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9,847,639 | 1. A control system for an electric power grid configured to supply electric power from a supply point to a plurality of consumption locations, the system comprising: a plurality of sensors, wherein each sensor is located at a respective one of a plurality of distribution locations on the distribution grid at or between the supply point and at least one of the plurality of consumption locations, and wherein each sensor is configured to sense a component of the supplied electric power received at the respective distribution location and to generate measurement data based on the sensed component of the power; a controller configured to receive measurement data from the plurality of sensors, and to operate the electric power grid in a modification-on state or in a modification-off state; wherein the controller generates an energy delivery parameter based on the measurement data; a component adjusting device configured to adjust a component of the electric power grid in response to the energy delivery parameter; wherein the controller is configured to determine, using an energy validation process, the change in energy characteristics between the modification-on state and the modification-off state, using a paired comparison, wherein the paired comparison includes a pairing process and the pairing process includes applying at least one filter selected from the group consisting of: | 2,630 |
8,586,397 | 1. A method of manufacturing solar cells, the method comprising: depositing, in a liquid phase, an etch-resistant dopant material on a silicon substrate, the etch-resistant dopant material comprising a dopant source and a solvent; forming a cross-linked matrix in the etch-resistant dopant material using a non-thermal cure of the etch-resistant dopant material, the cross-linked matrix having a structure, and the non-thermal cure causing a phase change of the etch-resistant dopant material from liquid to solid; subsequently, removing the solvent from the etch-resistant dopant material without altering the structure of the cross-linked matrix; and heating the silicon substrate and the etch-resistant dopant material having the cross-linked matrix to a temperature sufficient to cause the dopant source to diffuse into the silicon substrate. | 46,475 |
8,838,552 | 1. A database processing device, comprising: a parallel arithmetic unit; and a central processing unit (CPU), comprising: a data storing section that decides a fragment length of a fragment of a column store database based on a unit of a data process of said parallel arithmetic unit, and stores tuple data containing variable-length data into the fragment and metadata of the tuple data stored into said fragment into a fragment header, respectively, in the column store database, wherein the data storing section comprises a variable-length data storage length deciding section which measures a data length that appears within a column or fragment set in the column store database, such that the fragment length is matched to the processing ability of the parallel arithmetic unit; and a parallel arithmetic section that refers to said metadata when executing a process for data stored in said column store database, decides the fragments to be assigned to each thread that is executed by said parallel arithmetic unit, assigns the fragments to said each thread based upon the decided content, and causes each thread to execute a parallel arithmetic operation. | 6,582 |
9,075,984 | 1. A method comprising: intercepting, by a kernel mode driver of a computer system, file system or operating system activity relating to a code module; selectively authorizing, by the kernel mode driver, the code module by authenticating a content authenticator of the code module with reference to a multi-level whitelist, the multi-level whitelist comprising (i) a global whitelist database remote from the computer system, the global whitelist database containing content authenticators of approved code modules that are known not to contain viruses or malicious code and (ii) a local whitelist database containing content authenticators of at least a subset of the approved code modules; allowing the file system or operating system activity relating to the code module when the content authenticator matches one of the content authenticators of approved code modules within the multi-level whitelist; and blocking the file system or operating system activity relating to the code module when the content authenticator does not match any of the content authenticators of approved code modules within the multi-level whitelist. | 23,812 |
9,484,466 | 1. A thin film transistor, comprising: a gate electrode; a source electrode; a drain electrode facing the source electrode; an oxide semiconductor layer disposed between the gate electrode and the source electrode and between the gate electrode and the drain electrode; and a gate insulating layer disposed between the gate electrode and the source electrode and between the gate electrode and the drain electrode, wherein the thin film transistor is included in a gate driver of a display device, wherein the source electrode is connected with a clock terminal of the gate driver and the drain electrode is directly connected with an output terminal of the gate driver, wherein the output terminal is connected with a gate line and outputs a gate signal, and wherein when a signal applied to the gate electrode is a turn-off signal and when a clock signal applied to the source electrode has a high level, a voltage applied to the gate electrode has a negative value. | 36,997 |
8,809,097 | 1. A method of fabricating a silicon solar cell, said solar cell having front and back surfaces, said solar cell including a base layer of crystalline silicon, said method comprising: forming a passivation layer on the back surface of said base layer; patterning said passivation layer to form a multiplicity of apertures in said passivation layer corresponding to contact areas on the back surface of said base layer; and epitaxially depositing a back surface field structure on said contact areas on the back surface of said base layer; wherein said base layer is single crystal silicon, said back surface field structure is continuous over the patterned passivation layer, said back surface field structure is a crystalline silicon structure and the interface between said base layer and said back surface field structure is an epitaxial interface. | 20,850 |
8,850,808 | 1. A compressed air energy storage system comprising a low pressure subsystem, the low pressure subsystem comprising: a low pressure hydraulic vessel adapted to contain a heat transfer liquid and comprising a low pressure piston disposed therein for horizontal reciprocating movement; first and second low pressure vessels coupled to the low pressure hydraulic vessel on opposite sides of the low pressure piston, each adapted to contain at least one of the heat transfer liquid and a gas, each of the first and second low pressure vessels including a valve adapted to introduce ambient pressure gas into the respective low pressure vessel; and first and second heat transfer devices respectively coupled to and disposed within the first and second low pressure vessels, wherein: | 23,460 |
8,411,002 | 1. A display system comprising: a system module; a connector connected to the system module; and a display module connected to the system module through the connector, the display module comprising: wherein the system module is configured to: at least one of transmit communication signals to the display module and receive communication signals from the display module; and transmit a noise component which is independent of the communication signals to the display module through the connector, wherein the first ground region and the second ground region are both independently electrically connected to a top chassis of the display module. | 36,640 |
8,776,463 | 1. A vibration isolator of a wind turbine system, the vibration isolator comprising: a plurality of bearing units installed between a wind tower and a concrete bottom base and arranged along the periphery of a flange of the wind tower, each bearing unit having elastic material layers and rigid material layers stacked alternately, wherein the plurality of bearing units are arranged to form a circle, wherein adjacent bearing units are engaged to each other by a combination of concave and convex portions, and wherein the adjacent bearing units are engaged to each other to form a gap therebetween. | 24,106 |
9,191,058 | 1. A method of communicating a data chirp signal from a transmitter to a receiver, the data chirp signal comprising a sequence of symbols, each symbol encoding a first symbol value and a second symbol value such that the data chirp signal comprises a first symbol value sequence and a second symbol value sequence, the first and second symbol values being encoded via different properties of the symbol, the first symbol value sequence being selected from values in a primary predetermined sequence and a secondary predetermined sequence, the method comprising: selecting consecutive values of the first symbol value sequence from values in consecutive sequence positions of the primary predetermined sequence and the secondary predetermined sequence; encoding first data in the chirp signal via the selected first symbol value sequence; encoding second data in the chirp signal via the second symbol value sequence; and transmitting the data chirp signal to the receiver. | 49,281 |
8,958,438 | 1. A method of correlating one or more call legs of a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call, comprising the steps of: detecting a first call leg among the one or more call legs with a first network probe from a plurality of network probes, wherein the detecting a first call leg comprises describing the first call leg using a first event that includes a first plurality of fields, wherein the first plurality of fields includes at a least timestamp and an error code; detecting a second call leg among the one or more call legs with a second network probe from the plurality of network probes, wherein the detecting a second call leg comprises describing the second call leg using a second event that includes a second plurality of fields, wherein the second plurality of fields includes at least a timestamp and an error code; determining one or more relationships between the first call leg and a second call leg based on one or more complex event processing rules configured to parse the first plurality of fields and the second plurality of fields; correlating the first call leg and the second leg based on a parsing of the first plurality of fields and the second plurality of fields with the one or more complex event processing rules; identifying the first call leg and the second call leg as belonging to a single call based on the one or more relationships and the correlation; and reporting the first call leg and the second leg as the single call when the timestamp and the error code in the first plurality of fields match the timestamp and the error code in the second plurality of fields. | 4,971 |
9,603,966 | 1. A dressing for treating or preventing a microbial biofilm comprising: a composition layer comprising about 30 w/w % to about 80 w/w % surface active agent selected from the group consisting of poloxamer 127, poloxamer 188, poloxamer 237, poloxamer 335, poloxamer 407, and combinations thereof and about 1% or less by weight of the composition of an antimicrobial agent; and a dressing material supporting the composition layer. | 3,065 |
9,793,812 | 1. A method for operating an inverter with reactive power capability that comprises a voltage link circuit and an unfolding bridge, wherein poles of the voltage link circuit are configured to be selectively connected to terminals of an AC output in different configurations by means of the unfolding bridge, in order to change a polarity of the AC output relative to the voltage link circuit, the method comprising: in the case of a phase shift between an AC current (I) and an AC voltage (U) at the AC output, reversing the direction of a current flowing via the voltage link circuit, wherein reversing the direction of the current flowing via the voltage link circuit comprises: reconnecting the AC output to the voltage link circuit with the polarity of the AC output relative to the voltage link circuit being changed by the unfolding bridge. | 41,648 |
8,870,573 | 1. A dental implant, comprising: a dental implant body which is a cylindrical body having a first end, a second end, a 360° flat surface between said first and second ends of said dental implant body, an asymmetric thread formed around an outer wall of said dental implant body and extended from said flat surface of said dental implant body to said first end of said dental implant body, an apexsinoelevation tip formed at a first end of said dental implant body, and a cervical slope located between said second end of said dental implant body and said asymmetric thread of said dental implant body, a hexamaxim lock being provided at said second end of said dental implant body for connecting with an abutment through a bolt, and an apex lock formed at said first end of said dental implant body, wherein said apex lock has an apex cavity which has a cavity bottom and a cavity wall which extends to a periphery edge of said apex lock to form a cavity edge which defines an apex opening, wherein said apex lock comprises a lock element in said apex cavity, wherein said lock element which is an internal thread provided on said cavity wall of said apex cavity, wherein said internal thread of said cavity wall of said apex cavity is oriented in an opposite direction of said asymmetric thread, wherein said second end of said dental implant body has a ferroembrace and a platform which is an uppermost portion of said dental implant body, wherein said ferroembrace is a bevel extending inwardly from a periphery edge of said second end of said dental implant body for thickening said second end of said dental implant body, wherein said asymmetric thread of said dental implant body has a first side and a second side having different slope angles, wherein said first side which is facing said first end of said dental implant body having a smaller slope angle while said second side which is facing said second end of said dental implant body having a larger slope angle, wherein said asymmetric thread has a tapered insertion root portion adjacent to said first end of said dental implant body, wherein said tapered insertion root portion has a plurality of apex indentations which are spacedly formed therein, wherein each of said plurality of apex indentations has a V-shape cross section defining two blade surfaces cutting into said dental implant body from a tip of said first end of said dental implant body, wherein a cross section of said asymmetric thread is exposed and said blade surfaces of said asymmetric thread forms cutting blades, wherein said apexsinoelevation tip is a narrow platform located at a lowermost portion of said first end of said dental implant body, wherein said plurality of apex indentations slightly nick a peripheral edge of said apexsinoelevation tip, wherein said apex cavity cuts through a large portion of a center part of said narrow platform making said narrow platform a thin and moderately sharp circle band, wherein said cervical slope, which is provided between said ferroembrace and said flat surface, is a taper wall extending upwardly from said flat surface to said ferroembrace in a taper manner such that a diameter size of said second end is smaller than a diameter size of said flat surface, wherein said cervical slope, which has a slope surface, attenuates said second end of said dental implant body while slightly increasing a diameter thereof, thereby when a force is applied to loosening said asymmetric thread, said internal thread of said apex lock is fastened at the same time. | 32,977 |
