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US10742842B2	Information processing apparatus and authentication method using the information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus and an authentication method performed using the information processing apparatus are provided. An information processing apparatus receives, as authentication information, identification information of a user of an information processing system including the information processing apparatus and an authentication apparatus, converts the authentication information, and controls to execute an authentication process based on the authentication information. The information processing apparatus converts the authentication information to form a readable authentication information by converting a character that cannot be interpreted by the information processing apparatus into a character that can be interpreted by the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus executes the authentication process to enable use of the information processing apparatus based on the readable authentication information, when the authentication process to enable use of the information processing system is executed by the authentication apparatus.
US10742830B2	Book digitization apparatus and book digitization method A book digitization apparatus includes: a table capable of storing a type of paper and a physical property of an energy ray, which the paper is able to absorb, in association with each other; an acquisition unit that acquires, from the table, a physical property of an energy ray, which corresponds to a type of paper that is input; and an image capturing unit that acquires three-dimensional data of a book by capturing an image of the book with an energy ray having the acquired physical property.
US10742829B2	Image reading apparatus A scanner unit includes a first reading section that reads a medium via a transparent member; and a bracing member that pushes the medium toward the transparent member by a coil spring. The bracing member includes a contact portion coming into contact with the transparent member in a downstream of a first reading region, and a gap forming surface that is positioned in a direction further away from the transparent member than the contact portion, which includes the first reading region, in an upstream of the contact portion, and is formed with a gap in which the medium is configured to be transported between the pushing member and the transparent member. A pressing position of the pushing member by the coil spring is shifted from a position of the contact portion in a medium transporting direction.
US10742824B2	Display control apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium for displaying appropriate tabs on tabbed screen in each user mode A display control apparatus includes a controller configured to control a display to display a standby screen including one or more display target tabs among a plurality of tabs displayable on the standby screen, the plurality of tabs including one or more shared tabs associated with a shared attribute and one or more personal tabs associated with a personal attribute, switch a user mode of the apparatus between a public mode and a personal mode, when the user mode is set to the public mode, display the one or more display target tabs including the one or more shared tabs, and when accepting user authentication information of a particular registered user, set the user mode to the personal mode for the particular registered user, and display the one or more display target tabs including the one or more shared tabs and a personal tab associated with the particular registered user.
US10742819B2	Dialling phone numbers Method and apparatus for effecting a voice communication between user terminals connected via a communication network include displaying a menu of country options to a user and receiving a number in local form. Formatting rules are recalled for a destination country selected by the user from the country options. A country prefix for the destination country is prepended to the number in accordance with the formatting rules to generate a formatted number. The formatted number is supplied to a client installed at the user terminal for effecting the voice communication using the formatted number.
US10742814B1	Workflow based communications routing Disclosed are various embodiments for routing communications to service agents based on a workflow. A computing device identifies a user intent object corresponding to a user interaction with the computing device. The computing device then generates a search criterion based on the identified user intent object and uses the search criterion for identifying the user intent in subsequent user interactions. After identifying the user intent, the computing device can identify a workflow corresponding to the user intent object. Later, the computing device can process one or more tasks associated with the workflow.
US10742809B1	Device, system and method for duplicate call handling at a public-safety answering point device A device, system and method for duplicate call handling at a public-safety answering point (PSAP) device is provided. The PSAP device: routes a call from a caller to a call-taker, the call associated with an incident; receives, via an input device of the call-taker, information related to the incident to populate a record associated with the call; prior to the record being complete, receives, via the input device, input to handover the call to an information collection application, the input indicative of the call being a duplicate call; determines, via the information collection application, remaining information to be collected based on one or more of: a duplicate call policy and the information already received; receives, via the information collection application to verbally communicating with the caller on the call, at least a portion of the remaining information to continue to populate the record; and ends the call.
US10742808B2	Mobile terminal for automatically making a telephone conversation using artificial intelligence A first mobile terminal includes a microphone to receive a voice, a mobile communication module to make communication with a second mobile terminal, and a learning data unit to receive a command for entering an artificial intelligence (AI) telephone conversation mode, to obtain a user intent of the first mobile terminal, based on the received command, and to automatically perform a first task with the second mobile terminal according to the obtained user intent.
US10742804B1	Method and system for updating physical location information A method and system for updating physical location data associated with a user data-communications endpoint device is implemented in a variety of embodiments. In one such embodiment, the endpoint device stores an identifier for a packet-communicating device which is subject to changing. The endpoint device has an interface for communication over the Internet via the packet-communicating device and uses a circuit-implemented method for prompting an update of physical location data associated with the endpoint device. In response to a communications connectivity-state transition and a change in the stored identifier, the endpoint device facilitates an update to the physical location data associated with the data-communications service.
US10742801B2	Systems and methods for detecting inmate to inmate conference calls A system for detecting inmate to inmate conference calls in a correctional facility is disclosed herein. The system includes a database and a conference call detection server, wherein the conference call detection server is configured to monitor a plurality of inmate communications, convert an audio signal of each inmate communication to a frequency domain signal, identify frequency data comprising one or more frequency peaks and corresponding frequency values in the frequency domain signal for each inmate communication, generate a record comprising the frequency data for each inmate communication, resulting in a plurality of records, store the plurality of records in the database, detect an inmate to inmate conference call by matching a frequency subset of a new inmate communication with frequency data in a detected record in the database, and verify the inmate to inmate conference call by matching audio with voice biometric samples.
US10742797B2	Method and apparatus for automatically setting alarms and notifications A processor-based personal electronic device (such as a smartphone) is programmed to automatically respond to data sent by various sensors from which the user's activity may be inferred. One or more alarms on the device may be temporarily disabled when sensor data indicates that the user is asleep. One or more of the sensors may be worn by the user and remote from the device. A wireless communication link may be used by the device to obtain remote sensor data. Data from on-board sensors in the device—such as motion sensors, location sensors, ambient light sensors, and the like—may also be used to deduce the user's current activity. User data (such as calendar entries) may also be used to determine likely user activity and set alarms accordingly. Biometric data from a second, nearby person may also be used to automatically select certain alarm modes on a first person's device.
US10742788B2	Mobile terminal A mobile terminal is disclosed. The mobile terminal includes a housing having an internal space that is opened toward a front, and a display unit coupled to the housing and positioned in front of the internal space. The display unit includes a cover glass, a glass support adjacent to a side of the cover glass and disposed on a rear surface of the cover glass, wherein at least a portion of the glass support is positioned in the internal space and fixed to the cover glass, a frame including a frame body positioned in a rear of the cover glass, a first frame extension bent from the frame body to a rear of the frame body, and a second frame extension bent from the first frame extension, positioned between the first frame extension and the glass support, and coupled to the glass support, and a flexible display placed on the frame and disposed between the frame and the cover glass, wherein an edge area of the flexible display adjacent to the second frame extension is disposed between the glass support and the first frame extension.
US10742783B2	Data transmitting apparatus, data receiving apparatus and method thereof having encoding or decoding functionalities A data transmitting apparatus, a data receiving apparatus and methods thereof are provided. The data transmitting apparatus includes an encoding module, an encoding table, a first encoding parameter, a second encoding parameter and a transmitting module. The encoding module reads and encodes data content containing at least one data unit. The encoding table records a variety of information of multiple data units, and the variety of information contain a unit content, a number of times encoded and a recorded position of each of the data units. The first encoding parameter provides first information of the data unit, and the first information relate to an existing state of the unit content of the data unit in the encoding table. The second encoding parameter provides second information, and the second information relate to an amount of data units currently recorded in the encoding table. The transmitting module transmits an encoded data.
US10742775B2	Supporting internet protocol version 4 (IPv4) extension headers A method implemented by a network element (NE) comprises receiving, by a receiver of the NE, an Internet Protocol (IP) version 4 (IPv4) packet from another NE, wherein the IPv4 packet comprises an IPv4 header, an extension header, and upper layer data, wherein the IPv4 header comprises a protocol number associated with the extension header, and wherein the IPv4 packet comprises a total length of the extension header, and processing, by a processor coupled to the receiver, the IPv4 packet based on the total length of the extension header.
US10742774B1	Methods, systems, and computer program products for sharing information for detecting an idle TCP connection A computer-implemented method is provided, comprising causing access to be provided, to a client computer, to code that causes the client computer to operate in accordance with a protocol that is separate from TCP, in order to establish a protocol connection with another server computer, by: receiving a packet, detecting an idle time period parameter field in the packet, identifying metadata in the idle time period parameter field for an idle time period, where, after the idle time period is detected, the second protocol connection is deemed inactive, and creating or modifying, by the client computer and based on the metadata, a timeout attribute associated with the second protocol connection.
US10742773B2	Protocol conversion method, platform, and protocol conversion gateway The embodiments of the present application disclose a protocol conversion method, a protocol conversion platform and a protocol conversion gateway to reduce difficulty of information interaction between a superior data platform and a subordinate data platform. With the technical solution provided by the embodiments of the present application, the superior protocol conversion gateway and the subordinate protocol conversion gateway use signaling in compliance with the same third-party signaling standard, and the signaling interacted between the superior data platform and the subordinate data platform does not need to be switched between two video cascade protocols, which reduces the difficulty of developing a gateway, and facilitates the signaling interaction between the superior data platform and the subordinate data platform, and when a superior or subordinate data platform supporting a new video cascade protocol appears, it is only required to configure the superior protocol conversion gateway and the subordinate protocol conversion gateway without developing a new gateway, which further reduces workload of developing a gateway.
US10742771B2	Method and system for enforcing governance across multiple content repositories using a content broker A method and system for a content broker, including a unified object index, where the content broker is coupled to the unified object index and receives, from a requesting entity, a request to perform an action on an object and the object is stored in the content repository. The method further including obtaining the object associated with the request from a content repository, determining, using the unified object index, a normalized object type associated with the object, obtaining a governance rule based on the normalized object type, and servicing the request using the governance rule.
US10742767B2	Systems and methods for downloading and updating save data to a data center Systems and methods for downloading and updating save data to a data center are described. Save data is downloaded from a cloud storage to the data center before play of a game to cache the save data in the data center. Any updates to the save data that occur during a play of a game are stored in the data center and are uploaded to the cloud storage. Next time, a user desires to access the game, there is no need to transfer the updates to the data center from the cloud storage.
US10742766B2	Management of pre-loaded content A method and system are disclosed for acquiring and transforming existing content (e.g., Hyper Text Markup Language HTML content) for display and execution on multiple platforms and architectures. In one embodiment, capture templates are created to harvest content from disparate content sources on multiple platforms. Data is extracted from the content from the disparate content sources using the created capture templates that drives extracting process. A standardized data stream is generated from the extracted data. The standardized data stream is provided for display on one or more different type of platforms.
US10742764B2	Web page generation system A method, apparatus and computer program product for displaying a web page. Metadata describing a web page is received by a client data processing system. The metadata defines what the web page looks like without content for the web page. The content needed for the web page based on the metadata is identified by the client data processing system. The content for the web page is obtained by the client data processing system. The web page using the metadata and the content is created by the client data processing system without using a markup language. The web page on a graphical user interface on the client data processing system is displayed by the client data processing system.
US10742762B2	Reducing redirects Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for reducing redirects. In one aspect, a method includes receiving request data indicating that a user device has requested a content item. The request data specifies other data processing apparatus to which user interactions with the content item are to be reported. The content item includes a reference to a resource that is requested in response to user interaction with the content item. Response data is provided. The response data includes data that cause presentation of the content item. Interaction data is received specifying user interaction with the content item occurred. Redirect data is provided that cause the user device to be redirected to the resource. Reporting data is provided to the other data processing apparatus, specifying user interaction with the content item occurred. The reporting data is provided asynchronously relative to the redirect data.
US10742758B2	Communication analysis device, communication analysis method, and program recording medium A communication analysis device updates statistical information on a content access based on the communication session log of a user. The content access is an aggregation of a plurality of communication sessions needed for browsing one website. The communication analysis device acquires session information pertaining to one communication session, and determines whether a lapsed time from the start time or end time of a base communication session to the start time or end time of the one communication session is equal to or less than a threshold value. When the lapsed time is equal to or less than the threshold value, the communication analysis device determines that the one communication session is included in the same content access as the base communication session, and updates the statistical information of the content access. The communication analysis device stochastically sets the threshold value based on a prescribed probability distribution.
US10742757B2	Automated network account transfers based on determined inactivity Systems, devices, and methods for automating network account transfers based on predicted inactivity are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises a mail server providing access to an email account of a user; a social graph monitor configured to: periodically query, over a network, a social graph associated with the user to retrieve at least one social network feed associated with the user, calculate a sentiment score for the social network feed based on parsing the social network feed using a natural language parser, and determining that a transfer condition has occurred if the sentiment score exceeds a pre-defined sentiment score threshold; and a condition processor configured to: transmit, via the mail server, a password reset request to a network application associated with the transfer condition, intercept an email from the network application, via the mail server, transmitted in response to the password reset request, forward, via the mail server, the email to a recipient associated with the transfer condition, determine that the recipient has reset a password associated with the network application, and forward, to the recipient via the mail server, subsequent emails from the network application.
US10742754B2	Persistent edge state of end user devices at cache nodes Systems, methods, apparatuses, and software for caching tracking elements of network content are provided herein. In one example, a method of operating a cache node of a content delivery network that caches content for delivery to end user devices is provided. The method includes receiving content requests from an end user device for content cached by the cache node and responsively providing the content for delivery to the end user device, processing the content requests to determine a edge state that corresponds to the end user device, transferring information related to the edge state for delivery to at least one other cache node of the content delivery network for handling of content requests received at the at least one other cache node.
US10742750B2	Managing a distributed network of function execution environments Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for managing a distributed network of function execution environments. In some examples, a function router registers a plurality of execution endpoints on a catalog of execution endpoints and functions, each of the plurality of execution endpoints including a respective runtime environment capable of executing one or more functions. The function router receives, from a client, a request to execute a particular function and, based on the request, queries the catalog for the particular function and execution endpoints associated with the particular function. The function router receives a query response identifying one or more execution endpoints associated with the particular function, and selects an execution endpoint for executing the particular function based on one or more criteria associated with the request. The function router then sends to the client a response identifying the execution endpoint selected for executing the particular function.
US10742748B2	System and method for supporting live addition of a tenant in a connection pool environment Described herein are systems and methods for providing access to a database in a multi-tenant environment, including the use of a connection pool, and support for live addition of a tenant. When a pluggable database (PDB), for use by a tenant, is added to a multi-tenant database, it can generate an event to notify the connection pool. The connection pool environment consumes this PDB-add event, and dynamically configures a new tenant to access the shared pool. Since the new tenant addition is based on receipt of an event from the database, the connection pool does not require manual configuration for that tenant. Once a tenant is added, it can borrow connections from the pool in the same manner as existing tenants, and can also share existing pool properties, such as, for example a maximum pool size, or maximum number of connections per tenant.
US10742747B2	Managing connections for data communications following socket failure An apparatus, computer-implemented method and computer program product manages connections for data communication. A first system initiates a process for establishing a new connection pipe of a socket-based connection between the first system and a second system. The new connection pipe is a replacement for an existing connection pipe. The existing connection pipe is accessed by a respective existing socket at each of the first and second systems. The first system receives acknowledgement from the second system confirming that the replacement connection pipe is established. The replacement connection pipe is accessed by a respective replacement socket at each of the first and second systems. The first system re-associates sessions of the existing socket at the first system to the replacement socket at the first system.
US10742746B2	Bypassing a load balancer in a return path of network traffic Some embodiments provide a method that allows a first data compute node (DCN) to forward outgoing traffic to a second DCN directly in spite of receiving the incoming traffic from the second DCN through a load balancer. That is, the return traffic's network path from the first DCN (e.g., a server machine) to the second DCN (e.g., a client machine) bypasses the load balancer, even though a request that initiated the return traffic is received through the load balancer. The load balancer receives a connection session request from a client machine to connect to a server. It identifies a set of parameters for the connection session and after selecting a server for the connection, passes the identified set of parameters to a host machine that executes the server. The server establishes the connection session directly with the client machine based on the identified set of parameters.
US10742744B1	Methods, systems, and computer readable media for monitoring lightweight machine to machine (LWM2M) internet of things (IoT) devices through service capability exposure funtion (SCEF) T8 interface A method for monitoring LWM2M IoT device state includes, in an SCEF, providing an interface for receiving subscription requests from IoT application servers or service capability servers for monitoring LWM2M IoT device state, the method further includes maintaining, in the SCEF, a database of identifiers of IoT devices that utilize LWM2M protocols, receiving, via the interface and from an SCS or AS, a first monitoring event request for subscribing to receive state information regarding an IoT device, and performing a lookup in the database using an IoT device identifier extracted from the first monitoring event request and identifying the first monitoring event request as being associated with an LWM2M IoT device. The method further includes communicating with the LWM2M IoT device using LWM2M constrained application protocol (CoAP) messaging to subscribe to and receive state information from the LWM2M IoT device and communicating the state information to the SCS or AS.
US10742743B2	Systems and methods for managing IOT/EOT devices A method for managing enrollments of an IoT device is disclosed. The method includes: transmitting a request to enroll the device with a first device management service; receiving, from a server associated with the first device management service, a first policy profile including one or more first device management policies, the first policy profile defining at least one restriction on management of the device by other device management services with which the device enrolls; transmitting a request to enroll the device with a second device management service; receiving, from a server associated with the second device management service, a second policy profile including one or more second device management policies; identifying a subset of the one or more second device management policies which comply with the at least one restriction; and applying the identified subset of the one or more second device management policies on the device.
US10742737B2	Storage device and electronic device including the same An electronic device includes a storage device including a plurality of doorbell registers; a host configured to perform a first interface operation with the storage device using a first command queue managed by a first doorbell register from among the plurality of doorbell registers; and a third-party device configured to perform a second interface operation with the storage device using a second command queue managed by a second doorbell register from among the plurality of doorbell registers, without an intervention of the host, wherein at least the second doorbell register is allocated as one of one or more dedicated registers for use only with operations of the third-party device.
US10742732B1	Cloud storage and synchronization of messages A messaging system uses a cloud storage backup system for messages and a temporary storage for messages that are not deliverable to offline devices at the time that the messages are sent by one or more messaging servers. The messages are backed up through a synchronization process that transfers a batch of a plurality of messages rather than a single message or an entire database of messages. A conversation state can be synchronized first before synchronizing messages through the transfer of one or more batches of messages.
US10742731B2	Maintaining service configuration consistency across nodes of a clustered file system A computer program product is provided for extending a clustered file system. The computer program product comprises a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The program instructions are executable by a processor to cause the processor to build a central cluster repository, establish a service-specific interface for accessing non-file system data in the central cluster repository, and extend a clustered file system with the service-specific interface.
US10742728B2	Edge sharing orchestration system An edge share orchestration system comprising: an opportunistic capability listener in communication with at least one customer device and at least one additional device; the opportunistic capability listener is configured to pool the at least one customer device and the at least one additional device based on at least one of a capability and a function; an edge share balancer configured to integrate the at least one customer device with the at least one additional device to transform the capability or function of the at least one customer device to provide at least one of a novel service and an augmented service.
US10742726B2	WEBRTC API redirection with alternative network connectivity steering A computing system includes a virtual desktop server and a client computing device. The virtual desktop server is within an enterprise and includes a real-time media application to provide real-time communications (RTC) for peer-to-peer networking, and a native RTC engine to execute a portion of the real-time media application when received by the native RTC engine. An API code redirection module redirects intercepted APIs of the real-time media application intended for the native RTC engine so that the portion of the real-time media application is redirected away from the native RTC engine to a client RTC engine in the client computing device. The portion of the real-time media application being redirected includes provisioning information directed to a media server. A network edge appliance associated with a branch within the enterprise provides alternative network connectivity options for the peer-to-peer networking.
US10742724B2	Cluster computer system with failover handling Some examples described herein relate to a cluster computer system. In an example, a first node in a cluster computer system may determine that a second node has become unavailable. The first node may form a first sub-cluster with a plurality of nodes that are communicatively reachable in the cluster computer system. The first node may retain ownership over a first application running on the first node, to the exclusion of remaining nodes in the first sub-cluster, wherein retaining ownership over the first application comprises controlling access to a storage volume related to the first application. The first node may attempt to obtain ownership over a second application previously running on the second node before the second node became unavailable. In response to a successful attempt the first node may obtain ownership over the second application, to the exclusion of remaining nodes in the first sub-cluster.
US10742723B2	Load-balancing cluster A load-balancing cluster includes a switch having a plurality of ports; and a plurality of servers connected to at least some of the plurality of ports of the switch. Each server is addressable by the same virtual Internet Protocol (VIP) address. Each server in the cluster has a mechanism constructed and adapted to respond to connection requests at the VIP by selecting one of the plurality of servers to handle that connection, wherein the selecting is based, at least in part, on a given function of information used to request the connection; and a firewall mechanism constructed and adapted to accept all requests for the VIP address for a particular connection only on the server that has been selected to handle that particular connection. The selected server determines whether it is responsible for the request and may hand it off to another cluster member.
US10742722B2	Server load balancing Examples relate to load balancing servers. In one example, a computing device may: receive a network packet from a source device, the network packet including data specifying a value; divide the value included in the network packet by a divisor; determine, from a plurality of servers, a destination server for the network packet based on a remainder of the division; and forward the network packet to the destination server.
US10742717B2	Electronic content delivery with distributed recipient delivery preference According to some embodiments, a delivery system comprises an interface and one or more processors. The interface is operable to receive a current preference from a recipient. The current preference indicates how the recipient prefers messages to be delivered. The processors determine whether the current preference differs from a previous preference that the delivery system associates with the recipient. The interface communicates the current preference to a plurality of senders if the current preference differs from the previous preference. The senders are configured to store the current preference in local memory and to apply the current preference from local memory in response to a future determination to send a message to the recipient.
US10742714B2	Method and system for re-deploying metadata and associated data from a source organization to a destination organization Methods and systems are provided for re-deploying metadata and it's associated data from a source organization to a destination organization of a cloud-based computing environment. After metadata that is to be retrieved from the source organization is selected, a metadata engine can automatically create a manifest file that comprises the selected metadata that is to be retrieved. The manifest file can then be stored at secure file storage for re-deployment. A data engine can then automatically retrieve data associated with the selected metadata based, for example, on objects specified in the selected metadata. This data can be automatically saved and stored at a secured database for re-deployment. Thereafter, both the manifest file and the data associated with the selected metadata can be re-deployed to the destination organization.
US10742708B2	Iterative techniques for generating multiple encoded versions of a media title In various embodiments, an iterative encoding application generates shot encode points based on a first set of encoding points and a first shot sequence associated with a media title. The iterative encoding application performs convex hull operations across the shot encode points to generate a first convex hull. Subsequently, the iterative encoding application generates encoded media sequences based on the first convex hull and a second convex hull that is associated with both a second shot sequence associated with the media title and a second set of encoding points. The iterative encoding application determines a first optimized encoded media and a second optimized encoded media sequence from the encoded media sequences based on, respectively, a first target metric value and a second target metric value for a media metric. Portions of the optimized encoded media sequences are subsequently streamed to endpoint devices during playback of the media title.
US10742707B2	Low latency multimedia streaming system and method In one example, a method for low-latency multimedia stream reception and output in a receiving device is described. Data packets may be extracted from a multimedia stream received over a network. The sequence of independently decodable units associated with the multimedia stream may be decoded. Each independently decodable unit may include one or more data packets. The sequence of decoded units may be stored in an output buffer. Further, flow of the decoded units from the output buffer to an output device may be controlled based on one of (a) a latency associated with the decoded units and (b) a rate of reception of the decoded units by the output buffer and a rate at which the output device is operating. The decoded units may be rendered on the output device.
US10742706B1	Server-side rate control for adaptive bitrate streaming protocols Network hardware devices organized in a wireless mesh network (WMN) in which one mesh network device includes a first radio and one or more additional radios coupled to an application processor. The application processor receives a request to stream content data to a client consumption device, via the first radio, and receives portions of the content data from multiple devices at different retrieval rates via the one or more additional radios. The application processor calculates an average retrieval rate for retrieving the first segments and the second segments, determines a desired streaming bitrate value, and determines an end time to complete transmission of a first portion to the client consumption device. The application processor transmits, via the first radio, the first portion such that at least one byte of the first portion is transmitted at the end time to complete transmission of the first portion.
US10742700B2	User assembled content delivered in a media stream A system and method for a user to send a message to another user of a streaming media service. The message is directed to a specific recipient and is sponsored by an advertising entity. The shout-out is transmitted to the recipient with a sponsor message when the recipient either accesses or logs into the streaming media service. The recipient is notified that a shout-out or dedication is available for the recipient to listen to. When the user logs into the streaming media service the shout-out is presented to the recipient along with a sponsor advertisement.
US10742694B2	Method for migrating data and terminal A method for migrating data and a terminal are provided. The method includes the following. An application migration instruction is received, and a target application and a target terminal corresponding to the application migration instruction are determined. A target system type of the target terminal and a local system type are acquired. User data of the target application is acquired. When the local system type is not matched with the target system type, the target terminal is instructed to download the target application from an application store. The user data is migrated to the target terminal.
US10742693B2	Method and system for writing trajectory synchronization among multiple clients A method and system for writing trajectory synchronization among multiple clients are disclosed. The method includes: receiving (S10) segmented writing trajectory data of a real-time writing trajectory transmitted in segments by each transmitting end; forwarding (S20) each segment of the segmented writing trajectory data to each receiving end in real time respectively, where the segmented writing trajectory data is received asynchronously and restored into a real-time writing trajectory by each receiving end; receiving (S30) complete writing trajectory data of a complete writing input transmitted by each transmitting end; and forwarding (S40) the complete writing trajectory data transmitted by each transmitting end to each receiving end, where the complete writing trajectory data is received synchronously and inserted into an interface for display by each receiving end. The method improves efficiency of writing trajectory synchronization for multiple clients while ensuring the display of writing trajectory, thereby enhancing user experience.
US10742692B2	Snap-in invocation for call reconstruction During a Session Initiation Protocol dialog setup, a media gateway or container executes or initiates two or more applications that provide features during a conference call. The applications are applied to messages or data in the conference call based on a sequence order established during the setup of the conference call. The sequence order and the application identities are stored in a shared database. When a failure occurs during the conference call, the applications are reestablished in the reconstructed or reestablished conference call. The application reconstruction includes reinitiating the applications with the same sequence as previously established before the failure. As such, the user has the same features applied in the same way before and after the failure, which improves the systems performance and expected operation.
US10742691B2	Managing mid-dialog session initiation protocol (SIP) messages Processing mid-dialog SIP messages by receiving a mid-dialog SIP message from a SIP user agent client, creating a new SIP session, associating the new SIP session with the mid-dialog SIP message, identifying an application that is associated with the mid-dialog SIP message, providing to the application the mid-dialog SIP message in the context of the new SIP session, receiving an acknowledgement from the application that the application will accept the mid-dialog SIP message, and responsive to receiving the acknowledgement, providing to the application the mid-dialog SIP message in the context of the new SIP session.
US10742690B2	Scalable policy management for virtual networks Techniques are disclosed for implementing scalable policies across a plurality of categories that support application workloads. In one example, a policy controller assigns to the plurality of categories tags specifying one or more of a plurality of dimensions. The policy controller distributes a plurality of policies to policy agents for the plurality of categories. Each policy includes one or more policy rules, and each policy rule includes one or more tags specifying one or more of the plurality of dimensions. For each policy rule, the policy agents allow or deny a traffic flow between objects that belong to categories of the plurality of categories described by the one or more dimensions of a respective tag of the policy rule.
US10742683B2	Network asset characterization, classification, grouping and control Techniques applicable to a network orchestration and security platform for a network, such as an industrial control system (ICS) network, are disclosed. Such techniques include, for example, methods to characterize and classify networked industrial devices based upon conversation patterns, generate security zones for ICS networked assets based upon conversation characteristics and patterns, to identify and record ICS networked devices in a non-intrusive way, to create secure conduits between security zones for ICS networked devices with no impact to endpoint hose devices, and systems therefor.
US10742680B2	Method of industrial data communication with dedicated physical channel isolation and a system applying the method A method and a system of industrial data communication with dedicated physical isolation are provided that, the data collector and the physical isolator cooperate with each other. The data collector collects the data of each nodes of an enterprise by the intranet or by the wired and wireless communication module. The data is converted into encrypted messages under a protocol. The physical isolator secondarily encrypts the data and uploads the standardized data to a cloud platform via the internet. The data is exchanged between the data collector and the physical isolator by a dedicated data channel. The data transmitted in the dedicated data channel is encrypted by an algorithm, and is transmitted in a form of encrypted messages. Two ports of the dedicated data channel can only transmit the data in the form of encrypted messages. The dedicated data channel uses specific communication media, and forms physical isolation directly.
US10742679B2	Multi-tiered network architecture for mitigation of cyber-attacks A method and system for controlling multi-tiered mitigation of cyber-attacks. The method comprises monitoring at least availability and load of each protection resource in a multi-tiered communication network, wherein each tier in the multi-tiered communication network includes a plurality of protection resources having capacity and security capabilities set according to the respective tier; for each protection resource, computing a current aggregated load metric (ALM); determining based on at least one of the computed ALM and security capabilities of a respective protection resource, if the respective protection resource assigned to a protected entity can efficiently handle a detected cyber-attack against the protected entity; and selecting at least one new protection resource to secure the protected entity, upon determining the protection resource cannot efficiently handle the detected cyber-attack, wherein the selection is based on at least one of the computed ALM and a security capabilities of the at least one protection resource.
US10742678B2	Vulnerability analysis and segmentation of bring-your-own IoT devices In one embodiment, a security device maintains a plurality of security enclaves for a computer network, each associated with a given level of security policies. After detecting a given device joining the computer network, the security device places the given device in a strictest security enclave of the plurality of security enclaves in response to joining the computer network. The security device then subjects the given device to joint adversarial training, where a control agent representing behavior of the given device is trained against an inciting agent, and where the inciting agent attempts to force the control agent to misbehave by applying destabilizing policies. Accordingly, the security device may determine control agent behavior during the joint adversarial training, and promotes the given device to a less strict security enclave of the plurality of enclaves in response to the control agent being robust against the attempts by the inciting agent.
US10742676B2	Distributed monitoring and evaluation of multiple devices Data is collected from a set of devices according to a data collection policy. The data is associated with device configuration, device state, or device behavior. A norm is established using the collected data. A different data collection policy is established based on the norm. Data is collected from a particular device according to the different data collection policy. The norm is compared to the data collected from the particular device. If there is a deviation outside of a threshold deviation between the norm and the data collected from the particular device, a message is transmitted to an administrator.
US10742674B1	Systems and methods for segmented attack prevention in internet of things (IoT) networks Disclosed herein are embodiments of systems, methods, and products comprise a computing device, which allows in-network and network-border protection for Internet of things (IoT) devices by securely partitioning network space and defining service-based access to IoT devices. The disclosed segmented attack prevention system for IoT networks (SAPSIN) segments the IoT network into two virtual networks: a service network and a control network; and define access control rules for each virtual network. In the service network, SAPSIN utilizes a service-based approach to control device access, allowing only configured protocol, applications, network ports, or address groups to enter or exit the network. In control network, The SAPSIN provides the access control rules by defining a threshold for the number of configuration requests within a predetermined time. As a result, SAPSIN protects IoT devices against intrusion and misuse, without the need for device-specific software or device-specific security hardening.
US10742673B2	Tracking the dynamics of application-centric clusters in a virtualized datacenter For a managed network including multiple nodes providing multiple services and executing multiple applications some embodiments provide a method for generating groupings of network addresses associated with different applications or services. The method analyzes network traffic patterns using a probabilistic topic modeling algorithm to generate the groupings of network addresses. In some embodiments, data is collected and analyzed periodically. A network administrator defines the granularity of the time stamps in some embodiments to monitor changes in network traffic patterns over time for each network address or node and/or for the network as a whole. For each network address or node, a probability distribution over the topics at a given time is stored in some embodiments. The stored distributions are then used to determine a divergence over time of the application or service provided by the network address or node. Additionally, the stored distributions can be used to detect anomalous behavior.
US10742671B2	Systems and methods for detecting resources responsible for events Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying resources responsible for events. In one embodiment, a method may include determining a number of unique actors in a plurality of actors that have accessed the resource. The method may further include identifying from the plurality of actors a set of affected actors that has been affected by an event and identifying from the set of affected actors a subset of resource-affected actors that accessed the resource prior to being affected by the event. The method may further include determining a number of resource-affected actors in the subset of resource-affected actors and, based on the number of unique actors and the number of resource-affected actors, determining an event score for the resource. The event score may be a lower bound of a confidence interval of a binomial proportion of the number of resource-affected actors to the number of unique actors.
US10742669B2	Malware host netflow analysis system and method A system and method for determining malware threats based on behavior of a host/IP address uses netflow data, white lists, black lists and machine learning classification with a model. A white list generation method may be used and a machine learning model validation method.
US10742668B2	Network attack pattern determination apparatus, determination method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium thereof A network attack pattern determination apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium thereof are provided. The apparatus is stored with several attack patterns and access records. Each access record includes a network address, time stamp, and access content. Each attack pattern corresponds to at least one attack access relation. Each attack access relation is defined by a network address and access content. The apparatus retrieves several attack records according to at least one attack address. The network address of each attack record is one of the attack address(s). The apparatus divides the attack records into several groups according to the time stamps and performs the following operations for each group: (a) creating at least one access relation for each attack address included in the group and (b) determining that the group corresponds to one of the attack patterns according to the at least one access relation of the group.
US10742667B1	System and method for dynamical modeling multi-dimensional security event data into a graph representation A method and system for modeling cyber-security events are provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of cyber-security events, wherein each of the plurality of the cyber-security events defines at least one entity; for each of the plurality of received cyber-security events, processing a received cyber-security event to identify at least one key-value; mapping the at least one identified key-value to at least one data field; modeling the received cyber-security event to a security model, wherein the security model defines a specific activity related to the at least one entity, wherein the modeling is based on at least one modeling rule and the at least one identified key-value; and generating a graph based on the security model.
US10742664B2	Probabilistically detecting low-intensity, multi-modal threats using synthetic events Methods and systems for event detection include defining a plurality of conditions that represent one or more synthetic events. Data from a plurality of data sources is aggregated across a period of time, multiple attack surfaces, and geographically distinct locations. The aggregated data is matched to the conditions to determine whether a synthetic event has occurred. A response to the synthetic event is formed to resist an attack.
US10742663B2	Systems and methods for providing security services during power management mode Systems and methods for providing security services during a power management mode are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method comprises detecting with a mobile security system a wake event on a mobile device, providing from the mobile security system a wake signal, the providing being in response to the wake event to wake a mobile device from a power management mode, and managing with the mobile security system security services of the mobile device. Managing security services may comprise scanning a hard drive of the mobile devices for viruses and/or other malware. Managing security services may also comprise updating security applications or scanning the mobile device for unauthorized data.
