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9,725,424 | 1. Ammonium 4-(5-amino-6-hydroxybenzoxazole-2-yl)benzoate, which is represented by the formula (I): | 3,949 |
9,181,218 | 1. A compound of formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof; wherein R | 39,446 |
9,842,956 | 1. A method for fabricating a photovoltaic structure, comprising: forming a sacrificial layer on a first side of a Si substrate; loading the Si substrate into a chemical vapor deposition tool, with the sacrificial layer in contact with a wafer carrier; forming a first doped Si layer on a second side of the Si substrate; subsequent to forming the first doped Si layer, removing the sacrificial layer that has been in contact with the wafer carrier; loading the Si substrate into the chemical vapor deposition tool; and forming a second doped Si layer on the first side of the Si substrate. | 23,282 |
8,999,320 | 1. A method for obtaining a substantially homogeneous population of nanoscale apolipoprotein bound phospholipid bilayers (NABBs) associated with at least one recombinant membrane protein, said method comprising: a) obtaining a cell membrane protein fraction comprising one or more recombinant membrane proteins; b) combining a Zebrafish apolipoprotein A-I with said cell membrane protein fraction to obtain a mixture, wherein said mixture is substantially deficient in NABB and comprises one or more phospholipid(s) and one or more detergent(s); c) incubating said mixture to form a substantially homogeneous population of a NABB associated with said recombinant membrane protein; d) depleting said detergent(s) from said incubated mixture of step (c) to obtain a detergent depleted mixture comprising a substantially homogeneous population of NABB associated with at least one recombinant membrane protein, wherein the depletion step is completed within one hour of obtaining said incubated mixture of step (c); and; e) purifying said substantially homogeneous population of NABB associated with at least one recombinant membrane protein from said detergent depleted mixture. | 23,799 |
9,672,472 | 1. A system for managing behavior change applications receiving data associated with a plurality of users operating a plurality of devices in a communications network and delivering interventions to the plurality of users, the system comprising: one or more servers computers including application programs which when executed cause the one or more servers computers to control the system to: | 7,449 |
8,359,864 | 1. A wind-gas engine assembly, comprising: at least one first high pressure gas engine; and at least one wind resistance engine, wherein the first high pressure gas engine comprises at least one first impeller chamber, at least one first impeller and at least one first air-jet nozzle; the impeller chamber is provided with a fumarole and an exhaust vent; the first impeller is installed inside the first impeller chamber through a first shaft; the first air-jet nozzle, jetting a high pressure gas through the fumarole into the first impeller chamber, is installed at the casing of the first impeller chamber; and the first impeller outputs primary power through the first shaft, wherein the wind resistance engine comprises at least one second impeller chamber and at least one second impeller installed inside the second impeller chamber through a second shaft; an air inlet for receiving external wind resistance airflow and an air outlet for exhausting gas are provided at a casing of the second impeller chamber; and a wind resistance airflow entering the second impeller chamber drives the second impeller to rotate to generate auxiliary power which is outputted through the second shaft. | 12,696 |
9,636,987 | 1. A hybrid vehicle comprising an engine, a first input shaft to which a driving force of the engine is transmitted via a first clutch, a motor/generator that is connected to the first input shaft, a second input shaft that is disposed in parallel to the first input shaft and to which the driving force of the engine is transmitted via a second clutch, an output shaft that is disposed in parallel to the first input shaft, a first power transmission path that transmits rotation of the first input shaft to the output shaft via a first gear group and a first engagement element, a second power transmission path that transmits rotation of the second input shaft to the output shaft via a second gear group and a second engagement element, reversing means that reverses rotation of the engine transmitted thereto via the second clutch and transmits the reversed rotation of the engine to the first input shaft via a reverse engagement element, a third power transmission path that transmits rotation of the engine to the output shaft via the reversing means and the first power transmission path, the hybrid vehicle establishing a forward gear position in a drive range through the first engagement element of the first power transmission path or the second engagement element of the second power transmission path and establishing a reverse gear position in a reverse range through the reverse engagement element of the third power transmission path and the first engagement element, wherein in a neutral range or a parking range the hybrid vehicle has a first power generation mode in which the first clutch is engaged so as to transmit the driving force of the engine to the motor/generator and generate power and a second power generation mode in which the second clutch is engaged so as to transmit the driving force of the engine to the motor/generator via the reversing means and generate power, and the hybrid vehicle selects one of the first and second power generation modes depending on operable availability of the modes, and the reverse engagement element is engaged in the neutral range or the parking range. | 40,951 |
8,475,928 | 1. A mix for manufacturing a rock laminate, which comprises: volcanic rock particles having diameters between 1 micron and 5 mm present in an amount of greater than 50% by weight of the mix, wherein the rock particles are present in at least three fractions including a first fraction having a particle size of 1 to 5 microns and being present in an amount of 18 to 28% by weight of the mix; a second fraction having a particle size of 0.25 mm to 1.75 mm and being present in an amount of 10 to 20% by weight of the mix; and a third fraction having a particle size of 2 mm to 5 mm and being present in an amount of 30 to 40% by weight of the mix; an agglutinating agent comprising a polymer mixture in an amount sufficient to act as a binder for the rock particles; a silicate compound in an amount sufficient to stabilize the mix; and water in an amount to moisten and fluidize the mix. | 17,849 |
8,983,330 | 1. A power supply configured to supply power to a load during a first mode and a second mode, the power supply comprising: a first voltage generating unit configured to generate a first voltage from an external power supply; a second voltage generating unit configured to generate a first predetermined voltage from the first voltage and configured to supply the generated first predetermined voltage to the load, wherein the second voltage generating unit is coupled to the first voltage generating unit, and the second voltage generating unit is configured to operate when the first voltage is greater than or equal to a threshold value; a third voltage generating unit configured to generate the first predetermined voltage from the first voltage and configured to supply the generated first predetermined voltage to the load, the third voltage generating unit being coupled to the first voltage generating unit; and a controller configured to cause the first voltage generated by the first voltage generating unit to be greater than or equal to the threshold value during the first mode, and configured to cause the first voltage generated by the first voltage generating unit to be less than the threshold value during the second mode, wherein, during the first mode, the power is supplied from at least one of the second voltage generating unit and the third voltage generating unit to the load, and wherein, during the second mode, the power is supplied from the third voltage generating unit to the load. | 35,984 |
9,016,029 | 1. A method of erecting a wind energy plant comprising a tower and large components attached to a tower top, the large components comprising a nacelle, a generator, and a rotor comprising at least one rotor blade, comprising the following steps: using a light-duty lifting device which is not capable of transporting the generator to the tower top and which is designed for lightweight loads to erect the tower and attaching the light-duty lifting device to the tower during construction in order to gain height together with the tower during construction of the tower, lifting a heavy-duty lifting device to the tower top with the light-duty lifting device, transporting the heavy-duty lifting device to the tower top while being supported by the tower, temporarily coupling the heavy-duty lifting device suitable for the installation of the large components to the tower to form a heavy-duty crane by using the tower as a crane mast, lifting at least one of the large components with the heavy-duty lifting device to the tower top for installation, decoupling the heavy-duty lifting device from the tower after installation of the large components, and dismantling the heavy-duty lifting device from the tower after installation of the large components while being supported by the tower. | 17,726 |
8,792,596 | 1. A method comprising: decoding in a receiver transmission parameter signaling data from a signal, the transmission parameter signaling data comprising a predetermined number of data bits defined over consecutive orthogonal frequency division multiplex symbols, the transmission parameter signaling data comprising at a predetermined location a group of information bits having a state dependent on whether the signal to which the transmission parameter signaling data relates carries time-sliced elementary streams having a forward error correction framing structure; determining from the group of information bits at the predetermined location if the signal carries time-sliced elementary streams; and determining from the group of information bits at the predetermined location whether the signal has a forward error correction framing structure. | 16,027 |
9,468,580 | 1. A decorative glass dildo comprising: a) a solid, high density heat-resistant glass outer portion; b) a coated inner portion disposed within the outer portion; c) a waterproof ring gasket attached to the inner portion; d) an electrical conductive strip attached to the inner portion; e) an end portion mechanically attached to the inner portion of the glass dildo; and f) a switch mechanism coupled to the end portion. | 41,769 |
9,670,827 | 1. A system, comprising: a first pre-combustion chamber configured to removably couple to a cylinder head of an engine, wherein the first pre-combustion chamber comprises at least one of: a first cooling jacket disposed about a first inner body having a first chamber, wherein the first cooling jacket is removably coupled to the first inner body via a removable coupling; and a first frustoconical exterior extending a first distance of at least half of a first axial length of the first pre-combustion chamber from a first annular tip at a first end toward an opposite second end, wherein the first frustoconical exterior has only one angle relative to a first axis of the first pre-combustion chamber. | 44,696 |
9,354,941 | 1. A computer-readable storage device containing computer-executable instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a computer-implemented method for configuring load balancing for a virtual address that maps to a single address, and the computer-implemented method comprising: an act of detecting at a load balancer that a virtual address that is being managed by the load balancer is associated with only a single destination address; in response to detecting, an act of the load balancer setting a flag for the virtual address to distinguish the virtual address from other virtual addresses that are associated with a plurality of destination addresses; in response to detecting, an act of the load balancer sending a configuration message to a router, the configuration message interpretable by the router as an instruction to send network packets that are addressed to the virtual address to the destination address in a manner that bypasses the load balancer; and subsequent to sending the configuration message to the router, an act of the load balancer refraining from storing subsequent flow state for the virtual address. | 12,861 |
