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US10898882B2	Surface-modified boron nitride nanostructure and method for producing same The boron nitride nanostructure according to an embodiment of the present invention forms defects through surface modification and incorporates the metallic nanoparticles on the surface defects.
US10898881B2	Catalyst for metal mercury oxidation reactions and nitrogen oxide reduction reactions, and exhaust gas purification method A catalyst for oxidation reaction of metallic mercury and reduction reaction of nitrogen oxide, comprising an oxide of titanium, an oxide of molybdenum, an oxide of vanadium, an oxide of phosphorus and gypsum is obtained by kneading titanium dioxide, ammonium molybdate, ammonium metavanadate, phosphoric acid, gypsum dihydrate and water using a kneader to obtain a paste, applying the paste to a metal lath substrate, and then drying and calcining the resultant.
US10898875B2	Dielectric barrier discharge reactor for catalytic nonthermal plasma production of hydrogen from methane A dielectric barrier discharge reactor for catalytic nonthermal plasma production of hydrogen from methane. The dielectric barrier discharge reactor includes two end pieces connected by a dielectric tube, two steam generators, two catalyst cages, two perforated tube center electrodes, a center electrode rod, a grounding electrode. In one aspect, the end pieces and the dielectric tube are fabricated from ceramic and fused quartz respectively. In another aspect, the dielectric barrier discharge reactor further includes catalyst cages. In yet another aspect, the catalyst cages contain catalysts in form of pellets. In an alternate aspect, the dielectric barrier discharge reactor acts to cause a reaction between incoming reactant gases. The reaction is achieved under a plasma which is generated between the perforated tubular center electrode and the ground electrode. In yet another alternate aspect, the dielectric barrier discharge reactor is used at home to generate hydrogen from methane.
US10898869B2	Low holdup volume mixing chamber A compact interaction chamber is used to cause high shear, impact forces, and cavitation to reduce particle size and mix fluids while reducing waste and holdup volume. A first housing made of stainless steel holds an inlet mixing chamber element and an outlet mixing chamber element in a female bore using thermal expansion. The inlet and outlet mixing chamber elements are manufactured so that the diameter of the cooled female bore is slightly smaller than the diameter of the mixing chamber elements. The first housing is heated, expanding the diameter of the female bore enough to allow the inlet and outlet mixing chamber elements to be inserted. After the mixing chamber elements are inserted and aligned within the female bore, the first housing is allowed to cool. Once cooled, the female bore contracts and applies sufficient hoop stress to securely hold the mixing chamber elements during high shear force mixing.
US10898868B2	Portable bubble water bottle A portable bubble water bottle of the present application includes a first space, a second space, an one-way gas valve and a gas cylinder. The second space is located in the first space along the first projection direction. The one-way gas valve connects the first space with the second space. The gas cylinder is located in the second space, and has a gas outlet connected to the one-way gas valve.
US10898865B2	Polymer-carbon nanotube nanocomposite porous membranes This invention relates to an asymmetric composite membrane containing a polymeric matrix and carbon nanotubes within a single membrane layer, where the carbon nanotubes are randomly oriented within the polymeric matrix and the composite membrane is formed by phase inversion. This invention also relates to a method for producing the composite membrane which includes: coating a surface with a film of a polymer solution containing a polymeric matrix and carbon nanotubes dissolved in at least one solvent; immersing the coated surface in a non-solvent to affect solvent/non-solvent demixing resulting in phase inversion to form a carbon nanotube-containing membrane; and optionally, removing the carbon nanotube-containing membrane from the surface. The invention also relates to a desalination method using the composite membrane.
US10898854B2	Alkali enrichment mediated CO2 sequestration methods, and systems for practicing the same Methods of sequestering CO2 from a gaseous source of CO2 are provided. Aspects of the methods include employing an alkali enrichment protocol, such as a membrane mediated alkali enrichment protocol, in a CO2 sequestration protocol. Also provided are systems for practicing the methods.
US10898853B2	Device and system for decomposing and oxidizing gaseous pollutant The invention provides a device and system for decomposing and oxidizing of gaseous pollutants. A novel reaction portion reduces particle formation in fluids during treatment, thereby improving the defect of particle accumulation in a reaction portion. Also, the system includes the device, wherein a modular design enables the system to have the advantage of easy repair and maintenance.
US10898852B2	Processes for removing a nitrogen-based compound from a gas or liquid stream to produce a nitrogen-based product The present invention is directed to a process for removing gas phase nitrogen-based compounds by absorption into a liquid stream. The absorbed nitrogen-based compound is reacted with an acid to produce a nitrogen-based product. The nitrogen-based compound, the acid, and the resulting nitrogen-based product may be organic compounds, i.e. compounds derived from animal matter or plant matter. The nitrogen-based product may be a fertilizer, such as ammonium acetate or ammonium citrate that may be certified as organic. Processes are also described for removing nitrogen-based compounds from a liquid stream to produce a nitrogen-based product, including organic fertilizers. One process includes producing cavitation bubbles into which a liquid phase nitrogen-based compound is stripped, followed by absorption to produce a nitrogen-based product. Another process includes the use of a degassing membrane to remove a liquid phase nitrogen-based compound that is degassed to produce a nitrogen-based product, including organic fertilizers.
US10898851B2	Systems and methods for removal of mercury and/or hydrochloric acid from gas streams using calcium-containing particles Several embodiments of the present technology are directed to the removal of one or more air pollutants using cooling and/or calcium-containing particles. In some embodiments, a method for removing air pollutants comprises flowing a gas stream having calcium-containing particles and one or more of mercury or hydrochloric acid molecules, and cooling the gas stream, thereby causing at least a portion of the calcium-containing particles to adsorb to the mercury and/or hydrochloric acid molecules in the gas stream. The method can further comprise, after cooling the gas stream, filtering the gas stream to remove at least a portion of the calcium-containing particles having adsorbed mercury and hydrochloric acid.
US10898849B2	Smart dehumidifier A device is disclosed for extracting water from a fluid medium. The water extracting device comprises a primary channel and a quantity of a light-activated, stimulus responsive polymer (SRP) supported on a carrier within the primary channel. The SRP is capable of absorbing a quantity of water from the medium in a first state and releasing the water in a second state and vice versa. An illumination arrangement allows selective exposure of the SRP within the primary channel to electromagnetic radiation to switch the SRP between the first state and the second state whereby water absorbed by the SRP is released. Also disclosed is a method and device for conducting heat from the primary channel to a secondary channel, adjacent to and in heat conducting relation with the primary channel.
US10898846B1	Method and system for CO2 capture from flue gas and distributed for agricultural purposes The flue gas extraction system provides extraction, collection, dilution, cooling, and distribution of flue gas from a vent stack of a stationary flue gas generator. The collected flue gas is processed through the system to achieve optimal temperature, pressure, flowrate, and water content for application to plants for increasing plant productivity and sequestering the carbon dioxide. The processed flue gas may be enriched with additional carbon dioxide and/or have nutrients added to it to realize a gas concentration which, when applied to plants, promotes the growth, health and productivity of the plants. Application of carbon dioxide may be supplemented by providing additional components to the plants which maintain a level of fertilization and irrigation suitable for the increased biomass and water utilization efficiency of the plants resulting from the increased intake of carbon dioxide.
US10898845B2	Mobile dust extraction device A mobile dust extraction device for filtering air, the mobile dust extraction device including a filter housing having at least one air filter, an inlet housing fluidly connected to the filter housing, a fan assembly including a fan, a fan inlet and a fan outlet, the fan assembly fluidly connecting the filter housing to the fan outlet, a support frame for supporting the filter housing, inlet housing and the fan assembly and a drive mechanism for propelling the mobile dust extraction device.
US10898844B2	Clean-air filtration system and method of operating the clean-air filtration system A clean-air filtration system has a main pipe with an entry for attaching to an exhaust source and an exit. The main pipe has a plurality of openings for dispersing water within the main pipe. A water source is connected to the main pipe and supplying water to the openings. A particulate interceptor is connected to the main pipe for removing particulates from an exhaust flow. A particulate storage unit is connected to the particulate interceptor.
US10898843B2	Reusable air filter An air filtration system is provided. The air filtration system embodies filtration material supported by a frame, wherein the air filtration system provides two framed filtration materials sandwiching a fabric filter. Such framework may be removably engaged through magnetic forces. The filtration material may hold and/or carry electrostatic forces and/or magnetostatic forces induced through a current from an electrical power source and/or magnetic forces of the magnetics.
US10898841B2	Filter element, in particular for gas filtration A filter element has a filter medium body with a first side and an oppositely positioned second side, wherein one of the first and second sides is the inflow side of the filter medium body and the other one is the outflow side of the filter medium body. A first sealing or supporting element is arranged at the first side. A second sealing or supporting element is arranged at the second side. At least one force-transmitting adhesive bead extends between the first side and the second side, wherein the at least one adhesive bead is a force transmitting element extending between the first and second sealing or supporting elements.
US10898836B2	Filter with exterior and interior media components and method of filtering The invention features a filtration segment having a top seal, a bottom seal and a primary filter core and the method of filtering with the design of the filtration segment. The primary filter core is operatively coupled to at least one opening which is located either on the top seal or on the bottom seal. The filtration segment also includes one or more interior filters surrounding the primary filter core. Each interior filter includes a filter material surrounding a secondary core which is operatively coupled to at least one opening which is located either on the top seal or on the bottom seal. Each filter may optionally include a retaining medium enclosing the filter material. The filtration segment has one or more layers of an exterior filter media which operatively surround the interior filters and are operatively coupled to the top seal and the bottom seal.
US10898826B2	Compact containerized system and method for spray evaporation of water A wastewater evaporation system for spray evaporating water comprising: a wastewater feed inlet; a pump, wherein the wastewater feed inlet is fluidly connected to the pump and wherein the pump is fluidly connected to a manifold; a drip orifice, wherein the manifold is fluidly connected to the drip orifice; a container, wherein an upper portion of the container is enclosed with a demister element; a packing and/or tray system disposed within the container, wherein the drip orifice discharges water droplets onto the packing and/or tray system; a discharge outlet, wherein a bottom of the container is fluidly connected to the discharge outlet; and an air system, wherein the air system discharges air flow counter to the water droplets from the drip orifice. A method of spray evaporating water while limiting emission of particles regulated as pollutants is also disclosed.
US10898819B2	Toy vehicle track systems and connectors for same Toy vehicle track systems and connectors for those systems are disclosed. The connectors include a central portion, first and second end portions, and first and second side portions. The central portion includes first and second posts, and a third larger post disposed between the first and second posts. In some embodiments, the third post includes a living hinge to allow for increased vertical displacement of the first, second, and/or third posts when a downward force is applied to the third post. In some embodiments, the central portion includes descending and ascending parts to allow for increased vertical displacement of the first, second, and/or third posts when a downward force is applied to the third post. In some embodiments, the connectors include a plurality of bumps to increase frictional engagement between the connector and the track sections.
US10898814B2	Virtual gaming system and method A virtual interactive archive video sports game configured to generate a virtual gaming match between two opponents is disclosed. The system includes a user input, a video clip database, a challenges database, a display and a processor. The user input is configured to receive at least one opponent selection input and at least one challenge selection input. The video clip database is configured with a plurality of video clips between the two opponents. The challenges database is configured with a plurality of challenges relating to the video clips in the video clip database. The display is configured to present the video clips, challenges and results data to the user. The processor is configured with a virtual match selection engine configured to randomly select more than one video clip between the two opponents, a challenge selection engine configured to randomly select at least one challenge from the challenge database and receive at least one challenge selection input and a results engine configured to generate results data based on whether or not the challenges are met by the randomly selected video clip, between the two opponents.
US10898812B2	Methods, devices, and systems for interactive cloud gaming The various implementations described herein include methods, devices, and systems for interactive cloud gaming. In one aspect, an interface device with processors and memory storing an application program is used for cloud gaming. The interface device includes a communication module for receiving and/or transmitting messages and media streams between the interface device, a game controller, and a remote gaming server. The interface device further includes an output module configured to provide output of the application to an input of a display device coupled to or integrated with the interface device. The application is configured to implement a first mode in which the interface device processes and displays outputs associated with substantially all messages transmitted by the game controller, and a second mode in which the interface device processes and displays a predefined subset of messages from the game controller and displays gaming media streams from the gaming server.
US10898810B2	Method and apparatus for enhancing a gaming experience A method includes communicatively coupling a physical object with a body. One or more of the body or the physical object has connectivity to a computer having a processor. The method also includes detecting a contact position between the physical object and the body. The method further includes setting a function of the physical object based on the contact position. The method additionally includes generating a virtual representation of the physical object and the body in a virtual reality viewable by way of a display associated with the computer. Generation of the virtual representation of the physical object and the body includes orienting a virtual version of the physical object with respect to a virtual version of the body based on the contact position. The method also includes causing the virtual version of the physical object to be usable in accordance with the function of the physical object.
US10898809B2	Overlaying content within live streaming video Systems and methods are provided for integrating supplemental overlay content within streaming video content that is to be broadcast to viewer devices. The overlay content to include in the streaming video content may be dynamically determined during video streaming and incorporated within individual frames of the video data, such as by a computing device of a user who is broadcasting his play of a video game or other activity, prior to the user's computing device sending those video frames (with embedded overlay content therein) to a streaming platform to be broadcast to potentially many viewers' devices.
US10898801B2	Selecting properties using handheld controllers Described herein are, among other things, techniques to enable a user to navigate a color picker or other graphical-user-interface (GUI) tool using an input device of a handheld controller. For example, a user may operate a color picker presented on a display by pressing upwards on a joystick to activate selection of hue, down and to the left to activate selection of saturation, and down and to the right to activate selection of lightness or value.
US10898800B2	Cloud gaming device handover Methods and systems to identify options of secondary client devices for a device handover of game play include establishing a session of game play of a game for a primary client device by executing the game on a server for streaming video frames to the primary client device. A request is received to generate a profile of one or more secondary client devices that are identified to be local to the primary client device. The profile is configured to identify device attributes for the secondary client devices. A handover option is provided to the primary client device during game play, identifying one or more of the secondary client devices, based on the profile. A selection of a secondary client device identified by the handover option received from the primary client device causes pausing of the streaming of video frames to the primary client device, saving a game state for the game and providing an option to resume play of the game on the secondary client device. A resume request received from the secondary client device causes the game state for the game to be accessed and game play resumed so as to continue streaming video frames to the secondary client device.
US10898799B2	Gaming accessory with sensory feedback device A method that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, by a device comprising a processor, a first signal from a motion-sensitive component of the device; receiving, by the device, a second signal from a touch-sensitive interface of the device, detecting, by the device, from a combined signal comprising the first signal and the second signal, a selection of a portion of the device; and causing, by the device, a sensory feedback generator to provide a feedback signal in accordance with the combined signal. The feedback signal may comprise an audible sound, a visual effect, a tactile effect, or any combination thereof. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US10898798B2	Directed wind effect for AR/VR experience An air flow generator may be implemented on an augmented reality (AR) or virtual reality (VR) controller or head-mounted display (HMD) through which an AR or VR experience is presented. Based on content upon which the AR or VR experience is based, air flow effects can be provided by the air flow generator. In particular, desired air flow effect parameters based on or obtained from the content, can be used to enhance the AR or VR experience through generating air flow directed at a user of the HMD. The air flow generated by the air flow generator can be further enhanced by the addition of liquid and/or scented additives.
US10898797B2	Electronic controller with finger sensing and an adjustable hand retainer An electronic controller includes a controller body having a head that adjoins a handle at a neck region, and that includes at least one thumb-operated control. The controller includes a hand retainer that in a closed position is configured to physically bias the user's palm against an outer surface of the handle. The hand retainer includes a resilient member that biases the hand retainer towards an open position. An adjustment mechanism couples the resilient member to the head and permits the resilient member to be adjusted betweena plurality of discrete positions to adjust the resilient member towards or away from the user's purlicue. The adjustment mechanism may include an anchor that is movable peripherally about the head between the plurality of discrete positions and is pivotably attached to the resilient member with a two-part fastener, with a friction member interposed between the resilient member and the anchor.
US10898794B2	Gaming support assembly and controller holster A gaming support apparatus that includes a holster body is provided. The holster body receives a gaming controller disposed therein and includes a peripheral wall. The peripheral wall, in an operational configuration, partially encloses the gaming controller received by the holster body. The holster body further includes a support web that, in the operational configuration, supports the gaming controller received by the holster body. The holster body further includes at least one opening in the holster body that, in the operational configuration, allows access to one or more input elements of the gaming controller received by the holster body. In the operational configuration, the holster body supports the gaming controller such that a user may actuate the one or more input elements of the gaming controller without supporting the weight of the gaming controller.
US10898790B2	Puzzle A puzzle kit and a puzzle constructed from said puzzle kit. The puzzle kit comprises a three dimensional substrate having an outer surface, and a plurality of puzzle pieces that cannot interlock. Each puzzle piece has a first surface and an opposite second surface and a thickness defined between the first and second surfaces. Each puzzle piece comprises first attachment means and the outer surface of the substrate defines a plurality of complementary second attachment means, such that the first attachment means and the second attachment means magnetically attach each puzzle piece to the outer surface. The first attachment means comprises a projection extending from the second surface of the puzzle piece. The second attachment means comprises a hole to partly receive the projection.
US10898784B2	Integrated timing system and method having a highly portable RFID tag reader with GPS location determination A system and method for determining a time of an event participant passing a detection point having a participant identifier number by a timing system coupled to an RFID tag reader in proximity to at a monitored point and receiving RFID tag read times and coupled to a portable device with a transceiver and a location detector for selectively receiving a participant number read, the timing system receiving the geographic location of the handheld device, the handheld read participant number and a handheld time, determining that the received RFID tag read times timing system are not usable times and determining a time of passing of the participant by the detection point by determining a delta time between the proximity detector and the handheld device and an adjusted time of participant passing based on the determined delta time and handheld time.
US10898763B2	Apparatus for charging and maintaining luminescent objects A light charging system charges at least one luminescent object to emit light and includes a housing comprising an openable lid, an interior, and at least one interior wall, wherein the openable lid provides a light proof seal when mated with the at least one interior wall. A light source comprises an illuminating light panel interposed between at least one light source and the interior to illuminate and charge a luminescent object when operating. An electronic housing contains at least one battery and an on/off switch. A/C or D/C power can be used.
US10898759B2	Determination and presentation of customized notifications Notifications for instructing user behavior can be determined and presented when appropriate. Historical fitness data and current fitness data are accessed. This data is used to determine whether a user fitness goal is likely to be achieved. If not, a notification may be determined and presented at a user device.
US10898758B2	Measurement system for use in an exercise machine A measurement system for use in an exercise machine, which exercise machine comprises a lifting mechanism and an engaging member for selectively engaging a number of stacked weights to the lifting mechanism, the measurement system comprising a pair of cooperating members including a range meter and a reflector member, wherein one of the cooperating members is connected to the lifting mechanism and the other of the cooperating members is connected to the engaging member, wherein the range meter is directed to measure a distance to the reflector member to determine a distance which correlates to the weight of the selectively engaged weights.
US10898757B1	Three dimensional object tracking using combination of radar speed data and two dimensional image data Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for 3D flight tracking of objects includes, in at least one aspect, a method including: obtaining 2D camera image data of a golf ball; modeling a 2D trace of the golf ball using the 2D image data; obtaining radar speed data of the golf ball; modeling a speed of the golf ball using the radar speed data, wherein modeling the speed of the golf ball includes fitting a polynomial function to a first portion of the radar speed data and fitting an exponential function to a second portion of the radar speed data; combining the modelled speed of the golf ball with the modelled 2D trace of the golf ball to form a 3D trace of the golf ball; and outputting for display the 3D trace of the golf ball in 3D space.
US10898754B2	Gym tower A gym tower which includes a base and a plurality of internal weights vertically stacked on the base. A frame is connected to the base and extends upward from the base to engage with the plurality of internal weights. A top plate is connected to the frame, so that the base and the plate enclose the plurality of internal weights within the frame. The tower also includes a spine is adapted to selectively engage the plurality of internal weights. A main pulley is connected to the top plate and a main cable is fed through the main pulley. The main cable is connectable to the spine at a first end and includes a connector device at a second end. The tower also includes a rod adapted to engage with the spine and to select an internal weight and is adapted to secure to external weights.
US10898753B2	Treadmills having adjustable surface stiffness In one embodiment, an adjustable surface stiffness treadmill includes a treadmill unit, a scissor mechanism that supports the treadmill unit, a stiffness adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a vertical stiffness of the treadmill unit, and an input link having a first end and a second end, the first end being connected to the scissor mechanism and the second end being connected to the stiffness adjustment mechanism, wherein the input link translates downward vertical forces imposed upon the treadmill unit into horizontal forces imposed upon the stiffness adjustment mechanism.
US10898751B2	Strap-based exercise system The invention is a strap-based suspension exercise system that includes a main strap that is attached to a fixed or stationary object to anchor the exercise system and exercise straps that are used to perform a variety of exercises. Different main straps are provided that enable anchoring the exercise system virtually anywhere. The exercise straps, which may be inelastic or elastic are attached to the main strap using a uniquely designed buckle and include a safety strap. Various optional equipment, such as a foot hammock, a wrist or foot strap, additional handles, exercise straps with gym rings, and a vest worn by the user are provided.
US10898746B2	Fire protection nozzle, fire protection sprinkler, fire protection systems, and methods of manufacturing a fire protection nozzle and a fire protection sprinkler A fire protection nozzle includes a body having two frame arms having proximal ends connected to an outlet of the body, and distal ends, the two frame arms defining a frame arm plane, and a junction formed by the distal ends of the frame arms, the junction including a central bore and a cylindrical outer wall. A circular deflector is mounted to the body, and includes a planar disk having a mounting hole in a center of the planar disk to receive the cylindrical outer wall of the junction, and a plurality of slots on a periphery of the circular planar disk. The plurality of slots includes four radial first slots, four radial second slots, eight radial third slots, and eight fourth slots. The nozzle has a K-factor of at least 28 gpm/(psi)1/2.
US10898745B2	Sprinkler drop bracket for intersecting downlight A sprinkler support assembly includes a ceiling system including a suspension frame and a grid support, the grid support extending laterally outward from the suspension frame; and a bracket assembly including a main body and at least one support arm, the main body attached to the grid support, the at least one support arm extending outward from the main body.
US10898744B2	Automatic fire extinguishing system for small spaces using fire extinguishing agents An automatic fire extinguishing system has a tank that contains fire extinguishing agents, and a housing. The housing has a glass bulb retained therein where the glass bulb is exposed by a side connecting hole, and contacted by a moving member that is biased by an elastic body against the glass bulb. When heat is transferred via the side connecting hole to the glass bulb to break the glass bulb, the elastic body biases the moving member to cause the guiding bars to push a striking member so that a striking protrusion on the striking member breaks a membrane that covers the opening of the tank, thereby allowing the pressurized fire extinguishing agents to escape.
US10898736B2	Implants using ultrasonic waves for stimulating tissue Described herein are implantable devices configured to emit an electrical pulse. An exemplary implantable device includes an ultrasonic transducer configured to receive ultrasonic waves that power the implantable device and encode a trigger signal; a first electrode and a second electrode configured to be in electrical communication with a tissue and emit an electrical pulse to the tissue in response to the trigger signal; and an integrated circuit comprising an energy storage circuit. Also described are systems that include one or more implantable device and an interrogator configured to operate the one or more implantable devices. Further described is a closed loop system that includes a first device configured to detect a signal, an interrogator configured to emit a trigger signal in response to the detected signal, and an implantable device configured to emit an electrical pulse in response to receiving the trigger signal. Further described are computer systems useful for operating one or more implantable devices, as well as methods of electrically stimulating a tissue.
US10898723B2	Scanning mechanism and treatment method for LLLT or other light source therapy device A scanning mechanism to scan a light source, such as a low-level laser, to create a desirable energy distribution on a treatment area. The light source may include multiple light beam generators, each having a different wavelength and each having a different energy distribution. The scanning mechanism can be programmable to scan in different patterns in accordance with a desired treatment.
US10898721B2	Telemetry overuse reduction in a medical device Systems, apparatus, methods and computer-readable storage media facilitating telemetry overuse reduction in a medical device, such as an implantable medical device (“IMD”) are provided. In one embodiment, an IMD includes a housing configured to be implanted at least partially within a patient, a memory and circuitry within the housing and a processor that executes executable components stored in the memory. The executable components include: a communication component configured to establish a telemetry connection with an external device to communicate data associated with sensed physiological data or therapy; and an authorization component configured to determine whether the external device is authorized to communicate with the IMD, wherein the communication component is further configured to disable the telemetry connection with the external device and prevent additional communication with the external device for a defined period of time based on a determination that the external device fails to be authorized to communicate with the IMD.
US10898720B2	Impedance sensing In some examples, a medical device system includes an electrode. The medical device system may include impedance measurement circuitry coupled to the electrode, the impedance measurement circuitry may be configured to generate an impedance signal indicating impedance proximate to the electrode. The medical device system may include processing circuitry that may be configured to identify a first component of the impedance signal. The first component of the impedance signal may be correlated to a cardiac event. The processing circuitry may be configured to determine that the cardiac event occurred based on the identification of the first component of the impedance signal.
US10898718B2	Sensor-based pain management systems and methods This document discusses, among other things, systems and methods for managing pain of a subject. A system includes a first sensor circuit to sense a first signal indicative of a functional state of the subject, a second sensor circuit to sense a second signal different from the first signal, and a controller circuit. The controller circuit may determine an operating mode of the second sensor circuit according to the sensed first signal, trigger the second sensor circuit to sense the second signal under the determined operating mode, and generate a pain score using at least the second signal sensed under the determined operating mode. The pain score may be output to a patient or used for closed-loop control of a pain therapy.
US10898717B2	Device and method for snoring detection and control A device for the treatment of snoring is provided. The device may include a flexible substrate configured for removable attachment to a subject's skin, a primary antenna disposed on the flexible substrate, an interface configured to receive a feedback signal that varies based upon a breathing pattern of the subject; and at least one processing device. The processing device may be configured to analyze the feedback signal and determine whether the subject is snoring based on the analysis of the feedback signal, and if snoring is detected, cause a hypoglossal nerve modulation control signal to be applied to the primary antenna in order to wirelessly transmit the hypoglossal nerve modulation control signal to a secondary antenna associated with an implant unit configured for location in a body of the subject.
US10898714B2	Stimulation suspension in response to patient discomfort or state Systems and methods are provided for delivering neurostimulation therapies to patients. Stimulation from an implantable medical device (IMD) may be suspended in response to detecting a patient discomfort event, such as a cough, throat irritation, or voice alteration. The suspension period may be based on at least one of a severity level of the patient discomfort event and a patient physical state, such as being asleep or lying down. Detection of a patient discomfort event may be calibrated.
US10898713B2	Uses for eye tracking in a visual prosthesis The present invention is an improved system for use of eye tracking including spatial mapping percepts in a visual prosthesis by presenting an electrically induced precept through a visual prosthesis, requesting a subject look to the direction of the percept and tracking their eye movement. Eye movement is both faster and more accurate than asking a visual prosthesis user to point to the location of a percept. This method can be beneficial in a retinal prosthesis, but is particularly useful in a cortical visual prosthesis where visual cortex does not match the retinotopic map. Methods are presented for calibrating an eye tracker. Eye tracking hardware may also be used for blanking video information base on the subject's natural blink reflex.
US10898712B2	Robust instantaneous frequency estimation for hearing prosthesis sound coding A signal processing arrangement generates electrical stimulation signals to electrode contacts in an implanted cochlear implant array. An input sound signal is processed to generate band pass signals that each represent an associated band of audio frequencies. A characteristic envelope signal is extracted for each band pass signal based on its amplitude. Stimulation timing signals are generated for each band pass signal, including for one or more selected band pass signals using a timing function defined to: i. represent instantaneous frequency as determined by the band pass signal temporal fine structure features, and ii. exclude temporal fine structure features occurring within a time period shorter than a band-specific upper frequency limit. The electrode stimulation signals are produced for each electrode contact based on the envelope signals and the stimulation timing signals.
US10898711B1	Thinking cap: combining personalized, model-driven, and adaptive high definition trans-cranial stimulation (HD-tCS) with functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and electroencephalography (EEG) brain state measurement and feedback Described is system for mapping user behavior to brain regions of interest. Using a cognitive-behavior model, a behavioral task is selected that is suited for a desired brain state. Using a functional-anatomical model coupled to the cognitive-behavior model, a set of high-definition neurostimulations is selected to be applied to the user during performance of the selected behavioral task. The selected set of high-definition neurostimulations targets specific regions of the user's brain. Changes in the user's brain state are sensed during application of the set of high-definition neurostimulations and performance of the selected behavioral task using at least one brain monitoring technique. The coupled functional-anatomical and cognitive-behavior models are adapted until the desired brain state is reached.
US10898706B2	Systems, methods, and devices for brain stimulation and monitoring Provided are systems, methods, and devices for brain stimulation and monitoring. Brain stimulation may be provided to enhance slow wave and spindle synchrony. Such stimulation may provide increased memory consolidation. Furthermore, brain stimulation modalities may provide enhanced sleep and awakening. For example, transcranial direct current stimulation of the brain stimulation may enhance sleep quality. Moreover, one or more markers characterizing unconsciousness are may be identified based on changes in measured power densities or spectra. Further still, the above described modalities of brain stimulation may be implemented in an open-loop or closed loop manner. Brain state parameters may be generated for building models of the brain based on determined synchrony patterns between slow waves and spindles. The models may be used to determine a mediation procedure for adjusting the intensity of slow wave oscillations to enhance slow wave and spindle synchrony.
US10898704B2	Tattoo machine having an arm-mounted power supply An arm-mounted motorized tattooing instrument includes a skin-perforating ink delivery wand configured for hand-held operation by a human operator, a wrist-or-forearm-mountable power supply, and a means for electrically coupling the skin-perforating ink delivery wand to the power supply. The instrument is configured to allow the human operator to operate the ink delivery wand without loss of power when rotating the ink delivery wand by hand about any of three orthogonal axes with the power supply mounted to a wrist or forearm of the same hand.
US10898703B2	Microneedle template and microneedle prepared using the same Provided are a microneedle template including: a substrate on which at least one microneedle shapes are formed; and a diamond layer formed on the surface of the at least one microneedle shapes, a method for preparing the microneedle template, a microneedle prepared using the microneedle template, and a method for preparing the microneedle.
US10898702B2	Devices and methods for applying body lotions such as sunscreens Hand-held articles for applying lotion to a user, including a user's back or other hard-to-reach places have a housing containing a lotion to be dispensed, and a roller, integral to the housing, that transfers the lotion to a user's body. A spring or pump mechanism pushes the lotion in the housing towards the roller.
US10898700B2	Balloon catheters for body lumens Various embodiments disclosed relate to drug-coated balloon catheters for treating strictures in body lumens and methods of using the same. A drug-coated balloon catheter for delivering a therapeutic agent to a target site of a body lumen stricture includes an elongated balloon having a main diameter. The balloon catheter includes a coating layer overlying an exterior surface of the balloon. The coating layer includes one or more water-soluble additives and an initial drug load of a therapeutic agent.
US10898698B1	Devices with dimensions that can be reduced and increased in vivo, and methods of making and using the same Devices are provided with an internal dimension that can be reduced and increased in vivo. In one example, an interatrial shunt for placement at an atrial septum of a patient's heart includes a body. The body includes first and second regions coupled in fluid communication by a neck region. The body includes a shape-memory material. The body defines a passageway through the neck region for blood to flow between a first atrium and a second atrium. The first and second regions are superelastic at body temperature, and the neck region is malleable at body temperature. A flow area of the passageway through the neck region may be adjusted in vivo.
US10898697B2	Male insert for draining fluid from a patient A male insert for draining fluid from a patient is provided. The male insert includes a housing, a valve stem supported by the housing for pivotal movement about an axis from an extended position allowing insertion into the patient to a retracted position preventing re-insertion into the patient, a tube connected to the valve stem and supported by the housing for rotational movement about the axis, the tube and the valve stem forming a contiguous channel through which the fluid drains, a stop preventing rotational movement of the tube in a first position and allowing rotational movement of the tube in a second position, and a locking tab engaging one of the valve stem and the tube when the valve stem is in the retracted position.
US10898694B2	Balloon design to reduce distal length A device and system for thermally affecting tissue that includes a balloon catheter with a reduced distal length for ease of navigation and that also includes a balloon that is more resistant to bursting and delamination. The balloon may include a proximal neck generally attached to an elongate body and a distal neck generally attached to a shaft disposed within the elongate body. The distal neck is turned inward to extend within the balloon chamber and the proximal neck may either extend within the chamber or extend proximally away from the balloon chamber. Alternatively, the device may include an inner balloon and an outer balloon, the distal necks of both being turned inward and extending within the inner balloon chamber. The proximal necks may both also be turned inward to extend within the chamber or the proximal neck of the outer balloon may extend away from the balloon chamber.
US10898690B2	Vascular access disassembling needle device and method A vascular access disassembling needle assembly 20 is provided that enables rapid insertion of a guide wire into the needle and subsequent rapid removal of the access needle off the guide wire by facile disassembly of the needle. The disassembling needle assembly 20 includes a needle portion 30 wherein the needle breaks apart by splitting along at least one seam 40 that extends from the proximal to the distal end to allow removal of the guide wire. Various mechanical features are described that can facilitate the separation of the needle body along at least one seam. Once one or more seams are separated, the needle body may be removed from the guide wire without the need to withdraw the needle along the length of the guide wire, which permits preloading of expanders and other medical devices onto the guidewire.