9,436,842 | 1. A method for improving the storage security and fault-tolerance of a digital computer file, F, comprising the steps of: a. using N (N>1) heterogeneous (independently owned and operated) cloud providers, CP b. encrypting the file, F, using a new b-bit random number, k, where b is the relevant encryption key size in bits, and generating file F′; if encryption is not use F′=f; c. using an interleaving scheme for rearranging the order of bytes or bits in F′ and creating an output stream, F″, with a preferred embodiment based on the use of a rectangular matrix written column-wise and read row-wise; d. dividing up F″ for use with FEC encoders, with the preferred embodiment configured for fault tolerance against failure of one of the constituent cloud providers; e. applying the FEC encoding to each input block of size K generated by the previous step, and obtaining output blocks of size R (R=K+P, P is the number of parity bytes generated by the selected FEC encoder); f. fragmenting each output block from step ‘e’ above into N sub-blocks, one per cloud provider; g. storing fragments generated by step f above based on an adaptation process comprised of: h. creating meta information comprising file size, file modification date, access permissions, number of file systems, encryption type, encryption keys, FEC type, or any other fields or values about the file considered useful for display, listing, access or reassembling fragments when the file is read; and i. storing the meta information through recursive application of the present invention across the same set of N cloud providers or a subset of those N cloud providers or another set of M cloud providers (M>=1). | 36,604 |
9,028,793 | 1. A method for generating hydrogen comprising contacting a catalyst for generating hydrogen with at least one compound selected from the group consisting of hydrazine and a hydrate thereof, wherein the catalyst is an alloy represented by Ni (1-x) Ir x , x=0.01 to 0.25, prepared by adding a reducing agent to an aqueous solution containing an iridium compound, a nickel compound and hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide to reduce the iridium and nickel ions, and a reaction temperature of the hydrogen generation reaction is 0 to 80° C. | 45,551 |
8,706,977 | 1. A method of inter-processor communication for a mobile terminal having a first processor, a second processor and a shared memory, the method comprising: determining, by the first processor, the size of data to be sent to the second processor; comparing the determined size of the data to be sent to the second processor with the size of one of multiple buffer areas in the shared memory to be used for transmission; rearranging the shared memory according to the data size when the size of the data to be sent to the second processor is greater than the size of the buffer area to be used; and sending the data to the second processor through the rearranged shared memory, wherein the determining of the size of data to be sent further comprises determining whether the data to be sent is formatted data or raw data. | 13,976 |
9,321,457 | 1. A method of operating a hybrid vehicle driveline, comprising: automatically stopping an engine and opening a driveline disconnect clutch in response to an engine stop request; automatically starting the engine in response to an engine start request, wherein automatically starting the engine includes partially closing the driveline disconnect clutch; and adjusting a driveline integrated starter/generator (DISG) speed in response to a desired torque converter impeller speed. | 20,671 |
8,806,682 | 1. A patient support apparatus, comprising; a frame; a deck coupled to the frame, the deck having a plurality of deck sections including a seat section and upper and lower deck sections, wherein the upper and lower deck sections each independently pivot between a lowered position and a raised position about a common pivot axis, the common pivot axis remaining stationary relative to and located above the seat section; at least the lower deck section being spaced from the seat section at least when the lower deck section is in the lowered position; and a mattress supported by the deck, wherein the mattress has a seat portion located above the seat section of the deck, and the common pivot axis is located above the seat portion of the mattress. | 31,128 |
9,441,999 | 1. A vehicle comprising: an engine; and a controller to, in response to the engine switching from a first to a second fuel, compute a distance traveled per unit fuel burned for each of the fuels, display a single total distance-to-empty from a distances traveled sum for each of the fuels, and transmit the single total distance-to-empty to a phone within and a device external to the vehicle. | 26,467 |
8,986,571 | 1. Lithium composite compound particles having a composition represented by the following compositional formula 1, which particles have an ionic strength ratio A (LiO − /NiO 2 − ) of not more than 0.5 and an ionic strength ratio B (Li 3 CO 3 + /Ni + ) of not more than 20 as measured on a surface of the respective lithium composite compound particles using a time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometer: wherein M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ti, Bi, Sb, Al and Zr; and x, y, z and a satisfy −0.02≦x≦0.05, 0<y≦0.40, 0<z≦0.40 and 0≦a≦0.01, respectively. | 39,171 |
8,695,056 | 1. A method for information flow tracking, the method comprising using a computing system executing a software program for: identifying a plurality of dimensions, each dimension quantifying a property associated with information flows, the information flows resulting from execution of computer programs; using the plurality of dimensions to express a plurality of information flow policies governing accesses to and uses of the information flows, the plurality of dimensions in each information flow policy comprising dimension values resulting from the information flows, the dimension values used to determine compliance with each information flow policy, and the plurality of dimensions in each information flow policy comprising interrelationships among dimensions, each interrelationship comprising a first dimension quantifying a property of a second dimension having an associated dimension value; arranging the plurality of policies into a plurality of domains based on common type of policy; tracking the information flows across all domains; accessing information flow data and associated information flow metadata for each tracked information flow, the information flow metadata comprising the dimension values for one or more of the plurality of identified dimensions and the interrelationships among dimensions, the dimension values associated with data values for data in each information data flow, each dimension value recording an influence on its associated data value by a given information flow control; assigning a multi-dimensional label to each tracked information flow, the multi-dimensional label comprising the data values derived from the information flow data and the associated dimension values derived from the information flow metadata; and propagating each tracked information flow with the assigned multi-dimensional label. | 49,463 |
9,162,272 | 1. A method of manufacturing a closed structure part having a closed section using a blank made from a metal plate by pressing the blank using a press forming die and fixing a pair of joint ends of the blank to each other, the method comprising: a pre-forming step of processing the blank into an interim part having a cross section corresponding to the closed structure part; a closing step of, after the pre-forming step is completed, moving the joint ends of the interim part toward each other and urging, against one of the joint ends, a concave flange processing portion formed in an upper end portion of one of a pair of press forming surfaces of the press forming die wherein each of the press forming surfaces is connected to each other at an edge end adjacent to the other press forming surface and the press forming surfaces extend downward from the connected edge ends; wherein the concave flange processing portion linearly extends in the depth direction of the press forming die along a portion of the one of a pair of press forming surfaces and a bottom surface of the concave flange processing portion is substantially parallel to and adjacent to the one of a pair of press forming surfaces extending from the lower edge of the flange processing portion; and a press joining step of, after the closing step is completed, further moving the press forming die in a pressing direction, bending the one of the joint ends using a pressing force applied from the flange processing portion so that the joint end overlaps an outer surface of the other joint end and a latch flange portion that latches the other joint end is formed and, simultaneously, pressing the blank using the connected pair of press forming surfaces and press-forming outer portions of the pair of the joint ends of the blank into final predetermined shapes with overlapping joint ends. | 45,300 |
9,677,131 | 1. A kit for use in a method for detecting an analyte in a sample, said kit comprising: (a) a blocking reagent comprising a non-analyte-specific binding protein conjugated to a nucleic acid domain; and (b) at least one set of probes, wherein each probe in a set comprises a proteinaceous analyte-specific binding domain and a nucleic acid domain. | 1,394 |
8,714,815 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a plurality of heat generation devices; a plurality of thermal sensors thermally coupled to the plurality of heat generation devices, respectively, wherein each thermal sensor of the plurality of thermal sensors comprises an output terminal configured to provide a voltage representing a temperature of the thermal sensor's respective heat generation device; wherein the output terminals of the plurality of thermal sensors are electrically coupled together at a node such that the node is driven to a highest or lowest of the voltages representing the temperatures, respectively. | 7,579 |
8,782,350 | 1. A memory module operable to communicate signals with a system memory controller, comprising: a printed circuit board comprising at least one connector configured to be operatively coupled to the system memory controller; a plurality of memory devices on the printed circuit board; a circuit, comprising: a first set of ports comprising a plurality of bi-directional ports, each port of the first set of ports operatively coupled to at least one memory device of the plurality of memory devices; and a second set of ports comprising one or more bi-directional ports, each port of the second set of ports operatively coupled to the at least one connector; and a switching circuit configured to selectively and operatively couple one or more ports of the second set of ports to one or more selected ports of the first set of ports, the one or more selected ports being operatively coupled to one or more first memory devices that are being accessed by the system memory controller, wherein the switching circuit is further configured to reshape signals between the system memory controller and the one or more first memory devices so as to ameliorate signal deterioration due to transmission over lossy transmission lines having discontinuity regions between the system memory controller and the one or more first memory devices. | 44,494 |
8,719,735 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a processor, mask layout data of a lithographic mask, the lithographic mask employed in fabricating instances of a semiconductor device, the mask layout data comprising a plurality of polygons, each polygon having a plurality of edges including a plurality of horizontal edges and a plurality of vertical edges, each target edge pair of a plurality of target edge pairs defined by two edges of one or more of the polygons; as an entry point of the method, specifying, by the processor, a search box having a boundary coincident with a given edge of the edges of the polygons in that a portion of the boundary overlaps a portion of the given edge; determining, by the processor, whether the search box includes at least one edge of the edges of the polygons in addition to the given edge; where the search box includes the at least one edge, where the search box can again be specified such that the boundary thereof is coincident with a different edge of the edges of the polygons, repeating the method at the entry point using the different edge as the given edge; where the search box does not include the at least one edge but at least one of the target edge pairs has been specified, or where the search box cannot again be specified, performing one or more subsequent actions; and where the search box does not include the at least one edge and the at least one of the target edge pairs has not been specified, terminating the method. | 23,315 |
