layer access units to an enhancement layer buffer, outputting the syntax structures passed to the base layer buffer in a predetermined sequence, outputting the syntax structures passed to the enhancement layer buffer in a predetermined sequence, and recombining the sequences of syntax structures output by the base layer buffer and the enhancement layer buffer respectively to form a complete enhanced access unit, composed of base layer syntax structures and enhancement layer syntax structures predetermined sequence.
US10616605B2	Image coding method, image decoding method, image coding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, and image coding and decoding apparatus A dependency indication is signaled within the beginning of a packet, that is, within the adjacent of a slice header to be parsed or a parameter set. This is achieved, for example, by including the dependency indication at the beginning of the slice header, preferably after a syntax element identifying the parameter set and before the slice address, by including the dependency indication before the slice address, by providing the dependency indication to a NALU header using a separate message, or by using a special NALU type for NALUs carrying dependent slices.
US10616603B2	Methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding digital images through superpixels A method and an apparatus for encoding and/or decoding digital images or video streams are provided, wherein the encoding apparatus includes a processor configured for reading at least a portion of the image, segmenting the portion of the image in order to obtain groups of pixels identified by borders information and containing at least two pixels having one or more homogeneous characteristics, computing, for each group of pixels, a weight map on the basis of the borders information associated to the group of pixels, a graph transform matrix on the basis of the weight map, and transform coefficients on the basis of the graph transform matrix (U) and of the pixels contained in the group of pixels.
US10616602B2	Method and device for deriving inter-view motion merging candidate The present invention provides a method and a device for deriving an inter-view motion merging candidate. A method for deriving an inter-view motion merging candidate, according to an embodiment of the present invention, can comprise the steps of: on the basis of encoding information of an inter-view reference block derived by means of a variation vector of a current block, determining whether or not inter-view motion merging of the current block is possible; and, if inter-view motion merging of the current block is not possible, generating an inter-view motion merging candidate of the current block by using encoding information of an adjacent block that is spatially adjacent to the inter-view reference block.
US10616599B2	Image processing apparatus and method The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of improving processing efficiency with pipeline processing in encoding or decoding of a motion vector. In a motion vector encoding unit, such configuration is adopted that when a spatial prediction motion vector is derived according to AMVP or Merge mode, the use of a motion vector of a PU adjacent to a top right of a PU in question is prohibited. Therefore, the motion vector encoding unit performs encoding processing of a motion vector by using only motion vector information of B1, B2 which are PUs located at Top with respect to the PU in question and A0, A1 which are PUs located at Left with respect to the PU in question. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus.
US10616597B2	Reference picture set mapping for standard scalable video coding Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for reference picture set mapping for scalable video coding. A device may receive an encoded scalable video stream comprising a base layer video stream and an enhancement layer video stream. The base layer video stream and the enhancement layer video streams may be encoded according to different video codecs. For example, the base layer video stream may be encoded according to H.264/AVC and the enhancement layer may be encoded according to HEVC. The enhancement layer video stream may include inter-layer prediction information. The inter-layer prediction information may include information relating to the base layer coding structure. The inter-layer prediction information may identify one or more reference pictures available in a base layer decoded picture buffer (DPB). A decoder may use the inter-layer prediction information to decode the enhancement layer video stream.
US10616596B2	Unequal weight planar prediction A method of decoding JVET video includes receiving a bitstream and calculating a final planar prediction in planar mode to predict pixel values for a current coding block. The final planar prediction may rely on using unequal weights applied to each of a horizontal and vertical predictor, where such predictors may be generated by interpolating neighboring pixels for each predicted pixel within a coding block. The computation may be made more accurate by deriving a value for a bottom right neighboring pixel.
US10616594B2	Picture encoding device and picture encoding method There is provided a picture encoding device that encodes a picture and encodes a difference quantization parameter in a unit of a quantization coding block which is divided from the picture and is a management unit of a quantization parameter. A quantization parameter calculator derives a quantization parameter of the quantization coding block to be encoded. A prediction quantization parameter derivation unit derives a prediction quantization parameter using the quantization parameters of a plurality of quantization coding blocks which precede the quantization coding block to be encoded in order of encoding. A difference quantization parameter generator derives a difference quantization parameter of the quantization coding block to be encoded, using a difference between the quantization parameter of the quantization coding block to be encoded and the prediction quantization parameter. A first bitstream generator encodes the difference quantization parameter of the quantization coding block to be encoded.
US10616593B2	Method and apparatus for video coding Aspects of the disclosure provide method and apparatus for video coding. In some examples, an apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes prediction information of a first block from a coded video bitstream. The first block is a non-square block and the prediction information for the first block is indicative of a first intra prediction mode in a first set of intra prediction modes for a square block. Then, the processing circuitry remaps the first intra prediction mode to a second intra prediction mode in a second set of intra prediction modes that is used for the non-square block. The second set of intra prediction modes includes at least the second intra prediction mode that is not in the first set of intra prediction modes. Further, the processing circuitry reconstructs at least one sample of the first block according to the second intra prediction mode.
US10616591B2	Layer ID signaling using extension mechanism A signaling of the layer ID is described with which each of the packets of a multi-layered video signal is associated. In particular, an efficient way of signaling this layer association is achieved, while maintaining the backward compatibility with codecs according to which a certain value of the base layer-ID field is restricted to be non-extendable. Instead of circumventing this restriction specifically with respect to this non-extendable base layer-ID value, the layer-ID of portions of the multi-layer data stream is signaled in an extendable manner by sub-dividing the base layer-ID field into a first sub-field and a second sub-field: whenever the first sub-field of the base layer-ID field fulfills a predetermined criterion, an extension layer-ID field is provided, and if the first sub-field of the base layer-ID field does not fulfill the predetermined criterion, the extension layer-ID field is omitted.
US10616588B2	Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, encoding processing method, and encoding processing apparatus A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing an encoding processing program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process including acquiring image feature information of each of a plurality of image regions obtained by partitioning first image data and image feature information of each of the plurality of image regions obtained by partitioning second image data, determining, for each of the plurality of image regions, whether image feature information of the first image data and image feature information of the second image data have a correlation greater than or equal to a certain value, and coding a specified image region of the second image data which has the correlation, the coding being performed by using coding unit used for coding of an image region of the first image data whose position corresponds to the specified image region of the second image data.