9,563,250 | 1. A method of dynamically controlling power within a multicore central processing unit (CPU), the method comprising: determining a number of operating system scheduler ready-to-run queues that are available for scheduling on the multicore CPU; calculating a degree of parallelism in a workload of a zeroth core of the multicore CPU, wherein the degree of parallelism comprises a number of ready-to-run threads in the available operating system scheduler ready-to-run queues; determining that the number of ready-to-run threads exceeds a first threshold value for a first time duration that exceeds a second threshold value, wherein the first threshold value is set for triggering a core wake and the second threshold value is set for confirming the core wake; calculating a system load value for the multicore CPU based on a run queue value of the zeroth core and an operating frequency of the zeroth core; and when the number of ready-to-run threads exceeds the first threshold value for the first time duration that exceeds the second threshold value and the system load value meets a predetermined condition, powering up a first core of the multicore CPU to execute at least one of the available operating system scheduler ready-to-run queues, wherein the system load value indicates a number of powered cores for operation of the multicore CPU. | 32,024 |
9,305,217 | 1. An object tracking system using a robot, comprising: an image acquisition unit that acquires images in front of the robot; an object detector that detects an object from the images acquired by the image acquisition unit; a motion pattern calculator that calculates a motion pattern including a distance from the robot and a motion direction of the robot with respect to the object detected by the object detector; a motion pattern storage unit that stores the motion pattern calculated by the motion pattern calculator; and a current position calculator that calculates a current position of the object based on the motion pattern for the object stored in the motion pattern storage unit when the object disappears from the images currently acquired by the image acquisition unit, wherein tracking for the object is performed by moving the image acquisition unit based on the current position calculated by the current position calculator; wherein the object detector includes: wherein the motion pattern calculator calculates the motion pattern of the object based on the leg pattern detected by the leg pattern detector. | 18,205 |
9,665,724 | 1. A processor comprising: an instruction unit implemented at least partially in circuitry to receive an instruction set to manage a protected memory; and an execution unit implemented at least partially in circuitry to execute the instruction set without causing a virtual machine exit, wherein execution of at least one instruction includes logging the instruction and an associated address in the protected memory. | 25,042 |
8,770,275 | 1. A fill up and circulating tool for running a tubular string from a surface to a subterranean location, comprising: a housing having a passage therethrough; said housing comprising relatively movable components with a primary seal connected thereto for engagement with an inner wall of the tubular string; a selectively actuated sealing and gripping assembly on said housing and further comprising at least one secondary seal and at least one gripping slip positioned in the tubular string with said primary seal; said secondary seal and gripping slip retained retracted with a predetermined pressure in a control system with said housing until such time as pressure on said primary seal from the tubular string overcomes said predetermined pressure so that said sealing and gripping assembly can be extended to contact the inner wall. | 31,358 |
9,445,209 | 1. A computing device, comprising: a microphone; a low-power engine to: a command interpretation module to: | 9,387 |
8,883,072 | 1. A welded turbine rotor configured by integrating a nickel member comprising a first Ni-base alloy and a steel member comprising a ferritic steel through a second Ni-base alloy, wherein the second Ni-base alloy is interposed between the ferritic steel and the first Ni-based alloy, wherein the first Ni-base alloy is a Ni-base alloy having a γ′ phase solid solution temperature of 900° C. or higher and a creep fracture strength at 675° C. of 100 MPa or more, wherein the second Ni-base alloy is a γ′ phase precipitation strengthening type Ni-base alloy having a γ′ phase solid solution temperature of 850° C. or lower, and a γ′ phase precipitate of 10% to 25% by volume, and the second Ni-base alloy contains essentially no Ti, Nb, and Ta, and wherein the second Ni-base alloy includes 5 to 12 percent by mass of W and Mo in total, and 3 to 12 percent by mass of Mo. | 39,558 |
9,092,875 | 1. A depth estimation apparatus for generating, for each of plural scenes, a depth map using a set of multi-focus images which correspond to the scene and have different focuses, the depth map showing a depth for each of first regions included in the scene, the depth estimation apparatus comprising: a processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a program that, when executed by said processor, causes said depth estimation apparatus to function as: a cost value computing unit configured to compute, for each of the scenes, a cost value for each of the first regions using the set of multi-focus images corresponding to the scene, the cost value of each first region indicating a difference between a blur amount corresponding to the respective first region and a standard blur amount determined for each of distances in a depth direction; a depth map generation unit configured to generate an initial depth map that is a depth map of the scene by estimating a depth of at least one of the first regions based on the cost value of the respective at least one first region; a motion estimation unit configured to estimate the motion of the at least one first region based on the cost value of the respective first region computed by said cost value computing unit; and a depth compensation unit configured to compensate, based on the estimated motion of the at least one first region, depth information included in the initial depth map of a scene to be processed, with depth information included in another scene. | 4,517 |
9,553,745 | 1. A first integrated circuit, comprising: a transmitter having a transmit equalizer operable to equalize first data to be transmitted to a second integrated circuit; and a receiver having a receive equalizer operable to equalize second data to be received from the second integrated circuit; where the first integrated circuit is operable to implement at least two different modes, including | 2,365 |
8,396,461 | 1. A network device, comprising: a memory for storing executable instructions; and a processor that is arranged to execute the instructions to perform actions, including: | 36,172 |
9,458,967 | 1. A system, comprising: a lubrication system, comprising; and at least one valve within the block, configured to control a flow of a lubricant through the at least one lubrication passage relative to the first cooler and/or the second cooler, and including an electronically controlled actuator structured to move the at least one valve from a first configuration where a lubricant flow path through the lubrication system to and from both of the first cooler interface and the second cooler interface, to a second configuration where the fluid flow path extends to and from only one of the first cooler interface and the second cooler interface. | 36,258 |
9,441,376 | 1. A method of installing a building integrable photovoltaic (BIPV) assembly, comprising: mechanically attaching a BIPV assembly directly to a rafter of a building structure, wherein the BIPV assembly comprises: | 36,887 |
9,366,398 | 1. A backlight unit (BLU) comprising: a plurality of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) configured to emit blue light; a light guide panel (LGP); a fluorescent member configured to convert the blue light emitted from the plurality of LEDs into tricolor light, and emit the tricolor light; and a filter disposed between the fluorescent member and the plurality of LEDs, and configured to selectively filter a first wavelength area of the tricolor light emitted from the fluorescent member toward the plurality of LEDs, and reflect a second wavelength area of the tricolor light emitted from the fluorescent member toward an output direction, wherein the fluorescent member is a quantum dot member and, wherein the plurality of LEDs are mounted on a printed circuit board (PCB) having high heat conductivity and arranged to operate as a heat sink, and wherein the filter has a surface that extends in a direction substantially parallel with a side surface of the LGP, the surface of the filter having a size greater than a size of the side surface of the LGP. | 35,666 |
9,176,627 | 1. An imaging assembly comprising: a substantially rectangular frame to surround a region of interest in front of a display surface; and at least two digital cameras, each digital camera having a selectable pixel array and being mounted adjacent a different corner of said frame, each digital camera having a field of view that (i) images at least a portion of said display surface, (ii) images a least a portion of said frame, and (iii) extends at least beyond an adjacent peripheral edge of said frame, said digital cameras being oriented to capture overlapping images of said region of interest, each digital camera further comprising a processor configured to process a subset of pixel data of images captured by the digital camera to detect the existence of a pointer therein, wherein during processing of each captured image, said processor forms a difference image representing differences between pixel data in the captured image and corresponding pixel data in a background image, generates a histogram comprising a plurality of elements by selectively summing pixel intensities of said difference image, compares the elements of the histogram to a noise threshold, determines the existence of a pointer when a plurality of elements of the histogram exceed the noise threshold and determines the center of the pointer by determining the location of the element of the plurality having the highest value. | 9,047 |
8,795,516 | 1. A gypsum dewatering device for a desulfurization facility that is installed in a desulfurization facility in which sulfur oxide in flue gas is absorbed by limestone in an absorbent in an absorber, comprising: a belt filter that absorbs the sulfur oxide and dewaters gypsum slurry fed from the absorber to form a gypsum cake; a vacuum suction mechanism that sucks moisture in the gypsum cake via the belt filter; a moisture measuring unit that measures a moisture content of the gypsum cake to be dewatered by the belt filter; a heating unit that heats the gypsum cake to be dewatered by the belt filter by hot water or steam; and a control unit that controls a heated state by the heating unit, when a moisture content of the gypsum cake input from the moisture measuring unit has exceeded a predetermined amount. | 30,404 |
9,595,094 | 1. A device for determining changes in a shape of a substrate by measuring the shape of the substrate before and after a process, the changes being parallel to a surface of the substrate, said device comprising: optics comprising at least two optics apparatuses with at least two different beam paths, respectively, the optics apparatuses being configured to join together, and at least one detector configured, through the at least two optics apparatuses, to detect images of structures located on the substrate surface in the beam paths, respectively, and determine distances dx wherein dx wherein dx wherein dx wherein dy | 679 |