9,736,173 | 1. A computer-implemented method for intrusion attack recovery, comprising: monitoring two or more hosts in a network to generate audit logs of system events; generating one or more dependency graphs (DGraphs) based on the audit logs; building a reference model, and determining a relevancy score for each of a plurality of edges of the DGraphs based on the reference model; pruning irrelevant events from the DGraphs to generate a condensed backtracking graph based on the relevance score, the pruning comprising: backtracking from the attack detection point in the condensed backtracking graph to locate an origin. | 40,698 |
9,329,032 | 1. A method for measuring tread thickness from tread surface to belt surface located in a radially outermost position within a tire by emitting ultrasonic waves to the tread surface immersed in a liquid and receiving reflected waves, the method comprising the steps of: measuring a profile of the tread surface; identifying bottom positions of circumferentially extending grooves from the profile obtained in the step of measuring a profile; estimating depths from the groove bottoms to belt surface from the groove bottoms identified in the step of identifying bottom positions and pre-created tire design data; predicting thicknesses by calculating predicted thicknesses from the tread surface to the belt surface from a relationship between the thicknesses from the groove bottoms identified in the step of identifying bottom positions to the tread surface in the profile and the depths from the groove bottoms to the belt surface estimated in the step of estimating depths; and setting amplification factors for received reflected waves according to an amplification factor-thickness data map prepared beforehand in correspondence to the predicated thicknesses. | 15,086 |
9,223,377 | 1. A network device, comprising: a plurality of ports configured to provide an aggregated link to another network device, ones of the plurality of ports being respectively coupled to corresponding ones of a plurality of ports of the another network device, the respective couplings defining a plurality of selectable link members over which to communicate traffic between the network device and the another network device, wherein at least one port of the plurality of ports that are configured as the aggregated link is a power saving port having a power saving mode-enabled configuration where the port is configured to transmit traffic in a regular operating mode and further configured to enter a power saving mode to save power by consuming reduced power during operation, when traffic on the power saving port falls below a threshold traffic volume, and having a single power mode configuration where the port is configured to transmit traffic only in the regular operating mode; a traffic monitor configured to monitor a volume of traffic transmitted over the plurality of ports; and a controller in communication with the traffic monitor, the controller configured to set a power configuration of at least one power saving port, of at least one of the plurality of selectable links, to the single power mode configuration, when the controller receives information indicating that at least one port of the another network device coupled to the at least one of the plurality of selectable links does not support the power saving mode, to select one or more ports corresponding to link members of the aggregated link over which to transmit traffic to the another network device and to avoid transmitting traffic over at least one power saving port having the power saving mode-enabled configuration among the plurality of ports that are configured as the aggregated link, enabling the at least one power saving port having the power saving mode-enabled configuration to enter into the power saving mode, when a bandwidth capacity of other ports among the plurality of ports that are configured as the aggregated link is adequate to transmit the monitored traffic volume. | 21,999 |
8,869,928 | 1. A construction machine comprising: an engine ( an exhaust gas purifying apparatus ( a regeneration apparatus ( a hydraulic pump ( at least one hydraulic actuator ( a directional control valve ( a rotational speed instruction apparatus ( an automatic idle selection unit ( an engine control device ( said engine control device ( a regeneration determining unit configured to determine whether or not said regeneration process to said exhaust gas purifying apparatus ( an engine rotational speed increasing unit configured to increase said rotational speed (N) of said engine ( | 44,845 |
9,775,714 | 1. A method of preparing a femur for receiving an intramedullary femoral prosthesis, comprising: obtaining a patient-specific guide tool adapted for forming an anterior to posterior hole in the femur at an intersection of an intended vertical femoral cut and an intended calcar femoral cut; using the patient-specific guide tool to form the anterior to posterior hole in the femur; using the anterior to posterior hole to at least partially guide the vertical femoral cut in the femur; using the anterior to posterior hole to at least partially guide the calcar femoral cut in the femur; and using the anterior to posterior hole to at least partially guide a femoral broach for reaming the bone to accept the femoral prosthesis. | 2,590 |
9,483,781 | 1. A method for generating a review rating a performance of a pattern, the method comprising: monitoring a deployment of a pattern, wherein said pattern is a model of a topology and application environment that encapsulates installation, configuration and management of middleware and applications; collecting information pertaining to said pattern deployment based on said monitoring of said pattern deployment; monitoring a service history of said pattern; collecting information pertaining to said service history of said pattern based on said monitoring of said service history of said pattern; monitoring an operation of said pattern; collecting information pertaining to said operation of said pattern based on said monitoring of said operation of said pattern; analyzing, by a processor, said information pertaining to said pattern deployment, said service history of said pattern and said operation of said pattern; and generating a review rating a performance of said pattern based on said analysis, wherein said review comprises a score and a comment. | 29,056 |
9,138,112 | 1. A toilet seat assembly having a user operated cleaning feature comprising: a toilet seat defined by a body having a central opening formed therein, the body including a top surface; a toilet seat cover that is pivotally attached to the toilet seat and movable between open and closed positions, the toilet seat cover having a bottom surface that faces the toilet seat in the closed position and an opposing top surface; and a cleaning mechanism that is disposed within the toilet seat cover, the mechanism including: | 38,542 |
9,525,285 | 1. An energy system comprising: a bus system configured to conduct electrical energy; a plurality of input adapters electrically coupled with the bus system and configured to electrically couple with a plurality of respective source entities which are individually configured to provide electrical energy; a plurality of output adapters electrically coupled with the bus system and configured to electrically couple with a plurality of respective consuming entities which are individually configured to consume electrical energy; control circuitry configured to control individual ones of the input adapters to provide electrical energy from respective ones of the source entities to the bus system and to control individual ones of the output adapters to provide electrical energy from the bus system to respective ones of the consuming entities; and wherein one of the output adapters is configured to couple with a grid system, and the control circuitry is configured to determine a first amount of electrical energy to be provided to the consuming entities which are coupled with the output adapters, and to control provision of a second amount of electrical energy to the grid system when a third amount of electrical energy is received from the source entities which is greater than the first amount. | 41,894 |
9,730,653 | 1. An X-ray CT apparatus comprising: an X-ray generator; an X-ray detector; a support part that comprises an exterior part comprising carbon fiber reinforced plastic, wherein said support part supports said X-ray generator and said X-ray detector, wherein said X-ray generator and said X-ray detector are opposed to each other; and a base that rotatably supports said support part such that said X-ray generator and said X-ray detector turn about a turning axis, wherein said base supports said support part such that said turning axis is horizontal, said exterior part includes a pair of arms, and an arm base part that supports said pair of arms in a parallel state, said pair of arms being opposed to each other in relation to said turning axis, said exterior part is formed into a tubular shape in which said pair of arms and said arm base part are continuously provided so as to form a U-shape, said X-ray generator is attached to one of said pair of arms in an accommodated state, said X-ray detector is attached to the other of said pair of arms in an accommodated state, a turning support shaft part is attached to said exterior part so as to extend onto an opposite side to said pair of arms along said turning axis; wherein said support part includes said turning support shaft part that is provided on an opposite side to said X-ray generator and said X-ray detector along said turning axis. | 12,666 |
9,278,815 | 1. An improved belt scraper assembly for belt conveyors comprising: at least a first and a second blade assembly; and at least a hinge assembly mounted on either side of a supporting flexible member for facilitating twin blade cleaning, wherein said first and second blade assemblies being operatively connected to said hinge assembly which is adapted to ensure limited rotational motion of said first and second blade assemblies, wherein said hinge assembly comprises two mild steel plates connected by a pin, said plates being provided with drilled holes on its surface. | 30,459 |
8,538,349 | 1. A method for pre-distorting an exciter, the method comprising: obtaining a characteristic curve of a radio frequency (RF) amplifier; obtaining a first relationship between a gain amplitude correction value and an input power and a second relationship between a gain phase correction value and the input power based on the characteristic curve; obtaining a transmission gain for use in a scan from a magnetic resonance pre-scan; obtaining the gain amplitude correction value and the gain phase correction value of an input of the exciter based on the input of the exciter, the transmission gain, the first relationship, and the second relationship; and pre-distorting an input of the exciter using the gain amplitude correction value and the gain phase correction value. | 17,913 |
8,940,340 | 1. A method for maintaining dominance of Nannochloropsis in an algae cultivation system and for maximizing biomass production by the Nannochloropsis in the algae cultivation system, the method comprising: inoculating the algae cultivation system with a culture of administering an effective amount of sodium hypochlorite to the algae cultivation system having the maintaining the sodium hypochlorite concentration of the algae cultivation system having the | 17,741 |
9,226,348 | 1. A light-emission device, comprising: a two-dimensional OLED element, an encapsulation element for protecting the OLED element, a support, on which the encapsulation element and the OLED element are arranged with the encapsulation element located between the support and the OLED element, and at least one electrical conductor element for an electrical connection between the support and the OLED element, the at least one electrical conductor element being elastic in a direction perpendicular to the OLED element; wherein, the encapsulation element, when viewed perpendicularly to a two-dimensional plane of the OLED element, has a smaller surface area than a substrate layer of the OLED element, which is located completely within the perpendicular projection of the substrate layer. | 17,414 |
9,061,638 | 1. A control unit for operating a safety system for a vehicle, comprising: a step-up converter, which is a switching converter, and which converts an input voltage, which is derived from a vehicle battery voltage, into a higher charging voltage at its output, the step-up converter including a first inductor; at least one energy reserve storage which is charged via the higher charging voltage for operating the safety system in the case of autonomous operation; and at least one step-down converter that converts the higher charging voltage or a voltage received from the at least one energy reserve storage, into a lower charging voltage at its output, the step-down converter including a second inductor, wherein the step-up and step-down converters operate in at least two modes, the at least two modes including a first mode and a second mode in which the step-down converter is operating inversely with respect to the step-up converter, wherein in the first mode, the step-up converter being in a charging phase in which the first inductor is being charged and the step-down converter being in a freewheeling phase in which energy is being output from the second inductor, and wherein in the second mode, the step-up converter being in a freewheeling phase in which energy is being output from the first inductor and the step-down converter being in a charging phase in which the second inductor is being charged. | 23,402 |
9,712,718 | 1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a memory; and a processor in communication with the memory, wherein the processor performs: acquiring a plurality of points defining a plurality of line segments constituting an outline of an object, the plurality of line segments including a first line segment and a second line segment; identifying the first line segment having a shorter distance to the second line segment than a threshold by calculating a distance in a predetermined direction between the first line segment and the second line segment based on coordinates of the plurality of points, wherein the threshold is an inverse number of a printing resolution of a printing engine; correcting a position of at least one of points defining the identified first line segment so that the distance between the first line segment after the correction and the second line segment is the threshold, wherein the threshold is the inverse number of the printing resolution of the printing engine; rasterizing the object based on the plurality of corrected points; and transmitting the rasterized object for printing at the printing resolution of the print engine. | 8,906 |