US10742656B2	System for delivering messages securely via third-party account Privacy and restricted access are provided for functions, applications, and services available on a computing device. An area accessible to a user interface is provided. A request from a user of the device is accepted, the request for associating the area with one or more available functions. The one or more functions are then associated with the area, and are made invisible. Another request from the user is accepted, the other request for gaining access to the area. Authentication against the user is requested. Access to the one or more functions is granted if the authentication is successful. According to another embodiment, an authorized user may send and receive messages via another device that belongs to another user based on identification of the user by the other user.
US10742653B2	Automated individualized network security controls for internet of things (IoT) devices A method, apparatus and computer program product for protecting enterprise Information Technology (IT) infrastructures by automatically instantiating individualized network flow controls and/or network access controls specific to an IoT device. In this approach, an IoT device is identified, e.g., via network scanning or other observational sensors, or by receipt of information from a network administrator. In response to receiving information about the new IoT device, a control component obtains applicable network flow control and/or access control rules for the IoT device. These rules are obtained from one or more authoritative (trusted) sources, e.g., querying a website of the IoT vendor, an industry site, or an enterprise site. In this manner, applicable network flow control and/or access control rules are obtained. The control component then translates those rules into configuration parameters that are consumable by the particular network flow control device that is (or will be) associated with the IoT device.
US10742651B2	Digital identity network interface system There is a provided a digital identity network interface system that may include a communications module and a processor. The processor may be configured to: receive a signal representing a digital identity request, the digital identity request defining one or more scopes associated with the request, at least one of the scopes identifying a data type associated with the request; generate a query based on the scopes by translating at least one of the scopes into a query having a query format associated with a digital identity network, the digital identity network storing data associated with a plurality of users; send a signal representing the query to the digital identity network; send a link to an authorization device; after successful authentication, obtain data associated with the digital identity request from the digital identity network; and release at least some of the data.
US10742650B2	Communication system and computer readable storage medium A communication system is provided, the communication system including: an authenticating unit that authenticates a plurality of communication terminals based on a single user ID, and keeps the plurality of communication terminals logged into an information providing service; a storing unit that stores therein provider registration information including a plurality of pieces of provider information that indicate providers of respective pieces of data being displayed on each communication terminal among the plurality of communication terminals; a receiving unit that receives designation information that designates the provider registration information; and a transmitting unit that transmits each piece among the plurality of pieces of provider information to each communication terminal among the plurality of communication terminals so as to cause each communication terminal among the plurality of communication terminals to display data provided by a provider indicated by a plurality of pieces of provider information.
US10742642B2	User authentication based on predictive applications In some examples, a system for authenticating users can include a processor to train a first predictive application based on a first set of user engagements with advertisements, wherein the first predictive application is associated with a first advertising identifier. The processor can also train a second predictive application based on a second set of user engagements with the advertisements, wherein the second predictive application is associated with a second advertising identifier. Additionally, the processor can compare the first predictive application and the second predictive application and authenticate a user in response to detecting a similarity of the first predictive application and the second predictive application is below a threshold value, wherein authenticating the user enables the user to access a resource or service.
US10742638B1	Stateless principal authentication and authorization in a distributed network Embodiments are directed to a method and system for performing stateless authentication and authorization in a distributed computer network, by receiving, in an authentication and authorization service (AAS) component, a user request to network clients from a client user for data access served by an application, wherein the request comprises user credentials; providing the user credentials to an identity authenticator; performing, in the AAS component, client authorization for the user validated by the identity authenticator; encapsulating a token with the client authorization; and transmitting the token to an application service that services the user request to return results based on the client authorization.
US10742634B1	Methods for single sign-on (SSO) using optical codes Automated methods for single sign-on (SSO) to a plurality of websites using optical codes. A login server communicates with a user computer browser and a user mobile device to validate the user. When the user goes to a website, the website presents an optical code to the user computer browser. The user mobile device obtains the optical code and communicates with the login server to automatically log the user in.
US10742633B2	Method and system for securing data A method and system for securing user data, or data, possessed by a data owner, are disclosed. In one aspect data is concealed and encrypted to ensure data confidentiality, and may also be signed to ensure data integrity and authenticity. In another aspect accesses to data are controlled by the data owner through a distributed access control system. In another aspect the public keys of users are distributed automatically in a distributed manner, and are controlled by the users owning the corresponding public and private key pairs.
US10742632B2	Passporting credentials between a mobile app and a web browser Systems and methods for passporting credentials provide a mechanism by which a native app on a client device can invoke a service provider's core web site web addresses (URL) while keeping the existing session active and shared between the two experiences (native app and web flow) so that the end user does not need to re-login at each context switch. The mechanism can include a unique way for the web flow context to communicate conditions and pass control back to the native app context of the shared session.
US10742629B2	Efficient cloud resource protection A cloud resource protection method, system, and computer program product include authenticating a user on a first computer that is part of a distributed system, based on the authentication, assigning to the user, on the first computer, a token indicating a set of permissions, receiving a directive from the user to initiate, via the first computer, the execution of a process associated with a class, based on the token, initiating, on a second computer, the execution of the process, with no further authentication, granting the process access to a data set, access to which is restricted to one or more of the plurality of classes, and providing a data item from the data set to the user.
US10742627B2	System and method for dynamic network data validation In general, certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for dynamic network data validation. In various embodiments, a system is provided comprising a content server configured to store network profile information as a deserialized data structure. A first client device, corresponding to a first user, is configured to transmit one or more data packets to the content server, including identifying information of a second user. A dispatch server is configured to transmit a call to action item to a second client device corresponding to the second user. An organizational database is configured to provide a unique identifier to authenticate the second user. The content server is further configured to, upon authentication of the second user, authorize the second client device to access the network profile information to receive validation information corresponding to the network profile information. The network profile information is updated by the validation information.
US10742626B2	Method for key rotation A method for key rotation includes initiating key rotation for a user account of a multi-factor authentication platform enabling one-time password authentication using a first symmetric cryptographic key; generating, at an authenticating device, a second symmetric cryptographic key; transmitting, at the authenticating device, the second symmetric cryptographic key to the multi-factor authentication platform; configuring the multi-factor authentication platform and the authenticating device to disable authentication that uses the first symmetric cryptographic key; and configuring the multi-factor authentication platform and the authenticating device to enable authentication that uses the second symmetric cryptographic key.
US10742622B2	Secure communications using loop-based authentication flow A first party uses a secret key to encrypt information, which is then sent through an untrusted connection to a second party. The second party, however, cannot decrypt the information on its own, and it relays the encrypted information through a secure network. The secure network includes one or more nodes linking the first and second parties through one or more trusted connections (“hops”); each hop features uses of a shared secret key unique to that hop. The first party's connection to the network (domain) receives the information relayed through the secure network by the second party, it decrypts that information according to the secret key of the first party, and it then retransmits the decrypted information to the second party using the secure hops. Techniques are provided for sharing a private session key, federated credentials, and private information.
US10742621B2	Device pairing in a local network Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to receive registration data for a local network device, receive registration data for an electronic device, receive a request to pair the local network device and the electronic device, where the request to pair the devices includes a pairing code, and allow the pairing if the registration data for the local network device, the registration data for the electronic device, and the pairing code satisfies predetermined conditions. In an example, the pairing code was to the local network device and the electronic device requested and received the pairing code from the local network device.
US10742619B1	Secure authentication for a computing environment In one example, a control node can receive a job request from a client device to perform a job using a computing environment, where the job request includes first secure information and second secure information. The control node can authenticate the user by validating the second secure information using a first secret key. The control node can then obtain access to a job-execution service of a server node within the computing environment using the first secure information. For example, the control node can use the first secure information to obtain third secure information that is specific to the server node, and then transmit the third secure information to the server node. The server node can validate the third secure information and responsively authorize the control node to access the job-execution service. The control node can then initiate execution of the job on the server node on behalf of the user.
US10742618B2	Message encryption The computer receives customer registration information and encryption parameters from a customer, then transmits them to the server of an entity such as a pharmacy or bank. After the entity utilizes the transmitted encryption parameters to encrypt confidential portions of a message to the customer, the computer captures the message by way of receiving, photographing, scanning, or otherwise obtaining a copy of the message. The computer identifies glyphs in the message indicative of the corresponding encryption parameters as well as where the encrypted portions of the message start/end. Using the identified glyphs and corresponding encryption parameters, the computer decrypts the confidential portions of the message and displays the message in entirety on the computer.
US10742617B2	System for sending verifiable e-mail and/or files securely A system for and method of transmitting verifiable e-mail includes a message ID sent to a recipient of the e-mail. A system for and method of transmitting encrypted files using email and other electronic communication channels includes a computer program for storing encrypted files supplied by a user, creating a link to 5 the encrypted files to be e-mailed to a recipient, allowing download of the encrypted files when an authorization code is provided after the link is used to go to a system server, wherein the authorization code is sent to a telephone of the recipient, via text or aurally.
US10742615B2	Partial encryption of a static webpage Construction of the static webpage begins. A first portion of content of the static webpage to encrypt is identified, the first portion being less than the entire static webpage. The first portion of content of the static webpage is encrypted. A first decryption key is provided to a first group of user devices, wherein the first decryption key allows each user device in the first group of user devices to decrypt the first encrypted portion of content of the static webpage. The static webpage is provided to a server, wherein the server allows public access to the static webpage.
US10742614B2	Method and apparatus for encryption of communications over a network Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining whether communications are encrypted, determining a communication type for the communications according to sensitivity criteria, encrypting the communications according to the communication type to generate encrypted communications, and transmitting to a second network device the encrypted communications. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10742613B2	Pluggable framework for AS4 adapter generation Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating an adapter for sending Applicability Statement 4 (AS4) profile compliant payloads. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a configuration script including parameters for an adapter for sending Applicability Statement 4 (AS4) profile compliant payloads to an agency; identifying a conformance client and at least one associated Processing Mode (P-Mode) based on the configuration script; identifying a response handler based on the configuration script, wherein the response handler is configured to receive and parse responses from the agency; generating the adapter to include the conformance client and the response handler, wherein the conformance client is associated with an authentication service, the authentication service determined based on the configuration script, and wherein the at least one P-Mode are populated based on the configuration script; and enabling the generated adapter for execution in a runtime environment.
US10742609B2	Reduction and acceleration of a deterministic finite automaton Techniques for reduction and acceleration of a deterministic finite automaton (DFA) are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system, process, and/or computer program product for reduction and acceleration of a DFA includes receiving an input value; performing a reduced deterministic finite automaton lookup using a lookup key, wherein the lookup key comprises a current state and the input value; and determining a next state based on the lookup key.
US10742608B2	Communications methods, systems and apparatus for packet policing The present invention relates to methods, systems and apparatus for providing efficient packet flow fillrate adjustments and providing protection against distributed denial of service attacks. One exemplary embodiment in accordance with the invention is a method of operating a communication system including the steps of receiving, at a session border controller, a first SIP invite request message; making a decision, at the session border controller, as to whether the first SIP invite request originated from an Integrated Access Device or an IP-PBX device; generating, at the SBC, a packet flow fillrate based on said decision as to whether the SIP invite request originated at an Integrated Access Device or an Internet Protocol-Private Branch Exchange (IP-PBX) device.
US10742607B2	Application-aware firewall policy enforcement by data center controller A Software-defined Networking (SDN) controller of data center with application-aware firewall policy enforcement is disclosed. In one example, the SDN controller receives a request to initialize an instance of an application. in response to receiving the request, the SDN controller transmits, to a firewall component positioned between an SDN gateway device of the data center and a network external to the data center, a message. In some examples, the messing includes an application signature corresponding to the instance of the application and an application firewall policy corresponding to the application signature. The message instructs the firewall component to install the application firewall policy for application to network traffic for the instance of the application.
US10742606B2	Method and apparatus to perform multiple packet payloads analysis A method and apparatus for identifying data patterns of a file are described herein. In one embodiment, an exemplary process includes, but is not limited to, receiving a data packet of a data stream containing a file segment of a file originated from an external host and destined to a protected host of a local area network (LAN), the file being transmitted via multiple file segments contained in multiple data packets of the data stream, and performing a data pattern analysis on the received data packet to determine whether the received data packet contains a predetermined data pattern, without waiting for a remainder of the data stream to arrive. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.
US10742603B2	System and method for monitoring and protecting an untrusted operating system by means of a trusted operating system The invention relates to a TEE (Trusted Environment Execution) structure which comprises: (a) a main domain defining a domain of operation for a main OS; (b) a privileged trusted domain defining a domain of operation for a trusted domain OS; and (c) a low level hypervisor which is separated from both of said main OS and said trusted domain OS, said hypervisor is used for: (c. 1) receiving packets from a network; (c.2) examining an address included in each of said received packets; and (c.3) based on the determined address in each of said packets, targeting respectively the packet to either said main OS or to said trusted domain OS, while in the latter case any interaction between the received packet and said main OS is eliminated.
US10742600B2	Domain name system bypass in user applications Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and software for bypassing a domain name system. In one example, a method of operating a user communication device includes receiving a user instruction requesting content within a user application of the user communication device. The method further provides, in response to the user instruction, processing at least a domain name system bypass data structure on the user communication device to identify a network address for retrieving the content. The method further includes, requesting the content from a content node using the network address.
US10742596B2	Method and system for reducing a collision probability of hash-based names using a publisher identifier A replica service of a Content Centric Network can host content published by various publishers, without having to explicitly advertise a name prefix associated with these various publishers. Consumers across CCN can generate an Interest that includes a location-independent name associated with a replica service that hosts content for a given publisher, and includes a hash of the desired Content Object. CCN nodes can forward the Interest to the corresponding replica service based on the Interest's name, and the replica service can return a nameless Content Object whose hash matches the Interest's hash value. It may be possible for nameless Content Objects from various publishers to have matching hash values from time to time. CCN nodes can reduce collisions of nameless Content Objects by using a Publisher ID specified in an Interest to find a matching Content Object that was published by a desired publisher.
US10742592B2	Dynamic DNS-based service discovery Techniques are provided for performing dynamic DNS-SD. In an embodiment, an apparatus includes one or more databases, one or more transceivers to receive a first Domain Name System (DNS) query from a first computing device, the first DNS query defining a first service discovery name space, and one or more processors in communication with each of the one or more databases and the one or more transceivers. The one or more processors generate and append a first metadata associated with the first computing device to the first DNS query. The one or more transceivers transmit the first DNS query and the first metadata to a Domain Name System (DNS) server computer, receive, from the DNS server computer, a first response responsive to the first DNS query, and relay, to the first computing device, the first response.
US10742587B2	Systems and methods for sharing content Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can provide a messaging interface, the messaging interface including one or more options for accessing at least one unified message thread, wherein both ephemeral messages and non-ephemeral messages are exchanged between a group of users through the unified message thread. A determination can be made that a user operating the computing device has accessed the unified message thread. Content relating to the unified message thread can be provided for display through the computing device.
US10742585B2	Haptic message delivery In one embodiment, a method includes determining if notifications to be sent to user would benefit from being delivered by haptic stimulation under a current context. This determination may be made by accessing historical notification data of how the user previously responded to notifications in a similar context, and ranking conversion scores for each of one or more haptic-enabled delivery channels, wherein a conversion score indicates a probability of the user interacting with the notification. The most appropriate haptic message-delivery channel is selected based on the scores and historical data, and the notification is sent accordingly.
US10742581B2	Summarization-based electronic message actions Summarization-based electronic message actions are described. A system includes a monitor to monitor an electronic communication stream, which electronic communication stream includes past electronic messages between various users. A summarizer of the system 1) determines, based on an output of the monitor, a desired summarization level for a current electronic message having certain characteristics and 2) determines a current summarization level for the current electronic message. When the current summarization level is different than the desired summarization level, an action engine takes an action against the current electronic message.
US10742580B2	Intelligent prevention of spam emails at share sites A computer-implemented method for preventing spam emails from a share site includes providing a network-based computer system to enable users to set up share sites and to send emails from the share sites, detecting potential spam emails based on one or more spam detection rules, identifying false positive emails in the potential spam emails based on one or more false alarm reduction rules, removing false positive emails from the potential spam emails to produce a list of verified spam emails, identifying a sender of the list of verified spam emails as a spammer, and prohibiting the spammer from sending emails from one or more share sites owned spammer.
US10742578B2	Transmitter terminal, receiving apparatus, method of restricting viewing access, and computer program for viewing restriction of electronic data that has already been transmitted A processor acquires feature information of a target email, among email that has already been transmitted from the information processing apparatus, the target email specified by an operation of a user of the information processing apparatus as email to be restricted from viewing-access by a user of a receiving-side apparatus. The processor transmits feature information of the target email to an apparatus that receives information for identifying a removal target for a security measure system. The target email is designated as a removal target by the security measure system for the receiving-side apparatus.
US10742576B2	Embedding actionable content in electronic communication Embedding actionable content in electronic communication comprises associating an embedding gadget with an electronic message and modifying the electronic message based on the embedding gadget.
US10742574B2	Method and device for implementing instant communication A method and device are described for implementing instant communication. Information indicating that a first user is logged into an instant communication interface is obtained. On-line users are displayed to the first user in response to the login of the first user. A first user selects an object to follow from the on-line users and, information about the selected object to follow is received in response to the first user selecting the object to follow from the on-line users. The first user may be set into a first instant communication room in which the selected object to follow resides, for performing instant communication. The device includes: an obtaining module, a displaying module and a processing module. In this manner communication between strangers is facilitated and the efficiency of making friends is enhanced.
US10742573B2	Method of providing message and user device supporting the same A method of providing a message by a user device and user device supporting the same are provided. The method includes displaying a message with a first attribute through a user device, detecting a user input corresponding to a portion of the message, and providing the portion with a second attribute based on the user input.
US10742569B2	Efficient network link status handling A multi-port status message maintains network connections between virtual ports of two network elements. The network elements negotiate the network connections between first virtual ports on a first network element and corresponding second virtual ports on a second network element. The first network element generates a multi-port status message listing the first virtual ports that are actively connected to the corresponding second virtual ports. The first network element sends the multi-port status message to the second network element to maintain the network connections.
US10742566B2	Low-redistribution load balancing A load-balancing computing device receives a load-balance request for a processing of a workload request associated with a workload. The load-balancing computing device selects a member node of a distributed computing system to process the workload request. The member node is selected from amongst a pool of member nodes of the distributed computing system. The selecting includes: determining a member node for a baseline assignment for the workload; and selecting a member node based on an outcome of a mathematical operation performed on an identifier of the workload, the baseline cardinality of member nodes, and on the cardinality of member nodes in the pool. Next, the processing of the workload request is assigned to the selected member node.
US10742564B2	Device, system, and method of RTP packet transmission and analysis of voice-over-IP communications Device, system, and method of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications, and particularly of Real Time Protocol (RTP) communication. In order to improve quality-of-service or quality-of-experience for a group of VoIP calls that are served by a VoIP router, each VoIP transmitter implements and adds a pseudo-random waiting-period prior to transmitting each outgoing RTP packet, or otherwise re-orders or mixes or shuffles the order of channels of RTP packets that are buffered or queued for transmission. Accordingly, no particular VoIP channel suffers from repeated drops of its RTP packets at the VoIP router. Additionally, VoIP network analyzers operate to measure the overall VoIP network overuse, or the average RTP packet loss rate of multiple VoIP channels, based on measuring RTP packet loss rate of a single VoIP channel which enforces a random pre-transmission waiting-period.
US10742558B1	Traffic manager resource sharing A traffic manager is shared amongst two or more egress blocks of a network device, thereby allowing traffic management resources to be shared between the egress blocks. Among other aspects, this may reduce power demands and allow a larger amount of buffer memory to be available to a given egress block that may be experiencing high traffic loads. Optionally, the shared traffic manager may be leveraged to reduce the resources required to handle data units on ingress. Rather than buffer the entire unit in the ingress buffers, an arbiter may be configured to buffer only the control portion of the data unit. The payload of the data unit, by contrast, is forwarded directly to the shared traffic manager, where it is placed in the egress buffers. Because the payload is not being buffered in the ingress buffers, the ingress buffer memory may be greatly reduced.
US10742557B1	Extending scalable policy management to supporting network devices Techniques are disclosed for extending scalable policy management to supporting network devices. A network device comprising a memory and a processor may perform various aspects of the techniques. The memory may be configured to store a policy. The processor may be configured to obtain the policy to be enforced by a supporting network device coupled to a server, and identify a port of the supporting network device to which the server is coupled via the switch fabric. The policy controller may also identify a workload executed by the server to which the policy is associated, and convert the policy into configuration data supported by the network device. The policy controller may further configure, based on the configuration data, the network device to enforce the policy with respect to network traffic received via the identified port.
US10742553B1	Forwarding information base caching A network device may determine a control plane session type associated with a control plane session. The control plane session may be associated with the network device. The network device may determine whether the control plane session type is associated with a forwarding information base (FIB) cache on the network device. The network device may obtain, based on determining that the control plane session type is associated with the FIB cache, forwarding information associated with the control plane session. The forwarding information may be stored in a FIB, associated with the FIB cache, on the network device. The network device may store the forwarding information in the FIB cache and process the control plane session using the forwarding information stored in the FIB cache.
US10742552B2	Representational state transfer operations using information centric networking In one implementation, a method includes transmitting, to a server, a first interest message. The first interest message includes a request for a representational state transfer (REST) operation and a name of a first state for the REST operation. The method also includes receiving, from the server, a second interest message. The second interest message includes the name of the first state for the REST operation. The method further includes transmitting, to the server, the first state based on the second interest message and receiving, from the server, a response to the REST operation.
US10742550B2	Updating routing information based on client location A system, method, and computer-readable medium for updating request routing information associated with client location information are provided. A content delivery network service provider receives a DNS query from a client computing device. The DNS query corresponds to a resource identifier for requested content from the client computing device. The content delivery network service provider obtains a query IP address corresponding to the client computing device. Based on routing information associated with the query IP address, the content delivery network service provider routes the DNS query. The process further includes monitoring performance data associated with the transmission of the requested resource and updating routing information associated with the query IP address based on the performance data for use in processing subsequent requests from the client computing device.
US10742549B2	Dynamic forward information base prefix optimization A network device includes a routing information base including a first plurality of entries, a forwarding information base including a second plurality of entries; a forwarding information base entry optimizer that programs the second plurality of entries of the forwarding information base using, at least in part, the first plurality of entries; and a network processor that forwards packets based on the second plurality of entries of the forwarding information base. The second plurality of entries is less than the first plurality of entries.
US10742548B1	Per path and per link traffic accounting A first device may receive a packet that includes information identifying a path through a network. The first device may configure a header of the packet to include a first set of identifiers that identifies the path and the first device via which the packet was received. The first device may configure the header of the packet to include a second set of identifiers that identifies a set of devices associated with the path. The set of devices may be associated with providing the packet via a network. The first device may determine whether a counter associated with the first set of identifiers has been initialized. The first device may modify a value of the counter to record a metric. The first device may provide the packet to a second device. The first device may perform an action related to the packet or based on the value of the counter.
US10742542B2	Configuring targeted distribution of traffic A device may determine a link aggregation group (LAG) that aggregates links that includes a first group of links that connects the device to a first provider edge (PE) device and a second group of links that connects the device to the second PE device, where the first PE device and the second PE device are on an Ethernet virtual private network (EVPN) and are multi-homed PE devices for the device, and where the first PE device provides a local connection to a customer edge (CE) device for the device. The device may receive a message from the first PE device indicating that the first PE device lacks a connection with the EVPN, and may send, based on the message, traffic intended for the CE device via the first PE device and traffic intended for the EVPN via the second PE device and not the first PE device.
US10742539B2	Control apparatus, communication system, relay apparatus control method, and program A control apparatus includes: a first control unit that configures a first virtual network by setting control information in a relay apparatus(es); a multicast group management unit that holds a configuration(s) of a multicast group(s) configured by an apparatus(es) connected to the relay apparatus(es); a multicast path calculation unit that calculates a path(s) for transmitting a multicast packet(s) to the apparatus(es) that belongs to the multicast group(s) on the basis of information about a topology representing a connection relationship about the relay apparatus(es); and a second control unit that sets control information instructing forwarding of the multicast packet(s) along the path(s) in the relay apparatus(es).
US10742534B2	Monitoring system for metric data A monitoring system for metric data may include devices, each device capable of generating respective metric data. The monitoring system may also include a processor and a memory cooperating therewith. The processor may be configured to monitor the devices via a network to obtain the respective metric data, generate predicted trigger events based on monitoring the devices, and generate a respective adapted monitoring for the devices based upon each predicted trigger event. The processor may also be configured to, upon occurrence of one of the predicted trigger events, implement the respective adapted monitoring to obtain new respective metric data.
US10742532B2	Non-intrusive mechanism to measure network function packet processing delay A network device performs operations comprising: receiving a first plurality of data packets, each data packet of the first plurality of data packets including a checksum value, and storing the checksum values of a subset of the first plurality of data packets along with a first timestamp; providing the first plurality of data packets to a network function (NF); receiving, from the NF, a second plurality of data packets generated by the NF in response to the first plurality of data packets, each data packet of the second plurality of data packets including a checksum value; storing a second timestamp when checksum values of a subset of the second plurality of data packets match the stored checksum values; and generating telemetry data based on the first timestamp and the second timestamp.
US10742531B2	Jitter buffer control based on monitoring of delay jitter and conversational dynamics Some implementations involve analyzing audio packets received during a time interval that corresponds with a conversation analysis segment to determine network jitter dynamics data and conversational interactivity data. The network jitter dynamics data may provide an indication of jitter in a network that relays the audio data packets. The conversational interactivity data may provide an indication of interactivity between participants of a conversation represented by the audio data. A jitter buffer size may be controlled according to the network jitter dynamics data and the conversational interactivity data. The time interval may include a plurality of talkspurts.
US10742526B2	System and method for dynamically controlling sample rates and data flow in a networked measurement system by dynamic determination of statistical significance A system and methods for dynamically controlling sample rates and data flow in a distributed networked environment by dynamic determination of statistical significance or characteristics for an unlimited number of data collection scripts concurrently executed on concurrently rendering web pages operating an unlimited number of advertisements. Consumer and media behaviors are sampled on all the different components of the distributed environment to gather information, which is transmitted to a downstream statistical analytics system. The system and methods are configured to balance the communication data flow and load among servers and browsers in this distributed networked environment that are engaged in viewing of online content including online content with one or more advertisements.
US10742521B2	Configuration and control in content delivery framework A system has multiple service endpoints running on a plurality of devices, wherein each particular service endpoint consumes control resources specifying a configuration for the particular service endpoint. A method includes evaluating a configuration object using first external resource inputs to produce an evaluated configuration object; generating a template, the generating using the evaluated configuration object and second external resource inputs; rendering the template with a set of actual parameter values to produce a localized control resource, the rendering using third external resource inputs; and providing the localized control resource to at least one service endpoint in the system.
US10742519B2	Predicting attribute values for user segmentation by determining suggestive attribute values This disclosure relates generally to performing user segmentation, and more particularly to predicting attribute values for user segmentation. In one embodiment, the method includes segregating a user with an incomplete attribute value and a user with complete attribute values for an attribute into a first group and a second group respectively, computing prior probability for each suggestive attribute value, identified for the incomplete attribute value, based on number of users in second group having the suggestive attribute value as attribute value for the attribute. Computing likelihood for each suggestive attribute value based on similarity of the attribute values of the user of the first group with users of the second group, computing a posterior probability for each suggestive attribute value based on the prior probability and the likelihood, selecting a suggestive attribute value with the highest posterior probability as the attribute value for the incomplete attribute value of the user.
US10742510B2	Method and device for commissioning of nodes of a network The present invention provides a method for commissioning of nodes of a network. The method comprises the steps of (S10) receiving, at a first node (30a) of the network, at least one indication message including identification information of a second node (30b) of the network; (S20) receiving, at the first node (30a), parameter information indicating a parameter sensed with at least one parameter sensor associated with the first node (30a); (S30) determining whether the at least one indication message and the parameter information temporarily correlate; and (S40), if a correlation is determined, adding correlation information about the second node (30b) to a register table of the first node (30a).
US10742509B2	Logical network configuration span Certain embodiments described herein are generally directed to determining the spans of logical entities in a logical network using a graph theoretic method. For example, in some embodiments, a configuration of the logical network is represented as a directed graph with labeled edges. The span of any logical entity in the logical network may then be computed based on the directed graph of the logical network. For example, for a given entity represented by a given node, the set of nodes that can be reached from the given node via span-depends-on edges only may be computed and referred to as the span base of the given node. Further, the set of all managed forwarding elements reachable from each node of the span base of the given node via contains edges only is the span for the given entity.
US10742507B2	Differential node configuration for network maintenance An operator node is configured to generate a visualization of the configurations of nodes communicatively coupled to the operator node via a network. The operator node scans target nodes in a network and identifies a set of attributes describing various configuration properties of each node. The operator node compares corresponding attributes across nodes and determines for each attribute a measure of variance. The variance for each attribute is displayed in a grid view, allowing a user to observe the level of similarity or dissimilarity of each attribute across the target nodes of the network. The operator node also defines and implements a policy describing a set of configuration properties with which target nodes must comply. The operator node determines if one or more target nodes is in violation of the policy, displays a differential visualization associated with each policy failure event, and enables an operator to re-configure target nodes accordingly.
US10742506B2	Policy-based storage service federation method and apparatus A method for performing policy-based storage service federation can include: identifying whether or not a policy is applicable for a request received from a client by a request interceptor; obtaining a policy by evaluating request information relating to the request and a policy status; and obtaining a customized set of storage services based on the policy. The method can provide a framework corresponding to a storage federation layer to allow fast application development.
US10742499B2	Distributed dynamic sizing and load self-management for a relay infrastructure A computer program product and a computer system for distributed dynamic sizing and load self-management for a relay infrastructure. Program instructions are executable to initiate, by the non-leaving relay in a relay infrastructure, an expansion process, in response to determining that a current load level reaches an expansion level and in response to determining that an overload condition of the relay infrastructure is satisfied; send to a server, by the non-leaving relay, an expansion message, in response to initiating the expansion process; send to the server, by the non-leaving relay, local statistics of endpoints of the non-leaving relay; shift, by the non-leaving relay, one or more endpoints of the non-leaving relay to a first new relay, in response to the server selecting from the endpoints an endpoint and converting the endpoint to the first new relay.
US10742495B2	Communication device, gateway node and methods for preparing a point-to-point session A method performed by a first communication device, for preparing a point-to-point, Pt2Pt, session with a second communication device is provided. The first communication device receives (202) from the second communication device, information about one or more communication protocol stacks that are supported by the second communication device for use in the Pt2Pt session. The first communication device obtains (208) a first communication protocol stack that is compatible with at least one out of the one or more protocol stacks that are supported by the second communication device. The first communication protocol stack will be used in the Pt2Pt session with the second communication device. The first communication device then re-configures (209) the first communication device to use the first communication protocol stack in the Pt2Pt session, and sends (210) a message to the second communication device. The message comprises information about said compatible first communication protocol stack which is to be used in the Pt2Pt session.
US10742494B2	System and method for configuring at least one sensor system of a vehicle A system for configuring at least one sensor system of a vehicle includes a processor, at least one sensor, and a memory device. The processor is configured to execute the method that includes the steps of, during a learning mode, receiving signals from the at least one sensor regarding one or more objects attached to the vehicle, storing in a memory device at least one location of one or more objects attached to the vehicle in the memory and detected by the at least one sensor. In an operating mode, the method includes the steps of receiving signals from the at least one sensor regarding the location of one or more objects external to the vehicle, determining if the location of any of the objects external to the vehicle are different from the locations of any objects stored in the memory device during the learning mode, and reporting to a vehicle system when one or more objects external to the vehicle have a one or more locations different from the locations stored in the memory device during the learning mode.
US10742493B1	Remote network interface card management Remote configuration of network interface cards (NICs) on appliances of a scaleable compute resource such as a frame-based system is disclosed. Frames may include a frame link module (FLM). Remote configuration of NICs may allow for multiple networks to be maintained in physical or logical isolation from each other. For example, a management data network may be maintained independently of an application data network. An FLM CPU may detect an appliance, validate compatibility for the appliance, a midplane, a PHY connection, etc. Commands from the FLM CPU may configure the independent networks. Independent networks may provide redundancy and segregation by data type. A controller area network (CAN) bus may deliver configuration commands to a NIC of an attached appliance. Air gap equivalent isolation of networks based on type of network may be achieved while maintaining redundancy of networks to address potential failure of individual components.
US10742492B2	Managing server nodes on a management network with modified service discovery protocol messages Managing server nodes on a management network with modified service discovery protocol messages including determining that a first management server requires management data for installation on a server node, wherein the first management server and the server node are communicatively coupled to a management network; determining that the required management data for installation on the server node is not stored on the first management server; broadcasting, on the management network, a first modified service discovery protocol (SDP) message requesting the required management data for installation on the server node; receiving, from a second management server communicatively coupled to the management network, a second modified SDP message providing the required management data for installation on the server node; and installing the required management data on the server node.
US10742484B1	Generating action suggestions based on anonymized data from multiple information technology environments Described herein are systems, methods, and software to enhance the management of responses to incidents. In one example, a method of improving incident response comprises identifying an incident in an information technology (IT) environment associated with a first entity of a plurality of entities, and identifying action implementation information related to the incident. The method further anonymizes the action implementation information for the incident, and determines action suggestions based at least on the anonymized action implementation information.
US10742482B2	Clustering event records representing anomalous events In some examples, a system generates event records representing anomalous events associated with respective devices in a network, each respective anomalous event of the anomalous events being identified as anomalous for a respective context of a device of the devices. The system clusters the event records to produce a plurality of clusters of the event records. The system outputs the plurality of clusters for application of a remediation of an issue in the network.
US10742481B2	Near real time analytics Techniques for performing near real-time analytics are provided. In one technique, different client devices generate different sets of events pertaining to the same or different media item. Events generated by one client device are assigned to one process (or machine) while events generated by another client device are assigned to a different process (or machine). Each process aggregates events assigned to it based on a time window to generate an aggregated event. The aggregated events are stored in persistent storage. In response to a request for a report that is associated with a media item, one or more of the aggregated events are retrieved from persistent storage and report data is generated based on the aggregated events. The report data is sent to the requestor for visual presentation.
US10742479B2	Management of events and moving objects A system comprising: an event server including a plurality of event agents for handling events occurring in a geographic space; a selector operable to select an event agent among the plurality of event agents for handling an event candidate based on a type of a source information; and a mobile object server including a mobile object agent assigned to a moving object in the geographic space, wherein the mobile object server is operable to execute the mobile object agent to collect information of an event from the selected event agent and provide the moving object with information that assists the moving object with traveling in the geographic space.