9,146,892 | 1. A method, comprising: causing a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PC I-E) interface to enter a low power state; detecting, when the PCI-E interface is in the low power state and prior to a packet being entirely received by a controller interfacing with a physical layer connection, whether the packet has passed an address filtering; signaling, responsive to a detection that the packet has passed the address filtering, that a PCI-E transaction is expected to cause the PCI-E interface, which is downstream of the controller, to utilize a full power state; and in response to the signaling, transitioning to the full power state prior to the packet being entirely received by the controller such that the PCI-E interface is in the full power state prior to generation of a data memory access (DMA) request corresponding to the PCI-E transaction. | 42,496 |
8,849,932 | 1. A data transmission/reception system which comprises plural communication terminals and a telecommunication line connected to the communication terminals to transmit and receive data which is made up of a file or a folder, wherein each of the communication terminals comprises an input unit to which a character information or an operating command is inputted by a user, a display unit which displays the data, a connection unit which transmits and receives the data via the telecommunication line, a control unit which controls the communication terminals, and a memory unit which stores a control program to control the control unit, wherein the memory unit stores a title attribute information table which is used for creating a title of the data and has an attribute information of the data in association with the data and a title information file which has information for creating the title of the data displayed on the display unit in accordance with the attribute information included in the title attribute information table, the title attribute information table has at least a date information, which has a value regarding a date when the data is created and a date when the data is transmitted or received by the connection unit, and a name information, which has a value regarding a name of the data, the date information has a creation date when the data is newly created, a transmission date when the data is transmitted by the connection unit, or a reception date when the data is received by the connection unit, the name information has an optional name which a user optionally provides as a name of the data via the input unit, the title information file has two values which a user selects via the input unit from the values included in the date information or the name information, the control unit makes the connection unit transmit the data and the title attribute information table to the other communication terminal, associates the data and the title attribute information table which are received by the connection unit, stores the associated data and the title attribute information table in the memory unit, when the control unit displays the title of a predetermined data in the data on the display unit, the control unit refers to the title attribute information table associated with the data and the title information file, specifies the two values included in the title information file from the title attribute information table and creates the title by combining the two values, and the display unit displays the title created by the control unit. | 3,153 |
9,820,653 | 1. A system for imaging biological material in a patient, comprising: a. a fluorescently conjugated molecule capable of binding to the biological material; b. a light source; c. a fiber optic light guide; d. an elongate probe sized for placement inside the cavity of the patient, further comprising at least one substantially planar detection surface, the detection surface further comprising: e. a visualization system in electrical communication with the probe; wherein the waveguide is capable of emitting light toward the biological material, such that the biological material's emitted fluorescence is received by the imager for display by way of the visualization system. | 48,631 |
9,511,202 | 1. A breathing assistance device, comprising: a patient breathing tube having a leading end adapted to be in open fluid communication with a face mask worn by a patient requiring breathing assistance; a valve body in open fluid communication with said patient breathing tube; a nebulizer port in open fluid communication with said patient breathing tube; a nebulizer having a leading end in open fluid communication with said nebulizer port; said nebulizer including a nebulizer compartment adapted to hold a medicinal compound in liquid fluid form; a first port in open fluid communication with said valve body; a first tube having a trailing end connected in open fluid communication to a remote source of gaseous fluid under pressure and having a leading end connected in open fluid communication to said first port; a second port in valved communication with said valve body; a second tube having a trailing end connected in open fluid communication with said second port and having a leading end connected in open fluid communication with said nebulizer compartment; a valve actuator having a closed position that allows gaseous fluid flow through said first tube and prevents flow of gaseous fluid through said second tube; said valve actuator having an open position that enables flow of gaseous fluid flow through said first tube and through said second tube; said breathing assistance device adapted to deliver gaseous fluid under pressure to the patient when said valve actuator is in said closed position, said gaseous fluid under pressure flowing from said remote source of gaseous fluid under pressure through said first tube to said patient breathing tube; and said breathing assistance device adapted to deliver gaseous fluid under pressure to the patient when said valve actuator is in said open position, said gaseous fluid under pressure flowing from said remote source of gaseous fluid under pressure through said first tube to said patient breathing tube, and flowing to said nebulizer through said second tube, causing said medicinal compound in said nebulizer compartment to flow through said nebulizer so that said medicinal compound is changed into a spray that is introduced into said patient breathing tube, said spray of medicinal compound being entrained into the flow of gaseous fluid flowing through said patient breathing tube en route to said patient's face mask. | 9,677 |
9,133,826 | 1. A cooling arrangement of a wind turbine, the wind turbine including a nacelle, the cooling arrangement comprising: a cooling device, which is arranged on top of the nacelle and which is configured to remove heat of the wind turbine to the ambient air, a platform, which is an attachment to the nacelle and is securable to the nacelle over a top portion of the nacelle, and which is configured to be approached by a helicopter, a barrier on top of and surrounding at least a part of the platform, and wherein the barrier comprises at least a part of the cooling device arranged at a front edge or a rear edge of the platform. | 8,377 |
8,831,790 | 1. A battery control apparatus to control a battery connected to a power system, comprising: a load data collection unit which collects load data in the system; a frequency determining unit which determines a first frequency and a second frequency larger than the first frequency, among frequencies converted from the load data; an intermediate-cycle component extraction unit which extracts load variation components of intermediate-cycle in a range from the first frequency to the second frequency, based on the frequencies determined by the frequency determining unit; a control unit which controls the battery based on the extracted load variation components; and a parameter learning unit which collects and learns parameter information including load variation components in the system, wherein the frequency determining unit changes at least one of the first and second frequencies based on battery response speed information representing information of a response speed as to control of the battery and the parameter information of the parameter learning unit, and the intermediate-cycle component extraction unit extracts the load variation components in accordance with at least one of the first and second frequencies thus changed. | 39,185 |
8,947,372 | 1. An electronic device comprising: a base; a touch-sensitive display moveable relative to the base; a frame coupled to the base and framing the touch-sensitive display such that the touch-sensitive display is disposed between a portion of the frame and the base; piezo actuators disposed between the base and the touch-sensitive display, the piezo actuators including a first piezo actuator and a second piezo actuator spaced from the first piezo actuator such that the first piezo actuator is disposed on a first side of a centerline of the touch-sensitive display and the second piezo actuator is disposed on a second side of the centerline of the touch-sensitive display, wherein the first side is opposite the second side; a biasing element disposed between the frame and the touch-sensitive display to bias the touch-sensitive display away from the frame and toward the base; a controller configured to control the piezo actuators to alternately actuate the first piezo actuator and the second piezo actuator to alternately apply forces to the first side of the touch-sensitive display and to the second side of the touch-sensitive display in a direction away from the base, opposing the bias by the biasing element, by charging the first piezo actuator while discharging the second piezo actuator followed by discharging the first piezo actuator while charging the second piezo actuator, thereby causing the touch-sensitive display to pivot relative to the base, and causing vibration of the portable electronic device. | 46,086 |
9,724,391 | 1. A pharmaceutical composition comprising a glucocorticoid together with exosomes in the presence or absence of a cytokine antagonist and/or a growth factor, wherein the exosomes are obtained from blood and the glucocorticoid is one or more selected from the group consisting of, prednisone, prednisolone, cloprednol, deflazacort, fluocortin, triamcinolone, dexamethasone, methylprednisolone, fluprednisolone, clocortolone, clobetasone, alclomethasone, flumethasone, fluoprednidene, fluorandrenolone, betamethasone, beclomethasone, fluocortolone, mometasone, fluticasone, halomethasone, fluocinolone, diflorasone, desoximethasone, fluocinonide, amcinonide, halcinonide, diflucortolone, clobetasol, paramethasone, and a salt, ester or prodrug thereof. | 49,423 |
9,090,524 | 1. A method for manufacturing a hydrocarbon, the method comprising: bringing metallic Mg into contact with liquid water and carbon dioxide; and reducing the carbon dioxide, wherein the contact of the metallic Mg with the liquid water and carbon dioxide is effected under presence of at least one combination element selected from the group consisting of Group 8 elements, Group 9 elements, B, C, S, Ca, V, Mn, Ni, Ge, Zr, Nb, Pd, Ag, Sn, Pt, Au, Ce, a water-soluble compound thereof, and an ion thereof. | 9,492 |
8,633,698 | 1. A gradient coil device comprising: a first coil which generates a linear magnetic field distribution at an imaging region of a magnetic resonance imaging device; and a second coil which suppresses any leakage of a magnetic field from the first coil to a static-magnetic-field coil that generates a uniform magnetic field distribution at the imaging region, wherein a connecting line of at least either one of the first coil and the second coil intersecting with a return line from a spiral coil pattern meanders so that the connecting line goes down, goes up and goes down in a trough-like and crest-like manner, as a connecting line coil pattern. | 48,407 |
9,512,797 | 1. A method of starting an engine, comprising: substantially closing a cylinder port throttle; and directly injecting an amount of fuel to a cylinder during a cylinder cycle while cylinder vacuum varies with engine rotation and while the cylinder port throttle is substantially closed during engine cranking, the amount of fuel injected being during an interval that includes a middle position which is substantially aligned with a predetermined cylinder vacuum level. | 49,726 |
9,284,909 | 1. An engine method, comprising: during a first mode, operating with a lower than threshold EGR rate, and in response to a tip-in to higher load, maintaining single fuel injection per cycle and increasing opening of an LP-EGR valve; and during a second mode, operating with the lower than threshold EGR rate, and in response to a tip-in to higher load, operating with split fuel injection per cycle, and increasing opening of the LP-EGR valve. | 44,579 |