9,838,943 | 1. A method of routing for wireless sensor networks, comprising the steps of: (a) defining a current node of interest, C (b) selecting a next neighboring node, N (c) redefining the current node of interest, C (d) defining a variable, token, to identify the current node of interest, C (e) if an acknowledgement message is not received at the source node from the destination node, then removing the current node of interest, C | 5,155 |
9,622,905 | 1. A thermotherapy device comprising: a reclining surface for accommodating a patient in a body axis direction; a first radiant heater in an area of a head end of the patient on the reclining surface; a second radiant heater in an area of the foot end of the patient on the reclining surface; a bracket extending in the body axis direction and arranged above the reclining surface, the bracket receiving the first radiant heater in the area of the head end of the patient and the second radiant heater in the area of the foot end of the patient; a pivot means associated with the reclining surface for pivoting the reclining surface about an axis of rotation that is at right angles to the body axis; an angle or slope sensor detecting a deviation of a position of the reclining surface from a horizontal plane to detect a slope measured value; and a control unit connected to the angle or slope sensor and connected to the first radiant heater and the second radiant heater and setting a heat output of each of the first radiant heater and the second radiant heater as a function of the detected slope measured value, whereby the heat output of each of the first radiant heater and the second radiant heater differs by a preset factor and are equal when the reclining surface is in a horizontal position. | 14,859 |
8,622,595 | 1. A bicycle brake light controlling assembly comprising: a lamp device having a controller device capable of wirelessly emitting a controlling signal to the lamp device and having a trigger device electrically connected with the controller device and having | 22,573 |
9,247,270 | 1. A method for decoding a video, the method comprising: receiving a bitstream including information about a last coefficient location of a transformation block; obtaining a prefix bitstring of the last coefficient location among the information about the last coefficient location by performing context-based arithmetic decoding on the bitstream; when the prefix bitstring is greater than a predetermined value, obtaining, from the bitstream, a suffix bitstring according to a bypass mode; performing inverse binarization on the prefix bitstring according to a truncated binarization scheme to obtain an inverse-binarized prefix; performing inverse binarization on the suffix bitstring according to a fixed-length binarization scheme to obtain an inverse-binarized suffix; and reconstructing a symbol indicating the last coefficient location of the transformation block by using the inverse-binarized prefix and the inverse-binarized suffix, wherein a range of a value of the inverse-binarized prefix is determined based on a size of the transformation block and a range of a value of the inverse-binarized suffix is determined based on the value of the inverse-binarized prefix, and wherein a value of the symbol indicating the last coefficient location of the transformation block is reconstructed by using the value of the inverse-binarized prefix and the value of the inverse-binarized suffix. | 49,164 |
9,145,494 | 1. A rubber composition comprising: a diene elastomer; a reinforcing filler; a crosslinking system; a phenolic resin; a polyaldehyde wherein the amount of the phenolic resin is between 1 and 20 phr and wherein the amount of polyaldehyde is between 1 and 20 phr, wherein the functional groups of the polyaldehyde compound react with the carbon atoms of the phenolic resin, thereby creating a reinforcing resin network. | 35,869 |
9,245,654 | 1. A method of causing fusion between particles, comprising: providing a magnet configured to generate an axial magnetic field; providing a cylindrical chamber located in said magnetic field; providing a target in said cylindrical chamber; providing a discharge electrode located in said cylindrical chamber; providing a voltage between said discharge electrode and an inner surface of said chamber to develop an electric field perpendicular to said magnetic field; supplying hydrogen gas into said cylindrical chamber; applying a voltage between said discharge electrode and an inner surface of said chamber containing said hydrogen gas to thereby create a plasma of ions and neutrals from said hydrogen gas in said chamber; said electric and magnetic fields being configured to cause said plasma of ions and neutrals to rotate within said cylindrical chamber by ion-neutral coupling; providing an electron emitter in said chamber configured to emit a quantity of electrons in said chamber under temperature conditions sufficient to reduce a Coulomb barrier between two approaching nuclei in said plasma by virtue of the collective negative charges of said quantity of electrons; said rotation of ions and neutrals being configured to induce a force that causes hydrogen atoms and protons in said chamber to press against the electron emitter; wherein a fusion reaction is caused to occur between neutral particles in said plasma and said target. | 2,758 |
8,739,646 | 1. A roller screw comprising: a screw shaft having a spiral roller-rolling surface on an outer peripheral surface thereof; a nut having a spiral loaded roller-rolling surface on an inner peripheral surface thereof, the loaded roller-rolling surface being opposed to the roller-rolling surface of the screw shaft; a circulation member arranged in the nut and formed to have an unloaded return path connecting one end and the other end of the loaded roller-rolling surface, whose turn number is less than one, of the nut; and a plurality of rollers arranged in a one-turn roller circulation path composed by a loaded roller-rolling path having less than one turn between the roller-rolling surface of the screw shaft and the loaded roller-rolling surface of the nut and an unloaded return path of the circulation member, wherein the circulation member is formed to guide the rollers which have rolled and arrived at one end of the loaded roller-rolling path of less than one turn to the unloaded return path and to return the rollers to the other end of the loaded roller-rolling path of less than one turn, when the screw shaft is relatively rotated to the nut, the unloaded return path of the circulation member has a cross section closed to enclose the rollers which is square in conformity with a shape of a side surface of each of the rollers, and having a linear central part and curved end parts, the linear central part of the unloaded return path is twisted so as to rotate attitudes of the rollers which move along the unloaded return path, the circulation member is formed by combining two split members split at a position of a diagonal line across the full length of the unloaded return path of which cross section is square, and mating surfaces of a pair of the two split members are twisted in accordance with the linear central part of the twisted unloaded return path. | 27,960 |
9,297,505 | 1. An architectural member, comprising: (a). a three-dimensional base; (b). said base including at least one viewable surface; (c). at least a single opening, of predetermined size and configuration, extending from said viewable surface into said base a predetermined distance; (d). a first portion of said opening being sized and configured to receive an LED (light emitting diode), to be inserted from said surface into said opening, and a first end and section of an electrical conductor; and (e). a second portion of said opening being sized and configured to receive at least an excess wire section of the electrical conductor. | 26,322 |
8,830,889 | 1. A system of a mobile device for waking up an application processor (AP) of the mobile device, the system comprising: a Bluetooth device with a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) feature configured to receive a connection request signal from an external device; and a hardware module coupled to the Bluetooth device, the hardware module comprising: wherein the Bluetooth device and the hardware module are configured to process a pairing request signal from the external device to wake up the AP in response to an AP ON request signal from the external device if the pairing request signal is determined to be valid, wherein the Bluetooth device and the hardware module are supplied with quiescent current from a battery of the mobile device prior to the wake up of the AP, and wherein the Bluetooth device generates an output signal with a high, low, delay, and high pattern in response to the AP ON request signal. | 20,456 |
8,391,003 | 1. An electronic device, comprising: an enclosure, comprising a bottom wall defining a pair of receiving portions and a sidewall defining a through hole; and a locking assembly, comprising: wherein rotatable movement of the operating wheel relatively to the enclosure cause the sliding part to cover or uncover the pair of receiving portions, thereby the electronic device being disposed between a lockable and an unlockable position; wherein in the unlockable position, the pair of openings of the sliding part are superposed on the receiving portions respectively, and the resilient member creates a resilient force to drive the sliding part to move back to cover the pair of receiving portions. | 31,965 |
9,373,958 | 1. A method of controlling operation of a photovoltaic power plant, the method comprising: grouping a plurality of inverters of the photovoltaic power plant into a plurality of first level inverter clusters; determining an equivalent impedance of each of the plurality of first level inverter clusters, the equivalent impedance of each of the plurality of first level inverter clusters representing impedances of inverters represented in each of the first level inverter clusters; grouping equivalent impedances of the first level inverter clusters into second level inverter clusters; determining an equivalent impedance of a super inverter cluster based at least on the equivalent impedances of the first level inverter clusters and second level inverter clusters, the equivalent impedance of the super inverter cluster representing impedances of inverters represented in the first level inverter clusters; determining a reactive power generated by a virtual inverter having the equivalent impedance of the super inverter cluster; determining a reactive power contribution of each of the inverters represented in the first level inverter clusters based on the reactive power generated by the virtual inverter; and an inverter represented in the first level inverter clusters generating a reactive power in accordance with a reactive power contribution determined for the inverter. | 41,479 |
9,112,931 | 1. An electronic communication service hosted on one or more servers communicating with a plurality of user devices via one or more digital communication networks, the servers having one or more processors and memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processors, cause the servers to perform a method comprising: receiving user-input from an opening user via communication between a user device associated with said opening user and one or more of said servers, the user-input to include opening dialog content and specification of electronic contact addresses associated with a plurality of target responders; transmitting electronic notifications to one or more user devices associated with each of the target responders by one or more of said servers, the notifications each containing user identifiers associated with the notification recipient; receiving by one or more of the servers, a communication responsive to one of said notifications from a user device associated with a responding one of said target responders, the responsive communication including the user identifier associated with the responding target responder; in response to receiving said responsive communication, configuring default communication preferences associated with said responding target responder such that said servers subsequently transmit push notifications of new dialog content to said responding target responder when said servers receive responses containing further content for that dialog from the opening user or other target responders. | 37,299 |
9,309,539 | 1. A method of recycling water in a biorefinery ethanol production process, the method comprising: supplying water from a water supply to a reverse osmosis system of the biorefinery ethanol production process; supplying water from the water supply and the reverse osmosis system to a cooling tower of the biorefinery ethanol production process; supplying water from the reverse osmosis system to a boiler system of the biorefinery ethanol production process; and supplying steam from the boiler system and water from the cooling tower and the reverse osmosis system to the biorefinery ethanol production process. | 14,195 |
9,281,494 | 1. A display device, comprising: a display substrate; a display unit disposed on the display substrate; a sealing substrate affixed to the display substrate by an adhering layer located outside an outer periphery of the display unit, the sealing substrate located outside of a display area of the display substrate, the sealing substrate including a composite member including a resin and a plurality of carbon fibers and an insulating member affixed to the composite member, the insulating member including a plurality of first through holes through the insulating member; a metal film disposed at one side of the sealing substrate, facing the display substrate; and a conductive connection portion contacting the metal film through a plurality of second through holes through the sealing substrate; wherein the insulating member is affixed to the composite member at a peripherally outward side of at least three peripheral edges of the composite member, and wherein the adhering layer includes a first non-conductive adhering layer located outside the outer periphery of the display unit, a second non-conductive adhering layer located peripherally outward from the first non-conductive adhering layer, and a conductive adhering layer between the first non-conductive adhering layer and the second non-conductive adhering layer. | 10,990 |
