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9,782,331 | 1. A dispersion comprising the following components: a lipid peptide type compound in which a peptide portion formed by repetition of at least two or more identical or different amino acids is bonded to a lipid portion including a C a dissolution accelerator having, in molecules thereof, a hydrophilic portion and a hydrophobic portion, the hydrophilic portion having a betaine structure; water; and an alginic acid ester; wherein the dispersion is a mixed solution in which said components are randomly oriented. | 18,226 |
9,623,372 | 1. A method for treatment of a waste, comprising: heating the waste in a chamber to an elevated temperature to effect pyrolysis of the waste; introducing compressed air from a tank into the chamber following pyrolysis to effect gasification of the pyrolyzed waste such that pyrolysis and gasification are carried out in sequence in the same chamber, wherein an off-gas is produced; contacting off-gas from the pyrolysis and/or gasification steps with a 3-way catalyst external to the chamber to convert carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons in the off-gas into carbon dioxide and water; measuring the oxygen content of an exhaust gas from the oxidation catalyst using an oxygen sensor, and using this information to modulate an air input to the catalyst or to the chamber or to both the catalyst and the chamber so as to maintain the oxygen level of a gas exiting a waste treatment apparatus comprising the chamber and the catalyst; and monitoring the catalyst temperature using a temperature sensor in or near the catalyst so that an increase in temperature triggers an increase in the air input to the catalyst to reduce the temperature. | 3,786 |
9,346,811 | 1. A compound of Formula (I) or a tautomer or a stereoisomeric form thereof, wherein R C R C X L is a bond or —N(R Ar is homoaryl or heteroaryl; wherein homoaryl is phenyl or phenyl substituted with one, two or three substituents selected from the group consisting of halo, cyano, C C heteroaryl is selected from the group consisting of pyridyl, pyrimidyl, pyrazyl, pyridazyl, furanyl, thienyl, pyrrolyl, pyrazolyl, imidazolyl, triazolyl, thiazolyl, thiadiazolyl, oxazolyl, and oxadiazolyl, each optionally substituted with one, two or three substituents selected from the group consisting of halo, cyano, C C | 49,430 |
9,574,316 | 1. A suction foundation having enhanced self-weight penetration, the suction foundation pentrating into a seabed by vacuum pressure of a suction pump, and providing a foundation support force, the suction foundation comprising: a hollow caisson having an opening at a lower end thereof and formed into a tub shape, the hollow caisson introducing fluid on a seabed through the opening thereinto while the hollow caisson is landed on the seabed by its own weight, the suction pump being connected to the hollow caisson, the suction pump allowing the hollow caisson to penetrate into the seabed while discharging the fluid in the hollow caisson to an outside thereof by using the vacuum pressure of the suction pump; a lower skirt provided along a circumference of the opening of the hollow caisson and formed into a wave shape having a series of teeth, and having wedge-shaped cross-sections, the lower skirt penetrating into the seabed using the teeth thereof when the hollow caisson is landed initially on the seabed by its own weight; and a stiffener increasing rigidity of the lower skirt by increasing thickness of a predetermined portion of the lower skirt, wherein, | 32,869 |
9,631,766 | 1. A method of producing composites from inorganic materials, comprising the steps of processing by thermoplastic forming techniques mixtures containing one or more inorganic, fine residual materials and one or more polymers based on ethylenically unsaturated monomers in the form of protective colloid-stabilized, water-redispersible polymer powders, wherein the inorganic, fine residual materials are based on inorganic materials selected from the group consisting of gypsum, lime, talc, silicas, kaolins, silicates and titanium dioxide, and wherein the composites are based on from 5 to 80% by weight of polymers based on ethylenically unsaturated monomers and from 20 to 95% by weight of inorganic, fine residual materials, based on the total weight of polymer based on ethylenically unsaturated monomers and inorganic, fine residual materials. | 28,863 |
9,613,104 | 1. A computer-implemented method for building a point-in-time snapshot of an eventually-consistent data store distributed among a plurality of nodes connected by a network, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of inconsistent snapshots, wherein each inconsistent snapshot includes one or more rows of key-value pairs associated with the data store and reflects contents of at least a portion of the data store stored on a particular node of the plurality of nodes; and generating the point-in-time snapshot by resolving the one or more rows of the key-value pairs to remove any inconsistent values, wherein the point-in-time snapshot includes a subset of the key-value pairs included in the plurality of inconsistent snapshots, wherein generating the point-in-time snapshot comprises: | 20,591 |
9,540,132 | 1. A receptacle for the shipment of goods, the receptacle comprising: a front face comprising a front handle opening; a front flap comprising a front support slot, the front flap attached to the front face along an edge of the front face; a first side face having first support slots formed therein, the first side face attached to the front face; a first segment attached to the first side face along an edge of the first side face; a first flap attached to the first segment along an edge of the first segment, the first flap comprising second support tabs formed along a first edge of the first flap, a front support tab formed along a second edge of the first flap, and a rear support tab formed along a third edge of the first flap; a rear face comprising a rear handle opening, the rear face attached to the first side face; a rear flap attached along an edge of the rear face, the rear flap having a rear support slot formed therein; a second side face attached to the rear face; a second segment attached to the second side face along an edge of the second side face; a second flap attached to the second segment along an edge of the second segment, wherein the second flap comprises second support slots and first support tabs; wherein the first support tabs are configured for insertion into the first support slots, the second support tabs are configured for insertion into the second support slots, and wherein the front support tab is configured for insertion into the front support slot, and the rear support tab is configured for insertion into the rear support slot. | 38,617 |
9,703,249 | 1. A printing apparatus comprising: a conveying unit configured to convey a sheet along a main conveying path; a printing unit configured to perform printing on the sheet conveyed by the conveying unit; a fixing unit including a fixing section configured to perform fixing processing to the printed sheet that is conveyed on the main conveying path by the conveying unit and is subjected to printing by the printing unit; a bypass path that comprises a conveying path branching from the main conveying path and that does not pass through the fixing section; and a switching unit configured to switch a conveying path of the printed sheet between a main conveying path passing through the fixing section and the bypass path. | 25,875 |
9,431,849 | 1. A method for controlling the temperature of at least one battery element, comprising: specifying a temperature value: determining a cooling characteristic of the at least one battery element starting at a first temperature; determining a first point in time tmin at which the battery temperature reaches the temperature value or has fallen below the temperature value by analysis of the cooling characteristic; determining a second point in time t_end for a start of charging or discharging of the at least one battery element; and if tmin <t_end, applying heat to the at least one battery element such that the battery temperature at the second point in time t_end is higher than or equal to the temperature value. | 30,340 |
9,541,141 | 1. A coupling member for use in a controllable coupling assembly, the member being configured for rotation about a rotational axis, the member comprising: a first coupling face oriented to face axially along the axis and having a set of pockets angularly-spaced about the axis, each of the pockets receiving a first locking element and defining a first load-bearing surface adapted for abutting engagement with a load-bearing surface of its respective first locking element; and a second coupling face oriented to face radially with respect to the axis and having a set of locking formations, each of the set of locking formations defining a second load-bearing surface adapted for abutting engagement with a load-bearing surface of a second locking element. | 28,173 |
9,166,480 | 1. An insulation-type power factor correction circuit including a first switching element that is connected in series to a primary winding of a first transformer, a control unit that corrects a power factor by performing on/off control on the first switching element in each cycle, and a circuit that rectifies and smoothes a current transmitted from the primary winding to the secondary winding of the first transformer, comprising: a resonance unit that includes a first capacitor that accumulates energy of a surge occurring when the first switching element is turned off, a second switching element provided between the primary winding of the first transformer and the first capacitor, and a second transformer connected in parallel to the first capacitor, and that is connected in parallel to the first switching element; a rectifier unit configured to rectify the resonance current output from the resonance unit; and a smoothing unit configured to regenerate power, which is output from the rectifier unit, to an output of the insulation-type power factor correction circuit, wherein the control unit performs in each of the cycles control of connecting the primary winding of the first transformer by turning on the second switching element at a time before the first switching element is turned off when energy of a surge occurring when the first switching element is turned off is accumulated in the first capacitor, and | 43,166 |
9,271,642 | 1. An ophthalmology apparatus configured to irradiate an eye to be examined with measurement light, to correct an aberration of returned light from the eye to be examined with a correction unit, and to acquire an image of the eye to be examined based on the corrected returned light, the apparatus comprising: a light split unit configured to split the corrected returned light into light for aberration measurement and light for forming an image of the eye to be examined; a change unit configured to change a beam diameter of the light for aberration measurement split by the light split unit; an aberration measurement unit configured to measure an aberration of the light for aberration measurement having passed through the change unit and having the beam diameter changed by the change unit; and a display control unit configured to control a display unit to display a display form indicating an irradiating area on the aberration measurement unit which is irradiated with the light, wherein the change unit is disposed in an optical path of the light for aberration measurement between the light split unit and the aberration measurement unit, and wherein the light for aberration measurement is incident on the aberration measurement unit after passing through the change unit. | 4,603 |