US10898688B2	Needleless connector loosening device A tool for loosening a needleless connector is provided. The tool is a holder for holding a catheter port connected to the needleless connector. The holder includes a front surface, a rear surface, a top surface, and a cavity. The cavity accommodates the catheter port. The cavity extends through the holder and has a front opening in the front surface, a rear opening in the rear surface, and a rear inner wall. The cavity is defined by at least a first cross-sectional dimension and a second cross-sectional dimension, the first cross-sectional dimension at least partially defining a front section opening to the front opening, the second cross-sectional dimension at least partially defining a rear section opening to the rear opening.
US10898684B2	Non-buckling steerable catheter A steerable member is disclosed generally having a steerable member for a medical apparatus, including a continuous, elongated body having a proximal section, a distal section, and a middle section between the proximal and distal sections, where the proximal section of the elongated body is less flexible than the distal section. At least one pull wire sheath extends through the proximal section and the middle section, but not through the distal section, and has a channel therethrough. A pull wire is disposed in the channel of the sheath and extends through the proximal section, middle section and distal section of the elongated body, the pull wire having a distal end affixed to a distal end of the elongated body, so that the distal section of the elongated body bends in response to a force applied to the proximal end of the pull wire.
US10898683B2	Catheter constructions Polymeric tubing, for use with catheters or other medical devices, where the polymeric tubing can have regions of customized properties including, but not limited to, durometer, torque control, flexibility, axial strength, stiffness, etc. One variation of the device allows for transitions between regions to be configured such that there can be gradual or customized transitions between various regions such that the structural characteristics differential between the regions selectively designed. Additional variations include outer layers having a plurality of material sections extending in a spiral direction along the axial length to form a continuous wall of the outer layer. In certain variations, the structural characteristic differential is minimized or eliminated as compared to conventional catheters.
US10898682B2	Microtube guide A microtube guide has a microtube combined with a free-floating and removable core. The microtube is generally hollow with a tube shaft and a distal ring, the tube shaft and the distal ring formed from flexible plastic. The distal ring is conformable to the core and straightenable for insertion into a patient's body, and deploys when the core is withdrawn to form a loop. The core is received by the microtube and is configured to advance into the distal ring to cause a diameter of the distal ring to expand, retract, or straighten. The distal ring diameter is thus adjustable by the user.
US10898678B2	Segmented arch fulcrum support catheter and method of use The present disclosure teaches a medical device and method of use, employing a tube which is composed of segments and bends capable being configured into unique shape that allows said device to use the lesser (inferior) curve of aortic Arch and other vessel structures as as fulcrums of support for a guide catheter, for subsequent prevention of recoil and displacement thereof, while delivering additional catheters or devices into the distal branches of the great vessels. A method for using same.
US10898676B2	Urinary catheter having a conical proximal section A urinary catheter has a tube having a proximal section that is insertable into a urethra and a distal section having a connector secured to a distal end of the tube. A lumen is formed longitudinally in the tube and a hydrophilic coating applied to an exterior surface of the tube. The proximal section of the tube includes a proximal tip end that is closed to terminate the lumen at the proximal tip end, with the proximal tip end rounded for insertion of the proximal tip end through the urethra and into a bladder. The proximal section of the tube is conical such that a first outer diameter of the proximal section of the tube measured at the proximal tip end is smaller than a second outer diameter of the proximal section of the tube measured distal from the proximal tip end.
US10898675B2	Urinary catheters having limited reusability A reusable urinary catheter assembly includes a catheter shaft and a plurality of removable members associated with the catheter shaft. A different one of the removable members is configured to be removed from the catheter shaft between each consecutive use of the reusable urinary catheter assembly. By such a configuration, the number of times that the reusable urinary catheter may be reused is limited by the number of removable members.
US10898674B2	Methods and devices to clear obstructions from medical tubes A device for clearing obstructions from a medical tube, such as a chest tube, is disclosed in various embodiments. The device features a clearance member in the form of a loop. The loop desirably has a diameter that substantially corresponds to the inner diameter of the medical tube. Also desirably, the loop presents a substantially unobstructed pathway therethrough for the flow of material from a location in the medical tube distal to the loop to a location in the medical tube proximal to the loop regardless whether the clearance member is being translated or is at rest in the medical tube. Methods of utilizing such a device are also disclosed.
US10898670B2	Method and apparatus for increasing therapy compliance A breathing assistance unit for providing pressurized heated humidified air to a user increases user compliance. The breathing assistance unit generates positive emotional and cognitive states of a user about the therapy.
US10898668B2	Plastic to textile coupling for a patient interface and methods of manufacturing same A manufactured component, such as headgear or a headgear strap, for a patient interface for delivery of a supply of pressurised air or breathable gas to an entrance of a patient's airways may include a textile portion having a first material with a first melting point. It may also include a plastic portion over-moulded to the textile portion. The plastic portion may be formed of a second material having a second melting point. The melting points may be different such that the second melting point is chosen to be less than the first melting point of the first material. The component may be moulded in a multi-step process that moulds separate portions of the plastic portion and the textile portion at different times. The resulting plastic portion may then have a mechanical bond with the textile and may do so without significant chemical bonding between the plastic portion and the textile.
US10898665B2	System for ventilating patients A system (1) for ventilating patients includes a gas passage unit (2), which has a first inlet opening (6) with a fluid-communicating connection to a pressurized gas source (12, 13) and an outlet opening (9) connected to the first inlet opening (6) in a manner. A patient interface (3), for ventilation, includes an interface inlet opening (10). A gas line element (4) has a fluid-communicating connection to the outlet opening (9) and to the interface inlet opening (10). A controllable pressure change element (5) is provided between the first inlet opening (6) and the interface inlet opening (10). A second inlet opening (8) has a fluid-communicating connection to the gas line element (4). A control unit (7) controls the controllable pressure change element (5). A device or a system (1), which provides fully adequate ventilation with high performance with minimal expenditure for hardware, is provided.
US10898664B2	Ventilator apparatus and method A respiratory treatment apparatus configured to provide a flow of breathable gas to a patient, including a breathable air outlet, an outside air inlet, and an pneumatic block module, wherein the pneumatic block module includes: a volute assembly including an inlet air passage, a mount for a blower and an outlet air passage; the blower being mounted in the mount such that an impeller of the blower is in a flow passage connecting the inlet air passage and the outlet air passage; a casing enclosing the volute assembly, wherein air passages within the casing connect air ports on the volute assembly, wherein the inlet air passage of the volute assembly is in fluid communication with the outside air inlet and the outlet air passage of the volute assembly is in fluid communication with the air outlet.
US10898663B2	Fan unit with improved surge characteristics A fan unit that forms part of a gases supply unit used as part of a breathing assistance system for providing heated gases to a user is provided. The fan unit has an impeller surrounded by an upwardly sloped surface to facilitate improved airflow performance under surge conditions. The impeller includes a plurality of blades capped by a lid having a central aperture to provide an inlet to the impeller.
US10898662B2	Patient interface with venting Interfaces for positive pressure therapy having various vent designs are disclosed herein. The interfaces include a bias flow vent with design geometries that help reduce and/or minimize draft and noise levels of the fluids exiting the vents. Some of the vent designs include particular vent hole geometries, plenum spaces, diffusers and fibrous media.
US10898657B2	Manual injection device A manual injection device having a lower body and a fluid reservoir that moves axially in the lower body. The reservoir includes a piston and needle; an upper body mounted to move axially relative to the lower body, the upper body including a piston rod co-operating with the piston; and a sleeve mounted to move relative to the lower body between a rest position and a projecting position. The sleeve is blocked in its rest position before the injection device is actuated, and urged automatically into its projecting position after injection. The piston rod co-operates with the reservoir to form an injection lock, the force for moving the reservoir axially being less than the force for triggering the injection lock, such that pricking is performed before injection. Before actuation, the piston rod is connected to a ring that is fastened on a radial collar of the reservoir.
US10898655B1	Auto-injectors featuring medicine delivery assurance Auto-injectors can deliver many different types of medicines into people. One failure mode of auto-injectors is failing to insert the needle into the patient while the medicine is propelled from the auto-injector. This error results in the medicine not entering the patient's body. An auto-injector can include a syringe and probes to prevent medicine from being propelled if the person administering the injection does not position the auto-injector correctly.
US10898649B2	Syringe In a general aspect, a syringe terminates the dispensing of a fluid based on a force applied to a plunger member of the syringe. In some aspects, a plunger member of a syringe includes a top portion, a bottom portion, and a contact portion. The top and bottom portions are in contact with the contact portion, and the bottom portion has a length greater than or equal to a length of the top portion. The contact portion permits the top portion to move independent of the bottom portion in response to a stress in the contact portion exceeding a critical stress. The stress in the contact portion is based on a first force applied to the top portion and a second force opposite the first force applied to the bottom portion.
US10898645B2	Intervertebral dosing device and method Some embodiments of the invention include a cannulated bone screw including a screw shaft with screw thread, a proximal end, a distal end, and a channel extending through the screw shaft. Some embodiments include an inlet port coupled to the channel and extending through the distal end, and an outlet port coupled to the channel by a curved or angled channel region. In some embodiments, the outlet port extends through the screw shaft and exits a side that is substantially parallel to the shaft longitudinal axis. In some embodiments, the cannulated bone screw can form part of a therapy delivery device. In some embodiments, the outlet port extends through a portion of the screw shaft and exits at the distal end. In some embodiments, the valve includes a plunger with a plunger rod within the screw shaft, and a valve seat for control of fluid flow out of the screw.
US10898637B2	Controlled nucleation from gas-supersaturated liquid Disclosed is a system to generate bubbles. The bubbles may be formed to include a substantially or medically pure gas. The bubbles may be formed on demand and in a selected small size.
US10898633B2	Devices and methods for extracorporeal conditioning of blood The disclosure relates to devices and methods for extracorporeal conditioning of blood. Extracorporeal blood oxygenators and blood oxygenator components, such as conditioning modules, are described. An extracorporeal blood oxygenator includes a conditioning module having an external frame, an inlet cover, an outlet cover, and an internal chamber. A fiber assembly is disposed within the internal chamber and a potting material on the fiber assembly creates a circumferential seal that defines a passageway through the fiber assembly having a substantially circular cross-sectional shape. A fluid inlet is in fluid communication with the passageway, has a lumen that extends along an axis that is substantially perpendicular to the fiber assembly, and has an internal curvilinear surface adjacent the fiber assembly. A fluid outlet on the opposite side of the fiber assembly also has a lumen that extends along an axis that is substantially perpendicular to the fiber assembly.
US10898630B2	Peritoneal dialysis systems, devices, and methods An automated peritoneal dialysis system provides both cycler-assisted peritoneal dialysis treatment. The system includes a fluid preparation and treatment device with concentrate dilution components connected to a source of purified water and medicament concentrate. The treatment device has at least one mixing container connected via a pump and valves to the sources, the valves and the pump mixing and diluting the concentrate to form a medicament. Conductivity sensors are provided for fluid quality measurement, calibration, error trapping, and fluid characterization.
US10898627B2	Ventricular assist device A ventricular assist device for use in a human recipient includes a housing within which a series pair of turbine pump segments, each having a deswirler, are operative. The series pair of turbine pump segments provides a redundancy which in turn enhances the safety factor provided by the ventricular assist device.
US10898626B2	Catheter-based heart support system and method of implanting thereof A device for circulatory support of the heart with holding means implanted intracardially in the left or right ventricular outflow of the heart by catheter, using an endovascular method, through a femoral access or a percutaneous transventricular, transseptal, transapical or transvenous access, the holding means comprises anchoring means fixed in the subcommissural triangle underneath the aortic valve and the pulmonary valve, in the flow direction of the blood on the ventricular side of the aortic valve and the pulmonary valve, a pump fixed in the holding means by a catheter, using an endovascular method, through a femoral access or a percutaneous transventricular, transseptal, transapical or transvenous access, the pump can be inserted releasably into the holding means after the holding means has been fixed by the anchoring means in the subcommissural triangles underneath the aortic valve and the pulmonary valve, or is connected to the collapsible and expandable anchoring means.
US10898625B2	System for introducing a pump The invention resides in the field of introducing fluid pumps into a lumen and relates to a system for introducing a pump into a lumen which comprises a first sheath and a pump to be introduced into the first sheath, or a system which has a pump with a distal pump unit and a shaft catheter which emerges proximally to the pump unit. According to the invention one or two sheaths are used, the distal pump unit being pulled firstly into the distal end of one sheath, in order to avoid damage to a shaft catheter. Subsequently, the sheath receiving the pump unit is transferred into a further sheath or a receiving lumen.
US10898614B2	Tissue repair laminates There are provided tissue repair laminates which promote cellular in-growth but also prevent or mitigate tissue adhesion. The laminates comprise a biodegradable polyurethane foam layer which facilitates cellular infiltration and a polyurethane barrier layer which is non-adhesive to tissue. The laminates resist shrinkage under in vivo conditions and possess desirable mechanical properties. The laminates find use in, for example, the repair of herniated tissue, particularly, but not limited to hernias in the abdominal wall.
US10898613B2	Hyaluronic acid gel with a divalent zinc cation A method of preparing a sterilized injectable hydrogel composition, including the steps: a) covalently crosslinking a glycosaminoglycan using a bi- or polyfunctional crosslinking agent to form a covalently crosslinked glycosaminoglycan, b) swelling the covalently crosslinked glycosaminoglycan in a solution including a divalent cation to form a hydrogel composition, and c) sterilizing the hydrogel composition by autoclaving to form a sterilized injectable hydrogel composition, and to sterilized injectable hydrogel compositions obtainable by such method.
US10898611B2	Cancellous bone product including viable osteogenic cells A bone implant comprising cancellous bone that is essentially free of blood cells, and which has been treated with at least one loosening agent, such as collagenase or a digestive enzyme, for a time and at a concentration to loosen the osteogenic cells in the cancellous bone matrix. The osteogenic cells in the matrix are viable cells. The treatment of the cancellous bone with at least one loosening agent enables the osteogenic cells to be more available for carrying out their osteogenic function and to provide for an increased rate of bone formation. Such implant also may include demineralized bone, such as demineralized cortical bone, which enhances the bone regenerative capacity of the cancellous bone.
US10898606B2	Self-fusing low density silicone An adhesive free self-fusing material being either of open or closed cell polymer (silicone) based material that can be used to create a permanent elastic band for compression and support dressings. The proprietary polymer material upon contact with itself, initiates a “room temperature” reaction of self-vulcanization with the contact surfaces of itself. This eliminates the need for any adhesives which some patients experience negative reactions. In an example embodiment, the material comprises Vinyl stopped polydimethyl siloxane, amorphous silica, and dimethylpolysiloxane.
US10898604B2	Air treatment system An apparatus for treating air includes a housing with an air inlet and an air outlet, the housing enclosing an air treatment zone and an ozone removal zone, wherein the ozone removal zone is positioned downstream of the air treatment zone with respect to a flow direction of the air being treated, an ozone generator in the air treatment zone configured to generate ozone from the air, wherein the ozone generated by the ozone generator treats the air in the air treatment zone, catalyst in the ozone removal zone that removes at least a portion of the ozone generated the ozone generator, a particle matter (PM) filter positioned between the air treatment zone and the ozone removal zone, wherein the ozone generated by the ozone generator treats the PM filter, and an air mover positioned near the air outlet configured to draw the air through the air inlet.
US10898602B2	Alcohol vapor deodorization system A system that deodorizes gear, padding, or other apparel by killing the bacteria that cause odor. Articles to be deodorized are placed within a re-sealable airtight bag along with highly pure anhydrous ethanol. As the ethanol vaporizes, the gaseous ethanol readily dissolves within the aqueous environment that envelops the bacteria. Ethanol levels within this moisture gradually increase and eventually become bactericidal.
US10898600B2	Disinfecting method and disinfecting apparatus A disinfecting method includes irradiating fungi or bacteria with light including violet light having a light emission peak with (i) a full width at half maximum of at most 20 nm and (ii) a peak wavelength included in a range of from 380 nm to 410 nm, inclusive.
US10898599B2	Radio frequency treatment to phytosanitize wood packaging materials used in international shipping A method for treating wood packaging materials using Radio Frequency heating includes the steps of heating wood packaging materials using RF heating and applying a pressure before the heating or incrementally applying a pressure during the heating until a temperature of the wood packaging materials reaches at least 60° C. and that temperature is maintained for at least 1 minute.
US10898594B2	PAMAM dendrimer based CEST imaging agents and uses thereof PAMAM dendrimer based CEST imaging agents, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same and methods of uses thereof are disclosed.
US10898591B2	Compositions and methods for assessing eye vasculature Compositions and methods for assessing blood vessels and organs of the body are disclosed herein, specifically methods for assessing the vasculature of the eye.
US10898589B2	Nucleic acid comprising or coding for a histone stem-loop and a poly(A) sequence or a polyadenylation signal for increasing the expression of an encoded therapeutic protein The present disclosure concerns a nucleic acid sequence, comprising or coding for a coding region, encoding at least one peptide or protein comprising a therapeutic protein or a fragment, variant or derivative thereof, at least one histone stem-loop and a poly(A) sequence or a polyadenylation signal. The present disclosure further concerns a method for increasing the expression of a peptide or protein comprising a therapeutic protein or a fragment, variant or derivative thereof, using the nucleic acid comprising or coding for a histone stem-loop and a poly(A) sequence or a polyadenylation signal.
US10898585B2	Gene therapy for AADC deficiency The present invention is directed to compositions and methods for treating aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase (AADC) deficiency. This invention includes a method of treating AADC deficiency in a pediatric subject, comprising the steps of: (a) providing a pharmaceutical formulation comprising an rAAV2-hAADC vector, (b) stereotactically delivering the pharmaceutical formulation to at least one target site in the brain of the subject in a dose of an amount at least about 1.8×1011 vg; wherein delivering the pharmaceutical formulation to the brain is optionally by frameless stereotaxy, and optionally wherein the dose is an amount of at least about 2.4×1011 vg and in some embodiments wherein the pharmaceutical formulation comprises a rAAV2-hAADC vector concentration of about 5.7×1011 vg/mL. This invention is also directed to methods for treating aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase (AADC) deficiency, wherein the method optionally further comprises the step of administering a therapeutically effective dose of dopamine-antagonist to the subject such as risperidone. This invention is also directed to methods for treating aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase (AADC) deficiency, wherein the method optionally comprises providing a pharmaceutical formulation comprising an rAAV2-hAADC vector, and empty capsids.
US10898584B2	Modified RNA with decreased immunostimulatory properties The present invention provides a method for providing modified mRNAs of reduced immunogenicity and/or immunostimulatory capacity for use in protein replacement therapy. The invention further provides modified mRNAs and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the modified mRNAs according to the invention for use in protein replacement therapy.
US10898579B2	Conjugates of cysteine engineered antibodies The invention relates to novel cell-binding agent-cytotoxic agent conjugates, wherein the cell-binding agent (CBA) is covalently linked to the cytotoxic agent through an engineered Cys, such as an engineered Cys in the heavy chain CH3 domain, at a position corresponds to the EU/OU numbering position 442 (or C442) on an antibody CBA. The invention also provides methods of preparing the conjugates of the present invention. The invention further provides composition and methods useful for inhibiting abnormal cell growth or treating a proliferative disorder in a mammal using the conjugates of the invention.
US10898572B2	Stable protein-containing preparation containing argininamide or analogous compound thereof Addition of argininamide or valinamide to a highly concentrated antibody solution was found to lead to remarkable stabilization, in particular, stabilization against photostress.
US10898568B2	Modular antigen transportation molecules and uses thereof in animals The present invention relates to (isolated) recombinant proteins, also referred to as improved MAT (iMAT) molecules, comprising at least one translocation module, at least one targeting module and at least one antigen module, wherein at least one cysteine residue is substituted with a different amino acid residue. Such iMAT molecules are useful specifically as vaccines, e.g. for therapy and/or prevention of allergies and/or infectious diseases and/or prevention of transmission of infectious diseases in animals, more preferably ruminants, pigs, dogs and/or cats, but excluding equines. The present invention further relates to nucleic acids encoding such iMAT molecules, corresponding vectors and primary cells or cell lines.
US10898565B2	Compositions, methods and uses for dengue virus serotype-4 constructs Embodiments herein report compositions, methods and uses for dengue-4 (DENV-4) virus constructs. Some embodiments concern a composition that includes, but is not limited to, DENV-4 virus constructs alone or in combination with other constructs, can be used in a vaccine composition to induce an immune response in a subject. In certain embodiments, compositions can include constructs of more than one serotypes of dengue virus, such as dengue-1 virus, dengue-2 virus, or dengue-3 virus in combination with DENV-4 virus constructs disclosed herein. In other embodiments, DENV-4 constructs disclosed herein can be combined in a composition with other flavivirus constructs to generate a vaccine against more than one flavivirus. Other embodiments provide methods and uses for DENV-4 virus constructs in vaccine compositions that when administered to a subject induce an immune response in the subject against DENV-4 that is improved by modified constructs compared to other vaccine compositions.
US10898559B2	Peptides and combination of peptides for use in immunotherapy against lung cancer, including NSCLC and other cancers The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US10898557B2	Method of treating with a peptide The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US10898556B2	Anti-ICOS agonist antibodies and uses thereof The present invention provides isolated monoclonal antibodies (e.g., humanized and human monoclonal antibodies) that bind to human Inducible T Cell COStimulator (ICOS) and exhibit therapeutically desirable functional properties, e.g., the ability to stimulate human ICOS activity. Nucleic acid molecules encoding the antibodies of the invention, expression vectors, host cells, and methods for expressing the antibodies of the invention are also provided. Immunoconjugates, bispecific molecules, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the antibodies of the invention are also provided. The antibodies of the invention can be used, for example, as an agonist to stimulate or enhance an immune response in a subject, e.g., antigen-specific T cell responses against a tumor or viral antigen. The antibodies of the invention can also be used in combination with other antibodies (e.g., PD-1, PD-L1, and/or CTLA-4 antibodies) to treat, for example, cancer. Accordingly, the antibodies can be used in therapeutic applications and methods to detect ICOS protein.
US10898555B2	Cellular immunity inducing vaccine A novel vaccine that can induce sufficiently high cell-mediated immunity is disclosed. The vaccine of the present invention contains, as an effective component, a polypeptide comprising a tandem repeat structure in which an MHC class I epitope region derived from an antigen protein and a spacer sequence are linked to each other alternately and repeatedly at least three times, or a recombinant vector which comprises a polynucleotide encoding said polypeptide and is capable of expressing said polypeptide in vivo. The spacer sequence is, for example, a sequence generated as an amino acid sequence inevitably encoded by a single base sequence which is designed such that the MHC class I epitope region derived from the antigen protein, an MHC class II epitope region derived from the antigen protein, and at least one higher-order-structure-stabilizing region are encoded by different reading frames in said single base sequence.
US10898553B2	Pharmaceutical composition comprising plasminogen and uses thereof Pharmaceutical compositions comprising plasminogen or a biologically active variant thereof are disclosed. In an embodiment, the composition comprises a tonicity modifier, a bulking agent, and a stabilising agent and has a pH of about 3.0 to about 10.0. In another embodiment, the composition contains an amount of particles in suspension equal to or greater than 10 μm which is lower than 6000 particles per 100 ml, and preferably lower than 2000 particles per 100 ml. Uses of these compositions as a medicament is contemplated. Various therapeutic uses of these pharmaceutical compositions is also contemplated.
US10898550B2	Compositions and methods of treating root avulsion injury A method of treating root avulsion injury in a subject in need thereof includes administering to the subject a therapeutic agent that inhibits one or more of catalytic activity, signaling, and function of PTPσ.
US10898549B2	Methods for treating hypophosphatasia in adolescents and adults The disclosure features methods for treating hypophosphatasia (HPP) in a patient (e.g., adolescent or adult having HPP) exhibiting physical impairments or decreased walking ability by administering a soluble alkaline phosphatase (sALP) to the patient.
US10898544B2	Polypeptides for managing viral infections Antiviral polypeptides and methods of use are provided herein. In particular, these polypeptides can comprise the Yodha amino acid sequence, variants, derivatives, or truncated versions thereof. In certain embodiments, this disclosure relates to uses of the peptides and compositions disclosed herein to treat or prevent a viral infection.
US10898543B2	Flagellin related polypeptides and uses thereof The use of flagellin and flagellin related polypeptide for the protection of mammals from the effects of apoptosis is described.
US10898541B2	Use of antimicobial peptides for treatment of infection Disclosed are antimicrobial peptides capable of inhibiting and killing multiple drug-resistant bacteria, including XH-12C, XH-12B and XH-12A. The application further provides uses of the antimicrobial peptides in the preparation of a drug for inhibiting and/or killing fungi, Gram-positive bacteria, Gram-negative bacteria and drug-resistant bacteria and in the manufacture of medical carriers.
US10898540B2	Peptide having effects of increasing telomerase activity and extending telomere, and composition containing same The present specification relates to a composition containing a peptide having effects of increasing telomerase activity and extending a telomere, and more specifically, to a composition containing a telomerase-derived peptide, thereby being effective for preventing, alleviating and treating diseases, caused by a decrease in telomerase activity or a reduction in telomere length, and symptoms caused by cell aging or damage. According to one aspect to the present invention, the peptide increases telomerase activity and is effective for extending a telomere, and thus a method for treating diseases induced by an abnormal decrease in telomerase activity and by the length reduction or loss of a telomere and alleviating symptoms caused thereby can be provided.
US10898538B2	Methods for maintaining pegylation of polypeptides Described herein are methods for maintaining PEGylation and inhibiting dePEGylation of polypeptides, such as fibronectin-based scaffold proteins, during storage.
US10898537B2	Transdermal formulations for delivery of capsaicinoids The present application is directed to transdermal formulations comprising one or more capsaicinoinds, one or more 1,4-dialdehyde sesquiterpenes, a penetration enhancer comprising tetrahydropiperine and a transdermal formulation base. The formulations advantageously show improved color characteristics and cause less irritation compared to other known transdermal or topica formulations comprising capsaicinoinds.
US10898536B2	Method of inhibiting propionibacterium acnes The invention discloses the anti-acne potential of α and β pyranocycloartobiloxanthone A and Artonine E, isolated from the stem bark of Artocarpus hirsutus by inhibiting the growth of Propionibacterium acnes.
US10898535B2	Composition for inhibiting and preventing myopathy, containing bean leaf extract as active ingredient The present invention relates to a composition for inhibiting and preventing myopathy comprising a bean leaf extract as an active ingredient. More specifically, the composition has an effect of inhibiting the overexpression of Atrogin1 and Murf1 specifically expressed in myocyte and restoring cell activity of myocyte to inhibit and prevent muscle loss by including the extract of bean leaf at stage R6 to R8 during the growth stage of bean.
US10898531B2	Vibrio parahaemolyticus bacteriophage Vib-PAP-5 and use thereof for suppressing proliferation of Vibrio parahaemolyticus bacteria The present invention relates to a Myoviridae bacteriophage Vib-PAP-5 (accession number KCTC 13029BP) isolated from nature characterized by having a capability for specifically killing Vibrio parahaemolyticus bacteria and having a genome expressed by the SEQ ID NO:1, and to a method for preventing and treating infections from Vibrio parahaemolyticus bacteria by means of a composition comprising the Myoviridae bacteriophage Vib-PAP-5 as an active ingredient.
US10898530B2	Phage therapy The present invention relates to bacteriophage therapy. More particularly, the present invention relates to novel bacteriophages having a high specificity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains, their manufacture, components thereof, compositions comprising the same and the uses thereof in phage therapy.
US10898529B2	Production and use of bacterial histamine A method is provided of selecting specific probiotic lactic acid bacteria producing histamine and the use of such strains for beneficial effects for mammals. The method includes selecting a lactic acid bacterial strain for use in the local production of histamine in a mammal, and further comprises screening bacteria for the presence of an active histidine operon and selecting a strain which has an active histidine operon and is capable of producing histamine. Preferably said strain is selected for its ability to produce histamine at a level of greater than 250 pg/ml. The present invention further provides products comprising the strains obtainable by the selection methods of the invention for use in the local production of histamine in a mammal, in particular for use in the treatment or prophylaxis of inflammatory conditions.
US10898528B2	Composition comprising Lactobacillus plantarum 2830 (ECGC 13110402) The present invention relates to compositions comprising Lactobacillus plantarum 2830 (ECGC 13110402), or mutant strain or strains thereof, for use in the treatment or prevention of hypercholesterolaemia, and in particular reducing the total cholesterol (TC) and low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels, in an individual. Specific dosage regimes and methods of production are also claimed and described.
US10898520B2	Methods for rejuvinating red blood cells Methods and a system for transfusing blood to a mammalian subject. The method includes obtaining a volume of donated red blood cells (RBCs), adding an enhancement composition to the RBCs to form a treated blood composition, incubating the treated blood composition to form an incubated blood composition, and administering the incubated blood composition to a patient. The system includes a functionally-closed, sterile Y-type tube set.
US10898519B2	Peptides and combination of peptides of non-canonical origin for use in immunotherapy against different types of cancers The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US10898518B2	Peptides and combination of peptides of non-canonical origin for use in immunotherapy against different types of cancers The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US10898516B2	Compositions and methods of treating diabetic retinopathy A method of treating diabetic retinopathy in a subject in need thereof includes administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of one or more agents that act as a trap of reactive aldehydes and/or inhibit diabetes-induced superoxide generation and capillary degeneration regulated by GPCR signaling pathways.
US10898513B2	Sodium nitrite-containing pharmaceutical compositions Provided herein are pharmaceutically acceptable sodium nitrite and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Also provided herein are methods for determining the total non-volatile organic carbon in a sodium nitrite-containing sample. Further provided herein are methods for producing pharmaceutically acceptable sodium nitrite. Still further provided herein are methods of treatment comprising the administration of pharmaceutically acceptable sodium nitrite.
US10898511B2	Materials and methods relating to stabilised polymeric silicate compositions Stabilised and aquated polymeric silicate compositions are described in which the compositions are poorly condensed compositions in which the silicates are resorbable and are capable of undergoing efficient dissolution to provide bioavailable soluble silicic acid. In particular, stabilised and aquated polymeric silicates are described that are capable of intravenous delivery, useful in the treatment of cancer or systemic infection, or for topical administration, e.g. in the form of a solid or semi-solid ointment useful in the treatment of wounds or the prevention of bacterial infection.
US10898510B2	Sulphated hyaluronic acids functionalised with dopamine Disclosed is grade 2 sulphated hyaluronic acid having 2 to 60% molar, preferably 15 to 35%, and even more preferably between 20 and 25%, of the carboxyl groups functionalized with dopamine conjugated directly via an amide bond or by means of a spacer having an amino group for the formation of an amide bond with the carboxyl groups of hyaluronic acid and of a carboxyl group for the formation of an amide bond with the amino group of dopamine.
US10898508B2	Oxidized β-1,4-oligoglucuronic acid, and preparation method therefor and uses thereof An oxidized β-1,4-oligoglucuronic acid, and a preparation method therefor and uses thereof. By using abundant cellulose in the natural world as the raw material, all 6-site hydroxyl groups of the cellulose β-1,4-polyglucose is oxidized into carboxyl groups to form glucuronic acid under the action of a sodium bromide (NaBr)-2,2,6,6-tetramethyl piperidine oxide (TEMPO)-sodium hypochlorite (NaClO) oxidation system, and the oxidized oligoglucuronic acid having an open ring at an end is prepared by controlling reaction conditions. The compound has obvious anti-cerebral ischemia activity, and can be developed into a potential anti-cerebral ischemia drug.
US10898503B2	Cleavable drug conjugates, compositions thereof and methods of use Base-labile crosslinkers, base-labile conjugates comprising such crosslinkers, methods of their synthesis and use are disclosed.
US10898499B2	C17-heteroaryl derivatives of oleanolic acid and methods of use thereof Disclosed herein are novel C17-heteroaryl derivatives of oleanolic acid, including those of the formula: wherein the variables are defined herein. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions, kits and articles of manufacture comprising such compounds. Methods and intermediates useful for making the compounds, and methods of using the compounds, for example, as antioxidant inflammation modulators, and compositions thereof are also provided.
US10898497B2	Compositions and methods for cartilage repair Autologous compositions and methods are provided for cartilage repair in patients in need thereof. Some aspects include combinations of platelet-based materials with chondrogenesis inducing agents in the presence or absence of cell-based therapies.
US10898496B2	Targeting NCCa-ATP channel for organ protection following ischemic episode The present invention concerns protection of an organ or tissue outside of the central nervous system following an ischemic episode. In particular aspects, the invention concerns organ preservation for transplantation, angina pectoris, kidney reperfusion injury, and so forth. In specific embodiments, the organ is subjected to an inhibitor of an NCCa-ATP channel that is regulated by SUR1. Exemplary inhibitors include sulfonylurea compounds, such as glibenclamide, for example.
US10898493B2	Pharmaceutical compositions and methods for psychiatric symptoms of patients with Alzheimer's disease Pharmaceutical compositions containing the therapeutically active ingredients of azelastine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of azelastine and alprazolam are disclosed. Methods of using the pharmaceutical compositions for treating patients with Alzheimer's disease for symptoms of depression, anxiety, agitation, delusions, hallucination, irritability and sleeping disorder, are also disclosed.