9,776,313 | 1. A hammer tacker, including: a shell, composed of two half-shells engaged with each other, each half-shell being formed by injection molding of a mixture of fiberglass and nylon, the mixture being composed of 30% to 70% of fiberglass and 70% to 30% of nylon by weight, the two half-shells enclosing an internal space therebetween, a longitudinal direction being defined as a direction perpendicular to a direction along which the two half-shells are aligned, a first end and a second end being defined as two opposite ends of the shell along the longitudinal direction, an opening formed between the two half-shells being defined at the first end, each of the half-shells being formed with a positioning rib portion on a face facing to the other half-shell wherein the positioning rib portion is close to the second end, a positioning space being defined between the positioning rib portions of the two half-shells; a striking mechanism, disposed in the internal space of the shell, being made of metal, including a magazine, a striker, an actuator, and a transmission mechanism, the magazine being received in the positioning space and being positioned by the positioning rib portions, the striker being arranged at the opening and being linearly movable to strike nails out, the actuator being also arranged at the opening but more distant from the second end than the striker, the actuator being linearly movable, the transmission mechanism linking the striker and the actuator therebetween to make the striker and the actuator move toward two opposite directions, the actuator being moved upward when a bottom portion of the actuator is hit upward. | 8,182 |
9,005,575 | 1. A compound according to the chemical structure: Where each of X Y R Linker is absent, a positively charged amino acid residue selected from the group consisting of lysine and arginine, a negatively charged amino acid residue selected from the group consisting of aspartic acid and glutamic acid, a neutral amino acid residue selected from the group consisting of glycine, alanine valine, leucine, isoleucine, norleucine, methionine, phenylalanine, serine, thereonine, tyrosine and an amino acid according to the chemical structure: where p is an integer from 0 to 20, an oligopeptide, or a polyethylene glycol containing group according to the chemical structure: where n is y is 1 to 4, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein said compound is optionally complexed with at least one radioisotope. | 41,329 |
9,046,071 | 1. Apparatus for generating electricity from mains water, the apparatus comprising: a shaft; a rotor supported on the shaft and rotatable in the apparatus as mains water flows through the apparatus; leading and trailing bearings, located on either side of the rotor, for supporting the shaft; and a stator that is electromagnetically coupled to the rotor such that, as the rotor is rotated by the mains water flowing through the apparatus, it causes the stator to generate electricity, wherein the leading bearing comprises one or more water flow passages that are angled to change the direction of water flow through the apparatus. | 31,627 |
9,340,598 | 1. An isolated polypeptide consisting essentially of the amino acid sequence RYLLEAKEAENITTGC (SEQ ID NO:33). | 48,315 |
9,157,357 | 1. A method of operating a fuel processor in an engine system to intermittently produce a syngas stream comprising hydrogen (H 2 ) and carbon monoxide (CO) during first periods of time, interspersed with second periods of time, said method comprising: during said first periods of time, supplying a fuel reactant stream and an oxidant reactant stream to said fuel processor and converting said fuel and oxidant reactant streams in said fuel processor to produce said syngas stream, wherein said fuel and oxidant reactant streams are supplied to said fuel processor at an equivalence ratio that is below that which would provide the maximum fuel-specific H | 3,014 |
9,334,799 | 1. A method of estimating and controlling in real time intensity of knocking of an internal combustion engine comprising a cylinder-head, at least one cylinder and at least one vibration sensor providing a continuous vibration signal representative of vibrations in the at least one cylinder at an output of the cylinder-head which signal is a function of the crankshaft angle, comprising: constructing a wave equation model of the cylinder-head based on a physical model describing propagation of waves in a solid medium; determining coefficients of a Fourier decomposition of the vibration signal in real time by inverting dynamics of the wave equation model with an estimator; computing energy contained in the vibration signal by summing squares of the coefficients of the Fourier decomposition; determining in real time a parameter correlated with intensity of knocking equal to a square root of a maximum of the energy; and using the real time parameter correlated with intensity of knocking in controlling the combustion of the internal combustion engine to control the intensity of knocking in real time. | 11,530 |
9,139,491 | 1. A process for chilling ethylene to required storage temperatures, the process comprising: cooling an ethylene product comprising greater than 90 wt % ethylene via indirect heat exchange with a coolant to decrease the temperature of the ethylene product to a temperature of less than −100° C., the ethylene product from at least one of an ethylene production process and an ethylene recovery process; mixing a portion of the cooled ethylene product with methane to form the coolant; expanding at least one of the coolant, the methane, and the portion of the cooled ethylene product to reduce a temperature of the coolant to less than −100° C. prior to the cooling; and feeding the heat exchanged coolant to at least one of the ethylene production process, the ethylene recovery process, and an open-loop refrigeration system. | 40,035 |
9,661,753 | 1. A microclip appliance which facilitates an electrical connection between a center conductor of a coaxial transmission element and a planar entity in an RF circuit, comprising: a single conductive planar metal sheet which includes portions defined along an elongated length thereof including a pin receiver, a solder paddle and a bridge; wherein the conductive planar metal sheet includes a plurality of lateral bends therein which are disposed along a length of the conductive planar metal sheet, including | 40,400 |
8,433,689 | 1. A computer-implemented method for restoring deduplicated data, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising: receiving a request to restore a set of deduplicated data segments to a client system, wherein each data segment in the set of deduplicated data segments is referred to by one or more deduplication references; procuring reference data that indicates, for each data segment in the set of deduplicated data segments, a number of deduplication references on the client system that point to the data segment, wherein the number of deduplication references that point to the data segment comprises a total count of how many individual deduplication references, collections of deduplication references, or both, point to the data segment; using the reference data to select one or more data segments from the set of deduplicated data segments for client-side caching; caching at least one of the one or more data segments or references to the one or more data segments in a cache on the client system; restoring the one or more data segments from the client system wherein restoration comprises at least one of restoring the one or more data segments from the cache on the client system or querying the cache to determine where the one or more data segment are stored on the client system. | 40,043 |
8,413,030 | 1. A wireless communication system for communicating a radio signal, the system including a transmitter for transmitting a radio signal and a receiver for receiving the radio signal, wherein the transmitter comprises a signal transmitter for transmitting a radio signal to the receiver, and wherein the receiver comprises: | 34,650 |
8,931,376 | 1. An apparatus for increasing a moment of a force comprising: an elongated member having at least a first tool support and a second tool support; said first tool support being attached to a side of the elongated member at a first position, the first position being near an end of the elongated member; said second tool support being attached to an opposite side of the elongated member at a second position, the second position being displaced from said first position along a linear length of said elongated member such that a range of tools fit workably between the two tool supports; wherein a top portion of at least one of the first and second tool supports comprises an angled portion; the angled portion, the tool support and a portion of a top surface of the elongated member forming a tool seat such that a tool is prevented from rotating out from the tool support when force is applied; wherein an underside of the angled portion of at least one of the first and second tool supports has attached thereto a resilient frictional material. | 48,404 |
9,645,727 | 1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-readable instructions that when executed by a computing device cause the computing device to: receive a first indicator indicating a first graph element type selected by a user to present in a first cell of a canvas panel presented on a display; after receiving the first indicator and based on the first graph element type, determine a number of columns and a number of rows of data values to generate for a first graph element instance; generate first sample data to render the first graph element instance, wherein the generated first sample data includes a data value generated for each column and row of the determined number of columns and the determined number of rows; render the first graph element instance in the first cell of the canvas panel using the generated first sample data, wherein the first graph element instance is a visual representation of the first graph element type using the generated first sample data; receive a second indicator indicating a second graph element type selected by the user to present in the first cell of the canvas panel overlaid with the first graph element instance; after receiving the second indicator, generate second sample data to render a second graph element instance and a third graph element instance in the first cell of the canvas panel, wherein the generated second sample data includes a second data value and a third data value generated for each row of the determined number of rows, wherein the generated second sample data is not generated using data stored on the computer-readable medium prior to receiving the second indicator; render the second graph element instance in the first cell of the canvas panel using the second data value generated for each row of the determined number of rows overlaid with the third graph element instance using the third data value generated for each row of the determined number of rows, wherein the second graph element instance is a visual representation of the second graph element type using the generated second sample data and the third graph element instance is a second visual representation of the first graph element type using the generated second sample data; receive a third indicator indicating the second graph element instance; receive a fourth indicator indicating dropping of the third indicator into a second cell of the canvas panel presented on the display; after receiving the fourth indicator and based on the second graph element type, determine a second number of columns and a second number of rows of data values to generate for a fourth graph element instance; generate third sample data to render the fourth graph element instance, wherein the generated third sample data includes a fourth data value generated for each column and each row of the determined second number of columns and the determined second number of rows, wherein at least a portion of the third sample data is different than the second sample data; render the fourth graph element instance in the second cell of the canvas panel using the generated third sample data, wherein the fourth graph element instance is a second visual representation of the second graph element type using the generated third sample data; and store a graph design template that captures characteristics of the second visual representation of the second graph element type in the second cell of the canvas panel without any of the generated first sample data, the generated second sample data, or the generated third sample data and without an indicator of any of the generated first sample data, the generated second sample data, or the generated third sample data. | 45,064 |
