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9,283,862 | 1. A method for managing power flow using safe failure modes in an electric vehicle charging network, comprising: communicating a first charging behavior from a central flow controller to a plurality of electric vehicles; controlling power flow between each of a plurality of charging stations and their corresponding electric vehicles according to the first charging behavior; detecting a communications failure mode between the central flow controller and one or more of the plurality of electric vehicles; controlling, in response to detecting the communications failure mode, power flow between each of a plurality of charging stations and their corresponding electric vehicles according to the second charging behavior during the period of time of the communications failure, wherein the second charging behavior is predictable and non-disruptive to a power circuit supplying power to the plurality of charging stations. | 41,171 |
9,441,521 | 1. A method for removing foreign matter by changing a pressure of urea water in a urea water path of a selective-reduction catalyst system, comprising: detecting the urea water pressure in the urea water path, wherein, when a change is detected in the urea water pressure, providing the urea water to the urea water path at a higher pressure than an upper pressure limit; and thereafter repeatedly increasing and decreasing the urea water pressure in the urea water path to remove the foreign matter from the urea water path, during at least a portion of time after an engine ignition is either turned on or off, but prior to change over to an opposite ignition status. | 30,234 |
9,270,888 | 1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a recording image generation unit configured to generate recording image data from image data input by an image input unit, based on a first gamma characteristic; a display image generation unit configured to generate display image data from the image data based on a second gamma characteristic, a latitude of which is narrower than the first gamma characteristic, wherein the display image data includes a portion in which tones of the recording image data are not reproduced due to the second gamma characteristic is narrower than the first gamma characteristic; and a display unit configured to superimpose display data for indicating that tones cannot be expressed on a portion in which tones of the recording image data cannot be reproduced and in which tones cannot be expressed even in the recording image data in the display image data. | 40,195 |
9,072,546 | 1. A spinal construct for implantation in a patient to provide stabilization to a spinal structure with improved load sharing, comprising: a flexible spinal rod having a first end and a second end, the flexible spinal rod comprising a C-shaped flexible portion, the spinal rod being configured to provide stabilization to the spinal structure; a first bone fastener configured to securely attach to the flexible spinal rod; and a second bone fastener configured to securely attach to the flexible spinal rod, the second bone fastener is a dynamic fastener arranged to provide motion in one direction more than another direction, the second bone fastener is monolithic and extends along a longitudinal axis between a proximal portion comprising a pair of spaced apart arms defining a cavity configured to receive the flexible spinal rod and a distal portion configured to penetrate tissue, the second bone fastener includes a C-shaped flexible portion positioned between the proximal and distal portions such that the proximal and distal portions are aligned with the longitudinal axis and the C-shaped flexible portion includes a joint portion positioned offset from the longitudinal axis, the flexible spinal rod and the second bone fastener are oriented to cooperate in a manner that achieves load sharing by dynamically flexing under applied loads in a manner that distributes stresses and strains between the flexible spinal rod and the second bone fastener. | 13,459 |
9,242,458 | 1. An ink jet recording method for recording an image on a recording medium using a recording head including a plurality of element arrays, wherein each element array includes a plurality of recording elements that are arrayed in a first direction and used for discharging ink for forming pixels on a recording medium, wherein the plurality of recording elements of each element array are divided into a plurality of groups where each group includes a plurality of recording elements being continuously arranged and assigned to different driving blocks for driving the recording elements, and wherein a number of the element arrays is equal to or larger than a number of recoding elements in a group, the ink jet recording method comprising: executing relative movement between the recording medium and the recording head in a second direction intersecting the first direction; and controlling the recording head so that the plurality of recording elements in each group of the respective driving blocks are driven in order and at a predetermined time interval between the respective driving blocks, wherein the plurality of element arrays are driven so that pixels, based on recording data for one column extending in the first direction, are recorded by using the plurality of element arrays within an area of the recording medium corresponding to relative movement width of the relative movement in the second direction within the predetermined time interval. | 27,838 |
9,728,697 | 1. A light emitting device, comprising: a metal substrate; a first insulating layer on the metal substrate and having light reflectivity and thermal conductivity; a second insulating layer on the first insulating layer and having light reflectivity and thermal conductivity; a light emitting element; and a wiring pattern embedded inside the second insulating layer and including (i) an electrode terminal including an exposed portion that electrically connects an electrode of the light emitting element to the electrode terminal and (ii) an anode electrode and a cathode electrode that connect the wiring pattern to an external power supply that drives the light emitting element, wherein the light emitting element is on the second insulating layer and is flip-chip bonded and electrically connected to the electrode terminal, the thermal conductivity of the first insulating layer is higher than the thermal conductivity of the second insulating layer, the light reflectivity of the second insulating layer is higher than the light reflectivity of the first insulating layer, the wiring pattern includes: a first portion located immediately below the electrode terminal that has a first thickness, a second portion located immediately below the anode electrode and the cathode electrode that has a second thickness, and a third portion located immediately below the second insulating layer that has a third thickness, the first thickness and the second thickness both being thicker than the third thickness, the anode electrode and the cathode electrode are exposed through the second insulating layer, and in a cross section of the light emitting device, the electrode terminal includes a first electrode terminal and a second electrode terminal arranged such that a region between the first electrode terminal and the second electrode terminal includes no portion of the wiring pattern and is filled with the second insulating layer. | 5,237 |
9,408,619 | 1. A low profile patient specific cutting block for a knee, comprising: a plurality of bone interfacing portions configured to overlie portions of an end of a bone, the bone interfacing portions angularly offset from each other, a cutting slot oriented in a fixed position relative to the bone interfacing portions to direct a cutting tool at a fixed angle relative to the bone interfacing portions; and an anteriorly-facing exterior surface defining an index marking extending in a superior-inferior direction transverse to a longitudinal axis of the cutting slot to provide an indication of the orientation of the patient specific cutting block relative to the bone. | 1,346 |
8,911,249 | 1. A connection cable for interconnecting a high intensity discharge (HID) bulb and a circuit unit, comprising: a cable-side connector electrically connected to a bulb-side connector provided in the HID bulb; a cable body connected to the cable-side connector; a cover member configured to surround an outer circumferential surface of the cable-side connector with a connection terminal surface of the cable-side connector exposed; and a locking member configured to bring the cover member into engagement with the bulb-side connector, wherein the cover member is configured to define a gap between the cable-side connector and the cover member such that the bulb-side connector is fitted to the gap when the cable-side connector is connected to the bulb-side connector, the locking member includes a slide portion arranged to slide along an outer circumferential surface of the cover member, the slide portion is provided with a protrusion extending through the cover member and engaging with a locking hole provided in the bulb-side connector, and the slide portion is configured such that, when the slide portion is caused to slide, the protrusion is moved away from the cable-side connector and disengaged from the locking hole. | 12,341 |
9,368,756 | 1. An organic electroluminescence device comprising: a support substrate; a first transparent electrode on the support substrate; an organic light-emitting layer on the first transparent electrode; a second transparent electrode on the organic light-emitting layer; and a high refractive index layer arranged between the support substrate and the first transparent electrode, having at least one layer having a refractive index greater than or equal to a refractive index of the support substrate, having a light dispersion portion for dispersing incident light from the organic light-emitting layer, and having a planar surface contacting the first transparent electrode, wherein the support substrate comprises an embossed surface, and wherein the high refractive index layer has a thickness of greater than or equal to about 30 times and less than or equal to about 40 times of an average surface roughness Ra of the embossed surface. | 3,059 |
8,465,566 | 1. A honeycomb body, comprising: a honeycomb body axis; at least one housing having an inner lateral surface; metal foils forming a channel structure having two end sides, said metal foils having edges bearing against said inner lateral surface of said housing at contact regions; and a multiplicity of linear brazed connections directly adjoining said edges of said metal foils and attaching said channel structure to said housing, said linear brazed connections having brazing material disposed only in said contact regions and parallel to said honeycomb body axis and at least one of said linear brazed connections spaced at a distance from both of said end sides of said channel structure. | 21,204 |
9,475,403 | 1. A method of controlling a vehicle dc bus voltage, the method comprising: generating a first parameter based on a demand associated with at least one of a motoring mode operation and a generating mode operation of a motor associated with the vehicle, the demand being indicated in a message received via a dedicated high speed data bus; generating a second parameter, the second parameter being based on the first parameter and a usage coefficient; and controlling the vehicle dc bus voltage based on the second parameter. | 45,686 |
8,531,531 | 1. A method for estimating a quality of an audio-video signal with a computing device, the method comprising the following steps: determining, by the computing device, audio and video technical characteristics of the audio-video signal, wherein the audio and video technical characteristics include parameters relating to packet loss and coding; quantifying, by the computing device, a quality impact of subsets of the audio and video technical characteristics, wherein the quantified quality impacts of different subsets of the audio and video technical characteristics are represented by multiple audio quality factors and multiple video quality factors; based on the multiple audio quality factors and the multiple video quality factors, determining, by the computing device, an audio-video quality factors interaction from an interaction between the multiple audio and multiple video quality factors; and outputting, by the computing device, an overall audio-visual quality estimate corresponding to the audio-video signal based on combining the multiple audio and multiple video quality factors and the audio-video quality factors interaction. | 13,530 |