US10616582B2	Memory and bandwidth reduction of stored data in image/video coding A device for processing video data stores one or more context statuses for a binary arithmetic coder at a bit depth of K; initializes an N-bit binary arithmetic coder with values for context variables for one of the one or more stored context statuses from previously coded blocks; codes the one or more blocks of the video data with the initialized N-bit binary arithmetic coder, wherein N and K are both positive integer values and K is smaller than N. A device for processing video data determines a set of one or more fixed filters with K-bit precision and determines a set of one or more derived filters with N-bit precision based on the set of one or more fixed filters with K-bit precision, wherein K and N are integers and K is less than N.
US10616578B2	Semi-global matching (SGM) cost compression This disclosure describes techniques for performing semi-global matching (SGM) path cost compression. In some examples, the techniques may perform disparity-dependent sub-sampling of a set of SGM path costs where the sub-sampling ratio is determined based on a candidate disparity level. The sub-sampled SGM path costs may be stored in a memory. When retrieved from memory, the sub-sampled SGM path costs may be interpolated to reconstruct the other path costs not stored in the memory. The reconstructed path costs may be used for further SGM processing. In further examples, the techniques may perform disparity-dependent quantization on the SGM path costs or the sub-sampled SGM path costs, and store the quantized SGM path costs in memory. The techniques of this disclosure may reduce bandwidth as well as reduce the memory footprint needed to implement an SGM algorithm.
US10616576B2	Error recovery using alternate reference frame A system, apparatus, and method for decoding a video signal having a plurality of frames including a current frame. Decoding the video signal includes generating an alternate reference frame, detecting an error in the current frame and reporting the detected error, receiving a recovery frame in response to reporting the detected error, wherein the recovery frame is encoded using the alternate reference frame; and decoding the recovery frame using the alternate reference frame. The alternate reference frame occurs prior to the current frame in the video signal and is other than a frame immediately prior to the current frame.
US10616575B2	Intra prediction mode mapping method and device using the method The present invention relates to an intra prediction mode mapping method and a device using the method. The intra prediction mode includes: decoding flag information providing information regarding whether an intra prediction mode of a plurality of candidate intra prediction modes for the current block is the same as the intra prediction mode for the current block, and decoding a syntax component including information regarding the intra prediction mode for the current block in order to induce the intra prediction mode for the current block if the intra prediction mode from among the plurality of candidate intra prediction modes for the current block is not the same as the intra prediction mode for the current block. Thus, it is possible to increase the efficiency with which are images are decoded.
US10616574B2	Methods and apparatus for extended merge mode with adaptive grid size in video coding A method and apparatus for searching for merge candidates for inter-prediction coding of a video sequence, including performing a comparison between a size of a current CU and a threshold size, based on a result of the comparison, changing a size of a search grid used to search for the merge candidates in order to construct a merge candidate list.
US10616573B2	Method and apparatus for video coding and decoding Various methods, apparatuses and computer program products for video encoding and decoding. In some embodiments a first picture having a first resolution on a first layer is encoded without inter-layer prediction; a second picture having a second resolution on a second layer is encoded without inter-layer prediction; a third picture having the second resolution on the second layer is encoded without inter-layer prediction and without temporally referencing to pictures prior to the second picture. Further, a corresponding indication is encoded. In some embodiments one or more indications are received to determine if a switching point, referring to a picture coded using inter-layer prediction, from the first layer to the second layer exists, and if so, pictures in the first layer prior to the switching point; pictures associated with the switching point; and pictures in the second layer after the switching point may be decoded.
US10616572B2	Quantization for different color sampling schemes A video encoding method for encoding both the 4:2:0 video and 4:4:4 video formats. The method includes generating blocks of quantized spatial frequency data by quantizing coefficients and generating a matrix of data. The method further includes determining quantization matrices for use with at least two block sizes. The method further includes determining a first quantization matrix for a 32×32 chroma block of samples with respect to a first modification of a first scaling list for quantization of a block of samples smaller than 32×32, and determining, for blocks of another block size different than the 32×32 chroma block of samples, a second quantization matrix by modifying a second scaling list according to a second modification. The second scaling list is different from the first scaling list, and the first scaling list is a reference scaling list for video in 4:2:0 video format.
US10616571B2	Image sensor with test circuit An image sensor includes a pixel array, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and a test circuit. The pixel array includes a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns. Each pixel generates an analog signal based on incident light. The ADC converts the analog signal to a digital signal using a counter. The test circuit receives a test code in a test mode, generates a count clock signal based on the test code, tests a counting operation of the counter according to the count clock signal, and externally outputs a test result of the counter through a test terminal.
US10616570B2	Determination method and determination apparatus An image processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit and a determining unit. For example, the acquiring unit acquires an imaging image captured by a camera mounted on a vehicle and registers the acquired imaging image in drive recorder information. When a vanishing point is detected from the imaging image, the determining unit determines that the imaging direction of the imaging device is normal such that the front of the vehicle is normally imaged. When the vanishing point is not detected from the acquired the imaging image, the determining unit determines that the imaging direction of the imaging device is abnormal such that the front of the vehicle is not normally imaged.
US10616566B2	3D image display system and method A three-dimensional (3D) image display system includes a profile information provider configured to provide profile information defining a hardware characteristic of a 3D image display device, and a 3D image reproducer configured to collect information of the hardware characteristic of the 3D image display device from the profile information provider and render image content according to the profile information.
US10616565B2	System and method for foveated simulation A system includes a head mounted display (HMD), a processor, and a memory. The HMD is configured to generate sensor data indicative of a gaze vector of a user and a position of the user. The processor is configured to communicate with the HMD. The memory is coupled to the processor and stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to obtain data indicating the gaze vector of the user and the position of the user. The instructions also cause the processor to determine a component vector for a virtual component of a virtual reality simulator based on the position of the user and a position of the virtual component. The instructions further cause the processor to calculate an alignment value based on the gaze vector and the component vector, and adjust a simulation setting of the virtual component based on the alignment value.