8,829,897 | 1. A paper position sensor for a printer, comprising: a) a paper guide comprising an upper guide and a lower guide, defining a paper path therebetween; b) a position sensor wheel having a magnetic element, the wheel rotatably connected to said paper guide and positioned so as to engage a paper passing through the paper guide; and c) a sensor chip positioned adjacent to said sensor wheel, the sensor chip sensing the magnetic element on the sensor wheel wherein said sensor wheel is frictionally engaged and rotated by movement of a paper through the paper guide along the paper path, and said sensor chip calculates the rotational position of said sensor wheel. | 38,080 |
8,415,075 | 1. A method for preparing a Ni—Al alloy anode for molten carbonate fuel cell comprising steps of: preparing a sheet with Ni—Al alloy powders and organic binders (S1); and installing the sheet in the molten carbonate fuel cell without any heat treatment for sintering the Ni—Al alloy powders in the sheet, and then in-situ sintering the Ni—Al alloy in the sheet during a pretreatment process of the molten carbonate fuel cell with the sheet (S2) wherein, in step of S2,an inert gas is injected so as to control an oxidation of nickel during the in-situ sintering process, wherein, in the step of S2, during the in-situ sintering process, the inert gas is injected up to the point before a temperature at which the organic binders used to prepare the sheet are removed, then air is injected to remove the organic binders, and then hydrogen and carbon dioxide are simultaneously injected after the removal of the organic binders and up to the point before an operating temperature of the cell. | 3,655 |
9,018,141 | 1. A method of treating a gas field fluid or oil field fluid comprising microbes, the method comprising: a) adding glutaraldehyde to the gas field fluid or oil field fluid in an amount effective to reduce or inhibit microbial activity; and b) after a delay, adding 3,5-dimethyl-1,3,5-thiadiazinane-2-thione to the gas field fluid or oil field fluid; wherein the delay is from about 1 hour to about 48 hours; and wherein the weight ratio of the 3,5-dimethyl-1,3,5-thiadiazinane-2-thione to the glutaraldehyde, as active ingredients, is in the range of about 2:1 to about 1:1. | 14,364 |
8,698,477 | 1. A control method for reducing the audio noise, comprising: providing an input power source having a first terminal and a second terminal; providing a power source converter, wherein the power source converter comprises: providing a load having a first terminal and a second terminal, wherein the first terminal of the load is connected to the first terminal of the output capacitor, and the second terminal of the load is connected to the second terminal of the output capacitor; making the power source converter operate in a burst mode, wherein the burst mode has a burst cycle, and the burst cycle comprises an operating period T controlling the electrical energy transferred from the first input terminal and the second input terminal to the first output terminal and the second output terminal of the power source converter during the operating period T | 21,376 |
8,515,412 | 1. A method for performing a software upgrade, comprising: determining, by an application server comprising a processor, a plurality of mobile endpoint devices affected by a wireless network access software upgrade; scheduling, by the application server, a deployment of the wireless network access software upgrade to the plurality of mobile endpoint devices in accordance with a schedule; transmitting, by the application server, a notification of the deployment of the wireless network access software upgrade to the plurality of mobile endpoint devices, wherein each of the plurality of mobile endpoint devices stores user settings in an external memory of each of the plurality of mobile endpoint devices responsive to the notification, wherein the user settings comprise a voicemail preference setting; and downloading, by the application server, the wireless network access software upgrade wirelessly to the plurality of mobile endpoint devices for installation by the plurality of mobile endpoint devices, wherein the wireless network access software upgrade is for causing each of the plurality of mobile endpoint devices to install the wireless network access software upgrade and to restore the user settings from the external memory of each of the plurality of mobile endpoint devices. | 9,884 |
9,119,524 | 1. A dishwasher rack comprising: a dish rack having a depth extending in a loading direction and a width; and a rack insert including: a plurality of undulated wire members disposed successively along the loading direction of the dish rack, each undulating wire member including a plurality of curves and having a first end and a second end and extending substantially across the entire width of the dish rack, and a tine integrally formed at each of the first and second ends of each undulating wire member, each tine extending upward from a bend at the respective end in a vertical direction; wherein the dish rack includes a lateral railing including a wire profile configured to correspond to the rack insert; wherein each of the tines at the first end of the undulated wire members is spaced apart from the lateral railing at a respective end of the dish rack so as to form a longitudinal space between the tines and the lateral railing, the longitudinal space being configured to accommodate items for washing. | 22,518 |
9,190,808 | 1. An active optical assembly comprising: a paddle card; an optical-electrical module including an opto-electronic communication device electrically connected with the paddle card, the opto-electronic communication device comprising a laser and a driver IC for converting electrical signal to optical signal, and a photodiode detector and a receiver IC for converting optical signal to electrical signal; a heat sink ring mounted to the paddle card; an optical cable subassembly inserted into the heat sink ring and optically coupling with the optical-electrical module; and a heat sink cover mounted to the heat sink ring, the heat sink cover cooperating with the heat sink ring and the paddle card to enclose the optical-electrical module so as to transfer heat generated by the opto-electronic communication device to the heat sink ring and the heat sink cover for dissipation. | 42,604 |
9,623,521 | 1. A refrigerated display case for displaying refrigerated items, the refrigerated display case having a lateral dimension extending horizontally lengthwise along a front of the display case, a transverse dimension extending horizontally and perpendicular to the lateral dimension, and a vertical dimension orthogonal to both the lateral and transverse dimension, the refrigerated display case comprising: a tub assembly having outer edges, the tub assembly comprising a pair of tubs; a pair of end frames positioned on the outer edges of the tub assembly and supporting the pair of tubs; shelf standards coupled to the pair of end frames for supporting a plurality of shelves, the shelves for supporting the refrigerated items; an integrated center end frame positioned between and supporting the pair of tubs; the integrated center end frame comprising: a liner positioned substantially on the first side projection or the second side projection. | 11,553 |
8,419,553 | 1. A torque fluctuation absorber comprising: a first damper portion absorbing torque fluctuations caused by a torsion between a first rotary member and a second rotary member; a second damper portion absorbing torque fluctuations caused by a torsion between the second rotary member and a third rotary member; and a stopper portion inhibiting an excessive torsion at the first damper portion and an excessive torsion at the second damper portion, the stopper portion being fixed to the second rotary member, the first rotary member including a first projecting portion projecting radially inwardly and being contactable with the stopper portion by the torsion between the first rotary member and the second rotary member, the third rotary member including a second projecting portion projecting radially outwardly and being contactable with the stopper portion by the torsion between the third rotary member and the second rotary member, the second projecting portion making contact with the stopper portion at a radially inner side relative to a portion where the first projecting portion makes contact with the stopper portion. | 27,580 |
9,210,039 | 1. An apparatus to be used in association with a network, the apparatus comprising: circuitry to be comprised, at least in part, in at least one node in the network, the at least one node to be communicatively coupled, at least in part, to at least one switch node that is comprised in the network, the at least one switch node to be communicatively coupled, at least in part, to at least two other nodes that are comprised in the network, the circuitry to generate, at least in part, at least one packet to be received, at least in part, by the at least one switch node in the network, the at least one switch node to designate, in response at least in part to the at least one packet, at least one port of the at least one switch node to be used to facilitate, at least in part, establishment, at least in part, of at least one path in the network for propagation of at least one flow between the at least two other nodes in the network, the at least one packet being generated, at least in part, based at least in part upon (1) at least one application classification indicated, at least in part, in at least one other packet that belongs to the at least one flow, (2) at least one request received by the circuitry for at least one allocation to be associated, at least in part, with the at least one path, and (3) information, provided, at least in part, from components of the network, and related, at least in part, to resource availability in the network. | 29,060 |
8,896,330 | 1. A method for monitoring an AC power grid, comprising one or more distributed generation systems, for impedance changes, comprising: superimposing a tone on an AC current flowing in an AC line of a distributed generation system connected to the AC power grid, wherein the tone has a higher frequency than a frequency of an AC voltage waveform of the power grid; applying a correlation between a sampled AC voltage waveform and a copy of the superimposed tone to generate a correlated signal, wherein the sampled AC voltage waveform is obtained by sampling the AC voltage waveform subsequent to superimposing the tone on the AC current determining whether at least one change in a characteristic of the correlated signal occurs, thereby detecting a change in the grid impedance. | 24,086 |
8,531,360 | 1. A pixel circuit, comprising: a light emitting diode with a first end coupled to a first power source terminal; a driving transistor with a source and a drain respectively coupled to a second power source terminal and a second end of the light emitting diode; a capacitor coupling a gate of the driving transistor to a reference voltage terminal; and a first switch, when a first scan signal is asserted, coupling the second end of the light emitting diode to the capacitor, and coupling the gate and the drain of the driving transistor together, wherein both of the first switch and the drain of the driving transistor are in direct contact with the second end of the light emitting diode; and a third switch controlled by a second scan signal to couple the second power source terminal to the reference voltage terminal, wherein the third switch is a transistor having a source and a drain, both of the source of the third switch and the source of the driving transistor are in direct contact with the second power source terminal, and the drain of the third switch is disconnected from the source of the driving transistor. | 43,295 |