US10742477B2	Method for connecting web servers and web application servers and was admin server using the same A method for connecting webservers and web application servers (WAS's) is provided. The method includes steps of: (a) a WAS admin server, while managing multiple existing WAS managed servers and communicating with multiple existing webservers, if a new webserver except the multiple existing webservers or a new WAS managed server except the multiple existing WAS managed servers is determined as being operated, receiving connection state information of the new webserver or that of the new WAS managed server; and (b) the WAS admin server delivering the connection state information of the new webserver or that of the new WAS to the multiple existing WAS managed servers and the multiple existing webservers.
US10742476B2	Data packet processing method and device The present invention relates to the field of mobile communications technologies, and in particular, to a gateway system, so as resolve a technical problem of a complex network structure caused due to that different network architectures need different gateways. The gateway system provided in the present invention separates a control plane from a forwarding plane. A gateway controller is configured to complete a control function, and may control respective generation of control information for data packets of multiple different protocol types. A gateway forwarding device is responsible for forwarding, and may be controlled by the gateway controller to receive and send data packets of various protocol types. In a multi-standard access architecture, only one or few such gateway systems may need to be accessed instead of accessing multiple different gateways, thereby simplifying a network topology structure, and facilitating network maintenance.
US10742471B2	Transmitting apparatus and mapping method thereof A transmitting apparatus is disclosed. The transmitting apparatus includes an encoder to perform channel encoding with respect to bits and generate a codeword, an interleaver to interleave the codeword, and a modulator to map the interleaved codeword onto a non-uniform constellation according to a modulation scheme, and the constellation may include constellation points defined based on various tables according to the modulation scheme.
US10742469B2	Method and apparatus for determining time offset A method and an apparatus for determining a time offset are disclosed. The method includes: obtaining, by a device at a head end, a time-domain signal based on a received signal; and then determining a time offset based on values of peak-to-average ratios of a preset quantity of symbols starting from a qth symbol in the time-domain signal, where a peak-to-average ratio of the qth symbol is greater than a preset threshold. A new method for determining a time offset is provided, and takes advantages that the time-domain signal obtained by the device at the head end has stronger capabilities of resisting interference such as frequency offset and phase noise. The method for determining a time offset can be applied both to initial ranging and periodic ranging.
US10742468B2	Method and apparatus for transceiving a signal in a wireless communication system supporting zone-based communication The present disclosure is a method for transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system supporting a zone-based communication, the method performed in a drone, comprising: receiving a plurality of control signals from one or more base stations included in at least one cluster; combining the received control signals; and transmitting data to one or more base stations or perform a specific operation based on the combined control signal, and wherein the at least one cluster is included in a zone defined as a predetermined set of base stations for the drone.
US10742466B2	Wireless communication device and wireless communication method Provided are wireless communication devices and methods. A wireless communication device can comprise: circuitry operative to map at least a first type of reference signals (RSs) onto orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol (s) other than the OFDM symbols onto which shortened transmission time intervals (TTIs) are mapped in a subframe, each of the shortened TTIs comprising 1-7 OFDM symbols; and a transmitter operative to transmit a physical channel in one of the shortened TTIs and transmit at least the first type of RSs.
US10742465B2	Systems and methods for multi-physical structure system A method by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving a first physical signal, determining a first physical structure based on information in the first physical signal, and determining resource elements based on the first physical structure. A first set of subcarriers with first subcarrier spacing which is integer multiple or integer sub-multiple of second subcarrier spacing are mapped such that in addition to a slot boundary one or more of starting positions or ending positions of first subcarriers with the first subcarrier spacing in a first set of OFDM symbols are aligned with one or more of starting positions or ending positions of second subcarriers with the second subcarrier spacing in a second set of OFDM symbols.
US10742464B2	Method and system for multi-protocol transmissions Methods and systems for multi-protocol transmissions in shared spectrum are disclosed where an OFDM transmitter is configured to generate transmissions associated with one OFDM technology or protocol using subcarriers of another OFDM technology. Generally, multi-protocol transmissions as described herein may be performed sequentially (e.g. in a time division multiplexing fashion) or concurrently (e.g. during the same or an overlapping time interval). For concurrent transmissions, an OFDM transmitter may be configured to map or assign the different OFDM signals to different subsets of the available OFDM subcarriers such that the data contained therein can be transmitted at the same or during an overlapping time interval. In one application, an LTE transmitter is configured to use different subsets of the LTE subcarriers for concurrent LTE and 802.11 transmissions that can respectively be decoded by LTE and 802.11 receivers.
US10742456B2	Signal modulation method and device The present invention provides a signal modulation method. The method includes: generating a transmit signal pulse waveform, where a width of the pulse waveform is τ, each pulse waveform is associated with n symbols (n>1), a width of each symbol is Δτ, and Δτ = τ n ; performing an operation on every n consecutive symbols in a to-be-sent symbol flow and the pulse waveform according to a preset operation manner, to generate an associated signal of the symbols and the pulse waveform; and sending the associated signal by using a transmission channel. The present invention helps improve spectral efficiency of a system. In addition, symbols are mutually constrained based on a correlation between the symbols, and information symbols are scattered to a plurality of symbols, thereby helping improve a capability of resisting noise and attenuation by a signal.
US10742455B2	Equalizer adjusting device, equalizer adjusting method, receiver, and signal transmitting and receiving system An equalizer adjusting device includes a comparator, an inequality counter, an adjuster, and the like. The comparator performs magnitude comparison between a voltage value Vout of each bit output from an equalizer and a threshold value MonLVL and outputs a logical value MonSMP according to a result of the comparison. The inequality counter inputs a logical value DatSMP output from a sampler in accordance with the result of magnitude comparison between the voltage value Vout of each bit and a reference value, and the logical value MonSMP output from the comparator and counts events in which the logical value DatSMP and the logical value MonSMP differ from each other, every period. The adjuster adjusts a gain of the equalizer and the threshold value MonLVL of the comparator based on a counted value of the inequality counter.
US10742454B2	Transmission device, transmission method, reception device, and reception method Provided is a transmission device of a single carrier frequency-domain equalization scheme having a circuit in which a cyclic prefix (CP) and an overlap margin (OM) are inserted, and a time-domain windowing processing circuit to which is input a transmission symbol into which the CP and the OM have been inserted. The time-domain windowing processing circuit multiplies an arbitrary time-domain window function and suppresses out-of-band emission. In the time-domain windowing processing circuit, a window transition length of the time-domain window function is equal to or larger than a length of the CP.
US10742450B2	Device and method for generating channel estimation coefficients for channel estimation filtering A channel estimation coefficients generator (200) for generating channel estimation coefficients for channel estimation filtering includes: a parameter acquisition unit (205) configured to acquire a first set of input parameters (208) and to acquire a second set of input parameters (209), wherein a time variability of the first set of input parameters (208) is smaller than a time variability of the second set of input parameters (209); a first channel estimation coefficients generator (201) configured to generate a prototype set of channel estimation coefficients (202) based on the first set of input parameters (208); and a second channel estimation coefficients generator (203) configured to generate a refined set of channel estimation coefficients (204) based on the prototype set of channel estimation coefficients (202) and based on the second set of input parameters (209).
US10742447B2	Connecting to multiple cloud instances in a telecommunications network Aspects of the disclosure involve systems and methods for utilizing Virtual Local Area Network separation in a connection, which may be a single connection, between a customer to a telecommunications network and a cloud environment to allow the customer to access multiple instances within the cloud through the connection. A customer may purchase multiple cloud resource instances from a public cloud environment and, utilizing the telecommunications network, connect to the multiple instances through a communication port or connection to the cloud environment. To utilize the single connection or port, communication packets intended for the cloud environment may be tagged with a VLAN tag that indicates to which cloud instance the packet is intended. The telecommunications network may route the packet to the intended cloud environment and configure one or more aspects of the cloud environment to analyze the attached VLAN tag to transmit the packet to the intended instance.
US10742442B2	Cluster of smart devices operable in hub-based and hub-less modes In a cluster of smart devices, an active device is selectably operable in either a hub-based mode under commands received from a control hub, or in a hub-less mode, where the active device autonomously decides how to respond to current states reported by other smart devices of the cluster. Optionally, an active device operating in hub-based mode automatically switches to hub-less mode upon failing to communicate with the control hub or upon detecting malfunction of the control hub.
US10742441B2	Unified building management system A controller for a space controls a plurality of devices, where each device is associated with one of a plurality of different building domains. The controller includes one or more processors operably coupled to one or more computer-readable storage media and configured to execute instructions stored in the computer-readable storage media to determine a plurality of use cases defined for the space, each use case associated with a required set of building domains, determine, for each of the different building domains, whether devices of building equipment are operational to serve the space, determine a set of enabled use cases by, for each use case, enabling the use case if devices of building equipment are operational to serve the space for each building domain in the required set of the different building domains and control the plurality of devices in accordance with the set of enabled use cases.
US10742439B2	Communication adapter When a smartphone, which is an operation terminal connectable to the Internet, receives input for change in hot-water set temperature of a hot water supply device having a hot-water supply function, and the hot-water set temperature after the change instructed by the input for change is within a predetermined high-temperature region, then a request for input of a password is generated for the smartphone. When a password input to the smartphone matches with a predetermined registered password, an instruction for change in hot-water set temperature generated in accordance with the input for change is input to the hot water supply device via a communication adapter.
US10742437B2	Method for exchanging information between a household appliance and a mobile device The invention relates to a method for exchanging information between a household appliance (1) and a mobile device (2), the method comprising the steps of: providing optical information at a graphical user interface (3) of the household appliance (1) (S10); preferably, aligning the mobile device (2) with respect to the household appliance (1) based on one or more markers (4) displayed at a graphical user interface (5) of the mobile device (2) or based on a time-invariant portion of provided optical information (S11); receiving optical information at the mobile device (2) by capturing said optical information provided at the household appliance (1) by a camera (6) of the mobile device (2) (S12); processing said received optical information at the mobile device (1) in order to derive an information message included in said received optical information (S13); providing said information message or information associated with said information message at a user interface of the mobile device (2) (S14).
US10742436B2	Method and system for recording a multiuser web session and replaying a multiuser web session A method for recording a multiuser web session includes recording events, data requests and corresponding data responses of the multiuser web session according to their occurrence. A method for replaying a multiuser web session includes replaying events, data requests and corresponding data responses of a recorded multiuser web session. This can be performed by scheduling the events, data requests and corresponding data responses according to their recorded occurrence, transferring the scheduled events, data requests and corresponding data responses to a client for replaying and replaying the recorded multiuser web session based on the scheduled events, data requests and corresponding data responses.
US10742432B2	Facilitating a user in joining a conference call Embodiments generally relate to assisting a user in joining a conference call. In some embodiments, a method includes determining that a user who has a first conference call and a second conference call that are scheduled back-to-back, where the determining of the first conference call and the second conference call being scheduled back-to-back triggers an instruction to notify the user when to join the second conference call. The method further includes determining a threshold event associated with the second call, where the threshold event is based at least in part on one or more predetermined triggering criteria. The method further includes detecting that the first conference call is still in progress and the second conference call has begun. The method further includes detecting the threshold event. The method further includes notifying the user to join the second conference call in response to detection of an occurrence of the threshold event.
US10742430B2	Information processing apparatus and information processing method An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor assigns priority levels to respective logics arranged in a chain graph. Each logic is activated by an input event to generate an output event. The processor allocates tokens to the logics based on the priority levels. The processor estimates, for each of the logics, a total number of generated output events to obtain an expected amount of tokens corresponding to the total number. The processor compares, for each of the logics, the expected amount of tokens to an amount of the allocated tokens to determine whether each of the logics has a surplus or a shortage in the allocated tokens. The processor adjusts a frequency of activating each of logics having the shortage. The processor calculates a total amount of the surplus. The processor reallocates the total amount of the surplus to the logics having the shortage.
US10742421B1	Methods and systems for anonymous hardware attestation A method performing anonymous hardware attestation. A local software monitor is loaded at an originating device. The local software monitor may receive at least a command to execute at least a program and execute the at least a program by performing a series of authentications. Originating device activates a secure computing module located within originating device to generate a secure proof a device specific secret of the originating device. The originating device generates a digital signature conferring a credential on the local software module. The originating device deactivates the secure computing module upon generating the digital signature.
US10742420B1	Quantum-resistant double signature system An example method includes receiving a messageDigest attribute value comprising a hash of content. The messageDigest attribute value is digitally signed with a first private key associated with the message computing system using a quantum-resistant signature algorithm to generate a quantum-resistant digital signature value. A QSignerinfo type is generated that includes at least one of a public key identifier of the public key and the quantum-resistant digital signature value. A QSignerinfo attribute is generated that identifies the QSignerinfo type. The QSignerinfo attribute is transmitted to a recipient. the recipient digitally signs the QSignerinfo attribute with a second private key associated with the recipient using a quantum-vulnerable signature algorithm to generate a double signature value. Origin authenticity of the double signature value can be determined by using a second public key of the recipient, the second public key of a second public/private key pair including the second private key.
US10742419B2	Validation cryptogram for transaction A method for validating an interaction is disclosed. A first interaction cryptogram can be generated by a first device using information about a first party to the interaction and a second party to the interaction. A second interaction cryptogram can be generated by a second device also using information about the first party to the interaction and the second party to the interaction. Verifying each cryptogram can validate that the interaction details have not been changed, and that both the first party and second party legitimately authorized the interaction.
US10742405B2	Method and system for generation of cipher round keys by bit-mixers System and methods for generating round keys for a cryptographic operation are disclosed. The systems and method can use logic circuits that are operable to: obtain first inputs and second inputs; perform a bit-mixer operation on each of the first inputs and the second inputs; and generate round keys based on the performing the bit-mixer operation. The first inputs include a plurality of equal sized subkeys from a key material that is divided into a plurality of equal sized key material sub-blocks, a cipher key and the second inputs include a random input, one or more previous round keys, a round number. The cryptographic operation includes a cipher, a hash function, or a stream generator. The bit-mixer operation includes an exclusive-OR (XOR) tree, a substitution-permutation network, or a double-mix Feistel network, or a Rotate-Add-XOR (RAX) construction.
US10742404B2	System and asynchronous protocol for verifiable secret sharing Described is a system for verifiable secret sharing amongst a plurality of servers, including a dealer server and one or more recipient servers. In operation, the dealer server encrypts a secret s using a polynomial and a hash tree with points on the polynomial as leaves. The dealer broadcasts to recipient servers hash tree data, root of the hash tree, and shares of the secret. Through an evaluation process the recipient servers are verified such that upon verification, the recipient servers reconstruct the secret s.
US10742403B2	Access key transmission over personal area networks in vehicles A vehicle includes a controller. The controller is configured to send a nonce encrypted according to a symmetric encryption key. The nonce is sent responsive to receiving a pair request over a personal area network from a nomadic device outside the vehicle. The controller is further configured to initialize a secure connection using a random key and permit vehicle access according to data received via the secure connection. The initialization is responsive to receiving a concatenation of the random key and an incrementation of the nonce encrypted with the symmetric encryption key.
US10742402B2	Method and system for key generation, distribution and management A method for securing communications for a given network topology is provided. The method comprises generating by a node N(i) of the network, security parameters for the node N(i); transmitting by the node N(i), said security parameters to a controller for the network; maintaining by the controller said security parameters for the node N(i); receiving by the controller a request from a node N(j) for the security parameters for the node N(i); retrieving by the controller the security parameters for the node N(i); and transmitting by the controller said security parameters to the node N(j).
US10742400B2	Datastream block encryption In some examples, a non-transitory machine readable storage medium has machine readable instructions to cause a computer processor to segment a datastream into a plurality of equal length blocks each of which has a fixed length, separately encrypt each equal length block using a first encryption key, swap a subset of bits of a first encrypted equal length block with a subset of bits of a second encrypted equal length block such that both of the blocks each have a length equal to the fixed length, and separately encrypt each block using a second encryption key.
US10742396B2	Securing communications for roaming user equipment (UE) using a native blockchain platform A network function (NF) entity in a communication network receives authentication data associated with a User Equipment (UE), determines the UE supports a blockchain registration procedure based on the authentication data, exchanges authentication messages with a Blockchain Roaming Broker (BRB) entity over a blockchain network interface, receives a blockchain authentication confirmation from the BRB entity, and registers the UE with the core network based on the blockchain authentication confirmation.
US10742394B2	Key sequence generation for cryptographic operations Methods, system and devices are provided that generate a sequence of sub-keys for cryptographic operations from a main key. The main key is operated on only once to generate the sub-keys of the sequence, with a transformation comprising one or more one-way functions. The respective bit values of the sub-keys of the sequence are set using respective bit values of the one or more one-way functions. Advantageously, deriving sub-key bits from respective output bits of one or more one-way functions removes or at least reduces correlations between the main key and the sub-keys, as well as between sub-keys, making it harder or even impossible to recover the main key or other sub-keys from a single sub-key, for example as found using a side-channel attack. At the same time, by using the main key only once (rather than using the main key each time a sub-key is generated), the vulnerability of the main key to a side-channel attack is reduced, because the opportunities for recovering physical information that could lead to the discovery of the main key are reduced. Specific embodiments use parallel or chained execution of sub-functions to generate respective sub-keys. Other specific embodiments generate all sub-keys from a single one-way function in one go.
US10742393B2	Confidentiality in a consortium blockchain network The disclosed technology is generally directed to blockchain technology. In one example of the technology, a pre-determined type of blockchain protocol code is stored in a trusted execution environment (TEE) of a processor. TEE attestation is used to verify that the blockchain protocol code stored in the TEE is the pre-determined type of blockchain protocol code. A blockchain transaction is received. The blockchain transaction is processed while disallowing access to raw transaction data. A state of the processed blockchain is updated for a blockchain network based on the processing of the blockchain transaction, while disallowing access to raw transaction data.
US10742392B2	Methods, systems, and computer readable media for scrambled communication of data to, from, or over a medium The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable medium for scrambled communication of data to, from, or over a medium. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for communicating data in scrambled form to or over a medium. The method includes receiving analog or digital data to be transmitted to or over a medium. The method further includes modulating samples representing at least signal using the analog or digital data to produce data modulated signal samples. The method further includes scrambling the data modulated signal samples using a predetermined scrambling algorithm. The method further includes transmitting the scrambled data modulated signal samples to or over the medium. The method further includes descrambling samples received from the medium using the inverse of the predetermined scrambling algorithm to obtain the unscrambled modulated signal samples, which can then be demodulated to retrieve original data.
US10742388B2	Full duplex wireless transmission with self-interference cancellation Two-way (full-duplex) wireless communications. Various embodiments measure interference channels and provide for interference cancellation in both analog and digital domains to mitigate self-interference. The system supports multiple clients wherein new clients can join the network asynchronously, and also supports Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antennas.
US10742387B2	Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, communication method, and integrated circuit A terminal apparatus includes a receiver receiving first system information broadcasted using a first subcarrier spacing, acquiring information of a second subcarrier spacing included in the first system information, receiving second system information broadcasted using the second subcarrier spacing, acquiring a parameter included in the second system information and needed for random access processing, and acquiring information of an uplink subcarrier spacing included in the second system information, and a transmitter transmitting a random access preamble based on the parameter needed for the random access processing.
US10742386B2	Method and apparatus for determining resource block group size A method and an apparatus for determining an RBG size are provided. In the method, a network device or a terminal determines an RBG size set, where the RBG size set may include one or more possible RBG sizes; and determines a first RBG size included in the RBG size set. The network device allocates a resource to the terminal by using the determined first RBG size. The terminal determines, based on the determined first RBG size, the resource allocated by the network device to the terminal.
US10742380B2	Method for transmitting V2X message performed by terminal in wireless communication system, and terminal using the method The present invention relates to a method for transmitting a vehicle to X (V2X) message performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system, characterized by mapping a coded symbol related to the V2X message on a subframe, and transmitting the V2X message based on the subframe, wherein a plurality of systematic bits and a plurality of parity bits are mapped on the subframe based on the mapping by the coded symbol.
US10742379B2	Uplink control information handling for new radio A method of uplink control information (UCI) transmission over physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) is proposed. The UCI may include different information and being transmitted using different PUCCH formats. Under certain scenarios, the coded UCI bitstream size may not be assigned to an integer number of modulated symbols. To eliminate unnecessary processing as well as to utilize every bit in a modulated resource element, it is proposed to adjust the UCI codeword size to be a multiple of PUCCH modulation order.
US10742378B2	Method for transmitting pilot signal, method for receiving pilot signal, base station, and user equipment Embodiments of the present application provide a method for transmitting a pilot signal, a method for receiving a pilot signal, a base station, and a user equipment. The method for transmitting the pilot signal includes: determining a physical resource block pair which is used for carrying a user-dedicated pilot signal, where first five orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in a first time slot of the physical resource block pair include all resource elements used for carrying the user-dedicated pilot signal; and transmitting the physical resource block pair which is used for carrying the user-dedicated pilot signal. The method for transmitting the pilot signal, the method for receiving the pilot signal, the base station, and the user equipment according to embodiments of the present application can improve communication data demodulation performance of a user equipment.
US10742376B2	Aperiodic SRS transmission method and apparatus Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an aperiodic SRS transmission method and an apparatus, and relate to the communications field, so as to resolve a problem that an existing terminal device cannot send an aperiodic SRS on a carrier of an unlicensed spectrum. The transmission method includes: obtaining, by a terminal device, first indication information, where the first indication information is used to instruct the terminal device to send an aperiodic sounding reference signal SRS on a first symbol in a first subframe; and sending, by the terminal device, the aperiodic SRS on the first symbol based on the first indication information.
US10742375B2	Timing relationships of pilot and data for mobile network communications The invention is directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for determining timing relationships of pilot and data in mobile network communications. Specifically, an uplink (UL) transmission is received at a base station (BS) from a user equipment (UE) in network communication with the BS via a communication channel. Based on the UL transmission, a channel coherence time is determined indicating a period of time during which the communication channel is considered to be substantially unchanged. In response, a total transmission duration is determined based on the channel coherence time indicating a period of time associated with transmission of a data frame.
US10742374B2	Systems and methods for providing high data throughput in 6 GHz Wi-Fi network A method for allowing wireless communication between an access point and a wireless station in a wireless communication network includes: providing at least one from a combination of a 2.4 GHz frequency band and a 5 GHz frequency band; providing a frequency band including a 6 GHz frequency band for allowing wireless data communication; assigning a first data communication channel having a first frequency bandwidth in the frequency band including the 6 GHz frequency band between the access point and the wireless station; and transmitting data packets between the access point and the wireless station via the first data communication channel in the frequency band including the 6 GHz frequency band. Each of the 2.4 GHz frequency band and the 5 GHz frequency band includes a plurality of subchannels having a first base frequency bandwidth of 20 MHz, and the frequency band including the 6 GHz frequency band includes a plurality of subchannels having a second base frequency bandwidth that is larger than the first base frequency bandwidth.
US10742369B2	Apparatus and method for receiving signal in wireless communication system An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first antenna for a first band and a second band, a second antenna for the second band and a third band and a pre-processing unit configured to generate, based on identifying a frequency band of a first signal received via the first antenna and a frequency band of a second signal received via the second antenna are the second band, a pre-processed signal by combining the first signal and the second signal based on a ratio of a weight factor, and to transmit the pre-processed signal to a first radio frequency (RF) receiver.
US10742365B2	Apparatus and method for radio communication To enable delivery confirmation for data transmitted from a base station to a terminal apparatus via the access point. An apparatus according to an example aspect of the present invention includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire a data unit from a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer of a base station, and a communication processing unit configured to transmit the data unit to a terminal apparatus via an access point of a wireless local area network using a protocol enabling delivery confirmation.
US10742364B2	Method for establishing downlink HARQ-ACK timing and apparatus therefor Provided area a method for establishing downlink (DL) HARQ-ACK timing, and an apparatus therefor. The method establishes downlink HARQ-ACK timing when a primary cell and a secondary cell having different duplex modes are established for a user equipment. The user equipment receives a DL signal on the secondary cell. The user equipment applies HARQ-ACK timing established to be used in the duplex mode of the primary cell as HARQ-ACK timing regarding the received downlink signal.
US10742362B2	Method for uplink transmission in wireless communication system, and device therefor According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method by which a terminal configured to have two or more processing times transmits a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, a downlink control channel for indicating a downlink data channel, and the downlink data channel in one or more downlink subframes; and transmitting, to the base station, HARQ-ACK information on the downlink data channel in an uplink subframe corresponding to the one or more downlink subframes, wherein the HARQ-ACK information transmitted in the uplink subframe includes HARQ-ACK information on a downlink data channel in accordance with only one processing time among the two or more processing times, and cannot include HARQ-ACK information on a downlink data channel in accordance with the rest processing times.
US10742361B2	Method and network node for managing HARQ attempts parameter for D2D links A network node (110), a first device (111) and methods therein for managing a HARQ parameter indicating a number of autonomous HARQ transmission attempts to be applied for a transmission on at least one D2D link between the first device (111) and the second device (112) are disclosed. The method comprises determining (A010) a load relating to D2D communication between at least the first and second devices (111, 112). Next, the HARQ parameter is determined (A020) based on the load. Corresponding computer programs and carriers therefor are also disclosed.
US10742360B2	Layer mapping, CSI feedback and HARQ feedback in mobile communications Techniques and examples of layer mapping, channel state information (CSI) feedback and hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback in mobile communications are described. A user equipment (UE) receives from a base station one or more reference signals, which may be non-zero power (NZP) or zero power (ZP), on one or more time-frequency resources indicated by a network via a communication link between the UE and the base station. The UE estimates, based on the receiving, a subspace spanned by a channel response of an interfering signal. The UE determines a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) based on the estimated subspace. The UE transmits to the base station a channel state information (CSI) feedback comprising at least the PMI. The PMI may include at least a first precoder and a second precoder.
US10742348B2	Transport data reduction for DAS systems An endpoint element of a distributed antenna system includes processing circuitry configured for processing a plurality of digital signals for conditioning the signals and compression circuitry configured for compressing at least one of the digital signals according to a compression scheme to yield at least one compressed digital signal and compression settings. The digital signals are combined into a single digital stream and combined and time division multiplexed onto a serial data link with the compression settings. The digital signals are also transmitted with compression settings to another endpoint element over the serial data link.
US10742342B2	Systems and methods for small cell uplink interference cancellation using cooperation between small cells A method of managing uplink interference at a base station includes: detecting uplink interference caused by one or more inter-cell user equipments to an uplink channel of a base station, the one or more inter-cell user equipments associated with a neighboring base station; receiving, at the base station, assistance information from the neighboring base station, the assistance information comprising a parameter list of ongoing transmissions by the one or more user equipments associated with the neighboring base station; and performing uplink interference cancellation, at the base station, on at least a portion of a received signal based on the assistance information to generate a resulting signal.
US10742340B2	System and method for identifying the context of multimedia content elements displayed in a web-page and providing contextual filters respective thereto A method and system for providing contextual filters respective of an identified context of a plurality of multimedia content elements are provided. The method comprises receiving the plurality of multimedia content elements; generating at least one signature for each of the plurality of multimedia content elements; determining a context of each of the plurality of multimedia content elements based on its respective at least one signature, wherein a context is determined as the correlation among a plurality of cluster of signatures; and providing at least one contextual filter respective of the context of each of the plurality of multimedia content elements.
US10742332B2	Transmitter-receiver comprising an electronic chip A transmitter-receiver includes an electronic chip a mixer for mixing the frequency of a received radio frequency signal with that of an oscillating signal supplied by a first frequency synthesizer in, a switch having two inputs connected to an output of the mixer and to an auxiliary input terminal, a filter and gain stage connected to the output of the switch, and a modulator-demodulator connected to the output of the filter and gain stage. The first frequency synthesizer is connected between the output of the modulator-demodulator and radio frequency input and output terminal, and configured to supply a frequency-modulated signal to the radio frequency input and output terminal. The electronic chip further includes a second frequency synthesizer connected between the output of the modulator-demodulator and an auxiliary output terminal, and configured to synthesize a modulated low-frequency signal supplied by the auxiliary output terminal, whereby the center value of the low frequency is equal to the value of the intermediate frequency.
US10742324B1	Bias control of optical modulators A semiconductor-based Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) is configured for push-pull bias dithering to control the MZM bias at a desired set point. When two such MZM modulators are connected in parallel to form an IQ modulator, bias settings for both MZMs and the IQ bias may be controlled from an output of the IQ modulator to minimize both the IQ offset and the quadrature error of the output signal constellation even for non-ideal MZMs with low extinction ratios.
US10742323B1	Optical transceiver An optical transceiver includes a housing, a fastening component, and a bail. The fastening component is movably disposed on the housing and configured to be detachably fastened with the cage. The bail is pivoted on the fastening component and includes a holding portion. The holding portion is configured to abut the housing to maintain a pivot angle between the bail and the fastening component.
US10742320B2	Method for transmitting a binary data signal to or from a satellite via an optical feeder link A method for transmitting a binary data signal to or from a satellite via an optical feeder link, wherein an optical transmitting interface carries out the following steps multiplexing binary physical layer frames which are associated with a plurality of carriers or a plurality of beams in a satellite communication system into a single bit stream, inserting a binary physical layer frame identification sequence upstream of each physical layer frame, wherein the physical layer frame identification sequence comprises: a unique binary synchronization sequence, a binary beam index sequence, a binary carrier frequency index sequence, a binary baud rate index sequence, a binary roll-off factor index sequence, a binary modulation index sequence.
US10742313B1	System to optimize allocation and usage of resources, goods, and services among nodes in a cluster of nodes and a method for the optimal and transparent exchange of resources, goods, and services among nodes in a cluster of nodes A system and a method are disclosed to optimize use of resources and services among a number of nodes, which could be software programs, individuals, machines, organizations or any entity that can exchange resources, goods and services with other entities. Platform not just facilitates exchange and sharing of resources and services, but also lower substantially legal cost and time for short or long term cooperation among entities.
US10742311B2	Simplified inter-satellite link communications using orbital plane crossing to optimize inter-satellite data transfers In a method and apparatus for inter-satellite communications, transmissions between a satellite and neighboring satellites that share an orbital plane occur via an aft antenna or a forward antenna and transmissions between the satellite and neighboring satellites that do not share an orbital plane occur via the aft antenna or the forward antenna timed during orbital plane crossings. This occurs even if the total path length and number of links is higher than inter-satellite communications that use side-to-side transfers.
US10742310B1	Vehicle communication system and method A system for communicating within a vehicle includes a cabin manager unit (CMU) in the vehicle. The CMU is configured to perform operations including ranking a plurality of frequency ranges used by a panel in the vehicle based at least partially upon one or more metrics of the frequency ranges. The operations also include receiving a first command signal from the panel in a first of the frequency ranges. The first frequency range is selected based at least partially upon the ranking.
US10742309B2	Spatial router with dynamic queues Fifty seven percent of the world's population, some 4.2 billion people, reside in places without internet access. Consequently, these areas also have no or limited infrastructure to deploy Internet of Things (IoT) devices/sensors. Numerous companies are racing to fill this communication gap and provide internet not only to those without internet but to also improve and provide additional options to those with internet access. One exemplary aspect is capable of providing a technically unique lower-cost solution for internet connectivity, and in particular for applications requiring real-time and/or near-real-time connectivity.
US10742302B2	Wireless communication device transceiving signals by using carrier aggregation in multi input multi output system A wireless communication device for transceiving signals by using carrier aggregation is provided. The wireless communication device includes a first antenna configured to transmit a first signal to an outside of the wireless communication device or receive a second signal from the outside; a first transmitter connected to the first antenna via a first node and configured to generate the first signal by combining plural transmitting carrier signals received over a plural transmitting carriers; and a first receiver connected to the first antenna via the first node and configured to divide the second signal into a plural receiving carrier signals received over a plural receiving carriers. The first receiver includes a first receiving amplifier commonly connected to a plural carrier receivers configured to amplify the second signal received from the first antenna and to divide the receiving carrier signals, respectively.
US10742301B2	Network node and method performed thereby for scheduling transmissions between the network node and one or more wireless devices A network node and a method performed by the network node for scheduling transmissions between the network node and one or more wireless devices in the same physical layer resources are provided. The method comprises selecting a beam for a transmission between the network node and a first one of the wireless devices; and determining if a portion of physical layer resources remains available after allocating portions of physical layer resources to a first set of one or more wireless devices within transmission range of the selected beam. The method further comprises if at least a portion of physical layer resources remains available, adjusting the selected beam such that a second set of one or more additional wireless devices not within transmission range of the initially selected beam are within transmission range of the adjusted beam.
US10742300B2	Communication method, network device, and terminal device A communication method, a network device, and a terminal device the method including sending, by a network device, instruction information to a terminal device in a first time period by using a first serving beam, where the instruction information is used to instruct the terminal device to communicate with the network device in a second time period by using a second serving beam, and communicating, by the network device, with the terminal device in the second time period by using the second serving beam according to the instruction information, where the first time period is earlier than the second time period.
US10742299B2	Allocation and directional information distribution in millimeter wave WLAN networks A wireless communication apparatus, system or method utilizing directional data transmission over a communication (e.g., mmW) band, and broadcasting time and directional allocations in each direction. Stations sending beacons containing time and directional allocations in its direction of transmission. Stations comparing beam identifications with received allocation to determine if the allocation is in the direction of reception. Stations performing receiver beamforming with a station from which a beacon was received in order to determine if the station can access the direction (channel) in its intended direction.
US10742297B2	CQI and PMI offset for unlicensed EMTC transmission An apparatus and method for CSI reporting in the unlicensed band are described. CRS-RSs are transmitted from a RAN in narrowband data channels in the unlicensed band to an eMTC UE. The UE determines the CQI and PMI from the CRS-RSs and transmits a periodic CSI report to the RAN that contains the CQI and PMI. The periodic CSI report is received at a nsfrel th subframe of a nmframeth mframe, where nmframe satisfies nmframe mod Npd,mframe=NOFFSET,mframe where Nmframe is a reporting period in terms of mframes and NOFFSET,mframe is a reporting period offset in terms of mframes, and nsfrel satisfies nsfrel−20=NOFFSET,CQI where NOFFSET,CQI is a reporting period offset in subframes.
US10742296B2	Multi-user multiple-input multiple-output U-MIMO data transmission method and base station Embodiments of this application provide a MU-MIMO data transmission method, to implement pairing scheduling on UE and improve resource usage. The method includes: obtaining, by a base station, a first precoding matrix indicator PMI of first user equipment UE, where a first rank of the first UE is 1; obtaining, by the base station, a second PMI of second UE, where a second rank of the second UE is 1, and a weighted value corresponding to the first PMI and a weighted value corresponding to the second PMI form a weighted value corresponding to a third PMI whose rank is 2; and separately performing, by the base station by using the third PMI and a same time-frequency resource, data transmission with the first UE and the second UE that are paired, where a pairing gain of the first UE and the second UE is greater than a preset threshold.