US10898488B2	Compositions and methods of use of cis-4-[2-{[(3S,4R)-3-fluorooxan-4-yl]amino}-8-(2,4,6-trichloroanilino)-9H-purin-9-yl]-1-methylcyclohexane-1-carboxamide Provided are formulations and dosage forms of cis-4-[2-{[(3S,4R)-3-fluorooxan-4-yl]amino}-8-(2,4,6-trichloroanilino)-9H-purin-9-yl]-1-methylcyclohexane-1-carboxamide, alternatively named (1s,4s)-4-(2-(((3S,4R)-3-fluorotetrahydro-2H-pyran-4-yl)amino)-8-((2,4,6-trichlorophenyl)amino)-9H-purin-9-yl)-1-methylcyclohexane-1-carboxamide, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, tautomer, solvate, hydrate, co-crystal, clathrate, or polymorph thereof.
US10898486B2	Crystal form of orexin receptor antagonist compound, and preparation method and application thereof Disclosed is a preparation method of an orexin receptor antagonist compound 5-3. Crystalline forms I-IV of an orexin receptor antagonist compound 5-3 are provided. Also provided are processes of preparing crystalline forms of the orexin receptor antagonist compound 5-3, as well as methods of using the crystalline forms I-IV for treating an orexin-related disease.
US10898485B2	Inhibitors of multidrug resistance transporter p-glycoprotein The present disclosure provides a method of treating a subject that is resistant to one or more drugs by identifying a subject having one or more drug resistant cells; administering to the subject a pharmaceutically effective amount of an inhibitor compound, and contacting one or more drug resistant cells with the inhibitor compound to reduce the export of the inhibitor compound from the one or more drug resistant tumor cells and to block the transport of drug(s) from the one or more drug resistant cells.
US10898482B2	Pharmaceutical compositions comprising N-(3,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-N'-1 methylethyl)-N-[3-(1-methyl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)quinoxalin-6-yl]ethane-1,2-diamine The invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising N-(3,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-N′-(1-methylethyl)-N-[3-(1-methyl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)quinoxalin-6-yl]ethane-1,2-diamine, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or a solvate thereof; to processes for the preparation of said compositions and to the use of said compositions for the manufacture of a medicament for the prophylaxis of or the treatment, in particular the treatment, of diseases, e.g. cancer.
US10898478B2	Glucocorticoid receptor modulators to treat cervical cancer Methods for treating a subject having a cancerous tumor are disclosed. The methods comprise administering to the subject an effective amount of a non-steroidal selective glucocorticoid receptor modulator (SGRM) and an effective amount of a chemotherapeutic agent. The tumor may be cervical cancer. The SGRM may be a fused azadecalin. In embodiments, the SGRM may be a heteroaryl ketone fused azadecalin or an octahydro fused azadecalin.
US10898476B2	Heat shock proteins and cholesterol homeostasis Provided herewith are bioactive agents that increase the intracellular concentration and/or activity of one or more heat shock proteins, including Hsp70, for use in the treatment of a disease associated with dysregulation of cholesterol homeostasis.
US10898474B2	Anti-fibrotic pyridinones Disclosed are pyridinone compounds, method for preparing these compounds, and methods for treating fibrotic disorders.
US10898472B2	Detecting and treating growth hormone deficiency Described herein is a new oral method for using MK-0677 for detecting growth hormone (GH) deficiency (GHD). Also described is a method of treating growth hormone (GH) deficiency (GHD) in children with a functional hypothalamic-pituitary GH axis.
US10898469B2	Imidazolylamide derivative The present invention pertains to an imidazolylamide derivative represented by formula (1) that exhibits an exceptional suppressive effect on cancer cell sphere formation ability and that is useful as an antitumor agent that can be administered orally, or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof. [In the formula, ring Q1 represents a C6-10 aryl group or the like; m represents 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5; R3, independently when multiple, represent(s) a halogen atom or the like; R1 and R2 independently represent a hydrogen atom or the like; W1 represents a C1-4 alkylene group (said group may be substituted by 1-3 fluorine atoms or C3-7 cycloalkyls); W2 represents —NR4aC(O)— or the like (where R4a represents a hydrogen atom or C1-6 alkyl group); and ring Q2 represents a C6-10 arylgroup or the like]
US10898466B2	Methods and compositions for reducing or eliminating symptoms of withdrawal from drugs and alcohol Methods and compositions of reducing or eliminating the symptoms of withdrawal from drug or alcohol in drug or alcohol-dependent persons, while restoring the patient to nutritional health. The methods including parenteral administration of solutions containing high doses of ascorbic acid; while the compositions of the invention comprise at least about 20% (w), or at least about 25% (w), or at least about 30% (w), or at least about 35% (w), or at least about 38% (w) of ascorbic acid and a local anesthetic.
US10898465B2	Utility of (+) epicatechin and their analogs The present invention pertains to the enhanced activity of (+) epicatechin over (−) epicatechin. The present invention is related to novel analogs of (+) epicatechin of the formula (I), which enhances the pharmacokinetics and therefore the pharmacodynamics of (+) epicatechin. The present invention is related to analogs of (+) epicatechin of the formula (I). The general structure of the analogs of the present invention may be represented by Formula (I): Formula (I) wherein A and B are independently OR1 and C and D are independently OH; wherein R1 is independently C1 to C10 lower straight or branched chain acyclic or cyclic alkyl, or is selected from the group comprising, hydroxy butyric acid, dichloroacetic acid; phenyl butyric acid; valproic acid.
US10898458B2	Self-micellizing fatty acids and fatty acid ester compositions and their use in the treatment of disease states Described herein are compositions including at least one omega-3 fatty acid (either in the triglyceride, ester or free fatty acid ester form) and at least one surface active agent; wherein the compositions form micelles when in contact with an aqueous medium. Also provided are methods of administering to a subject a composition including at least one omega-3 fatty acid (either in the triglyceride, ester or free fatty acid ester form) and at least one surface active agent, wherein the compositions form micelles when in contact with an aqueous medium, and the bioavailability of the omega-3 fatty acid is substantially independent of a food effect. The compositions are useful for treating certain disease states which may include (1) malabsorption syndromes, (2) primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), (3) non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), (4) sickle cell disease (SCD), (5) age-related macular degeneration (AMD), and (6) neurodegenerative disease, including, Parkinson's Disease (PD), Alzheimer's Disease (AD), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's Disease), Epilepsy, Bi-polar Syndrome, traumatic brain injury, peripheral neuropathy, and Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Described are also various dosage forms for administering the compositions and use of the compositions in functional foods. Provided herein are also kits with instructions for their administration.
US10898457B2	Lactylates for the prevention and treatment of infections caused by gram positive bacteria in animals The present invention pertains to the use for preventing or treating intestinal infections caused by gram-positive bacteria in animals of an antibacterial compound selected from lactylate in accordance with formula 1, Formula 1 R2-COO—[—CH(CH3)—COO]n—R1 or a Na, K, Ca, Mg, Fe(II), Zn, NH4, or Cu(II) salt thereof, a glycolylate of formula 2, Formula 2: R2-COO—[—CH2-COO]n—R1 or a Na, K, Ca, Mg, Fe(II), Zn, NH4, or Cu(II) salt thereof, a lactate ester of formula 3, Formula 3: HO—CH(CH3)—COO—R2 and/or a glycolic acid ester of formula 4, Formula 4: HO—CH2-COO—R2 wherein R1 is selected from H, n stands for an integer with a value of 1-10, and R2 stands for a C1-C35 alkyl or alkenyl chain which may be branched or unbranched. The compound, which preferably is a lactylate or a Na, K, Ca, Mg, Fe(II), Zn, NH4, or Cu(II) salt thereof, is particularly useful in the treatment or prevention of Clostridia. An animal nutrition composition and a method for preventing or treating infections are also claimed.
US10898456B2	Ameliorating agent for exercise-induced gastrointestinal disorders Ingesting an agent containing cystine or a salt thereof, as an active ingredient, is effective for improving exercise-induced gastrointestinal disorder, providing an improvement effect equal to or better than that by the conventional technology on exercise-induced gastrointestinal disorders including exercise-induced decline in gastrointestinal tract barrier function.
US10898454B2	Prophylaxis and treatment of preterm birth associated bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) A composition for the prophylaxis and/or treatment of a developmental disorder which is associated with preterm birth, and a method for the diagnosis and/or determination and/or prediction of the degree of severity of a developmental disorder which is associated with preterm birth.
US10898449B2	Transdermal therapeutic system containing asenapine The present invention relates to transdermal therapeutic systems (TTS) for the transdermal administration of asenapine comprising a self-adhesive layer structure containing a therapeutically effective amount of asenapine, such asenapine TTS for use in a method of treatment, processes of manufacture of such TTS as well as asenapine and transdermal therapeutic systems containing asenapine for use in a method of treatment and to a method of treating a human patient by transdermal administration of asenapine.
US10898448B2	Patch A patch comprises a backing layer and an adhesive layer, wherein the adhesive layer contains at least one selected from the group consisting of butorphanol and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and contains an adhesive base and an antioxidant containing a sulfur atom in its molecule.
US10898446B2	Delivery of hydrophobic active agents from hydrophilic polyether block amide copolymer surfaces Embodiments of the invention include drug delivery coatings and devices including the same. In an embodiment, a drug delivery coating is included herein having a base polymeric layer, the base polymeric layer including a hydrophilic polyether block amide copolymer and having a hydrophilic surface. The drug delivery coating can further include a therapeutic agent layer forming an exterior surface the drug delivery coating, the therapeutic agent layer contacting the hydrophilic surface of the base polymeric layer and having a composition different than the base polymeric layer, the therapeutic agent layer including a particulate hydrophobic therapeutic agent and a cationic agent. Other embodiments are also included herein.
US10898445B2	Mineral-based nanoparticles for arthritis treatment Aspects of the invention are directed to mineral-based nanoparticles comprising silicate nanoparticles that induce human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) into a cartilage-lineage through the upregulation of cartilage-specific genes resulting in the transformation of the cell phenotype into that of a chondrocyte, i.e., a cartilage producing cell. The silicate nanoparticles are synthesized through a process where the precipitate of sodium silicate is mixed with one or more elements and compounds and milled into nanoparticles.
US10898444B2	Extended release multiparticulates of ranolazine The present invention relates to an extended release multiparticulate composition comprising a plurality of discrete units, each discrete unit comprising ranolazine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients. The said multiparticulate composition is sprinkled onto soft foods or liquids for oral administration. Further, the multiparticulate composition is bioequivalent to the marketed extended release tablet. It further relates to a process of preparation of said multiparticulate composition and method of treatment of patients suffering from angina by administering said composition.
US10898442B2	Microencapsulates containing stabilised lipid, and methods for the production thereof The invention provides a gelated mono-nuclear microencapsulate comprising a lipid emulsion core encapsulated within a gastro-resistant, ileal sensitive, polymerized chitosan membrane shell, wherein the lipid emulsion core comprises denatured or hydrolysed protein and carbohydrate. In one embodiment of the invention, the emulsion is a micro-emulsion, and typically comprises a surfactant and a co-surfactant or at least two carbohydrates, for example sucrose and a maltodextrin. In one embodiment of the invention, the lipid is a marine derived lipid such as fish oil, krill oil, or nutraceutical fatty acids. In other embodiment, the lipid is a fatty acid such as DHA or ARA, or a lipid derived from seeds, nuts or eggs.
US10898440B2	Bulk enteric capsule shells The present disclosure relates to aqueous composition comprising hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose acetate succinate (HPMCAS) polymer dispersed in water, wherein the dispersed polymer is partially neutralized with at least one alkaline material. The instant disclosure also relates to compositions for use in methods of making capsule shells endowed with bulk enteric properties. The present disclosure also relates to capsules made according with the compositions and methods of the present disclosure.
US10898436B2	Nanoparticle compositions for generation of regulatory T cells and treatment of autoimmune diseases and other chronic inflammatory conditions The present invention relates to nanoparticles for the targeted delivery of antigen to liver cells, in particular, liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSEC) and/or Kupffer cells, and for the in vivo generation of regulatory T cells, notably CD4+CD25+FOXP3+ regulatory T cells (Treg). The invention provides pharmaceutical compositions and methods for the prevention and treatment of autoimmune diseases, allergies or other chronic inflammatory conditions, and for generation of regulatory T cells. The nanoparticles used in the invention comprise a) a micelle comprising an amphiphilic polymer rendering the nanoparticle water-soluble, and b) a peptide comprising at least one T cell epitope associated with the outside of the micelle. The micelle may or may not comprise a solid hydrophobic core.
US10898429B2	Uses of coffee pulp extract A method for at least one of whitening skin, improving skin condition, protecting skin and inhibiting skin aging is provided, wherein the method comprises administering to a subject in need an effective amount of a coffee pulp extract. A method for at least one of repairing skin tissues, preventing skin disease, and treating skin disease is also provided, wherein the method comprises administering to a subject in need an effective amount of a coffee pulp extract.
US10898428B2	Personal care composition A personal care composition is disclosed comprising a blend of silicone elastomer and solvent and a cosmetically acceptable carrier, wherein the solvent is a volatile silicone oil selected from octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane, decamethylcyclopentasiloxane, dodecamethylcyclohexasiloxane, blends of methyl trimethicone and dimethicone and mixtures thereof and wherein the silicone elastomer has the chemical structure of formula I. The composition may additionally optionally comprise an organic sunscreen. A method for providing skin care benefit, in particular photoprotection, comprises topically applying the composition to the skin.
US10898423B2	Synergistic antioxidant compositions The antioxidant compositions of various embodiments comprise methyl carboxymethylphenylaminocarboxy propylphosphonate, also known as MCAP, (2R)-3-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-2-{[(2E)-3-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)prop-2-enoyl]oxy}propanoic acid, also known as rosmarinic acid, and 2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-5,7-dihydroxy-3-[α-L-rhamnopyranosyl-(1→6)-β-D-glucopyranosyloxy]-4H-chromen-4-one, also known as rutin wherein the antioxidant composition demonstrate a synergistic effect compared with the MCAP, the rosmarinic acid, or the rutin alone. The methods include treating skin or hair damaged by reactive oxygen species, preventing skin or hair damage, and treating aged skin.
US10898422B2	Method for cosmetic treatment of keratinous fibres comprising sequentially applying a cosmetic composition comprising at least one organic silicon compound in combination with a composition for caring for and/or washing keratinous fibres A method for the cosmetic treatment of keratinous fibres. A cosmetic composition comprising, in a cosmetically acceptable medium, at least one organic silicon compound comprising at least one basic chemical functional group and at least one hydroxyl or hydrolysable group per molecule, said at least one organic silicon compound being chosen from silanes and siloxanes, and a composition for caring for and/or washing keratinous fibres are applied sequentially in any order. Also disclosed herein is a method for improving the styling effect of a composition for caring for and/or washing keratinous fibres, comprising applying, to the keratinous fibres, the composition for caring for and/or washing keratinous fibres, which is preceded by pre-treating and/or followed by post-treating the keratinous fibres by applying above cosmetic composition.
US10898421B2	Anti-dandruff composition comprising pycnidione and epolone Use of pycnidione, epolone A, and epolone B as anti-dandruff actives either alone or in combination in anti-dandruff compositions, particularly shampoos and conditioners. The actives are particularly effective against Malassezia yeasts and Malassezia furfur. A method of obtaining pycnidione, epolone A, and epolone B from culturing of Neosetophoma samarorum is also described.
US10898420B2	Compositions containing phenolic compounds having synergistic antioxidant benefits Compositions comprising an isolate or extract comprising mangiferin, one or more of ferulic acid, Vitamin C, and baicalin, present in amounts sufficient to produce synergistic antioxidant activity and provided for cosmetic and other uses.
US10898418B2	Cosmetic composition The present invention relates to an anhydrous colored cosmetic powder comprising at least one natural or synthetic silicate and at least one dye. During its preparation, such a powder may have contacted an aqueous phase which has subsequently been dried and is not present in its final state. The present invention also relates to a cosmetic composition comprising an aqueous phase and a non-aqueous phase comprising at least one colored powder portion, where the colored powder portion comprises at least one natural or synthetic silicate and at least one dye.
US10898411B1	Syringe and plunger clip for bottles and method One embodiment of a mechanism for attaching a syringe and separated plunger to a bottle and of the type having an attachment member (110) from which restraints (114) extend. In being fastened to the bottle, the restraints enable convenient drying and storage of the syringe and the separated plunger. Other embodiments are described and shown.
US10898406B2	Collapsable safety cane with shock absorbing feature A shock absorbing handle for a white cane for blind people or visually impaired, incorporates resilient members within its handle, primarily in the form of a spring located in the handle region of the cane, in order to cushion the impact when the lower tip of the cane encounters an obstruction. A length of resilient cord, such as a bungee cord, extends from the top of the handle of the cane, to the lower tip of its bottom most segment, so that when the cord is stretched, the various segments can be separated from their connecting ferrules, and contracted into a smaller size for packaging. The various segments can be stretched, through their resilient cord, and secured together, to form the lengthy white cane, having cushioning impact provided within its handle, to relieve stress upon the user, when obstructions are encountered during usage of the cane during its application.
US10898405B2	Crutch A crutch includes an arm rest having an elbow end and a front end, the front end defining a front face having a first opening formed therein, and a bottom edge forming a second opening. The crutch has a handle extending outwardly from the front end of the arm rest, but not from the first or second openings. A leg is received into one of the first and second openings in a first configuration, and into the other of the first and second openings in a second configuration. The leg is selectively convertible between the first and second configuration.
US10898401B2	Reconfigurable surgical frame and method for use A surgical frame and method for use thereof is provided. The surgical frame is capable of reconfiguration before, during, or after surgery. The surgical frame includes a main beam that can be rotated, raised/lowered, and tilted upwardly/downwardly to afford positioning and repositioning of a patient supported thereon. The main beam is capable of be reconfigured between a left configuration and a right configuration to support the patient in different positions thereon.
US10898396B2	Loading system A loading system for loading a wheelchair into a rear loading space of a vehicle includes at least one loading device disposable on the vehicle. The loading system has at least one first coupling unit disposable on a rear side of a backrest of the wheelchair and fixable to the wheelchair. The loading device has at least one second coupling unit capable of being coupled to the first coupling unit, at least one telescopic loading arm which at an end portion is connected to the coupling unit pivotable about a free pivot axis, and at least one pivot bearing fastenable to a front side end portion of the loading space, by which a pivot bearing the loading arm at another end portion is connected pivotable about a locationally-fixed pivot axis that runs parallel with and spaced apart from the free pivot axis transverse to a vehicle longitudinal direction.
US10898394B2	Surgical rail apparatus for litter An apparatus for mounting surgical rails to a litter having a pair of parallel poles includes a surgical rail fixed to a clamp. The clamp is fixed to one of the parallel poles. A cross bar extends between the clamp and a second clamp fixed to the other of the parallel poles.
US10898390B2	Method and compression garment for establishing a compression to a human limb or body part A method for establishing a compression level to a human limb or body part by a compression garment is shown, the garment consisting of or including a bandage having at least one closing part, which closing part is securable on the garment in a position wherein the bandage is fully or partly wrapped around said limb or body part to establish said pressure level, the method including a first step of wrapping the bandage around the limb or body part and provisionally securing it in a first position that holds the compression garment on the limb or body part without applying a compression level to said limb or body part; a second step of applying a tab with an adhesive or attaching mechanism to the garment, the tab abutting the terminal edge of the closing part; a third step of releasing the closing part from its provisionally secured position and wrapping the bandage part further around the limb or body part, using the length of the tab as a marking for a safe compression level range; and a fourth step of securing the closing part to the garment at a second position within the safe compression level range.
US10898387B2	Sealing systems and methods employing a hybrid switchable drape Systems, kits, methods of manufacturing, and a sealing member for creating a sealed space are described. The sealing member can include a film layer and a first adhesive layer coupled to the film layer. The sealing member can also include a second adhesive layer coupled to the first adhesive layer. A plurality of apertures may extend through the second adhesive layer. Each aperture can expose at least a portion of the first adhesive layer through the second adhesive layer. A plurality of polymer particles may be disposed in the first adhesive layer. The polymer particles can be configured to dissolve in response to interaction with a switching solution.
US10898383B2	Systems and methods for tissue dissection in corneal transplants A dissection system for corneal transplants includes a housing including a contact side to be positioned against a cornea. The housing includes an interior passageway with an opening at the contact side. The dissection system includes a blade assembly disposed in the interior passageway. The blade assembly includes a first blade and a second blade. The first blade includes a first cutting edge and the second blade includes a second cutting edge. The first blade and the second blade are movable relative to the housing such that the first cutting edge and the second cutting edge extend through the opening of the housing and out of the interior passageway. The first cutting edge produces a first cut in the cornea. The second cutting edge produces a second cut in the cornea. The first cut and the second cut define a volume of tissue for removal from the cornea.
US10898381B2	Method and apparatus for precision working of material A method for precise working of material, particularly organic tissue, comprises the step of providing laser pulses with a pulse length between 50 fs and 1 ps and with a pulse frequency from 50 kHz to 1 MHz and with a wavelength between 600 and 2000 nm for acting on the material to be worked. Apparatus, in accordance with the invention, for precise working of material, particularly organic tissue comprising a pulsed laser, wherein the laser has a pulse length between 50 fs and 1 ps and with a pulse frequency of from 50 kHz to 1 MHz is also described.
US10898376B2	Ophthalmic treatment device and method for driving same The present invention relates to an ophthalmic treatment device and a method for operating the same. The present invention provides an ophthalmic treatment device and a method for operating the same, the ophthalmic treatment device comprising: a treatment beam generation unit for generating a treatment beam; a beam delivery unit for forming a path along which the treatment beam generated from the treatment generation unit is delivered to a treatment area positioned on the fundus; a monitoring unit for emitting a detecting beam along the path of delivery of the treatment beam and sensing treatment area state information on the basis of information regarding a change in speckle of the detecting beam, which is scattered and reflected from the treatment area; and a control unit for controlling the driving of the treatment beam generation unit on the basis of the treatment area state information sensed by the monitoring unit.
US10898374B2	Cataract posterior/wedge chopper Disclosed here is an apparatus and method for cataract surgery. The apparatus is an instrument referred to as a chopper that allows the reduction or elimination of ultrasound and/or laser energy introduced into the eye during cataract surgery. The chopper instrument is bent at an angle, such as an angle less than 110 degrees or less than 90 degrees, to provide a posterior (to anterior) chopping, and a wedge compression of the cataract. The bend in the chopper instrument, among other features, introduces refined vector forces that help in breaking/chopping the cataract with ease. The apparatus allows laser free/ultrasound free cataract extraction in dense cataracts. The chopper apparatus, a vacuum-tip and the proper vacuum settings, when used for performing a cataract surgery by a surgeon, allows the surgeon to break up the nucleus into small enough fragments that a true ultrasound-free/laser-free small incision cataract surgery can be accomplished with ease.
US10898372B2	Board-like forceps for ophthalmic use Board-like forceps for ophthalmic use comprise forceps handles and forceps boards. The forceps handles comprise an upper forceps handle (1) and a lower forceps handle (2), two ends of which are connected to form a V-type structure. The length of the lower forceps handle (2) is greater than that of the upper forceps handle (1). An upper forceps board (3) and a lower forceps board (4) having a same shape are correspondingly disposed on unconnected ends of the upper forceps handle (1) and the lower forceps handle (2), and are bent in a same side direction. An included angle formed by the upper forceps board (3) and the upper forceps handle (1) is smaller than an included angle formed by the lower forceps board (4) and the lower forceps handle (2).
US10898369B2	Oral appliance A method of treating sleep disorder breathing in a patient, the method comprising in a first step providing a set of oral appliances comprising a first and at least a second oral appliance (30). Each of the first and at least second oral appliances comprises a generally U shaped appliance body including an inner wall (34), an outer wall (36), and a web (38) interconnecting the inner wall and the outer wall. The web has a front section and two arms with trailing ends. The web comprises at least one breathing hole (80) so as to define a total cross sectional area for breathing and the total cross sectional area for breathing of the first oral appliance is larger than the total cross sectional area for breathing of the second oral appliance. In a second step, a patient wears the first oral appliance in a first treatment stage whilst sleeping for a first period of time and in a third step the patient wears the second oral appliance in a second treatment stage whilst sleeping for a second period of time.
US10898368B2	Ergonomic menstrual cup A menstrual cup (10) having a flared bottom portion (20), including a plurality of non-convex grip surfaces (22, 24) that are distributed in substantially axisymmetric manner at least on said flared bottom portion (20) and that are configured so as to be able to be pinched between the fingers in order to facilitate removal of the cup.
US10898363B2	Orthopedic device for dynamically treating the knee An orthopedic device includes a hinge assembly, a frame having first and second frame components spaced apart from and connected to one another by the hinge assembly, a strap system extending between medial and lateral sides of the first frame component, and at least one tensioning element. The at least one tensioning element has a first end secured to the strap system and a second end coupled to the hinge assembly. Articulation of the hinge assembly pulls the strap system toward the frontal plane by the at least one tensioning element.
US10898353B2	Polymer coatings containing drug powder of controlled morphology A method for depositing a coating comprising a polymer and pharmaceutical agent on a substrate, comprising the following steps: discharging at least one pharmaceutical agent in a therapeutically desirable morphology in dry powder form through a first orifice; discharging at least one polymer in dry powder form through a second orifice; depositing the polymer and/or pharmaceutical particles onto said substrate, wherein an electrical potential is maintained between the substrate and the pharmaceutical and/or polymer particles, thereby forming said coating; and sintering said coating under conditions that do not substantially modify the morphology of said pharmaceutical agent.
US10898348B2	Surgical shoulder articulation replacement method A surgical shoulder articulation replacement method is provided. The method can include providing a humeral implant having a hollow stem. The hollow stem can be provided with a sharp distal edge. The method can include impacting the humeral implant in a cancellous bone of a humeral head of a patient, with the sharp distal edge cutting the cancellous bone in the process.
US10898347B2	Surgical instrument and method of use A surgical instrument and method for an orthopaedic arthroplasty procedure is disclosed. The instrument includes a shaft having a first end, a second end, and a longitudinal axis extending through a center of the shaft between the first and second ends. The surgical instrument further includes a spine extending outwardly from the first end of the shaft in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, wherein the spine has a longitudinal extent that is parallel to the longitudinal axis. When the surgical instrument is in contact with a tibial implant component, the spine is adapted to be positioned within an intercondylar notch of a femoral component.
US10898341B2	Method and apparatus for minimally invasive insertion of intervertebral implants A dilation introducer for orthopedic surgery is provided for minimally invasive access for insertion of an intervertebral implant. The dilation introducer may be used to provide an access position through Kambin's triangle from a posterolateral approach. A first dilator tube with a first longitudinal axis is provided. An access cannula may be introduced over the first dilator tube. A drill may be inserted through the access cannula and used to perform a foraminoplasty. Surgical instruments may pass through the access cannula to operate on an intervertebral disc and/or insert an intervertebral implant.
US10898340B2	Expandable intervertebral implants Interbody spacers are expandable horizontally and vertically by an application of axial force, and lockable in an expanded configuration. The spacers include support members interconnected to end bodies by pivotable link members. The spacers are introduced between vertebral bodies in a compressed configuration and expanded to fill the intervertebral space and provide support and selective lordotic correction. Graft material may be introduced into the expanded spacer. Provisional and/or supplementary locking means lock the spacers in the expanded configuration. Embodiments of the spacers include symmetrically and asymmetrically configured spacers. Methods of expansion include symmetric expansion or asymmetric expansion along each of two directions.
US10898338B1	Reverse shoulder prosthesis Embodiments of an implant assembly for reverse shoulder arthroplasty is disclosed. In one embodiment, the implant assembly comprises a humeral component and an adaptor coupled to the humeral component. The humeral component comprises a stem portion and a neck portion. The stem portion is configured for fixation to a humerus, and the neck portion is angularly oriented relative to the stem portion. The adaptor comprises a first bearing surface and a second bearing surface opposite the first bearing surface. The first bearing surface interfaces with an articulating surface of the neck portion to allow the adaptor to rotate relative to the humeral component in a plane that is generally parallel to the articulating of the neck portion. The second bearing surface is configured to interface with a glenosphere component to allow the glenosphere component to articulate relative to the adaptor.
US10898336B2	Femoral and humeral stem geometry and implantation method for orthopedic joint reconstruction The present inventions relate to devices and methods that improve the positioning and fit of orthopedic reconstructive joint replacement stem implants relative to existing methods. For example, an embodiment of the device provides a stem component comprising proximal and distal body portions that can be configured to mimic a geometric shape of a central cavity region created in a bone of a joint for improving conformance and fixation of the stem component thereto. Further, another embodiment provides a system of stem implants that each have a unique medial offset for facilitating the matching of an implant to the geometry of a central cavity region of a bone. Additionally, an inclination angle of a resection surface of each of the implants in the system can remain constant or vary as a function of the medial offset.
US10898333B2	Additive manufactured titanium bone device Disclosed herein is an orthopedic implant device comprising a porous structure, approximating the shape of a bone, and having modulus of elasticity similar to that of said bone. Further disclosed herein is a method of treating injuries or diseases affecting bones or muscles comprising providing an orthopedic implant device, wherein the orthopedic implant device comprising a porous structure, approximating the shape of a bone, and having a modulus of elasticity similar to that of bone, and using the orthopedic implant device to treat injuries and diseases affecting bones and muscles in a mammal. Further disclosed herein is a method of manufacturing an orthopedic implant device using an additive manufacturing method comprising the steps: (a) providing a 3-dimensional model of the orthopedic implant device; (b) inputting the 3-dimensional model to an additive manufacturing device; and (c) using the additive manufacturing device to manufacture the orthopedic implant device.
US10898328B2	Devices and methods for heart valve repair Devices and methods provide enhanced treatment of a cardiac valve annulus. Methods generally involve contacting an anchor delivery device with the valve annulus and releasing a plurality of coupled anchors from the anchor delivery device to secure the anchors to the-annulus. Anchors, which in some embodiments are super-clastic or shape memory self-securing anchors, are then drawn together to tighten the annulus. Devices generally include an elongate catheter having a housing at or near the distal end for releasably housing a plurality of coupled anchors. The housing may be flexible, may conform to a valve annulus, and in some embodiments may be coupled with an expandable member to enhance contact of the housing with annular tissue. In one embodiment, self-securing anchors lie approximately flat with the delivery device housing, allowing anchors with relatively large deployed shapes to be housed in and deployed from a relatively narrow delivery device.
US10898326B2	Crimping heart valve with nitinol braid A system for crimping a fully deployed heart valve includes a delivery tube extending in a longitudinal direction and having a lumen for receiving the crimped heart valve, a deployment device including a first member and a second member moveably secured to the first member, and a sheath configured to at least partially enclose a radially collapsible stent. A first attachment area of the sheath is connected to the first member and a second attachment area of the sheath is connected to the second member such that movement of the first member relative to the second member tensions the sheath for crimping the heart valve. A method of crimping a fully deployed heart valve is also provided.
US10898325B2	Medical implant locking mechanism A medical device system may include a replacement heart valve implant including an expandable anchor member reversibly actuatable between a delivery configuration and a deployed configuration, wherein the replacement heart valve implant includes at least one locking mechanism configured to lock the expandable anchor member in the deployed configuration, and at least one actuator element configured to releasably engage the at least one locking mechanism and actuate the expandable anchor member between the delivery configuration and the deployed configuration. The at least one actuator element may include external threads on a distal portion of each actuator element and a ramp disposed proximal of the external threads.
US10898321B2	Transcatheter stent-valves A stent-valve for transcatheter implantation to replace a cardiac valve, the stent valve being compressible to a compressed state for delivery, and expandable to an operative state for implantation, the stent-valve comprising a stent, a plurality of leaflets for defining a prosthetic valve, an inner skirt, an outer skirt, and a paravalve seal for sealing against surrounding tissue. In some embodiments, the paravalve seal comprises material that swells in response to contact with blood. In some embodiments, the seal comprises a flap or pocket that is distensible in response to backpressure and/or paravalve back-flow of blood.
US10898318B2	Method and device for securely loading and mounting a tubular device in a flexible wall A loading device for inserting a bushing into a through-aperture in a flexible wall or a cap, said bushing having flanges projecting transversely at each end thereof, said flanges being resiliently foldable towards the longitudinal axis of said bushing, said loading device comprising: an inserter rod, a pincher and a loading. When the inserter is pushed distally in an insertion direction, the bushing is forced towards the loading tube which will receive the bushing therein with said flanges folded and projecting substantially axially.
US10898315B2	Prosthetic capsular devices, systems, and methods A prosthetic capsular device configured to be inserted in an eye after removal of a lens, in some embodiments, can comprise a housing structure comprising capable of containing an intraocular device and an equiconvex refractive surface. The housing structure can comprise an anterior portion comprising an anterior opening, a posterior portion comprising a posterior opening, and a continuous lateral portion between the anterior portion and the posterior portion.
US10898305B2	Cervical matrix A universal cervical matrix for dental use comprising a lamina having at least an outer layer and an inner layer, the inner layer comprising a non-stick surface to prevent adhering to a chemically-cured dental restoration material, and the outer layer comprising an energy-absorbing material. The energy-absorbing material absorbs energy output from a dental curing light and provides heat to the dental restoration material, thereby increasing curing rate.
US10898297B2	Systems and methods for improved engagement between aligners and teeth A system and method for repositioning teeth in a patient jaw includes an attachment bonded to a tooth. The attachment has at least one force receiving component for receiving a force. A polymeric shell repositioning appliance is positioned over at least some of the teeth in the patient jaw. The polymeric shell has at least one force transmitting component for engaging the force receiving component to form a locus of engagement. The locus of engagement transmits the force and moves but is maintained as the tooth is repositioned. In specific embodiments the locus of engagement is maintained over a substantial range of motion. The force transmitted at the locus of engagement increases in response to the tooth lagging an intended position. A space between the positioned appliance and the tooth permits the tooth to move into an intended position.