9,589,765 | 1. A sample supporting member for observing a scanning electron microscopic image arranged in an optical barrel under reduced-pressure ambient, comprising a laminate comprising an insulative thin film and a conductive thin film, wherein a surface on a side of the insulative thin film is an electron beam incident surface, and a surface on a side of the conductive thin film is a sample adhesion surface exposed to the reduced-pressure ambient, wherein the sample adhesion surface includes an emission surface for electrons tunneling from the insulative thin film and through a sample on the sample adhesion surface and thereby contributing to forming the scanning electron microscopic image. | 17,271 |
8,792,407 | 1. A method for saving power in a wireless communication terminal, the method comprising: estimating, at the terminal, an available data transmission rate for transmission from an access node to the terminal; determining, at the terminal, an actual data transmission rate for transmission from the access node to the terminal; setting a terminal transmission duty cycle for a next period, wherein the terminal transmission duty cycle is calculated using the estimated available data transmission rate, the actual data transmission rate, and a margin of error; and transmitting data from the terminal to the access node according to the terminal transmission duty cycle. | 29,105 |
8,768,586 | 1. A method of controlling a vehicle equipped with an internal-combustion engine ( 1 ) with a “stop and start” system, wherein the internal-combustion engine ( 1 ) includes a driver-operated gear-selection lever and gearbox ( 17 ) and odd gears (ODD) are coupled to a same first primary shaft of the gearbox ( 17 ) and even gears (EVEN) are coupled to a same second primary shaft of the gearbox ( 17 ), the method comprising steps of: providing, in a preliminary adjustment phase, a position sensor close to the gear-selection lever and being set-up to read the position of the gear-selection lever; learning, during vehicle running, respective “duty cycle” values associated with the odd gears (ODD) and even gears (EVEN); determining a “maximum duty cycle” value (ODD determining a “minimum duty cycle” value (EVEN determining a duty-cycle band to which a “neutral gear” condition (N) corresponds and that is included within a value range extremes of which are represented by the “minimum duty cycle” value (EVEN controlling the “stop and start” system by at least one of controlling restarting of the internal-combustion engine ( | 15,084 |
8,932,441 | 1. A system adapted to generate hydrogen and oxygen for use in hydrogen-based fuel cells, the system comprising: a power source; a first conducting element connected to a positive terminal of the power source; a second conducting element connected to a negative terminal of the power source; a conducting medium adapted to electrically connect the first conducting element to the second conducting element, wherein the conducting medium comprises a solution and a plurality of metallic pieces; and a base member attached at an end of the second conducting element and configured to define an area within the base into which the plurality of metallic pieces cannot pass but which the solution can. | 29,488 |
9,225,034 | 1. An electrode having an asymmetric structure, comprising: a planar sheet of material having a first end and an opposed second end, and a tab extending away from the first end of the planar sheet, wherein the planar sheet has a generally rectangular perimeter, with at least one corner of the perimeter having an asymmetric structure with respect to a central axis normal to the planar sheet, wherein the planar sheet extends along a length direction, extends along a width direction, defines a maximum length along the length direction, and defines first and second linear edges spaced apart along the width direction, each of the first and second linear edges being shorter than the maximum length, wherein the first and second linear edges each include a first endpoint adjacent the first end of the planar sheet and a second endpoint adjacent the second end of the planar sheet, wherein the perimeter of the planar sheet at the first and second endpoints of each of the first and second linear edges extends toward the opposing linear edge in a direction substantially parallel to the width direction, and wherein a depth of the first endpoints measured from the first end of the planar sheet is smaller than a depth of the second endpoints measured from the second end of the planar sheet. | 41,086 |
8,846,051 | 1. A method of reducing replicative fitness of a virus, comprising: preparing a viral nucleic acid molecule comprising at least twenty deoptimized codons in a coding sequence of the virus by replacing each of the at least twenty codons in the coding sequence with a synonymous codon less frequently used in the virus, thereby generating a deoptimized viral nucleic acid molecule that reduces replicative fitness of the virus. | 11,834 |
8,898,872 | 1. A space-creating shower curtain hook hanging from a shower curtain rod, comprising: a shower rod hook engaging the shower curtain rod; a neck disposed upwards and inwards from the shower rod hook; a first connector disposed along the neck engaging a shower liner; and a stem connected to the neck and disposed downwards; wherein a weight of the shower liner causes the space-creating shower curtain hook to rotate about the shower curtain rod, contacting the stem to the shower liner, and disposing the shower liner outwards of the shower curtain rod. | 7,327 |
9,618,267 | 1. A graphitization furnace for obtaining graphite from powder as a carbon source, comprising: an electrically conductive crucible including a hollow configured to house the powder; a first electrode including a columnar shaft and a head provided at an end of the shaft, the head having a shape selected from the group consisting of a sphere, a hemisphere, a column with a rounded edge, a cone, and a cone with a rounded tip, the first electrode being disposed above the crucible; a second electrode disposed below the crucible; a first vertical moving device configured to move the first electrode vertically relative to the crucible between a first position and a second position of the first electrode; a second vertical moving device configured to move the second electrode vertically relative to the crucible between a first position and a second position of the second electrode; and a power source configured to apply electric current to the powder through the crucible, the first electrode, and the second electrode, wherein in the first position of the first electrode, the head of the first electrode is above the hollow of the crucible, and in the second position of the first electrode, the head of the first electrode is inserted into the hollow, and wherein in the first position of the second electrode, the second electrode is free of contact with a bottom surface of the crucible, and in the second position of the second electrode, the second electrode is in contact with the bottom surface of the crucible. | 47,188 |
9,222,526 | 1. An assembly, comprising: a shaft; an intermediate shaft radially outward of and supported on the shaft and rotatable relative to the shaft; first, second and third clutches; a housing including a radial member, a first arm, extending axially from the radial member, to which the first clutch selectively produces a connection, a second arm, extending axially from the radial member, to which the second and third clutches selectively produce connections, hydraulic feed circuits extending through the housing, each circuit configured to actuate a corresponding one of the clutches, and a balance volume circuit for supplying fluid to each of the clutches; the housing supported on the intermediate shaft radially outward from the intermediate shaft and rotatable relative to the shaft and the intermediate shaft. | 23,532 |
9,561,990 | 1. A process of making light olefins, in a combined Oxygenate to Olefin (XTO)-Olefin Cracking (OC) process, from an oxygen-containing, halogenide-containing or sulphur-containing organic feedstock comprising: selecting a molecular sieve having pores of 10- or more-membered rings, wherein the molecular sieve is a zeolite; contacting the molecular sieve with a metal silicate, different from said molecular sieve, comprising at least one alkaline earth metal to form a catalyst composite, wherein the catalyst composite comprises at least 10 wt % of the zeolite and at least 0.1 wt % of silicate based on a total weight of the catalyst composite; providing a first portion and a second portion of a feedstock that is an oxygen-containing, halogenide-containing, or sulphur-containing organic feedstock; providing an XTO reaction zone, an OC reaction zone and a catalyst regeneration zone, wherein one or more catalysts are in the XTO reaction zone and the same one or more catalysts are in the OC reaction zone, wherein at least one of the one or more catalysts is the catalyst composite; wherein the one or more catalysts circulate in the three zones, such that at least a portion of the one or more catalysts from the catalyst regeneration zone is passed to the OC reaction zone, at least a portion of the one or more catalysts in the OC reaction zone is passed to the XTO reaction zone and at least a portion of the one or more catalysts in the XTO reaction zone is passed to the catalyst regeneration zone; contacting the first portion of the feedstock in the XTO reactor with the one or more catalysts at conditions effective to convert at least a portion of the feedstock to form an XTO reactor effluent comprising light olefins and a heavy hydrocarbon fraction; separating the light olefins from the heavy hydrocarbon fraction; and contacting the heavy hydrocarbon fraction and the second portion of the feedstock in the OC reactor with the one or more catalysts at conditions effective to convert at least a portion of the heavy hydrocarbon fraction and the feedstock to light olefins. | 9,658 |
8,586,458 | 1. A method of doping carbon nanotubes, the method comprising: preparing an oxidizer solution comprising an oxidizer and an organic solvent, wherein the organic solvent is nitromethane, dimethyl sulfoxide, butyl nitrite, or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing solvents; and disposing carbon nanotubes, alone without any dispersing agent, in the oxidizer solution in order to dope the carbon nanotubes. | 39,392 |
9,289,129 | 1. A non-contact measuring method in pediatrics comprising steps of: (1) acquiring a human image of each body part of a subject infant using an image acquisition module and acquiring a depth image of the subject infant using a depth information acquisition module wherein the human image is a 2D color image containing the human body, the depth image is a grayscale image containing distance information between surface points in the view and the depth information acquisition module, and the human image and depth image are acquired without effective collaboration by the subject infant to follow instruction; (2) establishing an infant body model based on the acquired human image and depth image using 3D surface models and a data acquisition and processing unit when the data acquisition and processing unit analyzes the human image and the depth image, classifies each pixel in the depth image as a foreground pixel, which represents the subject infant, or a background pixel, obtains a size of the subject infant in term of the largest distance between two foreground pixels in the depth image, and adjusts the size of a basic infant body model corresponding to the size of the obtained subject infant wherein the infant body model is composed of multiple anthropometric characteristic points and 3D surface data, and a basic infant body model is an initial model prepared for further updating and is generated based on identity information and weight information of the subject infant; (3) acquiring data of a plurality of anthropometric characteristic points of the subject infant by the data acquisition and processing unit when the anthropometric characteristic point data are calculated using an algorithm program for anthropometry based on the acquired human image and depth image, and updating the infant body model based on the acquired anthropometric characteristic points when the data acquisition and processing unit adjusts the established infant body model using the acquired anthropometric characteristic point data for updating the body size, the head size and the ratios between the body parts of the established infant body model wherein the anthropometric characteristic point is a synonym for anthropometric landmark, defined for quantitative analysis on body size and the ratios between the body parts; and (4) obtaining an anthropometric measurement data of the subject infant from the updated infant body model when the data acquisition and processing unit uses the acquired anthropometric characteristic points to determine the measurement positions on the established infant body model and combines the 3D surface data of the established infant body model. | 45,550 |