9,315,750 | 1. A process for producing biomass pellets and sugars from cellulosic biomass, said process comprising: (a) providing a feedstock comprising cellulosic biomass; (b) extracting said feedstock with steam and/or hot water under effective extraction conditions and optionally with an acid catalyst, to produce cellulose-rich solids and an extract liquor containing hemicellulosic oligomers and lignin; (c) separating said cellulose-rich solids from said extract liquor; (d) filtering said extract liquor to remove at least some of said lignin, thereby generating a filter permeate comprising cleaned extract liquor containing said hemicellulosic oligomers and a filter retentate comprising a lignin-rich stream; (e) hydrolyzing said hemicellulosic oligomers in said cleaned extract liquor with an acid or enzymes, to generate hemicellulosic monomers; (f) recovering said hemicellulosic monomers; (g) recovering acetic acid from said extract liquor and/or from said cleaned extract liquor; and (h) pelletizing said cellulose-rich solids to form biomass pellets, wherein said pelletizing utilizes at least some of said lignin-rich stream from step (d) as a binder or binder component, and wherein said pelletizing further utilizes at least some of said acetic acid from step (g) as a binder or binder component. | 10,067 |
9,161,974 | 1. A method for adjuvant treatment of a mammal suffering from cancer, comprising: administering to the mammal an effective amount of a composition comprising an attenuated, metabolically active wherein prior to the administering step, the mammal previously had been administered cells from a human cell line expressing all or a portion of the cancer antigen, wherein said cells have been recombinantly modified to produce and secrete granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor, and wherein said cells have been modified to prevent the cells from dividing. | 32,092 |
9,773,273 | 1. A method, comprising: generating, by one or more processors of a gift transaction system, a buyer interface, wherein the buyer interface is generated by a buyer interface module of the gift transaction system, wherein the buyer interface module is an Application Programming Interface (API) of an application; generating the buyer interface for a digital store front of a merchant system, wherein a store front interface module of the gift transaction system uses the buyer interface module to generate the buyer interface for the digital store front; facilitating communication between the merchant system and a buyer, wherein communication is facilitated using the buyer interface, wherein the buyer interface facilitates the buying of a gift, and wherein interactions with the buyer interface are received by the buyer interface module; generating, by the one or more processors, a recipient interface, wherein the recipient interface is generated by a recipient interface module of the gift transaction system, wherein the recipient interface module is an API of the application; generating the recipient interface for the digital store front of the merchant system, wherein the store front interface module uses the recipient interface module to generate the recipient interface for the digital store front; facilitating customization of the gift, wherein customization is facilitated using the recipient interface, wherein interactions with the recipient interface are received by the recipient interface module, and wherein facilitating communication between the merchant system and a buyer and customization of the gift uses information extracted from the merchant system. | 19,215 |
9,102,314 | 1. An onboard network for a vehicle, including an electrical machine, wherein the electrical machine is configured at least for generator operation and recuperative operation; a voltage converter, wherein the voltage converter is connected at least indirectly to the electrical machine at an input end of the voltage converter; a first energy storage means, wherein the first energy storage means is connected to the voltage converter at an output end of the voltage converter; and a second energy storage means, wherein the second energy storage means is connected to the voltage converter at the input end of the voltage converter, wherein the voltage converter is configured to generate a first charge voltage at the output end, wherein the first charge voltage is less than a supply voltage received at the input end, detect a charge state of the first energy storage means, detect a charge state of the second energy storage means, regulate the charge state of the first energy storage means in such a way that the first energy storage means has a reserve capacity throughout generator operation, wherein the reserve capacity is a range of charge states of the first energy storage means between fully charged and a predetermined threshold beyond which the first energy storage means is only charged during recuperative operation, and charge the reserve capacity as a function of | 4,218 |
8,363,433 | 1. A hybrid conditioner for filtering harmonics in a power system having a non-linear load and an AC source generating AC power at a fundamental frequency f, comprising: an active filter structured and controlled to filter one or more high-order harmonic currents of said fundamental frequency f; and a passive filter structured to filter one or more low-order harmonic currents of said fundamental frequency f; wherein said active filter and said passive filter are electrically connected in parallel with one another and with said non-linear load, said hybrid conditioner also being for providing oscillation dampening for said power system, wherein said active filter is further controlled to provide an oscillation compensating current that is 180 degrees out of phase with respect to an oscillating current between said passive filter and said AC source to damp said oscillating current. | 8,378 |
8,377,597 | 1. A secondary battery comprising: a cathode; an anode; and an electrolytic solution, | 8,527 |
9,423,631 | 1. A lens moving apparatus, comprising: a first lens moving unit comprising a bobbin having at least one lens mounted at an inside thereof and a first coil mounted at an outer circumference thereof, at least one first magnet disposed around the bobbin while being opposite to the first coil, a housing for supporting the first magnet, and upper and lower elastic members coupled to the bobbin and the housing, the first lens moving unit moving the bobbin in a first direction parallel to an optical axis by interaction between the first magnet and the first coil; and a second lens moving unit comprising a base spaced apart from the first lens moving unit by a predetermined distance, a plurality of support member pairs for supporting the housing such that the housing is movable relative to the base in second and third directions perpendicular to the first direction, a second coil opposite to the first magnet, and a circuit board having the second coil mounted thereon, the second lens moving unit moving the housing in the second and third directions by interaction between the first magnet and the second coil, wherein the support member pairs are disposed at sides of the housing, wherein each of the support member pairs comprises first and second support members separated from each other, the first and second support members being disposed at the same side of the housing in a state in which the first and second support members are adjacent to each other, and wherein power is supplied to the first coil through a first support member pair, which is one of the support member pairs. | 32,088 |
8,770,026 | 1. A sensor device comprising: at least one element located adjacent at least one nanotube or nanowire and configured to alter at least one electrical characteristic of the at least one nanotube or nanowire by bearing on a lateral side of the at least one nanotube or nanowire; and at least one electrode operatively coupled to the at least one nanotube or nanowire and configured to detect the at least one electrical characteristic. | 37,567 |
8,569,515 | 1. A process for producing a compound comprising the steps of: (a) providing a solid support to which is attached a hydroxyalkyl group via a cleavable or non-cleavable linker, (b) supplying a first compound according to Formula 2: wherein X is a spacer consisting of 2-16 atoms, whereby the spacer is selected from the group consisting of: branched or linear alkyl, linear C4-C14 heteroalkyl with one N atom, branched or linear C4-C14 alkenyl, branched or linear C4-C14 alkinyl, bis-(C1-C3)-alkyl-(C6-C10)-aryl, bis-(C1-C3)-alky-heteroaryl, with 5-6 membered heteroaryl with 1-3 heteroatoms selected from N, O and S, 5-10 membered cycloalkyl, 5-10 membered heteroalkyl structure with 2 heteroatoms, whereby each heteroatom is independently selected from the group consisting of N, O, and S, 5-10 membered cyclo-heteroalkyl structure with 1-5 heteroatoms, whereby each heteroatom is independently selected from the group consisting of N, O, and S; in which the atom or atoms of X which are connected to phosphoramidate are sp 3 C atoms; in which R2 in the monomer is a moiety selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, a core moiety selected from the group consisting of: a linear or branched C1-C6 alkyl group, a linear or branched C2-C6 alkenyl group, a linear or branched C2-C6 alkinyl group, a 5-10 membered cycloalkyl group, a 6-10 membered aryl group, a 5-10 membered heterocyclic group with 1-5 heteroatoms, whereby each heteroatom is independently selected from N, O, and S; a substituent attached to the core moiety, whereby the substituent is selected from the group consisting of: a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a protected carboxyl group, a protected formyl group, a C1-C6 acyl group, a C6-C10 aroyl group, a protected hydroxyl group, a C1-C6 acylamino group, a protected amino group, a carboxamido group, a protected mercapto group, a cyano group, a nitro group, a C1-C6 alkoxy group, a C1-C6 alkoxycarbonyl group, a C6-C10 aryloxy group, a C6-C10 aryloxycarbonyl group, a protected sulfhydryl group, a C6-C10 aryl- or C1-C6 alkyl-sulfonyl group, a protected phosphatyl group, a guanidyl group, a primary or secondary carboxyamido group, a detectable moiety, a C6-C10 aryl group, a C2-C6 alkenyl group, a C2-C6 alkinyl group, a 5-10 membered heteroaryl group; in which T2 in the monomer is a tether consisting of a linear, branched or cyclic organic moiety comprising 1-30 C— atoms and 0-5 heteroatoms selected from N, O, and S, and 1-3 subunits selected from a carboxy moiety, an amide moiety and a urea moiety, whereby the internal heteroatoms with the exception of a disulfide bond are separated from each other by a minimum of two carbon atoms; in which R3 is selected from a first group of substituents consisting of H, C1-C3-alkyl, or R3 is selected from a second group of substituents consisting of acetyl, monofluor-acetyl, and difluor-acetyl; in which R4 is selected from the group consisting of H, C1-C3 alkyl, and C6-C10 aryl; in which R3 and R4 are optionally covalently connected to form a —(CH 2 ) n -bridge with n=3 or n=4; in which R5 is selected from the group consisting of H, C1-C3 alkyl, and C6-C10 aryl; and in which PG 1 is either a photo-cleavable linker selected from the group consisting of NVOC and NPPOC, or PG 1 is an acid-cleavable linker selected from the group consisting of monomethoxytrityl, dimethoxytrityl, trimethoxytrityl, 9-phenylxanthine-9-yl (Pixyl), and 9-(p-methoxyphenyl)xanthine-9-yl (MOX); (c) in case that R3 consists of the first group of substituents or in case R3 is covalently linked to R4 performing the step of activating the compound of step (b) with an activator selected from or in case R3 consists of the second group of substituents performing the step of activating the compound of step (b) with N,N,N′,N′-tetramethylguanidine thereby providing an activated compound; (d) reacting the activated compound of step (c) with the hydroxyl group of step (a), thereby forming a phosphate triester, whereby in the case of R3 being selected from the first group a beta-amino function with R6=H is formed, and whereby in the case of R3 being selected from the second group an acylated beta-amino function is formed; (e) in case that R3 consists of the first group of substituents, performing the step of capping the beta amino group of step (d) with acetanhydride thereby introducing R6=acetyl, and proceeding with step (f), otherwise directly proceeding with step (f); (f) reacting the capped compound of step (e) or the compound of step (d) with a compound of Formula 3 in which R1 is selected independently from R2 and R1 is selected from the group consisting of: a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a protected carboxyl group, a protected formyl group, a C1-C6 acyl group, a C6-C10 aroyl group, a protected hydroxyl group, a C1-C6 acylamino group, a protected amino group, a carboxamido group, a protected mercapto group, a cyano group, a nitro group, a C1-C6 alkoxy group, a C1-C6 alkoxycarbonyl group, a C6-C10 aryloxy group, a C6-C10 aryloxycarbonyl group, a protected sulfhydryl group, a C6-C10 aryl- or C1-C6 alkyl-sulfonyl group, a protected phosphatyl group, a guanidyl group, a primary or secondary carboxyamido group, a detectable moiety, a C6-C10 aryl group, a C2-C6 alkenyl group, a C2-C6 alkinyl group, a 5-10 membered heteroaryl group, in which T1 is a further tether and is selected independently from T2, and T1 is selected from the group consisting of a linear, branched or cyclic organic moiety comprising 1-30 C— atoms and 0-5 heteroatoms selected from N, O, and S, and 1-3 subunits selected from a carboxy moiety, an amide moiety and a urea moiety, whereby the internal heteroatoms with the exception of a disulfide bond are separated from each other by a minimum of two carbon atoms, in which Acc is an electron acceptor selected from the group consisting of: a methyl-sulfonyl, a C6-C10 aryl-sulfonyl, a C5-C6 heteroaryl-sulfonyl with 1 or 2 heteroatoms selected from N, O, and S, a C5-C10 cycloalkyl-sulfonyl, a 6 membered electron-deficient aromatic ring, and heteroaromatic ring with a six-membered heterocycle with at least one alkylated N-atom in ortho- or para-position, said heterocycle being selected from the group consisting of pyridinium, pyrimidinium and chinolinium; thereby forming a protected and immobilized monomer; (g) capping the non-reacted free hydroxyl groups of the solid support with acetanhydride or pivaloylanhydride; (h) alternatively, if PG 1 is a photo-cleavable protective group, the method further includes the step of