8,559,856 | 1. A development device comprising: a cylindrical developer bearer to carry by rotation two-component developer including toner and magnetic carrier particles to a development range where the developer bearer faces a latent image bearer; a magnetic field generator disposed inside the developer bearer for generating magnetic force; a developer regulator disposed upstream from the development range in a rotational direction of the developer bearer and facing a circumferential surface of the developer bearer across a regulation gap for adjusting an amount of the developer carried by the developer bearer to the development range; a supply compartment disposed adjacent to the developer bearer, from which the developer is supplied to the developer bearer and in which the developer removed from the developer bearer by the developer regulator is collected, the supply compartment partially separated by a side wall from a portion where the developer bearer is provided, a developer agitator provided in the supply compartment for transporting the developer in an axial direction of the developer bearer; and a blocker disposed facing an upper end of the side wall of the supply compartment across a supply gap through which the developer moves from the supply compartment toward the developer bearer, the supply gap extending at least over an entire development range in the axial direction of the developer bearer, wherein the magnetic field generator has an attraction magnetic pole for generating an attraction magnetic force to attract the developer from the supply compartment beyond the upper end of the side wall of the supply compartment to the circumferential surface of the developer bearer as well as a regulation magnetic pole for generating a regulation magnetic force to cause the developer passing through the regulation gap to stand on end on the circumferential surface of the developer bearer, the regulation magnetic pole adjacent to the attraction magnetic pole and having a polarity opposite a polarity of the attraction magnetic pole, and the blocker prevents the developer blocked by the developer regulator from moving toward the circumferential surface of the developer bearer along a magnetic force line of the regulation magnetic force. | 37,916 |
8,381,774 | 1. A method of loading a therapeutic substance within a lumenal space of a hollow wire that forms a hollow stent for drug delivery comprising the steps of: preparing a suspension of the therapeutic substance and a dispersion medium; placing the suspension within a high-pressure packing unit; fluidly connecting a first end of the hollow wire to the packing unit such that the lumenal space of the hollow wire is in fluid communication with the suspension; attaching an end fitting having a frit to a second end of the hollow wire, wherein a pore size of the frit is selected to prevent particles of the therapeutic substance from passing there through while allowing the dispersion medium to pass there through; and pressurizing the packing unit to a packing pressure that forces the suspension into the lumenal space of the hollow wire, whereby the therapeutic substance packs within the lumenal space of the hollow wire as the therapeutic substance is separated from the dispersion medium that is forced through the frit at the second end of the hollow wire. | 27,319 |
9,589,540 | 1. A computer-implemented process, performed by a compositor of a desktop rendering engine in a computer, the compositor combining graphic data, from multiple windows provided by applications executed on the computer, with a background, to produce a graphical user interface for the computer on a display for the computer, the process comprising: the compositor receiving, from a first application executed on the computer, a sequence of images at a first video frame rate; the compositor receiving information identifying the first video frame rate for the sequence of images; the compositor accessing, from a second application executed on the computer, graphic data at a second frame rate; the compositor receiving information identifying the second video frame rate for the graphic data; the compositor receiving information identifying available refresh rates for the display where the graphical user interface is to be displayed; the compositor selecting a refresh rate for the display from among the available refresh rates based on at least the first video frame rate and the second video frame rate by: in response to a determination that the first video frame rate and the second video frame rate are not equal, and that a least common multiple of the first video frame rate and the second video frame rate is an available refresh rate, selecting the least common multiple as the refresh rate; in response to a determination that the least common multiple of the first video frame rate and the second video frame rate is not an available refresh rate, selecting a higher rate of the first video frame rate and the second video frame rate as a target rate; in response to a determination that an integer multiple of the target rate is an available refresh rate, selecting the integer multiple of the target rate as the refresh rate; and in response to a determination that an integer multiple of the target rate is not an available refresh rate, selecting a lowest available refresh rate higher than the target rate as the refresh rate; the compositor generating, at the selected refresh rate, output display data for the graphical user interface by combining an image from the sequence of images from the first application and the graphic data from the second application with the background; the compositor providing the output display data to the display at the selected refresh rate; and the compositor setting the refresh rate of the display to the selected refresh rate. | 3,232 |
9,656,425 | 1. A three-dimensional printing apparatus, comprising: a housing; a platform, disposed in the housing, and the platform having a printing region; a frame, disposed on an inner side of the housing, at least one cylinder being disposed on the frame, the cylinder having a body and a pair of wings extended from the body, the pair of wings being located at two opposite sides of the body and faced away from each other, the cylinder being carried on the frame by the pair of wings, and a first gap provided below each of the wings and between the body and the frame; and an operating module, disposed in the housing and moving relative to the printing region of the platform and the frame, the operating module comprising a pair of catching arms, and after the pair of catching arms being inserted into the pair of first gaps, the operating module moving in a first direction to carry the cylinder on the pair of catching arms, and then moving in a second direction to move out the cylinder from the frame, wherein the operating module, by moving relative to the printing region of the plate form, is adapted to extrude a building material filled in the body of the cylinder onto the printing region of the platform to be stacked layer by layer so as to build a three-dimensional object. | 19,170 |
9,214,769 | 1. An electrical plug connector, comprising: a plug body, one side of the plug body comprising a connecting shell and an inserting space in the connecting shell; a circuit board, disposing at the plug body, a first face of the circuit board facing toward the inserting space, a second face of the circuit board connecting to a plurality of conductive plates; a switching member, connecting to the circuit board, comprising: | 41,313 |
8,974,273 | 1. Air nozzle for conducting an air flow from an air feed shaft or an air feed duct in a heating installation, a ventilating installation, or an air-conditioning installation, the air nozzle comprising a hollow-cylindrical housing with a front air outflow opening and a rear air inflow opening, an insert mounted in the housing and having an outer surface spherical at least in spherical sections of the outer surface, and at least three bearing points supporting the insert, the at least three bearing points having respective bearing surfaces having a contour matching the spherical sections of the outer surface of the insert, the direction and/or intensity of the air flow issuing from the air nozzle being variable by the insert, wherein the at least three bearing points are directly arranged at the inner surface of the housing to protrude and are formed to be oriented radially with respect to the insert and have a rib-shaped profile, wherein at least one bearing point of the at least three bearing points comprises a pivotably or slidably mounted bearing wall with a bearing surface behind which a spring element engages, the spring element being supported at the inner surface of the housing, wherein the at least one bearing point further comprises a first rib and a second rib, wherein the pivotably or slidably mounted bearing wall is connected to the first rib and to the second rib, wherein the spring element is disposed between the first rib and the second rib, and wherein the pivotably or slidably mounted bearing wall is mounted so as to slide or pivot past the first rib and past the second rib due to a spring pressure of the spring element so that the pivotably or slidably mounted bearing wall bears against the outer surface of the insert. | 4,830 |
9,683,547 | 1. A wind turbine having a nacelle fence, the wind turbine comprising: a tower standing on a ground; a nacelle mounted on an upper end of the tower; rotor blades rotatably mounted on one side of the nacelle; at least one nacelle fence formed on an outer circumferential surface of the nacelle, the at least one nacelle fence being spaced apart from the rotor blades at a predetermined distance and extending toward the other side of the nacelle, wherein a longitudinal section of the at least one nacelle fence forms an angle with the nacelle, the angle is 90 degrees at a fence upstream end of the at least one nacelle fence, and the angle gradually decreases towards a fence downstream end of the at least one nacelle fence. | 16,662 |
9,355,405 | 1. A system for combining multiple media content in a receiving device, the system comprising: at least one communications element that: an evaluation module comprising at least one computer processor and associated location determination hardware that enables determination of a location of the receiving device, the location determination hardware utilizing at least one of the following to determine the location of the receiving device: a GPS system, a triangulation system, a geographic location system, wherein the evaluation module evaluates the at least one criteria in reference to at least the location of the receiving device determined by the location determination hardware; an outputting device corollary to the receiving device, wherein the outputting device presents, in substantial concurrence, the first media content and the second media content, wherein the presentation of the second media content is based at least partly on the evaluation of the at least one criteria in reference to at least the location of the receiving device determined by the location determination hardware; an input module that detects a selection associated with at least the second media content, enabling generation of a response corollary to the selection; and a transmission module that sends the response comprising at least the uniquely identifying data associated with the second media content. | 20,043 |
8,652,873 | 1. A process comprising: (a) providing an article comprising one or more insulating films disposed onto at least one surface of a semiconductor substrate; (b)(e) applying a thick-film paste composition onto the one or more insulating films to form a layered structure, the thick-film paste composition comprising: wherein the source of electrically conductive metal and the lead-vanadium-based oxide are dispersed in the organic medium and wherein the above wt % are based on the total weight of the source of electrically conductive metal and the lead-vanadium-based oxide, the lead-vanadium-based oxide comprising 52-80 wt % PbO, 10-45 wt % V (c) firing the semiconductor substrate, the one or more insulating films, and the thick-film paste wherein the organic medium of the thick film paste is volatilized, thereby forming an electrode in contact with the one or more insulating layers and in electrical contact with the semiconductor substrate. | 19,988 |