US10616562B2	Directional light emitters and electronic displays featuring the same A light field display for displaying a series of image frames to one or more viewers, the light field display includes: a plurality of light field pixels, each light field pixel including a plurality of light emitting elements, each light emitting element being configured to emit substantially collimated light, in which each light field pixel selectively emits light from each light emitting element into one or more of a plurality of different viewing directions during a single image frame during operation of the light field display; and an electronic controller in communication with the plurality of pixels, the electronic controller being programmed to cause each light field pixel to direct light into one or more of the plurality of different viewing directions such that a perspective of a displayed image varies according to the viewing direction.
US10616561B2	Method and apparatus for generating a 3-D image A method and apparatus are provided for generating a three dimensional image, wherein the method includes: illuminating a target; capturing an image that comprises an object present at the illuminated target; converting the captured image into data and processing it to determine depth of the object; and generating a three dimensional image of the object whose depth has been determined. Preferably, the illumination intensity applied while illuminating the target, is determined based on the current intensity of ambient light at the target.
US10616557B2	3D track assessment method A 3D track assessment method is disclosed for identifying and assessing features of a railway track bed based on 3D elevation and intensity data gathered from the railway track bed.
US10616556B2	3D track assessment method A 3D track assessment method is disclosed for identifying and assessing features of a railway track bed based on 3D elevation and intensity data gathered from the railway track bed.
US10616554B2	Methods and apparatus for superpixel modulation with ambient light suppression An imaging system with a light source controls the sensitivity of pixels to light, by performing both superpixel modulation and curtain modulation. The superpixel modulation may facilitate rapid data acquisition. The curtain modulation may suppress the effect of ambient light. In superpixel modulation, each pixel set may be modulated by a separate superpixel modulation signal that causes sensitivity of the pixel set to light to vary over time, and each superpixel may include a pixel from each pixel set. The curtain modulation may cause pixels in only a small region of the photodetector to be sensitive to light. The curtain modulation may cause the small region to move to track the dot of light, by changing which pixels are in the region. This invention may be used for 3D scanning.
US10616553B1	Generating an image-based identifier for a stretch wrapped loaded pallet based on images captured in association with application of stretch wrap to the loaded pallet Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided that relate to using one or more vision sensors to capture images of a loaded pallet in association with application of stretch wrap to the loaded pallet by an automated pallet wrapping machine. The images are used to generate an image-based identifier for the loaded pallet that is then used for pallet identification by mobile robots and/or other automated agents in a warehouse or other environment. In some implementations, the images are captured by the vision sensor when the pallet is in the wrapping area of the automated pallet wrapping machine and while the vision sensor and/or the pallet are rotating. In some implementations, the image-based identifier may be assigned to pallet attributes and/or a de-palletizing scheme of the loaded pallet.
US10616552B2	Multi-modal real-time camera localization and environment mapping Methods, apparatuses and systems may provide for conducting a quality assessment of a depth localization mode, a color localization mode and an inertia localization mode, and selecting one of the depth localization mode, the color localization mode or the inertia localization mode as an active localization mode based on the quality assessment. Additionally, a pose of a camera may be determined relative to a three-dimensional (3D) environment in accordance with the active localization mode.
US10616550B1	Generating a representation of an object from depth information determined in parallel from images captured by multiple cameras Multiple cameras with different orientations capture images of an object positioned at a target position relative to the cameras. Images from each camera are processed in parallel to determine depth information from correspondences between different regions within an image captured by each image capture device in parallel. Depth information for images from each camera is modified in parallel based on shading information for the images and stereoscopic information from the images. In various embodiments, the depth information is refined by minimizing a total energy from intensities of portions of the images having a common depth and intensities of portions of the image from shading information from images captured by multiple cameras. The modified depth information from multiple images is combined to generate a reconstruction of the object positioned at the target position.
US10616543B2	Method and projector for adjusting projected image Disclosed are a method and a projector for adjusting a projected image. The method may include steps of: photographing a coverage status of the projected image on a projection plane to obtain a photographed image; detecting the photographed image according to a preset boundary detection algorithm to determine a boundary condition within the projected image in the photographed image; and adjusting, according to the boundary condition within the projected image in the photographed image, the coverage status of the projected image on the projection plane by controlling an adjusting motor in the projector until the adjusted coverage status of the projected image on the projection plane is adapted to the projection plane.
US10616542B2	Multi-dimensional image projection apparatus and multi-dimensional image calibration method thereof A multi-dimensional image projection apparatus is provided. The multi-dimensional image projection apparatus includes an image projector and an image-processing circuit. The image-processing circuit is configured to receive an input image, and perform a linearity transformation process and a first inverse image warping process on the input image according to sensor information about the multi-dimensional image projection apparatus relative to the projection surface to generate a first image. The image-processing circuit performs a matrix transformation process and a second inverse image warping process on the first image according to the sensor information to generate a second image, and generate an output image according to the second image. The image projector projects the output image onto the projection surface.
US10616537B2	Illumination system and projection apparatus An illumination system including an excitation light source, a wavelength conversion element and a filter element is provided. The excitation light source is used for emitting an excitation beam. The wavelength conversion element has a wavelength conversion region. When the wavelength conversion region is cut into a transmission path of the excitation beam, the wavelength conversion region is excited by the excitation beam and emits a converted beam. A reference plane is perpendicular to the transmission path of the converted beam and is angled such that an acute angle is formed between the reference plane and the filter wheel which is disposed on a transmission path of the converted beam coming from the wavelength conversion element. The filter element allows a part of the converted beam to penetrate so as to output at least one color beam, and reflects another part of the converted beam.
US10616536B2	Imaging systems having broadband monochromatic and chromatic image sensors An imaging device may have a monochrome image sensor and a bi-chromatic image sensor. A beam splitter may split incident light between the two image sensors. The monochrome image sensor may have an array of broadband image sensor pixels that generate broadband image signals. The bi-chromatic image sensor may have an array of red and blue image pixels that generate red and blue image signals. The image sensors may be coupled to processing circuitry that performs processing operations on only the broadband image signals to produce monochrome images, or on the red, blue, and broadband image signals to produce color images. Processing operations used to produce color images may include chroma-demosaicking and/or point filter operations.
US10616535B1	Sub-sampled color channel readout wiring for vertical detector pixel sensors In an array containing rows and columns of multi-color vertical detector color pixel sensors disposed in a rows and columns of the array, a readout wiring architecture includes a plurality of row-select lines for each row of the array, equal to the number of colors in the vertical detector color pixel sensors, an individual column line for each column, a transfer transistor for each individual color detector coupled between a color detector and a column line associated with the column in which the color detector is disposed. Each transfer transistor has a gate coupled to one of the plurality of row-select lines in a row in which the vertical detector color pixel sensor is disposed. The gates of at least some of the transfer transistors in each row for each color detector in adjacent columns of the array are coupled to different ones of the row-select lines for that row.