removing PG 1 by applying UV light to the protected and immobilized monomer, or if PG 1 is an acid-labile protective group, the method further includes the step of removing PG 1 by applying acidic conditions to the protected and immobilized monomer, whereby on the immobilized monomer a new free hydroxyl group is formed; (i) providing a further compound according to Formula 2, whereby R2, R3, R4, R5, T2, PG1 and X are selected independently from each other and independently from the respective R2, R3, R4, R5, T2, PG 1 and X in each other monomer; if R3 is selected from the first group of substituents or in if R3 is covalently linked to R4; (j) performing the step of activating the compound of step (b) with an activator selected from if R3 is selected from the second group of substituents, the method further includes activating the compound of step (b) with N,N,N′,N′-tetramethylguanidine, thereby providing an activated further compound; (k) reacting the free hydroxyl group formed during step (h) with the activated compound of step (l) thereby forming a phosphate triester, wherein if R3 is selected from the first group a beta-amino function with R6=H is formed; and wherein if R3 is selected from the second group an acylated beta-amino function is formed; (m) capping the beta amino group of step (k) with acetanhydride in case that R3 consists of the first group of substituents, thereby introducing R6=acetyl, and proceeding with step (l), otherwise directly proceeding with step (m); (n) reacting the compound of step (e) or the compound of step (d) with a further compound of Formula 3 wherein Acc, R1 and T1 are selected independently from each other and independently from Acc, R1 and T1 of the other monomer(s), thereby forming a protected and immobilized oligomer with a further monomer; (o) capping free hydroxyl groups with acetanhydride or pivaloylanhydride; (p) applying, if PG1 is a photo-cleavable protective group UV light to remove the protected and immobilized monomer, or an acid solution if PG1 is an acid-labile protective group to remove PG1 from the protected and immobilized monomer to from a new free hydroxyl group (q) repeating steps (i) to (p) z times, whereby z is an integer between 0 and 8; (r) cleaving the permanent protective groups of the phosphoramidate moieties and the protective groups attached to R1 and R2 under basic conditions or under reducing conditions, if a cleavable linker was used in step (a) the linker is cleaved from the solid support to form a compound according to Formula 1; wherein B in Formula (1) is H, if a non-cleavable linker was used in step (a) a compound according to Formula (1a) is formed; wherein B in Formula (1a) is a non-cleavable linker; and wherein A is selected from the group consisting of: a hydroxyl group, a phosphate, and a C3-C10 monoalkyl phosphate (—O—P═O(O)—O-alkyl), wherein said monoalkyl is linear, branched or a cycle and optionally substituted with a moiety selected from the group consisting of a detectable moiety and a reactive group selected from —SH, —NH in which B is selected independently from A and is selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, and a C3-C10 alkyl, wherein said alkyl is linear, branched or a cycle, and optionally substituted with a moiety selected from the group consisting of a detectable moiety and reactive functional group selected from —SH, —NH wherein n is an integer denoting the number of monomers, and n is equal to or greater than 2; wherein each monomer Acc, R1, R2, T1, T2 and X are selected independently from each other and from the Acc, R1, R2, T1, T2 and X moieties of the other monomer(s); wherein Acc is an electron acceptor selected from the group consisting of: a methyl-sulfonyl, a C6-C10 aryl-sulfonyl, a C5-C6 heteroaryl-sulfonyl with 1 or 2 heteroatoms selected from N, O, and S, a C5-C10 cycloalkyl-sulfonyl, a 6 membered electron-deficient aromatic ring, and a six-membered heterocycle with at least one alkylated N-atom in ortho- or para-position, said heterocycle being selected from the group consisting of pyridinium, pyrimidinium and chinolinium; in which X is a spacer part consisting of 2-16 atoms, whereby the spacer part is selected from the group consisting of a branched or linear alkyl, a linear C4-C14 heteroalkyl with one N atom a branched or linear C4-C14 alkenyl, a branched or linear C4-C14 alkinyl, a bis-(C1-C3)-alkyl-(C6-C10)-aryl, a bis-(C1-C3)-alkyl-heteroaryl, with 5-6 membered heteroaryl with 1-3 heteroatoms selected from N, O and S a 5-10 membered cycloalkyl a 5-10 membered heteroalkyl structure with 2 heteroatoms, whereby each heteroatom is independently selected from N, O, and S, and a 5-10 membered cyclo-heteroalkyl structure with 1-5 heteroatoms, whereby each heteroatom is independently selected from N, O, and S; in which the atom or atoms of X which are connected to phosphoramidate or A are sp 3 C atoms; in which R1 is selected independently from R2, and R1 is directly or via a tether T1 attached to Acc; wherein R2 is selected independently from R1, and R2 is directly or via a tether T2 to a C atom or (if present) N atom of X; wherein R1 and R2 are selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, a core moiety selected from the group consisting of a substituent attached to the core moiety, whereby the substituent is selected from the group consisting of in which the tethers T1 and T2 are selected independently from each other, and a tether consists of a linear, branched or cyclic organic moiety comprising 1-30 C-atoms and 0-5 heteroatoms selected from N, O, and S, and 1-3 subunits selected from a carboxy moiety, an amide moiety and a urea moiety, whereby the internal heteroatoms with the exception of a disulfide bond are separated from each other by a minimum of two carbon atoms; wherein for each monomer X, R1 and R2, and T1 and T2 are selected independently from the group consisting of X, R1 and R2, and T1 and T2 from other monomers, and wherein the compound of Formula 1 or Formula 1a is a defined stereoisomer. | 16,353 |
9,842,107 | 1. A method, comprising: sending, by a device, image data to a server for an analysis; receiving, by the device, a position determined in response to the analysis, the position associated with a face recognized within the image data; receiving, by the device, an alignment command associated with the position determined in response to the analysis; and aligning, by the device, an audio output in response to the alignment command; wherein the audio output is aimed to the position associated with the face recognized within the image data. | 48,900 |
9,674,025 | 1. A four-level pulse amplitude modulation transmitter, comprising: a most significant bit processing section and a least significant bit processing section, wherein each of the processing sections include: | 27,011 |
9,577,544 | 1. A device for connecting an electric power generator to an HVDC transmission system, the device comprising: a first unit for converting an AC output voltage from the electric power generator to a DC input voltage for the HVDC transmission system, the first unit comprising a transformer and a full-bridge rectifier, and a second unit for generating control voltages and/or control currents in the transformer and/or in the electric power generator, the second unit comprising a PWM full-bridge converter adapted to receive the AC output voltage from the electric power generator or an AC voltage based on said AC output voltage, wherein the transformer of the first unit comprises a set of primary windings for receiving the AC output voltage from the electric power generator, a first set of secondary windings coupled to an input of the full-bridge rectifier of the first unit, and a second set of secondary windings coupled to an input of the PWM full-bridge converter of the second unit. | 47,526 |
9,011,353 | 1. An apparatus for applying reduced pressure to a tissue site on a foot, the apparatus comprising: an insole having a surface; a plurality of support members having a first surface facing and covering at least a portion of the surface of the insole and a second surface for contacting the tissue site, a portion of the plurality of support members each having a groove located in the first surface but not in the second surface and at least one of the plurality of support members being removable to form a void; a reduced-pressure interface for receiving reduced pressure form a reduced-pressure source; a flow channel formed from a plurality of interconnected flow channels each formed by one of the grooves and the surface of the insole, the flow channel being fluidly coupled between the void and the reduced-pressure interface for providing a reduced pressure to the void. | 22,365 |
8,513,034 | 1. A method of manufacturing a layered chip package, the layered chip package comprising: a main body having a top surface, a bottom surface and four side surfaces; and wiring disposed on at least one of the side surfaces of the main body, wherein: the main body includes a plurality of layer portions stacked; each of the plurality of layer portions includes a semiconductor chip; at least one of the plurality of layer portions further includes a plurality of electrodes each connected to the semiconductor chip and each having an end face located at the at least one of the side surfaces of the main body on which the wiring is disposed; and the wiring is connected to the end face of each of the plurality of electrodes, the method comprising the steps of: fabricating a plurality of substructures that respectively correspond to the plurality of layer portions of the layered chip package, each substructure including a plurality of its corresponding layer portions and being intended to be cut later at a boundary between every adjacent ones of the plurality of its corresponding layer portions; and completing the layered chip package by fabricating the main body using the plurality of substructures and by forming the wiring on the main body, wherein the step of fabricating the plurality of substructures includes, as a series of steps for fabricating each substructure, the step of fabricating a pre-substructure wafer by performing processing on a first surface of a semiconductor wafer having the first surface and a second surface that face toward opposite directions, the pre-substructure wafer having a first surface and a second surface that respectively correspond to the first surface and the second surface of the semiconductor wafer and including a plurality of pre-semiconductor-chip portions aligned; the step of distinguishing between a non-malfunctioning pre-semiconductor-chip portion and a malfunctioning pre-semiconductor-chip portion among the plurality of pre-semiconductor-chip portions included in the pre-substructure wafer; and the step of forming the plurality of electrodes so as to be connected to the non-malfunctioning pre-semiconductor-chip portion, without forming any electrode connected to the malfunctioning pre-semiconductor-chip portion and having an end face located at the at least one of the side surfaces of the main body on which the wiring is disposed. | 42,406 |
9,574,723 | 1. An LED module comprising: at least one LED of a Group B, wherein the Group B of LEDs comprises one or more LEDs with a dominant wavelength in a value range of 380 nm to 480 nm; at least one LED of a Group R of LEDs, wherein the Group R of LEDs comprises one or more LEDs with a dominant wavelength in a value range of 600 nm to 640 nm; at least one LED of a Group P of LEDs which comprises one or more LEDs that excite a phosphor or a phosphor mixture and are from the Group B of LEDs, wherein emissions of the at least one LED of the Group P and of the at least one LED of the Group R and of the at least one LED of the Group B are additively mixed; a concentration of the phosphor or of the phosphor mixture of the at least one LED of the Group P being selected such that a photometric efficacy thereof, measured in lm/W, as a function of a CIE x-coordinate lies at a maximum or not more than about 20% below the maximum; the at least one LED of the Group P and the at least one LED of the Group R and the at least one LED of the Group B are formed and can be activated and controlled or regulated in such a way that white light is generated, and a color locus of the white light lies on or near Planck's curve, wherein a color temperature of the white light can be adjusted steplessly within at least a partial range of a range of Plank's curve that is located within a color space spanned by color loci of the LEDs of the Group P, the Group R, and the Group B and that a color rendition Ra8 of the white light amounts to at least 85. | 2,059 |
9,137,427 | 1. An imaging apparatus, comprising: a lens; an imaging unit configured to capture an optical image that has entered through the lens from an imaging element; a display device comprising multiple pixels whose light emission period is adjustable, configured to display the optical image captured from the imaging element as a picture; an angular velocity sensor configured to detect a movement of the imaging element; a panning speed detection unit configured to detect a panning speed based on an output from the angular velocity sensor; a light emission period ratio determination unit configured to determine a light emission period ratio of each of the multiple pixels based on the panning speed; and a display device driving unit configured to cause the each of the multiple pixels to emit light based on the light emission period ratio, wherein the panning speed detection unit comprises: wherein the panning speed detection unit outputs the positive signal as the panning speed. | 2,455 |
9,189,090 | 1. A method comprising: displaying on a computer system a web page containing one or more script elements, wherein said one or more script elements are responsive to input data from an input device; receiving at the computer system from the input device multiple segments of input data, the multiple segments of data defining an input sequence, wherein a time interval between receiving adjacent segments of data within the input sequence comprises a phase differential; selecting, from a plurality of actions that change a user experience with the web page, an action associated with said input sequence, wherein the multiple segments of input data are sensed by event handlers of a script element and are processed into an event trigger that is implemented in multiple layers of a software stack, wherein the event handlers correspond to nodes in a Document Object Model (DOM) tree and the one or more script elements have multiple event handlers; and executing said action on the computer system, wherein the phase differential of any two adjacent segments of input data, from the input sequence received by the computer system, as well as a corresponding region of the web page at which point the data input is sensed, are utilized to determine a desired action to the web page from among a set of actions that changes the user experience with the web page. | 17,974 |