9,339,042 | 1. A method of maintaining weight of a carcass during a cooling process, the method comprising: (a) measuring an initial weight of the carcass; (b) predetermining an incremental weight, ΔW; (c) choosing a value for ΔW to avoid rapid cycling of an intermittent water spray (d) reducing a temperature of the carcass by refrigeration; (e) repeatedly measuring an instantaneous carcass weight of the carcass during the cooling process; (f) intermittently spraying the carcass with water to increase carcass weight to the initial carcass weight in response to the measured instantaneous carcass weight when the instantaneous carcass weight falls below the initial carcass weight at any given time during the cooling process; and (g) wherein spraying the carcass with water is started at any time during the cooling process when the instantaneous carcass weight is less than the initial carcass weight minus the predetermined incremental weight, ΔW, and spraying the carcass with water is stopped at any time during the cooling process when the instantaneous carcass weight is equal to or greater than the initial carcass weight. | 48,991 |
9,783,177 | 1. A braking system having an electromechanical braking function, the braking system comprising: a compound caliper device including a motor and configured to press a pair of brake pads against a brake disk; a hydraulic pressure producer including a master hydraulic line receiving oil from a master cylinder, a master valve configured to open and close the master hydraulic line, a caliper hydraulic line connected to the compound caliper device, and a hydraulic pump configured to increase hydraulic pressure supplied to the compound caliper device; and a brake controller to control the motor and the hydraulic pressure producer, wherein the brake controller is configured to close the master valve and decrease clamping force of the brake pads applied by the motor when a conversion condition for converting a parking brake stage into a primary brake stage is satisfied, wherein the compound caliper device further comprises: wherein the braking controller is configured to determine whether the internal piston is separated from the external piston while decreasing the clamping force of the brake pads applied by the motor, and wherein, when the internal piston is separated from the external piston, the controller is configured to control the hydraulic pump to generate hydraulic pressure considering the decreased clamping force of the brake pads applied by the motor and total braking force in the primary brake stage. | 46,229 |
8,664,026 | 1. A method for fabricating a semiconductor lighting chip, comprising: providing a substrate with an epitaxial layer, the epitaxial layer comprising a first semiconductor layer, an active layer and a second semiconductor layer successively grown on the substrate, the epitaxial layer having dislocation defects traversing the first semiconductor layer, the active layer and the second semiconductor layer; etching the epitaxial layer along the dislocation defects to form a plurality of recesses recessing downwardly from the second semiconductor layer to the active layer; forming an insulation layer in the recesses; and forming a first electrode and a second electrode on the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, respectively. | 5,268 |
9,349,247 | 1. A networked gaming system comprising: an entertainment game controller connected by a network to a game world controller, wherein the entertainment game controller is constructed to: a real world controller connected by the network to the game world controller, wherein the real world controller is constructed to: the game world controller connected to the entertainment game controller and connected to the real world controller by the network, wherein the game world controller is constructed to: | 20,607 |
8,968,434 | 1. An assembly for producing at least one synthetic hydrocarbon from at least a carbon monoxide inflowing stream and from a carbon dioxide inflowing stream, the assembly comprising: an electrolyzer provided for producing a first hydrogen stream from water and electricity; a first conversion unit provided for producing an intermediate carbon monoxide stream from at least a portion of the carbon dioxide inflowing stream and from hydrogen; a synthesis reactor for synthesizing the synthetic hydrocarbon from at least hydrogen, from at least a portion of the carbon monoxide inflowing stream and from the intermediate carbon monoxide stream; a second conversion unit provided for producing a second hydrogen stream from carbon monoxide and water, the second hydrogen stream being directed towards the synthesis reactor; a guide assembly provided for selectively distributing the carbon monoxide inflowing stream between the second conversion unit and the synthesis reactor, and for selectively distributing the first hydrogen stream between the first conversion unit and the synthesis reactor; and a control unit provided for controlling the guide assembly wherein the first conversation unit is an RWGS unit and the second conversation unit is a WGS unit. | 1,594 |
8,665,247 | 1. A flat-panel display, comprising: a) a single flexible substrate having first and second sides; b) a passive matrix display, the passive matrix display having an array of pixels, row electrodes, and column electrodes, the array of pixels, row electrodes, and column electrodes formed on the first side of the single flexible substrate, the row and column electrodes connected to the array of pixels for providing a data signal and a selection signal to each pixel in the array of pixels; c) a plurality of electrical contacts also formed on the first side of the single substrate, the plurality of electrical contacts electrically connected to the row and column electrodes; d) at least four discrete data drivers and at least four discrete selection drivers located on the first side of the single substrate around a periphery of the passive matrix display, the at least four discrete data drivers and the at least four discrete selection drivers electrically connected to the electrical contacts for driving the array of pixels wherein the array of pixels includes at least four separately, simultaneously, and independently addressable two-dimensional regions, wherein each two-dimensional region is driven by a different pair of discrete data and selection drivers such that the data can be simultaneously displayed, wherein the discrete data and selection drivers are integrated circuits formed on separate rigid substrates different from the single flexible substrate; and wherein the at least four discrete data drivers includes a controller for providing address values and data values; and e) encapsulation that covers both the discrete data and selection drivers. | 22,438 |
8,828,599 | 1. A battery pack comprising: a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery that includes a thin-plate-shaped battery element covered with a laminated sheet such that a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal are exposed, and has a first end face from which the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal are led out; an exterior casing that covers five faces of the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, the five faces excluding a second end face adjacent to the first end face a support that covers the second end face of the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, wherein the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal are extended from a first connection portion provided for the first end face to a second connection portion provided for the second end face and are connected to an external power supply provided via the support. | 42,333 |
9,634,225 | 1. A camera lens actuator, comprising: an imaging lens holder to which an imaging lens is secured, wherein light from a scene is to enter from a front of the lens and be incident upon an imaging sensor that is behind the lens; a base frame; and an electro-active polymer, EAP, structure having a generally frusto-conical shape and being secured at its base to the base frame and whose tip has an opening formed therein, the EAP structure being attached to the lens holder so that the opening in the tip is aligned with a face of the lens and the tip is in front of the lens, the EAP structure having a first electrode portion attached to a face of an EAP layer and extending in a longitudinal direction along a side of the EAP structure and a second electrode portion isolated from the first electrode portion and attached to the face of the EAP layer along the tip, the second electrode portion having an opening that is aligned with the opening in the EAP structure. | 9,862 |
9,574,395 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a gearbox assembly configured to electromechanically operate a window covering; a controller, incorporated into the window covering, to control the gearbox assembly; an external motion sensor that detects motion immediately outside a window associated with the window covering and communicates with the controller to lower the window covering to cover the window when the motion is detected; and an impact sensor that detects an extent of force on the window, wherein touching the window triggers a low priority alert notification, and wherein breaking the window triggers a high priority alert notification. | 29,403 |
9,494,997 | 1. A system comprising sub-hierarchy clock control, comprising: a master unit including an interface unit electrically coupled to a slave unit, wherein the interface unit monitors, during use, usage requests of the slave unit by the master unit and turns off clocks to the slave unit during periods of nonuse based on a past history, and wherein the interface unit adjusts, during use, thresholds before which the clocks can be turned off; and wherein the interface unit determines if a predetermined period of time elapses before turning on clocks to the slave unit; and wherein the interface unit adjusts, during use, the predetermined period of time. | 25,396 |
9,178,008 | 1. A metal insulator metal (MIM) capacitor, comprising: a top electrode; a first via contacting a surface of the top electrode; a bottom electrode; a second via contacting a surface of the bottom electrode; and an insulator between the top electrode and the bottom electrode, wherein at least one of the top electrode and the bottom electrode comprises a first part where the respective via is contacting, a second part adjacent to the first part with a shared first edge, and a third part adjacent to the second part with a shared second edge, wherein the first edge is longer than the second edge. | 14,583 |
8,679,450 | 1. A process to prepare a hydrogen rich gas mixture from a halogen containing gas mixture comprising hydrogen and at least 50 vol. % carbon monoxide, on a dry basis, by contacting the halogen containing gas mixture with water having a temperature of between 150 and 250° C. to obtain a gas mixture poor in halogen and having a steam to carbon monoxide molar ratio of between 0.2:1 and 0.9:1 and subjecting said gas mixture poor in halogen to a water gas shift reaction wherein part or all of the carbon monoxide is converted with the steam to hydrogen and carbon dioxide in the presence of a catalyst as present in one fixed bed reactor or in a series of more than one fixed bed reactors and wherein the temperature of the gas mixture as it enters the reactor or reactors is between 190 and 230° C. | 42,899 |
9,189,462 | 1. A computer-implemented method for checking bidirectional text in text content, comprising: for each text part of a plurality of text parts in the text content: | 9,367 |
9,318,810 | 1. An antenna comprising: a main reflector being a concave body having a focal circle centered about an axis extending from the main reflector; a waveguide horn extending from the main reflector along the axis to a distal end; a sub-reflector mounted beyond the distal end of the waveguide horn with an annular gap remaining between the sub-reflector and the distal end of the waveguide horn; said sub-reflector having an elliptical shape extending as a body of revolution about the axis, with one focal point of the sub-reflector on the axis; wherein the phase center of the waveguide horn does not coincide with either foci of the sub-reflector; and a progressive series of annular corrugated surfaces extending radially outward from the distal end of the waveguide horn. | 46,462 |