US10742292B2	CSI feedback method, precoding method, and apparatus Disclosed are a channel state information (CSI) feedback method, a precoding method, and an apparatus. In the present invention, a terminal obtains, according to the number of downlink transport layers, a first precoding matrix set that is located on a first subband and that is corresponding to the number of the downlink transport layers, the first precoding matrix set comprising one or more precoding matrices, and a physical resource in the first subband being corresponding to a precoding matrix in the first precoding matrix set; the terminal determines a channel quality indicator (CQI) on a second subband according to downlink channel information and the first precoding matrix set on the first subband; and the terminal feeds back the CSI, the CSI comprising one or more of the following information: an RI used for indicating the number of the downlink transport layers, a PMI used for indicating the first precoding matrix set on the first subband and the CQI on the second subband. The technical solution disclosed in the resent invention can reduce signaling overheads of feeding back CSI by a terminal.
US10742290B2	High-resolution CSI reporting based on unequal bit allocation in advanced wireless communication systems Methods and apparatuses for reporting a precoding matrix indicator (PMI). A user equipment (UE) includes a processor configured to generate a report for a PMI. The report includes (i) a wideband amplitude coefficient indicator that is common for a plurality of subbands configured for reporting and (ii) a subband amplitude coefficient indicator and a subband phase coefficient indicator for each of the subbands. The UE further includes a transceiver operably connected to the processor. The transceiver configured to transmit the generated report for the PMI to a base station.
US10742283B2	Transmit diversity schemes for uplink sequence transmissions Transmit diversity schemes may be used for sending sequence-based signals over multiple antennas. For example, a user equipment (UE) may determine an uplink sequence to be transmitted to a base station using multiple antennas. The UE may utilize a transmit diversity scheme for the multiple-antenna transmission of the uplink sequence, where the transmit diversity scheme utilized may be based on a number of symbol periods during which the sequence is transmitted. In accordance with the transmit diversity scheme, the UE may use multiple transmit antennas to transmit different sequences from respective antennas. In other examples, the UE may transmit the uplink sequence using different time or frequency resources. Additionally, the UE may use some combination of different transmit diversity schemes for sequence-based signals. In some aspects, the base station may provide an indication of the transmit diversity scheme that the UE is to use for transmitting the uplink sequence.
US10742278B2	Lattice reduction-aided symbol detection An orthogonalization matrix calculation circuit may include a scaling coefficient calculation circuit configured to calculate a scaling coefficient for each of a plurality of candidate update operations for the orthogonalization matrix, wherein each of the plurality of candidate update operations comprises combining linearly at least one of a first column or a second column of the orthogonalization matrix previously utilized to update the orthogonalization matrix, an update operation selection circuit configured to select an optimum candidate update operation from the plurality of candidate update operations, and a matrix update circuit configured to update the orthogonalization matrix according to the scaling coefficient of the optimum candidate update operation.
US10742275B2	Quad-sector antenna using circular polarization Systems and methods for providing a MIMO capable antenna with unique properties are provided herein. In some embodiments, a 4×4 MIMO capable antenna is provided with unique properties. Circular polarization from the antennas ensures that both vertical and horizontal polarizations are energized to the full extent provided by local regulations. A system includes a radio and a plurality of antennas coupled to the radio, the plurality of antennas servicing a broadcast area that has a 360 degree coverage area. Each of the plurality of antennas transmits and receives in an isolated sub-sector of the 360 degree coverage area.
US10742268B2	Motion prediction for wireless power transfer A signal generator generates an electrical signal that is sent to an amplifier, which increases the power of the signal using power from a power source. The amplified signal is fed to a sender transducer to generate ultrasonic waves that can be focused and sent to a receiver. The receiver transducer converts the ultrasonic waves back into electrical energy and stores it in an energy storage device, such as a battery, or uses the electrical energy to power a device. In this way, a device can be remotely charged or powered without having to be tethered to an electrical outlet.
US10742267B2	Beam interaction control for wireless power transfer A signal generator generates an electrical signal that is sent to an amplifier, which increases the power of the signal using power from a power source. The amplified signal is fed to a sender transducer to generate ultrasonic waves that can be focused and sent to a receiver. The receiver transducer converts the ultrasonic waves back into electrical energy and stores it in an energy storage device, such as a battery, or uses the electrical energy to power a device. In this way, a device can be remotely charged or powered without having to be tethered to an electrical outlet.
US10742257B1	System and method for demodulating code shift keying data from a satellite signal utilizing a binary search A Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver demodulates code shift keying (CSK) data utilizing a binary search. The GNSS receiver receives a signal including a pseudorandom noise (PRN) code modulated by code shift keying (CSK) to represent a symbol (i.e., CSK modulated symbol). The GNSS receiver maintains a plurality of receiver codes each representing a different shift in chips to the PRN code. The GNSS receiver performs a linear combination of portions of the receiver codes. In an embodiment, the GNSS receiver compares correlation power level value for respective portions of the receiver codes to demodulate the CSK data. In a further embodiment, the GNSS receiver compares the correlation power level values for portions of receiver codes with power detection threshold values to demodulate the CSK data. In a further embodiment, the GNSS receiver utilizes signs of the correlation power level values to demodulate the CSK data.
US10742256B2	Transmitting spread signal in communication system The present invention provides for transmitting a spread signal in a mobile communication system. The present invention includes spreading a signal using a plurality of spreading codes, wherein the plurality of spreading codes have a spreading factor, multiplexing the spread signal by code division multiplexing, transmitting the multiplexed signal via a plurality of neighboring frequency resources of one OFDM symbol of a first antenna set, and transmitting the same multiplexed signal via a plurality of neighboring frequency resources of one OFDM symbol of a second antenna set.
US10742255B2	Data compression method and device The present disclosure relates to the field of mobile communications, and in particular, to a data compression method and device. In order to solve the problem of low compression efficiency in the prior art, the method comprises: sampling an obtained baseband signal and obtaining a number of discrete baseband signals to achieve an initial compression; calculating amplitude and phase values of each discrete baseband signal, on the basis of bit widths preset for the adjusted amplitude value and the phase value, carrying out a bit-truncating on the adjusted amplitude value and the phase value respectively, and combining the truncated phase value data and amplitude value data to obtain the final compressed discrete baseband signal. In this way, by truncating bits according to the preset bit width without distortion, the data bits of the baseband signal can be reduced accordingly, thereby reducing the amount of transmitted data, effectively improving the compression efficiency, and thus saving fiber resources.
US10742252B2	Radio base station and system having said radio base station The invention relates to a base station or a radio access point having a plurality of radio modules, of which one communicates with electronic price indication signs. If a plurality of radio modules use the same frequencies and communicate simultaneously, disturbances can occur in the form of interference. The invention solves this problem in that the radio modules (21, 22, 23) are coupled (24) such that a radio module (22) can influence another radio module (21, 23) with regard to the radio activity of said other radio module. In particular, the radio module that communicates with the electronic price indication signs (22) can silence the other radio modules (21, 23) by means of a radio activity control signal (FS).
US10742251B2	Expandable device for a portable electronic device An expandable device for use with a portable electronic device includes a body, a button, a platform, and a locking device. The body has a first end, a second end, and a longitudinal axis, and is movable between an expanded configuration and a collapsed configuration. The button is coupled to the first end of the body, and the platform includes an outer surface and a collar extending away from the outer surface. The collar defines a cavity. The locking device is carried by the second end of the body, and at least a portion of the locking device is adapted to be removably disposed in the cavity of the platform for releasably coupling the body to the platform. The locking device is rotatable relative to the platform between an unlocked configuration, in which the body is removable from the platform, and a locked configuration, in which the body is secured to the platform.
US10742249B2	Method for controlling specific absorption rate of wireless communications device and wireless communications device A method for controlling a specific absorption rate (SAR) of a wireless communications device and a wireless communications device, and the wireless communications device includes a first antenna and a second antenna. The method includes transmitting, by the wireless communications device, a radio frequency signal using the first antenna, and stopping using the first antenna and starting transmitting the radio frequency signal using the second antenna when transmit power of the first antenna is greater than first preset power and a first time period elapses to enable the wireless communications device to meet an SAR standard. There is no backoff of antenna transmit power in a process of controlling the SAR of the wireless communications device. Therefore, communication quality of the wireless communications device is ensured while the SAR standard is met.
US10742248B2	Wireless bicycle component control A bicycle component is provided that facilitates replacement of a communication device. The communication device bicycle component includes an operation member, a power generator, a communication device and an attachment portion. The power generator generates power in a state in which the operation member is operated. The communication device transmits a wireless signal with the power generated by the power generator. The attachment portion is attached to the communication device in a removable manner. The communication device is attachable to another attachment portion of another bicycle component in a removable manner.
US10742247B2	Short-range wireless communication apparatus A short-range wireless communication apparatus is disclosed. The short-range wireless communication apparatus comprises: multiple connection devices and a control device. The connection devices are capable of simultaneously connecting multiple communication interfaces to a communication counterparty apparatus to enable sound data transfer. When the control device determines that, in cases where the communication interfaces are communicably connected, there arises a request to start outputting the sound data transferred by one of the communication interfaces, the control device disconnects another one of the communication interfaces while keeping the one of the communication interfaces connected and causes a sound data output device to output the sound data transferred from the communication counterparty apparatus by the one of the communication interfaces.
US10742245B1	Receiver, transmitter and correction circuit thereof A device includes a baseband circuit that generates a first digital signal, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) that converts the first digital signal into a baseband signal, a first mixer that generates a first mixed signal based on the baseband signal and a first reference signal, a second mixer that generates a second mixed signal based on the baseband signal and a second reference signal, a third mixer that generates a down-converted signal based on the first mixed signal and the second mixed signal, and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that converts the down-converted signal into a second digital signal. The frequency of the first reference signal is different from the frequency of the second reference signal.
US10742243B2	Method and apparatus for coupling an antenna to a device Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, by a feed point of a dielectric antenna, electromagnetic waves from a dielectric core coupled to the feed point without an electrical return path, where at least a portion of the dielectric antenna comprises a conductive surface, directing, by the feed point, the electromagnetic waves to a proximal portion of the dielectric antenna, and radiating, via an aperture of the dielectric antenna, a wireless signal responsive to the electromagnetic waves being received at the aperture. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10742241B2	Front-end systems with directional couplers and a shared back switch Apparatus and methods for front-end systems with directional couplers and a shared back switch are provided. In certain configurations, a method includes transmitting a first transmit signal from a first transmit port to an antenna port, generating a first coupled signal in response to the first transmit signal using a first directional coupler, providing the first coupled signal to a receive port by way of a first loopback selection switch and a shared back switch, transmitting a second transmit signal from a second transmit port to the antenna port, generating a second coupled signal in response to the second transmit signal using a second directional coupler, and providing the second coupled signal to the receive port by way of a second loopback selection switch and the shared back switch.
US10742239B2	Method for decoding a polar code with inversion of unreliable bits A polar code decoding method in which a first decoding attempt by successive cancellation is performed and in the case where the decoded frame is erroneous, an ordered list of bit positions to be tested in the frame is generated, the order relation being given by a metric of first error, the value of this metric depending on the reliability of the decision about the bit as well as on the reliability of the decisions about the bits preceding it in the frame. For each of the positions of the list, an inversion of the bit and a decoding of the subsequent bits are undertaken, doing so as long as the list has not been exhausted or the frame has not been decoded without error. In case of failure, a new decoding attempt based on a double-inversion of bits can be envisaged.
US10742238B2	Frozen bits based pruning and early termination for polar decoding Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. The examples described herein may enable a decoder to determine path metrics for various decoding paths based on identified frozen bit locations of a polar code. The path metric for a decoding path may be based on bit metrics determined for the identified frozen bit locations along the decoding path. Once the path metrics and bit metrics are determined, the decoder may compare these metrics to threshold criteria and determine whether to discard decoding paths based on the comparison. The techniques described herein for discarding decoding paths may allow the decoder to discard, prune, or disqualify certain decoding paths that are unlikely to provide an accurate representation of bits received from another device. Consequently, the decoder may be able to save power by terminating a decoding process early (i.e., early termination) if all paths are discarded, pruned, or disqualified.
US10742237B2	Memory device with adaptive descrambling Disclosed herein is a memory device and a method of descrambling and decoding encoded data. In one aspect, encoded data is received. A scrambling seed is obtained from the encoded data prior to decoding the encoded data. The encoded data is descrambled according to the scrambling seed, and the descrambled data is decoded. The descrambled data may be decoded according to statistics of the descrambled data.
US10742235B2	Method and apparatus for low density parity check channel coding in wireless communication system A low density parity check (LDPC) channel encoding method is used in a wireless communications system. A communication device encodes an input bit sequence by using an LDPC matrix, to obtain an encoded bit sequence for transmission. The LDPC matrix is obtained based on a lifting factor Z and a base matrix. The base matrix may be one of eight exemplary designs. The encoding method can be used in various communications systems including fifth generation (5G) telecommunication systems, and can support various encoding requirements for information bit sequences with different code lengths.
US10742233B2	Efficient encoding of data for storage in polymers such as DNA Efficient encoding and decoding of data for storage in polymers is provided. In various embodiments, an input file is read. The input file is segmented into a plurality of segments. A plurality of packets is generated from the plurality of segments by applying a fountain code. Each of the plurality of packets is encoded as a sequence of monomers. The sequences of monomers are screened against at least one constraint. An oligomer is outputted corresponding to each sequence that passes the screening.
US10742228B2	Successive approximation register (SAR) analog to digital converter (ADC) with overlapping reference voltage ranges An analog to digital converter (ADC) is disclosed. The ADC includes a DAC which generates a first signal based on an analog input and a digital input word, and a comparator which generates a comparator output having a value corresponding with a sign of a difference between first and second signals. During a first time period, the second signal is equal to a reference signal, the first signal is equal to an analog input, and the comparator generates a first comparator output. During a second time period, the second signal is equal to the reference signal, the first signal is equal to a the analog input plus a predetermined signal, and the comparator generates a second comparator output. A SAR logic circuit generates the digital input word for the DAC based on the first and second comparator outputs.
US10742226B1	Multi-channel high-precision ADC circuit with self-calibration of mismatch error The invention discloses a multi-channel high-precision ADC circuit with self-calibration of mismatch error, belonging to the technical field of integrated circuit. The multi-channel high-precision ADC circuit with self-calibration of mismatch error comprises a gain error compensation circuit, a clock phase error compensation circuit, an N-bit analog-digital converter of M-channel, a gain error quantization circuit, a clock phase error quantization circuit and a control circuit. The multi-channel high-precision ADC circuit with self-calibration of mismatch error can automatically choose the calibration precision according to system precision and hardware overhead, and has the characteristic of low power consumption.
US10742225B1	n-bit successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter and method for calibrating the same, receiver, base station and mobile device A n-bit Successive Approximation Register Analog-to-Digital Converter, SAR ADC, is provided. The SAR ADC comprises a respective plurality of sampling cells for each bit of the n-bit of the SAR ADC. Each sampling cell comprises a capacitive element coupled to a cell output of the sampling cell in order to provide a cell output signal. Further, each sampling cell comprises a first cell input for receiving a first signal, and a first switch circuit capable of selectively coupling the first cell input to the capacitive element. Each cell additionally comprises a second cell input for receiving a second signal, and a third cell input for receiving a third signal. The third signal exhibits opposite polarity compared to the second signal. Each sampling cell comprises a second switch circuit capable of selectively coupling one of the second cell input and the third cell input to the capacitive element. The SAR ADC further comprises at least one comparator circuit coupled to the sampling cells. The at least one comparator circuit is configured to output a comparison signal based on the cell output signals of the sampling cells. Additionally, the SAR ADC comprises a calibration circuit configured to supply at least one respective control signal to the respective second switch circuit of the sampling cells for controlling the second switch circuits.
US10742222B2	Peak-adaptive sampling demodulation for radiofrequency transceivers Techniques are described for peak-adaptive sampling demodulation for radiofrequency transceivers. For example, a tag input signal is received via an antenna, from which a clock input signal can be extracted. Multiple clock output signals can be generated responsive to the extracted clock input signal, such that each has a different respective phase. A multiphase selector can identify the one of the clock output signals that has the respective phase that is closest to the phase of the tag input signal and is best suited for sampling the peak of the tag input signal, accordingly. A single-path detector can generate a data output signal by using the identified clock output signal to sample the tag input signal, and the detector can filter and amplify the data output signal using small-signal devices.
US10742221B2	Circuit device, oscillator, physical quantity measurement device, electronic apparatus, and vehicle A circuit device includes an oscillation circuit that generates an oscillation signal by using an resonator, a processing circuit that controls the oscillation circuit, and a storage circuit that stores temperature compensation data of an oscillation frequency of the oscillation signal. The processing circuit generates specific PUF information of the circuit device on the basis of the temperature compensation data.
US10742216B1	Clock domain crossing for an interface between logic circuits Systems, circuits, and methods for clock domain crossing for an interface between logic circuits are provided. A circuit is configured to allow an exchange of signals between a first logic circuit clocked using a first clock signal having a first frequency and a second logic circuit clocked using a second clock signal having a second frequency different from the first frequency. The circuit includes a first circuit segment configured to receive a first control signal to select the second logic circuit and a second control signal to indicate an initiation of an access operation, and ensure that the second control signal maintains a relationship with the first control signal based on the second clock signal. The circuit further includes a second circuit segment configured to receive, from the second logic circuit, a third control signal indicating a readiness of the second logic circuit to complete the access operation.
US10742214B2	Manual operating element, control system, piece of furniture and method for operating an electrically adjustable piece of furniture A manual operating element for operating an electrically adjustable piece of furniture includes a handle body comprising a mounting body, a handle section connected to the mounting body and an elastic member operatively connected to the handle section. The mounting body is adapted to be attached to a component of the piece of furniture. The handle section is adapted for gripping by a user. A force sensor is operatively connected to the elastic member and serves to detect a directional force value corresponding to a force applied to the handle section. A touch sensor is used to detect a touch value as a function of the user touching the handle section. A communication unit is arranged to transmit the force value and the touch value or a signal derived from the force value and the touch value to a controller of the piece of furniture.
US10742208B1	Circuit for driving switched transistor and filter, circulator and correlator including the same A circuit for driving a switched transistor comprises: a level shifter comprising at least one transistor, the level shifter configured to convert an input pulse to a pulse having a greater voltage swing than the input pulse and shift a voltage level of the converted pulse; and a pulse shaping filter coupled between the level shifter and the gate of the switched transistor, the pulse shaping filter tuned to cancel or reduce an impedance of the gate of the switched transistor. The switched transistor and/or the at least one transistor are a GaN High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT).
US10742205B1	System and method for prolonging the life of switching components Systems and methods for operating switches of a power supply are disclosed. The method includes generating power with a power source and switchably coupling the power source to an output of the power supply. One or more switches are opened and closed to generate a voltage waveform at the output, and in addition, the one or more switches are opened and closed to reduce a temperature differential that occurs between a low temperature and a high temperature of each switch by increasing the low temperature of each switch.
US10742203B2	Delay line circuit with calibration function and calibration method thereof A delay line circuit with a calibration function, includes N delay modules and a calibration module. The N delay modules are serially coupled to each other. The calibration module generates a calibration start signal and a calibration stop signal according to a calibration signal and a clock signal, and the calibration start signal is outputted to the N delay modules, so that the N delay modules output N delay signals according to N control signals and the calibration start signal. The calibration module calibrates the N control signals according to the N delay signals and the calibration stop signal, so that the N delay modules generate N calibrated delay signals according to the N calibrated control signals and the clock signal. A generation time instant of the calibration stop signal is later than a generation time instant of the calibration start signal.
US10742201B2	Hybrid pulse/master-slave data latch An apparatus includes a control circuit configured to selectively activate, based on an operating mode signal, either a local clock signal or a pulse signal. The apparatus further includes a data storage circuit that is coupled to a data signal, the local clock signal, and the pulse signal. The data storage circuit may be configured to sample the data signal using the local clock signal during a first operating mode, and to sample the data signal using the pulse signal during a second operating mode.
US10742199B2	State retention circuit that retains data storage element state during power reduction mode A semiconductor device that retains a state of a data storage element during a power reduction mode including supply rails and voltages, and a storage latch and a retention latch both powered by retention supply voltage that remains energized during a power reduction mode. The storage latch and the retention latch are both coupled to a retention node that is toggled between first and second states before entering the power reduction mode. The toggling causes the storage latch to latch the state of the data storage element during the normal mode, and the retention node enables the storage element to hold the state during the power reduction mode. The retention latch includes a retention transistor and a retention inverter powered by the retention supply voltage. The retention inverter keeps the retention transistor turned on and the retention transistor holds the state of the retention node during the power reduction mode.
US10742196B2	Apparatus and method for performing digital infinite impulse filtering Embodiments of An apparatus and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, an apparatus for performing digital infinite impulse response filtering includes a biquad core that includes five multiplier elements, each multiplier element including, a multiplier, a first delay element in series with and after the multiplier, and a second delay element in series with and after the first delay element, and a multiplexer associated with each of the five multiplier elements, each multiplexer configured to provide one of at least two different coefficients to the multiplier of the corresponding multiplier element.
US10742195B2	Matching circuit A matching circuit comprising: an input-terminal configured to be connected to an active-circuit; an output-terminal configured to be connected to a downstream component; a current-source configured to provide a disabled-current; one or more diode-modules, each comprising a diode and a biasing-resistor in parallel with each other; and a reactive-matching-component that has a reactive impedance. The current source is configured to pass the disabled-current through the one or more diode-modules and the reactive-matching-component when the matching circuit is in a disabled-mode of operation such that they contribute to the impedance of the matching circuit between the input-terminal and the output-terminal.
US10742192B2	Tunable notch filter A tunable notch filter is disclosed with a first acoustic resonator coupled in series with a first inductive element between a filter input node and a filter output node. A first capacitor is coupled in parallel with the first acoustic resonator and the first inductive element. In at least one embodiment, the first capacitor is configured to have variable capacitance that is electronically tunable by way of an electronic controller. A second acoustic resonator is coupled in series with a second inductive element between the filter output node and a signal ground node. A second capacitor is coupled in parallel with the second inductive element. In at least one embodiment, the second capacitor is electronically tunable. The tunable notch filter is configured to provide a highly selective notch filter response between the filter input node and the filter output node with high attenuation.
US10742188B2	Method of manufacturing piezoelectric resonator unit A method of manufacturing a piezoelectric resonator unit that includes mounting a piezoelectric resonator on a base member using a conductive adhesive, keeping the piezoelectric resonator in an environment having a temperature and a humidity higher than those of a surrounding region for a predetermined time, performing frequency adjustment of the piezoelectric resonator by etching using an ion beam, and joining a lid member to the base member using a joining material such that the piezoelectric resonator is hermetically sealed between the lid member and the base member.
US10742186B2	Receiver and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program A receiver and a program capable of, when they have received a pulse noise together with a reception signal, improving quality of the reception signal are provided. A receiver according to present disclosure includes a received-signal amplification circuit configured to amplify a received signal, a gain control circuit configured to set a gain setting value for an AGC operation in the received-signal amplification circuit, the AGC operation being an operation for making an amplitude of an amplified received signal fall within a predetermined range, and a pulse detection circuit configured to monitor a change in the gain setting value and detect whether or not a pulse noise is contained in the received signal based on whether or not the change in the gain setting value meets a predetermined condition.
US10742182B2	Amplifier, and receiving circuit, semiconductor apparatus, and system using the amplifier A receiving circuit may include an amplifier. The amplifier may include a first amplification circuit and a second amplification circuit. The first amplification circuit may be configured to differentially amplify a first input signal and a reference signal and configured to generate output signals. The second amplification circuit may be configured to differentially amplify a second input signal and the reference signal and configured to generate the output signals.
US10742176B2	Programmable power combiner and splitter Power combiners and splitters are commonly used as components for handling radio frequency (RF) signals. Disclosed herein are power combiner/splitters and methods to operate the same to reduce power loss when not all the ports are used. When an input/output port of a power combiner/splitter is unused or inactive, switches may be provided to cut off the port from the rest of the power combiner/splitter, which has programmable quarter-wave elements and resistors that are adjustable based on the number of remaining input/output ports that are active, such that in effect, the circuit operates similarly to a multi-way Wilkinson power combiner/splitter, and power loss due to inactive ports may be reduced or eliminated.
US10742174B2	Broadband power transistor devices and amplifiers with input-side harmonic termination circuits and methods of manufacture Embodiments of RF amplifiers and RF amplifier devices include a transistor, a multiple-section bandpass filter circuit, and a harmonic termination circuit. The bandpass filter circuit includes a first connection node coupled to the amplifier input, a first inductive element coupled between the first connection node and a ground reference node, a first capacitance coupled between the first connection node and a second connection node, a second capacitance coupled between the second connection node and the ground reference node, and a second inductive element coupled between the second connection node and the transistor input. The harmonic termination circuit includes a third inductive element and a third capacitance connected in series between the transistor input and the ground reference node. The harmonic termination circuit resonates at a harmonic frequency of a fundamental frequency of operation of the RF amplifier.
US10742173B2	Systems and methods for fast switching time division duplex operation of power amplifiers Power amplifiers, amplifier systems, and related methods are disclosed herein. In one example embodiment, the amplifier system includes a bias controller that enables fast switching between an on state bias voltage and an off state bias voltage for the power amplifier. The bias controller can transition a low impedance switch to an on state to electrically couple a first electrode of a charge holding capacitor to an input of the power amplifier. The charge holding capacitor can be pre charged with the on state bias voltage to quickly provide the on state bias voltage to the power amplifier. The bias controller can also transition the low impedance switch to an off state to couple the input of the power amplifier to the off state bias voltage.
US10742168B2	Output circuit having a voltage regulated pre-driver An output circuit includes first and second nodes, a regulator, a pre-driver, and an output driver. The regulator outputs a second voltage to the second node based on a first voltage applied to the first node. The output driver receives a signal from the pre-driver and outputs a second signal. The regulator short-circuits the first and second nodes while the pre-driver is in a standby state, and controls the second voltage to be different from the first voltage after the pre-driver transitions from the standby state to a normal operation state.
US10742167B2	Dual-mode oscillator and multi-phase oscillator A dual-mode oscillator and a multi-phase oscillator includes a mode switching circuit to switch between two operating modes and obtain oscillation signals having two different bands. The dual-mode oscillator also includes two transformer-coupled oscillators with each having a step-up transformer. The step-up transformer multiplies a drain voltage swing of a first metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor and then injects a voltage signal to a gate of a second MOS transistor to obtain a larger gate voltage swing without increasing a supply voltage of the oscillator. The dual-mode oscillators are coupled through multi-phase coupled circuits to form a Mobius loop.
US10742165B2	Bypass mechanisms for energy generation systems A photovoltaic (PV) module sub-circuit for an energy generation system includes a plurality of PV sub-modules coupled together via external cables, the plurality of PV sub-modules includes a first PV sub-module and a second PV sub-module, a negative output terminal coupled to the first PV sub-module, a positive output terminal coupled to the second PV sub-module, and a plurality of connectors external to the PV sub-modules and coupling the PV sub-modules together to form the PV module sub-circuit. The sub-circuit further includes a bypass mechanism including a first terminal coupled to only the negative output terminal and the first PV sub-module, and a second terminal coupled to only the positive output terminal and the second PV sub-module, the bypass mechanism configured to prevent current flow in a first direction and allow current flow in a second direction opposite of the first direction.
US10742164B2	Solar energy system for use with tufted geosynthetics A solar energy system for use with tufted geosynthetics on a substantially flat surface having a racking structure with bases and attachments for frictional seating to a tufted geosynthetic ground cover system, a bifacial solar panel mounted to the racking system and electrically connected to a connection box for communicating electrical current to an electricity power conditioner of an electrical current grid generated upon exposure of the solar panel to ambient light. A method of using a solar energy system with tufted geosynthetics cover system is disclosed.
US10742163B2	Portable solar photovoltaic array A portable PV module array, the modules being connected along adjacent end edges and being foldable relative to each other about the connected end edges between a closed condition and an open condition, whereby: in the closed condition, the PV modules are stacked together in a generally parallel and close facing relationship with the edges of the PV modules in general alignment, and in the open condition, the PV modules are disposed at an angle to each other so that the PV module array defines triangular configuration, and foldable movement of the PV modules from the closed condition to the open condition being restricted against movement beyond the open condition by a flexible connector that connects with a connection point associated with each of the PV modules of the PV module array and that is tensioned in the open condition and that is slack in the closed condition.
US10742162B2	Fixing structure of solar cell module Provided is a solar cell module securing structure in which a first extending portion of one securing tool is inserted into a slit of one of the adjacent solar cell modules and a second extending portion of the same securing tool is inserted into a slit of the other of the adjacent solar cell modules, lower abutting surfaces of both of the solar cell modules are installed on an upper surface portion of the same securing tool, a projecting portion projects from the upper surface portion under the second extending portion at the inner side relative to the lower abutting surface, and a distance between the projecting portion and an end of the second extending portion is set to be larger than a distance between a lower end of an opening edge of the slit and the lower abutting surface.
US10742151B2	Inverter control device and motor drive system A device according to an embodiment includes an circuit; a detector for detecting a current response output from the circuit; a vector converter for converting the current response into a d-axis current and a q-axis current by using a rotational phase angle of a motor connected to the circuit; a calculator for calculating, based on a torque command and a current phase angle command, a current amplitude command of the current response output from the circuit; a dq-axes converter for calculating a d-axis current command and a q-axis current command from the current amplitude command and the current phase angle command; and a controller for calculating a voltage command so that the d-axis current command and the q-axis current command are equal to the d-axis current and the q-axis current.
US10742147B2	Motor control circuit, motor control device, actuator and control method for stepping motor A motor control circuit includes an input voltage measuring unit, a temperature measuring unit, a speed setting unit, and a speed control unit. The input voltage measuring unit measures an input voltage input to a motor control device. The temperature measuring unit measures the temperature. The speed setting unit sets a target value of driving speed of a stepping motor based on a measurement result of the input voltage measuring unit, a measurement result of the temperature measuring unit and based on a set value of driving speed preset for each of the plural partial areas which are sectioned in a matrix form with a threshold value related to the input voltage and a threshold value related to the temperature. The speed control unit controls the driving speed according to the target value of the driving speed set in the speed setting unit.
US10742142B2	Controlling motor movement It is presented a motor controller configured to control movement of a motor to a mechanical end position. The motor controller comprises: a motor output configured to control an amount of energy being supplied to the motor; a motor input configured to measure a back electromotive force, EMF, voltage over the motor; and a control unit being configured to control the amount of energy being supplied on the motor output based on back EMF measurements from the motor input when the motor output is in a state of not supplying energy to the motor wherein the control unit is configured to detect an end position of the motor based on changes of back EMF measurements.
US10742141B2	Electrical drive system An electrical drive system having multiple drive units for motor vehicles, especially for pure electric vehicles, and a method for operating the drive system.
US10742134B2	Isolated capacitive power transfer A method and device for providing isolated power transfer to a low-power load across a capacitor of a series resonance circuit are shown. The method includes comparing an output voltage received via a feedback loop with a desired output voltage. Responsive to determining that the output voltage is not equal to the desired output voltage, the method determines a sub-harmonic order of the resonant frequency of the series resonance circuit to use as a switching frequency and switches the series resonance circuit at substantially the determined subharmonic order of the resonant frequency.
US10742132B2	Integral inverter and solar cell module including the same An integral inverter, usable with a solar cell module comprising a solar cell panel, can include a terminal for inputting a DC power from the solar cell panel; a bypass diode electrically connected to the terminal; an inverter member including a direct current (DC)-alternating current (AC) inverter electrically connected to the bypass diode; a case to integrate at least one of the terminal and the bypass diode with the DC-AC inverter located therein, and attached to a back surface of the solar cell panel using an adhesive; and an AC cable for outputting AC power from the case.
US10742124B2	Active clamp flyback converter capable of switching operation modes A power converter using an active-clamp flyback topology has a low-side switch, a high-side switch and a control circuit. The low-side switch connects a primary winding of a transformer to an input ground line, and the high-side switch is connected in series with a capacitor to form an active-clamp circuit connected in parallel with the primary winding. The control circuit provides high-side and low-side signals to the high-side and the low-side switches respectively, in response to a current-sense signal and a compensation signal. The control circuit is configured to operate the power converter in one of operation modes including a complementary mode and a non-complementary mode. When operated in the complementary mode, the high-side signal and the low-side signal are substantially complementary to each other, and the control circuit exits the complementary mode in response to the current-sense signal to enter the non-complementary mode.
US10742123B1	Low common mode noise transformers and switch-mode DC-DC power converters A switch-mode DC-DC power converter includes one or more input terminals and output terminals, and a transformer coupled between the input and output terminals. The transformer includes a plurality of winding sets. Each winding set includes a primary winding and a secondary winding magnetically coupled with one another. The primary winding and the secondary winding include the same number of turns. The primary windings of the plurality of winding sets are connected in series and the secondary windings of the plurality of winding sets are connected in parallel. The power converter also includes at least one spacer positioned to separate an adjacent pair of the plurality of winding sets. A magnetic coupling between the adjacent pair of the plurality of winding sets is less than the magnetic coupling between the primary winding and the secondary winding within each winding set.
US10742122B2	Systems and methods for voltage control and current control of power conversion systems with multiple operation modes System and method for regulating a power conversion system. A system controller for regulating a power conversion system includes an operation-mode-selection component and a driving component. The operation-mode-selection component is configured to receive a first signal related to an output load of the power conversion system and a second signal related to an input signal received by the power conversion system and output a mode-selection signal based on at least information associated with the first signal and the second signal. The driving component is configured to receive the mode-selection signal and generate a drive signal based on at least information associated with the mode-selection signal, the driving signal corresponding to a switching frequency.
US10742121B2	Boot strap capacitor charging for switching power converters A first charging path is provided for the charging of an a bootstrap capacitor that stores a driver power supply voltage for driving an active clamp switch transistor in a flyback converter. The first charging path couples charge from an active clamp capacitor to charge the bootstrap capacitor. A power supply capacitor stores a power supply voltage for a controller of a power switch for the flyback converter. A second charging path couples charge from the power supply capacitor to charge the bootstrap capacitor.
US10742113B2	Control circuit and control method for outputting pulse width modulation control signal with zero-crossing detection The present disclosure provides a control circuit, where the control circuit includes: a signal detection unit, a zero-crossing detection (ZCD) signal acquisition unit, a pulse width modulation (PWM) control signal generation unit, and a signal processing unit; where the signal detection unit, the ZCD signal acquisition unit, the PWM control signal generation unit and the signal processing unit are connected in cascade. The control circuit provided in the present disclosure reduces processing delay of a ZCD signal and improve signal a processing accuracy of a power factor correction (PFC) system.