9,413,182 | 1. A method for periodically charging a sub-battery for an electric vehicle, consisting of: a first step of calculating, by a controller, a State of Charge (SOC) discharge rate of the sub-battery after charging the sub-battery by compulsory driving a Low Voltage DC-DC Converter (LDC) and discharging the sub-battery, which has been charged by the compulsory driving of the LDC, into a reference electronic load value; thereafter, a second step of setting, by the controller, the LDC output voltage and a charging time of the sub-battery using the SOC discharge rate of the sub-battery and information received from an Intelligent Battery Sensor (IBS); a third step of determining, by the controller, whether or not an SOC of a main battery is equal to or greater than a set value; and then a fourth step of performing, by the controller, periodic charging of the sub-battery through an operation of an LDC when the SOC of the main battery is equal to or greater than the set value. | 35,924 |
9,746,475 | 1. A polynucleotide comprising: (1) a nucleic acid sequence encoding a fusion polypeptide, wherein the fusion polypeptide comprises (2) a transcription regulatory element operatively linked to the nucleic acid sequence, wherein the transcription regulatory element regulates the transcription of the binding moiety and the transcription factor regulates the activity of the transcription regulatory element. | 37,967 |
8,671,104 | 1. A computer-implemented system according to for providing orientation into digital information; comprising: a memory; and a processor operatively coupled to the memory and configured to execute computer executable program modules, comprising: an information storage module maintaining a plurality of evergreen indexes on a server for topically-limited subject areas, each of the subject areas comprising electronically-stored digital information and, for each of the evergreen indexes, comprising: a guide generator receiving a user interest in the digital information for the subject area of at least one of the evergreen indexes; a topic model matcher evaluating each of the patterns for the identified topic models against the digital information; a visual display providing access to the digital information organized according to each of the topics in the subject area; a query evaluator receiving a query comprising topic search terms and to match the topic search terms to the topics in the topic hierarchy; and a characteristic word evaluator designating at least one of the chosen topics and the topic search terms as characteristic words, examining all of the evergreen indexes, and identifying those evergreen indexes in the visual display that comprise the characteristic words. | 34,819 |
9,108,298 | 1. A mold having fine recesses in a surface thereof, the recesses being formed by a method comprising subjecting the surface of the mold to: a first blasting performed by ejecting an elastic abrasive in which abrasive grains are kneaded in an elastic body and/or abrasive grains are carried on a surface of the elastic body onto the surface of the mold at an inclined incidence angle for removing a hardened layer produced on the surface and/or for adjusting the surface roughness; a second blasting for creating fine irregularities on the surface by ejecting abrasives onto the surface of the mold; and a third blasting for flattening peaks of protrusions of the irregularities created on the surface, the third blasting being performed by causing an ejected abrasive to slide along the surface of the mold, wherein said surface of said mold comprises flat portions each with a width W of from 20 μm to 100 μm in which peaks of the protrusions exceeding a predetermined height between the recesses are evened out and flattened. | 9,206 |
8,345,195 | 1. A liquid crystal display, comprising: a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a sealant coupling the first substrate and the second substrate and enclosing the liquid crystal layer; a display signal line arranged on the first substrate and comprising an end portion; and a first spacer disposed between the end portion of the display signal line and the sealant, the sealant being disposed between the first spacer and the liquid crystal layer. | 33,516 |
8,992,998 | 1. A method of treating inflammation in a subject, including the steps of: administering a composition to a subject which releases hydrogen gas in an amount effective to suppress mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) phosphorylation and upregulate expression of MKP-1; and down-regulate inflammatory responses of monocyte lineage cells. | 14,570 |
8,904,974 | 1. An engine cooling apparatus, comprising: a thermostat determining a coolant circulation direction according to a coolant temperature; a radiator emitting absorbed heat to atmosphere by expanding contact area of the coolant with air through a core thereof; an electric water pump disposed to pump the coolant and having a controlled operating speed; a coolant temperature sensor configured to detect a coolant temperature; and a control portion that applies an engine speed and fuel consumption amount to determine an operating speed of the electric water pump, and which applies a compensation coefficient to the operating speed, the compensation coefficient being determined according to a coolant temperature, if an engine is operated at high speed or in a high load condition that the heat load thereof is high; wherein the control portion determines whether the engine is in the high speed or in the high load condition, if a rotation speed of the engine exceeds a predetermined first value or the fuel consumption amount exceeds a predetermined second value, respectively, the predetermined first value and the predetermined second value being a minimum engine speed and a minimum fuel consumption amount that are respectively set so as to protect the engine; wherein the control portion operates the electric water pump at regular speed, if an air-conditioner is being operated in a condition that the rotation speed of the engine is less than the minimum engine speed and the fuel consumption amount is less than the minimum fuel consumption amount that are respectively set so as to protect the engine and the coolant temperature detected by the coolant temperature sensor is lower than a predetermined second temperature that the thermostat is opened; and wherein the control portion detects a driving condition and an outside condition of the engine and if an error is detected, the control portion enters into a limp-home mode to operate the electric water pump at predetermined regular speed. | 45,704 |
9,088,044 | 1. A cathode composite material comprising a cathode active material and a coating layer coated on a surface of the cathode active material, the cathode active material comprises a spinel type lithium manganese oxide, the coating layer comprises a lithium metal oxide having a crystal structure that belongs to C2/c space group of the monoclinic crystal system, wherein a general formula of the lithium metal oxide is [Li][Li 1/3-c Mn 3c A 2/3-2c ]O 2 , A represents a metal element having a +4 valence, and 0<c<⅓. | 31,694 |
9,508,588 | 1. A method for fabricating an integrated circuit, the method comprising: providing a semiconductor substrate including an isolation region between a first device region and a second device region, wherein the isolation region includes a first portion adjacent the first device region and a second portion adjacent the second device region; selectively etching the second portion of the isolation region to a second height; after selectively etching the second portion of the isolation region to the second height, forming an insulation layer including a first insulation layer portion over the first device region and a second insulation portion over the second device region; and selectively etching the first insulation layer portion and the first portion of the isolation region, wherein the first portion of the isolation region is etched to a first height substantially equal to the second height. | 9,606 |
8,604,431 | 1. A pattern-height measurement method comprising the steps of: irradiating a surface of a sample with an electron beam while scanning the electron beam over the surface of the sample, and detecting an intensity of secondary electrons emitted from the surface of the sample by the irradiation of the electron beam using a detector disposed above the surface of the sample; generating image data on the basis of a detection signal of the detector, where the image data is obtained by capturing an image of the surface of the sample; extracting, by using an image processing unit, intensity distribution of the secondary electrons along a line intersecting with an edge of a pattern formed on the surface of the sample on the basis of the image data, and detecting a length of a shadow of the pattern on the basis of a recess portion of the intensity distribution of the secondary electrons; and calculating a height of the pattern on the basis of the length of the shadow. | 4,264 |
9,472,764 | 1. An organic photovoltaic device comprising an anode, a cathode, and in between the anode and the cathode a photoactive layer, the photoactive layer comprising an electron-donor compound and an electron-acceptor compound, wherein the electron-donor compound is a polymer of the formula: wherein R | 32,755 |
9,200,355 | 1. A process of fabricating a steel sheet, comprising: (A) casting a steel with composition, comprising Fe, hydrogen, and, by weight: at least one metallic element X selected from the group consisting of vanadium, titanium, niobium, molybdenum, and chromium, in a percentage as follows to obtain a semi-product and heat-treating the semi-product at a temperature between 900 and 1000° C. for a time between 5 and 20 days; (B) additional reheating the semi-product to a temperature between 1100° C. and 1300° C.; (C) hot rolling the semi-product up to an-end-of-rolling temperature to obtain a sheet; (D) directly after the hot rolling (C), coiling the sheet; and (F) after the coiling (D), performing at least one soaking treatment where the sheet is soaked at a temperature Θ comprised between 250 and 900° C. during a time t of at least 15 s so as to obtain a hydrogen content H wherein a reheating temperature, the end-of-rolling temperature, a coiling temperature, and an annealing temperature are chosen to obtain the following quantity X | 31,803 |
8,702,917 | 1. A system for liberating hydrogen from a base solution, comprising: a first electrolytic cell; the first electrolytic cell having an input for receiving the base solution; the first electrolytic cell comprising a cell chamber in communication with the input, the cell chamber defined by an anode plate at one end and a cathode plate at a second end; wherein the base solution is received in the cell chamber such that the base solution is in contact with the anode plate and cathode plate to create an electrolytic conversion to generate a modified solution comprising sodium hypochlorite by liberating hydrogen from the base solution; the first electrolytic cell having an output in communication with a first junction forming a first bifurcated line and a second bifurcated line; wherein the first bifurcated line directs flow into a return line coupled to the input; wherein the first junction is configured such that the modified solution is passively directed out the first bifurcated line while the liberated hydrogen is passively directed out the second bifurcated line to remove liberated hydrogen from the modified solution; and wherein a pressure differential between the modified solution in the return line and the modified solution in the first electrolytic cell generates a positive upward flow through the first electrolytic cell. | 6,318 |
8,594,102 | 1. A method comprising: running external border gateway protocol (EBGP) on a first customer edge (CE) router, the first CE router exchanging routing information with a first provider edge (PE) router in accordance with the EBGP, the first PE router being included in a first multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) network; running an interior gateway protocol (IGP) on the first CE router, the first CE router exchanging information with a second CE router in accordance with the IGP, the first CE router and the second CE router being included in a customer network; running the EBGP on the second CE router, the second CE router exchanging information with a second PE router in accordance with the EBGP, the second PE router being included in a second MPLS network; running the EBGP on a third CE router, the third CE router exchanging routing information with a third PE router in the first MPLS network, the third CE router being included in a first local network; running the EBGP on a fourth CE router, the fourth CE router exchanging routing information with a fourth PE router in the second MPLS network, the fourth CE router being included in a second local network; and sending a packet from the third CE router to the fourth CE router over a network path, through the first MPLS network and second MPLS network and customer network, that includes: the third CE router, the third PE router, the first PE router, the first CE router, the second CE router, the second PE router, the fourth PE router, and the fourth CE router, wherein the customer network, the first local network, the second local network, the first MPLS network, and the second MPLS network are different networks. | 21,031 |