9,411,611 | 1. An application processing system for placing applications and their associated data into a colocation data center, the application processing system comprising: a memory; a processor communicatively coupled to the memory; and an application placement module communicatively coupled to the memory and the processor, wherein the application placement module is configured to perform a method for placing applications and their associated data into a data center, the steps of a method comprising: | 15,524 |
8,438,838 | 1. A vehicle exhaust system comprising: a SCR catalyst; a NOx reducing agent supply system configured to provide a NOx reducing agent to said SCR catalyst, said NOx reducing agent supply system including a tank that holds a supply of agent used to produce the NOx reducing agent; a heat exchanger having a coolant outlet associated with said tank and a coolant inlet receiving a coolant; a fuel-fired burner positioned upstream of said heat exchanger that is selectively actuated to heat exhaust gases such that a temperature of the agent within said tank can be raised to at least a predetermined temperature; and at least one temperature sensor that measures a temperature of at least one of the tank and the agent and communicates the temperature to an electronic control unit, said electronic control unit activating said fuel-fired burner if said temperature falls below a pre-determined temperature. | 37,296 |
9,719,413 | 1. A charging device for an internal combustion engine, the device comprising: at least one compressor part configured to compress drawn-in combustion air, the at least one compressor part being arranged in an intake line of the internal combustion engine and connected to the internal combustion engine via an actuatable mechanical coupler; at least one expansion part disposed in a circulation system for a circulating working medium, the circulation system being separated from an exhaust-gas line of the internal combustion engine and including a circulation pump and an exhaust-gas heat exchanger, the exhaust-gas heat exchanger being configured to utilize waste heat from the exhaust-gas line of the internal combustion engine to heat the circulating working medium, the at least one expansion part being configured to be driven by an expansion of the circulating working medium which had been previously heated by the exhaust-gas heat exchanger; an electric machine connected to the expansion part so as to drive the compressor part, the electric machine being directly or indirectly connected to the compressor part; an operational electric connection disposed between the electric machine and a battery so that electric energy is stored during an energy-recovery mode or else so that electric energy is provided to drive the electric machine. | 46,016 |
9,447,489 | 1. A photovoltaic device, comprising: a window layer; and an absorber layer disposed on the window layer, wherein the absorber layer comprises: | 41,264 |
8,874,023 | 1. A system comprising: one or more processors; and memory storing computer executable instructions which when executed perform a method for developing learning activities for use in a learning program, the method comprising: | 3,729 |
8,347,972 | 1. An improved multi-bolt or nut torque wrench system for installing or removing a plurality of threaded bolt or nut members on a riser, the system comprising: (a) a plurality of torque stations, each torque station including: (b) a controller that controls the plurality of torque stations, including the torque wrenches, the horizontal positioning mechanism, and the vertical positioning mechanisms such that the plurality of drive heads simultaneously engage their respective bolt or nut members. | 19,072 |
9,781,211 | 1. A storage device operable to be coupled to a host electronic device, the storage device comprising: at least one memory operable to store an operating system and at least one application and to provide mass storage functionality; at least one processor operable to run the operating system and execute the at least one application on the storage device; and at least one interface operable to couple the storage device to the host electronic device, the interface including at least one data communication path between the storage device and the host electronic device to allow data transfers therebetween and at least one power communication path between the storage device and the host electronic device such that when the storage device is operably coupled to the host electronic device, the storage device is powered by the host electronic device; wherein, the storage device has a master storage device mode in which the storage device is operable to control at least one slave function of the host electronic device and a slave storage device mode in which at least one slave function of the storage device is controlled by the host electronic device. | 49,798 |
8,403,620 | 1. A method for moving a wind turbine component from a transportation position to a wind turbine assembly position using at least in part a crane system and a handling unit including an actuator, the wind turbine component having an external surface with an opening and an existing internal structural part contained inside the external surface, the method comprising: attaching the handling unit to the internal structural part of the wind turbine component so that the handling unit extends through the opening in the wind turbine component, the handling unit being separable from the crane system, operatively connecting the handling unit to a wire of the crane system, subsequently lifting the handling unit and thereby the wind turbine component with the crane system, the handling unit and the wind turbine component being suspended from the wire, and rotating the wind turbine component by operating the actuator of the handling unit while the wind turbine component is suspended. | 38,190 |
9,418,451 | 1. An X-ray CT apparatus that displays an image of the inside of an object based on projection data obtained by scanning the object, comprising: a generator that scans the object with each of X-rays of different energy levels and generates multiple projection data; a converter that converts the multiple projection data into multiple image data corresponding to multiple reference substances contained in the object based on a linear attenuation coefficient that varies according to the energy levels of the reference substances, and generates multiple new projection data corresponding to the reference substances according to the energy levels; and an identifier that identifies a target substance from an abundance ratio of each of the reference substances based on a fact that a pixel value at coordinates of each of the new projection data according to the energy levels is formed from a sum of values each obtained by multiplying the abundance ratio of each of the reference substances at the coordinates by the linear attenuation coefficient of the reference substance. | 46,803 |
9,809,041 | 1. An inkjet printer, comprising: an inkjet head; and an adjustment module, comprising: wherein the inkjet head is configured to jet out ink to the media medium; the two electromagnetic elements are coupled to a power source to receive power; and when the two electromagnetic elements slid into the magnetic track, and the two electromagnetic elements are moveable relative to the magnetic track in a direction perpendicular to a media medium printing surface to adjust a distance between the inkjet head and the media medium according to an electrical current value of the power source. | 27,442 |
8,576,762 | 1. A method for operating a wireless mobile station which is configured to communicate with a wireless access point, the method comprising: determining, at the wireless mobile station, an interval of the time between successive target beacon transmission times (TBTT); determining, at the wireless mobile station, a setting representing an interval of time between successive Delivery Traffic Indication Messages (DTIM); adjusting a first period of a first sleep timer in response to determining the interval of time between successive TBTTs and in response to determining the interval of time between successive DTIMs; determining a number of times the first sleep timer with the first period has expired; and adjusting a second period of a second sleep timer in response to determining the number of times the first sleep timer has expired, wherein the second sleep timer with the second period is started without restarting the first sleep timer with the first period if the number of times indicates the first sleep timer has been counting for more than a certain period of time, and wherein the second period of the second timer is longer than the first period of the first timer. | 23,287 |
8,713,977 | 1. A laundry treating appliance, comprising: a cabinet defining an interior; a tub located within the interior and defining a liquid-holding chamber with a sump; a rotatable drum located within the liquid-holding chamber and at least partially defining a treating chamber; multiple lifters provided on the drum and projecting into the treating chamber; and a balancing system comprising: a liquid supply fluidly coupled to the fluid chambers such that the reservoirs may be supplied with liquid by supplying liquid to the fluid chambers; and a liquid drain path extending from the reservoir of one of the multiple lifters, through the transfer ring, to another of the multiple lifters, and to the sump such that the liquid supplied to the one of the multiple lifters is drained to the sump through another of the multiple lifters and the transfer ring. | 45,957 |
9,333,897 | 1. A set of at least two monkey grabs cargo holds, each cargo hold comprising: at least a pair of elongated horizontal strap members; at least four vertical strap members sewn to each of said at least a pair of elongated horizontal strap members; opposing ends of each of said at least a pair of elongated horizontal strap members are looped and sewn at two opposing distal ends of said at least four vertical strap members; a first end of one of said at least four vertical strap members looped and sewn to one of said at least a pair of elongated horizontal strap members; a second end of said one of at least four vertical strap members being looped and sewn onto itself in at least two separate locations thereby creating at least a first loop and a sequential second loop extending from said one of said at least a pair of elongated horizontal strap members; said first loop being in proximity to an outside one of said elongated horizontal members and said first loop formed with a loop of material created by sewing a longer strap length to a shorter strap length thereby creating an open loop, wherein said open loop creates an open securable connection when ones of said loops are under tension; a first of said set of at least two monkey grabs being secured to a passenger side interior side wall of a bed of a vehicle, and a second of said set of at least a set of two monkey grabs being secured to a driver side interior side wall of said bed of said vehicle and said first and said second monkey grabs cargo holds are connected together to increase a strap coverage area. | 37,738 |
8,910,278 | 1. A method for managing computational services in a cloud computing network, the method comprising: executing a software component to interact with multiple third-party cloud providers using at least one of the interacting occurring via each respective third-party cloud provider's proprietary programming interfaces while exposing only one common access point to an organization via a common interface; creating and managing, via custom organization workflows within the multiple third-party cloud providers, a trusted virtual network including encrypted data storage, encrypted data transport, and trusted instances of servers all communicatively coupled together forming a trusted cloud computing environment that is associated with the organization, the creating including storing keys for the encrypted data storage, keys for the encrypted data transport, and session keys associated with a user of the organization in an encrypted database that is separate from an operational computing environment and all within the trusted computing environment where the user is not allowed access to the keys, and whereby the organization manages applications and databases within the trusted virtual network governed by the custom organization workflows which include policies, with an identified group of users in the organization, required to allocate resources in the trusted computing cloud environment; executing, on a web server, a web portal to provide a point of access to the third-party cloud computing environment; and using access control to the trusted cloud computing environment to ensure access by users authorized by the organization and to ensure compliance with adopted standards. | 20,829 |