US10742109B2	Controlling a QR flyback converter A controller (100) for a quasi-resonant (QR) flyback converter (200) having a switching element (210) operable at a switching frequency (F) is presented. The controller (100) is configured for repeatly: receiving, from the QR flyback converter (200), a controller input signal (ZC); determining a designated point of time at which the controller input signal (ZC) equals a threshold value (V_zcd), the designated point of time depending on a switching operation of the switching element (210); in response to determining the designated point of time, providing, to the QR flyback converter (200) and after a time delay, a controller output signal (G) for causing a further switching operation of the switching element (210); and modifying at least one of the threshold value (V_zcd) and the time delay (DT) by an amount, wherein modifying the at least one of the threshold value (V_zcd) and the time delay (DT) varies periodically, the period (TMF) of the modification period being the inverse of a modification frequency (MF).
US10742108B2	Gate driver and power module A programmable decoder (201) includes a counter (204A) whose count value increases for each clock; an address decoder (205A) for converting the count value into an address; a storage (251A) storing a table defining data according to the address converted from the count value; and a latch unit (207) for latching the data according to the address output from the storage (251A). A variable driver (202) includes a plurality of MOS transistors (208), (209), (210). The latch unit (207A) has outputs connected to control electrodes of a plurality of MOS transistors (208), (209), (210). The table defines a plurality of data items in the table so that the driving force of the variable driver (202) increases with an increase of the count value. A counter (20A) updates the count value while the arm control signal is being activated.
US10742107B2	Dual output power supply A dual output power supply including: a first power conversion unit for generating a first DC output voltage to drive a first load according to a DC input voltage; a second power conversion unit for generating a second DC output voltage to drive a second load according to the DC input voltage; a switching unit having two channel ends coupled to the first DC output voltage and the second DC output voltage respectively; a load power measurement unit for measuring a sum of power of the first load and the second load; and a digital microcontroller unit coupled to the switching unit and the load power measurement unit for determining a switching signal to drive a control terminal of the switching unit according to the sum of power.
US10742106B2	Alternating current power supply system and state monitoring circuit for the same, and power consumption equipment An AC power supply system and a state monitoring circuit for the same, and a power consumption equipment are provided. The state monitoring circuit includes: a monitoring circuitry, configured to monitor current state information of the AC power supply system; and a control circuitry, coupled with the monitoring circuitry and configured to identify a current state of the AC power supply system based on the current state information monitored by the monitoring circuitry, and to determine whether to enable an AC power supply to deliver electrical energy to a power consumption equipment. Safety during an AC power supply process may be improved.
US10742105B2	Cooling device for a high pole-count rotor The present disclosure relates to cooling devices. The teachings thereof may be embodied in devices for cooling a rotor, which rotates about an axis, wherein the rotor is supported by a central rotor shaft. For example, in a cooling device, the rotor may be supported by a central rotor shaft and comprise a hollow space in the interior of the rotor shaft for accommodating coolant. It may include a first coolant line extending radially outwardly from the hollow space and an annular first distribution line fluidically connected to the hollow space via the first coolant line.
US10742103B2	Apparatus for operating as DC motor and DC generator An apparatus for operating as DC motor and DC generator is provided. Two permanent magnets are placed to be able to rotate with a shaft and one coil is placed outside the circumference of the permanent magnets and one device for making electric current flow in the coil is placed. Two secondary cell batteries are used to supply electric current to the coil. The secondary cell batteries are charged by using back-emf which occurs in the coil. If the shaft rotates without using the secondary cell batteries, the secondary cell batteries are charged by the rotating permanent magnets.
US10742100B2	Coil segment for a stator coil and method for manufacturing a coil A coil segment, in particular for a stator coil, wherein the coil segment has a conductor bundle, wherein the conductor bundle has a multiplicity of electrical conductors, wherein the conductor bundle has a form fit, wherein the conductor bundle has at least one cutout for feeding coolant. Furthermore, a method for manufacturing a stator coil, a stator coil having a coil segment according to the present invention, a machine having a stator coil according to the present invention, and a vehicle having a machine according to the present invention.
US10742098B2	Slot cooling fins in electrical machines A planar member for a stator stack comprises a stator yoke defining a central longitudinal axis, a first surface facing radially outward, and a second surface facing radially inward, a tooth extending radially inwards from the second surface, a first tooth tip extending circumferentially from a radially inward end of the tooth, a second tooth tip extending circumferentially from the radially inward end of the tooth, a first slot portion defined between the first tooth tip and the second surface, a second slot portion defined between the second tooth tip and the second surface, and a slot cooling fin extending into the first slot portion.
US10742092B2	Position feedback for sealed environments A transport apparatus including a housing, a drive mounted to the housing, and at least one transport arm connected to the drive, where the drive includes at least one rotor having at least one salient pole of magnetic permeable material and disposed in an isolated environment, at least one stator having at least one salient pole with corresponding coil units and disposed outside the isolated environment where the at least one salient pole of the at least one stator and the at least one salient pole of the rotor form a closed magnetic flux circuit between the at least one rotor and the at least one stator, at least one seal partition configured to isolate the isolated environment, and at least one sensor including a magnetic sensor member connected to the housing, at least one sensor track connected to the at least one rotor where the at least one seal partition is disposed between and separates the magnetic sensor member and the at least one sensor track so that the at least one sensor track is disposed in the isolated environment and the magnetic sensor member is disposed outside the isolated environment.
US10742087B2	Motor apparatus with waterproof cover for vehicle A resin waterproof cover for covering an outside of a motor apparatus is comprising a cylindrical cap, a cap cover, a lead wire guide portion for inverting and leading out a power supply lead wire from inside of a motor case to the outside of the waterproof cover into a U shape, and cap engagement portions. The resin waterproof cover further comprises a first seal portion made of a photo-curable adhesive formed between the outer periphery near the bottom of the motor case, the other end of the cylindrical cap, and an end bracket of a reduction gear structure, a second seal portion made of a photo-curing adhesive formed on the lead wire guide portion, and a third seal portion made of a light curable adhesive formed between the periphery of one end of the cylindrical cap and the cap cover.
US10742077B2	Soft magnetic laminated core and method of producing a laminated core for a stator and/or rotor of an electric machine A soft magnetic laminated core is provided which comprises first laminations and second laminations arranged in a stack having a stacking direction substantially perpendicular to a major surface of the first laminations and the second laminations. The first laminations comprise a first soft magnetic alloy and the second laminations comprise a second soft magnetic alloy different from the first soft magnetic alloy. The first laminations and the second laminations are distributed in the stacking direction throughout the stack. The first laminations and/or the second laminations comprise an insulating coating that is thermally stable up to at least 850° C.
US10742076B2	Inductive power outlet locator A locator for locating power outlets and power receivers. A sensor is provided in a power receiver for detecting a detection signal emitted by a remote power outlet. A processor uses the detected signal to compute location coordinates of the power outlet.
US10742073B2	Power transmission apparatus The power transmission apparatus includes a power transmitting unit which transmits power to a first power receiving unit in a non-contact manner, a housing which accommodates the power transmitting unit, a second power receiving unit which is disposed on a sidewall of the housing and receives the power from the power transmitting unit in a non-contact manner, and an electric load which operates with power that the second power receiving unit has received. The power transmission apparatus operates only with a leakage magnetic flux and operates of a notification such as a non-contact power supply is in progress.
US10742071B2	Wireless power transfer for stationary applications The present disclosure describes aspects of wireless power transfer for stationary applications. In some aspects, a system includes a transmitter and receiver separated by a wireless gap with a membrane. The transmitter has an inverter circuit to invert direct current (DC) power from a DC power source to alternating current (AC) power. The transmitter also has a transmitting circuit that includes a first resonant coil configured to resonate at a frequency of the AC power. The first resonant coil is also configured to wirelessly transmit the AC power across the wireless gap. The receiver has a receiving circuit that includes a second resonant coil configured to resonate based on resonance of the first resonant coil and to receive the wirelessly transmitted AC power. Additionally, the first and second resonant coils are configured as primary and secondary windings, respectively, of a transformer to transform the wirelessly transmitted AC power.
US10742069B2	Control system for controlling a lighting device arranged for providing functional and/or atmosphere lighting A control system 100 for controlling a lighting device 110 arranged for providing functional and/or atmosphere lighting is disclosed. The control system 100 comprises a detector 102 for detecting a presence of a portable device 120 at a wireless power transmitter 130 arranged for charging the portable device 120, a processor 104 for generating a lighting control command 108 when the presence of the portable device 120 has been detected, and a communication unit 106 for communicating the lighting control command 108 to the lighting device 110.
US10742068B2	Real-time deviation detection of power system electrical characteristics using time-synchronized measurements Systems, methods, and products are described herein for identifying deviations within a power system. Using time-synchronized measurement devices, a set of voltages and currents associated with a plurality of electrical components within the power system are continuously measured. For each electrical component of the plurality of electrical components, a representative set of parameters are recursively determined based on the measured set of voltages and currents. For each electrical component, an electrical characteristic value is determined based on the representative set of parameters. For each electrical component, a deviation of the electrical component is identified based on comparison of the determined electrical characteristic value with a reference value of the electrical characteristic of the electrical component or based on identifying the deviation by means of a filtered rate of change. An alert of the deviation is provided for further characterization of an abnormality in the power system.
US10742064B2	Solar battery system for low temperature operation A power delivery device includes at least one solar panel, a battery pack comprising at least one battery, and a heater, wherein the device is configured to measure the temperature of the battery pack and power the heater to heat the battery pack if it is too cold for optimal charging.
US10742062B2	Electromagnetic electricity generator An electromagnetic generator comprising an antenna that receives radiofrequency energy. The antenna is connected to a rectifier circuit, which is used to charge a first battery using the radiofrequency energy received by the antenna. The first battery supplies power to a control unit, which powers at least one electromagnet to generate a magnetic field. A flywheel having at least one magnet is configured to rotate when the magnetic field is generated. An alternator, connected to the flywheel, charges a second battery based on the rotation of the flywheel. The second battery is then used to supply power to an external device.
US10742061B2	Smart functional leather for recharging a portable electronic device A smart functional vehicle component includes a vehicle component, a leather sheet fixed over a surface of the vehicle component, a flexible electronic circuit contacting an A-surface of the leather sheet and including a printed and cured conductive ink, and a pigmented coating arranged over the electronic circuit. The circuit includes a wireless transmitter, which is configured to generate an oscillating electromagnetic field when an associated portable electronic device is within a predetermined distance from the wireless transmitter. The circuit may also include an electronic element such as a light source, a sensor, or a switch. When the circuit includes a light source, the pigmented coating inhibits or prevents the circuit and the light source from being visible through the pigmented coating, but light emitted by the light source is visible through the pigmented coating.
US10742053B2	Power tool A power tool includes a power connection terminal, a power system, a main control switch, and a power supply protection circuit. A power supply path is disposed between the power connection terminal and the power system. The main control switch and the power supply protection circuit are configured to control the power supply path to be completed or broken. During the use of the tool, the power tool is not restarted if the main control switch is turned on before an external power source that meets a power supply requirement is connected.
US10742052B1	System for synchronously discharging multiple capacitive loads An apparatus and method for synchronously discharging multiple capacitive loads. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes first and second discharge circuits for discharging first and second capacitive loads, respectively. The apparatus also includes a control circuit coupled to the first and second discharge circuits and configured to control the second discharge circuit. The control circuit includes a first scaler circuit configured to generate a first scaled voltage based on a first voltage on the first capacitive load, a second scaler circuit configured to generate a second scaled voltage based on a second voltage on the second capacitive load, and a comparator circuit for comparing the first and second scaled voltages. The comparator circuit asserts a control signal when the second scaled voltage exceeds the first scaled voltage. The second discharge circuit discharges the second capacitive load when the comparator circuit asserts its control signal.
US10742051B2	Wireless charging systems with multiple power receiving devices A wireless charging system may include a wireless power transmitting device that receives multiple wireless power receiving devices. A primary power receiving device that is used to display battery charge status information for other power receiving devices on the power transmitting device may be referred to as a hero device. The other wireless power receiving devices may be referred to as paired devices. When a paired device is added to a wireless power transmitting device where a hero device is already present, the hero device may verify that the paired device is on the same mat as the hero device. The hero device and paired device may then synchronously output a user notification. When a paired device is present on a wireless power transmitting device, the paired device may send battery charge status information to the wireless power transmitting device at predetermined intervals.
US10742047B2	System and method for providing interconnected and secure mobile device charging stations A system is disclosed. The system has a door that selectively opens to allow access to a cavity and selectively closes to block access to the cavity, a lock configured to selectively lock and unlock the door when the door is closed, a camera configured to image a user area adjacent to the door, computing memory having associated therewith code, and a processor communicatively coupled with the computing memory. The system is configured to execute the code and to control the camera to record a first image data of the user area at a first time, store the first image data, control the camera to record a second image data of the user area at a second time, and selectively unlock the door based on comparing the second image data to the first image data.
US10742044B2	Equalization control method, apparatus, and circuit for power battery Disclosed are equalization control method, apparatus and circuit for a power battery. The equalization control method includes: detecting a to-be-equalized cell in the power battery satisfying a preset equalization starting condition, and starting to perform an equalization on the to-be-equalized cell; in a process of performing the equalization on the to-be-equalized cell, determining whether the to-be-equalized cell satisfies an equalization stopping condition; when it is determined that the to-be-equalized cell satisfies the equalization stopping condition, stopping performing the equalization on the to-be-equalized cell, and when the to-be-equalized cell satisfies an equalization continuing condition, continuing to perform the equalization on the to-be-equalized cell; and when it is determined that the to-be-equalized cell does not satisfy the equalization stopping condition, continuing performing the equalization on the to-be-equalized cell, and finishing the equalization until the time period during which the equalization is performed on the to-be-equalized cell satisfies the equalization time calculated value.
US10742042B2	Dual system hybrid charger management An IHS (Information Handling System) may support multiple power sources and may support concurrent voltage inputs from each of these multiple power sources. An IHS may include multiple batteries, each of which is charged by a separate battery charging system. Embodiments of systems for charging and powering such IHSs are described, where such embodiments maximize the power that may be drawn from such concurrent power sources inputs, while avoiding inefficient modes of operation and while avoiding dead battery conditions. In many IHSs, certain power source couplings may also be configured to draw power from the IHS, such as Type C USB couplings. Embodiments also support efficient power supply outputs that avoid excessive battery depletion that may result in dead battery states.
US10742038B2	Power storage and control system for a hybrid energy system Various embodiments include an energy storage system for a hybrid energy system including a an energy storage device configured coupled to an inverter and controlled by a hybrid management system. The hybrid management system may be configured to use energy from the energy storage device to supplement power output of a power generation system to comply with a contract schedule of electric power output by the hybrid energy system. The hybrid management system may be configured to satisfy stable loads of an industrial application with the power generation system and to meet load swings of the industrial application with power output from the storage device. The hybrid management system may be configured to respond to an increasing desired load transient event by disclosing stored energy to follows a ramping profile that substantially matches a gas-turbine alone ramp rate of a gas turbine generator operating in a spinning reserve mode.
US10742037B2	Managing consumer energy demand A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: receiving an energy consumption profile which spans multiple intervals in a period of time, and predicting a net energy demand of a consumer system over the period of time. Moreover, a first multiple is determined which, when applied to the received energy consumption profile, produces an updated energy consumption profile which corresponds to an amount of energy that is capable of satisfying the predicted net energy demand of the consumer system. A greatest amount of underprediction is estimated. A greatest amount of overprediction is also estimated. Furthermore, an initial state of an energy storage device electrically coupled to the consumer system is computed according to the updated energy consumption profile. The initial state of the energy storage device is also based on a second multiple applied to each of the greatest amount of underprediction, and the greatest amount of overprediction.
US10742035B2	Electrical power distribution network and process An electrical power distribution network is disclosed, the network can include: a plurality of electrical power control apparatuses, each of the electrical power control apparatuses including: one or more signal conversion components receiving electrical power in the form of a corresponding first signal having a corresponding first fundamental frequency and a corresponding first characteristic voltage, and generating a corresponding second signal having a corresponding second fundamental frequency and a corresponding second characteristic voltage; and a controller that controls operation of the signal conversion components to determine an output voltage and an output frequency of an output signal of the electrical power control apparatus; electrical power generation components acting as sources of electrical power to at least some of the electrical power control apparatuses; and electrical power consumption components acting as sinks of electrical power from at least some of the electrical power control apparatuses.
US10742032B2	Network access coordination of load control devices An apparatus may control the power delivered from an AC power source to an electrical load, and may comprise a controllably conductive device. The apparatus may also comprise a controller that may be operatively coupled to a control input of the controllably conductive device. The apparatus may also include a first wireless communication circuit operable to communicate via a first protocol and to join a first wireless communication network operable to communicate via the first protocol. The first wireless communication circuit may be in communication with the controller. The controller may be operative to determine a first condition for communicating via the first protocol. The controller may also be operable to control the first wireless communication circuit to join the first wireless communication network upon the first condition being satisfied.
US10742025B2	Method for detecting and isolating an electromagnetic pulse for protection of a monitored infrastructure A system and method for detecting and isolating an electromagnetic pulse (“EMP”) along first phase, second phase, and third phase electrical lines electrically connected to a monitored infrastructure so as to protect the monitored infrastructure, the method for detecting and isolating includes a phase unit receiving electric signal data from a sensor electrically connected individually to each of the first phase, second phase, and third phase electrical lines, respectively, upstream of and associated with the monitored infrastructure. The method includes determining if the received electric signal data associated with the respective electrical line is indicative of an E1 component of an EMP and, if so, actuating an isolation subsystem in less than 300 nanoseconds to electrically isolate the respective electrical line against electrical communication with the monitored infrastructure.
US10742020B2	Over-voltage protection device of generator and method for enhancing over-voltage protection function A method for enhancing an over-voltage protection by an over-voltage protection device for a generator is provided. The device includes a high voltage excitation off (HEO) circuit lowering an over-voltage level by an over-voltage lockout control value and a voltage-dependent Ki-Kp (VoKiKp) circuit 30 decreasing an over-voltage generation time by a voltage difference value of a battery voltage. A generator setting voltage is provided to operate the over-voltage and the voltage difference value of the generator 1. The over-voltage level is lowered and the over-voltage generation time is minimized, thereby enhancing the over-voltage protection of the regulator of the generator.
US10742017B2	Semiconductor-switch control device A semiconductor-switch control device includes a controller that detects an analog signal of a load current, converts the detected analog signal into a digital signal, and determines an over-current based on the converted digital signal; a short circuit detector that detects an analog signal of a load voltage, and detects an over-current based on the analog signal without converting the detected analog signal into a digital signal; and a drive unit that drives an FET based on a determination result of the over-current determined by the controller or a detection result of the over-current detected by the short circuit detector.
US10742015B2	Dry termination for a high-voltage electric cable A termination for a high-voltage electric cable includes an insulating housing, a fastening device fastening a first section of the termination to a mounting base, an electrical duct extending inside the insulating housing along a longitudinal axis of the insulating housing from the first section to a top end of the termination, the first section arranged between the top end of the termination and a second end of the termination, and a conductor shank disposed at the top end for fastening an electrical conductor to the electrical duct. The fastening device is a fastening ring that is electrically insulating and rigid. The electrical duct includes an electrically conductive tube and a connection portion attaching to a cable connector of the high-voltage electric cable. The fastening ring at least partly encompasses the electrical duct.
US10742013B2	Wire pass through device A device for sealing an interface is provided. The device includes an opening for a wire to pass through the interface. A first sealing block includes a body and a first portion that extends outwardly therefrom. A concave recess is formed between two points and is sized to surround at least a first portion of the wire. A second sealing block has a body portion with a recess extending inwardly therein and is sized to surround at least a second portion of the wire. The first sealing block and the second sealing block are configured to mate with one another to provide a substantially sealed passage for the wire.
US10742010B1	Configurable electrical outlet cover enclosure An electrical outlet cover with a lid having an adjustable enclosure. The electrical outlet cover includes a base coupled to an electrical outlet and a hinged lid. The lid includes a frame with a central aperture and a telescoping enclosure with a flange at a front edge of a sleeve, the flange extending outward from the sleeve. The sleeve may include a ledge extending outward from the sleeve adjacent a back edge of the sleeve on at least two sides of the sleeve. The sleeve is slidably coupled within the central aperture and movable between an expanded position and a collapsed position. A front surface of the sleeve enclosure may include a window that extends forward of the sleeve walls and may further bulge forward of the front surface.
US10742008B2	Conduit stub-up assembly A stub-up form for providing access to an in-slab connector has an opening with a threaded element of a select diameter corresponding to size of an elongate tubular element to be received therein. The form comprises a hollow unitary plastic body comprising an elongate tubular wall having a shoulder connected to a narrowed cylindrical neck closed at a distal end wall to define an interior space. The elongate tubular wall is of a diameter greater than the select diameter and the neck has a size to be removably received in the opening and is engageable by the threaded element. A receptacle extends from the distal end wall inwardly into the interior space for receiving a tool head for removal of the form from an in-slab connector, in use.
US10742000B2	VCSEL with elliptical aperture having reduced RIN A VCSEL can include: an elliptical oxide aperture in an oxidized region that is located between an active region and an emission surface, the elliptical aperture having a short radius and a long radius with a radius ratio (short radius)/(long radius) being between 0.6 and 0.8, the VCSEL having a relative intensity noise (RIN) of less than −140 dB/Hz. The VCSEL can include an elliptical emission aperture having the same dimensions of the elliptical oxide aperture. The VCSEL can include an elliptical contact having an elliptical contact aperture therein, the elliptical contact being around the elliptical emission aperture. The elliptical contact can be C-shaped. The VCSEL can include one or more trenches lateral of the oxidized region, the one or more trenches forming an elliptical shape, wherein the oxidized region has an elliptical shape. The one or more trenches can be trapezoidal shaped trenches.
US10741998B2	Thermal-mechanical adjustment for laser system Provided is a laser system that includes a laser head having a laser holder configured to house a laser beam and a lens for reflecting the laser beam at a predetermined wavelength, and a thermal-mechanical adjustment device disposed on the laser head and configured to adjust a temperature and an alignment of the laser beam, to maintain the predetermined wavelength of the laser beam.
US10741991B2	Narrowband laser apparatus and spectral linewidth measuring apparatus A narrowband laser apparatus may be provided with a laser resonator including optical elements for narrowing a spectral linewidth, a spectrometer configured to detect spectral intensity distributions of multiple pulses included in a pulsed laser beam output from the laser resonator, a spectral waveform producer configured to produce a spectral waveform by adding up the spectral intensity distributions of the multiple pulses, a device function storage configured to store a device function of the spectrometer, a wavelength frequency function generator configured to generate a wavelength frequency function which represents a frequency distribution of center wavelengths of the multiple pulses, and a deconvolution processor configured to perform deconvolution processing on the spectral waveform with the device function and the wavelength frequency function.
US10741989B2	All-fiber bidirectional synchronously pumped ultrafast ring oscillator for precision sensing A pumped optical ring laser sensor such as a gyroscope includes a pulsed laser source to generate optical pump pulses and a synchronously pumped ring laser. The ring laser is optically pumped by first optical pump pulses from the pulsed laser source that are directed in a clock-wise (CW) direction through the ring laser and by second optical pump pulses from the pulsed laser source that are directed in a counter-clock wise (CCW) direction through the ring laser. The ring laser has an optical resonator that includes a gain medium for producing CW and CCW frequency-shifted pulses from the first and second optical pump pulses. The ring laser further includes a port for receiving the first and second pump pulses and for extracting the CW and CCW frequency-shifted pulses from the ring laser such that the frequency-shifted pulses overlap in time after being extracted to generate a beatnote.
US10741984B2	Modular replaceable socket device A modular replaceable socket device includes one or more adapters, and an adapting interface. The adapter includes a jack and multiple contacts. The jacks are disposed on a top of the adapter for transmitting power or a network signal to an external device. The contacts are disposed on a bottom of the adapter. The adapter couples to external power via the contacts. The base includes a cable interface and one or more sockets. The cable interface connects to external power via a power cable and the one or more sockets is utilized to fix the one or more adapters. The adapting interface is utilized to connect the socket and the one or more adapters. The structure of the adapting interface corresponds to the contacts, for allowing the one or more adapters to couple to the one or more sockets via the adapting interface.
US10741980B2	Illuminated power receptacle An illuminated power receptacle includes a base having at least one set of contacts for receiving a plug. Each set of contacts having at least two openings for receiving a respective prong of a plug. There is a cover mounted on the base with an outlet member corresponding to each set of contacts. Each outlet member includes an outlet face with an opaque material and an outer periphery. Each outlet face includes at least two openings configured to receive and guide a respective prong of the plug into the set of at least two openings of the corresponding set of contacts. Each outlet member also includes an outlet rim made of a translucent material disposed about the outer periphery of the outlet face. There is light source disposed between the base and the cover that transmits light that passes through each outlet rim and is blocked by the opaque material.
US10741979B2	Vehicle harness structure and additional connection member A vehicle harness structure and an additional connection member are provided, according to which part numbers of wire harnesses are reduced and superfluous attachment in the wire harness is avoided. The vehicle harness structure includes a basic harness for interconnecting a plurality of main devices to be mounted in common on target vehicles, an additional connection member having one end connected in a branched manner to a communication line or a signal line of the basic harness and another end connected to at least one auxiliary device to be optionally post-mounted on the target vehicles, and a control function section provided in the additional connection member to control the operation of the auxiliary device.
US10741978B2	Wire harness A wire harness includes at least two electrical wires, and a connection unit via which each of the at least two electrical wires are connected. The connection unit includes a circuit board connected to the at least two electrical wires, and a conductor member extending downward from the circuit board, the conductor member being electrically connected to a ground pattern on the circuit board. The connection unit is attached to a vehicle body in a state where the conductor member is in contact with a grounding conductor formed on the vehicle body when the connection unit is disposed on the vehicle body. Therefore, the circuit board can be directly connected to the ground via the conductor member only by disposing the connection unit on the vehicle body.
US10741975B2	Sheilded cable assembly and electromagnetic shield terminal assembly for same An electromagnetic shield terminal assembly configured for attachment to a shielded cable includes a tubular inner ferrule having a flared attachment end configured to be disposed intermediate the shield conductor and the inner insulation layer of the cable and a crimped outer ferrule formed of sheet metal having a cable attachment portion that defines a pair of bypass crimp wings and a pair of insulation crimp wings. Each insulation crimp wing defines a prong having a pointed end that penetrates the outer insulation layer of the cable. The flared attachment end of the inner ferrule is located intermediate the bypass crimp wings and the insulation crimp wings when the outer ferrule is crimped to the shielded cable.
US10741974B2	Electrical connector A housing holds a contact. A shield member is held in the housing and blocks electromagnetic waves. The shield member has a tubular shape, and the contact is arranged therein. The housing has an outer housing portion that is arranged outside of the shield member, and an inner housing portion that is arranged inside the shield member. The housing also has a joining portion that integrally joins the outer housing portion and the inner housing portion in an end portion on one side in a direction that is parallel to the direction of mating with the partner connector.
US10741971B2	Electrical connector assembly An electrical connector assembly is mated with a mating component. The electrical connector assembly includes a circuit board and a connector electrically connected to the circuit board. The connector includes an insulating body and a plurality of terminals. The terminals are fixed to the insulating body and include at least two ground terminals. Each of the ground terminals includes a contact section extending forward and a conducting section extending backward. The contact sections of the ground terminals are connected to each other through a first connecting sheet, and the conducting sections of the ground terminals are fixed to the circuit board and are electrically connected to each other through a path on the circuit board. Thus, multiple joint grounding paths are provided for the ground terminals, manufacturing is easy, and a high frequency effect can be remarkably improved.
US10741954B1	Multi-form-factor connector In one embodiment, a female data-connector device includes a housing having a socket to insert therein a first paddle-card having a first form-factor and a second paddle-card having a second form-factor, the socket includes an upper and lower surface, with N contact pins arranged in a first row and M contact pins arranged in a second row on the upper surface, P contact pins arranged in a first row and Q contact pins arranged in a second row on the lower surface, the M and Q and some of the N and P contact pins are arranged to make contact with contact pads of the first paddle-card, the N and P contact pins are arranged to make contact with contact pads of the second paddle-card, N is greater than M, and P is greater than Q, and termination legs to be connected to a printed circuit board.
US10741945B2	Replacement electrical connectors In accordance with one embodiment, an electrical connector can be mounted to a first printed circuit board to obtain a first current capacity, and the electrical connector can be mounted to a second printed circuit board to obtain a second current capacity that is lower than the first current capacity.
US10741935B2	Branch connector A branch connector capable of maintaining a sealing state for cables with different specifications is provided. A branch connector (10) configured to electrically connect cables together by cutting insulating sheaths in press-contact grooves includes a pair of first split housing (16) and a second split housing (30) that are coupled together via a connecting portion and can open and close, first holding portions (29) that are provided to the first split housing (16) and configured to hold the cables, and second holding portions (40) that are provided to the second split housing (30) and configured to hold the cables. In a state in which the first split housing (16) and the second split housing (30) are fitted together, the first holding portions (29) and the second holding portions (40) are in different locations from each other with respect to an extending direction of the cables and a direction perpendicular to the extending direction.
US10741931B2	Method and apparatus that isolate polarizations in phased array and dish feed antennas A multi-polarized scanning phased array antenna is provided, which includes a first element, second element, first feed line, second feed line, first 180 degree phase shifter, second 180 degree phase shifter, third 180 degree phase shifter, fourth 180 degree phase shifter, Θ1 degree phase shifter, and Θ2 degree phase shifter. The first element is fed with a first polarization signal at a first feed point and a third feed point, and a second polarization signal at a second feed point and a fourth feed point. The second element is fed with the first polarization signal at a fifth feed point and a seventh feed point, and the second polarization signal at a sixth feed point and an eighth feed point. The first feed line is coupled to the elements and associated with the first polarization. The second feed line is coupled to the plurality of elements and associated with the second polarization. The first 180 degree phase shifter is coupled in the first feed line between the first and third feed points, and the second 180 degree phase shifter is coupled in the second feed line between the second and fourth feed points. The third 180 degree phase shifter is coupled in the first feed line between the fifth and seventh feed points, and the fourth 180 degree phase shifter is coupled in the second feed line between the sixth and eighth feed points. The Θ1 degree phase shifter is coupled in the first feed line between the third and seventh feed points, and the Θ2 degree phase shifter is coupled in the second feed line between the second and sixth feed points.
US10741928B2	Method for increasing the transmission of radiofrequency electromagnetic waves through thermally insulating glass sheets The invention relates to a glazing including a glass sheet, one surface of which is covered with a conductive layer. Said glass sheet comprises, at a nonzero distance from the conductive layer, a periodic pattern of conductive elements that is suitable for increasing, for a predetermined frequency, the transmission of radiofrequency electromagnetic waves. Said periodic pattern is selected so as to have a transmission zero at a frequency of between substantially half and substantially double the frequency to be amplified.
US10741922B2	Wireless communication module and method of manufacturing wireless communication module A wireless communication module includes a horn antenna and a semiconductor chip, and the horn antenna and the semiconductor chip are integrally formed by a mold resin and are connected through a transmission line. The horn antenna includes an open end provided on a longitudinal end face of the wireless communication module; an antenna conversion unit located on an opposite side of the open end and connected with the semiconductor chip through the transmission line; and a side face part whose shape is varied in a thickness direction of the wireless communication module in a manner such that an opening area is widened from the antenna conversion unit toward the open end.
US10741921B2	Multi-layered software defined antenna and method of manufacture A multi-layer software controlled antenna. A radiating patch is provided over a variable dielectric constant (VDC) plate. Variable DC potential is applied across the VDC plate to control the effective dielectric constant at various locations of the VDC plate. RF signal is coupled between a feed patch and a delay line, and the delay line couples the RF signal to the radiating patch. The radiating patch, VDC plate, delay line, and feed patch are each provided at a different layer of the antenna, so as to decouple the RF and DC signal paths. A controller executes a software program to thereby control the variable DC potential applied across the VDC plate, thereby controlling the operational characteristics of the antenna.
US10741919B2	Antenna device An antenna device is provided that includes an antenna coil, a resin-made antenna case having a body that accommodates the antenna coil, and a rib disposed on an upper surface of the body and on a pair of opposing side surfaces. In the antenna case, the rib is continuously formed from one of the side surfaces, across the upper surface, to the other one of the side surfaces, and both ends of the rib are formed to be flush with a lower surface of the body or so as to extend downward from the lower surface of the body. In addition, both ends of the rib are designed to come into contact with an external member when the antenna device is mounted on the external member.
US10741918B2	NFC antenna and display device An embodiment of the present invention has a decreased antenna resistance so as to conform to the EMV specification. An NFC antenna includes: a mesh antenna pattern line (10) being transparent and formed in a netlike form in a display region (R1); and a non-mesh antenna pattern line (13) being formed in a form having no mesh in a non-display region (R2).
US10741917B2	Power division in antenna systems for millimeter wave applications Examples disclosed herein relate to a power division structure. The power division structure has an input port to receive a transmission signal, a plurality of output ports to transmit portions of the transmission signal to a signal structure, and a plurality of transmission paths to propagate the transmission signal from the input port to the plurality of output ports, each transmission path having an associated weight and configured with power division vias to distribute the transmission signal according to its associated weight.
US10741902B2	Antenna with core, mainly miniature RFID and/or NFC antenna, and method of its production Part of the conductive loop of the threads is formed by a printed circuit on the substrate (5), where the group of the conductive strips (2) placed side by side is produced, and the core (1) is placed on them. The conductive strips (2) overhang from the groundplan of the core (1) and the ends of the conductive strips (2) overhanging on both sides of the core (1) form the connecting surfaces (4). The wires (3) shaped for the encirclement of the core (1) are connected to the connecting surfaces (4), whereby the wire (3) connects a connecting surface (4) of one conductive strip (2) with the connecting surface (4) on the opposite end of the neighboring conductive strip (2). After bonding to one end of the conductive strip (2) the wire is shaped above the substrate (5) by bending in such a way that it arches over the space intended for the core (1) and all wires (3) are shaped in such a way that they produce a channel for the core (1) placed on the substrate (5). The conductive strips (2) are sloped from the normal of the core (1) under an angle pursuant to the pitch of the thread and the wires (3) are led in the opposite slope under the same angle.
US10741900B2	Dielectric resonator, dielectric filter using dielectric resonator, transceiver, and base station A dielectric resonator, a dielectric filter using the dielectric resonator, a transceiver, and a base station. The dielectric filter includes a body made of a solid-state dielectric material, where a plurality of indentations are disposed at a first surface of the body and where at least one of a hole or a groove is disposed between adjacent indentations of the plurality of indentations, and a conducting layer, wherein the first surface and other surfaces of the body, surfaces of the plurality of the indentations, and an interior of the at least one of the hole or the groove are covered with the conducting layer.