8,417,814 | 1. A method of managing resources of a computer adapted to execute a plurality of applications, comprising: establishing a quality-of-service (QoS) policy for the computer, the QoS policy expressing relative priorities of the plurality of applications; characterizing the applications' usages of computer resources; predicting, responsive to the characterization, the applications' future usages of the computer resources; responsive to the QoS policy and the predictions, establishing QoS envelopes for the applications, the QoS envelopes establishing an upper limit on resource usages by the applications; analyzing an application's actual usage of computer resources and the application's predicted usage of computer resources; and generating a security event responsive to a difference between the application's actual usage and the application's predicted usage. | 39,455 |
9,145,468 | 1. A photoelectric conversion material that acts as an electron donor for donating an electron or an electron acceptor for accepting an electron, comprising: a polymer obtained by reaction of a polyphenylene having at least one structural unit selected from moieties represented by the following general formulae (1) to (3): wherein R1 to R8 in the general formulae (1) to (3) independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or an alkoxy group. | 42,571 |
9,487,453 | 1. A method for the control of said Black Sigatoka disease, Yellow Sigatoka disease and Panama disease in the banana plants afflicted with said disease, comprising; applying to said banana plants a pesticide composition comprising: a) at least one biologically inert carrier; and b) at least one ferrite selected from the group consisting of copper zinc iron oxide, copper iron oxide and zinc iron oxide and any combination thereof; and c) optionally at least one doped component comprising at least one fixed copper compound doped with at least one dopant compound selected from the group consisting of iron compounds, zinc compounds and combination thereof. | 6,209 |
9,732,671 | 1. A method comprising the steps of: extracting methane gas and carbon dioxide gas from a body of water to obtain extracted gases and degassed water; feeding the extracted gases as a fuel into an oxyfuel power generation system; generating power from the oxyfuel power generation system; expelling an exhaust from the oxyfuel power generation system, wherein the exhaust comprises carbon dioxide and water vapor; and replacing the degassed water into the body of water. | 17,798 |
9,679,762 | 1. A high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) device comprising: a heterojunction comprising a barrier layer formed on a channel layer; a plurality of intervening layers formed on a surface of the barrier layer opposite the channel layer in a non-gated region, wherein the plurality of intervening layers are non-insulative; a gate dielectric formed on the plurality of intervening layers in the non-gated region and the barrier layer in a gated region; and a gate electrode formed on the gate dielectric in the gated region, wherein the surface of the barrier layer is substantially planar in the gated region and the non-gated region, and the heterojunction has a first charge concentration in the non-gated region and a second charge concentration in the gated region, the plurality of intervening layers causing the first charge concentration to be greater than the second charge concentration. | 40,573 |
8,834,362 | 1. A speculum blade extension apparatus comprising: a body of semi-rigid, reusable material having a proximal end portion spaced from a closed distal end portion along a longitudinal axis, the body including a first wall separated from and coupled to a second wall to form a cavity, the cavity having an opening located at the proximal end portion of the body, the cavity having opposing lateral boundaries and a distal boundary such that a speculum blade inserted therein is limited from movement, the first wall coupled to the second wall along the lateral boundaries and the distal boundary to form a compound closed surface, the compound closed surface extending laterally beyond the opposing lateral boundaries of the cavity to form opposing lateral lips that extend at least 2.0 cm beyond the lateral boundaries of the cavity in opposing directions, such that the contact surface area of speculum blade is increased, the compound closed surface further extending longitudinally beyond the distal boundary of the cavity to form a distal lip that extends at least 2.0 cm beyond the distal boundary of the cavity, such that the contact surface area of speculum blade is increased, the opposing lateral lips decreasing in thickness uniformly creating tapered lateral edges, the distal lip decreasing in thickness uniformly creating a tapered distal edge. | 43,674 |
8,390,879 | 1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: an output engine having a photoconductor, a charger for charging the photoconductor, an exposure device for forming an electrostatic latent image by selectively exposing the charged photoconductor while scanning the charged photoconductor, and a developing device for feeding a developer to the electrostatic latent image for development; a controller for converting image data received from an external or other component to printing data consisting of continuous data in a main scanning direction of the exposure device and for inputting the converted data into the output engine so as to output an image; an effective resolution determinator for forming a plurality of patch patterns different in resolution by the output engine, checking by a sensor whether or not the patch patterns formed by the output engine are developed with developer, and determining that a resolution of the patch pattern with highest resolution recognizable by the sensor, is an effective resolution which can be outputted by the output engine; and a dot counter for counting number of continuous dots constituting an image equal to or longer than a length of one dot of the effective resolution in the printing data. | 37,834 |
8,563,636 | 1. An aqueous two-package type clear coating composition comprising: (A) an aqueous dispersion of a hydroxyl group- and acid group-containing acrylic resin having a hydroxyl value of 30 to 200 mg KOH/g, an acid value of 5 to 50 mg KOH/g, a weight average molecular weight of 5,000 to 20,000, and a glass transition temperature of −30 to +40° C. obtained by radical polymerization of 10 to 50 mass % of a secondary hydroxyl group-containing monomer (a) and 50 to 90 mass % of other unsaturated monomer (b), wherein the acrylic resin is obtained by solution polymerization, and the solution polymerization reaction is performed by a two stage polymerization method; and (B) a polyisocyanate curing agent obtained by mixing (c) a polyisocyanate compound and (d) a compound containing an anionic functional group, a polyoxyethylene group, and a hydrocarbon group. | 15,278 |
9,357,596 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a first node configured to be coupled to a power supply; a charge storage component coupled between a second node and a third node, wherein the charge storage component stores a charge during a charging operation and releases the stored charge during a power application operation; a first leg between the first node and second node, the first leg comprising a first switching device; a second leg between the first node and the third node, the second leg comprising a second switching device; a third leg between the second node and a fourth node, the third leg comprising a third switching device; a fourth leg between the third node and the fourth node, the fourth leg comprising a fourth switching device; a load comprising a light emitting diode, having an input node and an output node, and being located in a selected one of the second leg or third leg, wherein location of the load in the selected leg causes current from the selected leg to pass through the input node of the load, through the load, through the output node of the load, and back into the selected leg, whereby during the charging operation closing the first and fourth switching devices and opening the second and third switching devices cause the charge storage component to be charged via the first and fourth legs by the power supply, and during the power application operation closing the second and third switching devices and opening the first and fourth switching devices cause the load to be driven via a corresponding one of the second leg or third leg by the power supply and the charge storage component so that during the power application operation stored charge in the charge storage component stored during the charging operation is applied as a direct current voltage through the light emitting diode to generate a light output as a pulse of light having a duration and intensity dependent on the stored charge. | 10,638 |
8,595,738 | 1. A method comprising: determining, by a device, a current level of necessity associated with utilizing a resource; determining, by the device, a rate of change for the current level of necessity; and causing, by the device and based on the current level of necessity and the rate of change for the current level of necessity, an execution of a process, that utilizes the resource, at a first time or at a second time. | 47,563 |
8,817,940 | 1. A method of operating a nuclear plant having (a) a closed loop main power system comprising a pebble bed nuclear reactor, which reactor has a sphere outlet and a sphere inlet, an electrical generator, a turbine drivingly connected to the electrical generator, and a high pressure compressor and (b) a fuel handling and storage system for handling and storing fuel spheres and moderator spheres, which system comprises a network of pipes that defines a sphere flow path having a sphere inlet connected to the sphere outlet of the reactor and a sphere outlet connected to the sphere inlet of the reactor, the sphere flow path extending from the sphere outlet of the reactor to the sphere inlet of the reactor, which method includes: receiving heated coolant gas from the reactor; cooling the heated coolant gas to a temperature that is lower than the temperature inside the reactor which inhibits plate out of radio-nuclides in the fuel handling and storage system; introducing such cooled coolant gas from a position downstream of the high pressure compressor into the sphere flow path at a pressure sufficient that the pressure at the sphere inlet of the sphere flow path is higher than the pressure at the sphere outlet of the reactor and the pressure at the sphere outlet of the sphere flow path is higher than the pressure at the sphere inlet of the reactor, thereby to create a leak flow from the fuel handling and storage system to the reactor; and flowing the cooled coolant gas along the sphere flow path to convey spheres along the sphere flow path from the sphere outlet of the reactor to the sphere inlet of the reactor. | 30,144 |
9,604,755 | 1. A secondary battery assembly pallet for use with a cell stack, the cell stack including: a secondary battery, a plurality of end plates, a restraining member, and a convex end plate boss formed in a lower end surface of the plurality of end plates for positioning the cell stack, the secondary battery assembly pallet comprising: a pallet body configured to support the cell stack; a first row including a plurality of folding pins, or at least one folding pin and at least one fixed pin; a second row including a plurality of positioning, engagement members, the plurality of positioning engagement members being disposed on the pallet body, the plurality of positioning engagement members being configured to: (i) support the restraining member in order to position the cell stack on the secondary battery assembly pallet, and (ii) fold towards and away from the pallet body, each of the plurality of positioning engagement members having a receiving surface configured to receive the restraining member, the receiving surface of each of the plurality of positioning engagement members being a concave shape; and at least one boss positioning pin configured to support the convex end plate boss. | 34,077 |