8,755,686 | 1. A method for processing failures of a multi-span segment working channel in a ring optical transport network (OTN), comprising: extending a fifth node state, 1+1 switching state, in addition to four node states, an idle state, an A direction switching state, a B direction switching state and a pass-through state in a channel shared protection of the ring OTN; detecting alarm information in the ring OTN in real-time; and | 5,385 |
8,849,297 | 1. An apparatus comprising: at least one processor configured to: request for radio resources for at least one traffic flow, to receive a first grant of radio resources for the at least one traffic flow, to request for radio resources for at least one signaling flow after receiving the first grant, and to communicate via the at least one traffic flow and the at least one signaling flow regardless of whether or not radio resources are granted for the at least one signaling flow; and send a plurality of packets including data for the at least one traffic flow and signaling for the at least one signaling flow, wherein the packets are classified as belonging in a plurality of services including a Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) service, wherein one or more of the packets classified as belonging in the VoIP service receives expedited forwarding by one or more nodes in a network supporting differentiated services based on differentiated services codepoint (DSCP) marking for the packets carrying the data and signaling; and a memory coupled to the at least one processor. | 19,604 |
9,645,252 | 1. A method for extracting photon depth-of-interaction of an incident photon in a scintillation crystal with a reflective coating covering all sides of the crystal, except for an opening, wherein a photodetector is optically coupled to the opening, comprising: measuring a pulse shape of a photodetector output as a result of detection of scintillation photons from the crystal generated by the incident photon, wherein the reflective coating covers all sides of the crystal, except for an opening optically coupled to the photodetector reflects the scintillation photons passing to all sides of the crystal, wherein the scintillation photons passing to sides of the crystal are reflected off of all sides of the crystal covered by the reflective coating; and using the pulse shape to determine incident photon depth-of-interaction within the crystal. | 29,350 |
9,377,447 | 1. Apparatus for determining whether or not a test scent conferred by a test sample matches a target scent conveyed by a target sample, which apparatus comprises, in combination: (a) a first set of scent sensors configured for measuring a null control response, which null control response comprises response of the first set of sensors to a null control sample, which null control sample comprises a portion of the test sample; and (b) a second set of scent sensors configured for measuring a positive control response, which positive control response comprises response of the second set of sensors to a positive control sample, which positive control sample comprises another portion of the test sample and all or part of the target sample; (c) a third set of scent sensors configured for measuring a negative control response, which negative control response comprises response of the third set of sensors to a negative control sample, which negative control sample does not contain any of the target sample; and (d) one or more processors configured for determining whether or not the target scent matches the test scent, such that if the one or more processors make a determination that the target and test scent match, the one or more processors make this determination only after: | 26,183 |
8,618,141 | 1. A method of blocking tumor angiogenesis in a human or other mammal comprising administering to a human or other mammal with a tumor of the breast, gastrointestinal tract, kidney, ovary or cervix, an effective amount of the compound N-(4-chloro-3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-N′-(4-(2-(N-methylcarbamoyl)-4-pyridyloxy)phenyl)urea of the formula below or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof | 39,046 |
9,794,657 | 1. An optical switching system for switching data between a plurality of nodes, the optical switching system comprising: a plurality of optical couplers, each one of the optical couplers having an output and a plurality of inputs; each input of the plurality of inputs for optical connection to a respective one of the plurality of nodes; a plurality of wavelength demultiplexers, each one of the wavelength demultiplexers having an input and a plurality of outputs, each output of the plurality of outputs also for optical connection to a respective one of the plurality of nodes; an optical routing matrix interposed between the optical couplers and the wavelength demulitplexers, the optical routing matrix to transmit optical signals between the optical couplers and the wavelength demulitplexers; the optical routing matrix having a plurality of inputs and a plurality of outputs; each input of the optical routing matrix optically connected to the output of a respective one of the optical couplers, and each output of the optical routing matrix optically connected to the input of a respective one of the wavelength demultiplexers; a controller to: wherein the controller is further to: reconfigure the optical routing matrix for subsequent communication during a subsequent time slot; wherein the controller is to reconfigure the optical routing matrix to change, for a particular optical wavelength arriving at a particular input of the optical routing matrix, a corresponding output of the optical routing matrix to which the particular optical wavelength is transmitted; and wherein after reconfiguration the first node is unable to transmit data to the second node. | 41,279 |
9,471,543 | 1. A computer program product that includes a plurality of sets of instruction codes stored on a computer readable medium for implementing a digital signal processing autocorrelation function that extracts periodic information from noise-corrupted signal, the computer program product comprising: a first set of instruction codes for adapting autocorrelation parameters in real-time; a second set of instruction codes for calculating specific determination values that optimize the performance of the autocorrelation function; a third set of instruction codes for performing per-bit multiplication by logically ANDing samples in two arrays; a fourth set of instruction codes for performing an integer summation of the per-bit multiplication to generate a correlation output estimate; and a fifth set of instruction codes for using a threshold detection process to discretize the correlation output estimate to a one-bit binary sample. | 21,901 |
9,243,289 | 1. A method for screening for a glycerol sample suitable for use within a mastermix solution to perform a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay, said method comprising: providing said glycerol sample; providing said mastermix solution; mixing said glycerol sample and said mastermix solution to generate a test mixture; providing to said test mixture an oligonucleotide probe that is labeled with a fluorescent dye; incubating said test mixture at about 65° C. for about 16 hours; adding said test mixture to a liquid chromatography system wherein said system is connected to a fluorescence detector; separating by said liquid chromatography system the oligonucleotide probe from degradation products of the oligonucleotide probe; measuring the fluorescence signal from separated fractions of said liquid chromatography system, wherein the detection of fluorescence signal from fractions that correspond to degradation products of the oligonucleotide probe indicates said glycerol sample is not suitable for use to perform the PCR assay, and wherein the absence of fluorescence signal from fractions that correspond to degradation products of the oligonucleotide probe indicates said glycerol sample is suitable for use to perform the PCR assay. | 10,227 |
8,576,237 | 1. A screen transfer apparatus that communicates with a screen display apparatus that displays image data on a screen, comprising: an image data generation unit configured to generate image data to be displayed on the screen, with a portion of said image data to be compressed and transferred; dictionary memories arranged correspondingly to a plurality of divided areas, each forming a different part of a whole area of the screen, wherein the dictionary memories each store dictionary data for a corresponding one of the divided areas; an area identification unit configured to identify overlapped divided areas that include the portion of said image data to be compressed and transferred; a division unit configured to divide the image data in each overlapped divided area in a vertical direction or a horizontal direction of the screen to generate pieces of divided image data for each overlapped divided area, a vertical width or a horizontal width of each piece is less than that of the corresponding divided areas; a data compression processor configured to compress each piece of the divided image data belonging to each of the divided areas by using to compress a piece of divided image data the dictionary data in a corresponding dictionary memory for the divided area in which that piece resides to generate a corresponding piece of compressed image data for each piece of divided image data, the data compression processor further configured to store each compressed piece of the divided image data belonging to each of the divided areas in each corresponding dictionary memory to update the dictionary data therein; and a data transmission unit configured to transmit the compressed image data belonging to each of the divided areas in an order defined by a rule given in advance. | 26,917 |
8,948,626 | 1. A cleaning device comprising: a brush roll that removes residual toner remaining on a surface of a toner image carrier provided in an electrophotographic apparatus; and a pressure detector that has a pressure-sensitive surface, the pressure-sensitive surface directly contacting a surface of the brush roll with preload, and outputs a detected pressure value to a determination unit that is provided in the electrophotographic apparatus to determine an adhesion state of toner to the brush roll; wherein the pressure detector is a pressure sensor device, and the pressure sensor device is provided in a state where an end portion thereof has entered bristle tips of the brush roll during a normal state of operation. | 29,255 |
8,952,248 | 1. A dye-sensitized solar cell module comprising: a first substrate; a first electrode disposed on the first substrate; a blocking film disposed on the first electrode; nano-particles arranged on the blocking film; a film formed to encompass each of the nano-particles; a second substrate with a second electrode disposed above the nano-particles; an electrolyte interposed between the first and second electrodes; a metal electrical conductivity line formed to connect the first electrode with the second electrode; and a sealant disposed between the electrolyte and the metal electrical conductivity line, wherein the film is made of a titanium dioxide organosol solution, wherein the titanium dioxide organosol solution is made of a mixture of diethanolamine and titanium tetrabutoxide in ethanol and the titanium dioxide organosol solution is concentrated in a quantity of about 100 ml, and wherein the titanium dioxide organosol solution has a viscosity range of 3-5 cP (centipoise). | 46,043 |