US10741899B2	Spatial coupler and antenna for splitting and combining electromagnetic signals A spatium amplifier includes a plurality of amplifiers connected between a pair of spatial couplers, each having a core member and a shell member forming an antenna. The core member includes a cylindrical core portion and a plurality of tapering core fins extending radially outwardly from the cylindrical core portion. The shell member includes a cylindrical shell portion and a plurality of tapering shell fins extending radially inwardly from the cylindrical shell portion to form a plurality of fin pairs. Each fin pair forms a tapering channel having a first channel height at a first end of the antenna and a second channel height larger than the first channel height at a second end of the antenna. Each of the plurality of amplifiers is electromagnetically coupled to a respective fin pair at the first end of each of the antennas.
US10741897B2	RF rotary joint using a matched horn coupler assembly A matched horn coupler assembly is used in a RF rotational joint for conveying an electromagnetic signal. The coupler assembly includes first and second feed horns defining respective first and second horn longitudinal axes intersecting one another at an intersection point. The first and second feed horns connect to a mirror for conveying the signal there between with the intersection point lying on a reflecting surface of the mirror which defines a normal direction thereof at the intersection point. The normal direction is equally angularly spaced from both the first and second horn longitudinal axes. First and second lenses connect to the respective first and second feed horns and focus the signal there between and at the intersection point. At least one of the first and second feed horns is rotatably connected relative to the mirror about the respective horn longitudinal axis.
US10741891B2	Traction battery assembly A traction battery for a vehicle includes a plurality of cells stacked in an array and having a dielectric material surrounding at least a portion of each of the cells. The cells are spaced apart to define a plurality of pockets interleaved with the cells. A manifold is connected to the array and is configured to circulate liquid coolant to each of the pockets such that the coolant directly contacts the dielectric material of each of the cells.
US10741889B2	Multiple-zone thermocouple battery module temperature monitoring system A multiple-zone thermocouple battery module temperature monitoring system is provided configured to determine a plurality of temperatures along a depth of the battery module at different locations. The system may include a number of temperature probes each including a first temperature sensor oriented at a base of a group of cells in the module and a second temperature sensor oriented at an upper portion of the group of cells in the module. Providing upper and lower battery cell temperature sensors in each probe of the system allows a battery management system to detect and record a temperature gradient of the battery cells in the module at a number of different locations. These recordings can determine a gradient and temperature difference between the upper and lower battery cell portions over an operable threshold difference, and command a thermal management system to return the battery module to limits within the operable threshold.
US10741886B2	Lithium-ion battery formation process A method of preparing a lithium-ion cell (10), the method including providing to an electrolyte (22) of the cell, an additive configured to improve formation of a solid electrolyte interface (24) on an anode (12), charging the cell (10) at a first predetermined charge rate (C1) up to a first predetermined voltage (V1), wherein the first predetermined voltage (V1) corresponds to a voltage at which the additive begins formation of the solid electrolyte interface (24), charging the cell (10) at a second predetermined rate (C2) to a second predetermined voltage (V2), wherein the second predetermined voltage (V2) corresponds to a voltage at which the electrolyte (22) begins formation of the solid electrolyte interface (24); and charging the cell (10) to a fully charged capacity at a third predetermined charge rate (C3), the third charge rate (C3) being greater than the second charge rate (C2).
US10741876B2	Positive electrode material for noaqueous secondary batteries, and nonaqueous secondary batteries using same A positive electrode material for nonaqueous secondary batteries includes lithium transition metal composite oxide particles containing at least one of cobalt and nickel; and titanium silicide particles. The lithium transition metal composite oxide particles have a layer structure. The lithium transition metal composite oxide particles and the titanium silicide particles are present as particles substantially independent from each other. The titanium silicide particles have an average particle diameter of 4.0 μm or less. The titanium silicide particles are contained at a content ratio of titanium of 1.2 mol % or less with respect to the lithium transition metal composite oxide particles.
US10741875B2	Battery anode for an all solid cell Provided are an anode for an all solid cell and a method of fabricating the same. The anode may include an anode current collector, a conductive material of which one end contacts a part of the anode current collector, a conductive coating layer surrounding the conductive material, an anode active material which contacts the other end of the conductive material, and a solid electrolyte. The conductive coating layer may prevent the conductive material and the solid electrolyte from being electrically connected to each other.
US10741870B2	Battery cell degassing apparatus A battery cell degassing apparatus for degassing a battery cell having a gas pocket, which includes a chamber cover to which the battery cell is detachably mounted, a vacuum chamber coupled to the chamber cover and configured to accommodate the battery cell in a vacuum environment, the chamber cover being slidable in a vertical direction with respect to the vacuum chamber, a piercing unit provided at the vacuum chamber to pierce a part of the gas pocket, and a pressing unit provided at the vacuum chamber to be spaced apart from the piercing unit and configured to flatten a left surface and a right surface of the battery cell and to discharge a gas inside the battery cell to the outside of the battery cell is provided.
US10741869B2	Fuel cell stack A fuel cell stack (100) includes a first power generation element, a first supporting substrate (5a), a second power generation element, a second supporting substrate (5b) and a communicating member (3). The first supporting substrate (5a) includes a first substrate main portion, a first dense layer, and a first gas flow passage. The first dense layer covers the first substrate main portion. The first gas flow passage extends from a proximal end portion (501a) to a distal end portion (502a). The second supporting substrate (5b) includes a second substrate main portion, a second dense layer, and a second gas flow passage. The second dense layer covers the second substrate main portion. The second gas flow passage extends from a proximal end portion (501b) to a distal end portion (501b). The communicating member (3) extends between the distal end portion (502a) of the first supporting substrate (5a) and the distal end portion (502b) of the second supporting substrate (5b) and communicates between the first gas flow passage and the second gas flow passage.
US10741867B2	Fuel cell module A fuel cell module can prevent excessive extending of crack in a cleavage part when the cleavage part cleaves to reduce internal pressure of the housing that stores the fuel cell stack and can prevent the exposure of a high-voltage part inside of the housing. The fuel cell module includes a fuel cell stack and a housing that stores the fuel cell stack. The housing includes a partition wall, a cleavage part on the partition wall that cleaves when the internal pressure of the housing increases to a predetermined pressure, a high-rigidity part on the partition wall to surround the cleavage part, and a plurality of elongated protrusions on the partition wall outside of the high-rigidity part. The strength of the cleavage part is lower than the elongated protrusions and the strength of the high-rigidity part is higher than the elongated protrusions and can prevent extension of a crack in the cleavage part.
US10741865B2	Flow battery having electrode immersed in liquid with dissolved lithium A flow battery includes a first liquid, a second liquid, a first electrode immersed in the first liquid, a second electrode being a counter electrode of the first electrode and immersed in the second liquid, and an isolation unit separating the first electrode and the first liquid from the second electrode and the second liquid. Lithium is dissolved in at least one of the first liquid and the second liquid. The first liquid and the second liquid have a property of emitting solvated electrons of lithium and dissolving the lithium as a cation.
US10741863B2	Engineered photosynthetic organisms, photosynthetic electrodes including the engineered photosynthetic organisms, photosynthetic bioelectrochemical cells and photosynthetic fuel cells The present disclosure provides engineered photosynthetic cells and organisms, methods for engineering photosynthetic cells and organisms with increased extracellular electron transport, photo-bioelectrochemical cells (PBECs), anodes for a PBECs and/or photosynthetic microbial fuel cells (PMFCs), methods of generating an electrical current with PBECs, and methods and systems for generating H2 fuel.
US10741861B2	Power generating cell A power generating cell is equipped with an MEA to which a resin frame is attached, and a first metal separator. In the first metal separator, there are provided an oxygen-containing gas flow field through which an oxygen-containing gas flows along an electrode surface, an outer peripheral bead surrounding the oxygen-containing gas flow field and which prevents leakage of a reaction gas, and a plurality of first bypass stopping convex portions that prevent bypassing of the reaction gas. Intermediate convex portions that support the resin film are provided between mutually adjacent ones of the first bypass stopping convex portions.
US10741860B2	Fuel cell apparatus, fuel cell system, and control method for fuel cell system A fuel cell apparatus corresponds to a first slave apparatus among a plurality of fuel cell apparatuses that includes a master apparatus and slave apparatuses including the first slave apparatus and a second slave apparatus. The first slave apparatus includes a cell stack, a communication unit, and a controller. The communication unit communicably connects to the master apparatus and the second slave apparatus. The controller controls the cell stack on the basis of control information acquired from the master apparatus. The controller transmits a master candidacy message indicating assumption by proxy of functionality of the master apparatus to the second slave apparatus from the communication unit when the controller detects that the master apparatus has lost functionality.
US10741857B2	Fuel cell system A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, a water storage unit configured to store water recovered from the fuel cell and be able to drain the stored water, a water usage unit configured to use the water in the water storage unit, and a control unit configured to control a drain of the water from the water storage unit. The control unit is configured to, when a first predetermined time has elapsed since a last drain of the water from the water storage unit, drain the water from the water storage unit. The control unit is configured to, when it is predicted that the water in the water storage unit is used by the water usage unit within a second predetermined time shorter than the first predetermined time, not drain the water from the water storage unit even when the first predetermined time has elapsed since the drain of the water from the water storage unit.
US10741850B2	Dual conductor surface modified SOFC cathode particles and methods of making same A novel method to produce ALD films disposed on powders is disclosed. Examples include the formation of a cobalt doped zirconia (CDZ), hafnia, and cobalt doped hafnia (CDH) films on lanthanum strontium cobalt iron oxide (LSCF) powder for solid oxide fuel cell cathodes. The coated powders are sintered into porous cathodes that have utility for preventing the migration of cations in the powder to the surface of the sintered cathode and/or other performance enhancing attributes.
US10741848B2	Copper foil having improved adhesive force, electrode including the same, secondary battery including the same, and method of manufacturing the same Provided is a copper foil. The copper foil includes a copper layer and a protective layer disposed on the copper layer, wherein a surface of the protective layer has a maximum height roughness (Rmax) of 0.6 μm to 3.5 μm, a peak density (PD) of 5 to 110, and an oxygen atomic amount of 22 at % (atomic %) to 67 at %.
US10741844B2	Aqueous lithium ion secondary battery, method for producing anode active material composite, and method for producing aqueous lithium ion secondary battery Decomposition of an aqueous electrolyte solution when an aqueous lithium ion secondary battery is charged and discharged is suppressed, and the operating voltage of the battery is improved. The aqueous lithium ion secondary battery includes an anode, a cathode, and an aqueous electrolyte solution, the anode including a composite of an anode active material and polytetrafluoroethylene, wherein peaks of the polytetrafluoroethylene at around 1150 cm−1 and at around 1210 cm−1 are observed in FT-IR measurement of the composite, but a peak of the polytetrafluoroethylene at around 729 cm−1 is not observed in Raman spectroscopy measurement of the composite.
US10741843B2	Dry energy storage device electrode and methods of making the same An energy storage device can include a cathode and an anode, where at least one of the cathode and the anode are made of a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) composite binder material including PTFE and at least one of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), a PVDF co-polymer, and poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO). The energy storage device can be a lithium ion battery, a lithium ion capacitor, and/or any other lithium based energy storage device. The PTFE composite binder material can have a ratio of about 1:1 of PTFE to a non-PTFE component, such a PVDF, PVDF co-polymer and/or PEO.
US10741842B2	Solid-state battery A solid-state battery including a cathode, an anode, and a solid-state electrolyte layer including a solid-state electrolyte, wherein the solid-state electrolyte layer is disposed between the cathode and the anode, wherein the anode includes an anode active material, a first binder, and a second binder, the first binder is inactive to the solid-state electrolyte, the second binder has a tensile modulus greater than a tensile modulus of the first binder, and the second binder has a binding force which is greater than a binding force of the first binder.
US10741840B2	Cathode active material precursor, cathode active material formed therefrom, method of preparing the cathode active material, and cathode and lithium battery each including the cathode active material A cathode active material includes a secondary particle including an aggregate of a plurality of primary particles, wherein the secondary particle includes a nickel-containing lithium transition metal oxide having a layered crystal structure, wherein the plurality of primary particles includes a first primary particle having a size greater than about 400 nanometers, a second primary particle having a size less than about 150 nanometers, and a third primary particle having a size of about 150 nanometers to about 400 nanometers, wherein the third primary particle has a area of greater than or equal to about 80% of a total area of the plurality of primary particles, and wherein the secondary particle has a porosity of less than or equal to about 10% of a total area of the cathode active material.
US10741833B2	Negative electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery There is provided a negative electrode active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, the negative electrode active material including a base particle containing Si and SiO2, a mixed phase coating that covers a surface of the base particle and contains SiO2 and carbon, and a carbon coating that covers a surface of the mixed phase coating. The base particle is preferably formed of SiOX (0.5≤X≤1.5). The mixed phase coating preferably contains carbon dispersed in a phase formed of SiO2. The cycle characteristics of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including negative electrode active material particles containing Si and SiO2 are improved.
US10741827B2	Method for manufacturing electrode for secondary battery suitable for high loading Methods for preparing an electrode for a secondary battery are provided herein. In some embodiments, the method includes coating a current collector with an electrode slurry to form a coating layer on the current collector, the electrode slurry including a binder, an electrode active material, a conductive material, and amorphous selenium nanoparticles, and a solvent; and drying the coating layer, wherein the drying vaporizes the amorphous selenium nanoparticles and forms a passageway in the coating layer.
US10741823B2	System and method for injecting electrolyte of pouch type battery A method for injecting an electrolyte of a pouch type battery is provided. The method includes pressing the pouch type battery that has a gas pocket on a first side thereof to move gas generated from the battery toward the gas pocket. The gas pocket is then pierced using a needle type injector and an electrolyte is injected through the pierced portion. The electrolyte injected into the gas pocket is moved toward a second side of the battery and the gas pocket is pierced to remove the gas under a vacuum and seal the battery.
US10741821B2	Secondary battery A secondary battery includes an electrode assembly, a cap assembly, and a case. The electrode assembly includes a separator between a first electrode and a second electrode. The cap assembly is electrically connected to the first electrode. The case accommodates the electrode assembly and includes an opening to which the cap assembly is coupled. The cap assembly includes a cap and a current interruptor. The cap is outside the case and serves as a terminal of the first electrode. The current interruptor is between the cap and the first electrode. The current interruptor breaks an electric connection between the cap and the first electrode at a preset pressure or higher. The cap surrounds an edge portion of the current interruptor.
US10741814B2	Microporous battery separators including polyolefin layer and non-woven layer with alkylbenzene sulfonic acid lithium salt surfactant, lithium batteries utilizing the same, and methods of manufacture of the same In accordance with at least certain embodiments, the present invention is directed to novel, improved, coated, or treated separator membranes, separators or membrane based separators for lithium batteries. The membranes or separators may include non-woven layers, improved surfactant treatments, or combinations thereof. The separators or membranes are useful for solvent electrolyte lithium batteries, especially rechargeable lithium ion batteries, and provide improved performance, wettability, cycling ability, and/or recharging efficiency.
US10741812B2	Acid-scavenging functional separators for power performance of lithium ion electrochemical cells Methods of scavenging acid in a lithium-ion electrochemical cell are provided. An electrolyte solution that contains an acid or is capable of forming the acid is contacted with a polymer comprising a nitrogen-containing acid-trapping moiety selected from the group consisting of: an amine group, a pyridine group, and combinations thereof. The nitrogen-containing acid-trapping moiety scavenges acidic species present in the electrolyte solution by participating in a Lewis acid-base neutralization reaction. The electrolyte solution comprises a lithium salt and one or more solvents and is contained in the electrochemical cell that further comprises a first electrode, a second electrode having an opposite polarity from the first electrode, and a porous separator. Lithium ions can be cycled through the separator and electrolyte solution from the first electrode to the second electrode, where acid generated during the cycling is scavenged by the polymer comprising a nitrogen-containing acid-trapping moiety.
US10741808B2	Unified battery module with integrated battery cell structural support An energy storage device and structurally enhanced packaging for energy storage cells is provided. The energy storage device includes a number of energy storage cells spaced apart from one another and contained in a lightweight carrier. The energy storage cells and carrier are mechanically coupled together with a structural adhesive forming a unified structure and framework where each connection point acts as a node in a force distribution structure. The structural adhesive can be injected into the volume between the energy storage cells while in a fluid, or semi-fluid, state. While in this state, a retaining form or gasket inside the carrier can prevent the structural adhesive from leaking out of the energy storage device. When in a cured, or hardened, non-fluid state the structural adhesive may adhere to the various components of the energy storage device to mechanically join the component together into a structurally safe package.
US10741803B2	Battery cover for retention of dielectric fluid A battery cover includes a sealing member configured to provide a fluid-tight sealing member with a battery casing. The sealing member has a top surface and a bottom surface. A vent aperture is formed through the sealing member. A condensation chamber is disposed adjacent the bottom surface of the sealing member and is fluidly coupled to the vent aperture via an outlet. The condensation chamber receiving a flow of a fluid therethrough.
US10741801B2	Rectangular battery and method of manufacturing rectangular battery A battery case of a rectangular battery has a main body member that has the shape of a bottomed rectangular tube, and a lid member that has the shape of a rectangular plate. The main body member has a rectangular opening portion that is constituted of opening long side portions, opening short side portions, and opening R portions. The lid member seals the opening portion. The opening portion is configured such that each thickness of the opening R portions is larger than each thickness of the opening long side portions respectively. In addition, the opening portion and a lid peripheral edge portion are welded to each other in an airtight manner along an entire circumference thereof, by an energy beam that is radiated from outside the lid member in a thickness direction thereof.
US10741800B2	Method for manufacturing organic el device, including a thin film encapsulation structure film-forming method, and film-forming apparatus for the same The film-forming method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a step A for forming a photocurable resin liquid film on a substrate; a step B for vaporizing the photocurable resin in a first region on the substrate by selectively irradiating the first region with infrared rays or visible light having a wavelength that is longer than 550 nm; and a step C for obtaining a photocured resin film by curing the photocurable resin in the second region on the substrate, said second region including the first region, by irradiating, simultaneously with the step 3 or after performing the step 3, the second region with light, to which the photocurable resin is sensitive.
US10741791B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus includes a substrate having a bending area between a first area and a second area, wherein the substrate is bent in the bending area, a display portion on an upper surface of the substrate and positioned in the first area, and a protective film on a lower surface of the substrate and including a protective film base and an adhesive layer. The protective film base includes a plurality of cavities.
US10741788B2	Display device Disclosed is a display device having a reduced non-display area. The display device includes an organic cover layer disposed on an encapsulation unit, an inner dam disposed between a substrate hole and a plurality of light-emitting elements, and a blocking element disposed between the substrate hole and the inner dam, the blocking element being disposed under the organic cover layer, whereby it is possible to prevent damage to a light-emitting stack. In addition, since the substrate hole is disposed in an active area, it is possible to reduce the size of a non-display area.
US10741782B2	Light-emitting device with mixed nanoparticle charge transport layer A light-emitting device is optimized for radiative recombination and minimizes non-radiative recombination. The light-emitting device includes an emissive layer, a first electrode and a second electrode from which charges are generated, a first charge transport layer that injects charges from the first electrode into the emissive layer, and a second charge transport layer that injects charges from the second electrode into the emissive layer. At least one of the charge transport layers includes a mixture of a first nanoparticle population and a second nanoparticle population, and the first nanoparticle population and the second nanoparticle population are conductive nanoparticles that are energetically non-aligned as between the first nanoparticle population and the second nanoparticle population. Nanoparticles of the first nanoparticle population and the second nanoparticle population are energetically non-aligned with each other by being made of different materials, by having nanoparticles of different sizes, and/or by having nanoparticles of different shapes.
US10741777B2	Stretchable display Provided is a stretchable display including an elastic body, a light emitting unit on the elastic body, and a wiring unit on the elastic body, wherein the light emitting unit includes a first substrate unit on the elastic body, a buffer layer on the first substrate unit, and a light emitting element on the buffer layer, the wiring unit includes a second substrate unit on the elastic body, a driving element configured to control the light emitting element, a wiring configured to electrically connect the driving element and the light emitting element, and an insulation layer configured to cover the driving element and the wiring, the light emitting unit and the wiring unit have respective corrugation structures, a thickness of the light emitting unit is larger than that of the wiring unit, a modulus of elasticity of the buffer layer is larger than that of the insulation layer, and a modulus of elasticity of the elastic body is smaller than that of the insulation layer.
US10741775B2	Phenyl and fluorenyl substituted phenyl-pyrazole complexes of Ir The invention provides emissive materials and organic light emitting devices using the emissive materials in an emissive layer disposed between and electrically connected to an anode and a cathode. The emissive materials include compounds with the following structure: wherein at least one of R8 to R14 is phenyl or substituted phenyl, and/or at least two of R8 to R14 that are adjacent are part of a fluorenyl group. The emissive materials have enhanced electroluminescent efficiency and improved lifetime when incorporated into light emitting devices.
US10741770B2	Compounds comprising triazine group, fluorene-group and hetero-fluorene group The present invention relates to a compound according to formula 1: suitable for use as a layer material for electronic devices, and to an organic semiconductor layer comprising at least one compound according to formula 1, as well as to an organic electronic device comprising at least one organic semiconductor layer, and a method of manufacturing the same.
US10741768B2	Organic light-emitting diode with high efficiency The present disclosure relates to an organic light-emitting diode exhibiting high luminance efficiency, low-voltage operation, and long lifespan and, more particularly, to an organic light-emitting diode, comprising: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and a light-emitting layer and an electron density control layer sequentially arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode wherein the light-emitting layer includes at least one of the amine compounds represented by Chemical Formula A or B and the electron density control layer includes at least one of the compounds represented by Chemical Formulas F to H. The structures of Chemical Formulas A, B, and F to H are as described in the specification.
US10741763B2	Division mask with clamping portion A division mask includes a main body including at least one opening pattern, and a clamping portion at an edge of the main body, the clamping portion having an increasing width with respect to an increasing distance from the main body, and the clamping portion including a fan-out portion extending from the main body and including at least one dummy pattern, and at least one branch portion having a decreasing width with respect to an increasing distance from the fan-out portion.
US10741761B2	Methods of making sealed resistive change elements Methods for scaling dimensions of resistive change elements, resistive change element arrays of scalable resistive change elements, and sealed resistive change elements are disclosed. According to some aspects of the present disclosure the methods for scaling dimensions of resistive change elements and the resistive change element arrays of scalable resistive change elements reduce the impact of overlapping materials on the switching characteristics of resistive change elements. According to some aspects of the present disclosure the methods for scaling dimensions of resistive change elements include sealing surfaces of resistive change elements. According to some aspects of the present disclosure the methods for scaling dimensions of resistive change elements include forming barriers to copper migration in a copper back end of the line.
US10741759B2	Diffusive memristor and device for synaptic emulator A diffusive memristor device and an electronic device for emulating a biological synapse are disclosed. The diffusive memristor device includes a bottom electrode, a top electrode formed opposite the bottom electrode, and a dielectric layer disposed between the top electrode and the bottom electrode. The dielectric layer comprises silver doped silicon oxynitride (SiOxNy:Ag). In an alternate implementation, the dielectric layer comprises silver doped silicon oxide (Ag:SiO2). An electronic synapse emulation device is also disclosed. The synapse emulation device includes a diffusive memristor device, a drift memristor device connected in series with the diffusive memristor device, a first voltage pulse generator connected to the diffusive memristor device, and a second voltage pulse generator connected to the drift memristor device. Application of a signal from one of the first voltage pulse generator or the second voltage pulse generator allows the synapse emulation device to exhibit long-term plasticity.
US10741758B2	Width-wise segmented slot contacts for improving performance in phase-change material (PCM) radio frequency (RF) switches A radio frequency (RF) switch includes a phase-change material (PCM) and a heating element underlying an active segment of the PCM, the PCM and heating element being situated over a substrate. A contact dielectric is over the PCM. PCM contacts have upper portions and uniform plate slot lower portions. The uniform plate slot lower portions have a total plate resistance RPLATE, and a total plate slot interface resistance RPLATE-INT. The upper portions have a total capacitance CUPPER to the uniform plate slot lower portions, and the PCM has a total capacitance CPCM to the substrate. The uniform plate slot lower portions significantly reduce a product of (RPLATE+RPLATE-INT) and (CUPPER+CPCM). As an alternative to the uniform plate slot lower portions, PCM contacts have segmented lower portions. The segmented lower portions significantly reduce CUPPER.
US10741756B1	Phase change memory with a patterning scheme for tantalum nitride and silicon nitride layers A method of forming a phase change memory device is provided. The method includes depositing an electrode layer on a phase change material core, and forming a sacrificial layer on the electrode layer. The method further includes depositing a planarization layer on the sacrificial layer, and depositing an anti-reflective coating on the planarization layer. The method further includes forming a template on the anti-reflective coating, and removing a portion of the anti-reflective coating, a portion of the planarization layer, and a portion of the sacrificial layer to form a reduced height sacrificial layer and a sacrificial layer section beneath the planarization layer section. The method further includes removing the anti-reflective coating section and planarization layer section to expose the sacrificial layer section, and removing the reduced height sacrificial layer and a portion of the electrode layer to form a top electrode on the phase change material core.
US10741754B2	Resistive memory with amorphous silicon filaments A method for manufacturing a semiconductor memory device includes forming a first silicon layer on a bottom conductive layer, transforming the first silicon layer into a first polysilicon layer, forming a second silicon layer stacked on the first polysilicon layer, and a third silicon layer stacked on the second silicon layer, transforming the second and third silicon layers into second and third polysilicon layers, wherein the first and third polysilicon layers have a first doping type, and the second polysilicon layer has a second doping type different from the first doping type, forming an amorphous silicon layer on the third polysilicon layer, and forming a top conductive layer on the amorphous silicon layer.
US10741753B2	Conductive hard mask for memory device formation Methods, systems, and devices for memory arrays that use a conductive hard mask during formation and, in some cases, operation are described. A hard mask may be used to define features or components during the numerous material formation and removal steps used to create memory cells within a memory array. The hard mask may be an electrically conductive material, some or all of which may be retained during formation. A conductive line may be connected to each memory cell, and because the hard mask used in forming the cell may be conductive, the cell may be operable even if portions of the hard mask remain after formation.
US10741748B2	Back end of line metallization structures Back end of line (BEOL) metallization structures and methods according to aspects of the invention generally include forming an interconnect structure including a recessed via structure in an interlayer dielectric. The recessed via structure is lined with a liner layer and filled with a first metal such as copper, tungsten, aluminum, alloys thereof or mixtures thereof. The recessed portion is filled with a second metal such as tantalum, titanium, tungsten, cobalt, ruthenium, iridium, platinum, nitrides thereof, or mixtures thereof, which in combination with the liner layer provides effective barrier properties for the bulk first metal.
US10741747B2	Zinc oxide-based piezoelectric device The present invention relates to a zinc oxide-based piezoelectric device, utilizable both as a sensor and as an actuator. More in particular, the present invention relates to a piezoelectric device (1, 101) comprising at least two carbon fibre crossed yarns (2a, 2b; 102a, 102b), at the intersection of which a zinc oxide layer (3, 103) in nanorod form is arranged, wherein an end (4a, 4b) of each of said yarns (2a, 2b; 102a, 102b) is connected to an operative unit (5).
US10741743B2	Oxide superconductor and method for manufacturing the same An oxide superconductor includes: REBa2Cu3O7-x (RE being one element selected from a “RE element group” of Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Y, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, and Lu). The RE includes at least three, types of metallic elements (M1, M2, and M3), and the three types of metallic elements are any element of the RE element group selected in order. In an oxide system satisfying R(1)≤20 mol % and R(M2)≥60 mol % and R(M3)≤20 mol %, R(M1) being an average metallic element ratio of M1 in M1+M2+M3, SD(Ms)>0.15 is satisfied at a position at 50% of an average film thickness of a cross section including the c-axis, Ms being the metallic element of not larger of R(M1) and R(M3), SD(Ms) being a standard deviation/average value of a concentration of Ms.
US10741736B2	Compact opto-electronic modules and fabrication methods for such modules Various optoelectronic modules are described and include one or more optoelectronic devices. Each optoelectronic module includes one or more optoelectronic devices. Sidewalls laterally surround each optoelectronic device and can be in direct contact with sides of the optoelectronic device or, in some cases, with an overmold surrounding the optoelectronic device. The sidewalls can be composed, for example, of a vacuum injected material that is non-transparent to light emitted by or detectable by the optoelectronic device. The module also includes a passive optical element. Depending on the implementation, the passive optical element can be on a cover for the module, directly on a top surface of the optoelectronic device, or on an overmold surrounding the optoelectronic device. Methods of fabricating such modules are described as well, and can facilitate manufacturing the modules using wafer-level processes.
US10741735B2	LED with remote phosphor and shell reflector The present disclosure provides a configuration and technique of fabricating remote phosphor optics (such as lenses) for downconverting LEDs, replacing the prior art solid hemispherical lenses with a novel thin-shell hemispherical lens that can be used with a wide range of encapsulating materials, including low index materials such as air and methyl silicones. The present disclosure further provides a configuration and technique whereby the remote phosphor lenses can be used with an LED array.
US10741730B2	Stabilized luminescent nanoparticles comprising a perovskite semiconductor and method of fabrication Stabilized luminescent nanoparticles for light emitting diode applications comprise perovskite nanocrystals encapsulated by an oxide coating, where the oxide coating includes ligand remnants comprising one or more elements selected from the group consisting of: nitrogen, carbon, phosphorus, and sulfur. A method of making the stabilized luminescent nanoparticles comprises dispersing perovskite nanocrystals and crosslinking ligands in a non-polar solvent to form a first mixture. Each of the crosslinking ligands comprises a head end and a tail end; the head ends attach to the perovskite nanocrystals and the tail ends remain unattached and available for crosslinking. An oxide precursor comprising crosslinking functional groups is added to the first mixture, and the crosslinking functional groups attach to the tail ends of the crosslinking ligands. Thus, an oxide coating is formed on the perovskite nanocrystals.
US10741729B2	Light emitting apparatus and production method thereof A light emitting apparatus includes an electrically insulating base member; a first electrically conductive pattern portion and a second electrically conductive pattern portion formed on an upper surface of the base member; a plurality of intermediate electrically conductive pattern portions arranged between the first and second electrically conductive pattern portions; at least one light emitting device mounted on at least one of the intermediate electrically conductive pattern portions; a protection element mounted on the first and second electrically conductive pattern portions; and a resin portion disposed around the at least one light emitting device such that (i) the first and second electrically conductive pattern portions are partially covered by the resin portion and partially exposed from the resin portion, and (ii) the protection element is covered by the resin portion.
US10741728B2	Micro-LED display device and method of fabricating the same A micro-LED display device includes a substrate; a first insulating layer on the substrate and including a first region and a second region; and a micro-LED in the first region, wherein the first region has a first hydrophilicity, and the second region has a second hydrophilicity that is less than the first hydrophilicity.
US10741727B2	Light emitting device and method of manufacturing same A light emitting device includes: a substrate; a light emitting element disposed on the substrate; a light transmissive member having a plate shape and having an upper face and a lower face disposed such that the lower face opposes a light emission face of the light emitting element; a light reflecting member covering lateral faces of the light emitting element and lateral faces of the light transmissive member; and a light shielding frame disposed on the upper face of the light reflecting member surrounding the light transmissive member. The light shielding frame has an opening, an inner perimeter of the opening is positioned at a distance apart from an outer perimeter of the upper face of the light transmissive member in a plan view as seen from above, and the light reflecting member is interposed between the inner perimeter of the opening and the outer perimeter of the upper face of the light transmissive member.
US10741726B2	LEDs with efficient electrode structures Aspects include Light Emitting Diodes that have a GaN-based light emitting region and a metallic electrode. The metallic electrode can be physically separated from the GaN-based light emitted region by a layer of porous dielectric, which provides a reflecting region between at least a portion of the metallic electrode and the GaN-based light emitting region.
US10741723B2	Component with geometrically adapted contact structure and method for producing the same A component with an geometrically adapted contact structure and a method for producing such a component are disclosed. In an embodiment a component includes a contact structure including a contiguous contact layer having a plurality of openings and being assigned to a first electrical polarity of the component and a plurality of individual contacts at least in part having different vertical heights, wherein the contacts extend in the openings throughout the contiguous contact layer, wherein the contacts are laterally spaced from each other and assigned to a second electrical polarity of the component, and wherein the contacts are arranged with respect to their different heights and their positions such that a height distribution of the contacts is adapted to a predetermined geometrically non-planar contour profile.
US10741719B2	Quantum dot channel (QDC) quantum dot gate transistors, memories and other devices This CIP application builds on Ge quantum dot superlattice (QDSL) based field effect transistors where Ge quantum dot arrays are used as a high carrier mobility channel. The QDSL diodes claims that were withdrawn are included. The diodes are used as light emitting devices and photodetectors. A combination of QDC-FETs, light emitting devise, photodetectors are vertically stacked to form a versatile 3-dimensional integrated circuit. Nonvolatile memories using floating quantum dot gates are included in vertical stacking format. Nonvolatile random access memories are integrated as a stack. Also described is the use of 3-layer stack of QDC-FETs making compact electrical circuits interfacing pixels for an active matrix flat panel displays that results in high resolution. Ge or Si quantum dot transport channel based devices processing spin polarized electrons introduced by magnetic tunnel junctions are described for multi-state coherent logic.
US10741718B2	Laser de-bond carrier wafer from device wafer In one embodiment, a semiconductor device wafer (10) contains electrical components and has electrodes (28) on a first side of the device wafer (10). A transparent carrier wafer (30) is bonded to the first side of the device wafer (10) using a bonding material (32) (e.g., a polymer or metal). The second side of the device wafer (10) is then processed, such as thinned, while the carrier wafer (30) provides mechanical support for the device wafer (10). The carrier wafer (30) is then de-bonded from the device wafer (10) by passing a laser beam (46) through the carrier wafer (30), the carrier wafer (30) being substantially transparent to the wavelength of the beam. The beam impinges on the bonding material (32), which absorbs the beam's energy, to break the chemical bonds between the bonding material (32) and the carrier wafer (30). The released carrier wafer (30) is then removed from the device wafer (10), and the residual bonding material is cleaned from the device wafer (10).