US10616534B2	Personal tactical system and network A personal tactical system including a ballistic load-bearing garment, a pouch with one or more batteries enclosed in the pouch, an electronic processor, a communication device, and at least one camera. The camera is incorporated into or removably attachable to the load-bearing garment, the pouch is removably attachable to the load-bearing garment and the one or more batteries are operable to power the camera and communication device. The processor runs image recognition software operable to identify approaching objects and alert the user. A plurality of personal tactical systems is operable to form an ad hoc network to share images and other information for determining object direction, location, and movement.
US10616533B2	Surveillance system and method for camera-based surveillance A camera-based surveillance system operates to detect presence of unauthorized individuals in digital images taken by a camera unit at a venue visited by individuals that are either authorized or unauthorized. A control unit in the surveillance system obtains, from a positioning system, a position parameter for each authorized individual located at the venue, processes each digital image for detection of one or more individuals, and detects presence of one or more unauthorized individuals in the digital image as a function of the individual(s) detected in the digital image and the position parameter(s) for the one or more authorized individuals. The positioning system may comprise a base station for receiving authorized data transmissions generated by wireless communication devices located at said venue, and a positioning module for determining the position parameter of the respective communication device with respect to the base station based on a respective authorized data transmission.
US10616532B1	Behavioral influence system in socially collaborative tools Methods, systems, and computer program products for influencing audience behavior in a presentation are provided. Aspects include receiving presentation data for a presentation on a video conference, analyzing the presentation data to identifying one or more behavior cues for a desired social contagion associated with the presentation, receiving video data for a plurality of audience members for the presentation, analyzing the video data to identifying a first audience member displaying at least one of the one or more behavior cues, and displaying the first audience member in the video conference for a first length of time.
US10616531B2	Video feeds in collaboration environments Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: obtaining respective video feeds of respective participants of a group of video conference participants, wherein the group of video conference participants includes one or more presenter participant and one or more viewer participant; examining data of the respective video feeds to determine a current group aggregate sentiment output for the video conference, wherein the examining includes subjecting data of feeds of the respective video feeds to sentiment analysis that includes processing of facial feature representing video data of the feeds; and presenting a video conference view to one or more participant of the group of video conference participants based on the group aggregate sentiment output.
US10616523B2	Split-readout image sensor First and second readout circuits, each having a respective floating diffusion node, are coupled to a photodetection element within a pixel of an integrated-circuit image sensor. Following an exposure interval in which photocharge is accumulated within the photodetection element, a first portion of the accumulated photocharge is transferred from the photodetection element to the first floating diffusion node to enable generation of a first output signal within the first readout circuit, and a second portion of the accumulated photocharge is transferred from the photodetection element to the second floating diffusion node to enable generation of a second output signal within the second readout circuit. A digital pixel value is generated based on the first and second output signals.
US10616518B2	Amplifier, and analog-to-digital conversion circuit and image sensor including the same An analog-to-digital conversion circuit includes a first amplifier that generates a first output signal by comparing a pixel signal output from a pixel array with a ramp signal, and a second amplifier that generates a comparison signal based on the first output signal. The first amplifier includes a first current source that generates a first bias current in a first operation period and a second operation period, and a second current source that generates a second bias current in the first operation period. The analog-to-digital conversion circuit converts an analog signal output from the pixel array into a digital signal.
US10616514B2	Hybrid calibration method for row and column noise correction An image sensor and signal processing circuit therefor include a readout circuit, calibration circuitry that calculates a correction coefficient for an effective pixel circuit based on a calibration signal, adjustment circuitry that updates the correction coefficient based on an optical black pixel signal, and correction circuitry that applies the updated correction coefficient to the effective pixel signal and generates an output signal.
US10616513B2	Image sensors including shielding structures An image sensor includes first pixels and second pixels arranged in alternating order along a first direction, first output lines extending in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction and respectively connected to the first pixels, second output lines extending in the second direction and respectively connected to the second pixels, first analog circuit blocks and second analog circuit blocks arranged in alternating order along the first direction, and shielding structures disposed each between adjacent ones of the first and second analog circuit blocks. Each of the first analog circuit blocks includes a plurality of first analog circuits respectively connected to the first output lines. Each of the second analog circuit blocks includes a plurality of second analog circuits respectively connected to the second output lines.
US10616511B2	Method and system of camera control and image processing with a multi-frame-based window for image data statistics A method, system, and article is directed to camera control and image processing with a multi-frame-based window for image data statistics.
US10616510B2	Methods and apparatus for superpixel modulation In illustrative implementations, a set of separate modulation signals simultaneously modulates a plurality of pixels in a superpixel by a set of separate modulation signals, such that each pixel in the superpixel is modulated by a modulation signal that causes sensitivity of the pixel to vary over time. Each superpixel comprises multiple pixels. In some implementations, the sensitivity of a pixel to incident light is controlled by storage modulation or by light modulation. In some implementations, this invention is used for 3D scanning, i.e., for detection of the 3D position of points in a scene.
US10616509B2	Imaging device and control method thereof, and electronic apparatus An imaging device includes: a plurality of pixel units each of which includes a single read terminal and two or more pixels; and a controller that performs read operation with respect to each of the pixel units and starts, in each unit period, the read operation with respect to the predetermined number of the pixel units out of the plurality of the pixel units. The read operation includes sequentially reading pixel signals from the two or more pixels through the read terminal at a rate of one pixel every unit period.
US10616508B2	Solid state imaging sensor, observation apparatus using solid state image sensor, method for driving image pickup section, and recording medium for recording program for driving image pickup section A solid state image sensor includes light receiving sections formed in a two-dimensional array, in which the light receiving section in one unit is formed such that a lens provided on a light receiving surface, a first light receiving element configured to receive light incident from an object via the lens, and a second light receiving element provided in a layer below the first light receiving element and configured to receive light incident from the object via the lens and the first light receiving element and acquire information about a distance to the object configure a stacked structure.