9,575,501 | 1. A method of controlling frequency of a power system by a frequency control system including: plural apparatuses connected to the power system; and a frequency control apparatus which controls, via a communication network, electric power to be received and supplied by the plural apparatuses, and the method comprising: communicating with first apparatuses and second apparatuses, the first apparatuses being included in the plural apparatuses and n in number, the second apparatuses being included in the plural apparatuses, m in number, and different from the first apparatuses, n and m each being a natural number not less than 1; obtaining a frequency control command to keep frequency fluctuation of the power system within a predetermined range; obtaining information on electric power to be received or supplied by the m second apparatuses; determining first command values for controlling electric power to be received or supplied by the n first apparatuses, based on the frequency control command obtained in the obtaining of a frequency control command and the obtained information on electric power to be received or supplied by the m second apparatuses; and transmitting each of the n first command values determined in the determining to a corresponding one of the first apparatuses. | 3,175 |
9,271,703 | 1. An anesthesia device comprising: a syringe receiving chamber; a cannula joint; a thin resilient tubular member; a string member; a string retaining member; said syringe receiving chamber being rigid and cylindrical in shape said string retaining member located on the side wall of said syringe receiving chamber; said thin tubular member centrally and fixedly attached to one end of said syringe receiving chamber; said thin tubular member being closed at its distal end; said thin tubular member walls including a plurality of small apertures located near the distal end of said thin tubular member; said cannula joint fixedly attached at the proximal end of said thin tubular member and internal to said syringe receiving chamber; said thin tubular member including a pair of opposing tabs located at the distal end; said tabs each including an aperture for allowing said string member to pass through in a sliding fashion; and said string member ends capable of being held firmly in place by said string retaining member. | 35,624 |
8,705,528 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a subnet-scoped multicast packet on an interface of a forwarding device that is connected to a host device of a subnet of a forwarding domain; transmitting the received subnet-scoped multicast packet from one or more other interfaces of the forwarding device that are connected to one or more other host devices of the subnet; encapsulating, at the forwarding device, the received subnet-scoped multicast packet with an additional header, the additional header indicating a distribution tree; and forwarding the encapsulated subnet-scoped multicast packet from the forwarding device to an intermediate router which routes the encapsulated subnet scoped multicast packet to one or more other forwarding devices configured to decapsulate the encapsulated subnet-scoped multicast packet and transmit the decapsulated subnet-scoped multicast packet to one or more connected host devices of an additional portion of the subnet, wherein at least one of the forwarding device and the one or more other forwarding devices being members of the distribution tree. | 4,417 |
9,531,003 | 1. A sodium iron(II)-hexacyanoferrate(II) battery electrode, the battery electrode comprising: a current collector; sodium iron(II)-hexacyanoferrate(II) (Na | 28,314 |
8,673,803 | 1. A method for preparing an alkaline-earth metal compound-containing zeolite catalyst, comprising: a mixing-kneading step of adding polar solvent to a composition composed at least of a first component, a second component, and a third component, and kneading to form a mixture; a drying-calcination step of drying and calcining the mixture to form a composite material; and a steam treatment step of contacting the composite material obtained by the drying-calcination step with steam or a reaction atmosphere that generates steam; wherein the first component is composed of at least one of MFI-structure zeolites selected from a group consisting of proton-type zeolites and ammonium type zeolites, the second component is composed of calcium carbonate, the third component is composed of at least one compound selected from a group consisting of aluminum oxides, aluminum hydroxides, silicon oxides, silicon hydroxides, and clay minerals, the first component has a molar ratio of Si/Al of 10 or more and 300 or less, the content of the second component relative to the first component is 0.3 mass % or more and less than 10 mass % as alkaline-earth metal, the content of the third component relative to the first component is 15 mass % or more and 200 mass % or less, and the extent of steam treatment in the steam treatment step is 1.92 to 16.8 in A.U., said extent of steam treatment being defined by the product of steam partial pressure in MPa and a duration of the steam treatment in hours. | 49,617 |
8,415,938 | 1. A switching regulator with a pulse-width-modulation processing unit that determines a duty ratio of a pulse signal for a switching element depending on an output of the switching element, comprising: changing-over unit connected to the pulse-width-modulation processing unit and configured to set any one of a first code and a second code; asynchronous-modulation processing unit configured to operate when the changing-over unit sets the first code; and first and second pulse-position-modulation processing units configured to operate when the changing-over unit sets the second code, wherein the asynchronous-modulation processing unit sets a first operational cycle that is different from a reference cycle to set a first turn-off time for the pulse signal on the basis of the first operational cycle and the duty ratio determined by the pulse-width-modulation processing unit, wherein, when the duty ratio is 0% to 50%, both inclusive, the first pulse-position-modulation processing unit sets a second operational cycle that is the same as the reference cycle and a first shifting time for an on-period of the pulse signal to set a second turn-on time and a second turn-off time of the pulse signal on the basis of the operational cycle, the duty ratio, and the first shifting time, and wherein, when the duty ratio is 50% exclusive to 100% inclusive, the second pulse-position-modulation processing unit sets the second operational cycle that is the same as the reference cycle and a second shifting time for an off-period of the pulse signal to set a third turn-on time and a third turn-off time of the pulse signal on the basis of the operational cycle, the duty ratio, and the second shifting time. | 39,069 |
9,454,973 | 1. A method of generating a backward and forward compatible Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) packet, the method comprising: obtaining or generating an RTP payload comprising a first set of one or more data frames, said first set of data frames comprising a first media frame encoded according to a first codec, wherein said RTP payload further comprises a set of extension bits, wherein, at the time the obtaining or generating step is performed, each bit included in said set of extension bits is used solely for the purpose of extending an element included in the RTP payload so that the element consists of an integer number of octets, wherein the element is one of: a payload header, a table of contents (TOC), a data frame, and a set of data frames; and after the RTP payload is obtained or generated, further performing the steps of: modifying the RTP payload by adding to the RTP payload a second set of one or more data frames, said second set of data frames comprising a second media frame encoded according to a second codec that is different from said first codec, wherein after the modifying step is performed the RTP payload comprises both said first media frame and said second media frame, which second media frame is encoded according to the codec that is different than the codec according to which the first media frame is encoded; and utilizing one or more of said extension bits to provide an indication of the presence of said second set of data frames in the RTP payload. | 15,136 |
8,438,615 | 1. A method for setting up security of a controlled device in a home network including a control point and the controlled device, comprising the steps of: acquiring authority to perform a function intended by a user through authentication between the control point and the controlled device; creating a security channel for performing the function; and synchronizing a credential setting used by the user among controlled devices in the home network, wherein synchronizing the credential setting comprises: transitioning to an administration mode, upon discovery of a new controlled device in the home network; acquiring an administration authority over the new controlled device; determining whether there is at least one controlled device for which credentials are set, among controlled devices in the home network; acquiring a credential setting list from the at least one controlled device for which credentials are set; acquiring an access control list from the new controlled device, if there is the at least one controlled device for which credentials are set; changing the credential setting list and the access control list upon user request; transmitting the changed access control list to the new controlled device; and synchronizing a credential setting with the at least one controlled device for which credentials are set using the changed credential setting list. | 43,742 |
9,425,473 | 1. A fuel cell system having a fuel cell stack that generates electricity through an electrochemical reaction between a fuel gas including hydrogen gas and an oxidation gas, the fuel cell system comprising: a water-in-cell content adjusting device programmed to adjust, when a generated voltage of the fuel cell stack declines, a water-in-cell content of the fuel cell stack based on a characteristic curve of the water-in-cell content of the fuel cell stack and the cell pressure loss of the fuel cell stack, wherein the water-in-cell content adjusting device programmed to adjust the water-in-cell content of the fuel cell stack so that an average water-in-cell content of the fuel cell stack falls within a stable section in which the cell pressure loss varies moderately relative to a steep section with respect to the water-in-cell content on the characteristic curve. | 3,777 |
9,745,909 | 1. A method comprising: introducing radio-frequency signals into a resonant chamber including a catalyst; modulating an air-fuel ratio of an engine upstream of the catalyst to generate a sequence of uniform pulses and at least a first altered pulse that differs from the uniform pulses; and comparing a frequency response of two or more resonant modes of the radio-frequency signals during the sequence to determine an oxidation state of the catalyst. | 49,667 |
8,444,411 | 1. An incinerator for disposing of boil-off gas on an LNG carrier, which incinerator comprises a wall defining a combustion section extending from a proximal end to a distal end wherein the boil-off gas is burned in a stream of combustion air admitted into the combustion section at the proximal end of the combustion section, thereby forming combustion products, and wherein non-combustion dilution air is admitted into the combustion section between the proximal end and the distal end of the combustion section in a stream of non-combustion dilution air separate from the stream of combustion air and subsequently is mixed with the combustion products, wherein the incinerator is configured and arranged so that before being mixed with the combustion products said non-combustion dilution air is admitted into the combustion section separate from the combustion products for being passed along the combustion section between the wall the and the combustion products and contiguous with the combustion products for diluting and cooling the combustion products separating the combustion products from the wall to cool the wall. | 10,400 |
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