US10741714B2	Infrared detection device, infrared detection apparatus, and manufacturing method of infrared detection device An infrared detection device includes a semiconductor substrate; a first metamorphic buffer layer that is formed on the semiconductor substrate; a first contact layer that is formed on the first metamorphic buffer layer; a first infrared absorption layer that is formed on the first contact layer; a second contact layer that is formed on the first infrared absorption layer; a second metamorphic buffer layer that is formed on the second contact layer; a third contact layer that is formed on the second metamorphic buffer layer; a second infrared absorption layer that is formed on the third contact layer; a fourth contact layer that is formed on the second infrared absorption layer; a lower electrode that is connected with the first contact layer; an upper electrode that is connected with the fourth contact layer; and an intermediate electrode that is connected with the second contact layer and the third contact layer.
US10741712B2	Photovoltaic module containing shingled photovoltaic tiles and fabrication processes thereof A photovoltaic module is disclosed. The photovoltaic module comprises an array of shingled tiles disposed between a transparent front substrate and a back substrate, wherein the array of shingled tiles comprises a plurality of photovoltaic tiles in electrically contact with each other and positioned in overlapping rows. Each photovoltaic tile comprises a front metallic contact layer disposed on an epitaxial film stack disposed on a back metallic contact layer disposed on a support carrier layer. The photovoltaic module includes at least one busbar in electrical contact with the array of shingled tiles and disposed between the front and back glass substrates. The photovoltaic module also includes an encapsulation layer between the front and back glass substrates.
US10741711B2	Solar cell module including plurality of solar cells A plurality of solar cells are sealed by an encapsulant between a first protective member and a second protective member. A fixing member fixes, among the plurality of solar cells, a first solar cell and a second solar cell that are adjacent to each other. The fixing member includes a release surface and a non-release surface that are oriented in opposite directions. The non-release surface has disposed thereon a first bonding region and a second bonding region that have adhesive strength, and a non-bonding region different from the first bonding region and the second bonding region.
US10741710B2	Thin film photovoltaic cell with back contacts Photovoltaic cells, photovoltaic devices, and methods of fabrication are provided. The photovoltaic cells include a transparent substrate to allow light to enter the photovoltaic cell through the substrate, and a light absorption layer associated with the substrate. The light absorption layer has opposite first and second surfaces, with the first surface being closer to the transparent substrate than the second surface. A passivation layer is disposed over the second surface of the light absorption layer, and a plurality of first discrete contacts and a plurality of second discrete contacts are provided within the passivation layer to facilitate electrical coupling to the light absorption layer. A first electrode and a second electrode are disposed over the passivation layer to contact the plurality of first discrete contacts and the plurality of second discrete contacts, respectively. The first and second electrodes may include a photon-reflective material.
US10741707B2	Graphene-contacted nanotube photodetector Photodetectors and methods of forming the same include a first electrode. A carbon nanotube film is formed on the first electrode. A first graphene sheet is formed on the carbon nanotube film. A second graphene sheet is configured to exert an electrical field on the first graphene sheet that changes an electrical property of the first graphene sheet.
US10741705B2	Optoelectronic device having an antireflective surface An optoelectronic device with an antireflective surface comprises a semiconductor substrate having a textured surface including a plurality of surface protrusions and/or indentations. A first electrode is in contact with the semiconductor substrate and spaced apart from a second electrode that is also in contact with the semiconductor substrate. The textured surface is fabricated by inverse metal-assisted chemical etching, and thus the semiconductor substrate is substantially devoid of ion-induced defects.
US10741699B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a gate insulator layer above a semiconductor substrate, a gate electrode above the gate insulating layer, a sidewall insulator layer on sidewalls of the gate electrode and above the substrate, source and drain regions within the substrate on both sides of the gate electrode, a first region within the substrate below a part of the sidewall insulator layer closer to the source region and having an impurity concentration lower than the source region, a second region provided within the substrate below a part of the sidewall insulator layer closer to the drain region and having an impurity concentration lower than the drain region, a channel region provided within the substrate between the first and second regions, and a third region within the substrate below the channel region and including impurities of a different type and having an impurity concentration higher than the channel region.
US10741695B2	Semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor A transistor having high field-effect mobility is provided. In order that an oxide semiconductor layer through which carriers flow is not in contact with a gate insulating film, a buried channel structure in which the oxide semiconductor layer through which carriers flow is separated from the gate insulating film is employed. Specifically, an oxide semiconductor layer having high conductivity is provided between two oxide semiconductor layers. Further, an impurity element is added to the oxide semiconductor layer in a self-aligned manner so that the resistance of a region in contact with an electrode layer is reduced. Further, the oxide semiconductor layer in contact with the gate insulating layer has a larger thickness than the oxide semiconductor layer having high conductivity.
US10741691B2	Array substrate, display panel and display device The present disclosure provides an array substrate, a display panel and a display device. The array substrate includes a base substrate and a thin film transistor. An orthographic projection of a drain of the thin film transistor on the base substrate does not go beyond an orthographic projection of a gate of the thin film transistor on the base substrate.
US10741688B2	Structure and method for integrated circuit The present disclosure provides many different embodiments of an IC device. The IC device includes a gate stack disposed over a surface of a substrate and a spacer disposed along a sidewall of the gate stack. The spacer has a tapered edge that faces the surface of the substrate while tapering toward the gate stack. Therefore the tapered edge has an angle with respect to the surface of the substrate.
US10741686B2	Method for manufacturing semiconductor device and semiconductor device A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes implanting impurity ions into a SiC layer in a direction of <10-11>±1 degrees, <10-1-1>±1 degrees, <10-12>±1 degrees, or <10-1-2>±1 degrees.
US10741683B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing same A semiconductor device has a semiconductor layer and a substrate. The semiconductor layer constitutes at least a part of a current path, and is made of silicon carbide. The substrate has a first surface supporting the semiconductor layer, and a second surface opposite to the first surface. Further, the substrate is made of silicon carbide having a 4H type single-crystal structure. Further, the substrate has a physical property in which a ratio of a peak strength in a wavelength of around 500 nm to a peak strength in a wavelength of around 390 nm is 0.1 or smaller in photoluminescence measurement. In this way, the semiconductor device is obtained to have a low on-resistance.
US10741682B2	High-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) semiconductor devices with reduced dynamic resistance High-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) devices are described in this patent application. In some implementations, the HEMT devices can include a back barrier hole injection structure. In some implementations, the HEMT devices include a conductive striped portion electrically coupled to a drain contact.
US10741681B2	Increased source and drain contact edge width in two-dimensional material field effect transistors by directed self-assembly The present invention provides a method and a structure of increasing source and drain contact edge width in a two-dimensional material field effect transistor. The method includes patterning a two-dimensional material over an insulating substrate; depositing a gate dielectric over the two-dimensional material; depositing a top gate over the gate dielectric, wherein the top gate has a hard mask thereon; forming a sidewall spacer around the top gate; depositing an interlayer dielectric oxide over the sidewall spacer and the hard mask; removing the interlayer dielectric oxide adjacent to the sidewall spacer to form an open contact trench; depositing a copolymer coating in the contact trench region; annealing the copolymer to induce a directed self-assembly; performing a two-dimensional material etch over the two-dimensional material; removing the unetched copolymer without etching the gate dielectric; and etching the exposed gate in the source and the drain region to form a metal contact layer.
US10741678B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof In a method of manufacturing a negative capacitance structure, a dielectric layer is formed over a substrate. A first metallic layer is formed over the dielectric layer. After the first metallic layer is formed, an annealing operation is performed, followed by a cooling operation. A second metallic layer is formed. After the cooling operation, the dielectric layer becomes a ferroelectric dielectric layer including an orthorhombic crystal phase.
US10741673B2	Controlling gate profile by inter-layer dielectric (ILD) nanolaminates A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a plurality of parallel fins extending above the substrate, a plurality of gate structures perpendicular to the plurality of fins and including a plurality of sidewall spacers, and a plurality of source-drain regions intermediate the plurality of gate structures. A liner of a silicon-containing material is deposited over outer surfaces of the plurality of gate structures; over the liner, an inter-layer dielectric material is deposited. The semiconductor substrate with the deposited liner of silicon-containing material and deposited inter-layer dielectric material is annealed to at least partially consume the liner of silicon-containing material into the inter-layer dielectric material, to control residual stress such that resultant gate structures following the annealing have an aspect ratio range of 3:1 to 10:1, and are uniform in range to within seven percent of a target critical dimension.
US10741672B2	Gate structure for semiconductor device A method of forming a fin field effect transistors (finFET) on a substrate includes forming a fin structure on the substrate, forming a protective layer on the fin structure, and forming a polysilicon structure on the protective layer. The method further includes modifying the polysilicon structure such that a first horizontal dimension of a first portion of the modified polysilicon structure is smaller than a second horizontal dimension of a second portion of the modified polysilicon structure. The method further includes replacing the modified polysilicon structure with a gate structure having a first horizontal dimension of a first portion of the gate structure that is smaller than a second horizontal dimension of a second portion of the gate structure.
US10741671B2	Method for manufacturing semiconductor device A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, includes: forming a dummy gate structure on a semiconductor substrate; forming a plurality of gate spacers on opposite sidewalls of the dummy gate structure; removing the dummy gate structure from the semiconductor substrate; forming a metal gate electrode on the semiconductor substrate and between the gate spacers; and performing a plasma etching process to the metal gate electrode, wherein the plasma etching process comprises performing in sequence a first non-zero bias etching step and a first zero bias etching step.
US10741669B2	Differentiated voltage threshold metal gate structures for advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication Embodiments of the disclosure are in the field of advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication and, in particular, 10 nanometer node and smaller integrated circuit structure fabrication and the resulting structures. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a fin. A gate dielectric layer is over a top of the fin and laterally adjacent sidewalls of the fin. An N-type gate electrode is over the gate dielectric layer over the top of the fin and laterally adjacent the sidewalls of the fin, the N-type gate electrode comprising a P-type metal layer on the gate dielectric layer, and an N-type metal layer on the P-type metal layer. A first N-type source or drain region is adjacent a first side of the gate electrode. A second N-type source or drain region is adjacent a second side of the gate electrode, the second side opposite the first side.
US10741665B2	Method of forming a high electron mobility transistor A high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) includes a first III-V compound layer and a second III-V compound layer disposed on the first III-V compound layer and is different from the first III-V compound layer in composition. A source feature and a drain feature are disposed on the second III-V compound layer. A p-type layer is disposed on a portion of the second III-V compound layer between the source feature and the drain feature. A gate electrode is disposed on the p-type layer. A capping layer is disposed on the second III-V compound layer.
US10741663B1	Encapsulation layer for vertical transport field-effect transistor gate stack A vertical transport field-effect transistor includes gate metal protected by a conformal encapsulation layer. Techniques for fabricating the transistor include depositing the conformal encapsulation layer over the gate metal prior to depositing an additional encapsulation layer such as a nitride layer. The conformal encapsulation layer protects the gate metal during deposition of the additional encapsulation layer, thereby avoiding oxidation or nitridation of the gate metal. The conformal encapsulation layer may be an amorphous silicon layer deposited at relatively low temperature.
US10741661B2	Conductive layer, thin film transistor and manufacturing methods therefor, array substrate and display device The present disclosure relates to a conductive layer, a thin film transistor and manufacturing methods therefor, an array substrate and a display device, in the field of displays. The conductive layer comprises: a metal layer and an organophosphorus-metal complex covering the metal layer. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the organophosphorus-metal complex is manufactured on the surface of the metal layer to form the conductive layer. The conductive layer is adopted as an electrode material. In one aspect, the organophosphorus-metal complex has conductivity and can prevent the surface of metal from making contact with oxygen, thereby avoiding metal oxidation under the premise of not affecting the performances of the electrode when serving as a material of the electrode in a TFT. In the other aspect, the organophosphorus-metal complex can increase a binding force between the metal and photoresist and avoids stripping of the photoresist. Therefore, etching liquid is prevented from etching the metal in a position without the need of etching. The conductive layer provided by the present disclosure has the performances in the above two aspects. Therefore, the stability and electronic transmission performances of the electrode can be improved by adopting such a conductive layer to manufacture the electrode of the thin film transistor.
US10741660B2	Nanosheet single gate (SG) and extra gate (EG) field effect transistor (FET) co-integration A method of forming a semiconductor device that includes providing a first stack of nanosheets having a first thickness and a second stack of nanosheets having a second thickness; and forming a oxide layer on the first and second stack of nanosheets. The oxide layer fills a space between said nanosheets in the first stack, and is conformally present on the nanosheets in the second stack. The method further includes forming a work function metal layer on the first and second stack of nanosheets. In some embodiments, the work function metal layer is present on only exterior surfaces of the first stack to provide a single gate structure and is conformally present about an entirety of the nanosheets in the second stack to provide a multiple gate structure.
US10741659B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device comprising a first field insulating film around at least a part of a first fin type pattern and at least a part of a second fin type pattern, a second field insulating film between the first fin type pattern and the second fin type pattern and protruding from the first field insulating film and a first gate structure which extends over the first and second field insulating films in a second direction intersecting with a first direction, and includes a first portion on the first field insulating film, and a second portion on the second field insulating film, wherein a first width of the first portion of the first gate structure is greater than a second width of the second portion of the first gate structure.
US10741656B2	Wraparound contact surrounding source/drain regions of integrated circuit structures and method of forming same This disclosure is directed to an integrated circuit (IC) structure. The IC structure may include a semiconductor substrate having a first fin and a second fin spaced from the first fin; a first source/drain region in the first fin, the first source/drain region encompassing a top surface and two opposing lateral sides of the first fin; a second source/drain region in the second fin, the second source/drain encompassing a top surface and two opposing lateral sides of the second fin; and a metal contact extending over the first source/drain region and the second source/drain region and surrounding the top surface and at least a portion of the two opposing lateral sides of each of the first and the second source/drain regions.
US10741653B2	Bond-over-active circuity gallium nitride devices Implementations of semiconductor devices may include: a first layer with a plurality of cells, each cell having a drain finger, a source finger and a gate ring; a second layer having a drain pad and a source pad, the drain pad having a width and a source pad having a width substantially the same as the drain pad; wherein a width of each drain finger of the first layer is wider than a width of each source finger of the first layer; and wherein each drain pad is coupled to each drain finger through a first contact and the source pad is coupled to each source finger through a second contact, where a width of the first contact is wider than a width of the second contact.
US10741652B2	Wrap-around-contact structure for top source/drain in vertical FETs A method is presented for forming a wrap-around-contact. The method includes forming a bottom source/drain region adjacent a plurality of fins, disposing encapsulation layers over the plurality of fins, recessing at least one of the encapsulation layers to expose top portions of the plurality of fins, and for forming top spacers adjacent the top portions of the plurality of fins. The method further includes disposing a sacrificial liner adjacent the encapsulation layers, recessing the top spacers, forming top source/drain regions over the top portions of the plurality of fins, removing the sacrificial liner to create trenches adjacent the top source/drain regions, and depositing a metal liner within the trenches and over the top source/drain regions such that the wrap-around-contact is defined to cover an upper area of the top source/drain regions.
US10741648B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A manufacturing yield and reliability of a semiconductor device including a power semiconductor element is improved. A plurality of trenches DT extending in an x direction and spaced apart from each other in a y direction orthogonal to the x direction are formed in a substrate having a main crystal surface tilted with respect to a <11-20> direction. Also, a super-junction structure is constituted of a p-type column region PC made of a semiconductor layer embedded in the trench DT and an n-type column region NC made of a part of the substrate between the trenches DT adjacent in the y direction, and an angle error between the extending direction of the trench DT (x direction) and the <11-20> direction is within ±θ. The θ is determined by {arctan {k× (w/h)}}/13 for the trench having a height of h and a width of w. Herein, the k is at least smaller than 2, preferably 0.9 or less, more preferably 0.5 or less, and still more preferably 0.3 or less.
US10741646B2	Field-effect transistors having contacts to 2D material active region Exemplary FET devices having 2D material layer active regions and methods of fabricating thereof are described. For example, a black phosphorus active region has a first thickness in the channel region and a second, greater, thickness in the source/drain (S/D) region. The BP in the S/D region has a sidewall that interfaces a contact disposed over the FET. A gate electrode is disposed over the channel region. In some embodiments, the sidewall has passivated edge. In some embodiments, the sidewall is nonlinear. In some embodiments, the stress layer is disposed over the 2D material layer.
US10741645B2	Thin-base high frequency lateral bipolar junction transistor A semiconductor device including a base region present within a fin semiconductor structure that is present atop a dielectric substrate. An epitaxial emitter region and epitaxial collector region are present on opposing sides and in direct contact with the fin semiconductor structure. An epitaxial extrinsic base region is present on a surface of the fin semiconductor substrate that is opposite the surface of the fin semiconductor structure that is in contact with the dielectric base.
US10741643B2	Semiconductor device having buried gate structure and method for fabricating the same A semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region spaced apart from each other by a trench in the substrate; and a gate structure in the trench, wherein the gate structure includes: a gate dielectric layer formed on a bottom and sidewalls of the trench; a first gate electrode positioned in a bottom portion of the trench over the gate dielectric layer; a second gate electrode positioned over the first gate electrode; and a dipole inducing layer formed between the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode and between sidewalls of the second gate electrode and the gate dielectric layer.
US10741642B2	Formation of dislocations in source and drain regions of finFET devices Embodiments of mechanisms for forming dislocations in source and drain regions of finFET devices are provided. The mechanisms involve recessing fins and removing the dielectric material in the isolation structures neighboring fins to increase epitaxial regions for dislocation formation. The mechanisms also involve performing a pre-amorphous implantation (PAI) process either before or after the epitaxial growth in the recessed source and drain regions. An anneal process after the PAI process enables consistent growth of the dislocations in the source and drain regions. The dislocations in the source and drain regions (or stressor regions) can form consistently to produce targeted strain in the source and drain regions to improve carrier mobility and device performance for NMOS devices.
US10741635B2	Display device, display device manufacturing method, and display device manufacturing apparatus To reduce a possibility of short circuiting between a wiring line that connects to a terminal unit and a pixel electrode, a display device is provided that includes a first lead wiring line that extends from a display area to a frame area while intersecting with an end portion of a flattening film, a second lead wiring line that is in a layer more on an upper side than the first lead wiring line and extends to a terminal unit while coming into contact with and intersecting with a first bank formed in a periphery of a second electrode, and a first wiring line contact part through which the first lead wiring line and the second lead wiring line connect to each other, the first wiring line contact part being provided between an end portion of the flattening film and the first bank.
US10741633B2	Display panel and method for manufacturing same A display panel and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The display panel has a display area, a non-display area, and a bendable connection area being located between the display area and the non-display area and connecting the display area with the non-display area. The display panel includes a substrate; an inorganic insulating layer disposed on the substrate, wherein in the bendable connection area, a plurality of recesses are defined in the inorganic insulating layer; an organic filling layer filled in the plurality of recesses in the inorganic insulating layer and having a concave curved surface; and a wiring layer disposed on the inorganic insulating layer, wherein a concave curved surface formed on the wiring layer corresponds to the concave curved surface of the organic filling layer in each of the recesses.
US10741632B2	Display device and manufacturing method thereof A display device including a first signal line disposed on a substrate, a first insulating layer disposed on the first signal line, and a second signal line disposed on the first insulating layer and crossing the first signal line, in which the first insulating layer includes a recess portion providing a surface height lower than other areas of the first insulating layer, and the first signal line and the second signal line overlap each other with the recess portion therebetween.
US10741630B2	Display device having a reduced cell seal area and method of manufacturing display device A display device includes: a first substrate in which a display area and a non-display area disposed outside the display area are defined; a second substrate facing the first substrate; and a cell seal disposed on the non-display area, where the cell seal includes a bonding filament connecting the first substrate and the second substrate to each other.
US10741629B2	Display device and manufacturing method thereof A display device includes a substrate including a display region and non-display region, and at least one pixel disposed in the display region. The at least one pixel includes an emission region that emits a light, a non-emission region that does not emit the light, a light emitting element disposed in the emission region, and a pixel circuit that drives the light emitting element. The display device further includes a passivation layer disposed between the pixel circuit and the light emitting element. The passivation layer covers the pixel circuit and includes a concave pattern disposed in the non-emission region. The display device further includes a power supply line disposed on the passivation layer in the non-emission region and connected to the light emitting element. The power supply line includes an uneven pattern corresponding to the concave pattern.
US10741625B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus includes a substrate including a display area; a first thin film transistor arranged on the display area of the substrate and having a first semiconductor layer including a silicon semiconductor and a first gate electrode insulated from the first semiconductor layer by a first gate insulating layer; a second thin film transistor arranged on the display area of the substrate and having a second semiconductor layer including an oxide semiconductor and a second gate electrode insulated from the second semiconductor layer; and a storage capacitor at least partially overlapping the first thin film transistor and having a lower electrode and an upper electrode, wherein the second semiconductor layer and one of the lower electrode and the upper electrode are arranged on a same layer.
US10741621B2	Display device with a fingerprint sensor Disclosed is a display device including a display panel configured to be situated under a transparent substrate and display an image on a display area toward the transparent substrate, a fingerprint sensor under the display panel to detect a fingerprint contacting the transparent substrate, and a drive integrated circuit (drive IC) configured to drive the display panel.
US10741620B2	Organic light emitting display device including a sound generating apparatus Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an organic light emitting display device which directly vibrates an organic light emitting display panel to generate sound, and includes: an organic light emitting display panel including a light emitting layer including an organic light emitting material layer and an encapsulation layer disposed at one side of the light emitting layer; and a sound generating actuator in direct contact with the organic light emitting display panel to vibrate the organic light emitting display panel to generate sound. Especially, the organic light emitting display panel is a bottom emission type device, and thus can prevent generation of a weighted color mixing phenomenon in a wide viewing angle at the time of panel vibration and reduce the thickness or weight of the panel to thereby enhance the sound generation characteristic.
US10741617B2	Pixel structure, array substrate and display device A pixel structure includes a plurality of pixel units including three-primary-color sub-pixel groups and a plurality of fourth sub-pixels which are alternatively arranged. The fourth sub-pixel has a color different from that of the three-primary-color sub-pixel groups. The fourth sub-pixel is arranged between two adjacent three-primary-color sub-pixel groups.
US10741616B2	Organic light emitting display device and method for manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing an organic light emitting display device, includes forming a thin film transistor on a substrate, the substrate having emissive areas; forming a planarization layer on the thin film transistor; forming a contact hole exposing a source or drain electrode of the thin film transistor through the planarization layer; forming a first electrode connected to the source or drain electrode of the thin film transistor through the contact hole; forming a hole between adjacent emissive areas, the hole being provided in the planarization layer; forming a pixel defining layer on a portion of the first electrode and in the hole, wherein the pixel defining layer fills a portion of the hole and is provided on both side wall and floor of the hole; and forming a light emitting layer, a second electrode and an encapsulation layer sequentially on the substrate having the first electrode and the pixel defining layer.
US10741615B2	Display device A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a substrate including first to fourth subpixels, a first buffer layer positioned on the substrate, the first buffer layer including a silicon nitride layer and a silicon oxide layer, and a thin film transistor and an organic light emitting diode positioned on the first buffer layer. Each of the first to fourth subpixels includes an emission portion and a non-emission portion. A thickness of the silicon nitride layer in the non-emission portion is greater than a thickness of the silicon nitride layer in the emission portion.
US10741609B2	Pre-patterned etch stop for interconnect trench formation overlying embedded MRAM structures Integration of structures including an embedded magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) device such as a magnetic tunneling junction device includes pre-patterned etch stop layers to prevent excessive etching of the interlayer dielectric during a via open step.
US10741608B2	Manufacturing method of micro light-emitting diode display panel The invention provides a manufacturing method of micro LED display panel, comprising: Step S1: providing a driving substrate, forming a photoresist layer on the driving substrate; Step S2: patterning the photoresist layer to form a plurality of accommodating grooves arranged in an array; Step S3: disposing a micro LED in each accommodating groove. By fabricating the photoresist layer to form the accommodating groove for accommodating the micro LED, the invention can reduce the manufacturing difficulty and improve the light emission efficiency of the micro LED.
US10741607B2	Image sensing apparatus and manufacturing method thereof A method of manufacturing an image sensing apparatus includes: forming a first substrate structure including a first region of a pixel region, the first substrate structure having a first surface and a second surface; forming a second substrate structure including a circuit region for driving the pixel region, the second substrate structure having a third surface and a fourth surface; bonding the first substrate structure to the second substrate structure, such that the first surface is connected to the third surface; forming a second region of the pixel region on the second surface; forming a first connection via, the first connection via extending from the second surface to pass through the first substrate structure; mounting semiconductor chips on the fourth surface, using a conductive bump; and separating a stack structure of the first substrate structure, the second substrate structure, and the semiconductor chips into unit image sensing apparatuses.
US10741606B2	Image sensor and sensor device An image sensor includes a plurality of pixels arranged in matrix, and each pixel includes a first TFT having a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode that are arranged on a substrate, a second TFT, and a photoelectric conversion element that has a first electrode electrically connected to a first surface of an a-Si thin film and the second gate electrode of the first TFT and a second electrode connected to a second control line, and that is arranged above the first TFT so as to be superposed on the first TFT in an laminated direction. Provided is a gas barrier film that is positioned between the first and the second TFTs and the photoelectric conversion element and that prevents hydrogen from permeating into the first and the second TFTs, the first electrode and the second gate electrode are constructed by the same layer, and the gas barrier film is not provided with an aperture in each of the pixels.
US10741604B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit, electronic device, solid-state imaging apparatus, and imaging apparatus A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a first semiconductor substrate in which a part of an analog circuit is formed between the analog circuit and a digital circuit which subjects an analog output signal output from the analog circuit to digital conversion; a second semiconductor substrate in which the remaining part of the analog circuit and the digital circuit are formed; and a substrate connection portion which connects the first and second semiconductor substrates to each other. The substrate connection portion transmits an analog signal which is generated by a part of the analog circuit of the first semiconductor substrate to the second semiconductor substrate.
US10741602B2	Back side illuminated CMOS image sensor arrays An image sensor including at least one pixel for collecting charge in its photodiode is provided. The image sensor comprises: a substrate having a first surface on a front side and a second surface on a back side, a photodetector formed in the silicon substrate and having a light-receiving surface on the second surface, and a first layer with positive charges disposed on the second surface, the first layer being configured to form an electron accumulation region at the light-receiving surface of the photodetector for suppressing a dark current at a back side interface of the image sensor. A method for fabricating an image sensor including a first layer with positive charges is also provided.
US10741600B2	Imaging device including semiconductor substrate and pixel An imaging device including a semiconductor substrate; and a pixel. The pixel includes a photoelectric converter having a first electrode, a second electrode and a photoelectric conversion layer sandwiched between the first electrode and the second electrode, the photoelectric converter located above a surface of the semiconductor substrate; a first transistor that includes a part of the semiconductor substrate and detects electric charges; and a second transistor that includes a gate electrode and initializes a voltage of the first electrode. The first electrode, the second transistor, and the first transistor are arranged in that order toward the semiconductor substrate from the first electrode in cross sectional view, and when viewed from the direction normal to the surface of the semiconductor substrate, a part of the gate electrode overlaps the first electrode, and another part of the gate electrode does not overlap the first electrode.
US10741598B2	High-speed light sensing apparatus II An optical apparatus including a semiconductor substrate; a first light absorption region supported by the semiconductor substrate, the first light absorption region configured to absorb photons and to generate photo-carriers from the absorbed photons; one or more first switches controlled by a first control signal, the one or more first switches configured to collect at least a portion of the photo-carriers based on the first control signal; one or more second switches controlled by a second control signal, the one or more second switches configured to collect at least a portion of the photo-carriers based on the second control signal; and a counter-doped region formed in a first portion of the first light absorption region, the counter-doped region including a first dopant and having a first net carrier concentration lower than a second net carrier concentration of a second portion of the first light absorption region.
US10741596B2	Image sensing device and method for forming the same An image sensing device and a method for forming the same are disclosed. The image sensing device includes a substrate including one or more photoelectric conversion elements, and a grid structure disposed over the substrate. The grid structure includes an air layer, a support film formed over the air layer, and a capping film formed at side surfaces of the air layer and the support film and at a top surface of the support film.
US10741593B1	Vertical transfer gate storage for a global shutter in an image sensor A pixel cell includes a photodiode disposed in a semiconductor material layer to accumulate image charge photogenerated in the photodiode in response to incident light. A storage transistor is coupled to the photodiode to store the image charge photogenerated in the photodiode. The storage transistor includes a storage gate disposed proximate a first surface of the semiconductor material layer. The storage gate includes a pair of vertical transfer gate (VTG) portions. Each one of the pair of VTG portions extends a first distance into the semiconductor material layer through the first surface of the semiconductor material layer. A storage node is disposed below the first surface of the semiconductor material layer and between the pair of VTG portions of the storage gate to store the image charge transferred from the photodiode in response to a storage signal.
US10741590B2	Peeling method and manufacturing method of flexible device A peeling method at low cost with high mass productivity is provided. A silicon layer having a function of releasing hydrogen by irradiation with light is formed over a formation substrate, a first layer is formed using a photosensitive material over the silicon layer, an opening is formed in a portion of the first layer that overlaps with the silicon layer by a photolithography method and the first layer is heated to form a resin layer having an opening, a transistor including an oxide semiconductor in a channel formation region is formed over the resin layer, a conductive layer is formed to overlap with the opening of the resin layer and the silicon layer, the silicon layer is irradiated with light using a laser, and the transistor and the formation substrate are separated from each other.
US10741587B2	Semiconductor device, semiconductor wafer, module, electronic device, and manufacturing method the same A semiconductor device including a transistor having high reliability is provided. The semiconductor device includes a transistor. The transistor includes first and second gate electrodes, a source electrode, a drain electrode, first to third oxides, first and second barrier films, and first and second gate insulators. The first barrier film is located over the source electrode, the second barrier film is located over the drain electrode, and the first and second barrier films each have a function of blocking oxygen and impurities such as hydrogen.
US10741582B2	Staggered word line architecture for reduced disturb in 3-dimensional NOR memory arrays A staggered memory cell architecture staggers memory cells on opposite sides of a shared bit line preserves memory cell density, while increasing the distance between such memory cells, thereby reducing the possibility of a disturb. In one implementation, the memory cells along a first side of a shared bit line are connected to a set of global word lines provided underneath the memory structure, while the memory cells on the other side of the shared bit line—which are staggered relative to the memory cells on the first side—are connected to global word lines above the memory structure.
US10741580B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device comprises: a substrate; a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer arranged in a first direction crossing a surface of the substrate and extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, the first conductive layer being closer to the substrate than the second conductive layer, a length in the second direction of the first conductive layer being greater than the length of the second conductive layer; a first semiconductor film extending in the first direction and facing the first and second conductive layers; a second semiconductor film interposed between ends of the first and second conductive layers, extending in the first direction, and facing the first conductive layer; a first wiring farther from the substrate than the first semiconductor film and being electrically connected to the first semiconductor film; and a second wiring farther from the substrate than the second semiconductor film and being electrically connected to the second semiconductor film.
US10741573B2	Semiconductor memory A semiconductor memory includes first to fourth stacked bodies. The first stacked body includes a first conductor, and an alternating stack of first insulators and second conductors above the first conductor in a region. The second stacked body includes a third conductor, and an alternating stack of second insulators and fourth conductors above the third conductor in another region. The third stacked body includes a fifth conductor adjacent to the first conductor via a third insulator in a separation region. The fourth stacked body includes a seventh conductor adjacent to the third conductor via a fifth insulator in the separation region. The fifth conductor is electrically insulated from the seventh conductor.
US10741572B2	Three-dimensional memory device having multilayer word lines containing selectively grown cobalt or ruthenium and method of making the same A memory stack structure including a memory film and a vertical semiconductor channel can be formed within each memory opening that extends through a stack including an alternating plurality of insulating layers and sacrificial material layers. After formation of backside recesses through removal of the sacrificial material layers selective to the insulating layers, a backside blocking dielectric layer may be formed in the backside recesses and sidewalls of the memory stack structures. A metallic barrier material portion can be formed in each backside recess. A metallic material portion is formed on the metallic barrier material portion. Subsequently, a metal portion comprising a material selected from cobalt and ruthenium is formed directly on a sidewall of the metallic barrier material portion and a sidewall of the metallic material portion and an overlying insulating surface and an underlying insulating surface.
US10741569B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a memory cell structure covered by a protective layer is formed in a memory cell area of a substrate. A mask pattern is formed. The mask pattern has an opening over a first circuit area, while the memory cell area and a second circuit area are covered by the mask pattern. The substrate in the first circuit area is recessed, while the memory cell area and the second circuit area are protected. A first field effect transistor (FET) having a first gate dielectric layer is formed in the first circuit area over the recessed substrate and a second FET having a second gate dielectric layer is formed in the second circuit area over the substrate as viewed in cross section.
US10741568B2	Precision tuning for the programming of analog neural memory in a deep learning artificial neural network Numerous embodiments of a precision tuning algorithm and apparatus are disclosed for precisely and quickly depositing the correct amount of charge on the floating gate of a non-volatile memory cell within a vector-by-matrix multiplication (VMM) array in an artificial neural network. Selected cells thereby can be programmed with extreme precision to hold one of N different values.
US10741564B2	SRAM device provided with a plurality of sheets serving as a channel region An SRAM device includes first, second and third transistors, which are used as a pass gate transistor, a pull-down transistor, and a pull-up transistor, respectively. A channel region of each transistor may include a plurality of semiconductor sheets that are vertically stacked on a substrate. The semiconductor sheets used as the channel regions of the first and second transistors may have a width greater than the semiconductor sheets used as channel regions of the third transistor.
US10741563B2	Dynamic random access memory A dynamic random access memory (DRAM) is provided and includes a base substrate. The base substrate includes a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of fins formed on the semiconductor substrate, and an isolation structure formed on the semiconductor substrate and covering portions of side surfaces of the plurality of fins. The dynamic random access memory further includes an interlayer dielectric layer formed over the base substrate and covering top surfaces of the plurality of fins and the isolation structure; and a memory structure, formed in an opening passing through the interlayer dielectric layer and each of the plurality of fins, the opening extending to and exposing a top surface of a portion of the isolation structure. The memory structure includes a first conductive layer, a memory medium layer on the first conductive layer, and a second conductive layer on the memory medium layer.
US10741562B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device and method of manufacturing are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate; first and second structures spaced apart from each other on the substrate in a first direction, the first structure including a first lower electrode and the second structure including a second lower electrode; a first supporter pattern disposed on the substrate to support the first and second structures, and including a first region that exposes portions of sidewalls of the first and second structures, and a second region that covers a second portion of the sidewalls; and a second supporter pattern disposed on the first supporter pattern to support the first and second structures, the second supporter pattern including a third region, the third region configured to expose portions of the first sidewall and the second sidewall, and a fourth region that covers a portion of the first and second sidewalls.