US10898296B2	Masticatory orthodontic correction device and method for making the same A method of making a dental appliance for repositioning a patient's teeth includes forming a rigid shell that is configured to receive the patient's teeth of a dental arch. The rigid shell has at least one first cavity with a space for accommodating at least one first tooth of the dental arch needing orthodontic correction and allowing the first tooth to move from an initial tooth arrangement to a target tooth arrangement. The method also includes forming at least one resilient member in the first cavity of the rigid shell. The resilient member has a receiving shape fitting the first tooth in the target tooth arrangement.
US10898292B2	Systems and methods for locating implanted wireless power transmission devices A system for locating an implanted device including magnetic coils within a subject is provided. The system includes a magnetic sensor array including a plurality of magnetic sensors, the magnetic sensor array configured to measure a magnetic field generated by the implanted device, and a position detection module communicatively coupled to the magnetic sensor array, the position detection module configured to receive the measured magnetic field from the magnetic sensor array, and calculate a position of the implanted device based on the measured magnetic field.
US10898286B2	Path-based navigation of tubular networks Provided are systems and methods for path-based navigation of tubular networks. In one aspect, the method includes receiving location data from at least one of a set of location sensors and a set of robot command inputs, the location data being indicative of a location of an instrument configured to be driven through a luminal network. The method also includes determining a first estimate of the location of the instrument at a first time based on the location data, determining a second estimate of the location of the instrument at the first time based on the path, and determining the location of the instrument at the first time based on the first estimate and the second estimate.
US10898285B2	Articulation mechanisms for surgical instruments such as for use in robotic surgical systems An articulation assembly for a surgical instrument, surgical instrument including the same, and robotic surgical system including a surgical robot and the surgical instrument including the articulation assembly. The articulation assembly includes proximal gear assemblies arranged in diagonally-opposed pairs and distal gear assemblies coupled to the respective proximal gear assemblies and likewise arranged in diagonally-opposed pairs. Each distal gear assembly defines an opposite configuration as its diagonally-opposed distal gear assembly. First and second coupling gears couple the diagonally-opposed pairs of proximal gear assemblies such that an input to one of the proximal gear assemblies of a diagonally-opposed pair provides opposite outputs of the corresponding distal gear assemblies.
US10898283B2	Articulating camera stand Devices, systems and methods for detecting a position of an object with a robot surgical system having an articulable, separable camera stand. The surgical robot system may include a robot having a robot base with a robot arm and an end-effector coupled to the robot arm. The end-effector, surgical instruments, the patient, other objects, or any combination thereof, may be tracked via active and/or passive tracking markers. A camera, such as an infrared camera, a bifocal camera or a stereophotogrammetric infrared camera, is mounted on a separable camera stand and is able to detect the tracking markers when in use. Using the camera, the robot determines a position of the object from the tracking markers, which may be a three-dimensional position of the object or the markers. When convenient, the camera base may be assembled into the robot base, e.g., by sliding the camera base into the robot.
US10898276B2	Combining strain-based shape sensing with catheter control Provided are robotic systems and methods for navigation of luminal network that can improve strain-based shape sensing. In one aspect, the system can compare strain-based shape data to shape data determined based on robotic data (e.g., kinematic model data, torque measurements, mechanical model data, command data, etc.) and adjust the strain-based shape data as necessary. Any portion of the strain-based shape data can be adjusted, weighted differently, or discarded based on the comparison. For example, data from trustworthy sources may indicate that the shape of an instrument exhibits or should exhibit one or more characteristics. If the system determines that any portion of the strain-based shape data is not in agreement with such characteristics, the system may adjust the portion of the strain-based shape data such that the adjusted strain-based shape data is in agreement with the characteristics of the instrument.
US10898270B2	Systems and methods for prosthetic component orientation A method for guiding implantation of a first prosthetic component includes determining, using a virtual model of a joint including first and second bones, a planned orientation of the first prosthetic component in the joint, applying a valgus/varus moment to the joint at a plurality of flexion positions of the joint, and recording positional data indicative of relative positions of the first bone and the second bone at the plurality of flexion positions of the joint. The method also includes calculating estimated separation distances between the first prosthetic component and a second prosthetic component, adjusting the planned orientation of the first prosthetic component in the joint in response to an error between the estimated separation distances and one or more desired separation distances, and guiding implantation of the first prosthetic component on the first bone in accordance with the adjusted planned orientation of the first prosthetic component.
US10898268B2	Overlay imaging for registration of a patient eye for laser surgery Methods and systems for overlay imaging for registration of a patient eye for laser surgery include aligning and overlaying a surgical image of the limbus over a previously acquired diagnostic image of the limbus. The surgical image is displayed with a degree of transparency and enabled to rotate about the limbus center. Various types of colors, markers, contrast, and backgrounds may be used to generate a display for determining the alignment angle between the diagnostic image and the surgical image.
US10898266B2	Method and system for personalizing a vessel stent For personalizing a vessel stent, images associated with a subject generated by various imaging modalities are aggregated. The images are then processed for identifying Regions of Interest (ROIs) and various parameters associated with the ROIs. Further, a model and a composition of the vessel stent to be administered to the subject to alleviate the condition in the vessel are computed. Thereafter, the model is verified for compatibility using information derived from patient stratification parameters. Upon successful verification of the model, a format of the model is generated that can be used directly for fabricating the vessel stent using additive manufacturing processes known in the art.
US10898258B2	Surgical cauterizer with smoke evacuation ports and a central vacuum A surgical cauterizer includes an elongate body member having a tapered distal-end portion terminating at an apex. A cauterizing tip extends from the apex. A hollow passageway is formed in the interior of the elongate body member. Formed in the tapered distal-end portion of the elongate body member is at least one smoke intake port for providing a smoke evacuation pathway between a region proximate the cauterizing tip and the hollow passageway within the elongate body member. A tube connected to an outlet of the hollow passageway may provide a vacuum for evacuating the smoke generated by cauterization. In an embodiment, the elongate body member may include a first and second arms that define a forceps operable between an open position and a closed position.
US10898256B2	Surgical system with user adaptable techniques based on tissue impedance A method for treating tissue includes applying an energy modality to tissue at an amplitude, measuring tissue impedance of the tissue, modulating application of the energy modality based on the measured tissue impedance, and ceasing application of the energy modality when a termination parameter is met.
US10898253B2	Anterior and lateral spinal retractor system with pivotable k-wire A pivotable wire assembly, including a pivotable wire, including a first section having a first end and a second end, a pivotable section, and a second section connected to the second end via the pivotable section, the second section having an engaging portion, wherein the first section is pivotably displaceable relative to the second section.
US10898251B2	System and method for orthopedic implant configuration Anatomic points within the body are projected outside the body through the use of extenders. The projected points may then be used for measurement, or to facilitate the selection or configuration of an implant that is to be positioned proximate the anatomic points. Such an implant may be a rod for a posterior spinal fusion system. Pedicle screws may be implanted into pedicles of the spine, and may then serve as anchors for the extenders. The extenders may have rod interfaces that receive the rod in a manner that mimics the geometry of the pedicle screws so that the selected or configured contoured rod will properly fit into engagement with the pedicle screws.
US10898247B2	Bone plate system Bone plate systems are provided for surgical implants and bone repair. The bone plate is multi-tiered for receiving bone anchors screws for securing a plurality of bones or bone fragments in a desired relationship. The plate members include throughbores for receiving a pivot base therein, with head ends of the bone anchors being secured in the pivot bases. The throughbores may permit and define a translation path for the pivot base and the bone anchor secured therein relative to the plate. Pivot members extending between the pivot base and the plate member facilitate pivoting and optional translation of the pivot base relative to the plate. With the bone anchor seated within the pivot base, an apparatus for inhibiting screw back out is employed.
US10898245B2	Modular bone plate and member of such a modular bone plate A modular bone plate includes a first plate member including a first connection portion having a first hole and a second plate member including a second connection portion having a second hole. The first plate member is connectable to the second plate member when the first plate member and the second plate member are arranged such that the first hole and the second hole overlap. The modular bone plate also includes a connector member that is insertable into the first hole and the second hole when the first hole and the second hole overlap such as to connect the first plate member and the second plate member. The connector member includes a passage that is configured to accommodate a portion of a bone anchor therein.
US10898244B2	Packaging for trochanteric femoral nail telescoping head element A system includes an implant and a packaging device assembled with the implant to hold an outer sleeve and a head element of the implant in a desired position relative to one another. The packaging device includes clip arms sized and shaped so that, when the arms are held toward a closed configuration, the implant is housed therebetween in the desired position and proximal ends of the arms form a space via which an insertion device is insertable to be coupled to the implant, and a housing defining a space within which the clip is housed. The housing includes a retaining feature for retaining the clip therein and a camming element which, when a proximal force is exerted on the implant via the insertion device coupled thereto, causes the arms to move away from one toward an open configuration to release the implant therefrom.
US10898238B2	Translational instrumentation for spondylolisthesis and scoliosis reduction An instrument for spinal procedures is a vertebral endplate spreader device having a vertebral endplate spreader and a driver handle. The vertebral endplate spreader includes a linkage with a drive sprocket operatively connected for rotation relative thereto and with a secondary sprocket. The secondary sprocket is operatively connected for rotation relative to the linkage. The vertebral endplate spreader includes a belt operatively connected to the drive sprocket and the secondary sprocket to be driven about a belt axis. The driver handle has a distal end and a proximal end. The distal end is operatively connected to the drive sprocket to actuate rotation of the belt.
US10898237B2	Method and apparatus for altering biomechanics of the spine Pathology of the human spine can arise from excessive and/or uneven loading of regions within the spinal vertebrae and the intervertebral disc. Methods and apparatus are disclosed that enable displacement of soft tissue around the spine in a less invasive manner, thereby altering the mechanical load distribution within the spine to achieve a therapeutic effect.
US10898236B2	Spinal rod implant extension A method of mounting a spinal rod extension includes accessing at least a portion of an existing spinal rod. The method also includes removing a locking cap from an existing pedicle screw that secures the existing spinal rod. The method also includes placing a connector portion of the spinal rod extension through a screw head of the existing pedicle screw. The method further includes using a connector to secure the connector portion to the existing spinal rod.
US10898231B2	Spinal deformity correction A spinal alignment system can include a rod and a plurality of uniplanar screw assemblies that include a screw, a cap, and a housing. The screw and cap can be configured such that the relative angular displacement between the screw and the cap is limited to a first limit angle in a first plane and to a second limit angle in a second plane that is perpendicular to the first plane, the second limit angle being larger than the first limit angle. The housing can be coupled to the cap and configured to maintain the cap in proximity with the head of the screw. The housing can have two elongated elements forming a U-shaped saddle. The alignment system can also include a plurality of locking cap assemblies that capture the rod within the U-shaped saddle and are tightened to fixedly couple the rod to the respective uniplanar screw assemblies.
US10898229B2	External fixator having rotatable bone reduction frame Provided is an external fixator having a rotatable bone reduction frame for reduction of a fractured or deformed bone, which includes: a first frame through which the bone passes; a second frame through which the bone passes, the second frame being spaced apart from the first frame; a variable leg having both ends respectively connected to the first frame and the second frame and having a changeable length; and a rotating frame mounted to at least one frame of the first frame and the second frame to surround the bone entirely or partially, the rotating frame being rotatable based on at least one direction of a horizontal direction traversing the at least one frame and a vertical direction perpendicular to the horizontal direction as an axial direction.
US10898228B2	Medical implant delivery system and related methods An implant delivery device for introducing and positioning implants within patients may include a sheath member having a distal end, a proximal end, and a central longitudinal axis, the sheath member defining a lumen along the central longitudinal axis. The implant delivery device may additionally include an implant delivery shaft having a distal end and a proximal end, the implant delivery shaft disposed at least partially within the sheath member and an implant spreader assembly disposed at the distal end of the implant delivery shaft. In some embodiments, the implant delivery device may further include a cap disposed at the distal end of the sheath member, the cap obstructing at least a portion of an opening into the lumen of the sheath member.
US10898223B2	Multi-diameter cannula A catheter assembly may include a cannula. The cannula may include a distal tip, an elongated tubular shaft, and an inner lumen formed by the elongated tubular shaft. A first portion of the elongated tubular shaft may have a first outer diameter. The first portion may be proximate the distal tip. A second portion of the elongated tubular shaft may have a second outer diameter. The second outer diameter may be greater than the first outer diameter. The catheter assembly may also include a catheter adapter, which may include a catheter and a catheter hub. The second portion of the elongated tubular shaft may be at least partially disposed in the catheter hub.
US10898221B2	Device handle for a medical device A medical device is disclosed for cutting substances inside a body lumen, the medical device including a rotatable tubular drive shaft; a treatment member arranged on a distal side of the drive shaft; and a device handle configured to retract the drive shaft, the device handle comprising: a fixed guide cover disposed to cover the drive shaft and an outer sheath disposed to cover the guide cover; and an annular gap between the outer sheath and the guide cover on a proximal side of a fluid connection configured to supply a physiological salt solution into the outer sheath.
US10898220B2	Method of harvesting tissue using sequential sections of a two dimensional array of needles In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a method for harvesting biological tissue. In some embodiments, the method includes providing a device having a plurality of segments of hollow tubes, each hollow tube having at least one point at the distal end of the hollow tube, the plurality of segments forming a two dimensional array of hollow tubes, wherein each segment can include a plurality of hollow tubes; positioning the two dimensional array of hollow tubes proximal to an upper surface of a biological tissue; advancing a first segment of the two dimensional array of hollow tubes into the biological tissue to sever portions of the biological tissue from the surrounding tissue; raising the first segment of the two dimensional array of hollow tubes such that the biological tissue remains in each of the hollow tubes of the first segment; advancing a second segment of the two dimensional array of hollow tubes into the biological tissue to sever portions of the biological tissue from the surrounding tissue; and raising the second segment of the two dimensional array of hollow tubes such that the biological tissue remains in each of the hollow tubes of the second segment.
US10898218B2	Tissue resecting device including a motor cooling assembly A tissue resecting device includes a handpiece assembly and an end effector assembly. The handpiece assembly includes a motor and a cooling assembly. The cooling assembly includes a housing, a fan assembly, and a fin pack. The fan assembly includes a tubular member configured to be received in the elongate cover, and a plurality of blades rotatably supported on the tubular member and operatively coupled with a drive rotor of the motor for concomitant rotation therewith. The fin pack includes a tubular base and a plurality of fins extending radially outward from the tubular base. The tubular base is disposed within the elongate cover and about the tubular member of the fan assembly. Actuation of the motor rotates the plurality of blades of the fan assembly to thereby advance air through a space between the fin pack and the elongate cover of the housing to facilitate cooling of the motor.
US10898216B2	Vasculature obstruction capture device A device for capturing an obstruction in a vasculature can include a first elongated member, an expandable element, an invertible element, and a gap positioned between the expandable element and the invertible element sized to be placed across the obstruction. The expandable element and the invertible element can be positioned near the distal end of the first elongated member. The expandable element can expand from a collapsed delivery configuration to an expanded configuration. The invertible element can expand from a collapsed delivery configuration to an expanded configuration, and the invertible element can invert from the expanded configuration to an inverted configuration, thereby forming a pocket. The pocket can envelope at least a portion of the gap and can thereby capture an obstruction that is in the gap.
US10898215B2	Method to remove a thrombus Provided herein are methods and systems for the removal of anatomical occlusions, and an occlusion removal device comprising a first body adapted to be mounted to a delivery wire and releasably engaged to the delivery wire, wherein while engaged the first body remains fixed on the delivery wire and upon release moves axially along the delivery wire, and a second body adapted to be mounted to the delivery wire. A first proximal body may be oriented proximally to a second distal body. The proximal body and the distal body may be adapted to expand upon exiting a delivery catheter. The proximal body may be releasably engaged by a mechanically breakable connection or an electrolytically or heat disconnectable connection, the electrolytically disconnectable connection being broken upon an application of electric current to the electrolytically disconnectable connection.
US10898207B2	Adjustable depth drill guide The present disclosure in one aspect provides an adjustable depth drill guide comprising a trigger assembly further comprising a trigger and a primary actuating element and a telescopic rotational assembly which abuts the primary actuating element and further comprises an intermediate actuating element. The drill guide described herein allows a surgeon to adjust the depth of the drill guide using only one hand while in-situ.
US10898203B2	Embolic containment Devices, systems, and methods used to seal a treatment area to prevent embolic agents from migrating are described. The concept has particular benefit in allowing liquid embolic to be used with a variety of intravascular therapeutic applications, including for occluding aneurysms and arteriovenous malformations in the neurovasculature.
US10898201B2	Stent graft delivery system A system for treating an aneurysm comprises an elongate flexible shaft and an expandable member. An expandable scaffold is disposed over the expandable member and may be expanded from a collapsed configuration to an expanded configuration. A double-walled filling structure is disposed over the scaffold and has an outer wall and an inner wall. The filling structure is adapted to be filled with a hardenable fluid filing medium so that the outer wall conforms to an inside surface of the aneurysm and the inner wall forms a substantially tubular lumen to provide a path for blood flow. In the expanded configuration the scaffold engages the inner wall of the filling structure. A tether is releasably coupled with the filling structure and the flexible shaft thereby constraining axial movement of the structures relative to each other.
US10898195B2	Detachable motor powered surgical instrument A detachable motor-powered surgical instrument. The instrument may include a housing that includes at least one engagement member for removably attaching the housing to an actuator arrangement. A motor is supported within the housing for supplying actuation motions to various portions of a surgical end effector coupled to the housing. The housing may include a contact arrangement that is configured to permit power to be supplied to the motor only when the housing is operably attached to the actuator arrangement.
US10898192B2	Adjustable pressure surgical clamp with releasable or integrated remote manipulator for laparoscopies A surgical clamp for laparoscopic or endoscopic surgeries provides autonomous adjustable pressure and placement with a releasable or integrated remote manipulator. Two jaws move simultaneously with respect to the main body of the clamp to open and close to secure or release tissue and/or organs. In a first embodiment, the instrument is made up of two separable components; a remote manipulator component, and a releasable adjustable pressure clamp component that is linked or separated at an interlocking connection point. The main body of the clamp includes a central tubular port through which a pressure bar passes. An assembly of cam arms connects the push rod to jaws, allowing for symmetrical and simultaneous actuation. A compression spring is positioned around the pressure bar and is secured by an adjustable nut on the threaded end of the pressure bar. Adjustment varies the compressive force of the spring and thereby the gripping force.
US10898187B2	Firing system for linear surgical stapler A surgical stapler includes a first elongate member, a second elongate member, and a clamp member operable to releasably clamp the first elongate member against the second elongate member. A distal portion of the first elongate member supports an anvil surface having a plurality of staple forming pockets. A distal portion of the second elongate member is configured to receive a staple cartridge. A firing assembly of the surgical stapler is translatable from a first longitudinal position to a second longitudinal position to fire the staple cartridge when the first elongate member is clamped against the second elongate member. A retaining assembly of the surgical stapler includes a first retaining member configured to releasably couple a proximal end of the first elongate member with a proximal end of the second elongate member, and a second retaining member configured to releasably retain the firing assembly in the first longitudinal position.
US10898182B2	Fixation assembly and method of use A fixation assembly for bone fixation and a method for joining bones or bone fragments of a single bone and translating uniform compression to the bones. The fixation assembly comprises a post member coupled to a screw member. The post member comprises a head portion connected to an anchoring portion, wherein the head portion is offset from the anchoring portion by a first angle. The head portion may comprise a curved body annularly extending from a first end to a second end, wherein the first end is separated from the second end by a slot, and wherein the curved body defines a tapered annular bore therein. The anchoring portion comprises a first leg extending from the first end of the curved body and a second leg extending from the second end of the curved body. The screw member comprises a tapered bulbous portion connected to a threaded elongated portion. The screw member is coupled to the post member by advancing the elongated portion of the screw member through the tapered bore of the post member until the tapered bulbous portion of the screw member abuts the tapered bore of the post member thereby creating an interference fit. The first angle of the post member determines the angle of fixation of the post member with respect to the screw member.
US10898180B2	Heart valve repair method The present disclosure provides a heart valve repair method, comprising: advancing a distal end of a suture implanting apparatus from an outside of a body through a transapical approach into a left ventricle or a right ventricle of a heart; holding each leaflet of a heart valve with the distal end of the suture implanting apparatus; implanting at least one suture into the leaflet; withdrawing the suture implanting apparatus from the body; advancing a distal end of a suture locking apparatus from the outside of a body through a transapical approach into the corresponding left ventricle or the corresponding right ventricle; using the suture locking apparatus to lock the plurality of sutures; and withdrawing the suture locking apparatus from the body. The heart valve repair method has a simple surgical procedure, a low degree of patient trauma, and a high success rate of surgery.
US10898175B2	Retractor extension clip systems A surgical retractor system including a retractor tube, one or more modular independent retractor extension clips removably engageable with the retractor tube to deflect and minimize tissue creep, and a deployment instrument for deploying and recovering retractor extension clips.
US10898174B2	Method of using a surgical tissue retractor A method of performing an operation, e.g. a spinal operation, on a patient using a retractor comprising a pair of blade assemblies which are adapted to open about a set of axes that are not parallel to a third spatial axis, and further comprising a pair of arms, which are adapted to move the pair of blade assemblies apart from one another in the third spatial axis. In the method, the blade assemblies are closed to assume a low profile, inserted into a relatively small incision, and stretched apart from each other, thereby stretching the skin about the incision to form an aperture longer than the incision. The blade assemblies are then opened by rotating the blades about the set of axes, stretching the skin around the incision in a second direction that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction (i.e. the direction of the incision.).
US10898172B2	Biopsy forceps tool A biopsy forceps tool (preferably for endoscopic use) in which microwave energy is used to coagulate bleeding after a biological tissue sample is collected between a pair of jaws. The pair of jaws define an enclosure that is isolated from the microwave energy itself and insulated from any thermal changes that occur due to application of the microwave energy. The tool comprises a pair of jaws connected to a coaxial cable, each of the pair of jaws comprising an electrically conductive shell, the jaw assembly being movable between a closed position in which the electrically conductive shells enclose an internal volume for holding a tissue sample and an open position in which the internal volume is exposed in order to receive the tissue sample. The electrically conductive shells form a Faraday cage around the internal volume when in the closed position.
US10898170B2	Microbiopsy device An improved microbiopsy needle tip is described. The improvement is attributable to the presence of one or more combinations of features, including the use of a Franseen-type needle cutting tip, the provision of a “step-out” in which the collection portion of the biopsy device has a larger diameter than the procuring portion of the device, frictional force on the core of tissue exerted by the distal portion of the needle, which force is provided by the diameter of the distal collection portion of the device having substantially the same diameter as that of the procured core of tissue, the mechanical effects of scaling the needle to small dimensions; and the use of a needle that can be curved to as to sample multiple biopsy sites in close proximity without retracting the needle from the patient.
US10898167B2	Portable ultrasound systems with fine-grained power management associated devices, systems, and methods Portable ultrasound systems and associated devices and methods for managing power in such systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method for conserving power in a portable ultrasound system includes disabling one or more first amplifiers and/or at least one or more first analog to digital converters (ADCs) upon initiation of a first pulse repetition interval (PRI). The method further includes, upon initiation of a second PRI, enabling the one or more first amplifiers and/or the one or more of the first ADCs and disabling one or more second amplifiers of and/or one or more second ADCs.
US10898164B2	System for shaping and positioning a tissue body A tissue positioning system for contouring a patient tissue volume includes an axially displaceable interface having a surface configured to engage a breast or other tissue volume. A low pressure source applies a partial low pressure to the surface of the displaceable interface to secure the tissue volume to the surface, and the axially displaceable interface is biased to pull and contour the tissue volume when the tissue volume is secured to the surface. The axially displaceable interface is typically mounted on a telescoping support and the biasing is provided by the same low pressure used to secure the tissue volume.
US10898163B2	Ultrasound imaging apparatus and method of operating the same Provided are an ultrasound imaging apparatus and a method of operating the same. The ultrasound imaging apparatus may generate a plurality of color Doppler mode images by extracting a plurality of pieces of ensemble data from among ultrasound data acquired from the object.
US10898160B2	Acoustic monitoring system, monitoring method, and monitoring computer program The present invention relates to a system (100) and method (800) capable of indirectly monitoring respiratory and cardiac variables. A decomposition technique on time-series of features extracted from the chest audio signal α(t) is proposed. The proposed monitoring system (100) may acquire the acoustic signal on the chest of a subject (140) by means of a wearable transducer (150). The proposed system may estimate a number of physiological variables such as flow estimates, respiration rate, inspiration and expiration markers and cardiac related variables. Cough and apnea detection, adventitious sound recognition, activities performed, and information about energy estimation and the status of a monitored subject can be derived as well.
US10898154B2	System and method for x-ray imaging The present disclosure provides a system and method for X-ray imaging. The method of calculating scatter in an X-ray image may include forming a modulated X-ray image. The method of forming the modulated X-ray image may include acquiring X-rays through a collimator module and an imaged object in sequence to generate an X-ray image group; the acquisition may be performed during a movement of the collimator module in a first direction and the X-ray image group may include a plurality of X-ray images acquired at different times during the movement of the collimator; extracting sub-zones from the plurality of X-ray images in the X-ray image group; combining the sub-zones in the first direction to form the modulated X-ray image. In the present disclosure, an intensity distribution of the X-rays may be adjusted flexibly using a collimator without adding any extra hardware. In addition, scatter components in the X-ray images may be calculated to eliminate the scatter in the X-ray images finally.
US10898151B2	Real-time rendering and referencing for medical procedures Methods, systems, and devices for medical imaging are described. Examples may include an augmented reality (AR) server receiving a set of medical imaging data acquired by at least a first imaging modality. The set of medical imaging data may include a visual representation of a biological structure of a body. Next, the medical imaging data can be used to render an isolated anatomical model of a least a portion of the biological structure. The isolated anatomical model can be received by an AR viewing device such as AR glasses. The AR viewing device may display on a display of the AR viewing device, a first view perspective of the isolated anatomical model in a first orientation. The first orientation may be based on a position of the first AR viewing device relative to the body. Examples include displaying a virtual position of the medical instrument in the AR viewing device.
US10898143B2	Quantitative mapping of cerebrovascular reactivity using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging Described here are systems and methods for estimating a quantitative measure of cerebrovascular reactivity (“CVR”) from data acquired using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (“fMRI”).
US10898141B2	System and method for characterizing respiratory stress A system and method for evaluating the respiratory health of a patient and indicating and characterizing respiratory stress includes a sensor in operative communication with a patient for generating at least one biological signal, having a waveform curve in the time domain. The biological signal is processed and a waveform curve is computed, reflective of the respiration rate of the patient. A correlation is then determined between the biological signal waveform curve and respiration rate waveform curve and a respective correlation coefficient is determined. Frequency analysis is performed on the biological signal and a determination is made of a respiration metric reflective of the ratio of spectral components associated with the respiration component of the biological signal in relation to the total spectral components for the biological signal. The correlation coefficient and the respiration metric are combined to form a respiratory stress metric for displaying to a user.
US10898138B2	Flexible patch including a plurality of through holes which can be adhered to skin and method for manufacturing the same Exemplary embodiments relate to a skin-adherable flexible patch including a flexible patch layer having one surface that can adhere to skin and configured to support a micro scale semiconductor device; and a plurality of holes passing through from one surface of the flexible patch to the other surface of the flexible patch, and a method for manufacturing the flexible patch.
US10898135B2	Biometric information measurement device, biometric information management method, and biometric information management program A biometric information measurement device intermittently measures biometric information from a living body. The device includes an attachment and detachment determining section which determines whether the device is in an attached state where the device is attached to the living body or an unattached state where the device is detached from the living body, a personal identifying section which, in the attached state, determines whether a user attached with the device is a registered user who is registered in advance and stores a result of the determination, and a storage controller which, when a determination result indicating that the user is the registered user is stored, stores information indicating the registered user while being associated with the measured biometric information. The personal identifying section deletes the determination result when a time period in which the device is determined to be in the unattached state exceeds a predetermined time period.
US10898134B2	Therapeutic clothing having releasably attached sensory strips and stress relieving components incorporated therein Therapeutic clothing includes a garment adapted to be worn over a lower portion of a body having a waistband and first and second legs extending below the waistband. The therapeutic clothing has a first elongated sensory strip overlying an outside surface of the first leg and extending along the length of the first leg between the waistband and a lower end of the first leg, a first fastening system for releasably attaching the first elongated sensory strip to the outside surface of the first leg, a second elongated sensory strip overlying an outside surface of the second leg and extending along the length of the second leg between the waistband and a lower end of the second leg, and a second fastening system for releasably attaching the second elongated sensory strip to the outside surface of the second leg.
US10898131B2	Systems and methods for treating a psychiatric disorder Systems and methods for treating a subject with a psychiatric disorder are provided in which a therapy session is conducted. In the therapy session, each respective expression image in a plurality of expression images is sequentially displayed. Each expression image is independently associated with an expression. The successive display of images is construed as a tiled series of expression image subsets, each consisting of N expression images. Upon completion of the display of each respective subset, the user is challenged as to whether the first and the last images in the respective subset exhibit the same emotion. A score is determined for the respective subset based on whether the subject learned to respond correctly. The number of images in each subset is adjusted to a new number based on these scores. A treatment regimen is prescribed to the subject for the psychiatric disorder based at least in part on the scores.
US10898129B2	Strategic treatment of pressure ulcer using sub-epidermal moisture values The present disclosure provides methods of identifying a patient in need of pressure ulcer treatment and treating the patient with clinical intervention selected based on sub-epidermal moisture values. The present disclosure also provides methods of stratifying groups of patients based on pressure ulcer risks and methods of reducing incidence of pressure ulcers in a care facility.
US10898127B2	Pathologic assessment of lower esophageal sphincter damage Determining the progression of reflux disease in the esophagus of a patient includes identifying the location of an endoscopic gastroesophageal junction in the esophagus, removing a length of tissue of the esophagus that includes a portion of the endoscopic gastroesophageal junction, and identifying the proximal limit of tissue containing cardiac epithelium. Determining the length of the squamo-oxyntic gap of the biopsied tissue can involve measuring the length of tissue extending between the proximal limit of tissue containing gastric oxyntic epithelium to the proximal limit of tissue containing cardiac epithelium. A linear relationship can be determined from a slope of a line extending between a first data point and a second data point that can determine a target age of the patient when the lower esophageal sphincter will have a certain length.
US10898126B2	Triple-fusion imaging device for sentinel lymphadenectomy during laparoscopic surgery The present invention provides a triple fusion imaging device for sentinel lymphadenectomy for laparoscopic surgery including: a composite laparoscope for near infrared ray/gamma ray/visible ray acquisition configured to acquire triple images of a gamma ray from a gamma ray radioactive material injected to a diseased part, a visible ray, and a near infrared ray; an optical fiber configured to transmit the triple images acquired from the composite laparoscope; an optical source configured to generate a white light for acquiring a visible image through the optical fiber and a near infrared ray excitation light for acquiring a near infrared ray image by exciting a near infrared ray emitting fluorescence material at the disease part; an optical-to-electrical conversion module configured to separate individual images of the visible ray, near infrared ray and gamma ray from the triple images delivered through the optical fiber and then respectively convert the individual images to electrical signals; a matching unit configured to match a visible image signal, a near infrared image signal and a gamma ray image signal from the optical-to-electrical conversion module to one image; and an image display unit configured to display the image from the matching unit.
US10898125B2	Deep learning architecture for cognitive examination subscore trajectory prediction in Alzheimer's disease A method of predicting progression of a cognitive state in a subject is disclosed including obtaining a neuroimage of the subject, acquiring a data sample from the neuroimage, selecting a time at which to predict progression of the cognitive state, and performing a calculation on the data sample by a transformation function to determine data associated with multiple cognitive metrics. A method of evaluating a cognitive state of a subject is also disclosed including providing a convolutional neural network, training the convolutional neural network with reference data to construct a transformation function, using the transformation function to predict multiple cognitive metrics from a subject data sample and a selected time, and determining the cognitive state of the subject from the predicted cognitive metrics. A cognitive evaluation system is also disclosed including a memory, a processor, and a cognitive state prediction component configured to program the processor with a transformation function.
US10898123B2	Motor function assessment system Disclosed is system for assessing a motor function, the system including a sensor configured to acquire human body exercise information including a joint position, a joint orientation, a grasp state, or a grasp force, a processor configured to extract an exercise feature for analyzing a human body motion time and human body motion information based on the acquired human body exercise information, analyze at least one target motion for assessment based on a set assessment condition using the extracted exercise feature, classify an assessment factor of the at least one target motion for assessment as a success or a failure, and determine a final assessment score of the at least one target motion for assessment based on the classified assessment factor, and a display configured to display the final assessment score.
US10898113B2	Signal processing for continuous analyte sensor Systems and methods for dynamically and intelligently estimating analyte data from a continuous analyte sensor, including receiving a data stream, selecting one of a plurality of algorithms, and employing the selected algorithm to estimate analyte values. Additional data processing includes evaluating the selected estimative algorithms, analyzing a variation of the estimated analyte values based on statistical, clinical, or physiological parameters, comparing the estimated analyte values with corresponding measure analyte values, and providing output to a user. Estimation can be used to compensate for time lag, match sensor data with corresponding reference data, warn of upcoming clinical risk, replace erroneous sensor data signals, and provide more timely analyte information encourage proactive behavior and preempt clinical risk.