9,010,152 | 1. A method for producing float glass, comprising: feeding air to a first ion transport membrane which produces a stream of pure oxygen and a stream of oxygen-depleted air; feeding the stream of pure oxygen to a glass melting furnace; feeding a mixture of steam and a hydrocarbon fuel to one side of a second ion transport membrane and the stream of oxygen-depleted air to the other side of the second oxygen transport membrane to produce a stream of syngas and a nitrogen-rich stream; feeding the stream of syngas to a third ion transport membrane to produce a stream of pure hydrogen and a stream of hydrogen-depleted syngas; feeding the nitrogen-rich stream the hydrogen-depleted syngas stream to a combustor to produce an oxygen-free stream of nitrogen and carbon dioxide; removing H mixing the stream of pure hydrogen and the purified stream of nitrogen and carbon dioxide; and feeding the mixed stream to the surface of a float glass bath downstream of the glass melting furnace. | 9,832 |
8,918,523 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving information identifying a first path of a plurality of potential paths through a network that are capable of communicating data packets between a first node that comprises a first media aggregation manager and a second node that comprises a second media aggregation manager; responsive to receiving the information identifying the first path, provisioning a plurality of routers for data packet routing between the first media aggregation manager and the second media aggregation manager over the first path; receiving information of a predicted bandwidth usage related to the first path; responsive to receiving the information of the predicted bandwidth usage related to the first path, deallocating at least a portion of bandwidth available to a first set of routers that are part of the first path, based at least in part on the predicted bandwidth usage; and allocating at least a portion of the deallocated bandwidth to a second set of routers that are part of a second path of the plurality of paths that is different from the first path, based at least in part on the predicted bandwidth usage. | 33,634 |
9,642,278 | 1. A terminal device, comprising: a terminal to which a signal line is to be connected; a printed wiring board electrically connected to the terminal; and a device housing configured to accommodate the printed wiring board therein, wherein the terminal includes a terminal plate made of a metallic material and a terminal screw, the terminal plate is attached to the device housing and includes a substantially flat plate-shaped main portion having a screw hole, the terminal plate further including a first leg and a second leg respectively and directly protruding from two opposite sides of the main portion in a same direction normal to an attachment surface, the attachment surface being a surface of the main portion attached to the device housing, the first leg and the second leg directly extend from different ones of a left side and a right side of the substantially flat plate-shaped main portion, the first leg and the second leg each directly extend from the main portion in a perpendicular relationship with the attachment surface of the main portion, the first leg is longer than the second leg, the device housing includes an outer wall which has a first attachment hole into which the first leg is inserted, a second attachment hole into which the second leg is inserted, and a depressed portion into which the terminal screw is inserted through the screw hole, the printed wiring board is electrically connected to the first leg inserted into the first attachment hole, the first leg includes a first interconnecting piece extending from the main portion, a connection piece, and a first removal-preventing piece disposed between the first interconnecting piece and the connection piece, the first leg being electrically connected to the printed wiring board through the connection piece, the second leg includes a second interconnecting piece extending from the main portion and a second removal-preventing piece connected to the second interconnecting piece, the second leg does not include the connection piece, the first removal-preventing piece and the second removal-preventing piece each have an arc shape that protrudes outward from the main portion of the terminal plate, outer portions of the arc shape of the first removal-preventing piece extend outward of peripheries of the first interconnecting piece and the connection piece, outer portions of the arc shape of the second removal-preventing piece extend outward of a periphery of the second interconnecting piece, the first removal-preventing piece and the second removal-preventing piece contact an inner surface of the outer wall of the device housing to prevent the first and the second leg from being removed from the outer wall, a center of the screw hole of the terminal plate is misaligned with respect to a straight line extending through a center of the first leg and a center of the second leg when viewed in the same direction, and the terminal plate does not have rotation symmetry about the center of the screw hole when viewed in the same direction. | 23,556 |
9,679,170 | 1. A monitoring system for a disinfectant, the system comprising: first identifiers associated with containers for distributed dispensing of the disinfectant, each of the containers being reusable and having a volume of the disinfectant, the volumes in the containers changing due to repeatable filling and dispensing of the disinfectant in the corresponding containers, the volume of the disinfectant in each container having a particular expiration; second identifiers associated with locations for treatment with the disinfectant; at least one reader reading the first and second identifiers; at least one database associating, for each of the identified containers, the volume and the particular expiration of the disinfectant contained therein and associating the locations with the identified containers used in the treatment; and processing equipment operatively coupled to the at least one reader and the at least one database, the processing equipment tracking the repeatable filling and dispensing of each of the volumes of the disinfectant, each of the particular expirations of the disinfectant associated with the tracked volumes, and each of the first identifiers of the identified containers having the tracked volumes, the processing equipment determining, based on the tracking, expiry of at least one of the tracked volumes of the disinfectant contained in at least one of the identified containers and tracking each of the treatments at the locations using the disinfectant from the tracked containers. | 18,562 |
8,652,396 | 1. A device for the creation of a bainite or sorbite structure in a carbon steel, comprising: an austenitizing station with which the carbon steel is brought to a temperature above an austenitizing temperature; a bath having a quenching agent for cooling the austenitized carbon steel to a temperature that is lower than the austenitizing temperature, an isothermal tempering station for holding the carbon steel at a bainite conversion temperature for a period of time; and a cooling station for subsequently cooling the carbon steel, wherein the isothermal tempering station is essentially configured vertically, in a tower-like manner, and a length of a free pass-through of the carbon steel through the isothermal tempering station allows conversion of the remaining structure into bainite, without deflection of the carbon steel. | 45,402 |
9,295,067 | 1. A base station apparatus for an OFDMA system using a plurality of frequency channels, the base station apparatus comprising: a transmission unit configured to: a reception unit configured to periodically receive, from the first terminal apparatus and the second terminal apparatus, reception quality information a frequency channel used when transmitting data. | 32,313 |
8,783,395 | 1. A method for starting an internal combustion engine in a hybrid sports vehicle that is driven by an electric motor, comprising: providing a driver operable selector switch for selecting one of a gentle engine starting mode and a predetermined sports car engine noise mode; using an engine control unit to determine when driving dynamics require the internal combustion engine to supplement the electric motor; starting the internal combustion engine when the engine control unit determines driving dynamics require the internal combustion engine; adjusting a speed of the internal combustion engine to a target speed corresponding to a speed of the electric motor when the driver operable selector switch is in the gentle engine starting mode; adjusting the speed of the internal combustion engine to a sports car engine noise mode speed that exceeds the target speed of the internal combustion engine over a predetermined time by a predetermined speed differential while simultaneously decreasing a coupling strength of a clutch between the internal combustion engine and the electric motor when the driver operable selector switch is in the sports car engine noise mode for generating a speed overswing, and thereby producing a predetermined acoustical characteristic as a function of the speed overswing; and reducing the internal combustion engine speed to the target speed after a predetermined time of operating with the predetermined acoustical characteristic and then increasing the coupling strength of the clutch between the internal combustion engine and the electric motor. | 49,114 |
8,993,782 | 1. A compound of formula (I), W represents hydrogen or methyl, X represents chlorine or methyl, Y represents hydrogen or methyl, Z represents the radicals V A represents methyl or ethyl, G represents hydrogen (a) or represents one of the groups in which E represents a metal ion equivalent (Na R R | 5 |
8,727,579 | 1. A light extraction member comprising a plurality of unit lenses arranged on one surface thereof, wherein each of the unit lenses comprises a first conic lens forming a lower part of the unit lens and a second conic lens forming an upper part of the unit lens; and wherein the first conic lens has a lens shape expressed as [Equation 1], and the second conic lens has a lens shape expressed as [Equation 2]: where r where r | 210 |
8,500,861 | 1. A method of removing carbon dioxide from a carbon dioxide-laden gas mixture of both predominantly ambient air and a relatively small amount (by volume) of effluent flue gas from a facility operating a primary process, comprising: directing a flow of carbon dioxide-laden effluent flue gas from a facility operating a primary process into contact with ambient air to form a carbon dioxide-laden gas mixture of predominantly ambient air, directing a flow of said carbon dioxide-laden gas mixture of predominantly ambient air through a monolithic carbon dioxide capture structure disposed at a first relatively higher elevation that is supporting an amine sorbent capable of binding carbon dioxide to the sorbent, so as to remove carbon dioxide from the mixture, moving said monolithic carbon dioxide capture structure from contact with said flow of carbon dioxide-laden gas mixture of predominantly ambient air into a regeneration enclosure disposed at a second relatively lower elevation, regenerating the sorbent by causing saturated steam carrying process heat from said primary process at a temperature of not greater than about 120.degree. C. to come into contact with the carbon dioxide capture structure in the regeneration enclosure at said relatively lower elevation, thereby causing separation of carbon dioxide from the sorbent into the regeneration enclosure, withdrawing separated carbon dioxide from the regeneration enclosure, selectively moving the carbon dioxide capture structure out of the regeneration enclosure from said second relatively lower elevation back to a position at said first relatively higher elevation disposed in the flow path of carbon dioxide-laden gas mixture, thereby permitting the regenerated sorbent to bind additional carbon dioxide from the flow of said carbon dioxide-laden gas mixture, cyclically repeating said movements between said first and second elevations of the monolithic carbon dioxide capture structure between the regeneration enclosure and into contact with the carbon dioxide-laden gas mixture of predominantly ambient air, and directing said withdrawn separated carbon dioxide to a storage structure, wherein said process heat from said primary process during said step of regenerating the sorbent is provided by a co-generation process wherein process heat steam is directed at the carbon dioxide-capture structure in the regeneration enclosure. | 25,358 |
8,945,830 | 1. A method for detecting a target molecule that may be present in a test sample, the method comprising: (a) contacting a test sample with an aptamer having a specific affinity for a target molecule, wherein an aptamer affinity complex is formed by the interaction of an aptamer with its target molecule, if said target molecule is present in said test sample, wherein said aptamer binds to said target molecule through non-Watson Crick interactions, and wherein the aptamer has been previously selected to have binding affinity for the target molecule; (b) after equilibration of aptamer affinity complex formation, exposing said test sample to conditions that kinetically challenge components of said test sample; (c) at any point prior to (d), contacting said aptamer affinity complex with a labeling agent; and (d) detecting and/or quantifying the aptamer affinity complex partitioned from the remainder of the test sample, wherein the kinetic challenge comprises (i) introducing a competitor molecule to the test sample, or (ii) the capture of aptamer affinity complexes on a solid support followed by washing with competitor molecules present in the wash solution, and wherein the competitor molecule is selected from the group consisting of an oligonucleotide, a polyanion, an abasic phosphodiester polymer, a dNTP, and a polydextran. | 47,438 |