US10741557B2	Hybrid high mobility channel transistors A method and structure for forming hybrid high mobility channel transistors. The method includes: providing a substrate, epitaxially growing a buffer layer over the substrate and a semiconductor layer over the buffer layer, forming a partial opening over the semiconductor layer, epitaxially growing a second semiconductor layer in the opening, forming a first plurality of fins from the first semiconductor layer and a second plurality of fins from the second semiconductor layer, where the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor material comprise different materials, oxidizing a portion of the second plurality of fins, and stripping the oxidized portion of the second plurality of fins, where after striping the oxidized portion of the second plurality of fins, the second plurality of fins have the same width as the first plurality of fins.
US10741555B2	Metal gate modulation to improve kink effect The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to an integrated chip. The integrated chip has a source region and a drain region. The drain region is separated from the source region by a channel region. An isolation structure surrounds the source region, the drain region, and the channel region. A gate structure is over the channel region. The gate structure includes a first gate electrode region having one or more first materials and a second gate electrode region having one or more second materials that are different than the one or more first materials. The second gate electrode region continuously extends between a first outermost sidewall directly over the isolation structure and a second outermost sidewall directly over the channel region.
US10741553B2	Method of making a high speed semiconductor device A method includes forming a gate structure, a first edge structure and a second edge structure on a semiconductor strip. The method includes forming a first source/drain feature between the gate structure and the first edge structure; and a second source/drain feature between the gate structure and the second edge structure. A distance between the gate structure and the first source/drain feature is from about 1.5 to about 4.5 times greater than a distance between the gate structure and the second source/drain feature. The method includes implanting a buried channel in the semiconductor strip. A top surface of the buried channel is spaced from a top surface of the semiconductor strip. A bottom surface of the buried channel is closer to the top surface of the semiconductor strip than a bottom surface of the first source/drain feature. A dopant concentration of the buried channel is highest under the gate structure.
US10741551B2	Integrated vertical and lateral semiconductor devices An integrated circuit die that may have one vertical transistor and one horizontal transistor is disclosed. The transistors may have substantially different breakdown voltages. The vertical transistor may be used in power circuitry applications and the horizontal transistor may be used in logic circuitry applications.
US10741540B2	Integrated circuit layout method and device A method of generating a layout diagram of an IC cell includes defining a boundary recess in a boundary of the cell by extending a first portion of the boundary along a first direction, extending a second portion of the boundary away from the first portion in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the second portion being contiguous with the first portion, and extending a third portion of the boundary away from the first portion in the second direction, the third portion being contiguous with the first portion. An active region is positioned in the cell by extending the active region away from the first portion in a third direction opposite to the second direction. The layout diagram is stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium.
US10741539B2	Standard cells and variations thereof within a standard cell library Standard cell libraries include one or more standard cells and one or more corresponding standard cell variations. The one or more standard cell variations are different from their one or more standard cells in terms of geometric shapes, locations of the geometric shapes, and/or interconnections between the geometric shapes. The exemplary systems and methods described herein selectively choose from among the one or more standard cells and/or the one or more standard cell variations to form an electronic architectural design for an electronic device. In some situations, some of the one or more standard cells are unable to satisfy one or more electronic design constraints imposed by a semiconductor foundry and/or semiconductor technology node when placed onto the electronic device design real estate. In these situations, the one or more standard cell variations corresponding to these standard cells are placed onto the electronic device design real estate.
US10741536B2	Magnetic small footprint inductor array module for on-package voltage regulator An apparatus comprises an inductor module including: a module substrate including a magnetic dielectric material; a plurality of inductive circuit elements arranged in the module substrate, wherein an inductive circuit element includes conductive traces arranged as a coil including a first coil end, a second coil end and a coil core, wherein the coil core includes the magnetic dielectric material; and a plurality of conductive contact pads electrically coupled to the first and second coil ends. The contact pads electrically coupled to the first coil ends are arranged on a first surface of the inductor module, and the contact pads electrically coupled to the second coil ends are arranged on a second surface of the inductor module.
US10741534B2	Multi-die microelectronic device with integral heat spreader The present description addresses example methods for forming multi-chip microelectronic devices and the resulting devices. The multiple semiconductor die of the multichip package will be attached to a solid plate with a bonding system selected to withstand stresses applied when a mold material is applied to encapsulate the die of the multichip device. The solid plate will remain as a portion of the finished multi-chip device. The solid plate can be a metal plate to function as a heat spreader for the completed multi-chip device.
US10741533B2	Light-emitting package A light-emitting apparatus package of the present invention includes (i) an electrically insulated ceramic substrate, (ii) a first concave section formed in the direction of thickness of the ceramic substrate so as to form a light exit aperture in a surface of the ceramic substrate, (iii) a second concave section formed within the first concave section in the further direction of thickness of the ceramic substrate so that one or more light-emitting devices are provided therein, (iv) a wiring pattern for supplying electricity, which is provided in the first concave section, and (v) a metalized layer having light-reflectivity, which is (a) provided between the light-emitting device and the surface of the second concave section of the substrate, and (b) electrically insulated from the wiring pattern. On the account of this, the light-emitting apparatus package in which heat is excellently discharged and light is efficiently utilized and a light-emitting apparatus in which the light-emitting apparatus package is used can be obtained.
US10741531B2	Method to form a stacked electronic structure A stacked electronic structure comprises: a substrate and a magnetic device, wherein a plurality of electronic devices and a plurality of conductive pillars are disposed on and electrically connected to the substrate, wherein a molding body encapsulates the plurality of electronic devices, wherein the magnetic device is disposed over the top surface of the molding body and the plurality of conductive pillars, wherein a first terminal of the magnetic device is disposed over and electrically connected to a first conductive pillar and a second terminal of the magnetic device is disposed over and electrically connected to a second conductive pillar without using any substrate.
US10741526B2	Semiconductor packages A semiconductor package includes a substrate including a signal pattern on an upper surface thereof, a chip stack on the substrate, and a first semiconductor chip and one or more spacers between the substrate and the chip stack. The chip stack includes one or more second semiconductor chips stacked on the substrate. The one or more spacers and the first semiconductor chip are adjacent to respective corners of a lowermost second semiconductor chip, in plan view. The one or more spacers have the same planar shape as the first semiconductor chip.
US10741518B2	Method of fabricating semiconductor package A semiconductor package includes: a redistribution substrate; a semiconductor chip on the redistribution substrate; and an external terminal on a bottom surface of the redistribution substrate, wherein the redistribution substrate comprises: a first insulating layer including a first opening; a second insulating layer on the first insulating layer and including a second opening, wherein the second opening is positioned in the first opening in a plan view; a first barrier metal layer disposed along a sidewall of the first opening and along a sidewall of the second opening; a first redistribution conductive pattern on the first barrier metal layer; a third insulating layer on a bottom surface of the first insulating layer; and a pad penetrating the third insulating layer and electrically connecting to the first redistribution conductive pattern, wherein the external terminal is provided on the pad, wherein the second insulating layer at least partially covers a chip pad of the semiconductor chip, and the second opening at least partially exposes the chip pad, wherein, inside the second insulating layer, the first barrier metal layer is in contact with the chip pad through the second opening, and wherein the first redistribution conductive pattern has a surface roughness including protrusions extending in a range of from about 0.01 μm to about 0.5 μm, and the first insulating layer has a surface roughness smaller than the surface roughness of the first redistribution conductive pattern.
US10741517B2	Semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same A technique which improves the reliability in coupling between a bump electrode of a semiconductor chip and wiring of a mounting substrate, more particularly a technique which guarantees the flatness of a bump electrode even when wiring lies in a top wiring layer under the bump electrode, thereby improving the reliability in coupling between the bump electrode and the wiring formed on a glass substrate. Wiring, comprised of a power line or signal line, and a dummy pattern are formed in a top wiring layer beneath a non-overlap region of a bump electrode. The dummy pattern is located to fill the space between wirings to reduce irregularities caused by the wirings and space in the top wiring layer. A surface protection film formed to cover the top wiring layer is flattened by CMP.
US10741513B2	Conductive external connector structure and method of forming External electrical connectors and methods of forming such external electrical connectors are discussed. A method includes forming an external electrical connector structure on a substrate. The forming the external electrical connector structure includes plating a pillar on the substrate at a first agitation level affected at the substrate in a first solution. The method further includes plating solder on the external electrical connector structure at a second agitation level affected at the substrate in a second solution. The second agitation level affected at the substrate is greater than the first agitation level affected at the substrate. The plating the solder further forms a shell on a sidewall of the external electrical connector structure.
US10741512B2	Semiconductor package and method of forming the same An embodiment is a method including forming a first passive device in a first wafer, forming a first dielectric layer over a first side of the first wafer, forming a first plurality of bond pads in the first dielectric layer, planarizing the first dielectric layer and the first plurality of bond pads to level top surfaces of the first dielectric layer and the first plurality of bond pads with each other, hybrid bonding a first device die to the first dielectric layer and at least some of the first plurality of bond pads, and encapsulating the first device die in a first encapsulant.
US10741511B2	Fan-out package and methods of forming thereof An embodiment is a method including depositing a first dielectric layer over a molding compound and a chip and patterning a first opening in the first dielectric layer to expose a contact of the chip. A first metallization layer is deposited over the first dielectric layer and in the first opening, where a portion of the first metallization layer in the first opening has a flat top. A second dielectric layer is deposited over the first metallization layer and the first dielectric layer. A second metallization layer is deposited in a second opening in the second dielectric layer, where the second metallization layer does not have a flat top within the second opening.
US10741507B2	Grounding techniques for backside-biased semiconductor dice and related devices, systems and methods Semiconductor devices may include a substrate and a backside-biased semiconductor die supported above the substrate. A backside surface of the backside-biased semiconductor die may be spaced from the substrate. The backside surface may be electrically connected to ground by wire bonds extending to the substrate. Methods of making semiconductor devices may involve supporting a backside-biased semiconductor die supported above a substrate, a backside surface of the backside-biased semiconductor die being spaced from the substrate. The backside surface may be electrically connected to ground by wire bonds extending to the substrate. Systems may include a sensor device, a nontransitory memory device, and at least one semiconductor device operatively connected thereto. The at least one semiconductor device may include a substrate and a backside-biased semiconductor die supported above the substrate. A backside surface of the backside-biased semiconductor die may be electrically connected to ground by wire bonds extending to the substrate.
US10741501B1	Systems and methods for sheathing electronic components Illustrative systems and methods disclosed herein pertain to a circuit assembly having components mounted upon a substratum element. The components are encased in a conductive sheath that may be made of metal. The conductive sheath, which is operative as a heat sink and/or an EMI shield, is structurally constructed to counteract deformation of the substratum element when the one or more components heat up during operation, or due to ambient temperature changes. In one exemplary embodiment, the conductive sheath has different thickness at different locations. An edge portion located at a transition between a first thickness and a second thickness of the conductive sheath undergoes deformation that prevents warping of the circuit assembly due to heat. In another exemplary embodiment, the conductive sheath has a gap provided between adjacent segments. The gap allows room for thermal expansion and counteracts deformation of the circuit assembly caused by heating.
US10741498B2	Semiconductor package A semiconductor package includes: a first structure including a plurality of stacked first semiconductor chips and electrically connected to a first redistribution layer through connection vias having different heights; and a second structure including a second semiconductor chip electrically connected to a second redistribution layer. The first and second redistribution layers are electrically connected to each other through an electrical connection member formed on the second structure.
US10741497B2	Contact and interconnect structures The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to contact and interconnect structures and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a single damascene contact structure in electrical contact with a contact of a source region or drain region; and a single damascene interconnect structure in a wiring layer and in direct electrical contact with the single damascene contact structure.
US10741492B2	FinFET fuses formed at tight pitch dimensions A semiconductor structure is provided in which metal semiconductor alloy pillars are formed at least partially within the sidewall surfaces of each semiconductor fin that extends from a surface of a substrate. These pillars are fuses (i.e., FinFET fuses) that are formed at a very tight pitch dimensions. The pillars can be trimmed after forming FinFET devices. The present application provides a method for forming on-chip FinFET fuses easily by choice of the metal semiconductor alloy, the amount of pillar trim, the number of contacted pillars and to a lower design degree the height of each pillar.
US10741490B2	Device and package structure Device, package structure and method of forming the same are disclosed. The device includes a die encapsulated by an encapsulant, a conductive structure aside the die, and a dielectric layer overlying the conductive structure. The conductive structure includes a through via in the encapsulant, a redistribution line layer overlying the through via, and a seed layer overlying the redistribution line layer. The dielectric layer includes an opening, wherein the opening exposes a surface of the conductive structure, the opening has a scallop sidewall, and an included angle between a bottom surface of the dielectric layer and a sidewall of the opening is larger than about 60 degrees.
US10741489B2	Rectangular via for ensuring via yield in the absence of via redundancy A rectangular via extending between interconnects in different metallization levels can have a planform with a width equal to the width of the interconnects and a length equal to twice the width and can be aligned along a long dimension with a length of the upper interconnect. In an integrated circuit layout, the planform can be centered over the width of the lower interconnect, allowing for misalignment during fabrication while maintaining a robust electrical connection. The bottom of the via may be aligned with an upper surface of the lower interconnect or may include portions below the lower interconnect's upper surface. Fewer adjacent routing tracks are blocked by use of the rectangular via than would be blocked using redundant square vias, while ensuring reliability of the electrical connection despite potential misalignment during fabrication.
US10741486B2	Electronic components having three-dimensional capacitors in a metallization stack Disclosed herein are electronic components having three-dimensional capacitors disposed in a metallization stack, as well as related methods and devices. In some embodiments, for example, an electronic component may include: a metallization stack and a capacitor disposed in the metallization stack wherein the capacitor includes a first conductive plate having a plurality of recesses, and a second conductive plate having a plurality of projections, wherein individual projections of the plurality of projections extend into corresponding individual recesses of the plurality of recesses without contacting the first conductive plate.
US10741483B1	Substrate structure and method for manufacturing the same A substrate structure includes a wiring structure, a first bump pad, a second bump pad and a compensation structure. The wiring structure includes a plurality of redistribution layers. The first bump pad and the second bump pad are bonded to and electrically connected to the wiring structure. An amount of redistribution layers disposed under the first bump pad is greater than an amount of redistribution layers disposed under the second bump pad. The compensation structure is disposed under the second bump pad.
US10741480B2	Leadframe with sockets for solderless pins A semiconductor package assembly has a leadframe that includes a socket member into which solderless pins may be inserted as interconnects to an external component. The cost of manufacturing such a leadframe is reduced without sacrificing the ability to make solderless connections with external components such as PCBs. For example, instead of using a hard material that requires two stamping tools, the leadframes with female sockets may be made using softer copper-based materials. Moreover, the width of such leadframes is significantly smaller than the width of a leadframe with the press-fit pins included. Such a reduced width may further reduce manufacturing costs.
US10741479B2	Co-packaged die on leadframe with common contact A leadframe includes a common contact. A first transistor is disposed over the leadframe with a first interconnect structure of the first transistor disposed over the common contact. A second transistor is disposed over the leadframe with a second interconnect structure of the second transistor disposed over the common contact.
US10741477B2	Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same are disclosed. One of the semiconductor devices includes a first conductive layer, an organic layer, a silicon layer, a magnetic layer and a second conductive layer. The organic layer is disposed over and exposes a portion of the first conductive layer. The silicon layer is disposed on and in contact with the organic layer. The magnetic layer is disposed over the first conductive layer. The second conductive layer is disposed over the organic layer and the magnetic layer to electrically connect the first conductive layer.
US10741476B2	Passive electrical component with thermal via A passive electrical component includes a substrate. A first metallization layer is formed on the substrate. A first dielectric layer is formed on the first metallization layer The first dielectric layer has a lower thermal conductivity than the substrate. A second metallization layer is formed on the first dielectric layer. An electrically conductive via provides an electrical connection between a first section of the first metallization layer and a second section of the second metallization layer. A thermally conductive via provides a thermally conductive path between the second section and the substrate. The thermally conductive via provides an open circuit termination to the second section of the second metallization layer.
US10741475B2	Delivery roll and method for manufacturing thereof A delivery roll (1) for thermal interface components, the roll comprising a carrier tape (10), an adhesive layer (10a), and a plurality of thermal interface components (20), wherein the adhesive layer (10a) is arranged on a surface of the carrier tape (10); each thermal interface component (20) comprises a top liner (22), a bottom liner (26) and a thermal interface pad (24) arranged therebetween; the carrier tape (10) supports the plurality of thermal interface components (20) by the adhesive adhering to the bottom liner (26) of each thermal interface component (20); and the plurality of thermal interface components (20) is arranged in a spaced apart manner along the carrier tape (10). The invention also relates to a manufacturing method for a delivery roll.
US10741472B2	Power module A power module includes: a power chip; a control chip controlling the power chip; a power terminal connected to the power chip; a control terminal connected to the control chip; and a package covering the power chip, the control chip, the power terminal, and the control terminal with mold resin, wherein first and second recesses for attaching a fin are respectively provided on side faces facing each other of the package from which neither the power terminal nor the control terminal protrudes, and the first and second recesses are arranged not at positions opposite to each other but alternately.
US10741470B2	Heat conductive sheet and method of producing same, and heat dissipation device Disclosed are a heat conductive sheet including a resin and a particulate carbon material, and having a thermal resistance value under a pressure of 0.05 MPa of 0.20° C./W or less, a heat dissipation device including the heat conductive sheet interposed between a heat source and a heat radiator, and a method of producing a heat conductive sheet.
US10741467B2	Die-on-interposer assembly with dam structure and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor package includes an interposer chip having a frontside, a backside, and a corner area on the backside defined by a first corner edge and a second corner edge of the interposer chip. A die is bonded to the frontside of the interposer chip. At least one dam structure is formed on the corner area of the backside of the interposer chip. The dam structure includes an edge aligned to at least one the first corner edge and the second corner edge of the interposer chip.
US10741462B2	Resin substrate, component-mounting resin substrate, and method of manufacturing component-mounting resin substrate A component-mounting resin substrate includes a resin substrate and a component. The resin substrate includes a thermoplastic resin body. The component is mounted on the resin substrate by ultrasonic bonding. In a mounting area of the resin body in which the component is mounted, a cavity that is hollowed from a mounting surface on which the component is mounted is defined. A plating layer that includes a material harder than the resin body is disposed on at least a portion of a wall surface of the cavity.
US10741461B2	Fan-out semiconductor package A fan-out semiconductor package includes: a first interconnection member having a through-hole; a semiconductor chip disposed in the through-hole, having an active surface having a connection pad disposed thereon and an inactive surface opposing the active surface, and having a protrusion bump disposed on the connection pad; an encapsulant encapsulating at least portions of the first interconnection member and the inactive surface of the semiconductor chip; and a second interconnection member disposed on the first interconnection member and the active surface of the semiconductor chip. In the fan-out semiconductor package, step portions of the protrusion bumps may be removed.
US10741456B2	Vertically stacked nanosheet CMOS transistor Embodiments of the present invention are directed to techniques for generating vertically stacked nanosheet CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) transistor architectures. In a non-limiting embodiment of the invention, a first rare earth oxide layer is formed over a substrate. An n-FET nanosheet stack is formed on the rare earth oxide layer. The n-FET nanosheet stack includes a first nanosheet. A second rare earth oxide layer is formed on the n-FET nanosheet stack. A p-FET nanosheet stack is formed on the second rare earth oxide layer. The p-FET nanosheet stack includes a second nanosheet.
US10741454B2	Boundary protection for CMOS multi-threshold voltage devices Methods are presented for forming multi-threshold field effect transistors. The methods generally include depositing and patterning an organic planarizing layer to protect underlying structures formed in a selected one of the nFET region and the pFET region of a semiconductor wafer. In the other one of the nFET region and the pFET region, structures are processed to form an undercut in the organic planarizing layer. The organic planarizing layer is subjected to a reflow process to fill the undercut. The methods are effective to protect a boundary between the nFET region and the pFET region.
US10741452B2	Controlling fin hardmask cut profile using a sacrificial epitaxial structure Methods for forming semiconductor fins include forming a sacrificial semiconductor structure around a hardmask fin on an underlying semiconductor layer. A first etch is performed that partially etches away a portion of the hardmask fin and the sacrificial semiconductor structure with a first etch chemistry. A second etch is performed that etches away remaining material of the portion of the hardmask fin and partially etches remaining material of the sacrificial semiconductor structure with a second etch chemistry. A semiconductor fin is etched from the semiconductor layer using the etched hardmask fin as a mask.
US10741446B2	Method of wafer dicing for wafers with backside metallization and packaged dies A method of wafer dicing includes singulating dies from a semiconductor wafer. The method further includes depositing a metal layer on back sides of the singulated dies, wherein a portion of the metal layer continues beyond the backs sides of the singulated dies to deposit at least partially on lateral sides of the singulated dies. A packaged die includes a semiconductor die and a metal outer layer deposited on the back side of the semiconductor die and on a portion of the lateral side of the semiconductor die nearest the back side. The packaged die further includes a substrate mounted to the back side of the semiconductor die a die attach material that bonds the substrate to the metal outer layer deposited on the semiconductor die, wherein the metal outer layer and the die attach material surround the back edge of the semiconductor die.
US10741443B2	Method for manufacturing a semiconductor device According to one embodiment, a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes forming a co-catalyst layer and catalyst layer above a surface of a semiconductor substrate. The co-catalyst layer and catalyst layer have fcc structure. The fcc structure is formed such that (111) face of the fcc structure is to be oriented parallel to the surface of the semiconductor substrate. The catalyst includes a portion which contacts the co-catalyst layer. The portion has the fcc structure. An exposed surface of the catalyst layer is planarized by oxidation and reduction treatments. A graphene layer is formed on the catalyst layer.
US10741434B2	Apparatus for packing ultra-small electronic devices An apparatus for placing ultra-small electronic devices into pockets on a carrier tape for packing has at least one holding element, a movement mechanism, a conveying mechanism and a positioning mechanism. The positioning mechanism further includes first and second positioning devices coupled to the conveying mechanism, wherein the second positioning device is mounted on the first positioning device. In use, the conveying mechanism conveys the carrier tape to move each pocket to a receiving position and the movement mechanism moves each holding element to place the electronic device into a respective pocket at the receiving position. The positioning mechanism adjusts a relative position between the electronic device and the respective pocket by adjusting the carrier tape, the first and second positioning devices being for coarse and fine positioning of the conveying mechanism respectively.
US10741426B2	Method for controlling temperature of furnace in semiconductor fabrication process A method for processing semiconductor wafers in a furnace is provided. The method includes forming a thin film on each of the semiconductor wafers. The method further includes controlling the temperature of the furnace in a first thermal mode during the formation of the thin film. In the first thermal mode, a first end thermal zone, a middle thermal zone and a second end thermal zone of the furnace which are arranged in sequence have a gradually increasing temperature. The method also includes controlling the temperature of the furnace in a second thermal mode after the formation of the thin film. In the second thermal mode, the first end thermal zone, the middle thermal zone and the second end thermal zone of the furnace have a gradually decreasing temperature.
US10741425B2	Helium plug design to reduce arcing A substrate support includes a baseplate, a ceramic layer arranged on the baseplate, a bond layer arranged in a first gap between the baseplate and the ceramic layer, a channel formed through the baseplate, the bond layer, and the ceramic layer, and a plug arranged in the channel. The plug includes a lower portion arranged in the baseplate and an upper portion arranged in the ceramic layer. The lower portion includes a pocket and sidewalls surrounding the pocket. The upper portion extends below the ceramic layer and the first gap into the pocket, the sidewalls of the lower portion overlap the upper portion, and a second gap between the upper portion and the lower portion is located within the pocket of the lower portion below the first gap.
US10741421B2	Semiconductor manufacturing apparatus According to an embodiment, a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a holder configured to hold a processing object, a heater provided at the holder and configured to heat the processing object, a first exhaust port provided above the holder and facing the holder, and an exhaust duct. The exhaust duct is provided on an outer side surface of the first exhaust port and includes an extension and contraction function.
US10741415B2	Thermosonically bonded connection for flip chip packages A method of making a package is disclosed. The method may include forming bond pads on a first surface of a substrate, forming leads in the substrate by etching recesses in a second surface of the substrate, the second surface being opposite the first surface, and plating at least a portion of a top surface of the leads with a layer of finish plating. The method may also include thermosonically bonding the leads to a die by thermosonically bonding the finish plating to the die and encapsulating the die and the leads in an encapsulant.
US10741412B2	Gate structure of semiconductor device A semiconductor device and method of manufacture are provided. In some embodiments a divergent ion beam is utilized to implant ions into a capping layer, wherein the capping layer is located over a first metal layer, a dielectric layer, and an interfacial layer over a semiconductor fin. The ions are then driven from the capping layer into one or more of the first metal layer, the dielectric layer, and the interfacial layer.
US10741411B2	Removal of surface passivation Methods for removing a passivation film from a copper surface can include exposing the passivation film to a vapor phase organic reactant, for example at a temperature of 100° C. to 400° C. In some embodiments, the passivation film may have been formed by exposure of the copper surface to benzotriazole, such as can occur during a chemical mechanical planarization process. The methods can be performed as part of a process for integrated circuit fabrication. A second material can be selectively deposited on the cleaned copper surface relative to another surface of the substrate.
US10741409B2	Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes preparing an object layer on a substrate; polishing the object layer with a first slurry including a first abrasive having a zeta potential of a first polarity; rinsing a surface of the object layer, using a rinsing solution including a chemical of a second polarity, opposite to the first polarity; and polishing the object layer with a second slurry including a second abrasive having a zeta potential of a second polarity, opposite to the first polarity.
US10741403B2	Methods for forming a metallic film on a substrate by cyclical deposition and related semiconductor device structures Methods for forming a metallic film on a substrate by cyclical deposition are provided. In some embodiments methods may include contacting the substrate with a first reactant comprising a non-halogen containing metal precursor comprising at least one of copper, nickel or cobalt and contacting the substrate with a second reactant comprising a hydrocarbon substituted hydrazine. In some embodiments related semiconductor device structures may include at least a portion of a metallic interconnect formed by cyclical deposition processes.
US10741397B2	Liner planarization-free process flow for fabricating metallic interconnect structures A method includes forming a dielectric layer on a substrate and patterning the dielectric layer to form an opening in the dielectric layer. A first layer of metallic material (e.g., non-nitride metal) is deposited to form a liner layer on an upper surface of the dielectric layer and on exposed surfaces within the opening. A second layer of metallic material (e.g., copper) is deposited to fill the opening with metallic material. An overburden portion of the second layer of metallic material is removed by planarizing the second layer of metallic material down an overburden portion of the liner layer on the upper surface of the dielectric layer. A surface treatment process (e.g., plasma nitridation) is performed to convert the overburden portion of the liner layer into a layer of metal nitride material. The layer of metal nitride material is selectively etched away using a wet etch process.
US10741395B2	Method for manufacturing semiconductor device According to one embodiment, a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method can include performing a first heat treatment of a first film at a first temperature not less than 500° C. and not more than 900° C. in a first atmosphere including oxygen. The first film includes silicon and oxygen and is deposited on a semiconductor member including silicon carbide. The method can include performing, after the first heat treatment, a second heat treatment of the first film at a second temperature not less than 1200° C. but less than 1400° C. in a second atmosphere including nitrogen.
US10741394B2	Combined anneal and selective deposition process A method for forming a film with an annealing step and a deposition step is disclosed. The method comprises an annealing step for inducing self-assembly or alignment within a polymer. The method also comprises a selective deposition step in order to enable selective deposition on a polymer.
US10741393B2	Methods for bottom up fin structure formation Embodiments described herein relate to substrate processing methods. The methods include forming a patterned hardmask material on a substrate, forming first mandrel structures on exposed regions of the substrate, and depositing a gap fill material on the substrate over the hardmask material and the first mandrel structures. The first mandrel structures are removed to expose second regions of the substrate and form second mandrel structures comprising the hardmask material and the gap fill material. Fin structures are deposited on the substrate using the second mandrel structures as a mask.
US10741390B2	Forming method of epitaxial layer, forming method of 3D NAND memory and annealing apparatus A forming method of an epitaxial layer, a forming method of a 3D NAND memory and an annealing apparatus are provided. In the forming method of the epitaxial layer, a first annealing process is performed for eliminating a stress generated in a stacked structure. When performing the first annealing process, a silicon-containing mixture is formed on a sidewall and a bottom surface of a trench. Thus, after performing the first annealing process, a second annealing process is performed for removing the silicon-containing mixture disposed at the sidewall and the bottom surface of the trench, such that when subsequently forming the epitaxial layer, a growth interface of the epitaxial layer is a pure substrate material interface, so as to prevent from be formed a void defect in the epitaxial layer formed in the trench.
US10741389B2	Method of growing two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide thin film and method of manufacturing device including the same A method of growing a two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) thin film and a method of manufacturing a device including the two-dimensional TMD thin film are provided. The method of growing the two-dimensional TMD thin film may include a precursor supply operation and an evacuation operation, which are periodically and repeatedly performed in a reaction chamber provided with a substrate for thin film growth. The precursor supply operation may include supplying two or more kinds of precursors of a TMD material to the reaction chamber. The evacuation operation may include evacuating the two or more kinds of precursors and by-products generated therefrom from the reaction chamber.
US10741388B2	Cyclical deposition of germanium In some aspects, methods for forming a germanium thin film using a cyclical deposition process are provided. In some embodiments, the germanium thin film is formed on a substrate in a reaction chamber, and the process includes one or more deposition cycles of alternately and sequentially contacting the substrate with a vapor phase germanium precursor and a nitrogen reactant. In some embodiments, the process is repeated until a germanium thin film of desired thickness has been formed.
US10741384B2	Process of forming silicon nitride film A process of depositing a silicon nitride (SiN) film on a nitride semiconductor layer is disclosed. The process includes steps of: (a) loading an epitaxial substrate including the nitride semiconductor layer into a reaction furnace at a first temperature and converting an atmosphere in the furnace into nitrogen (N2); (b) raising the temperature in the furnace to a second temperature while keeping pressure in the furnace at a first pressure higher than 30 kPa; (c) converting the atmosphere in the furnace to ammonia (NH3) at the second temperature; and (d) beginning the deposition by supplying SiH2Cl2 as a source gas for silicon (Si) at a second pressure lower than 100 Pa. A feature of the process is that a time span from when the temperature in the furnace reaches the critical temperature to the supply of SiH2Cl2 is shorter than 20 minutes, where the first pressure becomes the equilibrium pressure at the critical temperature.
US10741382B2	Methods of forming nanostructures using self-assembled nucleic acids, and nanostructures thereof A method of forming a nanostructure comprises forming a directed self-assembly of nucleic acid structures on a patterned substrate. The patterned substrate comprises multiple regions. Each of the regions on the patterned substrate is specifically tailored for adsorption of specific nucleic acid structure in the directed self-assembly.
US10741379B2	Mass spectrometer, ion optical device, and method for ion manipulation in mass spectrometer using trap with concentric ring electrodes The invention provides a mass spectrometer, an ion optical device, and a method for ion manipulation in a mass spectrometer. The mass spectrometer includes a mass analyzer; and an ion guiding device, including two electrode arrays positioned in parallel with each other, each electrode array including at least two ring electrodes concentrically disposed or at least three linear electrode assemblies having a radial distribution; and a power supply means, configured to apply a voltage on at least a part of the ring electrodes, to form a radio-frequency electric field and a DC electric field. By means of the radio-frequency electric field and the DC electric field, ions are allowed to be stored in a region between the two arrays, and controlled to be sequentially released along a radial direction according to a preset mass-to-charge ratio requirement, then exit the ion guiding device and enter the mass analyzer for mass analysis.
US10741373B2	Method for operating an ion gate, device having an ion transport region, and computer program The invention relates to a method for operating an ion gate having a first, a second, and a third electrode which are arranged one after the other in an intended drifting direction of ions to be influenced by the ion gate, in such a way that the second electrode is arranged after the first electrode and the third electrode is arranged after the second electrode in the drift direction. The ion gate can be switched between a closed state, in which ions cannot drift through the ion gate in the intended drifting direction, and an open state, in which ions can drift through the ion gate in the intended drifting direction. This is accomplished by applying potentials that alternate over time to one or more of the electrodes. In a switching cycle of the ion gate, which comprises the open state and the closed state of the ion gate, two different closed states of the ion gate are produced. In a first closed state, the ion gate is closed by applying a first potential between the second and third electrodes. In a second closed state, the ion gate is closed by applying a second potential difference between the first and the second electrodes. Aspects of the invention also relate to a device having an ion transport region and a computer program for performing the method.
US10741365B2	Low volume showerhead with porous baffle A low volume showerhead in a semiconductor processing apparatus can include a porous baffle to improve the flow uniformity and purge time during atomic layer deposition. The showerhead can include a plenum volume, one or more gas inlets in fluid communication with the plenum volume, a faceplate including a plurality of first through-holes for distributing gas onto a substrate in the semiconductor processing apparatus, and a porous baffle positioned in a region between the plenum volume and the one or more gas inlets. The one or more gas inlets can include a stem having a small volume to improve purge time. The baffle can be porous and positioned between the stem and the plenum volume to improve flow uniformity and avoid jetting.
US10741361B2	Dual cathode ion source An ion source having dual indirectly heated cathodes is disclosed. Each of the cathodes may be independently biased relative to its respective filament so as to vary the profile of the beam current that is extracted from the ion source. In certain embodiments, the ion source is used in conjunction with an ion implanter. The ion implanter comprises a beam profiler to measure the current of the ribbon ion beam as a function of beam position. A controller uses this information to independently control the bias voltages of the two indirectly heated cathodes so as to vary the uniformity of the ribbon ion beam. In certain embodiments, the current passing through each filament may also be independently controlled by the controller.
US10741359B2	Electron microscope and control method An electron microscope includes: a display control unit which sequentially acquires electron microscope images of a sample and causes a display unit to display the electron microscope images as a live image; an analysis area setting unit which sets an analysis area on the sample based on a designated position on the live image designated by pointing means; and an analysis control unit which performs control for executing elemental analysis of the set analysis area. The analysis area setting unit sets, as the analysis area, an area on the sample which corresponds to a continuous area including the designated position and having brightness comparable to brightness of the designated position.
US10741354B1	Photocathode emitter system that generates multiple electron beams The system includes a photocathode electron source, diffractive optical element, and a microlens array to focus the beamlets. A source directs a radiation beam to the diffractive optical element, which produces a beamlet array to be used in combination with a photocathode surface to generate an array of electron beams from the beamlets.
US10741353B2	Electron emitting construct configured with ion bombardment resistant A robust cold cathode uses an electron emitting construct design possibly for an x-ray emitter device. The electron beam emitted by the emitting construct is focused and accelerated by an electrical field towards an electron anode target. A shield is provided to prevent a cold cathode from being damaged by ion bombardment in high-voltage applications and a non-emitter zone may provide a robust ion bombardment zone. The system is further configured to provide an angled target anode or a stepped target anode to further reduce the ion bombardment damage.

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