9,748,605 | 1. An electrolyte additive comprising a compound of formula I wherein u is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 and where a CH v is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4, —SO R″ independently at each occurrence is a straight-chain or branched alkyl group having 1 to 20 C atoms, and may be unfluorinated, partly fluorinated or fully fluorinated, or is a straight-chain or branched alkenyl group having 2 to 20 C atoms and a double bond, a straight-chain or branched alkynyl group having 2 to 20 C atoms and a triple bond, or an aryl group having 6 to 12 C atoms, which group may be singly or multiply substituted by at least one selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, and a straight-chain or branched, partly fluorinated or fully fluorinated alkyl group having 1 to 8 C atoms, K is a cation selected from the group consisting of R wherein R independently at each occurrence is methyl, ethyl, n-propyl, isopropyl, n-butyl, sec-butyl or tert-butyl, wherein optionally a CH Y is CH R′ is methyl, ethyl, n-propyl, isopropyl, n-butyl, sec-butyl or tert-butyl, A is an anion selected from the group consisting of [F [F [(C [C [O—C(O)—C [N(C(O)—C [N(S(O) [N(C(O)—C [N(C(O)—C [N(S(O) [N(S(O) [C(C(O)—C [C(S(O) [O—S(O) m is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8, wherein optionally CF z is 1,2 or 3, y is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6, X is B or Al, R and where independently at each occurrence is a bidentate radical which derives from a 1,2- or 1,3-diol, from a 1,2- or 1,3-dicarboxylic acid or from a 1,2- or 1,3-hydroxycarboxylic acid, by entering of pairs of adjacent OH groups in the compound into one bond each to the central atom X, accompanied by formal elimination of two H atoms, wherein an electroneutrality of a corresponding salt thereof is observed. | 9,093 |
9,681,273 | 1. An infrastructure service information communication device, comprising: a service processor, configured to generate a broadcast message, wherein a physical frame header and/or a media access control frame header of the broadcast message comprise an identification information bit, a value of the identification information bit is a first value when the broadcast message is an infrastructure service information discovery message, and the infrastructure service information discovery message comprises specific information of infrastructure service information; and a wireless transceiver, configured to exchange data with an outside of the infrastructure service information communication device, wherein the service processor transmits the broadcast message via the wireless transceiver; wherein when the broadcast message is a beacon frame, the value of the identification information bit is a second value, wherein the beacon frame comprises an index message of the infrastructure service information and broadcast time points of corresponding specific information of the index message. | 24,169 |
9,215,108 | 1. A decision feedback equalizer, comprising: a first weighting addition circuit that adds an input signal and weighted versions of second to nth feedback signals together, n being an integer not less than 2; a first decision circuit that decides whether or not a result of addition by the first weighting addition circuit is not less than a first defined threshold value and that outputs the result of the decision as a first feedback signal of the n feedback signals, the first decision circuit operating in synchronism with a clock signal; a second decision circuit that decides whether or not the result of the addition by the first weighting addition circuit is not less than a second defined threshold value and that outputs the result of the decision, the second decision circuit operating in synchronism with the clock signal; and a plurality of latch circuits that sequentially hold the result of decision of the second decision circuit in synchronism with the clock signal and that output the contents held by component registers thereof as the second to nth feedback signals, respectively, wherein the second decision circuit is configured so that the second defined threshold value is controllable by a weighted version of the first feedback signal. | 32,144 |
9,793,048 | 1. A capacitor arrangement structure comprising: a casing to accommodate a capacitor, the casing including a casing bottom; a housing including a bottom wall and having a height from the bottom wall which includes an inner surface and an outer surface opposite to the inner surface in a height direction along the height, the casing being mounted on the inner surface so that the casing bottom opposes a mounting surface in the inner surface; a heat sink including a heat sink top and provided on the outer surface of the bottom wall not to overlap the casing viewed along the height direction, the heat sink top opposing the outer surface; and a distance between the casing bottom and the mounting surface in the height direction being smaller than a distance between the heat sink top and the mounting surface in the height direction. | 18,788 |
8,940,710 | 1. An isolated polynucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence that encodes a heavy chain variable region and a light chain variable region of an isolated anti-human CD81 antibody capable of binding to a peptide region consisting of the amino acid sequence of the amino acid numbers 80 to 175 in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 22. | 16,916 |
8,911,095 | 1. A discharge lamp driving device comprising: a power supply section that controls a current of power to be supplied to a discharge lamp from input power, and outputs the current; a voltage detecting section that detects a drive voltage of the discharge lamp; and a control section that controls a modulation factor of a drive current on which amplitude modulation has been performed, the drive current which is supplied to the discharge lamp from the power supply section, in accordance with the detected drive voltage of the discharge lamp. | 37,059 |
8,428,741 | 1. A visual prosthesis comprising: a high resolution video input device; a lower resolution array of electrodes; a video processing unit receiving a high resolution image from the high resolution video input device, alternatively a. mapping a subset of pixels from the high resolution video input device to electrodes in the lower resolution array of electrodes and driving electrodes in said lower resolution electrode array according to said subset of pixels to create a first set visual percepts, or b. mapping a second subset of pixels from said high resolution video input device to pairs of electrodes in the lower resolution array of electrodes and driving said pairs of electrodes in said lower resolution electrode array according to said second subset of pixels to create a second set of visual percepts at locations physically displaced from said pairs of electrodes; whereby the perceived visual acuity is increased. | 32,780 |
9,457,484 | 1. Pliers comprising a center cutter, having a first limb and a second limb arranged to cross in a single joint which forms a pivot axis, the first limb and the second limb being connected with each other in the pivot axis, the first limb and the second limb forming, on one side of the joint, interacting working regions that have free ends, and the first limb and the second limb having gripping limbs on the other side of the joint, wherein the first limb comprises a U-shaped region, the U-shaped region having a first U-limb connected to a second U-limb via a crosspiece, wherein the pivot axis passes through the second U-limb, wherein both the first U-limb and the second U-limb form a region that protrudes freely toward a pliers tip, the pliers tip being formed by tips of the interacting working regions, wherein the pivot axis is arranged, both in a closed position of the pliers as well as in an open position of the pliers, offset toward the free ends with respect to a peripheral edge of the crosspiece of the U-shaped region, the peripheral edge facing toward the free ends of the working regions, wherein each of the interacting working regions comprises a respective cutting edge, wherein the cutting edge of the first limb is disposed on the first U-limb, wherein each tip of the interacting working regions is a respective cutting tip, wherein the cutting edges lie with the cutting tips against each other in the closed position of the pliers, wherein, seen in a representation in which the pivot axis appears to be a point, a first line perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the pliers and running across the pivot axis runs between the peripheral edge and the free ends of the interacting working regions, wherein the peripheral edge of the crosspiece of the U-shaped region and a substantial length of the free ends of the interacting working regions are substantially aligned in the closed position of the pliers, and wherein the cutting edges extend substantially in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of the pliers and/or wherein the first U-limb and the second U-limb extend substantially in a direction parallel to the cutting edges. | 12,877 |
8,538,729 | 1. A method for monitoring an operating condition of a wind turbine, comprising: capturing measurement data and operating condition parameters by various sensors and recording in memory; assigning the captured measurement data to a correct one of a plurality of bins by: determining if required input values are available for a selected evaluation method from the captured measurement data and evaluating the captured measurement data correlated with operational state of the turbine by bin according to the selected evaluation method. | 29,870 |
9,471,358 | 1. A method for provisioning a virtual machine, the method comprising: automatically rating, by one or more processors, a plurality of software images that include a first software image and a second software image, wherein: the plurality of software images are rated based, at least in part, on date of creation, patch level, and type of software included in each image; and the second software image is rated higher than the first software image; automatically selecting, by one or more processors, the first software image and the second software image based on the rating, wherein the second software image comprises a less recently patched version of software included in the first software image; determining, by one or more processors, to place the first software image in an active state and the second software image in a passive state based on the rating; and automatically provisioning, by one or more processors, the virtual machine with the first software image in the active state and the second software image in the passive state. | 28,147 |
9,243,500 | 1. A turbine blade for a gas turbine engine comprising: an airfoil including leading and trailing edges joined by spaced apart pressure and suction sides to provide an exterior airfoil surface extending in a radial direction, the trailing edge arranged on an aft side of the turbine blade; a root supporting a platform from which the airfoil extends, and a cooling passage extending within the root in the radial direction to the airfoil; and a lower wing arranged beneath the platform on the aft side and extending in an axial direction to provide a U-shaped channel with the platform that extends in a circumferential direction, and an impingement hole extending from the U-channel to the cooling passage, wherein the impingement hole is oriented generally in a radial direction, wherein the impingement hole is configured to direct fluid onto an underside of the platform. | 20,475 |
9,225,191 | 1. A battery equalization circuit, comprising: a first positive battery node configured to connect to a positive terminal of a first battery cell contained in a battery circuit that includes a plurality of other battery cells connected in series with the first monitored battery cell; a first negative battery node configured to connect to a negative terminal of the first battery cell; a first transformer coil configured to receive an output voltage of an AC generator, the first transformer coil having a first upper transformer node and a first lower transformer node; a first upper switch connected between the first positive battery node and the first upper transformer node; a first lower switch connected between the first negative battery node and the first lower transformer control node; a control circuit configured to control the operation of the first upper switch and the first lower switch based on a first measured cell voltage between the first positive battery node and the first negative battery node, and a total battery voltage of the battery circuit; a second positive battery node configured to connect to a positive node of a second battery cell selected from the plurality of other battery cells connected in series with the first battery cell; a second negative battery node configured to connect to a negative node of the second battery cell; a second transformer coil configured to receive the output voltage of the AC generator, the second transformer coil having a second upper transformer node and a second lower transformer node; a second upper switch connected between the second negative battery node and the second upper transformer node; and a second lower switch connected between the second positive battery node and the second lower transformer node, wherein the control circuit is further configured to control the operation of the second upper switch and the second lower switch based on a second measured cell voltage between the second positive battery node and the second negative battery node, and the total battery voltage of the battery circuit. | 18,627 |