US10616501B2	DC-iris control system An apparatus comprising an interface to a lens iris and a processor. The processor may be configured to present to the interface a signal configured to adjust the lens iris in response to a luma value received from an image sensor. The processor may be configured to adjust coefficient values for the signal. The coefficient values may be adjusted to converge a luma difference value to a set point. The processor may implement rules to determine the coefficient values. The rules may determine the coefficient values based on flexible relationships between input values based on the luma difference value and adjustment values for the coefficient values.
US10616500B2	Image pickup apparatus that uses imaging area having better characteristics, and method of adjusting the same An image pickup apparatus that uses an area of an image pickup device, which has better characteristics, as an imaging area. The image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup optical system having a fish-eye lens. An image pickup device is movable relative to the image pickup optical system, and converts an object image formed through the image pickup optical system to electric signals. A characteristic detection section acquires characteristics of the image pickup device, and an imaging position detection section acquires an imaging position of the object image on the image pickup device. A target position to which the image pickup device is to be moved is determined based on the acquired characteristics of the image pickup device, and the acquired imaging position.
US10616497B2	Method and apparatus for processing image signal conversion, and terminal device The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for processing image signal conversion. In one example method, an input primary color signal is obtained. The primary color signal is a numeric value of an optical signal corresponding to an image. The primary color signal is proportional to light intensity. Conversion processing is performed on the primary color signal to obtain processed image information. The image information is a numeric expression value of the image. The conversion processing includes at least the following processing: L ′ = a ⁡ ( pL ( p - 1 ) ⁢ L + 1 ) m + b , where a, b, m, and p are rational numbers, L is the input primary color signal, and L′ is the processed image information.
US10616494B2	Camera There is provided a camera of which operability is good regardless of the brightness of the surrounding environment. The brightness of the surrounding environment is detected by a brightness detection unit provided in a camera. The contents of settings of the camera are displayed on a sub-display 18 in a situation in which the surrounding environment is bright. The contents of settings of the camera and an image representing the set state of a shutter speed dial 33 are displayed on the sub-display 18 in a case in which the surrounding environment is dark.
US10616487B2	Camera module and method for controlling the same A camera module is provided, disposed in an electronic device, including a base, a holder, an image sensor, a bottom, and a first biasing element. The base is fixed to a casing of the electronic device. The holder is configured to hold an optical lens and connects to the base. The image sensor is supported by the bottom. The base is situated between the holder and the bottom. The first biasing element connects to the bottom and the base, and forces the bottom and the image sensor to move relative to the base.
US10616486B2	Video stabilization A computing system can receive a stabilized image stream, wherein the stabilized image stream is drift-corrected based on determining that an input image stream is stable and then applying drift correction to maintain a stabilized field of view, wherein the field of view is stabilized with respect to the real world. The computing system can operate a vehicle based on determining at least one moving object in the stabilized image stream.
US10616485B2	Camera device and gravity compensation method A camera device includes an image sensor which images a subject, a lens unit that includes a lens for forming an image of the subject on a light receiving surface of the image sensor, a shaking corrector that includes a movable portion that includes the image sensor and moves the movable portion in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens unit according to shaking of the camera device to correct shaking, and a gravity support that supports the movable portion in a direction opposite to a direction of a component force of the gravity with a force equal to a component force of gravity applied to the movable portion along a direction perpendicular to the optical axis of the lens unit.
US10616484B2	Frame syncrhonization in a dual-aperture camera system A dual-aperture camera comprising a first camera having a first sensor and a first image signal processor (ISP), the first camera operative to output a first stream of frames, a second camera having a second sensor and a second ISP, the second camera operative to output a second stream of frames, and a synchronization and operation control module configurable to control operation of one camera in a fully operational mode and operation of the other camera in a partially operational mode and to output an output of the fully operational camera as a dual-aperture camera output, whereby the partially operational mode of the other camera reduces a dual-aperture camera the power consumption in comparison with a full operational mode of the other camera.
US10616482B2	Image quality assessment Systems and methods are disclosed for image signal processing. For example, methods may include receiving a first image from a first image sensor; receiving a second image from a second image sensor; stitching the first image and the second image to obtain a stitched image; identifying an image portion of the stitched image that is positioned on a stitching boundary of the stitched image; and inputting the image portion to a machine learning module to obtain a score, wherein the machine learning module has been trained using training data that included image portions labeled to reflect an absence of stitching and image portions labeled to reflect a presence of stitching, wherein the image portions labeled to reflect a presence of stitching included stitching.
US10616478B2	Method and system for providing recommendation information related to photography An electronic apparatus and a method by which the electronic apparatus provides recommendation information related to photography are provided. The method includes detecting, by an electronic device, a face of a subject in a preview screen viewed by a camera of the electronic device and displayed on a display of the electronic device, identifying a current composition information of the preview screen based on the detected face of the subject within the preview screen, determining a recommended photographing composition based at least in part on the identified current composition information of the preview screen and a central composition information, and providing a visual composition guide on the display of the electronic device based on the determined recommended photographing composition, the visual composition guide including a current composition indicator and a recommended photographing composition indicator.
US10616477B2	Background separated images for print and on-line use In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for producing background separated product images for print and on-line display. An image formation system provides lighting of a product to facilitate acquiring images that can be automatically processed to generate high resolution item-only images free of quality defects and imaging artifacts. Image processing programs accurately detect an outline of an item in a set of digital images taken using the image formation system and automatically store processed images in an image library. The images in the library may be repurposed for print, sales display, transmission to a user, on-line customer support, and the like. A user display configured with an adaptable user interface facilitates user interaction with images in the library.
US10616476B1	User interface for accessing media at a geographic location A system and method for accessing a media item on a mobile device are described. The mobile device includes a media placement application and a media display application. The media placement application receives a selection of a media item generated by the mobile device. The media placement application generates access conditions for the media item based on geolocation and position information of the mobile device associated with the selected media item. The media display application monitors the geolocation and position of the mobile device and determines whether the geolocation and position of the mobile device meet the access conditions of the selected media item. The media display application generates a notification that the selected media item is available to view in a display of the mobile device in response to determining that the geolocation and position of the mobile device meet the access conditions of the selected media item.