8,808,534 | 1. A process for refining naphtha, the process comprising the steps of: (a) separating a naphtha feed into a light naphtha and a heavy naphtha, wherein the light naphtha comprises paraffins having 6 or fewer carbon atoms; (b) introducing the light naphtha to a first isomerization unit under first isomerization conditions to produce a light isomerate; (c) separating the heavy naphtha into a heavy n-paraffin and a heavy non-paraffin; (d) introducing the heavy n-paraffin to a second isomerization unit under second isomerization conditions to produce a heavy isomerate; (e) introducing the heavy non-paraffin to a reforming unit under reforming conditions to produce a reformate; and (f) combining at least a portion of each of the light isomerate, the heavy isomerate, and the reformate to form a gasoline blend, wherein the gasoline blend has a target octane rating of at least 90. | 49,505 |
9,592,663 | 1. A liquid ejecting head unit comprising: a liquid ejecting head configured to eject liquid through a nozzle formed in a nozzle surface; and a holding member to which the liquid ejecting head is removably attached, the holding member is formed with: a holder portion that supports the liquid ejecting heads in a predetermined direction which is different from a direction of the nozzle surface of the liquid ejecting head, the holder portion having a plurality of openings each being open in the predetermined direction and arranged along a length of the holder, the holder portion having a stepped configuration along the length of the holder portion and a bottom surface of each of the openings having another stepped configuration; and a base portion that sticks out from the holder portion to a side which is parallel to the predetermined direction, wherein the base portion includes a first liquid channel which penetrates through in a thickness direction of the base portion and in which liquid is made to flow, the liquid ejecting head includes a second liquid channel that supplies liquid to the nozzle. | 23,061 |
8,587,740 | 1. A method of manufacturing a display substrate, the method comprising: forming a switching member including a gate line, a data line crossing the gate line, and a TFT electrically connected to the gate line and the data line on an insulation substrate; forming a color filter layer on the switching member; forming an inorganic insulation layer on the color filter layer, the inorganic insulation layer having a hole extending therethrough and exposing a top surface portion of a color filter of the color filter layer; and forming a pixel electrode on the inorganic insulation layer, wherein the hole is positioned over a channel portion of the TFT, wherein the forming of the switching member comprises: wherein the forming of the color filter layer comprises: wherein the forming of the inorganic insulation layer comprises: | 33,020 |
8,804,588 | 1. A method for saving power by a receiving end in a multi-carrier wireless communication system, the method comprising: acquiring multi-carrier information from a transmitting end on a first carrier, wherein the multi-carrier information includes information about a plurality of available carriers, information indicating the first carrier, at least two second carriers among the plurality of available carriers, an indicator which indicates whether the receiving end needs to enter a sleep mode on each of the at least two second carriers or not, and a sleep mode type indicator which indicates a sleep mode type which the receiving end is to apply to each of the at least two second carriers, wherein different sleep mode types have different sleeping and listening intervals, and wherein the different sleep mode types are applied to different second carriers among the at least two second carriers; entering the sleep mode on a second carrier among the at least two second carriers in accordance with the mode type indicator when the indicator indicates that the receiving end needs to enter the sleep mode on the second carrier among the at least two second carriers; and receiving data on the second carrier among the at least two second carriers during a listening interval. | 2,709 |
9,551,443 | 1. A vehicle fluid line for transporting pressurized fluids of an engine, comprising: a rigid pipe having opposing ends configured to fixedly couple with the engine; an adjustable joint dividing a length of the rigid pipe into first and second segments and comprising: | 38,514 |
9,750,812 | 1. A lipid composition comprising at least two active compounds dissolved in a non-toxic solvent-water system, wherein the composition comprises: effective amounts of finasteride and minoxidil; and a lipid or mixture of lipids in a non-toxic solvent-water system, wherein the composition is a clear lipidic solution obtainable by mixing dissolved active compound and a lipid or mixture of lipids together in said non-toxic solvent-water system to produce said clear lipid solution. | 24,135 |
9,450,578 | 1. A complimentary voltage switched integrated clock gater (CICG) circuit, comprising: a first node configured to pre-charge to a first voltage level in response to a first level of a clock signal and a first level of an enable signal; a second node configured to pre-charge to the first voltage level in response to the first level of the clock signal and the first level of the enable signal; a first latch coupled to the first node, the first latch being configured to latch the first node to a second voltage level in response to a second level of the clock signal and a second level of the enable signal if the enable signal transitions to the second level before or at substantially a same time that the clock signal transitions from the first level to the second level; and a second latch coupled to the second node, the second latch being configured to latch the second node to the first voltage level in response to the second level of the clock signal and the second level of the enable signal if the enable signal transitions to the second level before or at substantially the same time that the clock signal transitions from the first level to the second level. | 38,160 |
9,757,371 | 1. An immediate release abuse deterrent dosage form comprising: a) core-shell particles, the core-shell particles comprising: a core, wherein the core is a granule comprising a gelling polymer and a wax, wherein the gelling polymer in the core is selected from ethylcellulose, cellulose acetate, cellulose acetate propionate, cellulose acetate butyrate, cellulose acetate phthalate, cellulose triacetate, cellulose ether, cellulose ester, cellulose ester ether, cellulose, an acrylic acid and methacrylic acid copolymer, a methyl methacrylate copolymer, an ethoxyethyl methacrylate, a cyanoethyl methacrylate, poly(acrylic acid), poly(methacrylic acid), methacrylic acid alkylamide copolymer, poly(methyl methacrylate), polymethacrylate, poly(methyl methacrylate) copolymer, polyacrylamide, aminoalkyl methacrylate copolymer, poly(methacrylic acid anhydride), glycidyl methacrylate copolymer, agar, acacia, karaya, tragacanth, algin, guar, polyacrylamide, water-swellable indene maleic anhydride polymer, hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose, hydroxy methyl cellulose, methyl cellulose, hydroxyethylmethyl cellulose, sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, a carbomer polymer, polyethylene oxide, polyvinyl alcohol and combinations thereof; an active pharmaceutical layer surrounding the core, the active pharmaceutical layer comprising an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) that is susceptible to abuse or overdosing; wherein the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) is selected from sedative-hypnotics, stimulants, anxiolytics, antipsychotics, muscle relaxants, dissociative anesthetics, and narcotic analgesics; at least one layer surrounding the active pharmaceutical layer, the at least one layer comprising a pH-sensitive film comprising pH-sensitive polymer that is insoluble in water at a pH greater than 5 and is soluble in water at a pH below 5; and b) a matrix comprising a disintegrant and a gelling polymer; wherein the gelling polymer in the matrix is selected from ethyl cellulose, cellulose acetate, cellulose acetate propionate, cellulose acetate butyrate, cellulose acetate phthalate, cellulose triacetate, cellulose ether, cellulose ester, cellulose ester ether, cellulose, an acrylic acid and methacrylic acid copolymer, a methyl methacrylate copolymer, an ethoxyethyl methacrylate, a cyanoethyl methacrylate, poly(acrylic acid), poly(methacrylic acid), methacrylic acid alkylamide copolymer, poly(methyl methacrylate), polymethacrylate, poly(methyl methacrylate) copolymer, polyacrylamide, aminoalkyl methacrylate copolymer, poly(methacrylic acid anhydride), glycidyl methacrylate copolymer, agar, acacia, karaya, tragacanth, algin, guar; polyacrylamide; water-swellable indene maleic anhydride polymer, hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose, hydroxymethyl cellulose, methyl cellulose, hydroxyethylmethyl cellulose, sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, a carbomer polymer, xanthan gum, and combinations thereof; wherein the dosage form demonstrates an immediate release profile when administered in therapeutic doses, but demonstrates an extended release profile when administered in supratherapeutic doses; and wherein the immediate release profile is defined as not less than 75% of API released in 30 minutes, and the extended release profile is defined as not more than 95% released in 60 minutes, wherein the release profiles may be evaluated by dissolution in 300 mL of 0.1N HCl media using USP II apparatus at 50 RPM paddle speed and 37° C. | 18,466 |
9,646,297 | 1. A computer-implemented application providing method comprising: storing, at a cloud-based memory device of a cloud-based computing resource, at least two web-based applications associated with a financial institution that can be customized, wherein said cloud-based computing resource electronically communicates with a processor of a financial institution; (i) after a user has been granted access, via a computer device of the user, to an online website of the financial institution of which the user has an account or a payment card and (ii) and after the user has selected a link, via the online website of the financial institution, to an application offering page, enabling, by the cloud-based computing resource, the computing device of the user, which is in electronic communication with the financial institution, to access the application offering page, wherein said application offering page identifies the at least two web-based applications that are associated with the financial institution that are stored on the cloud-based computing resource; receiving, in the cloud-based computing resource, from the financial institution, (1) a user-selection of an application from among the at least two applications associated with the financial institution of the application offering page, and (2) user data that is stored at the financial institution, wherein the user-selection is originally made by the user via an interface device of the computing device in communication with the financial institution; and transmitting, from the cloud-based computing resource to the computing device, via the financial institution, data that allows the user-selected application associated with the financial institution to be displayed on a display screen of the computing device, wherein the user-selected application is not required to be downloaded or stored on the computing device of the user and is pre-populated with appropriate user data that was received, by the cloud-based computing resource from the financial institution. | 10,476 |