9,789,068 | 1. A coating composition comprising: a first thickener selected from the group consisting of a carboxyvinyl polymer and sodium alginate; a polyvalent metal compound; at least one type of a second thickener selected from the group consisting of xanthan gum, guar gum and sodium alginate, with the proviso that when the first thickener is sodium alginate the second thickener is not sodium alginate; hydroxypropylmethylcellulose; and a sugar or sugar alcohol having a solubility at 20° C. of 30 g or more in 100 ml of water, wherein the content of the first thickener is 3% to 20% by mass, and the content of the hydroxypropylmethylcellulose is 5% to 35% by mass, wherein % by mass is based on total mass of all ingredients excluding a solvent, and wherein the coating composition is configured for coating at least one drug core selected from the group consisting of a tablet core, a pill core, a capsule core, a pellet core and a granule core. | 25,374 |
9,745,631 | 1. A method for treating a subject having a cancer comprising an oncogenic Kras mutation, the method comprising detecting that a sample obtained from the subject comprises an elevated level of expression of ribulose-5-phosphate-3-epimerase (RPE) compared to a control sample lacking an oncogenic Kras mutation, and inhibiting RPE or ribose 5-phosphate isomerase A (RPIA) in the subject, thereby treating the subject. | 5,430 |
9,500,151 | 1. A method of monitoring an exhaust gas sensor coupled in an engine exhaust, comprising: indicating, via a controller coupled to the exhaust gas sensor, a type of exhaust gas sensor degradation based on a shape of a distribution of extreme values of a plurality of sets of lambda differentials collected by the controller based on readings from the exhaust gas sensor during selected operating conditions, the shape identified via the controller based on an iterative search that successively narrows a range of values inside which the shape exists. | 40,991 |
8,568,675 | 1. An engine exhaust gas catalyst composite comprising: a catalytic material on a carrier, the catalytic material including a palladium component dispersed on a first support comprising at least 60% by weight of a zirconia component, and one or more rare earth oxides selected from the group consisting of lanthana, neodymia, praseodymia, and yttria, the first support optionally containing no more than 15% by weight ceria, and being free of alumina. | 11,547 |
8,646,994 | 1. A compact camera module that comprises a generally planar base on which is mounted a lens barrel, wherein the base, barrel, or both have a thickness of about 500 micrometers or less and are formed from a thermoplastic composition that comprises a thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer and a plurality of fibers, wherein the fibers have a volume average length of from about 80 to about 250 micrometers and wherein at least about 70% by volume of the fibers have a length of from about 80 to about 250 micrometers. | 20,745 |
8,905,370 | 1. A supporting device for a display apparatus, comprising: a chassis formed by joining a first unit and a second unit, the first unit and the second unit being both quadrate pipes, the chassis comprising at least two caster mount brackets, the caster mount brackets being fixed at joints of the first unit and the second unit; a plurality of threaded stem casters disposed in the chassis and being mounted to the caster mount brackets correspondingly so that the supporting device is allowed to be moved; a bed plate covering the chassis, the bed plate comprising a first top wall and a first side wall surrounding the first top wall, a height of the first side wall being greater than a height of the chassis, the first top wall covering and being on top of the chassis, the first top wall comprising an opening area, and the plurality of casters and the caster mount brackets being located in the opening area; a first movable face plate and a second movable face plate disposed on top of the opening area; and one or more main beams being fixed to the chassis for hanging the display apparatus, the one or more main beams comprising quadrate pipes, and a plurality of positioning structures at different heights being disposed in the one or more main beams. | 22,863 |
8,821,718 | 1. Automated fluid handling system comprising a housing and two or more interchangeable fluid handling units the housing comprising a liquid handling panel including two or more component positions for receiving said interchangeable units, wherein said units are arranged as interchangeable modular components, and include: a fluidics section; a non fluidics section comprising electronics or electrical components or control means; and a panel member arranged to separate the fluidics section from the non fluidics section and for attachment of the modular component to a component position of the liquid handling panel, and wherein the two or more component positions of the liquid handling panel are arranged for attachment of the panel members such that said respective fluidics sections are external to the housing and said respective non fluidics sections are internal to the housing. | 32,161 |
9,662,266 | 1. A system for improving an oral feeding ability of a patient, the system comprising: an assessment device to contact a patient and collect data related to an oral feeding ability of the patient; a computing device containing a processor to execute an assessment and therapy application; and the assessment and therapy application to: | 26,276 |
9,452,672 | 1. A powertrain for a vehicle, the powertrain comprising: an engine; an electrical circuit including: | 37,958 |
9,423,165 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: an input configured to receive physical parameters useful for a thermodynamic analysis of refrigeration system performance and defining a current operating state of the refrigeration system; at least one automated processor configured to: | 37,902 |
8,904,907 | 1. A roller clutch having a reversing mechanism, comprising: a case a rigid spindle disposed within said case; a cage disposed about said spindle; rigid rollers disposed about said spindle and interspersed within said cage; a detent slider affixed to said cage; and thumb lever affixed to said slider. | 30,974 |
8,667,220 | 1. A management apparatus for managing a computer system equipped with a storage apparatus for providing a logical volume to a host computer, and a cache apparatus, which is used by the host computer, wherein a portion of data stored in a storage area of a prescribed size in the logical volume is stored in the cache apparatus as cache data, the management apparatus comprising: a microprocessor; a storage device for storing a prescribed computer program to be used by the microprocessor; and a communication interface circuit for communicating with the host computer and the storage apparatus, wherein, by executing the prescribed computer program, the microprocessor: detects a first access request by the host computer with respect to data of the storage area in the logical volume; detects a second access request by the host computer with respect to the cache data in the cache apparatus; detects a corresponding relationship between the data of the storage area in the logical volume and the cache data of the cache apparatus; and computes the total number of access requests with respect to the data of the storage area based on the first access request and the second access request. | 49,307 |
8,715,601 | 1. A method for reducing emissions of particulates from diesel engines, which comprises: operating a diesel engine with a fuel containing a fuel borne catalyst comprising a fuel soluble or dispersible cerium composition and a fuel soluble or dispersible platinum group metal composition; passing exhaust produced by combustion of the fuel and containing both cerium oxide and platinum group metal released from the fuel by combustion, through a diesel particulate filter having at least two stages comprised of (a) a catalyst section having a platinum group metal catalyst and/or base metal catalyst on contact surfaces within the catalyst section and (b) a filter section comprised of passages effective to remove particulates from a moving stream of combustion gases generated by combusting the fuel in the engine and holding them therein to permit their oxidation, wherein the improvement comprises utilizing levels of platinum group metal composition, cerium compositions, fuels and/or optional chemical enhancers to generate NO | 37,020 |
9,482,108 | 1. A system, comprising: a turbomachine blade assembly, comprising: | 26,775 |
9,413,214 | 1. An apparatus for sustaining motion comprising: an actuator, said actuator having an actuator magnet coupled to an actuator arm, said actuator magnet being comprised of a plurality of magnets, said actuator arm coupled to a rod, said rod coupled to a crank which is coupled to a crank gear, said crank gear meshably engaged with a spacing gear; and a drive gear meshably engaged with said spacing gear, said drive gear coupled to a drive shaft disposed in the rotational center of said drive gear, said drive shaft coupled to a plurality of drive arms, each drive arm coupled to a drive magnet, said actuator magnets being alternately attracted and repelled by said drive magnets when said central gear is spinning so as to continuously rotate said spacing gear, said crank gear, and said crank to push said rod and move said actuator arm and said actuator magnets towards and away from said drive shaft. | 10,300 |
8,403,243 | 1. A grater, comprising: a cutting surface having a proximal end and a distal end; a plurality of blades formed on the cutting surface, the plurality of blades defining a plurality of rows, the plurality of rows being positioned between the proximal end and the distal end; at least a portion of the plurality of blades each having an upper edge and a lower edge defining an opening, the upper edge being relatively closer to the proximal end and the lower edge being relatively closer to the distal end, the lower edge further extending outward from the cutting surface to define a tooth, the lower edge forming a V-shape defined by a first upright, a second upright, and an apex positioned at an intersection of the first upright and the second upright, each of the first upright and the second upright extending angularly and upwardly from the apex in a direction from the distal end toward the proximal end, each of the first upright and the second upright further being substantially linear; and the portion of the plurality of blades each further comprising a first side edge extending between the upper edge and the lower edge, and an opposing second side edge extending between the upper edge and the lower edge. | 4,369 |
8,926,845 | 1. A method for dispersing an additive from an additive cartridge disposed in a housing of an oil filter, the method comprising: using stagnation pressure to disperse the additive from the additive cartridge; and regulating a flow rate of the additive from the additive cartridge by restricting an inlet opening of an outlet path of the additive cartridge; wherein a two piece molded component comprises a first part having a channel molded in a surface and a second part that, when mated to the first part, provides a surface that closes the channel and forms the outlet path. | 341 |
8,640,987 | 1. An aircraft engine mounting structure, comprising: a linear main portion and a connecting portion attached to the main portion, wherein the connecting portion includes two flat wings extending laterally to the main portion at an angle to one another, and an attaching flange configured to transmit all the motive forces, wherein the attaching flange extends at least over a sector of a circle and is attached to the wings by a flat face. | 4,860 |