US10898112B2	Gait posture meter and program A gait posture meter evaluates a gait posture of a measurement subject, and includes an accelerometer affixed to a centerline of a measurement subject's waist area, an evaluation unit that repeatedly finds an evaluation amount quantitatively expressing a gait posture of the measurement subject based on an output of the accelerometer in each of predetermined unit periods within a predetermined continuous walking period of no greater than ten minutes, and a display processing unit that displays the repeatedly-found evaluation amounts in time series in the display screen.
US10898111B2	Biomeasurement devices with user verification and methods of using the same A method includes receiving, via an electronic scale device supporting a user thereon, an indication to begin a verified weight sequence. Responsive to the indication to begin, the method includes: (1) determining a body weight of the user supported by the electronic scale device, (2) receiving, via an electronic device, image data that is reproducible as a visual image of at least a portion of the user supported on the housing of the scale, and (3) generating a data file including: (a) weight data that is representative of the determined body weight of the user supported by the housing, (b) the image data, and (c) time data corresponding to a date and time that the body weight of the user was determined.
US10898108B2	Device for collecting particles in an exhaled air flow The invention relates to a device for collecting aerosol particles in an exhaled air flow. Said particles may be aerosol particles such as biomarkers or particles related to drugs or other substances formed or found in the alveoli of the lungs. Said device comprises a housing having an extension direction between a first end with an inlet arranged to receive an exhaled air flow and a second end with an outlet arranged to transmit the exhaled air flow and an inner cross section defined by inner walls of the housing and at least four first type partition walls, arranged in a direction essentially perpendicular to the walls, partly covering the inner cross section of the housing. Said first type partition walls protrude from opposite sides of the inner wall of the housing creating opposite openings between the first type partition walls and the housing inner wall, whereby said first type partition walls are arranged to create a labyrinth shaped flow path from said inlet to said outlet which is arranged to divert the air flowing from the inlet towards the outlet in a direction towards opposite inner wall of the housing so that said particles separate from the air flow and attach on the device and wherein the distance between two opposite first type partition walls is smaller than the distance between the inner walls of the housing.
US10898107B2	System and method for pulmonary health monitoring A pulmonary health monitoring system aims at assessing pulmonary health of subjects. Conventional techniques used for pulmonary health monitoring are not convenient to the subjects and needs considerable cooperation from the subjects. But, there is a challenge in utilizing the conventional devices to the subjects not capable of providing considerable cooperation. The present disclosure includes a blow device applicable to all kind of subjects and doesn't need cooperation from the subjects. Further, in the present disclosure, the blow device generates a phase shifted signal corresponding to a breathe signal and the phase shifted signal is further processed to extract a set of physiological features. Further, pulmonary health of a subject is analyzed by processing the set of physiological features based on a ridge regression based machine learning technique.
US10898101B2	Systems, articles, and methods for electromyography sensors Systems, articles, and methods for surface electromyography (“EMG”) sensors that combine elements from traditional capacitive and resistive EMG sensors are described. For example, capacitive EMG sensors that are adapted to resistively couple to a user's skin are described. Resistive coupling between a sensor electrode and the user's skin is galvanically isolated from the sensor circuitry by a discrete component capacitor included downstream from the sensor electrode. The combination of a resistively coupled electrode and a discrete component capacitor provides the respective benefits of traditional resistive and capacitive (respectively) EMG sensor designs while mitigating respective drawbacks of each approach. A wearable EMG device that provides a component of a human-electronics interface and incorporates such capacitive EMG sensors is also described.
US10898097B2	Apparatus and method for detecting an abdominal electrophysiological signal The invention concerns a multi-electrode patch for abdominal electrophysiological detection. The patch has a flexible substrate interconnecting multiple electrodes and a module unit for removably engaging with an electronic readout device for detecting a maternal and/or fetal electrophysiological signal from the electrodes. The module has a mechanical module unit for removable mechanical engagement with a housing of the readout device, and an electrical module unit for making an electrical connection from the electrodes to the readout device. Engaging the patch with the readout device comprises engaging both the mechanical module unit and the electrical module unit. The patch may be flexible in a manner that allows variation in the relative positioning between the electrodes. The patch and/or electronic readout device may comprise a security device for communication of an authentication code.
US10898088B2	Method and system for image processing of intravascular hemodynamics The disclosure provides technology for analyzing video data of a fluorescent contrast agent shot by a microscope during an operation, and provides a method and system allowing information such as BV, BF and MTT, and vascular wall thickness, to be estimated by fluorescent contrast agent analysis, by applying perfusion analysis methods. The method for processing intravascular hemodynamics images is characterized by shooting video using infrared light, wherein the object of shooting is a portion of a blood vessel injected with a fluorescent contrast agent; performing image analysis of a shape of a chronological change curve of intensity values which are image outputs from the video shooting; and calculating relative data for blood volume and blood flow based on results of the image analysis.
US10898079B2	Intravascular plaque detection in OCT images Detection of intravascular plaque in OCT images is carried out by obtaining images of vascular tissue from a vascular component by OCT either in a static mode of a single image or in a dynamic mode where the images are obtained by scanning. The method acts by dividing the OCT image into different regular regions, calculating different texture features for each of the above regions with a reduced set of less than a full set of the 26 Haralick textural features, using a clustering algorithm to segment the image defined by its texture features calculated above into different regions and transforming the segmented image back from its representation using texture features to its space-domain representation. The method uses three or four texture features where the reduced sets can be f1, f 2, and f14 (ASM at 0°, Inertia at 0° and ASM at 90°).
US10898074B2	Closed microfluidic network for strain sensing embedded in a contact lens to monitor intraocular pressure A microfluidic strain sensing device for monitoring intraocular pressure. The device has a contact lens and a closed microfluidic network embedded with the contact lens. The network has a volume that is sensitive to an applied strain. The network distinguishes: (i) a gas reservoir containing a gas, (ii) a liquid reservoir containing a liquid that changes volume when the strain is applied, and (iii) a sensing channel able to hold the liquid within the sensing channel. The sensing channel connects the gas reservoir on one end and connects the liquid reservoir on another end. The sensing channel establishes a liquid-gas equilibrium pressure to interface and equilibrium within the sensing channel, which would fluidically change as a response to radius of curvature variations on a cornea, or as a response to mechanical stretching and release of the cornea. The liquid-gas equilibrium pressure interface and equilibrium are used for measuring the intraocular pressure.
US10898073B2	Optoelectronic binocular instrument for the correction of presbyopia and method for the binocular correction of presbyopia Optoelectronic binocular instrument for the automatic correction of presbyopia and method for the binocular correction of the presbyopia. The instrument has two optoelectronic lenses (103, 110; 203, 204) and a capturing subsystem for taking images of the eye. By means of the pupil tracking, which performs the processing of the eye's images, the system determines the distance where the subject is looking at. The pupil tracking works at a very high speed, using a high-performance graphic processor and a highly parallelized algorithm for pupil tracking. The method consists of two phases. In the first one a calibration is accomplished, the subject is asked to look at targets at different distances and the size and position of the pupil is measured. In the second phase the correction is performed by the instrument, the system continuously captures and processes images to calculate the correction to apply and, finally, corrects the presbyopia by applying said correction.
US10898067B2	Endoscope apparatus An endoscope apparatus includes alight source, a bendable insertion section to be inserted into an observation target, a light guide path which is provided in the insertion section and which guides light emitted from the light source, an illumination light emitter which is provided at the distal end of the insertion section and which emits at least some of the light guided by the light guide path to the observation target as illumination light, a curvature sensor which detects a bending shape of at least part of the insertion section, and an illumination light controller which controls an optical characteristic of the illumination light on the basis of the bending shape of the insertion section detected by the curvature sensor.
US10898066B2	Light adjustment apparatus and optical equipment mounting light adjustment apparatus thereon The light adjustment apparatus of the present embodiment comprises a light adjustment part, a rotation axis body that supports a rotation arm that places and removes the light adjustment part in and out of a light path by swinging, and has a magnet installed therein, an electromagnetic drive source that forms a magnetic circuit including the rotation axis body on the circuit, and works an electromagnetic force on the magnet to rotate a rotational axis of the rotation axis body, and a float prevention part that magnetically restricts the rotation axis body, and prevents the rotation axis body from floating towards an axial direction of the rotational axis when the rotation axis body is rotated.
US10898065B2	In-vivo monitoring camera system An in-vivo monitoring camera system includes an image capturing portion (camera unit 11) that is capable of being introduced into a body, a support tube (13) that has a connection portion (trocar connection portion 13x) with a tubular tool (trocar 31) which is capable of being introduced into the body on one end side and has a joining portion (protrusion type joining portion 13y) to the image capturing portion on another end side, a cable (camera-side cable 12) that is connected with the image capturing portion and passes through the support tube, and a control system that is electrically connected with the cable and includes at least a display device (18).
US10898062B2	Disposable air/water and suction valves for an endoscope A disposable air/water valve for an endoscope, including a shaft having a passage from an opening to a vent. The shaft has grooves and ridges and a protrusion formed at the vent. Seals are set within some of the grooves. An inner ring, having a diaphragm, extends from an outer circumference of the inner ring to an internal circumference of an outer cap. Hinges extend vertically downward from the diaphragm and ribs are formed along the internal circumference of the outer cap. A button cap has an internal ring that securely attaches to the shaft. A resilient member is securely disposed between the button cap and the diaphragm. The outer cap, inner ring, and internal ring of the button cap define a central bore to accommodate the shaft therein.
US10898060B2	Cable connection structure, endoscope system, and method of manufacturing cable connection structure A cable connection structure includes: a plurality of cables including at least one coaxial cable including a central conductor, an inner insulator, and an outer conductor exposed stepwise at a distal end portion; an aligning member that is in contact with side surfaces of exposed conductive portions of the cables positioned at least at both ends, of the plurality of cables, to align the cables such that axial directions become parallel and outer sheaths of the adjacent cables are in contact with each other; and a board on which an electrode portion that connects the conductive portions of the plurality of cables are arranged. The conductive portions of the plurality of cables are electrically and mechanically connected to the electrode portion of the board via a conductive connecting member and the aligning member.
US10898057B2	Apparatus and method for airway registration and navigation A surgical instrument navigation system is provided that visually simulates a virtual volumetric scene of a body cavity of a patient from a point of view of a surgical instrument residing in the cavity of the patient. The surgical instrument navigation system includes: a surgical instrument; an imaging device which is operable to capture scan data representative of an internal region of interest within a given patient; a tracking subsystem that employs electro-magnetic sensing to capture in real-time position data indicative of the position of the surgical instrument; a data processor which is operable to render a volumetric, perspective image of the internal region of interest from a point of view of the surgical instrument; and a display which is operable to display the volumetric perspective image of the patient.
US10898053B2	Pump and dishwasher comprising the same A pump includes a housing, a water inlet pipe coupled to the housing and configured to receive washing water, a water outlet pipe coupled to the housing and configured to discharge washing water, an impeller located in the housing and configured to cause washing water to be transferred from the water inlet pipe to the water outlet pipe, a heater that is coupled to the housing, that is configured to heat washing water in the housing, and that is configured to generate steam based on heating washing water, and a steam discharge pipe coupled to the water outlet pipe and configured to discharge steam generated by the heater.
US10898050B2	Sweeping devices, waste-receiving devices, and methods of using the same A waste-receiving device for use with a sweeping device, the waste-receiving device having a body comprising a chamber configured to receive waste therein and an opening coupled to the chamber, wherein the opening permits the sweeping device to enter the chamber. The device also includes a panel disposed at least partially within the chamber and having an upper edge with a plurality of teeth coupled to the upper edge of the panel that are configured to engage a sweeping device to facilitate separating waste from a cleaning component of the sweeping device.
US10898049B2	Cleaning device and methods of manufacturing thereof A cleaning sponge that efficiently utilizes melamine to effectively remove dirt and contaminants from a surface. The cleaning sponge includes a first sponge layer, a second sponge layer, a solidified detergent layer, a plurality of first pores, a plurality of second pores, and a plurality of third pores. The first sponge layer and the second sponge layer are connected to the solidified detergent layer on either side and provide protection for the solidified detergent layer against degradation. The plurality of first pores is distributed throughout the first sponge layer. The plurality of second pores is distributed throughout the second sponge layer. The plurality of third pores is distributed throughout the solidified detergent layer. The plurality of first pores and the plurality of second pores are in fluid communication with each other through the plurality of third pores. Water may flow through the cleaning sponge to create an effective surfactant.
US10898048B2	Floor cleaner, cleaning roller assembly, and sponge roller A sponge roller, a cleaning roller assembly, and a floor cleaner. The sponge roller includes an outer layer and an inner layer. The outer layer is sleeved on the inner layer; the inner layer is made of non-absorbent sponge, and the outer layer is made of absorbent sponge. The sponge roller can be made with a large thickness, thus improving the cleaning capacity of the cleaner. The water is mainly stored in the outer layer, so it can be squeezed out without the exertion of much more external force, and thus the resistance against the rotation of the sponge roller is negligible, thus saving the energy consumption.
US10898046B2	Agitator and robot cleaner including the same An agitator and a robot cleaner including an agitator. The agitator includes a body configured to be rotated, a plurality of couplers formed at the body and arranged to be spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance, and a first member and a second member coupled to any one of the couplers and configured to contact a surface to be cleaned during rotation of the body. The first member and the second member extend different lengths from the body in a radial direction.
US10898039B2	Hygienic toilet seat with removable tray A sanitary toilet seat assembly is improved with a removable tray for capturing fluid and filth transported into the housing by the tubular protective film traveling from the toilet seat on to the take up spool in the housing. The removable tray is configured to be placed between a lower inner surface of a base member and the take-up shaft of the sanitary toilet seat assembly. The base member can include spaced vertical partitions extending from the inner surface of the base member and the removable tray can be positioned between the vertical partitions. The removable tray can include side walls in sliding contact with the vertical partitions. The base member can include a concave rear surface extending from the lower inner surface and the removable tray can include a corresponding shaped rear wall to slidingly engage the concave rear surface. The removable tray can also include a front wall extending from the side walls.
US10898036B2	Hands free paper towel dispensers for aircraft environments and methods for operating the same Aircraft, aircraft paper towel dispensers, and methods for operating aircraft paper towel dispensers are disclosed. An aircraft paper towel dispenser includes a cabinet housing that defines an inner volume and a housing aperture that is configured to allow a portion of paper towel to be dispensed outside of the cabinet housing. The cabinet housing also includes a vanity cover configured to transition between an open state in which the inner volume is accessible, and a closed state in which the inner volume is not accessible. The aircraft paper towel dispenser comprises each of a paper towel holder within the inner volume and configured to secure a supply of paper towel, and a drive mechanism positioned within the inner volume and configured to cause the portion of the paper towel to be dispensed from the inner volume to a region outside of the cabinet housing via the housing aperture.
US10898031B2	Modular blender with improved water heating and light beam detection An easily assembled blender with an internal frame holding a cupholder elevator assembly, a mix motor assembly, a food preparation chamber, a water heater assembly and a steamer assembly. The water heater and steamer assemblies are preferably on modular trays that slide into the internal frame. The water heater preferably also serves as a hot water reservoir and, to avoid overheating, has its heating coil located near its bottom. To resist scale deposits, polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) tubing is preferably used to transport steam from the steamer to the food preparation chamber. To expedite manufacture, a spring-biased idler assembly with a drive belt for the cupholder elevator assembly preferably snaps into a lower receiving port on the internal frame. Crisscrossing infrared light beams are preferably placed at the entrance of the food preparation chamber to detect whether the cup entering the chamber is the correct size and detect whether any foreign object is below the food preparation chamber.
US10898028B2	Mixer with safety mechanisms A blender for processing comestible matter includes a base with a motor, a blade assembly, and a container. The blender further comprises a first safety mechanism and a second safety mechanism. The first safety mechanism functions to ensure that the container is securely attached to the blade assembly before the blade assembly can be mounted to the base. The second safety mechanism functions to ensure the motor in the base can only be powered on when the container and the blade assembly are securely mounted to the base. The blender is operable by affixing the container to the blade assembly, and then the assembly to the base, such that both safety mechanisms are released to permit the motor to be activated.
US10898026B2	Water container and a machine for making beverages comprising said container A water container for a beverage making machine includes side walls and a bottom, whereon there is a connecting union to the beverage making machine. The connecting union of the water container includes two apertures for water, where one aperture is an outlet aperture and the other aperture is an inlet aperture.
US10898025B2	Apparatus with an outlet particularly for milk froth, and a coffee machine An apparatus is provided with an outlet, in particular for milk froth, which apparatus can be moved in two or three coordinate directions (x, y, z) using a control unit. When dispensing the fluid, a graphic pattern can thus be created automatically on the surface of the beverage dispensed into the container, preferably coffee. A pivotably housed guide sleeve and a hose element are provided with the outlet, which element can be pivoted in the sleeve and through which element the milk froth passes. This outlet can be moved with the hose element and the guide sleeve in a plane in these two coordinate directions (x, y) above the container in controlled manner, and the milk froth can thus be dispensed into the container. The result is a compact structure of the apparatus and this can be integrated into a coffee machine in a very space-saving manner.
US10898023B2	Mixing and foaming device The invention refers to a mixing and foaming device (300) for mixing a powder food or beverage product with a fluid and further foaming said mixture, the device (300) comprising a mixing, pumping and foaming unit (102), an air entry (30) and a fluid inlet (21); the mixing, pumping and foaming unit (102) comprising a pumping element (110) whose rotation allows both powder and fluid to enter a foaming chamber (121) of the mixing, pumping and foaming unit (102), where a foaming element (120) rotates relatively within the foaming chamber (121), subjecting the mixture of fluid, powder and optionally air to a certain level of shear stress which allows this mixture to mix and/or to foam. The invention further refers to a method for providing foam from a food or beverage product powder using such a device (300).
US10898021B2	Package container A container for receiving package delivery is described. The container includes a base, a lid, and a weight component. The lid is coupled to the base. The weight component is sized to fit into the base. The weight component forms a tank to enclose a material and provide weight to the container. The weight component includes a recess and a port. The recess is defined in the weight component. The port is disposed within the recess to be interior to the base when the weight component is place within the base.
US10898020B2	Adjustable over-the-door hanger assembly A two-piece adjustable over-the-door hanger assembly includes (i) a generally L-shaped stationary member having a mounting leg positionable on a top edge of a door and a depending leg, and (ii) a generally L-shaped locking member having a supporting leg and a generally planar engagement leg terminating in a hook and dimensioned to pass through one of a plurality of transverse slots in a longitudinal central opening in the mounting leg to position the engagement leg proximate to a surface of the door and to bring the supporting leg into contact with the mounting leg over the door. The engagement leg is configured and dimensioned for rotation when positioned normal to the longitudinal opening to permit a relatively wider proximal portion to pass in sliding engagement through one of the transverse slots.
US10898017B2	No-spill drinking container An easily cleanable liquid container includes a straw having a pivotably mounted internal one-way spill preventing valve and a closable drinking spout with an overmolded drinking tip. The pivotably mounted internal one-way spill preventing valve is retained in a pivotable straw nut that is pivotably attached to a straw tube, which allows easy access to internal straw components for easier cleaning. The overmolded drinking tip and a wiper seal limit the number of cracks and crevices that may collect dirt or other contaminants.
US10898016B1	Illuminated dome scene cup A drinking vessel or beverage container such as a dome scene cup is illuminated by at least one light-up figurine, miniature, sculpture, model, or other decorative three-dimensional item that fits within an enclosure at the top of the cup. The three-dimensional item includes a self-contained lighting module with its own light source, motion sensing circuit, and power supply.
US10898015B2	Method, system, and apparatus for facilitating positioning a person in lateral sniff position In one aspect, an apparatus for supporting the head and neck of a user for airway management is disclosed, which comprises a top surface including at least one head-receiving portion configured and dimensioned for receiving and supporting a user's head, and at least one recess neck opening for supporting a user's neck when the user's head is received in the head-receiving portion. The apparatus further includes at least one chin support protruding above the top surface and configured for facilitating placing the user in a sniff position when the user's head is received in the head-receiving portion. The chin support can include a top surface segment and a lateral surface segment, where at least a portion of the lateral surface segment of the chin support extends from the top surface segment thereof to the at least one recess neck opening.
US10898014B1	Plant tree Method and apparatus for an upright standing plant tree for supporting plants including potted plants, feeding plants, flower pots or the like and having a plurality of post sections which are adapted to be connected to each other so as to form a height adjustable center post support. Also shown are a plurality of triangular shaped legs which can be removably attached to the center post by using an upper longer cylindrical bracket and a lower, shorter cylindrical bracket so that the legs can be attached to the plant tree by being removably connected to each of the cylindrical brackets. Each of the cylindrical brackets has a plurality of side by side receptacles being integrally formed into the cylindrical brackets so that a plurality of radially extending arms can be connected to the cylindrical brackets using the receptacles. Also shown are the plurality of radially extending arms which can be connected so that the arms can be either extended upwardly or extended downwardly using set screws so that the downwardly extending arms do not fall out of their corresponding receptacle.
US10898013B2	Jewelry storage and display organizer Disclosed is a jewelry holding device for storing and displaying earrings, necklaces, bracelets, and other items of jewelry. The jewelry holder has a base from which extends a stem which supports a cover. The cover has one or more openings for storing and displaying piercing jewelry. The base of the jewelry holder is capable of releasable attachment to a storage support. The device stem optionally accommodates holding other items of jewelry such as necklaces, cuffs and bracelets. Also disclosed is a method for displaying and organizing jewelry using such a device.
US10898011B2	Thermal frame The invention features a refrigerator cabinet door frame. The frame includes a thermally conductive outer frame, a thermally insulating inner frame member, and a sealing plate. The outer frame member includes a forward end having an outer surface that is disposed outside of a refrigerated cabinet with the frame mounted, and a rearward end defining a joint. The inner frame member includes a first end retained in the joint, and a second end. The sealing plate includes a first edge coupled to the outer frame member at the rearward end, forward of the joint, a second edge supported by the second end of the inner frame member, and a thermally conductive sealing surface. The first edge of the sealing plate is coupled to the outer frame member such that the sealing surface and the outer surface of the outer frame member together form a continuous heat transfer path.
US10898010B2	Screw drive for dispensing cutlery and related methods A dispenser for dispensing cutlery may include a housing configured to contain a plurality of utensils for dispensing, a dispensing mechanism that includes at least one threaded separating member configured to be driven and separate a utensil from a stack of utensils, and at least one drive mechanism configured to drive the at least one threaded separating member. The dispenser may further include a receptacle configured to receive the utensil separated from the stack of utensils.
US10898004B2	Furniture and bed-sofa body A furniture item includes a body including first side plates in a first direction, a second side plate on a first side in a second direction, and a horizontal stand that forms a horizontal surface extending from the second side plate; a floor plate part that is enabled to slide between a first position and a second position that is on the second side relative to the first position; a mattress part that is enabled to be placed on the floor plate part; and a cushion element that is enabled to be placed on the mattress part. An upper side surface of the mattress part extends at a height lower than a lower end of the horizontal stand, and a space is formed under a horizontal surface of the horizontal stand in a state in which the floor plate part is at the second position.
US10898002B1	Self-contained event cheering apparatus A portable lightweight cheering apparatus integrated with a collapsible tubular frame chair. The apparatus comprises sound recordings, electronic equipment to store the sound recordings, and devices to convert the recordings to sounds reproduced by built-in speakers A push of any one of momentary pushbutton switches disposed on the chair armrest sides will cause a recording sound to emanate from the speakers; a tap on any one of momentary pad switches will cause a recorded drum sound to emanate from the speakers enabling a user to be a virtual drummer and a virtual cheering group.
US10898000B2	Leg extension for procedure chair An extension assembly for a procedure chair leg pad includes a frame and a leg pad assembly. The frame attaches to deployment tracks of the procedure chair through frame arms and includes a slot(s). At least one slot includes detents configured to receive and selectively restrain a guide member. The leg pad assembly is disposed in proximity to the frame and includes a guide member(s) extending therefrom, through a slot and movable relative to the frame. The leg pad assembly may be moved forward and rearward by manual adjustment, moving the guide members through their respective slots. Detents along the slots restrain the guide member at predefined positions until sufficient force is applied to overcome the geometry of the detent. A detent(s) is configured to prevent vertical movement of the leg pad assembly when stowed vertically, but still allow movement in a deployed position.
US10897996B2	Ready to assemble seating Embodiments of the invention may include a ready-to-assemble chair, comprising a seat assembly, wherein said seat assembly comprises a top seat surface, at least three sides, and an underside, wherein the underside has an internal cavity defined by the at least three sides; a seat back assembly, wherein said seat back assembly is configured to fit substantially within the internal cavity of the underside of the seat assembly in a flat orientation when said chair is disassembled; and at least three legs. Some aspects of the present invention may include a method of assembly of a ready-to-assemble chair, as well as methods of packaging the same.
US10897995B2	Pivot-over-arm reclining mechanism for a seating unit and modular seating unit connection system A simplified, compact, recliner mechanism which can be adapted to essentially any type of seating unit is disclosed. The seat-drop and the over-center linkages, as well as the seat-drop movement, may be eliminated utilizing a simplified recliner linkage and a linear actuator to control movement of the recliner mechanism.
US10897994B2	Fitness equipment storage system The present disclosure is directed to systems for the storage of group exercise equipment. Embodiments of the system provide for the organized storage of one or more types of fitness equipment in a manner that provides easy access to the equipment while being configurable in a plurality of orientations so as to have a desired footprint for a small space, such as a fitness studio or gym. In some orientations the system may provide access to the stored fitness equipment while in other orientations the system may restrict access to the stored equipment.
US10897993B2	Cabinet assembly A kit is provided that, when assembled, forms a unit of furniture. The kit includes side panels that can reversibly slide into an opening formed in the sides of the front and side panels. The kit may include multiple locking pins and cleats to restrict movement of the top and side panels. The kit may include positioning wedges and/or locking wedges to restrict relative movement of the panels and thus improve the stability of the unit. Also provided are methods of assembling the unit of furniture.
US10897986B2	Brush device that dispenses cleaning fluid A brush device for dispensing a cleaning fluid may include a cleaning head section; a neck section connected to the cleaning head section; a handle section connected to the neck section; a bellows formed in the neck section to apply the cleaning fluid to the cleaning head section; a dispensing outlet valve being formed in the cleaning head section to dispense the cleaning fluid from the brush device; a handle cap being removable and formed in the handle section. The cleaning brush may be integral formed except for the bellows, the dispensing outlet valve and the handle cap.
US10897984B2	Secure device grip A system, method, and apparatus for securely gripping a mobile device can comprise a device connecting assembly comprising an upper base with an orifice formed therein, a bottom base, and a peg formed on the bottom base, a finger gripping assembly, and at least one jointed connection assembly connecting the device connecting assembly and the finger gripping assembly. A connective material can be formed on a bottom base. The finger side strut is configured to fold between two legs of the device side strut.
US10897983B2	Single piece hammock strap with integral woven eyelets This disclosure generally relates to a hammock strap. The hammock strap includes an elongated length of strap material that is separated into a first strap and a second strap. The first strap and the second strap are woven together at one or more separation points to form eyelets between the first strap and the second strap.
US10897979B1	System and method for hair dye color conversion A system and method is provided for hair dye color conversion in which a hair dye color mixture of one manufacture is matched and reproduced using a hair dye color mixture of an another manufacture. The system and method duplicates a resultant hair color from a hair dye color mixture that was created using hair dye colors of a first hair dye color line using a different hair dye color mixture that was created using hair dye colors of a second hair dye color line. The system and method applies a modified Kubelka-Munk transformation of RGB values to the mathematical RGB data of the multiple hair dye colors for the first manufacturer color line, multiplies the modified KM transformed values of the multiple hair dye colors for the first manufacturer color line by their respective percentages and then summing them, and retransforms the summed modified KM transformed values of the multiple hair dye colors back into mathematical RGB values in the original RGB color space. Additionally, the system and method apply a correction factor to the retransformed mathematical RGB values that corrects for RGB errors, wherein the correction factor employs a regression algorithm.
US10897976B2	Foundation container comprising pump having convenient pressurization The present invention relates to a foundation container comprising a pump having convenient pressurization and, more specifically, to a foundation container comprising a pump having convenient pressurization, wherein the outer wall of a pump main body is formed in the shape of an inwardly concave janggu (a Korean traditional hourglass drum), thereby not delimiting a pumping method to vertically pressurizing the center of a pump upper body, but facilitating the discharge of the contents even though any region of the pump upper body is pressurized. In addition, the present invention relates to a foundation container comprising a pump having convenient pressurization, wherein productivity is improved due to easy mass production by integrating a pump upper body and a pump main body in one body and forming a discharge valve and a suction valve in the same shape so as to simplify the structure of a pump.
US10897965B2	Snap button and male body forming method Provided is a snap button that can increase the productivity and reduce the thickness. The snap button includes a female snap and a male snap engageable with and disengageable from the female snap. The female snap includes a female eyelet member defining an opening. The male snap includes a male eyelet member defining an opening and an engaging member fixed to the opening of the male eyelet member. The engagement member includes a connecting part connectable to and disconnectable from the opening of the female eyelet member, and a fixing part fitted into the opening of the male eyelet member.
US10897964B1	Adjustable connectors for use with webbing of patient harness systems and other types of safety belt systems Adjustable connectors disclosed herein are adapted to connect webbing, e.g., urethane coated webbing, to a buckle. The adjustable connector includes a baseplate, a tongue at a front end of the baseplate, a webbing aperture within the baseplate, and first and second walls extending perpendicularly from the baseplate. In certain embodiments, the adjustable connector includes a rotatable lock bar including a central portion having an outer surface and first and second tabs. In certain embodiments, a front edge of the webbing aperture comprises an arced front edge extending between side edges of the webbing aperture such that a distance between a center of the arced front edge of the webbing aperture and a back edge of the webbing aperture is greater than a respective distance between each of the ends of the arced front edge and the back edge of the webbing aperture.
US10897956B2	Footwear article with asymmetric ankle collar A footwear article includes an asymmetric ankle collar that may expand in a manner that facilitates donning and doffing the footwear article, such as when the wearer slides his or her heel out of the footwear article. The footwear article may also include a collar elevator.
US10897952B2	Skate and method of manufacture A skate boot shell including a tridimensional outer sub-shell made of a first material, the outer sub-shell including a first sole portion connected to first heel, ankle and side portions; a tridimensional inner sub-shell received within and connected to the outer sub-shell, an outer surface of the inner sub-shell being complementary to an inner surface of the outer sub-shell, the inner sub-shell being made of a second material different from the first material; and a tridimensional reinforcement sub-shell made of a third material different from the first and second materials and bonded inside at least one of the inner and outer sub-shells.
US10897948B2	Footwear roofing shoes Footwear having a vamp, an insole, a midsole and an outsole, wherein a plurality of spaced apart magnets are located adjacent said outsole so that in use said magnets provide a gripping force between said footwear and a ferrous metallic surface upon which said footwear is placed.
US10897942B2	Belt system A belt clip is adapted for storing a belt. The belt clip includes a first clip member and a second clip member that mechanically and removably attaches to the first clip member. The first clip member and the second clip member collectively form an elongated tunnel through which a belt can be looped.
US10897940B2	Gloves having measuring, scanning, and displaying capabilities A measuring apparatus for measuring parameters of an object is provided. The measuring apparatus, according to one implementation, includes a right-handed glove configured to be worn on the right hand of a user and a left-handed glove configured to be worn on the left hand of the user. A first wireless communication device is attached to the right-handed glove and a second wireless communication device is attached to the left-handed glove. The measuring apparatus also includes a calculating device. The first and second wireless communication devices are configured to wirelessly communicate time-based signals with each other. The calculating device utilizes the time-based signals to determine a first dimension of an object.
US10897939B1	Strap assembly for connecting protective sleeves for work with high-voltage electricity A strap assembly includes first second connectors that attach to protective sleeves, a strap with one end at the first connector and passing through a slot at the second connector, a strap adjustment clip with a base member connected to the second end of the strap and an upper surface, a locking member rotatably attached to the base member with the strap in between. The locking member is rotatable between a locked position and an open position and has a lever extension having and a strap lock extension including a strap lock distal end that traps the strap body against the upper surface of the base member when the locking member is in the locked position.
US10897937B2	Buoyant outdoor garment A rain bib garment is provided, wherein the rain bib garment includes buoyant elements that may be employed so that a wearer may float in water, should the need arise, and further includes means for providing a substantially water-tight seal between the rain bib and a wearer at an upper portion of the rain bib.
US10897935B2	Compression sleeve nursing garment A brassiere for use while nursing or pumping to help in the release of breast milk from the milk ducts of a woman's breast by applying steady and uniform pressure to the periphery of the breast with a stretchable compression material, with the pressure directed radially inward toward a centerline of the breast and outwardly through the nipple of the breast, to place pressure on the milk ducts and to assist in pushing milk out of the nipples. The nursing brassiere lifts the breast to assist in handling the breast while nursing and enables for a more relaxed breast-feeding or pumping experience.
US10897934B2	Woman's undergarment A woman's undergarment prevents brassiere cups for receiving breasts from sliding upward and prevents the breasts from spilling out of the brassiere cups, even if the wearer moves her body in any direction. A woman's undergarment with brassiere cups includes the brassiere cups, cup cover pieces, a support panel, side belts and, and straps. The cup cover pieces are each disposed to cover an outer surface of the brassiere cup and separated from the outer surface of the brassiere cup. Only a lower edge of the brassiere cup is sewn to a lower edge of the cup cover piece.