US10616475B2	Photo-taking prompting method and apparatus, an apparatus and non-volatile computer storage medium The present disclosure provides a photo-taking prompting method and apparatus, an apparatus and a non-volatile computer storage medium. On the one hand, a user's image information is collected while the user finds view, then the user's face posture information is obtained from the image information, then face posture information of a preset photo-taking template is compared with the user's face posture information, and the user is prompted to adjust the face posture according to a comparison result. The technical solutions provided by embodiments of the present disclosure may implement prompting the user's face posture adjustment while the user finds view and thereby implement providing guidance for the user's face posture, and solve the problem in the prior art about failure to perform photo-taking guidance while the user finds view.
US10616474B2	Electronic device including iris recognition sensor and method of operating the same An electronic device comprising a housing, a display, a light emitting module, a camera, and a processor electrically connected with the light emitting module and the camera. The housing includes a first surface that is open in a first direction and a second surface that is disposed in a second direction. The display including a window disposed on the first surface that is open. The light emitting module is disposed under the window to radiate light related to an iris sensing function. The camera is disposed under the window and spaced apart from the light emitting module by a specific distance. The processor selectively performs at least one of the iris sensing function, a proximity sensing function or a super proximity sensing function based on the camera according to a type of an application under execution.
US10616472B2	Electronic apparatus, method of controlling electronic apparatus, and recording medium An electronic apparatus which is a first electronic apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire second correspondence information and second select-item information indicating one or more second select-items selected from a plurality of second items in a predetermined menu in a second electronic apparatus, and a control unit configured to perform control to generate first select-item information indicating one or more first select-items selected in the predetermined menu in the first electronic apparatus based on the one or more second select-items selected in the second electronic apparatus, using the acquired second select-item information and one correspondence information out of first correspondence information and the second correspondence information.
US10616466B2	Methods and apparatus for actuator control Various embodiments of the present technology may comprise methods and apparatus for actuator control. The methods and apparatus may comprise various circuits and/or systems to generate a feedback signal according to an induced voltage and further generate various signal processing functions to selectively adjust a gain of the feedback signal. The apparatus for actuator control may comprise an induced voltage detection circuit and a feedback control circuit that operate together to generate the feedback signal used to control the actuator.
US10616465B2	Bandwidth efficient video surveillance system A system and method are disclosed for providing a real-time wireless video surveillance system. The video surveillance system leverages edge computing to enable wireless video surveillance distributing video processing between edges of the network and the cloud to reduce the amount of video that is uploaded to the cloud for analysis.
US10616464B2	Apparatus and method for automatically activating a camera application based on detecting an intent to capture a photograph or a video A method of automatically activating a camera application implemented in a mobile device in locked mode starts with the processor receiving a first signal from an accelerometer. The device's processor activates the camera application when the processor determines that the mobile device has remained in a stationary portrait or landscape position for a period of time based on the first signal. Activating the camera application includes signaling by the processor to the display device to display a camera screen from a locked screen. The processor may also receive a second signal from a proximity sensor that detects presence of a nearby object to the mobile device. When the processor determines that there is presence of the nearby object to the mobile device based on the second signal, the mobile device remains in locked mode and the processor does not activate the camera application.
US10616462B2	Image capture control methods and apparatuses An image capture control method comprises: inclining a lens relative to a respective initial optical axis, to change a ratio of pixels distributed along first and second directions in an effective region of an image sensing unit that is in an imaging system and corresponds to the lens, wherein the effective region is a region in which light through the lens is imaged on the corresponding image sensing unit, the first and second directions are perpendicular to the initial optical axis and each other, the image sensing unit comprises pixels distributed in array, and the pixels are used for recording multidirectional view information of a same object of a scene; and capturing an image of the scene by using the imaging system. Proportions of parallax information recorded by the image sensing unit in the first and second directions are changeable, and view information can be differential captured in different directions.
US10616459B2	Method and device for dual-camera-based imaging and storage medium A method and device for dual-camera-based imaging are provided, wherein the method includes that: after ambient luminance is determined, a main camera and auxiliary camera are determined from in dual cameras according to the ambient luminance, the main camera is used to shoot a first image, the auxiliary image is used to shoot a second image, a third image is generated according to the first image, depth information of the third image is calculated according to the first image and the second image, and blurring processing is further performed on the third image according to the depth information of the third image to obtain a fourth image.
US10616457B2	Cellscope apparatus and methods for imaging An improved system and methods for enhancing the imaging of cameras included with wireless mobile devices, such as cellular phone or tablets. The imaging system includes a releasable optical attachment for imaging skin surfaces and cavities of the body. The releasable optical attachment comprises optical enhancement elements such as magnifying lenses, illumination diverting elements, and filters. Images can be viewed and analyzed on the mobile device, or transmitted to another location/device for analysis by a person or software. The results can be used to provide diagnosis, or for a variety of other applications including image comparison over time and product recommendations.
US10616455B2	Object photographing system using spiral rail The object photographing system using spiral rail according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises a spiral rail in which an object is disposed in an inner space, at least one photographing unit movably mounted along the spiral rail for photographing the object, and a control system for controlling the position and operation of the at least one camera; since it is possible to photograph an object in various directions and at various angles with only a small number of cameras without having to arrange a large number of cameras surrounding the subject, the cost of constructing the imaging system can be minimized, the power consumption is reduced, and the imaging system can be easily managed.
US10616454B2	Gimbal system A digital video transmitter for a gimbal includes a video converter configured to receive a digital video signal from an imaging device and convert the digital video signal to output a serial differential signal, a first filter electrically coupled to the video converter through a first differential signal transmission line, a second filter electrically coupled to the first filter through a second differential signal transmission line, and an image transmitter electrically coupled to the second filter and configured to receive and transmit the serial differential signal.
US10616452B2	Voice coil motor optical image stabilization wires Some embodiments provide an apparatus for controlling the motion of a camera component. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes an actuator module. The actuator module includes a plurality of magnets. Each magnet of the plurality of magnets is poled with magnetic domains substantially aligned in the same direction throughout each magnet. The apparatus further includes a coil rigidly disposed around a lens. Each magnet of the plurality of magnets contributes to the forces to adjust focus of the lens based on Lorentz forces generated from the coil.