8,571,764 | 1. A method, comprising: retrieving by a processing unit an application plan from memory, the application plan comprising coordinates for a buffer area associated with dispensing a product onto a field while avoiding the buffer area; receiving information from a weather station, the information corresponding to substantially current climatic conditions detected by the weather station in the field; responsive to receiving the information from the weather station and subsequent to commencement of the dispensing of the product onto the field according to the application plan, adjusting the application plan by changing the coordinates to thereby reconfigure the buffer area; and causing an agricultural machine to operate according to the adjusted application plan, including steering the machine to follow an adjusted path that is in compliance with the adjusted application plan, the adjusted path avoiding the reconfigured buffer area. | 11,492 |
8,794,681 | 1. A gate lock assembly for securing a gate assembly to a stationary fence assembly, comprising: a rotating locking flange rotatably disposed on a gate post of the gate assembly, the rotating locking flange rotating about a longitudinal axis of the gate post; a rotating locking flange lock eyelet disposed in the rotating locking flange; a stationary locking flange disposed on a fence post of the stationary fence assembly; a swivel lock flange pivotably attached to the stationary locking flange; and a swivel lock flange lock eyelet disposed in the swivel lock flange, wherein the swivel lock flange lock eyelet is operable to align with the rotating locking flange lock eyelet with the gate assembly is closed adjacent to the stationary fence assembly; wherein a lock member is capable of being positioned through both eyelets to secure the gate assembly with the stationary fence assembly. | 1,313 |
8,640,225 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a first request to access content associated with a resource identifier; determining, by a processor, to generate a second request for validating the content based, at least in part, on the resource identifier; determining to transmit the second request to a validation service; receiving validation information based, at least in part, on the second request; determining to access the content at a device; and determining previously received validation information, wherein the determining to access the content is based, at least in part, on the previously received validation information. | 35,480 |
8,915,669 | 1. A cross street station and interchange for use at a traffic artery intersection of a primary regional automotive traffic artery and a local automotive traffic artery and extending outward therefrom along the traffic artery to improve pedestrian and bicyclist traffic safety, increase the total number of pedestrian, bicycles, and community, metropolitan and regional transit trips, reduce the private passenger automotive vehicle miles traveled, and adapt to climate change with specific reference to sea level rise, the cross street station and interchange comprising: (a) traffic calming highway improvements at a street level to reduce traffic speeds within the primary traffic artery as vehicles approach, pass through, and turn at the traffic artery intersection into the local traffic artery and reduce conflicts as between vehicular traffic and pedestrians and bicyclists crossing the primary traffic artery at the traffic artery intersection of the primary traffic artery and the local traffic artery; (b) traffic calming improvements at the street level to substantially reduce traffic speeds of cars, trucks, and community transit vehicles within the local traffic artery; (c) sidewalks adjacent the local traffic artery at the street level, widened to increase capacity for larger numbers of pedestrians to walk along sidewalks outward from the local traffic artery, one sidewalk is adjacent to an ingress traffic lane and another sidewalk is adjacent an egress traffic lane; (d) mixed-use and community destination buildings at the street level outward from the local traffic artery and said sidewalks to form a substantially continuous wall of structure, arcades and awnings; (e) landscape and hardscape within the sidewalk and integrated with the mixed-use and community destination buildings inclusive of decorative outdoor lighting to provide a partial sun shade for pedestrians during the day, illumination of pedestrian pathways during the night, and seating during the day or night; (f) an archway with associated support elements, adjacent said traffic artery intersection and supporting the lobby and regional mass transit platform at an upper level and having a dimension sufficient to accommodate a community transit vehicle and other automotive traffic upon said local traffic artery passing underneath the archway and within the archway support elements, a community transit boarding and disembarking area and adjacent vertical transport structures including an elevator, escalator and interior staircase; (g) a lobby at the upper level above and spanning the archway and its support elements, including a mix of retail uses associated with daily needs of the traveling public, regional mass transit ticketing facilities, and a regional mass transit waiting area extending onto a regional mass transit platform; (h) a regional mass transit platform having a central platform section for newly ticketed passengers boarding regional mass transit and two ramp platform sections extending outwardly from the central platform section for passengers disembarking from regional mass transit at the cross street station and interchange to the sidewalks outward from the local traffic artery in which all three platform sections span across the local traffic artery to the sidewalks on each side of the local traffic artery and in which the regional mass transit platform, initially located at an upper level of the cross street station and interchange adjacent the lobby and used for placement of newly ticketed regional mass transit boarding passengers on the regional mass transit platform, is selectably lowered to the street level at the height elevation of the regional mass transit vehicle floor upon arrival of a regional mass transit vehicle at the most outward lane of the primary traffic artery, designated for the regional mass transit vehicle to stop between two pedestrian crossing areas themselves demarked by crossing indicia that cross primary traffic artery; (i) a boarding and disembarking area for local community transit services at the street level located at the height elevation of the adjacent sidewalks and furthest away from the primary traffic artery while remaining under the archway and adjacent its support elements, immediately adjacent an ingress traffic lane within the local traffic artery at which the community transit vehicle is demarked to stop; (j) a further boarding and disembarking area for local community transit services at the street level located at the elevation of the adjacent sidewalks and furthest away from the traffic artery intersection while remaining under the archway and adjacent the support elements, immediately adjacent an egress traffic lane within the local traffic artery where the community transit vehicle is demarked to stop; (k) a boarding and disembarking area for metropolitan mass transit vehicles at the street level located at the height elevation of the adjacent sidewalks and just before entering the traffic artery intersection such that it is immediately adjacent the area within the outward lane of the primary traffic artery closest to the substantially residential community area demarked for metropolitan mass transit vehicles to stop and before reaching the primary of two pedestrian crossing areas demarked by indicia across the primary traffic artery; (l) a yet further boarding and disembarking area for metropolitan mass transit vehicles at the street level on the other side of the primary traffic artery and traffic artery interchange from said boarding and disembarking area for metropolitan mass transit located at the height elevation of the adjacent sidewalks and just before entering the traffic artery intersection immediately adjacent the area within the outward lane of the primary traffic artery closest to a commercial or university campus community area demarked for metropolitan mass transit vehicles to stop and before reaching the primary of two pedestrian crossing areas themselves demarked by indicia across the primary traffic artery; and (m) when said regional mass transit platform, and vertical transport structures and equipment are not located on both sides of the primary traffic artery, a pedestrian bridge across the primary traffic artery, having one end of said pedestrian bridge at said upper level and from which pedestrians may either directly enter or leave the lobby and proceed to the street level using said vertical transport structures and equipment or the regional mass transit platform and may also use other stairs, escalators and elevators or ramps to facilitate migration from the opposite end of the pedestrian bridge after crossing the primary traffic artery to the street level. | 13,444 |
9,551,351 | 1. A compression device comprising: at least a first compressor and a second compressor mounted in parallel, each of the first compressor and the second compressor comprising a leakproof enclosure including a low pressure portion containing a motor and an oil sump, an oil level equalization conduit putting into communication the oil sump of the first compressor and the oil sump of the second compressor, the oil level equalization conduit including a first end portion connected to the oil sump of the first compressor and a second end portion connected to the oil sump of the second compressor, the oil level equalization conduit being configured to equalize oil levels in the oil sump of the first compressor and the oil sump of the second compressor, and a controller configured to control starting and stopping of the first compressor and the second compressor, wherein the first compressor is a variable-capacity compressor, and the second compressor is a fixed-capacity compressor, the first compressor comprises a first detector coupled with the controller, the first detector being configured to detect an oil level in the oil sump of the first compressor, the controller is configured to (i) control the stopping of the second compressor when the oil level in the oil sump of the first compressor detected by the first detector falls below a first predetermined value, and (ii) control an increase in capacity of the first compressor when the oil level in the oil sump of the first compressor detected by the first detector falls below the first predetermined value, and wherein the oil level equalization conduit includes at least a first end portion protruding inside the enclosure of a first one of the first compressor and the second compressor, the first end portion including an end wall extending transversely to a longitudinal direction of said first end portion and an aperture arranged above said end wall so that, when the oil level in the oil sump of the compressor in which the first end portion protrudes extends above an upper level of said end wall, oil flows through said aperture towards a second one of the first compressor and the second compressor. | 5,482 |
9,102,973 | 1. A method comprising: (a) providing a recombinant oleaginous microalgal cell of the class Trebouxiophyte, the cell comprising an exogenous delta-12 fatty acid desaturase gene under control of an amt03 promoter and an allelic disruption of an endogenous delta-12 fatty acid desaturase gene; (b) cultivating the cell under a first environmental condition wherein the exogenous delta-12 fatty acid desaturase gene is expressed, linoleic acid is produced and the cell divides, increasing the number of cells; (c) cultivating the cells under a second environmental condition of reduced pH relative to the first environmental condition wherein expression of the exogenous delta-12 fatty acid desaturase gene and consequently production of linoleic acid is reduced and oil accumulates in the cells; and (d) extracting the oil from the cells, wherein the oil is characterized by a polyunsaturated fatty acid profile with 5% linoleic acid or less. | 9,097 |
9,463,215 | 1. A formulation comprising romidepsin in a concentration of 1 mg/mL to 10 mg/mL, propylene glycol (PG), ethanol (EtOH) and an acetate buffer, wherein said formulation is stable for at least 6 months at ambient temperature wherein the ratio of PG, EtOH and the acetate buffer is 30% of PG, 30% of EtOH, and 40% of the acetate buffer, and wherein a pH of the formulation is in a range from 4.0 to 4.5. | 12,055 |