US10897931B2	Visualization system and method for electronic vapor provision systems A method of visualization between an electronic vapor provision system and a visualization device includes obtaining from the electronic vapor provision system notification that an inhalation on the electronic vapor provision system by a user has occurred, estimating a time of exhalation by the user responsive to the time of notification, and initiating a display of a computer graphic by the visualization device responsive to the estimated time of exhalation.
US10897928B2	Shaped elements for smoking devices A mouthpiece for a smoking device is provided. The mouthpiece comprises a porous substrate. The porous surface comprises a wall having an outer surface having an outer cross-sectional shape and an inner surface having an inner cross-sectional shape. The inner surface defines a hollow interior space. A wall thickness is defined by the outer and inner surfaces. The porous substrate has a specific hardness of at least about 1.5 hardness % per weight (g) per length (mm) of the porous substrate. The porous substrate has a porosity of about 50% to about 70%. The inner and outer surfaces provide a wall thickness of about 20% to 60% of an area defined by the outer cross-sectional shape.
US10897927B2	Nonlinear flexible magnetic filter element A magnetizable object within a smoking article or tobacco product that has magnetic properties optimized to enable efficient magnetic retrieval of the smoking article from the environment in a manner that is independent of spatial orientation of the article with respect to the magnetic field.
US10897925B2	Articles and formulations for smoking products and vaporizers Methods and apparatuses for the customization of tobacco and Cannabis smoking products including formulations for onserts, precision rods and precision pods for harm reduction products particularly for those who simultaneously smoke or vape tobacco and marijuana, as well as methods and apparatuses for blending a salt of nicotine in crystalline form and one or more cannabinoids in crystalline form for a precision pod for use in a vaporizer.
US10897921B2	Palatable foods for a methionine-restricted diet A method is disclosed for making palatable methionine-restricted foods, to deliver a methionine-restricted diet to human or veterinary patients. A protein or a food product containing protein is partially oxidized, preferably with ozone, to oxidize nearly all of the methionine and cysteine. After oxidation, tryptophan and lysine are optionally added back since they tend to be oxidized also. Optionally, a small amount of methionine is also added back so that the final methionine is within a preferred range of about 0.85 to about 1.8 gram methionine per 100 gram total protein, preferably about 1.2 gram per 100 gram total protein.
US10897918B1	Extrusion encapsulation with narrow particle size and shape distribution, high solubility, and low surface oil A glassy, particulate, melt extrusion encapsulation composition and a process of making the composition are described. The encapsulation composition is highly soluble in aqueous systems, has a low level of encapsulate on the surface of the particles, and has a narrow particle size and shape distribution. Food systems containing the encapsulation composition are also described.
US10897917B2	Stress management in livestock A method for minimising or preventing the induction of stress-related or stress-induced inappetance or inanition in an animal selected for a marketing or management practice.
US10897916B2	System for providing a single serving of a frozen confection A system for providing a single serving of a frozen confection, wherein the system comprises a pod comprising at least one ingredient for providing a single serving of a frozen confection; the system cools the pod; the system introduces water into the pod; the system simultaneously stirs the contents of the pod while scraping at least one wall of the pod to prevent a build-up of the frozen confection on the at least one wall of the pod; and the system ejects the frozen confection out of the pod.
US10897915B2	Method for making coffee products containing cannabis ingredients The present disclosure is directed to methods of making coffee products containing cannabinoids that are extracted from Cannabis plant. According to one embodiment, the method includes the steps of (a) extracting cannabinoids from the Cannabis plant; and (b) admixing the cannabinoids into a coffee product. The disclosed methods produce coffee products that possess the benefits of both coffee and Cannabis plant. The methods can be used to produce different coffee products including single-serve coffee pods, ground coffee, espresso and coffee extracts. The methods are used to make coffee and other products with desired and consistent amount of Cannabis-derived compounds.
US10897914B1	Automatic chine saw A system and method for removing a bone from a primal or sub primal meat cut that includes a conveyance system having a continuous conveyor extending along a path of conveyance from an upstream point at the loading end to a downstream point at the discharge. The system includes a pair of opposing support surfaces projecting vertically upward from a first position of the continuous conveyor along the path of conveyance whereby each of the opposing support surfaces of the pair inwardly extend one toward the other, from an upper level downward vertically to a lower level. Each opposing support surface of the pair has a downward slope and each opposing surface of the pair converges at a recessed valley at the lower level.
US10897913B1	Automatic waffle cone shaper An automated waffle cone shaper for shaping waffle cones may include a mounting plate; a slide rail mounted to a top surface of the mounting plate, the slide rail including a slide carriage slidably mounted thereon; a tray attached to the slide carriage, such that when the slide carriage slides along a length of the slide rail, the tray moves along a length of the mounting plate, wherein the tray comprises a waffle feed portion and a cone shaper mold extending from the waffle feed portion; a motor and gearbox operatively attached to an end of the mounting plate distal from the slide rail; and a cone shaping spindle operatively attached to the motor, such that when the motor is activated, the cone shaping spindle rotates.
US10897907B2	Colorless material with improved antimicrobial performance Aspects of this disclosure pertain to a colorless material that includes a carrier, copper-containing particles, and quaternary ammonium. In one or more embodiments, the material exhibits, in the CIE Lab* system, an L* value in the range from about 91 to about 100, and a C* value of less than about 7, wherein C* equals √(a2+b2). In some embodiments, the material exhibits a greater than 3 log reduction in a concentration of Staphylococcus aureus, under the EPA Test Method for Efficacy of Copper Alloy as a Sanitizer testing conditions.
US10897906B2	Fungicide for the treatment of fungal pathogens causing mycotoxins Fungal diseases and resulting mycotoxins are reduced or eliminated from plant tissues during crop growth or post-harvest during storage by treatment with an aqueous spray solution prepared from a fungicide composition of a bicarbonate salt containing a surfactant system to reduce the surface tension and contact angle of the spray solution on the plant surface thereby controlling the crystal size of the bicarbonate and re-distribution and adherence of the crystals to the crop vegetation and/or grains.
US10897905B2	Hypochlorite based hard surface disinfectants A disinfectant includes a source of chlorine, a buffer system, a pH adjuster, and a polar carrier. The disinfectant has a pH of 9.9-11 and activity against Clostridium difficile spores and Mycobacterium within a 3 minute kill time. In one embodiment, the disinfectant includes sodium hypochlorite as a source of chlorine, a carbonate or phosphate buffer system, a hydroxide pH adjuster, and a polar carrier, wherein the disinfectant has a pH of 10.0-10.5 and kills at least 90% of Clostridium difficile spores and Mycobacterium within a 3 minute kill time.
US10897898B2	Herbicidal composition comprising cinmethylin and acetochlor or pretilachlor The present invention relates to a herbicidal composition comprising at least one chloroacetamide selected from acetochlor and pretilachlor. The invention also relates to methods and uses for controlling undesirable vegetation, in particular in crops.
US10897884B2	Fishing line guide, fishing rod having the fishing line guide, and guide ring for use in the fishing line guide One object of the present invention is to provide a guide ring less prone to break due to an impact or wear. A fishing line guide according to one aspect of the present invention is to be used on a fishing rod and includes a guide body with a through hole formed therein and a guide ring fitted into the through hole of the guide body. The guide ring has a top portion that is most distant from the fishing rod in a vertical direction extending vertically with respect to an axial direction of the fishing rod, and the guide ring is configured such that a thickness of a guide rear portion on a rear side relative to the top portion is larger than that of a guide front portion on a front side relative to the top portion.
US10897882B2	Method of using a shark repellent system A rod for repelling sharks is disclosed. Magnets are connected to the rod along its length. If necessary, the rod may be extended. Additionally, one or more flotation devices may be connected to the rod to manipulate or adjust the buoyancy of the system, depending on the user's objective(s). The rod is connected to a fishing line once a fish is hooked and is in close proximity to the boat or other structure from which the fisherman is fishing. The weight of the rod and magnets cause the rod to slide down to the end of the fishing line, where the rod will come in contact with the hooked mouth of the fish. As the fish struggles during the fight, the rod creates a protective magnetic field around the fish to deter sharks from engaging the fish.
US10897881B2	Method of making a chicken with germ cells expressing marker protein The present invention relates to methods for transfecting cells. In particular, the present invention relates to methods of transfecting primordial germ cells in avians, and to methods of breeding avians with modified traits.
US10897880B2	Humanized heart muscle Described herein is a method for producing a chimeric non-human animal expressing a human NKX2-5, HANDII, TBX5 gene or a combination thereof gene comprising: a) generating a NKX2-5, HANDII, TBX5 or combination thereof null non-human animal cell, wherein both copies of the non-human NKX2-5, HANDII, TBX5 gene or combination thereof carry a mutation that prevents production of functional NKX2-5, HANDII, TBX5 protein or combination thereof in said non-human animal; b) creating a NKX2-5, HANDII, TBX5 or combination thereof null non-human blastocyst by somatic cell nuclear transfer comprising fusing a nucleus from said NKX2-5, HANDII, TBX5 or combination thereof null non-human animal cell of a) into an enucleated non-human oocyte and activating said oocyte to divide so as to form an NKX2-5, HANDII, TBX5 or combination thereof null non-human blastocyst; c) introducing human stem cells into the NKX2-5, HANDII, TBX5 or combination null non-human blastocyst of b); and d) implanting said blastocyst from c) into a pseudopregnant surrogate non-human animal to generate a chimeric non-human animal expressing human NKX2-5, HANDII, TBX5 or combination thereof.
US10897879B2	Aquarium with creature feature A combination aquarium with an eye-catching design is disclosed. The apparatus includes a bowl that is removably received and supported by a lower receptacle having first sidewalls which curve in a concave-up fashion and are dimensioned to receive and support a lower portion of the body of the bowl, and an upper receptacle dimensioned to be removably positioned over an upper portion of the body of the bowl and having an opening which substantially aligns with an opening at the top of the bowl, where the upper receptacle has second sidewalls which curve in a concave-down fashion.
US10897875B2	Bag-holding device A poop catching system and methods configured to removably hold a bag using at least one bag constrain; an extendable element configured to produce at least two position in the bag: opened and closed; such that in the opened position poop can enter into the bag and in the closed stop poop from exiting the bag; and a handle to allow the bag in the open position to be held underneath an animal while it is evacuating. Further aspects include that that the extendable element is a sliding plate and the poop catching system further comprises a fixed plate with mating geometry and in the closed position the sliding plate and fixed plate are flush to one another. Still a further aspect involves the at least one bag constraint configured being a gate type bag constraint.
US10897873B1	Hay shaker and livestock feeder The hay shaker and livestock feeder is configured for use with livestock. The hay shaker and livestock feeder is configured for use with livestock feed. The hay shaker and livestock feeder removes detritus, such as dust, from the livestock feed. The hay shaker and livestock feeder comprises a separating chamber, a plurality of stanchions, a vacuum system, and one or more vibration motors. The plurality of stanchions elevates the separating chamber above the ground. The vacuum system and the one or more vibration motors attach to the separating chamber. The separating chamber contains the livestock feed. The vacuum system and the one or more vibration motors combine to remove the detritus from the livestock feed contained within the separating chamber.
US10897871B1	Soybean cultivar 86240211 A soybean cultivar designated 86240211 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 86240211, to the plants of soybean cultivar 86240211, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 86240211, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 86240211. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 86240211. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 86240211, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 86240211 with another soybean cultivar.
US10897870B2	Soybean variety 01072322 The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01072322. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01072322. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01072322 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01072322 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10897863B1	Soybean variety 5PNLY33 A novel soybean variety, designated 5PNLY33 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PNLY33, cells from soybean variety 5PNLY33, plants of soybean 5PNLY33, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PNLY33. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PNLY33 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PNLY33, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PNLY33, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PNLY33. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PNLY33 are further provided.
US10897861B2	System and method for passive solar houses, buildings and skyscrapers with integrated aquaponics, greenhouse and mushroom cultivation An insulated passive house, building, or skyscrapers system and method with integrated aquaponics, greenhouse, and mushroom cultivation, includes a glazing on a sun facing side at an angle to maximize winter sunlight, and housing a fish tank; a plant growing area; a mushroom growing area; a shop, apartment or office area; a water wall thermal mass that divides the plant growing area from the mushroom growing and the shop, apartment or office areas, and the fish tank; and a natural air ventilation (NAV) system that provides misted air to the mushroom growing and the shop, apartment or office areas, and the fish tank from O2 generated by the plant growing area, and CO2 generated by the mushroom growing and the shop, apartment or office areas, and the fish tank to the plant growing area.
US10897858B2	Blower/mulcher An air-flow generating device, such as a blower, a vacuum, a mulcher, etc. The device may include a motor, a housing that supports the motor, and a passageway coupled to the housing and defining a passageway axis between a first opening and a second opening. The device may also include a fan assembly with a first axial fan and a second axial fan, and a transmission assembly coupling the first axial fan and the second axial fan to the motor. The transmission assembly may include a transmission shaft rotatable about a transmission axis substantially orthogonal to the passageway axis. An actuator may be operable to adjust the fan assembly about the transmission axis between a first condition, in which the first axial fan is positioned proximate the first opening, and a second condition, in which the second axial fan is positioned proximate the first opening.
US10897855B2	Palletized kit for a reinforced earth wall structure A pocket structure for receiving containerized plants is sloped and hung from a wire of a wire basket. The pocket structure includes hooks, an irrigation fitting and corresponding drip channel to transmit water toward the rear of the pocket, and slots in the walls. The mesh units include braces and are sized for shipping. An earth wall is formed of the mesh units and pockets, and includes irrigation tubing. The components may be formed into a palletized kit.
US10897853B2	Temporal, irradiance-controlled photoacclimation A lighting system for temporal, irradiance-controlled photoacclimation includes a photoacclimation controller configured to generate control signals based on a photoacclimation schedule, a user interface configured to receive user input to the photoacclimation controller, the photoacclimation schedule based on the user input, a plurality of luminaires configured to emit light suitable for photosynthesis in plants at a plurality of different selectable levels of light output, and a communications network via which the control signals are provided to the plurality of luminaires, the luminaires adjusting the light output in response to the control signals.
US10897850B2	System and method for automating transfer of plants within an agricultural facility One variation of a method for automating transfer of plants within an agricultural facility includes: dispatching a loader to autonomously deliver a first module—defining a first array of plant slots at a first density and loaded with a first set of plants at a first growth stage—from a first grow location within an agricultural facility to a transfer station within the agricultural facility; dispatching the loader to autonomously deliver a second module—defining a second array of plant slots at a second density less than the first density and empty of plants—to the transfer station; recording a module-level optical scan of the first module; extracting a viability parameter of the first set of plants from features detected in the module-level optical scan; and if the viability parameter falls outside of a target viability range, rejecting transfer of the first set of plants from the first module.
US10897849B2	Characterization of plant behavior using transpiration rate and water uptake rate A system for characterizing a plant is disclosed. The system comprises: a plurality of sensors configured to sense a first parameter indicative of a transpiration rate from the whole plant and a second parameter indicative of a water uptake rate into the whole plant. The system also comprises a processor configured to receive signals from the sensors, to process the signals to calculate both the parameters, and to characterize the plant according to the calculated parameters. In some embodiments of the present invention the processor is configured for calculating at least one of the first parameter and the second parameters momentarily.
US10905036B2	Display cooler and display device using same The present invention relates to: a cooler capable of simplifying a structure, increasing heat exchange efficiency, and slimming a display device; and a display device using the same. A cooler structure applied to the display device uses a heat pipe allowing a refrigerant, which is a volatile liquid, to flow therein and a fin structure expanding a heat transfer cross section, so as to rapidly absorb, through evaporation of the refrigerant, heat from the air in a closed air circulation path circulating around a display unit, and quickly dissipate heat from an outside space (an open air circulation path) of the closed air circulation path through condensation of the refrigerant, thereby enabling heat exchange to occur very efficiently while occupying less volume. Additionally, the present invention provides the cooler structure in which the heat pipe is made in a circular fashion such that the refrigerant efficiently flows therein. Particularly, when a section in which the heat pipe generates heat is disposed on the side of the display unit, the display device can be formed to be just as slim.
US10905031B1	Universal cooling baseboard module In one embodiment, a cooling device for providing liquid cooling to an electronics circuit board includes an upper module having a cooling plate forming an upper surface to receive an external circuit board having one or more electronic devices deposited thereon, the upper module having a first liquid distribution channel embedded therein to extract heat from the electronic devices of the circuit board through the cooling plate using a cooling liquid flowing in the first liquid distribution channel. The cooling device further includes a lower module having a second liquid distribution channel embedded therein to receive the cooling liquid from an external cooling liquid source, and the cooling device includes a plurality of tube channels positioned between the upper module and the lower module to receive the cooling liquid from the lower module and to supply the cooling liquid upwardly to the upper module.
US10905025B1	Interconnection module and server rack In an embodiment, a system includes a first group of connectors, a second group of connectors, and an interconnection enclosure. Each single connector in the first group provides an interface for a corresponding group of component signal paths. Each single connector in the second group provides an interface for at least one component signal path from each of the corresponding group of component signal paths of each connector in the first group of connectors. The enclosure houses at least a portion of the groups of component signal paths connecting the first group with the second group. The system is configured to provide an interconnection between network switches. In an embodiment, a system includes a network component rack and a panel coupled to the network component rack and configured to receive an interconnection module having the first group of connectors, second group of connectors, and an interconnection enclosure.
US10905019B2	Display device A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a housing, a plurality of rollers positioned inside the housing, a display unit including a display panel and a module cover having at least one apron, of which at least a portion is connected to each other, and a driver including a motor assembly, an upper bar coupled to an upper part of the display unit, and at least one support portion having one side coupled to both ends of the upper bar and the other side coupled to the motor assembly and moving up and down the upper bar. The display panel and the module cover are in a first state in which they are wound around the roller or a second state in which they are unwound from the roller, contact each other, and are exposed to the outside of the housing.
US10905015B2	Chip component having groove formed therein The present disclosure relates to a laminated-type chip component, and more particularly, to a laminated-type chip component which can be more stably bonded by forming a groove filled with solder in a region in which an external electrode terminal of the laminated-type chip is soldered and thereby increasing the area of soldering.
US10905014B2	Application specific electronics packaging systems, methods and devices Depicted embodiments are directed to an Application Specific Electronics Packaging (“ASEP”) system, which enables the manufacture of additional products using reel to reel (68a, 68b) manufacturing processes as opposed to the “batch” processes used to currently manufacture electronic products and MIDs. Through certain ASEP embodiments, it is possible to integrate connectors, sensors, LEDs, thermal management, antennas, RFID devices, microprocessors, memory, impedance control, and multi-layer functionality directly into a product.
US10905010B2	Connecting arrangement and corresponding method for mounting an electronic component on a printed circuit board A connecting arrangement includes an electronic component and a printed circuit board, and a method includes establishing a solder connection between the component and circuit board. The component has a housing with a support area, and a contact element with a first contact area running parallel to the support area of the housing, a second contact area at a prespecified angle relative to the first contact area, and a rounded transition region formed between the first and second contact areas. The circuit board has a first surface with a soldering area including a constriction, a first section, and a second section connected to the first section via the constriction. The transition region is in a region of the constriction. The second contact area is connected to the second section via a solder connection. The support area is at an angle relative to the first surface corresponding to the prespecified angle.
US10905007B1	Contact pads for electronic substrates and related methods Electronic substrates, contact pads for electronic substrates, and related methods are disclosed. Electronic substrates may include an electrically conductive layer that forms at least one contact pad and at least one metal trace on a non-conductive layer. The contact pads are arranged with greater thicknesses or heights above the non-conductive layer than the metal traces. Dielectric layers are disclosed that cover the metal traces while leaving top surfaces of the contact pads exposed. Top surfaces of the dielectric layers may be arranged to be coplanar with top surfaces of the contact pads to provide electronic substrates having generally planar top faces. Bottom faces of electronic substrates may include mounting pads that are coplanar with additional dielectric layers. Methods are disclosed that include forming dielectric layers to cover contact pads and metal traces, and removing surface portions of the dielectric layers until the contact pads are accessible through the dielectric layers.
US10905006B2	Textile electronic device for smart clothing A textile electronic device configured to be connected to a conductive zone of a textile, the device including: an electronic circuit; at least a first mechanical and electrical connection means configured to be connected to the conductive zone of a textile; a textile substrate having at least a second electrical connection means, the at least one second electrical connection means being electrically connected to the electronic circuit and to the at least one first mechanical and electrical connection means; and a flexible envelope totally or partially including said electronic circuit, the at least one first mechanical and electrical connection means and the textile substrate, the at least one first mechanical connection means and electric being at least partially accessible through the flexible envelope. Also, a manufacturing method of the textile electronic device.
US10905005B2	Wiring board, laminated wiring board, and semiconductor device A wiring board includes a first interconnect layer, a first insulating layer covering the first interconnect layer, a second interconnect layer, thinner than the first interconnect layer, formed on the first insulating layer and having an interconnect density higher than that of the first interconnect layer, and a second insulating layer formed on the first insulating layer and covering the second interconnect layer. The first insulating layer includes a first layer including no reinforcing material, and a second layer including a reinforcing material. The first and second layers include a non-photosensitive thermosetting resin as a main component thereof. The first layer has a coefficient of thermal expansion higher than that of the second layer, and the second insulating layer includes a photosensitive resin as a main component thereof. The second interconnect layer includes an interconnect formed directly on and electrically connected to the first interconnect layer.
US10904998B2	System and method for via optimization in a printed circuit board A signal trace on a printed circuit board (PCB) includes a first trace segment on a first layer of the PCB, the first trace segment having a first end coupled to a transmitter, having a second end, and having a first characteristic impedance that is matched to the transmitter. The signal trace further includes a signal via passing from the first layer of the PCB to a second layer of the PCB, the signal via having a first contact connected to the second end of the first trace segment, having a second contact on the second layer, and having a second characteristic impedance different from the first characteristic impedance. The second characteristic impedance is determined based upon a first distance between the transmitter and the first via.
US10904997B2	Printed circuit board, optical module, and optical transmission equipment Provided is a printed circuit board realizing selective inhibition of electromagnetic noise and enabling high-density arrangement of differential transmission lines without increasing cost. The printed circuit board includes a pair of strip conductors (first layer), a first resonance conductor plate, a ground conductive layer (together with a second layer) including an opening portion, a second resonance conductor plate (third layer), a third resonance conductor plate (fourth layer), first via holes connecting the first and second resonance conductor plates, a second via hole connecting the second and third resonance conductor plates, and third via holes connecting the third resonance conductor plate and the ground conductive layer, wherein a polygon obtained by sequentially connecting centers of the adjacent third via holes overlaps so as to include the first resonance conductor plate, and center-to-center distance between the adjacent third via holes is 0.5 wavelength or less at frequency corresponding to the bit rate.
US10904994B2	Supply system for an extreme ultraviolet light source A supply system for an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light source includes an apparatus configured to be fluidly coupled to a reservoir configured to contain target material that produces EUV light in a plasma state, the apparatus including two or more target formation units, each one of the target formation units including: a nozzle structure configured to receive the target material from the reservoir, the nozzle structure including an orifice configured to emit the target material to a plasma formation location. The supply system further includes a control system configured to select a particular one of the target formation units for emitting the target material to the plasma formation location. An apparatus for a supply system of an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light source includes a MEMS system fabricated in a semiconductor device fabrication technology, and the MEMS system including a nozzle structure configured to be fluidly coupled to a reservoir.
US10904993B2	Reducing the effect of plasma on an object in an extreme ultraviolet light source A first target is provided to an interior of a vacuum chamber, a first light beam is directed toward the first target to form a first plasma from target material of the first target, the first plasma being associated with a directional flux of particles and radiation emitted from the first target along a first emission direction, the first emission direction being determined by a position of the first target; a second target is provided to the interior of the vacuum chamber; and a second light beam is directed toward the second target to form a second plasma from target material of the second target, the second plasma being associated with a directional flux of particles and radiation emitted from the second target along a second emission direction, the second emission direction being determined by a position of the second target, the first and second emission directions being different.
US10904992B2	Systems and methods for outdoor luminaire wireless control Systems and methods which leverage the wireless communication capability present in wireless-enabled luminaires where the lamps include a short-range wireless transceiver and can be controlled by a smart appliance. The wireless capability of a luminaire may be paired with a compatible wireless interface system (e.g., adapter system) that allows for control of the luminaire via plug-in or hard-wired photocontrols and wireless network lamp control nodes. An adapter system may be provided that replaces a standard wired receptacle of a luminaire. The adapter system may include a wired interface to the luminaire which provides power to the wireless adapter system. The wireless adapter system may include a receptacle interface that receives a plug of a control node, such as photocontrol or a networked control node. The wireless adapter system may also include a wireless interface circuit that communicates control, status or other data between the connected control device and the luminaire.
US10904991B2	Apparatus, system, and method of monitoring, and recording medium An apparatus, system, and method of remotely monitoring receives, from an operation terminal, identification information and location information of a location of one or more lamps, stores, in a memory, the received identification information and the received location information in association with each other for the one or more lamps, updates log information regarding a log of a lighting condition of the one or more lamps, in response to an indication that an electric circuit of the one or more lamps is energized for the one or more lamps, and sends monitoring information corresponding to the log information of the electric circuit of the one or more lamps for display.
US10904986B1	Circuit interface A circuit interface includes a plurality of inputs, an internal controller, and a communication module. Each of the inputs may be configured to connect to a respective high voltage relay output of a pool and/or spa control (“PSC”) panel. The internal controller may be connected to the plurality of inputs, and together, the internal controller and the plurality of inputs can be configured to convert relay output signals into formatted data that includes an implementation protocol. The communication module can be configured to transmit the formatted data from the circuit interface. Conversions from the relay output signals to the formatted data can include specifying or configuring the formatted data to cause a device controller to operate devices corresponding to respective PSC panel relay outputs by directing individual low voltage supplies from a common low voltage source to the respective devices.
US10904983B2	Emergency lighting system An emergency lighting system including a plurality of lights including a first group of lights and a second group of lights, a switching circuit, and a controller. The switching circuit includes a relay. The relay has a first position, in which power from the driver is provided to the first group of lights and the second group of lights; and a second position, in which power from the auxiliary power supply is provided to the second group of lights. The controller is configured to output a signal to the emergency control input when an input voltage is below a threshold. Wherein, the switching circuit places the relay in the second position upon receiving the signal at the emergency control input.
US10904979B2	Load control device for a light-emitting diode light source A load control device may utilize a feedback signal representative of an average magnitude of the load current conducted through an electrical load to control the amount of power delivered to the electrical load. The feedback signal may be generated based on a sense signal that is electrically isolated from the line voltage input of the load control device. Depending on the operational characteristics of the electrical load, the feedback signal may be generated using different techniques. In one example technique, the sense signal may be integrated and filtered to derive the feedback signal. In another example technique, the sense signal may be used in conjunction with an input power of the load control device and an efficiency parameter of the load control device to derive the feedback signal. In yet another example technique, values derived from the foregoing two techniques may be blended together to obtain the feedback signal.
US10904977B2	Overvoltage detection circuit with first and longer second response times A light emitting diode system allows for high current end user LED matrix applications while mitigating internal damage to control circuitry that may be caused by excess current flow. In one example, multiple switches operate in parallel across an LED. When an overvoltage condition is detected in a first switch, a logic circuit determines those switches programmed to operate in parallel and causes them to conduct current. This reduces the amount of current flowing through any one switch and mitigates harm to the device. The parallel configuration of switches may be driven by a single pulse width modulated current. This allows the drive current to be divided between parallel transistors, limiting the damaging effects that can be caused by high currents flowing through the transistors.
US10904973B2	Lighting device, operating light, process and computer program for controlling a plurality of lighting elements in a lighting device A lighting device (10) is provided along with an operating light and a process (50), including a process with a computer program, controlling a plurality of lighting elements in a lighting device (10). The lighting elements are divided into a plurality of groups of lighting elements (20a; 20b; 20c; 20d; 20e; 20f; 20g), with each group of lighting elements (20a; 20b; 20c; 20d; 20e; 20f; 20g) including at least two lighting elements. The process (50) includes assigning (52) different characteristics (30a-h) to the groups of lighting elements (20a; 20b; 20c; 20d; 20e; 20f; 20g). A characteristic (30a-h) includes a sequence of different light intensities in temporal subintervals. The process (50) further includes an activation (54) of subsets of lighting elements in the groups of lighting elements (20a; 20b; 20c; 20d; 20e; 20f; 20g) in the temporal subintervals based on light intensities.
US10904969B2	Light emitting diode (LED) lighting device or lamp with configurable light qualities An LED lighting device or LED lamp comprises one or more LED packages, and a switch comprising at least two selectable positions. At least one selectable position corresponds to a set operating mode and one selectable position corresponds to a configurable operating mode. When the switch is in the selectable position corresponding to the set operating mode, responsive to receiving an indication of user input for selecting user-selected operating light qualities, the one or more LED packages continue to be operated in accordance with the predefined operating light qualities corresponding to the set operating mode. When the switch is in the selectable position corresponding to the configurable operating mode, responsive to receiving an indication of user input for selecting user-selected operating light qualities, operation of the one or more LED packages is modified in accordance with the user-selected operating light qualities.
US10904962B2	Method and device for electromagnetic cooking An electromagnetic cooking device includes an enclosed cavity; a set of radio frequency feeds configured to introduce electromagnetic radiation into the enclosed cavity to heat up and prepare food; a set of high-power radio frequency amplifiers coupled to the set of radio frequency feeds, each high-power amplifier comprising at least one amplifying stage configured to output a signal that is amplified in power with respect to an input radio frequency signal; a signal generator coupled to the set of high-power radio frequency amplifiers for generating the input radio frequency signal, and a controller. The controller can be configured to, among other things, cause the signal generator and selected ones of the set of high-power amplifiers to output a radio frequency signal, select from a set of phase values of radio frequency electromagnetic waves, and identify the resonant modes excited within the enclosed cavity.
US10904957B2	Coil assembly and induction heating device including a coil assembly A coil assembly and an induction heating device including a coil assembly are provided. The coil assembly may include a coil frame having a shape corresponding to a shape of a heating region defined in a plate. A working coil may extend alternately in between opposite first and second directions, rather than being circularly arranged as in related art coil assemblies.
US10904948B2	Apparatus, system and method to implement reserved resources for forward compatibility in new radio (NR) networks An apparatus of a New Radio (NR) User Equipment (UE), a method and system. The apparatus includes a radio frequency (RF) interface and one or more processors coupled to the RF interface and configured to: decode a communication from a NR evolved Node B (gNodeB), the communication including information on configuration parameters of reserved physical resources confined within a bandwidth part (BWP) of a wireless channel, the configuration parameters including time and frequency resources; based on the communication, determine the reserved physical resources as being allocated reserved physical resources; and process signals received on, or for communication on, only physical resources not overlapping the allocated reserved physical resources.
US10904941B2	Method and apparatus for resuming RRC connection in CU-DU division scenario Provided are a method for resuming, by a distribution unit (DU) of a base station, a radio resource control (RRC) connection in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus for supporting the same. The method may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a terminal, an RRC connection resume request message; transmitting, to a central unit (CU) of the base station, an initial uplink (UL) RRC message transfer message including the RRC connection resume request message; receiving, from the CU, a UE context setup request message including a list of radio bearers to be set up; and transmitting, to the CU, the UE context setup response message including a list of established radio bearers.
US10904940B2	Configuration for beam failure recovery Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A base station may send configuration information for a beam failure recovery (BFR) procedure. A wireless device may determine, based on the configuration information, one or more transmission beam parameters for the BFR procedure. The wireless device may indicate, via an uplink control channel, one or more candidate beams of the base station.
US10904938B2	Circuit-switched domain response to packet-switched domain failure A telematics controller is programmed identify a location of the vehicle responsive to failure of a vehicle-originated data call to initiate packet-switched communications, and send, to a service delivery network configured to provide data services to the vehicle, a message specifying that circuit-switched communication but not packet-switched communication is available to the vehicle. A message is received, over a wide-area network from a vehicle, in response to a failed initiation of a packed-switched data connection over the wide-area network, indicating that packet-switched communications are unavailable at a current location of the vehicle. Failure zones are updated to indicate that the current location of the vehicle is a network location supporting circuit-switched communication but not packet-switched communication over the wide-area network.
US10904936B1	Wireless communication service delivery over a fifth generation new radio (5GNR) access node and a long term evolution (LTE) access node A wireless communication network serves User Equipment (UE) over a Fifth Generation New Radio (5GNR) access node and a Long Term Evolution (LTE) access node. The LTE access node determines a utilization metric for the LTE access node and selects 5GNR/LTE allocations based on the utilization metric for the LTE access node. The LTE access node receives user data for the UE and transfers a portion of the user data to the 5GNR access node per the 5GNR/LTE allocations. The LTE access node transfers the remainder of the user data to the UE over an LTE link per the 5GNR/LTE allocations. The 5GNR access node receives the portion of the user data and transfers the portion of the user data to the UE over a 5GNR link per the 5GNR/LTE allocations.
US10904934B2	Communicating control data in a wireless communication network The present invention relates to methods for sending or receiving control data in one or multiple uplink control channel resources of a wireless communication network and to corresponding devices. According to one embodiment of the invention a method of sending control data in one or multiple uplink control channel resources of a wireless communication network is provided. A wireless device receives, from a network node, information on a set of downlink component carriers configured for the wireless device. The wireless device receives, from a network node, an indication of the one or multiple uplink control channel resources. The wireless device maps first control data comprising control data for the set of configured downlink component carriers to a part of the one or multiple uplink control channel resources. And the wireless device maps second control data to a remaining part of the one or multiple uplink control channel resources.