US10616449B2	Image processing apparatus and information processing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes a first converter and a second converter. The first converter converts coloring-material amounts of plural coloring materials including a luster coloring material to plural colorimetric values obtained in a case of performing, in plural color measurement directions, a color measurement of a target color image printed using the plural coloring materials. The second converter converts the plural colorimetric values obtained as a result of conversion by the first converter to display values for displaying the target color image on a display device.
US10616446B2	Printing apparatus A printing apparatus includes a spectrometer that emits light to detect reflected light and outputs a signal corresponding to an intensity of the light, a white board that reflects the light, a carriage that holds the spectrometer, and a second adjustment mechanism that adjusts a posture of the spectrometer with respect to the carriage.
US10616441B2	System and method for sending, delivering and receiving of faxes, including delivery of faxes with adaptive protocol selection Embodiments of a fax system with adaptive protocol selection, and methods for such a system, are disclosed herein. Embodiments of a fax system may be adapted to selectively configure the protocol (both the type of protocol or aspects of a particular protocol) used in association with the transmission or reception of a specific fax. The configuration of the protocol utilized can be based on one or more attributes associated with a sender or a destination. The fax can then be transmitted or received according to those configuration parameters.
US10616440B2	Information processing terminal transmitting command instructing execution of image processing operation to specified apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing program for the information processing terminal In an information processing terminal, a processor receiving identification information from another program. The identification information is for identifying an image processing operation. The processor performs a first determination process determining whether the specified apparatus is capable of executing the image processing operation identified by the identification information. The processor performs a first display process displaying determination information indicating a result of the first determination process. The processor receives operation condition information from the external program in a case where the first determination process determines that the specified apparatus is capable of executing the image processing operation. The operation condition information indicates a condition for executing the image processing operation. The processor transmits a command to the specified apparatus. The command instructs execution of the image processing operation under the operation condition information.
US10616439B2	Semi-transparent embedded watermarks A watermark image may be generated that includes a first set of encoded pixels each of which is assigned a first transparency value and a second set of encoded pixels each of which is assigned a second transparency value, the second transparency level being different from the first transparency level. The encoded pixels may be distributed among a set of blank pixels such that each encoded pixel neighbors one or more blank pixels in the watermark image, and in particular at least two blank pixels in the watermark image. Herein, each blank pixel may be assigned the second transparency value. The watermark image may be overlaid and blended over a background source image to create an encoded source image. A decoder system may recover encoded information from the encoded source image.
US10616437B2	Optical device having housing rotatable relative to fixing member detachably affixed to scanner An optical device detachably disposed on a scanner is provided, including a housing, a first opening, a second opening, a lens module, and a fixing member. The housing has a first surface and a second surface connected to the first surface. The first opening and the second opening are respectively formed on the first surface and the second surface. The lens module is disposed in the housing. The fixing member is detachably affixed to the scanner and pivotally connected to the housing. The light provided by the scanner enters the housing through the first opening, and the lens module guides the light to leave the housing through the second opening. The light leaving the housing through the second opening can fall on a scanned object.
US10616432B2	Image forming apparatus and method for controlling the same which includes at least one or more processors, and memory storing instructions to determine whether to perform image formation, and to perform operations for controlling execution of dew condensation elimination processing having occurred in the image forming unit An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, one or more processors, and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the image forming apparatus to perform operations. The image forming unit forms an image on a sheet. The operations include controlling execution of dew condensation elimination processing that is processing for eliminating dew condensation having occurred in the image forming unit. The operations additionally include receiving image data to be printed and restricting, based on a type of a job executed using the received image data, image forming by the image forming unit, in a case where the dew condensation elimination processing is in execution.
US10616431B2	Document scanning apparatus and control method for document scanning apparatus A document scanning apparatus reading an image of a document includes a signal output unit configured to output a pulse signal at predetermined intervals, a sensor configured to detect a document set on a platen glass, the sensor having a light emitting unit configured to emit light in response to a pulse signal output from the signal output unit and a light receiving unit configured to output a detection signal in accordance with light output from the light emitting unit, and a control unit configured to receive the detection signal output from the light receiving unit. In this case, the signal output unit outputs the pulse signal at a different time point from the predetermined intervals in response to a request from an external apparatus.
US10616427B2	Medium feeding device, image reading apparatus, and recording apparatus A medium feeding device includes a feed roller that feeds a medium from a medium placement unit on which the medium is placed a separation roller that nips the medium between the feed roller and the separation roller to separate the medium, a motor that applies a rotational torque to the separation roller, and a control unit that controls the motor. The rotational torque is transmitted to the separation roller from the motor not via a torque limiter and the separation roller separates the medium with the rotational torque applied to the separation roller.
US10616424B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a main body and a post-processing device. The main body includes an operation panel and a first controller that switches an action mode to a first action mode or a second action mode. The post-processing device includes an operation receiving section and a second controller. The operation receiving section receives an operation by a user and outputs an operation signal. The operation receiving section is in an unreachable position for the user when operating the operation panel. The first controller switches the action mode upon determining that an operation indicated by the operation signal received through the second controller matches a predetermined operation. The second controller controls action of the post-processing device independent of control by the first controller in the second action mode.
US10616420B2	Intercom system An intercom system includes a dwelling parent device installed in each dwelling, a collective foyer device configured to communicate with the dwelling parent device, and a control device configured to control the collective foyer device, which includes name plates on each of which a resident name for specifying a dwelling parent device of a resident is displayed so a visitor may call the resident, and dedicated buttons correlated with the name plates and capable of receiving an operation for calling the dwelling parent device corresponding to the resident name displayed on each name plate. The collective foyer device or the control device includes a calling table in which location numbers for specifying locations of dedicated buttons in a region of the collective foyer device are assigned. The respective resident names are assigned to the location numbers of the dedicated buttons visually recognizable to the visitor, on the calling table.
US10616419B1	Devices, systems and methods for communications that include social media clients Devices, systems and methods for communications that include social media clients are provided. In particular, a server operates a virtual client for communicating with clients of a social media server. The server receives a call request associated with a directory number of a call server, the call request to initiate a call associated with the directory number and a given client of the social media server. The server conducts the call by controlling: the virtual client to communicate with the given client, via the social media server; and the virtual client to communicate with a communication device associated with the directory number, via the call server. The server may also facilitate exchange of status updates between a given client of the social media server and the call server. The server may also facilitate calls between respective clients of different social media servers.