8,660,485 | 1. A near field communication device comprising: an antenna configured to receive a signal transmitted by another near field communication device and to generate an input voltage from the signal, an amplifier, a variable resistance element arranged in series between the antenna and an input of the amplifier, and a controller coupled to the variable resistance element; wherein the near field communication device is operable: | 35,978 |
9,408,606 | 1. A surgical tool for use with a robotic system that includes a tool drive assembly that is operatively coupled to a control unit of the robotic system that is operable by inputs from an operator and is configured to provide at least one rotary output motion to at least one rotatable body portion supported on the tool drive assembly, said surgical tool comprising: a surgical end effector comprising at least one component portion that is selectively movable between first and second positions relative to at least one other component portion thereof in response to rotary control motions applied to the at least one selectively movable component portion; an elongate shaft assembly operably coupled to the surgical end effector, the elongate shaft assembly comprising at least one rotary drive shaft that is in operable communication with the at least one selectively movable component portion of the surgical end effector; a tool mounting portion operably coupled to the elongate shaft assembly, the tool mounting portion being configured to operably interface with the tool drive assembly when coupled thereto, said tool mounting portion comprising: a manually-actuatable reversing system operably interfacing with the elongate shaft assembly to selectively move the second rotary driven gear out of meshing engagement with the first rotary driven gear and apply manually-generated, rotary control motions to the second rotary driven gear and said at least one rotary drive shaft. | 26,100 |
8,536,310 | 1. An isolated antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof, comprising: a) a heavy chain comprising a first variable region comprising CDR1 (amino acids 49 to 58), CDR2 (amino acids 73 to 89), and CDR3 (amino acids 122 to 132) from SEQ ID NO: 5; and b) a light chain comprising a second variable region comprising CDR1 (amino acids 47 to 56), CDR2 (amino acids 72 to 78), and CDR3 (amino acids 111 to 120) from SEQ ID NO: 7, wherein the antibody binds CLL-1 with high affinity. | 5,163 |
9,321,204 | 1. A system for shoreline preservation, the system comprising: first and second post sleeves, wherein: a plurality of cross-members received into the wall slots such that a wall section is formed in a space defined between the first and second posts, wherein the plurality of cross-members are comprised of a length and material that makes each operable to flex when subjected to the force of a wave such that gaps between adjacent cross-members are temporarily widened to allow water and suspended sediment from the wave to navigate from a front side of the wall section to a backside of the wall section. | 13,748 |
9,564,145 | 1. A method, comprising: in an electronic device: | 44,398 |
8,843,774 | 1. A method of managing battery power, comprising: receiving an indication of an application being scheduled for immediate execution on a mobile device; determining available battery power for the mobile device; determining required battery power for the application without user input; and reserving battery power for the application prior to executing the application on the mobile device, wherein the determining required battery power for the application comprises: identifying at least one subsystem of the mobile device used by the application, estimating battery power consumed by the at least one subsystem to support the application, and determining the required battery power for the application based on the estimated battery power consumed by the at least one subsystem to support the application, and wherein the estimating battery power consumed by the at least one subsystem to support the application comprises: identifying a subsystem used by the application and at least one active application, the subsystem being one of the at least one subsystem supporting the application, and estimating battery power consumed by the subsystem to support the application based on a difference between total battery power consumed by the subsystem to support the application and the at least one active application and battery power consumed by the subsystem to support the at least one active application. | 42,347 |
9,285,849 | 1. A method for managing energy consumption of an application, the application being executable by hardware comprising a set of processors using an operating system, the method comprising: identifying time constraints of the application; annotating code sections of the application that are subject to the time constraints, the annotating being performed by means of software markers, the software markers delimiting code segments; determining worst case execution times of the code segments in a set of execution modes; and memorizing execution times of the code segments in an execution library for each execution mode, the library being able to be interfaced with hardware, the operating system, and the application and to execute an energy management strategy by controlling a state of the processors. | 33,292 |
8,485,034 | 1. An Acoustic Confocal Interferometry microscope for use with a suitably selected coherent acoustic or ultrasound source, for the production of an acoustic or ultrasound coherent beam, and a suitably selected detector for providing three dimensional information on an object, said microscope comprising: an acoustic or ultrasound coherent wavelength source for producing an acoustic or ultrasound coherent beam; scanning means for moving said coherent beam in a suitably selected pattern; means for producing an object beam and an interference beam from said acoustic or ultrasound coherent beam; object beam focusing means for focusing the object beam to an object focal point; an inference beam focusing means for focusing the interference beam to an interference beam focal point, wherein the interference beam focusing means is other than the object focusing means; the object beam focusing means and the interference beam focusing means configured to produce a suitably selected convergence angle at a suitably selected position said object beam having a transmission path of essentially the same length of a transmission path of said interference beam, said object beam intercepting an object at the object focal point and said interference beam passing by the object; means for defining the object beam and the interference beam based on the geometry of said convergence angle and said position of said object focal point and said interference focal point; and means for producing an interference pattern between said object focal point and said interference focal point in order to collect information about the object by a detector. | 28,093 |
9,300,152 | 1. An electric vehicle charging station, comprising: a power controller to control the flow of power from a power grid; a controller coupled to the power controller; and a wireless communications interface operable to communicate with a personal computing/communications device using a short range wireless communications protocol, the wireless communications interface incapable of communicating directly with a remote server; wherein the controller is configured to store session data for a series of charging sessions in memory until an appropriate personal computing/communications device enters within range of the wireless communications interface and to communicate the session data for the series of charging sessions by first transmitting the session data from the electric vehicle charging station opportunistically through the wireless communications interface to the personal computing/communications device external to the electric vehicle charging station and then by transmitting the session data through a long-range wireless communications interface of the personal computing/communications device capable of communicating directly with the remote server to thereby enable electric vehicle charging. | 9,159 |
8,565,367 | 1. A nuclear fuel bundle comprising: an upper tie plate; a lower tie plate; at least one full-length fuel rod extending between the upper tie plate and the lower tie plate; at least one partial length fuel rod extending from the lower tie plate towards the upper tie plate; a fuel assembly component mounted on the at least one partial length fuel rod, the fuel assembly component including, the nuclear fuel bundle being in a nuclear reactor, wherein the cylindrical device is one of a hollow tube with solid walls and a solid rod, the hollow tube not including any material in the tube. | 7,919 |
9,590,558 | 1. A solar module comprising: at least a plurality of lamellar solar panels which are mounted pivotably, about a common axis, on an elongate support and can be moved between a first position, in which they are disposed over each other substantially congruently and parallel to the support, and a second position, in which they lie substantially next to each other in a fanned out manner about the common axis, wherein in the first and second positions the solar panels are parallel to each other and the solar panels remain parallel to each other during fanning out from the first position to the second position, wherein the support is pivotable out of a housing which accommodates the support together with the solar panels in the first position of the panels, wherein the solar module comprises two supports of the aforementioned type equipped with solar panels in the aforementioned manner, and wherein the two supports are pivotably hinged at the diametrical longitudinal ends of an elongate base support, such that each support can pivot about an axis approximately extending normal to a side of the base support on which it is mounted, the base support being mounted rotatably, about an approximately vertical axis, in the housing. | 29,101 |
8,581,549 | 1. A method of balancing a state of charge (SOC) of a plurality of cells connected in series, said method comprising: identifying an undercharged cell from the plurality of cells to charge; electrically connecting a positive side of the undercharged cell to a positive bus, the positive bus comprising a plurality of positive bus switches operable to selectively couple the plurality of cells to the positive bus; electrically connecting a negative side of the undercharged cell to a negative bus, the negative bus comprising a plurality of negative bus switches operable to selectively couple the plurality of cells to the negative bus; electrically connecting an inductor to a voltage source during a first time period; electrically disconnecting the inductor from the voltage source in response to an elapse of the first time period; and maintaining the disconnection of the inductor from the voltage source for a second time period corresponding generally to the time for the inductor to discharge energy to the undercharged cell. | 12,313 |
8,852,335 | 1. A backyard compostable container, comprising: an enclosed body having an opening through an interior surface and an exterior surface, the enclosed body having an average width, the opening being smaller than the average width of the body, the body comprising: an ambient compostable mouth coupled to the opening and in fluid communication with the interior surface of the enclosed body, the mouth configured to cooperate with the fluid barrier layer to protect the plant fiber structural layer from moisture, the mouth configured to completely breakdown into nontoxic residue in ambient environmental temperatures in the range of 20 and 30 degrees Celsius without application of additional heat. | 33,279 |
8,446,006 | 1. A method of forming a semiconductor device, comprising: forming a contact pad in a last wiring level; and forming a plurality of wires of the contact pad extending from side edges of the contact pad to respective ones of a plurality of vias, wherein each one of the plurality of wires has substantially the same electrical resistance; and the plurality of wires are formed from the contact pad. | 27,505 |