8,531,058 | 1. A household appliance, comprising: an activation unit; a power supply unit connected to a power supply network and to supply, on a secondary side of the power supply unit, power to controlled functional units of the household appliance and to the activation unit; a switch operated by the activation unit, wherein the switch, while in a first mode, galvanically isolates the power supply unit from the power supply network on a primary side of the power supply unit and the switch, while in a second mode, continuously connects the primary side of the power supply unit to the power supply network, and wherein the switch is in the first mode at least while the household appliance is in an idle state; and a capacitor connected in parallel to the switch on the primary side of the power supply unit. | 29,042 |
8,814,564 | 1. A method of using a dental articulator, the method comprising: providing a dental articulator comprising: operating the dental articulator. | 18,147 |
8,716,225 | 1. A method for inhibiting or reducing blood loss in a patient comprising administering to the patient a non-naturally occurring kallikrein inhibitor polypeptide in combination with an anti-thrombolytic agent, wherein the polypeptide comprises the amino acid sequence: Xaa1 Xaa2 Xaa3 Xaa4 Cys Xaa6 Xaa7 Xaa8 Xaa9 Xaa10 Xaa11 Gly Xaa13 Cys Xaa15 Xaa16 Xaa17 Xaa18 Xaa19 Xaa20 Xaa21 Xaa22 Xaa23 Xaa24 Xaa25 Xaa26 Xaa27 Xaa28 Xaa29 Cys Xaa31 Xaa32 Phe Xaa34 Xaa35 Gly Gly Cys Xaa39 Xaa40 Xaa41 Xaa42 Xaa43 Xaa44 Xaa45 Xaa46 Xaa47 Xaa48 Xaa49 Xaa50 Cys Xaa52 Xaa53 Xaa54 Cys Xaa56 Xaa57 Xaa58 (SEQ ID NO:1), wherein Xaa1, Xaa2, Xaa3, Xaa4, Xaa56, Xaa57 or Xaa58 are each individually an amino acid or absent; Xaa10 is Asp; Xaa11 is Asp; Xaa13 is Pro; Xaa15 is Arg; Xaa16 is Ala; Xaa17 is Ala; Xaa18 is His; Xaa19 is Pro; Xaa21 is Tip; Xaa22 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Tyr and Phe; Xaa23 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Tyr and Phe; Xaa31 is Glu; Xaa32 is Glu; Xaa34 is Ile; Xaa35 is Tyr; Xaa39 is Glu; Xaa40 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Gly and Ala; Xaa43 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Asn and Gly; Xaa45 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Phe and Tyr; and wherein the polypeptide inhibits kallikrein. | 39,726 |
9,157,038 | 1. A process for washing a gas from a hydroprocessed effluent from a hydroprocessing zone, comprising: A) adding a first portion of a wash water stream to the hydroprocessed effluent to form a combined stream; B) condensing the combined stream; C) sending the combined stream to a separator; wherein the separator comprises a substantially cylindrical body, in turn coupled to a boot and a tower; D) providing a second portion of the wash water stream to the tower for washing ammonia and hydrogen sulfide rising in the tower. | 31,798 |
9,365,267 | 1. A floating platform comprising the following: a) a cover element; b) at least three buoyancy bodies separated from each other and attached in a stationary manner on a the bottom side of the cover element, the buoyancy bodies being open at their bottoms and made of a gas-tight, pressure- and corrosion-resistant, flexible material, each of the buoyancy bodies enclosing a closed hollow space at contact with a surface of a liquid in which the platform floats; and c) at least one device for generating pressurized air for creating an over-pressure in the closed hollow spaces; wherein each of the buoyancy bodies has a circular horizontal cross-section and a vertical cross-sectional profile substantially corresponding to an upside down U; and wherein lower edges of the buoyancy bodies are loaded with weights. | 42,663 |
8,675,803 | 1. A plug device for jet pumps installed in nuclear power plant vessels, comprising: two covers ( 1 - 2 ) that form two independent plug units, one fitted on the even pump, which incorporates two plugs ( 6 ), and the other one on the odd pump of each jet pump assembly, which incorporates three plugs ( 6 ), both mounted on a common base ( 3 ) at the end of respective arms ( 4 ), articulated in a central area, wherein the three plugs ( 6 ) located on the nozzles of the odd pump are blind, and the two plugs ( 6 ) located on the nozzles of the even pump have respective fluid inlets ( 11 ) communicating through a channeled arm ( 13 ) towards an outlet ( 14 ), enabling fluid circulation during decontamination tasks, whereas three nozzles of the odd pump of each jet pump assembly are sealed; the arms ( 4 ) being actuated by mechanical or hydropneumatic means, applying the corresponding plug on the nozzles of the jet pump once the base ( 3 ) of the plug is supported on a mixer part of the jet pump ( 10 ), through a guide ( 12 ) centering the plug device therein, and in respective prolongations of the base ( 3 ) consisting of a lower reaction ( 8 ) serving as support both when introducing the plug in the pump and when demounting same, and in an upper reaction ( 9 ) serving to allow the closure of the plug against the nozzles of the jet pump which are located on the plug. | 7,723 |
9,119,939 | 1. A hypodermic needle that rotatably connects to a shield comprising: (A) a hypodermic needle bent into a distal needle portion and a proximal needle portion, the distal needle portion further having a needle tip, the proximal needle portion having a connection aperture; (B) a shield that comprises at least a skin pad portion and a vertical blade, the vertical blade being permanently set at a non-parallel orientation to the skin pad portion, the proximal needle portion being rotatably held within a portion of the shield in a manner that allows the distal needle portion to be placed directly underneath the skin pad portion and to be moved between an operative position that locates the distal needle portion in a parallel orientation to the vertical blade so as to place the needle tip away from the skin pad portion and a stored position that locates the distal needle portion at a non-parallel orientation to the vertical blade and has the needle tip of the distal needle portion placed proximate to the skin pad portion wherein the skin pad portion is not bent or folded around the distal needle portion and the entire distal needle portion remains directly underneath the skin pad portion when moved between the operative and stored positions. | 5,970 |
9,688,895 | 1. An absorbent product for use in recovering or containing hydrocarbons, the product comprising a crosslinked polyolefin having the following formula (II): wherein (CH | 12,191 |
8,830,988 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: discovering, by a first data collector that is communicatively coupled to first Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) logic of a router within a first autonomous system, an address prefix of a second data collector that is communicatively coupled to second BGP logic of a router within a second autonomous system that is coupled to the first autonomous system directly or indirectly through one or more networks or internetworks, the second autonomous system being independent of the first autonomous system; based on the address prefix, receiving, by the first data collector, a request to provide one or more data values relating to performance of network elements of the first autonomous system; retrieving one or more performance data values from each of one or more local border routers within the first autonomous system. | 13,310 |
9,464,679 | 1. A brake system of a drum brake, comprising: a carrier unit; a brake cylinder; a connecting element having a first connection section fixed to the brake cylinder and a second connection section fixed to the carrier unit; wherein the first connection section is arranged offset to the second connection section while being parallel relative to a wheel axis; wherein the first connection section is configured to be fixed directly to the brake cylinder in order to keep a distance between the center of gravity of the brake cylinder and the first connection section low; wherein a distance of the center of gravity of the brake cylinder to the first connection section is in a relationship of from about 0.3 to about 0.7 to a distance of the center of gravity of the brake cylinder to the second connection section; and wherein between the first connection section and the brake cylinder there is a damping element that reduces the transmission of shocks and vibrations from the connecting element to the brake cylinder and vice versa. | 37,835 |
9,611,487 | 1. A cell-free method for large-scale conversion of methane to pyruvate, comprising: combining, in a bioreactor, methane, oxygen, and a cell lysate mixture of at least two cell lysates, at least one of which is obtained from recombinant cells, wherein the cell lysate mixture contains the following enzymes: a methane monooxygenase, a methanol dehydrogenase, a hexulose-6-phosphate synthase, a 6-phospho-3-hexuloisomerase, a 6-phosphofructokinase, a fructose bisphosphate aldolase, a triose phosphate isomerase, a transketolase, a ribose-5-phosphate isomerase or a ribulose-5-phosphate 3-epimerase, a glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase, a phosphoglycerate kinase, a phosphoglycerate mutase, an enolase, and a pyruvate kinase, wherein the recombinant cells overexpress at least one of the foregoing enzymes, to form a cell-free reaction mixture; and incubating under suitable conditions the cell-free reaction mixture to convert methane to pyruvate, thereby producing pyruvate at a production rate of at least 1 g/L-h. | 5,493 |
9,854,385 | 1. A conditional separation alert system, comprising: one or more article protection devices, each consisting of a low power transceiver where in each article protection device is attached to a separate weather related article; and a mobile computing device having a low power transceiver, a processor, and a memory wherein the mobile device is adapted to wirelessly receive weather data and to determine if any of the weather related articles are relevant to the user of the mobile device based on the weather data, wherein the mobile computing device establishes a communication link with the one or more article protection devices, by a wireless communication link, if the article protection device is attached to a weather related article that has been determined to be relevant to the user, wherein the mobile communications device determines if the distance between the mobile communication device and the one or more article protection devices attached to the relevant article exceeds a threshold and alerting the user that the threshold has been exceeded wherein the distance is determined by the signal strength from the communications link and a warning is displayed on the mobile computing device. | 33,451 |
9,317,097 | 1. A power supplying method for changing the efficiency of a power conversion unit, the method comprising: measuring, by a DC meter, a change in DC power of a DC power output, the change indicative of a new load being drawn from the DC power output; sending, by the DC meter, a power signal indicative of the change in the DC power; receiving, by a second controller, the power signal; outputting, by the second controller, a parameter setting signal to a first controller in response to the power signal; determining, by the first controller, a value of a circuit parameter according to the parameter setting signal; and adjusting, by the first controller, an operating mode of a power conversion circuit according to the value such that the power conversion unit increases in efficiency while the new load is being drawn from the DC power output. | 34,931 |
8,404,394 | 1. A fuel cell system comprising: a fuel cell stack formed by stacking a plurality of fuel cells, said fuel cells each including an electrolyte electrode assembly and a separator stacked together, said electrolyte electrode assembly including an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte interposed between said anode and said cathode; a heat exchanger for heating an oxygen-containing gas to be supplied to said fuel cell stack; a reformer for reforming a mixed fuel of a raw fuel chiefly containing hydrocarbon and water vapor to produce a reformed gas; a first heating mechanism for supplying some of an exhaust gas discharged from said fuel cell stack after consumption in power generation reaction to said reformer as a heat source for directly heating said reformer; a second heating mechanism for supplying the remaining exhaust gas to said heat exchanger as a heat source for heating the oxygen-containing gas, and supplying the heat generated in said heat exchanger to said reformer as a heat source for indirectly heating said reformer; a temperature detection unit for detecting the temperature of said reformer; a valve mechanism for adjusting the flow rate of the exhaust gas supplied to said first heating mechanism; and a valve control mechanism for adjusting said valve mechanism based on the temperature of said reformer detected by said temperature detection unit to control the ratio between the amount of heat supplied from said first heating mechanism to said reformer and the amount of heat supplied from said second heating mechanism to said reformer in order to maintain the state of said reformer to have a predetermined reforming condition value, wherein: | 5,881 |
9,608,476 | 1. A charging system comprising: a transmission line including a first terminal and a second terminal; a power adaptor coupled to the first terminal and generating a charging voltage and a first voltage signal, wherein the charging voltage is at a first voltage level; and an electronic device includes: a comparing unit coupled to the second terminal and receiving the first voltage signal; a switching unit coupled to the comparing unit; a stabilizing unit coupled to the comparing unit and the switching unit; and a power supplying unit coupled to the switching unit and the comparing unit, and outputting the second voltage signal, wherein when the first voltage signal is larger than the first preset voltage signal, the second voltage signal is transmitted to the second terminal via the switching unit, and the second voltage signal is outputted to the power adaptor. | 34,627 |
8,393,142 | 1. A power system, comprising: an engine having an exhaust passage; a generator driven by the engine to generate electricity; a battery configured to store electricity generated by the generator; an air compressor powered by the engine to compress air; a reductant injector associated with the exhaust passage; a reductant supply tank; and a reductant dosing cabinet mounted on a platform, the reductant dosing cabinet including: | 5,922 |
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