8,499,563 | 1. An electric generator comprising: a channel for directing a flow of a first fluid; and a thermoacoustic resonance chamber that penetrates the channel, comprising a first heat exchanger inside the channel and a second heat exchanger outside the channel, wherein | 3,948 |
8,394,180 | 1. A method of absorbing gases into a liquid comprising: providing a stream of at least one desirable gas comprising hydrogen sulfide and/or carbon dioxide and at least one undesirable gas; exposing the gas stream to a liquid comprising at least 50 vol. % carbon disulfide, so that the liquid absorbs more of the desirable gas than the undesirable gas; and releasing the liquid and gas mixture into an underground formation. | 14,347 |
8,609,981 | 1. A solar cell with a p-type transparent conductive oxide, comprising: a substrate; a p-type transparent conductive layer which connects with the substrate, and the p-type transparent conductive layer is composed of a p-type transparent conductive oxide containing a molybdenum trioxide thin film doped with indium having less than six valence electrons; a light absorbing semiconductor layer which is disposed on a side of the p-type transparent conductive layer away from the substrate; and an n-type conductive layer which is disposed on a side of the light absorbing semiconductor layer away from the p-type transparent conductive layer, wherein the p-type transparent conductive oxide has a transmittance between 80%-90% in a visible wavelength range of 390-780 nm, and wherein the molybdenum trioxide thin film has a resistivity of 2.5*10 | 11,771 |
8,874,945 | 1. A system of remote management of a construction equipment, comprising: a server communicatable with a communication terminal through a communication network; and a construction equipment where the communication terminal, an equipment control unit, and a plurality of electronic control devices are installed, wherein the communication terminal, the equipment control unit, and the electronic control devices are supplied electric power from a battery provided in the construction equipment, wherein the system is configured such that when the equipment control unit receives a key-off signal, the equipment control unit transfers a sleep mode switching command to the communication terminal and the electronic control devices of which operation states are switched to a sleep mode state, wherein the system is configured such that when the communication terminal wakes up from the sleep mode state at a time of receiving an operation request from the server in the form of a request for transmission of data possessed by the equipment control unit, the communication terminal thereafter transfers a wake-up command to the equipment control unit, waits for a wake-up acknowledgement signal from the equipment control unit, and thereafter transfers the previously received operation request of the server in the form of the request for transmission of data, and wherein the system is further configured such that when the operation requested by the server is the program updating of the equipment control unit or the electronic control devices, the equipment control unit keeps suppling power to the electronic control device in which program updating is in progress until the program updating is completed and switches the corresponding electronic control device to the sleep mode though the operation state is switched from a normal state to the sleep mode state by receiving a key-off signal during updating a predetermined program, and wherein the rest of the electronic control devices store operation information just before a key-off afterwards are immediately switched to the sleep mode state, when a starting key off signal is applied during updating a predetermined program in a normal operation state, the equipment control unit performs the operation without waking up the plurality of electronic control devices when performing the operation singly and thereafter, switches over to the sleep mode state when completing the operation, and when the operation is associated with at least one of the electronic control devices, the equipment control unit performs the operation by waking up the corresponding at least one electronic control device and switches the woken at least one electronic control device to the sleep mode when completing the operation; wherein the system is configured such that when the operation required by the server is a request for transmission of data possessed by the equipment control unit or the electronic control devices, the equipment control unit wakes up a corresponding electronic control device to collect the data and switches the corresponding electronic control device to the sleep mode state again when the requested data is data possessed by the corresponding electronic control device, and outputs the collected data to the server through the communication terminal and thereafter, also switches over to the sleep mode, wherein said request for transmission of data includes a flag representing what is requested data, and wherein the request for transmission of data includes destination address information, if the destination address information is included in the data request signal transmitted from the server, the equipment control unit verifies whether the destination address is the address of the equipment control unit or the address of another electronic control device instead of inspecting whether the requested data is stored in the equipment control unit. | 48,971 |
9,446,907 | 1. A zone controller which is used for a conveyor device in which a plurality of zone conveyors are arranged in series, which manages one or a plurality of the zone conveyors to control an operation thereof, and which is configured to receive a signal from a different zone controller and transmit a signal to an outside, the zone controller comprising: a signal creation function that creates a predetermined abnormality alarm signal and transmits the created abnormality alarm signal to the outside when an abnormality occurs in a zone managed by the zone controller itself; a signal reception function that receives the abnormality alarm signal from the different zone controller; a signal processing function that applies certain processing to the received abnormality alarm signal to thereby change the received abnormality alarm signal; and a processed signal transmission function that transmits the changed signal processed by the signal processing function to the outside as the abnormality alarm signal. | 8,398 |
9,825,273 | 1. A battery module for use in a vehicle, comprising: a plurality of battery cells; a battery terminal that facilitates electrically coupling the battery module with an electrical component in the vehicle; a contactor comprising: a relay control circuit electrically coupled to the high-side input and the low-side output of the contactor; and a processor communicatively coupled to the relay control circuit, wherein the processor is programmed to: | 9,282 |
9,604,790 | 1. A device for singulation of used beverage containers received in bulk into individual objects, where the used beverage containers have different shapes and sizes including a first size and a second size, which second size is larger than the first size, the device comprising: a rotating surface adapted to receive a plurality of said containers and distribute them towards its periphery; a conveyor at least partly encircling said rotating surface and adapted to receive said used beverage containers from said rotating surface and transport them away from the rotating surface, the conveyor having an inner edge, an outer edge and a supporting surface which extends between the inner and outer edges; and an outer wall along the outer edge of the conveyor at least along the part of the conveyor that encircles the rotating surface, whereby the conveyor is arranged between the outer wall and the rotating surface; wherein said conveyor gradually ascends such that it is lower than or substantially at the same level as the rotating surface in a first section, allowing said used beverage containers to leave the rotating surface and enter the conveyor in the first section, and such that it is at a higher level than the rotating surface in a second section, a peripheral barrier is arranged along the periphery of said rotating surface to prevent the used beverage containers from leaving the rotating surface in said second section; and said conveyor in at least a part of said second section is made so narrow that said containers are only able to remain on the conveyor if they are transported one by one and aligned with the direction of movement on the conveyor, and that otherwise they will fall back onto the rotating surface or onto or a conveyor leading back to the rotating surface, wherein a guiding device is attached to the outer wall above the conveyor in said second section above the conveyor, and has a guiding edge adapted to force objects that are standing on the conveyor inwards toward the rotating surface until they fall off the conveyor, wherein a distance between the guiding edge of the guiding device and the supporting surface of the conveyor increases in the intended direction of movement of the conveyor, the increase being between 0.1 and 40 degrees, the distance being measured along an axis that is substantially perpendicular to the width of the conveyor and to the intended direction of movement of the conveyor. | 21,457 |
8,712,648 | 1. A method, comprising: transmitting an authentication request responsive to detecting an uncoupling action for a charging cable coupled to a vehicle; and receiving an authentication signal and unlocking the charging cable from the vehicle upon verification of the authentication signal; wherein the charging cable can be released from the vehicle. | 19,878 |
9,667,099 | 1. A method for operating an energy installation, the energy installation having a wind turbine or water turbine connected to a generator, a converter unit connected on a generator side to the generator, and an auxiliary energy unit to provide electrical energy to cover an intrinsic energy demand of the energy installation, the converter unit being connected on a grid side to an electric power grid to feed electrical energy generated by the generator into the electric power grid via the converter unit, and the auxiliary energy unit being connected to the electric power grid for drawing electrical energy, the method comprising: drawing electrical energy from an energy storage unit via the auxiliary energy unit in an event of a separation of the converter unit and of the auxiliary energy unit from the electric power grid; in the event of the separation of the converter unit and of the auxiliary energy unit from the electric power grid, drawing electrical energy from the energy storage unit for an adjustable period of time to the auxiliary energy unit, and then drawing electrical energy generated by the generator to the auxiliary energy unit via the converter unit; electrically charging the energy storage unit, formed as a capacitive energy store or as a battery, by a charging unit; and in the event of the separation of the converter unit and of the auxiliary energy unit from the electric power grid, drawing via the charging unit, electrical energy generated by a photovoltaic unit. | 14,038 |
8,793,055 | 1. A method for providing an operator of a work machine with operating instructions via an educational interface in a cab of the work machine when the work machine is used in a repeated work cycle, wherein the work cycle comprises a travel path, which defines a movement of the work machine between a loading position and an unloading position at a distance from each other, comprising informing the operator, via the education interface, of occurrences along the travel path, which occurrences have an impact on operation of the work machine in an optimum way with regard to a specific parameter, and automatically instructing the operator via concrete advice provided through the education interface how to operate the work machine past the occurrences in an optimum way with regard to the specific parameter, establishing the occurrences by detecting, via a sensor means, at least one detected operational parameter in a previously performed lap of the work cycle, either by the same work machine or by another work machine, and sending a signal regarding the occurrences to the educational interface for use in instructing the operator of the work machine in a later performed specific work cycle. | 30,251 |
8,613,398 | 1. An apparatus for positioning a chevron, said apparatus comprising: a linear actuator; a chevron having a base end configured to fit within a corresponding channel on a translating cowl; a pair of guide members secured to the translating cowl and slidably engaged with opposite edges of the chevron, wherein the chevron is movable by the linear actuator forward or aft to change the position of the chevron relative to the gas flow path, and wherein the chevron comprises a slot that is sized and configured to receive a rotor of the linear actuator therein. | 8,385 |