US10904933B2	UE-to-network relay initiation and configuration Technology for a relay user equipment (UE) operable to act as a relay between a remote UE and an eNodeB is disclosed. The relay UE can receive, from the eNodeB, a relay configuration message that includes one or more relay configuration parameters. The relay UE can identify relay UE information associated with one or more relay parameters of the relay UE. The relay UE can determine to act as the relay for the remote UE based on the one or more relay configuration parameters and the relay UE information. The relay UE can transmit a discovery message to the remote UE in order to establish a direct connection between the relay UE and the remote UE, wherein the relay UE is configured to relay data from the eNodeB to the remote UE via the direct convection between the relay UE and the remote UE.
US10904932B2	Tunnel binding based communication method and network device This application provides a tunnel binding based communication method and a network device. The method includes: transmitting, by a first network device, a service packet to a second network device using a first binding tunnel including a first tunnel and a second tunnel; and when the first tunnel is faulty or transmission quality of the first tunnel does not meet a preset condition, transmitting, by the first network device, a service packet to the second network device using a second binding tunnel including a backup tunnel of the first tunnel and the second tunnel. Therefore, if a tunnel in an original binding tunnel is faulty, a tunnel binding based high-bandwidth service continues to be provided using another binding tunnel constituted by a backup tunnel of the faulty tunnel and a fault-free tunnel. Compared with the prior art, this application can improve high-bandwidth communication reliability and user satisfaction.
US10904929B2	Secure communication system A communication system for communicating messages in communication network including first communication device, second communication device and multiple radios. A first radio of the multiple radios receives first message from first communication device via a wireline. The artificial intelligence module determines a coverage area of the first radio. Further, the artificial intelligence module determines at least one radio link for connecting to a second radio outside the coverage area of first radio. The second radio receives the first message wirelessly from the first radio. The artificial intelligence module further determines a first set of radio links for connecting a first set of radios to establish first wireless communication channel between first radio and second radio. The first set of radios communicates first message to the second radio via the first wireless communication channel. Finally, the second communication device receives the first message from the second radio via the wireline.
US10904928B2	Data link establishment method and apparatus The present invention discloses a data link establishment method and an apparatus. In the solution, a second NAN device sends a relay request message to a first NAN device, so as to trigger the first NAN device to establish a first NDL with the second NAN device and establish a second NDL with a third NAN device. In this way, the second NAN device successfully establishes a connection to the third NAN device. This resolves a prior-art disadvantage of failing to establish an NDL.
US10904927B2	Wireless communication method using OFDMA random access and wireless communication terminal using same Provided is a wireless communication terminal that wirelessly communicates with a base wireless communication terminal. The wireless communication terminal includes a transceiver, and a processor. The processor is configured to set an integer selected from a range of 0 to a value equal to or smaller than an OFDMA Contention Window (OCW) as a counter for random access, receive a trigger frame for triggering random access using one or more resource units (RUs) allocated for the random access from the base wireless communication terminal using the transceiver, decrement a value of the counter based on the one or more RUs allocated for the random access, randomly select one RU based on the one or more RUs allocated for the random access when the value of the counter is 0 or reaches 0, and attempt transmission to the base wireless communication terminal using the selected RU.
US10904921B2	System and method of identifying random access response A communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT) is provided. The communication method and system include intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method includes transmitting a random access preamble on a physical random access channel (PRACH) transmission occasion from a base station, identifying a random access radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNTI) for receiving random access response (RAR) information based on a time related parameter, a frequency related parameter and an uplink carrier related parameter, and receiving scheduling assignment information scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) based on the identified RA-RNTI from the base station.
US10904920B1	Trigger-based random access for wireless device A wireless device initiates an Up-Link Trigger Based Multi-User communication by transmitting a trigger frame. The communication may be an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access communication. The trigger frame includes allocation information for resources of the communication, including Random Access (RA) allocation information. The trigger frame may also include a padding field after the allocation information. A length of the padding field is determined according to an amount of time needed for a station receiving the trigger frame to process the RA allocation information. The amount of time may correspond to a time between an end of a last RA allocation information and an end of a Physical layer Protocol Data Unit including the trigger frame. The amount of time may be determined according to a maximum processing time of stations associated with the wireless device, or may be determined according to a predetermined interval.
US10904918B2	Communication apparatus and method, and communication system The present technology relates to communication apparatus and method, and a communication system that enable communication control according to a gain of an antenna element.In a communication apparatus that performs wireless communication via an antenna element, a state of a gain of the antenna element is detected, a threshold value for carrier sense is controlled on the basis of the state of the gain of the antenna element that has been detected, the carrier sense is performed to determine whether communication using the threshold value that has been set possible, and wireless communication is performed in a case where it is determined that the communication is possible. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a transmission apparatus, a reception apparatus, a transmission/reception apparatus, a communication apparatus, electronic equipment, a computer, a program, a storage medium, a system, and the like.
US10904915B2	Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and communication method Uplink communication is efficiently performed in non-allocated frequencies. The terminal apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to receive downlink control information on a PDCCH; and a transmission unit configured to transmit a random access preamble. For a first frame structure type, the downlink control information is used to configure a subframe number of a first uplink subframe in which transmission of the random access preamble is allowed. For a second frame structure type, the downlink control information is used to configure a subframe number of a second uplink subframe in which transmission of the random access preamble is allowed and a symbol number of an uplink symbol in the second uplink subframe.
US10904913B2	Methods and apparatus for control channel scheduling in wireless communications Various aspects related to control channel (e.g., PSCCH) scheduling/prioritizing techniques in wireless communications are described. When a UE may not be able to decode various PSCCH transmissions detected in a subframe, a subset of the PSCCHs may be selected for decoding based on the described methods. In accordance with one aspect, a UE may determine that a total number of PSCCH transmissions in a subframe is greater than a number of PSCCH transmissions that can be decoded within the subframe. Upon such a determination, the UE may select at least one PSCCH transmission in the subframe for decoding based on at least one of: retransmission information, information regarding a transmitting UE associated with the at least one PSCCH transmission, or scheduling priority history associated with a sub-channel carrying the at least one PSCCH transmission. The UE may then decode the at least one PSCCH transmission selected for decoding.
US10904912B2	Method and apparatus for communicating a transport block in an unlicensed uplink transmission on a wireless network A method and apparatus communicate a transport block in an unlicensed uplink transmission on a wireless network. Downlink Control Information (DCI) can be received on a control channel. The DCI can schedule an unlicensed uplink (UL) transmission for a UE. The DCI can include a field that indicates whether the UE should apply a scaling factor when determining a Transport Block Size (TBS). A transport block can be transmitted in the unlicensed UL transmission based on the received DCI.
US10904909B2	System and method for time domain grant-free PUSCH resource allocation A user equipment (UE) may determine that a transmission resource includes a first orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol that is configured as a downlink symbol or as flexible, where the transmission resource is allocated for uplink (UL) transmissions during a time duration, and includes K transmission occasions (TOs). The UE may transmit a first UL transmission in the transmission resource omitting the first OFDM symbol. The first UL transmission includes K repetitions to be transmitted in the respective K TOs, and the K repetitions includes an initial transmission and at least one retransmission of the initial transmission.
US10904907B2	Variable packet delay budgets for wireless communications Generally, the described techniques provide for a core network signaling to a base station a delay budget configuration that indicates a determined latency for communications between a core network, base station, and a user equipment (UE). In some cases, the core network may determine a first variable delay budget between the core network and a base station based on capability information associated with the wireless communications system. The core network may transmit the delay budget configuration to the base station, where the delay budget configuration may include the first delay budget. The base station may be able to determine a delay between the UE and the base station based on the delay budget configuration. Using the delay budget configuration, the base station may then schedule communications with the UE.
US10904903B2	Scheduling UEs with mixed TTI length In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method, including determining, by a user equipment, whether the user equipment is scheduled in one or more time frequency resources of a first transmission time interval or in one or more time frequency resources of a second transmission time interval, where the second transmission time interval is shorter than the first transmission time interval; and based on the determining, adjusting the monitoring of scheduling opportunities within a duration of the first transmission time interval, is disclosed.
US10904902B2	Uplink resource allocation among different OFDM numerology schemes The present disclosure relates to a resource allocation procedure, performed between a user equipment and radio base station. The UE is configured with at least one numerology scheme, each associated with parameters partitioning time-frequency radio resources into resource scheduling units differently. The UE is configured with logical channels each of which is associated with at least one numerology scheme. A receiver of the UE receives from the radio base station an uplink scheduling assignment, which indicates uplink radio resources usable by the UE. A processor of the UE determines for which numerology scheme the received uplink scheduling assignment is intended based on the received uplink scheduling assignment. The processor performs a logical channel prioritization procedure by allocating the assigned uplink radio resources to the configured logical channels and by prioritizing those logical channels that are associated with the numerology scheme for which the uplink scheduling assignment is intended.
US10904898B2	Multi-slot scheduling with repetitive transmission of a transport block with different redundancy versions Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device may receive downlink control information corresponding to a transmission of a transport block over a plurality of transmission time intervals (TTIs). The wireless device may identify a redundancy version sequence for the transport block. The redundancy version may be a pre-defined sequence or may be configured by higher layer signaling based on sequence criterion. The wireless device may transmit or receive a plurality of redundancy versions of the transport block in the plurality of TTIs based at least in part on the redundancy version sequence. In some examples, the plurality of redundancy versions may be determined based at least in part on a starting redundancy version identified by another wireless device.
US10904895B2	Channel state information transmission for multiple carriers Channel state information is reported in periodic and aperiodic reports for multiple component carriers or serving cells. Channel state information may be reported for a subset of aggregated downlink carriers or serving cells. For an aperiodic report, the carrier(s)/serving cell(s) for which channel state information is reported are determined based on the request for the aperiodic report. When a CQI/PMI/RI report and a HARQ ACK/NACK report coincide in a subframe, the HARQ ACK/NACK report is transmitted on PUCCH, and the CQI/PMI/RI report is transmitted on PUSCH.
US10904893B2	Methods and apparatuses for quality of service assessment in a network The embodiments herein relate to methods, an access point and a network node for service quality assessment in a network environment. According to a method, the access point receives, from a user equipment, a request for a service; and determines a service quality identifier based on the requested service. The access point sends, to a network node of a service provider, the service request including the service quality identifier. The network node analyzes the received service quality identifier for determining whether or not the requested service can be supported. If the requested service can be supported, the network node transmits a response to the user equipment informing that the service can be supported over the access point. If the requested service cannot be supported, the network node transmits a response to the user equipment instructing the user or the user equipment to select another access point.
US10904892B2	Beamforming method and apparatus A beamforming method and apparatus are disclosed, to expand coverage of a PDCCH in a particular direction, and improve demodulation performance of the PDCCH. Under this method, a cell-specific reference signal CRS wide beam can be combined by a base station with N CRS narrow beams to form N CRS composite beams. A first beam can be selected by the base station from the N CRS composite beams. Beamforming processing can be performed by the base station on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) based on a weight of the first beam to form a second beam. The first beam and the second beam can be sent.
US10904882B2	Systems and methods for scaling short range local area networks using dual interfaced first hub nodes and transmission schedule mapping Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for integrating deterministic packet transmissions scheduling of short range local area networks (e.g., 6TiSCH networks) with deterministic packet transmission scheduling for wireless networks such as LTE/4G/5G networks. In one aspect, a wireless communication network includes a plurality of first nodes configured to communicate using a first communication protocol; and a second node configured to communicate with the plurality of first nodes using the first communication protocol and configured to communicate with a third node using a second communication protocol, the second node being further configured to map corresponding transmission schedule of the first communication protocol to a second transmission schedule for the second communication protocol.
US10904878B2	Method for transmitting and receiving frame A frame transmission method is provided by a device in a wireless communication network. The device generates a signal field including a symbol using a 64 FFT and carrying signaling information, and generates a data field including a symbol using a FFT having a larger size than the 64 FFT and carrying data. The device transmits a frame including the signal field and the data field.
US10904877B2	TD LTE secondary component carrier in unlicensed bands A method is provided for communication in a wireless telecommunication system. The method comprises adaptively designating, by a network element following a frame-based communication protocol, for use as a secondary component carrier in a carrier aggregation scheme, at least a portion of radio resources on an unlicensed band.
US10904876B2	Techniques for communicating on an uplink in a shared radio frequency spectrum band Techniques are described for wireless communication. One method includes detecting a first reference signal received from a user equipment (UE) in a reference scheduled transmission burst including a plurality of contiguous transmission time intervals (TTIs) received over a shared radio frequency spectrum band; identifying a reference TTI in which the first reference signal is received; determining a contention window size usable by the UE to contend for access to the shared radio frequency spectrum band; and transmitting an indication of the determined contention window size to the UE.
US10904873B2	Terminal apparatus, communication method, and integrated circuit A terminal apparatus for performing discontinuous reception (DRX) at least monitors both a PDCCH for C-RNTI and a PDCCH for CC-RNTI for a DRX-related active time and monitors a PDCCH for CC-RNTI in a period of a CC-RNTI monitoring window. The CC-RNTI monitoring window is started in a subframe n−X+1, and in a case that a second PDCCH is detected in a subframe n−X+v or a subframe up to the subframe n−X+v, the CC-RNTI monitoring window is ended in the subframe n in which the second PDCCH is detected, or in a case that the second PDCCH is not detected in the subframe n−X+v or the subframe up to the subframe n−X+v, the CC-RNTI monitoring window is ended in the subframe n−X+v.
US10904870B2	System and method for sharing a control channel for carrier aggregation A method for processing a control channel at a user agent (UA) to identify at least one of an uplink and a downlink resource allocated by a resource grant within a multi-carrier communication system wherein resource grants are specified by control channel element (CCE) subset candidates wherein the carriers used for data transmission and reception are configured carriers, the method comprising the steps of receiving activation signals specifying active and deactivated carriers from among the configured carriers, for active carriers (i) identifying a number of CCE subset candidates to decode and (ii) decoding up to the identified number of CCE subset candidates in an attempt to identify the resource grant; and for deactivated carriers, ignoring CCE subset candidates associated with the deactivated carriers.
US10904866B2	Information transmission method, user equipment, access network device, and core network device The present disclosure discloses an information transmission method, user equipment, an access network device, and a core network device. The method includes: determining, by user equipment UE when the UE is in an idle state, whether there is to-be-transmitted uplink information; and sending, by the UE, a first request message to a first access network device when the UE determines that there is to-be-transmitted uplink information, where the first request message is a first air interface message for the UE to switch from the idle state to a connected state, and the first request message carries uplink non-access stratum NAS information and air interface identity information that is stored on the UE.
US10904862B2	Wireless access point assistance to wireless user devices for wireless communication network selection A wireless access point assists wireless user devices when the user devices select wireless communication networks. In the wireless access point, a baseband unit generates a broadcast block that comprises a cell identifier for the wireless access point, wireless communication network identifiers, and network selection information that individually characterizes the wireless communication networks. The network selection information may comprise individualized access parameters for different Land Mobile Networks (PLMNs). In the wireless access point, a radio transceiver wirelessly broadcasts the broadcast block to the wireless user devices. The wireless user devices receive the broadcast block and select their wireless communication networks based on the network selection information in the broadcast block. The radio transceiver wirelessly receives user signaling from the wireless user devices that indicates their selected wireless communication networks. The baseband unit transfers network signaling that indicates the selected wireless communication networks for the wireless user devices.
US10904858B2	Method and device for transmitting uplink during a specific radio resource control (RRC) state Provided are a method for a terminal transmitting an uplink on the basis of an uplink feedback indicator in a wireless communication system, and a device supporting same. The method may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a base station, an uplink feedback indicator indicating whether uplink feedback for a paging indicator is enabled; receiving, from the base station, a paging indicator corresponding to the ID of the terminal; and transmitting an uplink as a response to the paging indicator if the uplink feedback indicator indicates that uplink feedback for the paging indicator is enabled.
US10904857B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving paging message in next generation mobile communication system The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting a data rate higher than that of a 4th generation (4G) system with an internet of things (IoT) technology. The disclosure is applicable to intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail, and security and safety-related services) based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology. The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting or receiving a frequency-division-multiplexed paging message in a next generation mobile communication system.
US10904853B2	Estimation of mobile device count A method, system, and apparatus for estimation of a count of mobile devices include receiving one or more probe data points including a location and a session identifier, constructing a trajectory including the one or more probe data points having a same session identifier, constructing a trajectory including the one or more probe data points having a same session identifier and generated by one mobile device of the plurality of the mobile devices, dividing the trajectory area by an area of the observation area, and estimating the count of mobile devices in the observation area from at least the normalized trajectory area. A path of the trajectory is based on the location of the one or more probe data points expanding the path of the trajectory by a radius where a result of the expanding is a trajectory area. A result of the dividing is a first normalized trajectory area.
US10904847B2	Clean-slate synchronization signal design and cell search algorithms Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for design of synchronization signals for narrowband operation and other clean-slate, OFDM based systems such as enhanced component carrier (eCC) systems. An example method is provided for operations which may be performed by a BS to generate and transmit a dual-layer PSS, and correspondingly, techniques for a UE to detect the dual-layer PSS. The PSS may be generated utilizing a binary code cover and at least one sequence applied to a number of symbols within one or more subframes of a frame.
US10904844B2	Time code controlled logic device A synchronization device to synchronize at least one signal with an initiation of an event may generally comprise a time code generator to generate a first time code signal, a synchronization logic unit to calculate a time delay between the first time code signal and a second time code signal to determine when to initiate the event, and generate a time delay signal, and an output unit coupled to the time code generator and synchronization logic unit to receive the time delay signal and generate a signal output to initiate the event in synchronization with the first time code signal. Methods of making and using the synchronization device, a user interface of the synchronization device, and a system comprising the synchronization device are also described.
US10904843B2	Techniques and apparatuses for handling power state transitions of a beamforming apparatus A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. According to some aspects, the apparatus may identify a first power state and a second power state, wherein the first power state is associated with a first transmission or reception of one or more first beams, and the second power state is associated with a second transmission or reception of one or more second beams; and/or switch from the first power state to the second power state, wherein the apparatus is configured to use at least one of a scheduled gap or at least one intermediate power state between the first power state and the second power state to smooth a transition from the first power state to the second power state. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US10904842B1	Systems and methods for selectively reducing an allowable transmit power of a wireless device Systems and methods are described for reducing a maximum allowable transmit power of a wireless device. Instructions to reduce a maximum transmit power of wireless devices operating at a carrier band edge of a band channel maybe received at an access node. Power headroom reports may be collected from the wireless devices. The wireless devices may be classified based on the collected power headroom reports. Power reduction may be imposed on wireless devices classified as low power wireless devices and wireless devices classified as high power wireless devices may be handed off to a neighboring band channel.
US10904836B2	Portable device for adaptive data communication control and method of operating the same A portable device and a method of operating a portable device for performing adaptive data communication control are provided. The method includes determining the on or off state of a display unit, extracting data communication setting information including a fast dormancy policy according to the on or off state of the display unit, and controlling a data communication setting with a specific service provider network based on the extracted data communication setting information, and a portable device supporting the method.
US10904832B2	Wireless system, wireless device, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein communication program, and communication method A communication system as an example of an exemplary embodiment includes two mobile terminals and two BLE terminals. The mobile terminals establish connections with the BLE terminals. Specifically, one of the mobile terminals and one of the BLE terminals are connected together such that the mobile terminal is a central and the BLE terminal is a peripheral. The BLE terminal connected as a peripheral repeatedly executes advertising and a scan, thereby exchanging application data with the other BLE terminal connected as a peripheral.
US10904829B2	Device-availability-based wake-up time schedule An interface circuit in an electronic device (such as an access point) may provide a targeted wake-up time (TWT) service period (SP) schedule to a recipient electronic device. During operation the interface circuit may receive a TWT setup request associated with the recipient electronic device, where the TWT setup request includes non-availability information specifying one or more times when the recipient electronic device will be unavailable. For example, the non-availability information may include one or more times when the recipient electronic device has limited ability to transmit and/or receive. The interface circuit may provide a TWT setup response for the recipient electronic device, where the TWT setup response includes information specifying the TWT SP schedule for the recipient electronic device that includes at least one of: a TWT SP start time, a TWT SP duration, or an interval between TWT SPs.
US10904827B2	User plane system selection based on latency Systems, devices, and techniques described herein relate to user plane system selection based on latency in mobile networks. In particular, the systems, devices, and techniques can be implemented in fifth generation (5G) mobile networks to provide selection of a user plane function (UPF) based on latency. The UPF can measure a latency toward an access network and provide an indication of the latency to a policy control function (PCF). The PCF can select the UPF based on the indication and can request the UPF to provide services to a user equipment (UE) originating a priority request. In response, the UPF can provide services to the UE.
US10904825B1	Controlling access to a shared communication medium in a wireless communication network A method for accessing a shared medium includes receiving, at a first device associated with a first basic service set (BSS), a packet from a second device associated with a second BSS. The packet includes an indication of a duration for which the shared medium is expected to be busy. The method includes setting, at the first device, a first counter for an inter-BSS channel access to the duration in response to the second BSS being different than the first BSS and in response to the duration being greater than a current value of the first counter. The method includes setting, at the first device, a second counter for an intra-BSS channel access to the duration in response to the second BSS being the same as the first BSS and irrespective of whether the duration indicated in the packet is greater than a current value of the second counter.
US10904822B2	System and method for restricting access to a mobile communications network There is described a system for restricting access to a mobile communications network for mobile communication devices within a restricted area. The system comprises at least one transmitter operable to transmit a beacon signal for reception by mobile communication devices within the restricted area and an access control entity, communicable with the mobile communication device via a base station. The access control entity instructs a mobile communication device to perform at least one measurement in regard of the beacon signal from each transmitter and then to provide measurement data corresponding to said performed measurement to the access control entity. The access control entity then analyses the measurement data provided by the mobile communication device and based on that analysis decides whether or not to provide the mobile communication device with access to a service of the mobile communications network.
US10904820B1	Methods and systems for beacon-based management of shared resources Embodiments of the present disclosure can be used to monitor, access, and utilize resources available at workspaces effectively using location-aware devices. Methods and systems disclosed herein integrate location signals received from beacons and other indoor positioning systems for better management of shared resources, such as conference rooms, audiovisual equipment, and other equipment, and address dynamic changes to the availability or non-availability of these resources based on data from location-aware devices and beacons.
US10904814B2	Electronic device and method for wireless communication An electronic device comprises a processing circuit configured to: perform a first determination for determining whether a mobile device should switch on a current serving base station, and if it is determined that the mobile device should switch on the current serving base station, acquire a channel measurement result of a wireless communication device connected to the mobile device; and perform second determination for determining whether the mobile device should switch on the current serving base station, and if it is determined that the mobile device should switch on the current serving base station, perform, on the basis of at least the channel measurement result of the wireless communication device, a switch of the wireless communication device from the mobile device serving as the current serving base station of the wireless communication device to a target serving base station.
US10904812B2	Increasing reliability during multi-connectivity handovers The present disclosure generally relates to techniques to increase reliability of communications within a network during a low reliability period. The network may include a user equipment (UE) communicatively coupled with one or more transmit/receive points (TRPs), with the communications between the UE and the one more TRPs requiring a reliability above a first reliability threshold. A processor of a network entity may identify a low reliability period which occurs when the reliability of the communications is determined to be below a second reliability threshold. The processor may cause the network to perform one or more remedial actions to increase the reliability during the low reliability period.
US10904810B2	Handover method, core network device, access network device, and terminal device A handover method, an access network device, and a terminal device are provided. A handover method comprising: receiving by an access network device, a change instruction message, wherein the change instruction message is used to instruct the access network device to instruct a terminal device to perform an update, generating, by the access network device, an update message, wherein the update message is used to instruct the terminal device to perform an update; and sending by the access network device, the update message to the terminal device. Based on a handover procedure initiated by the second core network device, the connection between the terminal device and the second core network device may be switched to the connection between the terminal device and the first core network device without switching of the access network device, so that a network communication requirement is efficiently met.
US10904808B2	Selecting relay frequencies in a repeater A system includes a repeater and a data processor. The repeater is for relaying data between a base station and a handset. The repeater is configured to receive data from a plurality of cells in a network and relay at least a portion of the received data to a handset on a first channel. The data processor is coupled to the repeater. The data processor is configured to extract, from the received data, network criteria characterizing a priority of different channels in the network. The data processor is configured to determine, based on the extracted network criteria, a second channel based on the priority of different channels and cause the repeater to reconfigure to relay data signals between a second base station and the handset using the second channel. The second channel includes a frequency band. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US10904803B2	Method to select automatically primary and secondary networks to support emergency calls and remote commands in vehicles A method of selecting primary and secondary cellular networks for a vehicle comprises measuring cellular connectivity parameters for cellular communication between a first subscriber identity module (SIM) and a first cellular network and for cellular communication between a second SIM and a second cellular network, comparing measured cellular connectivity parameters for the first SIM to measured cellular connectivity parameters for the second SIM, designating one of the first SIM and the first cellular network and the second SIM and the second cellular network as a primary network, and designating the other one of the first SIM and the first cellular network and the second SIM and the second cellular network as a secondary network, measuring cellular connectivity parameters for the primary and secondary networks, comparing the measured cellular connectivity parameters for the primary and secondary networks, switching designation of the primary and secondary network based on measured cellular connectivity parameters.
US10904802B2	Service delivery to handed over user equipment (UE) using a software-defined networking (SDN) controller In one embodiment, a method implemented in a virtual network function (VNF) manager for delivering of services to a roaming UE is disclosed. The method includes identifying a trigger condition for handing-over delivery of at least a subset of services from a radio interface of a source radio base station to a radio interface of a target radio base station. The method also includes transferring the subset of the services to the target radio base station through a route based on information from a software-defined networking (SDN) controller of a SDN system that includes the source radio base station and the target radio base station. The method further includes causing at least one VNF to be deployed on the target radio base station, the at least one VNF on the target radio base station being adapted to offer the subset of the services to the roaming UE.
US10904799B2	Base station and method used in a base station A network apparatus according to an embodiment is provided in a radio access network including a plurality of core network slices. The network apparatus includes a controller configured to manage a resource allocated to a radio terminal for each core network slice, based on a quality of service requirement of each of the plurality of core network slices. The controller provides a control signal related with the resource to the radio terminal.
US10904787B2	Method and apparatus for requesting sidelink radio bearer (SLRB) configuration of unicast transmission in a wireless communication system A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a first UE (User Equipment) to request SLRB (Sidelink Radio Bearer) configuration for a unicast link with a second UE. In one embodiment, the method includes the first UE receiving a first message from the second UE, wherein the first message includes a first SLRB configuration for the unicast link. The method further includes the first UE transmitting a second message to a network node to request a second SLRB configuration for the unicast link when the first message is received or a successful transmission of a complete message associated with the first message to the second UE is confirmed.
US10904785B2	Using channel state information (CSI) report framework to support positioning measurements Disclosed are techniques for using a channel state information (CSI) report framework to support positioning measurements in a wireless network. More particularly, a base station may identify one or more reference signal resources to be transmitted to a user equipment (UE) for obtaining at least one positioning measurement and configure the reference signal resources to be transmitted at least partially outside a current bandwidth that the base station and the UE are using to communicate data and control information. Accordingly, the base station may transmit, to the UE, a CSI report setting that indicates the positioning measurement to be reported and specifies that the positioning measurement is to be obtained from the configured reference signal resources.
US10904782B2	Outer-loop link adaptation with multiple offset parameters Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device, such as user equipment (UE), may transmit, to a base station, UE profile information where the UE profile information provides an indication of a plurality of modes of operation supported by the UE, each of the plurality of modes of operation corresponding to a reception configuration using one or more of a plurality of antenna panels of the UE and one or more of a plurality of digital baseband chains of the UE, In some cases, the UE may identify a mode of operation from the plurality of modes of operation for communicating with the base station. The UE may then communicate with the base station based in part on the identified mode of operation.
US10904777B2	Method of communication failure reporting and corresponding apparatus When a failure is detected of a communication link between a wireless access point and a service provider providing services to devices in proximity of said wireless access point, a probe request message is broadcasted on one or more wireless communication channels. The broadcasted probe request message includes a particular payload enabling the message to be identified as being a distress message reporting a failure of the communication link. Another wireless access point within wireless communication reach receiving a distress message may transfer a communication link failure report to the service provider in place of the wireless access point of which the communication link fails.
US10904776B2	Smart IoT self-healing network A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are provided to provide an active coordinator service in a sensor network, analyze maintenance information that indicates a battery level of a device, determine whether the device can continue to provide the active coordinator service; request maintenance information from another network device in the sensor network when the battery level does not satisfy a threshold level, determine whether the other network device can provide the active coordinator service based on its maintenance information, cease providing the active coordinator service when the other network device can provide the active coordinator service, in which a long-range wireless communication interface is turned off, and enable an IoT service that includes turning on a sensor, generating sensor information, and transmitting the sensor information to the other network device.
US10904768B2	Method and device in communication node for wireless communication The disclosure discloses a method and device in a communication node for wireless communication. The communication node receives first information, and performs Q energy detections respectively in Q time sub-pools within a first sub-band, and if energy detected by each energy detection of the Q energy detections is lower than a first threshold, starts to transmit a first radio signal at a first time-instant; the first information is used to determine K candidate time-instant subsets; a target time-instant subset is one of the K candidate time-instant subsets, the first time-instant belongs to the target time-instant subset; a frequency-domain bandwidth of the first sub-band is used to determine the target time-instant subset out of the K candidate time-instant subsets, and frequency-domain resources occupied by the first radio signal belong to the first sub-band. The disclosure can improve access fairness.
US10904767B2	Frequency band sharing method, apparatus, and system The method in the embodiment of the present invention includes: determining a shared frequency band, and a cell of the shared frequency band is a secondary serving cell of UE1 that performs communication by using the first network and a secondary serving cell of UE2 that performs communication by using the second network, and both the UE1 and the UE2 can work on the shared frequency band and at least one other frequency band than the shared frequency band; and transmitting only a common signal of the second network on the shared frequency band when service transmission of the first network is performed on the shared frequency band.
US10904765B2	Method for operating a wireless communication device A method for operating a wireless communication device in association with a first base station comprises: determining further suitable base stations. In case at least one suitable second base station characteristically different from the first base station is found, checking if a cell identifier of the second base station is listed in a neighbor cell list received from the first base station, and checking signaling power of the second base station. The second base station is rated as a fake base station if measured signaling power is significantly higher than the signaling power of the first base station, and the cell identifier of the second base station is not listed in the neighbor cell list. If the rating of the second base station as a fake base station is above a predetermined threshold: deleting second base station from a list of suitable base stations.
US10904764B2	Security protection method and apparatus A security protection method and an apparatus to implement security protection for a plurality of non-access stratum (NAS) connection links. The method includes determining, by a terminal, a first parameter, where the first parameter is used to indicate an access technology used to transmit a non-access stratum NAS message. The terminal can support at least two access technologies, and can separately maintain a corresponding NAS COUNT for each of the at least two access technologies. The method further includes performing, by the terminal, security protection on the NAS message based on the first parameter, a NAS key, and a NAS COUNT corresponding to an access technology used to transmit the NAS message.
US10904760B2	Data transmission method, apparatus, and device Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data transmission method, apparatus, and device. The method includes: performing, by a terminal, encryption and integrity protection on a data packet by using a public key of a network device and a private key of the terminal, where the data packet includes user data; and sending, by the terminal, the data packet to the network device, to send the user data to a server by using the network device. Encryption and integrity protection are performed on the data packet respectively by using the public key of the network device and the private key of the terminal, and when no radio resource control RRC connection is established, the data packet is sent to the network device.
US10904756B2	Authentication for next generation systems A method performed by a user equipment (UE) including establishing a primary authentication with a security anchor function, establishing a user plane (UP) session or connection with a UP function (UPF), receiving an extensible authentication protocol (EAP) based authentication request from the UPF, sending an EAP based authentication response to the UPF, and receiving an EAP based authentication result based on a verification response from an external authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) server. A method performed by a UPF includes establishing a UP session or connection to a UE, sending an EAP based authentication request to the UE, receiving an EAP based authentication response from the UE, forwarding the EAP based authentication response to an external AAA server, receiving a verification response from the external AAA server, and sending an authentication result to the UE based on the verification response from the external AAA server.
US10904755B2	Data distribution from a movable object Described herein are systems, methods, storage media, and computer programs that support data distribution in a movable object environment. In one embodiment, a request for characteristic data of a movable object is received from a requester of an affiliated device; it is confirmed that the characteristic data is available and that the requester has a privilege to access the characteristic data; and the characteristic data is provided to the affiliated device. In another embodiment, a request for the characteristic data, via a communication adaptor, from the requester, where the request for characteristic data includes information indicative of whether the affiliated device having a privilege to access the characteristic data; the characteristic data from the movable object is received, via the communication adaptor, responsive to the request for the characteristic data; and the characteristic data is provided, via the communication adaptor, to the requester of the affiliated device.
US10904754B2	Cellular network authentication utilizing unlinkable anonymous credentials Systems for cellular network authentication utilizing unlinkable anonymous credentials are disclosed. In embodiments, a computer program product is provided including a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The program instructions are executable by a computing device to cause the computing device to: contact a mobile device network with a request to connect to the mobile device network; conduct an interactive credential issuance protocol with an Issuer of the mobile device network to generate an unlinkable anonymous credential; connect to the mobile device network based on a Verifier of the mobile device network verifying the computing device based on the unlinkable anonymous credential; and store a temporary mobile subscriber identity assigned to the mobile device by the mobile device network, wherein the temporary mobile subscriber identity is filled with a null value.