9,529,350 | 1. A system that controls position measurement performed by a position measurement device, the system comprising: circuitry configured to | 27,362 |
8,499,700 | 1. A brace attachment device adapted for attachment to a pallet, the device comprising: a first and second assembly, each said assembly comprising a pair of leg members each having an upper end and a lower end, a mounting bracket connected to said lower end of each of said leg members, and a cross brace member connecting to said leg members to each other at or near said upper ends; each said mounting bracket comprising a pair of L-shaped flanges connected together by a retention member, each said L-shaped flange comprising an abutment portion adapted to abut and be affixed to a pallet and a leg-receiving portion adapted to abut said lower end of said leg member, said leg-receiving portions positioned facing each other on opposing sides of said leg member, screw-receiving apertures disposed in said abutment portions and vertical slots disposed in said leg-receiving portions, wherein said retention member is connected to each of said leg-receiving portions of said L-shaped flanges such that with said leg member in a vertical position said lower end of said leg member abuts said leg-receiving portions and said retention member; and a bolt member extending through said slots of said mounting brackets and through the lower ends of said leg members; whereby with said lower ends of said leg members raised such that said bolt members reside in the upper portions of said slots, said leg members can be pivoted into a horizontal position, and whereby with said leg members in a vertical position said bolt members reside in the lower portions of said slots and said retention members prevent pivoting of said leg members into said horizontal position. | 17,530 |
8,879,513 | 1. A base station, comprising: a transmit path circuitry configured to transmit an uplink grant to a subscriber station; and a receive path circuitry configured to receive one or more multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) uplink coded transport blocks from the subscriber station on a number N wherein at least one of acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information and rank indication (RI) information is transmitted in the one or more MIMO uplink coded transport blocks using at least one of a vector sequence | 10,750 |
8,699,548 | 1. A method comprising: (a) using a Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) to generate two signals of frequency FVCO, wherein the two signals together are a first differential signal; (b) supplying the first differential signal to a first divide-by-two circuit local to the VCO such that the first divide-by-two circuit outputs four signals of frequency FVCO/2, wherein the four signals together are a first quadrature signal; (c) supplying two of the four signals of the first quadrature signal to a second divide-by-two circuit local to a first mixer of a first device such that the second divide-by-two circuit outputs four signals of frequency FVCO/4 to the first mixer, wherein the four signals output to the first mixer together are a second quadrature signal, wherein the first device is taken from the group consisting of: a direct conversion transmitter and a direct conversion receiver; and (d) supplying the first quadrature signal to a first phase mismatch correction circuit such that the first phase mismatch correction circuit outputs a first phase-corrected version of the first quadrature signal to a second mixer of a second device, wherein the second device is taken from the group consisting of: a direct conversion transmitter and a direct conversion receiver, and wherein the VCO, the first divide-by-two circuit, the second divide-by-two circuit, the first device, the first phase mismatch correction circuit, and the second device are all parts of an integrated circuit. | 19,030 |
8,504,310 | 1. A flow determining device for an air seeding and/or fertilizing machine that includes a source of particulate material and material metering structure, an air delivery system for conveying the material from the source to the ground, the sensor comprising; a first sensor located in the air delivery system for providing a first signal indicative of the force of the particulate material impacting the first sensor; a second sensor located in the air delivery system for providing an interference signal indicative of one or more variables that negatively impact first sensor accuracy; and a processor connected to the first and second sensors for determining a particulate material mass flow signal in dependence on the impact sensor signal and the interference signal wherein the processor is responsive to the first signal and to a change of metering rate of one of two materials to determine individual material mass flow rate. | 33,269 |
8,927,997 | 1. A substrate, comprising: a thin film transistor (TFT) including an active layer, a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode; a first insulating layer disposed between the active layer and the gate electrode; a second insulating layer disposed between the gate electrode and the source and drain electrodes; a third insulating layer disposed on the second insulating layer, and including an integrally formed hole which exposes the second insulating layer in a first region and which exposes one of the source and drain electrodes in a second region; and a first electrode connected to one of the source and drain electrodes, disposed to cover the first region and the second region, and directly contacting the second insulating layer exposed by the integrally formed hole in the first region, a portion of the third insulating layer interposed between the first electrode and the second insulating layer. | 13,878 |
8,798,402 | 1. A computer readable storage medium comprising a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to perform the steps of: segmenting video stored in computer readable storage media into keyframes; representing near-duplicate keyframes as a sequence of indices; and rendering the near-duplicate keyframes in a graphical representation to determine relationships between video content, wherein the graphical representation includes a relevance to a topic and a relationship over time between similar videos within a corpus of videos. | 3,535 |
8,931,261 | 1. A fluid delivery system for delivery of a fuel, the fluid delivery system comprising: a primary fuel supply system having a low-pressure fluid pump that is in fluid communication with a high-pressure fluid pump, the low-pressure fluid pump configured to elevate a fuel pressure of the fuel to a first pressure range, the high-pressure fluid pump configured to elevate the fuel pressure of the fuel to a second pressure range, the second pressure range being higher than the first pressure range; a diversion apparatus having a primary coupler and an auxiliary fluid delivery system, the primary coupler being in fluid communication with the low-pressure fluid pump and the high-pressure fluid pump, the primary coupler configured to divert a portion of a fuel flow from an outlet side of the low-pressure fluid pump to the auxiliary fluid delivery system; and wherein the diversion apparatus is adapted to prevent the fuel flow from dropping below the second pressure range. | 19,162 |
8,483,809 | 1. A real-time electrocardiogram monitoring system comprising: a patch-type electrocardiograph which is attached to a skin of a subject in the form of a patch-type form, configured to measure an electrocardiogram of the subject, and to generate and transmit first electrocardiogram data of a first frame format for near-field transmission of the measured electrocardiogram signal; a relay-type communication device configured to receive the first electrocardiogram data from the patch-type electrocardiograph, to extract electrocardiogram data, and combine the extracted electrocardiogram with identification information of the subject to generate second electrocardiogram data of a second frame format for far-field transmission; a monitoring server configured to receive the second electrocardiogram data from the relay-type communication device, to extract the electrocardiogram data and the subject identification information of the subject, to classify, to store and to output in real time the electrocardiogram data based on the subject identification information of the subject; and a repository configured to classify and store the electrocardiogram data, wherein in response to receipt of requests by viewers of the electrocardiogram data, an authenticator is configured to perform a multilevel authentication to determine accessible class of the electrocardiogram data, the multilevel authentication specifying a different accessible class of viewer which is classified based on each of the viewers and a data selector that is configured to transmit only the electrocardiogram data upon detection of a successful authentication corresponding to each level of the multilevel authentication based on each of the viewers. | 1,722 |
9,525,095 | 1. A colloidal dispersion of a material in the divided state in an aqueous liquid phase selected from the group consisting of aqueous solutions and mixed solutions of water with at least one water-miscible solvent, said material in the divided state being formed of solid particles of the following general composition (A): wherein: a, b, c, v, w, x and y and arithmetic combinations thereof are real numbers which represent a molar proportion of each element with which each number is associated in formula (A), such that: 1≦a<1.65; 1≦b<1.40; 4<c<9, and v, w, x and y belong independently of one another to the group of the real numbers belonging to the interval 0≦each of v, w, x, and y<0.5, and the material in the divided state having, as determined by elemental analysis, a proportion by mass of carbon element of less than 2.5%; the colloidal dispersion having a concentration of the material in the divided state in said colloidal dispersion greater than 20 g/l; the colloidal dispersion having a charge potential value ζ, called the zeta potential, as determined by electrophoretic mobility shift analysis of said colloidal dispersion, which is negative and the absolute value of which is greater than 20 mV. | 7,647 |
9,670,780 | 1. A compressor section, comprising: one or more rotor stages; a tie shaft assembly including a shaft; and one or more projections extending radially outward from the shaft, the projections configured to redirect air communicated from between the one or more rotor stages and the shaft, wherein at least one of the projections has a peak and a leading edge, the peak positioned directly aft one of the rotor stages, the leading edge positioned under the one of the rotor stages. | 9,164 |
9,590,587 | 1. A mechanical resonating structure, comprising: a plurality of stacked layers, comprising wherein thicknesses of the plurality of stacked layers combine to provide a first order temperature coefficient of frequency (TCF) that is approximately zero for a mode of vibration, and wherein the doped semiconductor layer has a doping concentration with a value configured to provide the mechanical resonating structure with a second order TCF that is substantially zero for the mode of vibration. | 1,071 |
9,693,199 | 1. A location information management system comprising: a mobile station that is located in a mobile communication network; and a service management server that receives a movement sensing request to sense a movement of the mobile station from a service providing server provided in an external communication network, the service management server thereafter notifying the service providing server that the movement of the mobile station has been sensed upon an occurrence of the movement of the mobile station, wherein the mobile station receives, from a base station forming an area in which the mobile station is located, first area information included in information that is periodically transmitted to each mobile station located in the area, the mobile station thereafter sensing that the mobile station itself has moved upon receipt of second area information different from the first area information, and the mobile station notifying the service management server that the movement of the mobile station itself has been sensed, the service management server notifies the mobile station of a monitoring time for monitoring sensing of a movement of the mobile station, and the mobile station notifies the service management server that the movement of the mobile station has been sensed when the mobile station senses that the mobile station has moved within the monitoring time, and the mobile station does not notify the service management server of the movement sensing result when the monitoring time has elapsed. | 2,994 |