8,584,133 | 1. A method comprising: monitoring an application, as it is initially executed on a machine, to generate one or more application performance requirements interfaces (“APRIs”); storing the one or more APRIs in a non-volatile memory; retrieving the one or more APRIs from the non-volatile memory; and re-executing the application, corresponding to the one or more retrieved APRIs, while the machine is controlled to operate at a performance level in response to the one or more retrieved APRIs; wherein, in re-executing, the performance level comprises a minimum of idle cycles of the machine. | 23,237 |
8,430,182 | 1. A power tool comprising: a housing for gripping by a user; a motor disposed in the housing having an output shaft for actuating a working member of the tool; a transmission mechanism adapted to actuate said working member in response to rotation of said output shaft; damping means for damping transmission of vibrations from the working member to the housing and comprising biasing means disposed between said transmission mechanism and the housing for permitting displacement of the transmission mechanism out of engagement with the housing; and a first engaging portion on the housing for engaging a second engaging portion disposed on the transmission mechanism, wherein said first and second engaging portions are adapted to engage each other at a surface which tapers towards the working member of the tool. | 35,510 |
9,776,378 | 1. A graphene sheet, comprising: an intercalation compound comprising a carbon-containing compound; and 2 to about 300 unit graphene layers, each of the unit graphene layers comprises a polycyclic aromatic molecule in which a plurality of carbon atoms in the polycyclic aromatic molecule are covalently bonded to each other; and wherein the intercalation compound is interposed between the unit graphene layers, and wherein the carbon-containing compound is at least one of a carbon nanofiber, a carbon nanoparticles, a graphite, a carbon nanotube, a fullerene, and any mixtures thereof. | 10,512 |
8,642,546 | 1. An isolated fusion protein comprising: (a) an IgG constant domain; (b) a linker sequence fused to the IgG constant domain; and (c) an FGF21 mutant fused to the linker sequence and comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 4, wherein an arginine residue has been substituted for the leucine residue at position 98 and a glycine residue has been substituted for the proline residue at position 171. | 29,508 |
9,535,466 | 1. An electronic assembly, comprising: a first body having at least one recess; a first electronic module disposed in the first body; at least one first terminal set disposed in the recess and electrically connected to the first electronic module; a second body having at least one protruding portion; a second electronic module disposed in the second body; at least one second terminal set disposed in the protruding portion and partially exposed by a surface of the protruding portion, the second electronic module electrically connected to the second terminal set, the first body and the second body being assembled together in a manner that the protruding portion is embedded in the recess, and the first terminal set contacting the second terminal set such that the first electronic module and the second electronic module are electrically connected to each other via the first terminal set and the second terminal set; and a switch disposed in the recess, wherein an end of the protruding portion contacts the switch directly to change the switch from an electrically connected status to an electrically disconnected status. | 1,190 |
9,684,326 | 1. A voltage sensing controller for an asynchronous DC-DC boost converter, said controller configured to generate a signal to selectively isolate an input power supply to a load, said controller comprising: a circuit having a first node connected to the input power supply and a second node connected to the load; an offset voltage generator configured to receive a sensed input voltage and a sensed output voltage and determine an offset voltage between said sensed input voltage and said sensed output voltage; a reference voltage generator configured to add said offset voltage to said sensed output voltage and generate a reference voltage; a comparator configured to compare said sensed input voltage with said reference voltage and generate an output signal having a first state in the event that said reference voltage is less than said sensed input voltage and a second state in the event that said reference voltage is greater than said sensed input voltage; and disabling means adapted to receive said output signal of said comparator and generate a disabling signal to selectively disable of the input power supply when said output signal is in said first state. | 33,906 |
8,387,767 | 1. A clutched device comprising: a clutch assembly comprising a first rotary clutch portion, a second rotary clutch portion, a drive member, a wrap spring and an actuator, the first and second rotary clutch portions being rotatably disposed about a rotary axis of the clutched device, the drive member being disposed about the rotary axis and having an interior clutch surface, the wrap spring having a first end, a second end and a plurality of helical coils that extend axially between the first and second ends, the first end being fixed to the first rotary clutch portion, the second end contacting the second rotary clutch portion, the helical coils being received against the interior clutch surface, the actuator comprising an actuator member that is coupled to the first rotary clutch portion for rotation therewith, the actuator member being axially movable along the rotary axis between a first position and a second position to control rotary drag forces within the clutch assembly to effect engagement and disengagement, respectively, of the clutch assembly; wherein at least a portion of the rotary power input to the wrap spring is transmitted through an axial end face of the second end of the wrap spring and into a surface of the second rotary clutch portion against which the axial end face of the second end is abutted; and wherein the actuator member is rotationally coupled to a teaser, the teaser being frictionally engaged to the drive member when the actuator member is in the first position. | 39,578 |
8,891,638 | 1. A synchronized multi-user multi-carrier communication system comprising: a transmitter; a receiver communicatively coupled to the transmitter via a plurality of communication channels associated with multiple users; and a computing device, coupled to a victim channel associated with at least one of the transmitter and the receiver, comprising a memory device in communication with one or more processors, the one or more processors configured to: | 45,237 |
8,426,068 | 1. A metal foil for secondary battery, comprising: a metal thin plate; and a plurality of convex portions that are formed on one principal surface of the thin plate by plastic forming, include an opening of which an aperture plane is orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to the one principal surface, and are asymmetrical across a line passing through a center thereof which is parallel to the aperture plane. | 32,669 |
8,600,744 | 1. A method comprising: estimating, based on a voice sample from a user, a vocal tract length; generating, via a processor, a codebook comprising the vocal tract length; receiving an utterance from the user; adjusting the codebook based on environmental conditions, to yield a modified codebook; normalizing the utterance using the modified codebook, to yield a normalized utterance; and recognizing the utterance using the normalized utterance. | 9,226 |
9,800,903 | 1. A system for transmission of data streams to a plurality of endpoints, the system comprising: a plurality of encoders, each encoder configured to encode a data stream according to at least one encoding parameter; a plurality of virtual transmitters organized into a plurality of groups based on at least one transmission characteristic; each group of virtual transmitters configured to receive encoded data from an associated one of the encoders; each virtual transmitter of the plurality of virtual transmitters configured to transmit the encoded data to an associated one of the plurality of endpoints; and at least one controller configured to monitor transmission characteristics of the plurality of virtual transmitters and to adjust membership of the virtual transmitters in the plurality of groups based on the monitored transmission characteristics. | 22,127 |
9,185,758 | 1. A light emitting diode (“LED”) driver, comprising: a first array of series-connected LEDs, wherein the first array of series-connected LEDs comprises one or more LEDs, and wherein the first array of series-connected LEDs has a first turn-on voltage and a first turn-off voltage; a second array of one or more series-connected LEDs, wherein the second array of series-connected LEDs comprises one or more LEDs, wherein first array of series-connected LEDs is connected in series with the second array of series-connected LEDs, wherein a combination of the first array of series-connected LEDs and the second array of series-connected LEDs has a second turn-on voltage, wherein the second turn-on voltage is substantially the same as the first turn-off voltage; a first current limiting circuit coupled to the first array of series-connected LEDs, wherein the first current limiting circuit comprises: a second current limiting circuit coupled to the combination of the first array of series-connected LEDs and the second array of series-connected LEDs, wherein the second current limiting circuit comprises: | 45,619 |
8,980,172 | 1. A method of controlling odor from a foul air gas in a foul air volume using controlling gas from a controlling gas source, the method comprising: arranging a gas sensor module in a sample conduit connected to the foul air volume; setting a signal baseline of the gas sensor module, the signal baseline corresponding to a substantial absence of both the foul air gas and the controlling gas; detecting, with the gas sensor module, a dominant gas of the foul air gas and the controlling gas in the sample conduit; generating, with the gas sensor module, a detection signal based on the detection of the dominant gas, the detection signal having a positive or negative signal direction relative to the signal baseline indicative of whether the dominant gas is the foul air gas or the controlling gas, the signal direction when the dominant gas is the foul air gas being opposite the signal direction when the dominant gas is the controlling gas; and controlling, with an electronic control unit, the controlling gas source to adjust the supply of the controlling gas to the foul air volume in response to the detection signal. | 34,817 |
8,706,186 | 1. A method to one of diagnosis or treatment of certain tissues of a subject including a mammalian body while the subject is within an imaging field of a medical imaging apparatus, said method comprising the steps of: positioning a portion of an apparatus proximal a desired site within one of a natural cavity or an artificial cavity of the subject, the apparatus portion being configured and arranged to selectively deploy a medical device therefrom between a stored position and a deployed position; imaging a volume of tissues about the natural or artificial body cavity including target tissues using the portion of the apparatus; configuring the portion of the apparatus so the medical device is inserted into the target tissues; deploying the medical device into the target tissues; and performing one of diagnosing or treating tissues using the medical device deployed into the target tissues. | 27,255 |
9,537,773 | 1. A computing system comprising: one or more processors; one or more hardware storage devices having stored computer-executable instructions which are executable by the one or more processors for implementing a method for addressing network congestion within a computing environment that includes a plurality of computing systems, the plurality of computing systems managing sending message processors that communicate packets comprising one or more data flows that are sent to and received by one or more receiving message processors managed by the computing system, wherein the method comprises the following: | 41,700 |
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