US10904753B2	Systems and methods for authentication An embodiment method includes receiving, by an access point (AP), a first authentication request from a station (STA) that requests authentication of the STA, transmitting, by the AP, a second authentication request to a server that requests including extensible authentication protocol (EAP) authentication signaling to verify mutual possession of a shared key between the STA and the server, and receiving, by the AP, a first authentication response from the server in response to the second authentication request. The first authentication response includes an indication that authentication of the STA was successful. The method further includes transmitting, by the AP, a second authentication response to the STA, and receiving, by the AP, an association request that includes a message integrity code (MIC) from the STA.
US10904750B2	Key obtaining method and device, and communications system In a method for security handling in a mobility of a terminal device, a target access and mobility management function (AMF) entity receives a first message for registering a terminal device, sends a second message to a source AMF entity after receiving the first message. The source AMF entity derives a first key based on a key between the source AMF entity and the terminal device, sends the first key to the target AMF entity. The target AMF entity determines to use the first key based on security related information after receiving the first key and determines a communication key between the target AMF entity and the terminal device based on the first key after determining to use the first key.
US10904731B2	Method for remote provisioning of a user equipment in a cellular network A system and method for transmitting a provisioning dataset from a cellular network to a user equipment. The cellular network includes a plurality of base nodes providing access to the user equipment, a remote provisioning server accessible by the cellular network, and a core network, including at least two network slices. At least one of the network slices includes at least one network node exclusively assigned to the network slice. At least one of the network slices is dedicated for operating a predefined class of user equipment. At least one remote provisioning network slice includes an assigned network node giving access to the remote provisioning server, and at least one base node assigned to the remote provisioning network slice.
US10904729B2	System and method for improved capacity using channel multiplexing A base station may receive repetitive data transmitted using a particular set of radio resources The base station may apply a first orthogonal pattern, assigned to a first user equipment (UE), to a segment of subframes of the received repetitive data. The base station may apply a second orthogonal pattern, assigned to a second UE, to the segment of subframes of the received repetitive data. The base station may determine first repetitive data, transmitted by the first UE using the particular set of radio resources, based on applying the first orthogonal pattern to the segment of subframes of the received repetitive data. The base station may determine second repetitive data, transmitted by the second UE using the particular set of radio resources, based on applying the second orthogonal pattern to the segment of subframes of the received repetitive data.
US10904727B2	Apparatus, system and method for promoting apps to smart devices Apparatus, system and method for promoting media apps to an end user of a smart device. The smart device gathers information of apps that have been installed into the smart device and provides this information to a remote server. The remote server compares the information sent by the smart device to an identification of promoted apps received from a remote source to identify apps that are not installed in the smart device that are included in the identification of promoted apps. The remote server then notifies the smart device of which apps in the identification of promoted apps are not installed into the smart device, so that a user of the smart device may choose to have the missing app installed.
US10904722B2	Blockchain system and method for calculating location of time-crucial shipments according to expectation and smart contracts A client-server system and a blockchain method for calculating whether a time-crucial shipment is located according to an expectation comprising a client device adapted for being adhered to or placed within a time-crucial package shipment; and a remote special purpose computer server comprising a transit plan schedule database based on pickup time and location stored in memory, the remote special purpose computer server being programmed to calculate a location of the client device based on data accessed from a Wi-Fi access point location database, the transmitted identification data, and the transmitted signal strength data, and compare the calculated location to an expected location based on common carrier schedule transit plan pickup time and delivery location received from third party database sources.
US10904719B2	Message shunting method, device and system based on user mode protocol stack Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for message distribution based on a user mode protocol stack are provided. One of the methods includes: receiving an application service data message from a message transceiver; determining, from a plurality of user mode protocol stacks, a user mode protocol stack corresponding to the received application service data message according to correspondences between a plurality of application services and the plurality of user mode protocol stacks, wherein each of the plurality of user mode protocol stacks corresponds to an instance; and sending the application service data message to an instance of the determined user mode protocol stack, to cause the instance of the determined user mode protocol stack to process the received application service data message and to send the processed application service data message to an application service corresponding to the determined user mode protocol stack.
US10904711B1	Access point queries for tracking device smart alerts A tracking system determines a location of a tracking device associated with a user using one or more access points at the location. Each access point at the location is configured to detect and couple with the tracking device when the tracking device is within a communicative range of the access point. An access point provides updates on the tracking device's presence, as well as the tracking device's arrival to and departure from the communicative range of the access point, to a tracking server. The tracking server determines, from these updates, whether the tracking device is at the location. The user may be notified, via a mobile device, of the tracking device's location.
US10904709B2	Transmission/reception device, mobile terminal, and communication program There is provided a transmission/reception device that suppresses communication in a situation with low necessity. The transmission/reception device 1 includes a first antenna 11 for performing first communication, a control unit, and a recording unit 39 in which related information of a mobile terminal is registered. The transmission/reception device is mounted in a vehicle. The control unit 33 performs a control to suppress the first communication for the mobile terminal when determining that the mobile terminal is located in an interior of the vehicle based on at least one of a communication result of the first communication and a communication result of second communication with the mobile terminal in which the related information is registered in the recording unit 39.
US10904706B2	Method and apparatus for providing contextual content for an end-to-end seamless experience during an autonomous vehicle trip An approach is provided for presenting contextual content for an end-to-end seamless experience during an autonomous vehicle trip. The approach, for example, involves retrieving content related to at least one context associated with a destination of a vehicle. The approach also involves adapting the content to one or more presentation devices in the vehicle. The approach further involves initiating a presentation of the adapted content on the one or more presentation devices to provide a simulation of the at least one context associated with the destination as the vehicle travels towards the destination.
US10904705B2	Method and apparatus for recommending mobility service operators based on user mobility patterns An approach is provided for providing an automated recommendation of mobility service providers (e.g., based on a user mobility pattern). The approach involves aggregating mobility service data from a plurality of candidate mobility service providers, wherein the plurality of candidate mobility service providers provide shared vehicle services. The approach further involves selecting at least one recommended mobility service provider from the plurality of candidate mobility service providers based on the mobility pattern and the mobility service data. The approach further involves presenting a recommendation for the user to register for the at least one recommended mobility service provider in a user interface.
US10904703B2	Method and apparatus for reporting geographic information of in-vehicle terminal in wireless communication system An in-vehicle terminal engaged in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication, especially vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication, establishes a reporting cycle on the basis of the speed of the in-vehicle terminal, and transmits geographic information of the in-vehicle terminal to a network cyclically on the basis of the reporting cycle. That is, the reporting cycle may be shortened as the in-vehicle terminal speed increases, or may be lengthened as the in-vehicle terminal speed decreases.
US10904702B2	Stand alone solution for location of a cellular phone A method for locating of a wireless device, performed by a third party, comprising: communicating with the wireless device in a silent call, to compel the wireless device to continuously emit signals; activating a monitoring apparatus to monitor the signals emitted from the wireless device; resetting an idling timer means of the wireless device, such that the silent call is not ended by the wireless device, identifying a relative location from which the signals become stronger and locating the wireless device; and terminating the silent call.
US10904697B2	Techniques for sharing a device location via a messaging system A computer-implemented method may include receiving, in a messaging client executing on a first client device, a location request from a second client device; determining whether the second client device is authorized to send the location request to the first client device; starting a timer in response to receiving the location request when the second client device is authorized; and sending a location of the first client device to the second client device when the timer expires. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10904696B2	Emergency preparation and response systems and related methods An emergency preparation and response method includes providing one or more databases communicatively coupled with a first computing device. One or more admin user interfaces are displayed on the first computing device with input fields for storing emergency types and one or more emergency descriptions in the database(s) and associating each emergency type with one of the emergency descriptions. End user interfaces are displayed on second computing devices communicatively coupled with the database(s), having input fields configured to store user profiles in the database(s), each user profile including a geographic location. On a subset of the second computing devices associated with end users whose geographic locations fall within a geographic zone affected by an actual emergency, the end user interfaces display one of the emergency types matching the actual emergency and one of the emergency descriptions matching the actual emergency. Systems for implementing the methods are also disclosed herein.
US10904693B2	Apparatus and method for generating a plurality of audio channels An apparatus for generating a plurality of audio channels for a first speaker setup is characterized by an imaginary speaker determiner, an energy distribution calculator, a processor and a renderer. The imaginary speaker determiner is configured to determine a position of an imaginary speaker not contained in the first speaker setup to obtain a second speaker setup containing the imaginary speaker. The energy distribution calculator is configured to calculate an energy distribution from the imaginary speaker to the other speakers in the second speaker setup. The processor is configured to repeat the energy distribution to obtain a downmix information for a downmix from the second speaker setup to the first speaker setup. The renderer is configured to generate the plurality of audio channels using the downmix information.
US10904681B2	Fitting devices, server devices and methods of remote configuration of a hearing device A method performed by a fitting device, the fitting device being a part of a hearing system configured for remotely configuring a hearing device, the method includes: obtaining hearing device data comprising a hearing device identifier of the hearing device; obtaining a session key; generating a configuration initiation request based on the session key and the hearing device identifier; transmitting the configuration initiation request to a server device; receiving a configuration initiation response from the server device, the configuration initiation response comprising configuration keying material; generating a configuration package based on configuration data for the hearing device and based on the configuration keying material, the configuration package comprising configuration package data; and transmitting the configuration package to the server device.
US10904678B2	Reducing noise for a hearing device The disclosed technology relates to a hearing device configured to reduce audio artifacts related to electromagnetic interference between a transceiver and a T-coil. The hearing device can include a T-coil configured to receive audio signal; a processor configured to communicate with a transceiver, to process the EM inductive audio signal, and to provide a processed audio signal to a transducer. The processor can communicate with a memory to access instructions that include operations to: determine that the hearing device is receiving the EM inductive audio signal from the T-coil; determine that a noise associated with EM interference and the T-coil is anticipated based on the notification from the transceiver; and determine whether to apply a filter to the processed audio signal based on a sound level of the processed audio signal being below a masking threshold during a duration of the noise.
US10904675B2	Hearing prosthesis system having interchangeable housings There is disclosed a hearing prosthesis comprising a first housing containing a primary signal processor that receives signals output by a microphone; and a second housing removably connectable to the first housing; wherein a user interface is provided on the second housing that provides control of one or more features of the operation of the primary signal processor.
US10904674B2	System and method for efficiency among devices A wearable multifunction device or earpiece or a pair of earpieces includes one or more processors, at least one microphone coupled to the one or more processors, a biometric sensor coupled to the one or more processors, and a memory coupled to the one or more processors, the memory having computer instructions causing the one or more processors to perform the operations of sensing a remaining battery life and based on the sensing, prioritizing one or more of the functions of always on recording, biometric measuring, biometric recording, sound pressure level measuring, voice activity detection, key word detection, key word analysis, personal audio assistant functions, transmission of data to a tethered phone, transmission of data to a server, transmission of data to a cloud device.
US10904670B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus capable of realizing uniform sound wave and improved sound quality is provided. The display apparatus may include a display panel for displaying an image, a supporting member for supporting a rear surface of the display panel, at least one sound generating device disposed between the supporting member and the display panel, at least one partition provided at a predetermined interval from at least one sound generating device, and an adhesion member disposed in the periphery of the display panel.
US10904667B1	Compact audio module for head-mounted wearable device A head-mounted wearable device (HMWD) with a form factor of eyeglasses incorporates a compact audio module with transducers that may be operated as an acoustic dipole or acoustic quadrupole. The audio module provides ducts that convey sound with a particular phase from a transducer to particular output ports. The phase of sound emitted from a first output port is opposite to the phase of sound emitted from a second output port. The audio module may include a pair of transducers, enabling operation as an acoustic dipole or quadrupole. The ducts are integrated into elements of the structure of the audio module, minimizing the overall size of the audio module.
US10904662B2	Frequency-based audio amplification A speaker's output volume is increased by obtaining, from a memory, a frequency response curve associated with a speaker. A digital signal processor determines, according to the frequency response curve, a frequency range associated with the speaker's max output volume and designates the frequency range associated with the speaker's max output volume as the target frequency. The digital signal processor remaps in real-time an audio input signal to produce an audio output, from the speaker, in the target frequency.
US10904652B2	Earbud case with insert An earbud includes a housing that includes a driver assembly positioned within the housing forming a front volume in front of the driver and a back volume behind the driver. An acoustic insert is positioned behind the driver assembly and attached to an interior surface of the housing such that it forms a bass channel that is routed from the back volume to a vent in the housing.
US10904650B2	Handle component, portable electronic device, and speaker device Provided is a handle component to be mounted to an opening portion formed in a side plate of a cabinet, including: a flange portion configured to be brought into contact with a peripheral edge portion of the opening portion on an inner surface of the side plate; a bottom wall portion including a recessed surface; a handle, which has a bar-like shape and via which both side portions of the bottom wall portion are connected in a bridging manner; and a protruding portion, which is formed on at least one of both end portions of the bottom wall portion arranged at both ends in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the handle, and is configured to cover an end face of the opening portion of the side plate, wherein the protruding portion includes a surface projecting outward to be continuous with the recessed surface.
US10904647B2	Systems and methods for intelligent edge to edge optical system and wavelength provisioning An optical access network includes an optical hub having at least one processor. The network further includes a plurality of optical distribution centers connected to the optical hub by a plurality of optical fiber segments, respectively, and a plurality of geographic fiber node serving areas. Each fiber node serving area of the plurality of fiber node serving areas includes at least one optical distribution center of the plurality of optical distribution centers. The network further includes a plurality of end points. Each end point of the plurality of end points is in operable communication with at least one optical distribution center. The network further includes a point-to-point network provisioning system configured to (i) evaluate each potential communication path over the plurality of optical fiber segments between a first end point and a second end point, and (ii) select an optimum fiber path based on predetermined path selection criteria.
US10904641B2	Transmitting/receiving system and method for processing a broadcast signal A method of transmitting an emergency alert message by a broadcast transmitter is discussed. The method includes encoding, by an encoder circuit, service data and signaling data; encoding, by a signaling encoder circuit, transmission parameter data, wherein the transmission parameter data includes encoding information of the service data; modulating, by a modulator, the encoded service data, the encoded signaling data, and the encoded transmission parameter data; and transmitting, by a Radio Frequency (RF) transmitter, a broadcast signal including the modulated service data, the modulated signaling data, and the modulated transmission parameter data.
US10904638B2	Device and method for inserting advertisement by using frame clustering The present invention is directed to a device and method for inserting an advertisement using frame clustering. According to the present invention, when an advertisement insertion region is set in at least one of the frames of a video, advertisement insertion target frames including advertisement insertion regions are searched for and clustered, and an advertisement is inserted for all the clustered frames in a uniform manner, thereby enabling the natural insertion of the advertisement.
US10904636B2	Content management system and method for use of same A content management system and method for use of same is disclosed. In one embodiment of the system, the set-top box is configured to receive a source signal which includes a stream of network programming having time slots interposed therein. The set-top box detects signaling data indicative of a designated time slot within the network programming and responsive thereto, interposes content stored at the set-top box at the designated time slot within the network programming. The set-top box then forwards the interposed content to the display. Following the forwarding of the interposed content, the set-top box returns to receiving network programming and forwarding the network programming to the display. The set-top box also provides confirmation of the displayed interposed content to a server, which may map the confirmation information.
US10904634B2	Television program switching method and apparatus A television program switching method includes that a program selection instruction entered by a user is received when an electronic program guide (EPG) screen is displayed on a mobile terminal, where the program selection instruction includes a program identifier, and where the EPG screen includes at least two program identifiers and first program information corresponding to each program identifier. The EPG is searched for program frequency information corresponding to the program identifier according to the program identifier, and the program frequency information is sent to a to-be-controlled television.
US10904629B2	Method and system for presenting additional content at a media system A media system, receives a received sequence of media content, for presentation at the media system and generates a comparison fingerprint of the received sequence of media content. The comparison fingerprint is for comparison with a plurality of reference fingerprints so as to identify the received sequence of media content. The media system sends a request for identification of additional content to a server system. The request is based at least in part on the comparison fingerprint. The media system receives a response to the request, including information enabling additional content to be selected for display at the media system based at least in part on the identification of the received sequence of media content, and presents a displayed sequence of media content that includes at least a portion of the received sequence of media content and at least a portion of the additional content.
US10904626B2	Technologies for on-demand content player selection A technology for presenting content enables a receipt of a request over a network for a content from a computer, a determination of a characteristic of the computer and a location of the computer based at least in part on the request, a match of the characteristic and the location against a rule, a selection of a player based at least in part on the match, and a facilitation of a stream of the content via the player over the network to the computer based at least in part on the selection.
US10904624B2	Method and apparatus for generating multiple dynamic user-interactive displays The present invention teaches a method of creating and presenting a user interface comprising a Dynamic Mosaic Extended Electronic Programming Guide (DMXEPG) using video, audio, special applications, and service dynamic metadata. The system enables television or digital radio service subscribers to select and display of various programs including video, interactive TV applications, or any combination of audio or visual components grouped and presented in accordance with the dynamic program/show metadata, business rules and objectives of service providers, broadcasters, and/or personal subscriber choices, collectively referred to as mosaic element presentation criteria.
US10904619B2	Methods and apparatus for distributing user-generated advertisements in a video content distribution network User-generated advertisements are distributed to client devices in a video content distribution network. For example, a client device may receive a user-generated advertisement, which is associated with one or more categories. The user-generated advertisement is associated with a channel based on a category of the advertisement. One or more channels of user-generated advertising, corresponding to the one or more categories, may be provided to a client device. Optionally, user-generated advertisements may be associated with a geographical identifier and distributed to client devices in a geographical region corresponding with the geographical identifier.
US10904618B2	Customization of content for different audiences A first version and a second version of audio visual content are provided via a disc, a web site or a mobile device application to consumers. The second version has audiovisual content removed from the first version that is not appropriate for a type of viewer, such as children. In addition, a menu is provided that allows a user to select the first version or the second version to play on a device. In addition to or instead of the second version, the menu may allow the user to customize the first version for an intended audience.
US10904616B2	Filtering of content in near real time Aspects of the present invention provide an approach for customizing media content being consumed at a location. For each of the viewers in a group consuming the media content at the location, a media profile having a set of media content preferences is created. These media profiles are aggregated to generate a composite profile that has a set of content restriction preferences for the group. As the media content is provided to and being consumed by the group, the media content is analyzed to identify any elements that have attributes that may be unsuitable to some viewers. If an element has a suitability attribute that violates the content restriction preferences for the group, the media content is modified to filter out the element.
US10904611B2	Intelligent automated assistant for TV user interactions Systems and processes are disclosed for controlling television user interactions using a virtual assistant. In an example process, a virtual assistant can interact with a television set-top box to control content shown on a television display. Speech input for the virtual assistant can be received from a device with a microphone. The speech input can comprise a query associated with content shown on the television display. A user intent of the query can be determined based on one or more of the content shown on the television display and a viewing history of media content. A result of the query can be caused to be displayed based on the determined user intent.
US10904610B2	Method and apparatus for transmission and reception of multimedia data A method for transmitting media data according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises receiving meta data, converting the meta data into a predetermined format corresponding to a bit stream for media data, incorporating the converted meta data into the bit stream, and transmitting the bit stream incorporating the meta data.
US10904609B2	Display control device and display control method A display control device includes a storage configured to store invariant image data serving as a source of displaying an invariant portion of a display image to be displayed on a display; a data receiver configured to receive format designation data for designating a format of the display image and original data for generating variable image data serving as a source of displaying a variable portion of the display image; a variable image data generator configured to generate the variable image data from the original data; a buffer configured to store the invariant image data and the variable image data; an image data storage configured to select the invariant image data from the storage based on the format designation data to store the invariant image data in the buffer, and store, in the buffer, the variable image data generated by the variable image data generator; and a display controller configured to execute display processing for causing the display to display the display image based on the invariant image data stored in the buffer and the variable image data stored in the buffer.
US10904608B2	Display control method, terminal, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing a computer program A display control method executed by a terminal, the terminal including a display including a screen and at least one processor, the method including displaying, using the at least one processor, a first video content on a first area of the screen; generating, using the at least one processor, a screenshot of the first area of the screen in response to accepting a command to capture an image of the first video content being played back; and displaying, using the at least one processor, the generated screenshot in a second area of the screen. When the screenshot is displayed in the second area, the first video content continues to be played back in the first area of the screen.
US10904607B2	Video content controller and associated method A video content controller includes a memory and a microprocessor. The memory is configured to store non-transitory computer-readable instructions and video data representing a temporally-varying scene having a plurality of scene-regions. The microprocessor adapted to execute the instructions to (i) receive a current stream-segment of a video stream corresponding to a first scene-region of the plurality of scene-regions during a current playback-time interval, (ii) download, to a memory, a first video segment of a tagged scene-region within the first scene-region, (iii) receive a first display-region signal indicating at least one of a selection and a feature of the first scene-region, (iv) combine the current stream-segment and the first video segment as a video signal, and (vi) transmit, in response to the first display-region signal, the video signal to a display device.
US10904604B2	Method for providing media service list A method for providing a media service list to a user according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises the steps of: acquiring location information of at least one media service list; receiving the at least one media service list on the basis of the location information; generating an integrated media service list by integrating the received at least one media service list; and providing the integrated media service list to a user.
US10904598B2	Apparatuses, systems and methods for sharing content The present disclosure provides apparatuses, systems and methods for sharing content. The apparatus for sharing content comprises: a sensor configured to sense an action of at least one of a plurality of first terminal devices to generate sensor data; a processor; and a first storage configured to store processor-executable instructions, wherein when the processor-executable instructions stored in the first storage are executed by the processor, the processor is configured to perform steps of: determining whether a sharing event occurs based on the sensor data from the sensor; acquiring data related to content to be shared from at least one of the plurality of first terminal devices in response to the occurrence of the sharing event; analyzing the date related to content to be shared to obtain an indication of the content to be shared; and transmitting the indication of the content to be shared to at least one of a plurality of second terminal devices.
US10904597B2	Dynamic binding for use in content distribution Provided are methods and systems for dynamic binding in the context of content delivery. For example, the methods and systems may be implemented as a dynamic binding process that maps a content provider to a first set of content servers in a content distribution network. The dynamic binding process may then facilitate the content to be received from the content provider so that the content can be distributed by the first set of content servers in the content distribution network. The dynamic binding process further monitors network traffic associated with the content from the content provider and determines at least one metric associated with the network traffic. Additionally, the dynamic binding process can remap the content provider to a second set of content servers in the content distribution network based on at least one of the metrics.
US10904593B1	Managing content encoding based on detection of user device configurations A video packaging and origination service can process requests for content segments from requesting user devices. The video packaging and origination service can utilize various techniques to address performance of the user device responsive to detection of the presence of ad blocking software applications.
US10904587B2	Establishment and use of time mapping based on interpolation using low-rate fingerprinting, to help facilitate frame-accurate content revision A computing system identifies multiple matching points between (i) query fingerprints representing a media stream being received by a client and (ii) reference fingerprints, each identified matching point defining a respective match between a query fingerprint timestamped with client time defined according to a clock of the client and a reference fingerprint timestamped with true time defined according to a timeline within a known media stream. Further, the computing system performs linear regression based on the timestamps of the matching points, to establish a mapping between true time and client time. The computing system then uses the mapping to determine a client-time point at which the client should perform a content revision or other action with respect to the media stream being received by the client. And the computing system causes the client to perform the content revision or other action at the determined client-time point.
US10904584B2	Live video streaming services using one or more external devices In some implementations, a system may include a video broadcasting service, implemented on a server, configured to enable a mobile computing device to broadcast a live feed media stream of an event, over a network, to a plurality of viewing devices. The video broadcasting service is configured to receive the live feed media stream, over the network, from the mobile computing device, where the live feed media stream originates from an external device having a camera configured as a video source for the live feed media stream. The external device may be communicatively coupled to the mobile computing device. The video broadcasting service is configured to provide the live feed media stream, over the network, to the plurality of viewing devices.
US10904576B2	Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method for generating a prediction image using a plurality of pixels generated outside of a boundary of a reference picture on which smoothing has been performed An encoder is an encoder which encodes a video, and includes: circuitry; and memory. The circuitry, using the memory, derives a motion vector of a current block included in a current picture, by referring to a reference picture different from the current picture; when a reference region indicated by the motion vector includes a region outside a boundary of the reference picture, performs padding for generating a plurality of pixels outside the boundary in the reference region, using one of a plurality of pixels inside the boundary of the reference picture, to generate the plurality of pixels outside the boundary; performs smoothing on the plurality of pixels outside the boundary; and generates a prediction image, using the plurality of pixels outside the boundary on which the smoothing has been performed.
US10904570B2	Method for encoding/decoding synchronized multi-view video by using spatial layout information and apparatus of the same A video encoding method is provided, which includes steps of acquiring a synchronized multi-view video; generating a spatial layout information of the synchronized multi-view video; encoding the synchronized multi-view video; and signaling the spatial layout information corresponding to the encoded multi-view video.
US10904569B2	Image encoding/decoding method using prediction block and apparatus for same According to the present invention, an image encoding/decoding method comprises the steps of: performing an intra prediction on a current block so as to generate a prediction block; performing filtering on a filtering target pixel in the prediction block on the basis of the intra prediction mode of the current block so as to generate a final prediction block; and generating a reconstructed block on the basis of a reconstructed differential block corresponding to the current block and on the final prediction block. According to the present invention, image encoding/decoding efficiency can be improved.
US10904568B2	Video signal processing method and device for intra prediction of coding or prediction blocks based on sample position based parameters The present invention is related to processing a video signal. A method for decoding a video according to the present invention may comprise generating a prediction block of a current block by performing intra prediction, deriving at least one sample position based parameter based on a position of a first prediction sample in the prediction block, and obtaining a second prediction sample by weighted predicting the first prediction sample based on the at least one sample position based parameter. According to the present invention, encoding/decoding efficiency of a video signal can be improved since intra prediction is performed more accurately.
US10904567B2	Intra prediction mode-based image processing method, and apparatus therefor Disclosed is a method for encoding/decoding a still image or moving image based on an intra-prediction mode and an apparatus supporting the same. Particularly, a method for processing an image based on an intra prediction mode may include determining an intra prediction mode set used for an intra prediction in a current prediction processing unit among multiple intra prediction mode sets having different resolutions with each other, wherein the resolution represents a degree of distribution of the intra prediction mode in the intra prediction mode set; deriving an intra prediction mode applied to the current prediction processing unit in the determined intra prediction mode set using index information received from an encoder; and generating a prediction sample of the current prediction processing unit based on the derived intra prediction mode, and each of the intra prediction mode sets includes one or more intra prediction modes.
US10904562B2	System and method for constructing optical flow fields A method for constructing an optical flow field includes classifying a plurality of scenarios according to motions of a mobile platform carrying an imaging device and statuses of the imaging device. The plurality of scenarios include at least one of elementary scenarios or combined scenarios. The method further includes constructing a plurality of optical flow fields each corresponding to one of the plurality of scenarios, acquiring a motion of the mobile platform and a status of the imaging device relative to the mobile platform, and selecting a corresponding optical flow field from the constructed optical flow fields corresponding to the plurality of scenarios based upon the motion of the mobile platform and the status of the imaging device for the imaging device to capture a frame at a shooting direction.
US10904560B2	Method and device for encoding a plurality of image frames A method and device for encoding a plurality of image frames uses two separate encoders, where each image frame is divided into two portions to each be encoded by one of the two encoders, where a boundary between the two portions is offset between the image frames according to a size of a search window of one of the encoders. Consequently, copying of pixel data for the purpose of motion search is only required in one direction between a first and a second encoder.
US10904557B2	Method and apparatus for video coding Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. In some embodiments, the processing circuitry decodes first prediction information of a first block from a coded video bitstream. The first block is within a merge sharing node (MSN) with an intra block copy (IBC) merge candidate list that is constructed based on the MSN and shared within the MSN. The first prediction information is indicative of an IBC mode. Then, the processing circuitry determines a first block vector that points to a first reference area in a same picture as the first block based on the IBC merge candidate list associated with the MSN, and reconstructs at least a sample of the first block based on first reference samples of the first reference area in the same picture.
US10904552B2	Partitioning and coding mode selection for video encoding Techniques related to video encoding are discussed that, for each block of input video, select an individual partitioning and coding mode selection technique from multiple such selection techniques. For a picture, the selection algorithm takes as input scores for individual blocks, costs of the various partitioning and coding mode selection techniques, and various detector outputs. The selection algorithm provides as output a partitioning and coding mode selection technique for each block in picture. The algorithms selection is such that the overall cost of the selected algorithms in the picture is as close as possible to a given picture budget. Furthermore, a partitioning and coding mode selection algorithms, binary depth partitioning (BDP), is discussed. For a block, BDP provides fast convergence to a partitioning and associated coding modes first evaluating intermediate partitioning options and converging on the final partitioning by evaluating either larger of smaller partitions.
US10904551B2	Video coding using intra block copy A method for decoding encoded blocks of pixels from an encoded video bit stream is provided that includes decoding a block vector corresponding to an encoded block of pixels from the encoded bit stream, verifying that the block vector indicates a block of reconstructed pixels in a search area including reconstructed pixels of a largest coding unit (LCU) including the encoded block of pixels and N left neighboring reconstructed LCUs of the LCU, and decoding the encoded block of pixels, wherein the block of reconstructed pixels is used as a predictor for the encoded block of pixels.
US10904541B2	Offline training of hierarchical algorithms A method for increasing the quality of a section of visual data communicated over a network from a first node to a second node, the method at the second node including receiving a lower-quality visual data via a network, receiving a corresponding reference to an algorithm operable to increase a quality of the lower-quality visual data, the algorithm selected based on a higher-quality visual data from which the lower-quality visual data was generated, and using the algorithm to increase the quality of the lower-quality visual data to recreate the higher-quality visual data.
US10904540B2	Video decoder rate model and verification circuit The present disclosure describes a video communication environment for encoding and/or decoding video frames in accordance with various video coding formats utilizing various coding parameters. The video communication environment can include one or more encoding verification circuit and/or decoding verification circuit throughout which utilizes the various coding parameters to model dynamics of decoding various encoded video frames and/or display timing for displaying various decoded video frames. This modeling of the dynamics of decoding and/or display timing can be used to verify whether these various encoded video frames, once decoded, can be displayed smoothly, for example, without jitter. In some situations, the modeling of the dynamics of decoding and/or display timing can be used to guide decoding and/or display process to display the various decoded video frames smoothly.
US10904537B2	Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image Provided is a method of decoding an image, the method including: determining at least one coding unit for splitting an image, based on block shape information of a current coding unit; determining at least one transformation unit, based on a shape of the current coding unit included in the at least one coding unit; and decoding the image by performing inverse transformation based on the at least one transformation unit, wherein the block shape information indicates whether the current coding unit is a square shape or a non-square shape. Also, provided is an encoding method corresponding to the decoding method. In addition, provided is an encoding apparatus or decoding apparatus capable of performing the encoding or decoding method.
US10904536B2	Frame processing method and device Provided are a frame processing method and device for use in image processing. The method includes: receiving a first frame by a first processing unit; sending, by the first processing unit and before receiving a second frame processed with a third processing unit, the first frame to a second processing unit, followed by processing the first frame with the second processing unit or processing the first frame with the second processing unit and another processing unit; and receiving a third frame by the first processing unit before the first processing unit receives the first frame processed with the second processing unit or the first frame processed with the second processing unit and the other processing unit. The method precludes frame hysteresis, at a fixed frame rate and with invariable frame processability of each frame.
US10904534B2	Enhancement layer masking for high-dynamic range video coding A method to improve the efficiency of coding high-dynamic range (HDR) signals in a dual-layer system is presented. A piece-wise linear, two-segment, inter-layer predictor is designed where base-layer codewords larger than a highlights threshold (Sh) are all mapped to a constant value. Given a target bit rate for the enhancement layer, which can be expressed as a percentage (β) of the bit rate of the base layer, an optimal highlights threshold is derived by computing estimated bit rates for the base and enhancement layers based on pixel complexity measures of pixels in the input HDR signal and the threshold value, and by minimizing an optimization criterion.
US10904526B2	Method and apparatus for processing video signal A method of processing video signal according to a present invention comprises determining a transform set for a current block comprising a plurality of transform type candidates, determining a transform type of the current block from the plurality of transform type candidates and performing an inverse transform for the current block based on the transform type of the current block.
US10904525B2	Video coding method and apparatus utilizing combination of diverse block partitioning structures The present invention relates to a block partitioning structure from among the video coding schemes and to a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding the block partitioning structure, the method comprising the steps of: acquiring block partitioning data; partitioning a block by means of the acquired block partitioning data; and encoding and decoding by means of the partitioned block. The encoding and decoding method and apparatus according to the present invention has the benefit of improving encoding efficiency with respect to the existing video compression schemes.
US10904515B2	File generation apparatus and file generation method as well as reproduction apparatus and reproduction method There is provided a file generation apparatus and a file generation method as well as a reproduction apparatus and a reproduction method by which a file for efficiently storing quality information of a depth-related image at least including a depth image can be generated. A segment file generation unit generates a file in which quality information representative of quality of a depth-related image including at least a depth image is disposed in a form divided for each kind. The present disclosure can be applied to a file generation apparatus of an information processing system or the like by which a segment file and an MPD file of a video content are distributed, for example, in a method that complies with MPEG-DASH.

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