US10616413B1	System and method for distributing an agent interaction for evaluation based on the quality of service A computerized system in a cloud-based computing environment for preventing an evaluation of agent recording segments having bad customer sentiment due to low network Quality of Service (QoS), is provided herein. The system may include a Session Border Controller to send metadata related to a regulated network QoS to a database; a media server to store the call interaction; an Interaction Manager (IM) module to extract metadata related to the regulated network QoS; an Indexer Micro-Service to listen to real-time data streaming service and to index and store the metadata related to the regulated network QoS, when new metadata arrives; a Multi-Channel Recording unit to retrieve: an interaction call; and indexed metadata from the document-oriented database; a Quality Planner Micro-Service to: read MOS score for the call interaction; distribute a call interaction for evaluation when the read MOS score is above a predefined threshold, according to a predefined quality plan.
US10616411B1	System and method for intelligent call interception and fraud detecting audio assistant A fraud analysis computing system is provided. The system includes a network interface configured to communicate data over a network and a processing circuit including one or more processors coupled to non-transitory memory. The processing circuit is configured to monitor incoming call data generated during an incoming call between a user and an incoming caller, detect a fraud trigger within the incoming call data, and complete a fraud interception activity in response to detection of the fraud trigger.
US10616410B1	Identifying a media item to present to a user device via a communication session A device communicates with a user device via a communication session, determines user information relating to the user device or a user of the user device, and determines that the user device is placed on a hold status. The device determines, using a machine learning model, a type of media item to be presented to the user device, where the machine learning model has been trained to identify types of media items to present to user devices when the user devices are placed in the hold status, and selects a media item corresponding to the type of media item. The device presents the media item to the user device via the communication session, determines that the user device is no longer placed on the hold status, and causes the media item to cease being presented.
US10616409B2	Sharing device availability A method, apparatus, and program product are disclosed for determining an availability status associated with an information handling device, generating a message comprising information regarding the availability status, the message being one or more of a voice message and a textual message, and sending the message to one or more contacts associated with the information handling device.
US10616408B2	Method for automatic start up of a communication terminal configured for voice communication on a communication terminal configured for text communication In the case of a method or an arrangement for the automatic start up of a first communication terminal (EG A, EG B) configured for voice communication on at least one second communication terminal (CL A, CL B) configured for text communication, the voice communication between communication terminals is conveyed via at least one voice communication server (SCS) and the text communication between communication terminals is conveyed via at least one text communication server (TCS). The at least one voice communication server (SCS) and the at least one text communication server (TCS) exchange information via at least one conversion device (GW). The start up of at least one first communication terminal (CL A, CL B) is effected via the at least one text communication server (TCS), the at least one conversion device (GW) and the at least one voice communication server (SCS) to at least one second voice communication terminal (EG A, EG B).
US10616407B2	Electronic device for displaying call-related information and operation method thereof Provided are an electronic device, a method thereof, and a server. The electronic device includes a display, a communication interface, at least one processor, and a memory electrically connected to the processor, wherein, upon execution, the memory is configured to store instructions that enable the at least one processor to detect that a call event associated with another electronic device occurs; obtain call-related information associated with the another electronic device; detect at least one piece of information corresponding to a call state with the another electronic device from the obtained call-related information; and control the display to display a screen including the at least one piece of detected information and information indicating the call state with the another electronic device. Other embodiments may be possible.
US10616405B1	Utilizing caller ID for managing a mobile device A method, system or computer usable program product for utilizing caller identification (ID) for managing a mobile device including receiving a policy for invoking an executive function on the mobile device upon a first condition being met wherein the executive function is a function performed by a processor of the mobile device beyond call filtering; determining a caller ID associated with the executive function; providing a caller ID application to the mobile device which will perform the executive function upon the mobile device receiving a phone call with the caller ID that is associated with the executive function; and responsive to meeting the first condition of the policy, placing a phone call to the mobile device with a caller ID matching the caller ID associated with the executive function.
US10616404B2	System and method for communicating with inmates in a privileged communication A system and method for with an inmate in a privileged communication are disclosed. a communication system includes a portal subsystem that determines whether a communication should be monitored, or not, based on received information, including access information, from a first communication device. Based on the determination, the communication system bypasses a monitoring subsystem and stores and/or transmits the communication to a second communication device by way of a non-monitoring subsystem.
US10616403B2	Voice quality assessment method and apparatus Embodiments of the present invention disclose a voice quality assessment method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining a first transmission error code parameter and a second transmission error code parameter, where the first transmission error code parameter is a transmission error code parameter of an uplink channel of first user equipment, and the second transmission error code parameter is a transmission error code parameter of a downlink channel of second user equipment; and generating an end-to-end voice quality index between the first user equipment and the second user equipment according to the first transmission error code parameter and the second transmission error code parameter.
US10616402B2	Using call data to log activities and generate activity records Various embodiments concern obtaining call data and generating activity logs. More specifically, call data such as contact information and call time associated with a telephone call are obtained. The obtained data is then used to generate a report including the time, duration, and project or client associated with telephone call. Thus, an activity log is automatically generated using the call data.
US10616401B2	Device and method for locking in button context based on a source contact of an electronic communication A device and method for locking in button context based on a source contact of an electronic communication is provided. An electronic communication is received, via a communication interface, from a source contact. A controller detects that button, of one or more buttons, has been activated, each of the one or more buttons mapped to activation of respective functions. The controller identifies a respective function mapped to the button. When the button is activated within a threshold time period after receiving the electronic communication, the controller performs the respective function using the source contact from which the electronic communication was received. When the button is activated after the threshold time period, the controller performs the respective function independent of the source contact.
US10616396B2	Danger detection system A danger detection system is provided. The system includes a user computing device programmed to receive from a microphone of the computing device a signal indicating a gunshot-like sound and automatically determine if the gunshot-like sound is a gunshot. The user computing device is also programmed to automatically determine a location of the gunshot; and to automatically generate and send to a display of the user computing device a safety notification in response to determining if the gunshot is within a predetermined distance.
US10616393B2	Method for call control and related products The disclosure provides a method for call control and related products. The method includes the following. In response to a mobile terminal receiving an incoming call request, a priority of the incoming call request is obtained; when the priority of the incoming call request is lower than a preset priority, whether a user is in a first state is determined; based on a determination that the user is in the first state, the incoming call request is rejected.

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