9,836,026 | 1. A wall clock with changeable size comprising: a clock base; a transparent front cover disposed in the clock base; a dial disposed adjacent to the front cover in the clock base, which has a plurality of holes thereon; a rear cover disposed in the clock base; wherein the wall clock further comprises a framework assembly disposed adjacent to the dial in the clock base comprising: a central dish for displaying time, which is configured to be suitable for passing through one of the holes of the dial; a plurality of arms, each of which is configured to be retractable in a length direction thereof, and has one end being secured to the central dish; a plurality of fixing members for the arms, mounted removably and radially at different positions of the other end of the respective arms so that the framework assembly can be fixed in the clock base. | 8,147 |
9,296,998 | 1. A nucleic acid construct comprising a heterologous plant promoter operably linked to an isolated polynucleotide having a sequence selected from the group consisting of (a) the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 45; (b) a nucleotide sequence having at least 90% identity to SEQ ID NO: 45, and encoding a polypeptide having glutamine phenylpyruvate transaminase (GPT) activity; (c) a nucleotide sequence encoding the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 46, or a polypeptide having at least 90% sequence identity thereto which has GPT activity; and, (d) a nucleotide sequence encoding the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 46 truncated at its amino terminus by between 30 to 56 amino acid residues, or a polypeptide having at least 90% sequence identity thereto which has GPT activity. | 4,399 |
9,348,361 | 1. A portable interactive electronic apparatus, comprising: a shell; and a touch control panel, positioned on the shell, the touch control panel having a cover plate, and the cover plate comprising: | 37,667 |
9,535,008 | 1. A sensor system with a sensor device comprising: a through-flow cell having a liquid supply opening and a liquid discharge opening, which through-flow cell is configured to allow a liquid to flow through it, a detector device which is configured to measure a property of the liquid in the cell and to generate an associated detector signal, and a sensor control which is configured to analyze the detector signal, wherein the sensor control is configured to detect a liquid transition between two different liquids in the through-flow cell when a change in the detector signal per unit time and/or a change in the detector signal is greater than a predetermined change threshold value or than a predetermined threshold value, respectively, wherein the sensor control is configured to generate an alarm signal if the sensor control detects such a liquid transition, wherein the change in the detector signal comprises at least one peak or trough in the detector signal, and wherein the peak or the trough has at least a predetermined magnitude. | 41,764 |
9,533,560 | 1. A crane ( 1 ), particularly a crawler crane, comprising at least two different drive units ( 2 ) configured to be alternately connected with the crane ( 1 ), wherein the drive units the internal combustion engines ( the crane ( the superstructure ( | 15,448 |
9,187,373 | 1. A method of retarding the set time of a cementitious slurry until placed in a desired location within a gas, oil or geothermal wellbore, comprising: introducing into the wellbore a cementitious slurry comprising water, a cement and a water-soluble or water-dispersible set retarder, the set retarder comprising a copolymer of repeating units of wherein unit E represents a polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated monomer, the second monomer represents an alkoxylated sulfate, phosphate or ketonic salt and F represents an alkoxylated monomer of the formula: wherein: R1 and R4 are independently selected from —H and a straight or branched chain C G is —CH R2 and R5 are independently selected from a hydroxy substituted alkyl or alkylene having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, —(CH R6 is —CH R7 is —H or a C X is an anionic radical selected from the group consisting of —SO Z is —H or a water soluble cationic moiety which counterbalances the valence of the anionic radical —X; n is from about 1 to about 150; c is a positive integer; and d and e are 0 or positive integers provided that d and e are not both 0; delaying the set time of the cementitious slurry, wherein the copolymer is present in an amount sufficient in the cementitious slurry to retard the set time of the cementitious slurry; and allowing the cementitious slurry to harden to a solid mass. | 31,630 |
9,643,017 | 1. A computer-implemented method for outputting a stimulation history map corresponding to a plurality of stimulations that have been performed using a stimulation device implanted in an anatomical region, the method comprising: for each of a plurality of display elements, where each of the display elements is recorded as having been part of each one of a plurality of scored estimated volumes of tissue activated (VOAs) by the plurality of stimulations, determining, by a computer processor, a score for the display element based on scores of the plurality of VOAs of which the display element has been recorded as being a part, wherein each of the plurality of VOAs comprises multiple ones of the display elements; and generating and outputting, by the processor, a map including the plurality of display elements graphically marked based on the respective scores determined for the display elements. | 34,925 |
8,663,406 | 1. A insensitive explosive composition comprising: diethylenetriamine trinitrate (DETN) and methyl nitroguanidine (MeNQ), in a molar ratio of 0.55:1 to 1.35:1; and in the absence of ammonium nitrate. | 34,489 |
9,430,372 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a processor that comprises one or more cores; a non-volatile memory (NVM) coupled to the processor via an I/O interface by the processor, the NVM having stored thereon a compressed Basic Input and Output System (BIOS) image; a cache within the processor; and a non-volatile random accessible memory (NVRAM) coupled to the processor and being byte-rewritable and byte-erasable by the processor, the NVRAM having stored thereon an uncompressed BIOS image, which is produced by the processor from the compressed BIOS image during a Pre-Extensible Firmware Interface (PEI) phase of a boot process, wherein execution of the uncompressed BIOS image places the cache in a write-back mode during the PEI phase of the boot process. | 48,230 |
8,382,327 | 1. A light device for illumination by a power supply circuit comprising: a bulb portion, a pair of end caps disposed at opposite ends of the bulb portion, the pair of end caps including a first end cap disposed at one end of the bulb portion, and a second end cap disposed at an end of bulb portion opposite the first end cap, wherein the bulb portion and the pair of end caps are dimensioned to be mounted in a flourescent light tube socket; and a plurality of light emitting diodes disposed inside the bulb portion along one surface of a circuit board extending between the first end cap and the second end cap for illuminating in response to electrical current to be received from the power supply circuit; wherein each of the plurality of light emitting diodes is mounted with respect to surface of the circuit board to establish a radiation pattern of light emitted from the bulb portion; and wherein the arrangement of the circuit board and the bulb portion is such that substantially the entire light output of the light device is emitted away from the one surface and is confined to an included angle by sidewalls extending to a height above the one surface on opposing sides of the plurality of light emitting diodes between the first end cap and the second end cap. | 13,364 |
9,031,767 | 1. An internal combustion engine control device for an internal combustion engine that includes an engine driving pump, the control device comprising: an electronic control device configured to: (a) circulate lubricant by use of a driving force of the internal combustion engine, and reduce that driving load of the pump which acts on the internal combustion engine, by executing a low-pressure control to limit a circulation amount of the lubricant when demand for the lubricant is small; (b) limit the execution of the low-pressure control in engine starting; (c) stop an engine operation automatically when a predetermined automatic stop condition is established, and restart the internal combustion engine when a predetermined restart condition is established during the automatic stop; and (d) relax the limitation on the execution of the low-pressure control, at the time of restarting the internal combustion engine, and invalidate the relaxation of the limitation on the execution of the low-pressure control and limit the execution of the low-pressure control, when a preceding automatic stop duration time is a predetermined time or more. | 46,979 |
8,692,225 | 1. A resistive memory device, comprising: a word line formed, in a first direction, on a semiconductor substrate; lower access structures, each having a pillar shape, formed on the word line; a first insulating layer formed around an outer circumference of each of the lower access structures; a heat-absorption layer formed around an outer circumference of the first insulating layer; a variable resistive material formed on each of the lower access structures; and an upper electrode formed on each variable resistive material. | 9,495 |
9,082,130 | 1. A method of verifying the authenticity and quality of a formulation including prebiotics and other components purchased from a producer, comprising: encoding the formulation with a code that can be scanned and transmitted to a website controlled by the producer; receiving the scanned code at the website for authentication of the code; and providing information from the website, following authentication, about quality and purity testing on the formulation; or, if authentication fails, alerting the producer to said authentication failure. | 30,716 |
8,781,451 | 1. A method for providing traffic notifications, said method comprising: determining at least one mobile device approaching a zone comprising traffic congestion; sending a notification of said traffic congestion to said at least one mobile device approaching that zone; tracking over time, the location of said at least one mobile device approaching that zone; and; updating the at least one mobile device approaching that zone regarding the progress of the traffic congestion indicated in said notification by sending at least one follow up notification provided prior to said traffic congestion being cleared. | 21,548 |
9,018,551 | 1. A handlebar switch for a motorcycle, comprising: a switch case including a substrate disposed inside said switch case such that a surface of said substrate is substantially orthogonal to a direction of an axis of the handlebar, said substrate having a plurality of contacts generating electric signals in a manner operatively associated with operation of said plurality of operating switches; and direction change mechanisms which change an operating direction of pressure applied to said plurality of operating switches, and wherein at least one of said plurality of contacts is disposed on each side of said substrate. | 31,845 |
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