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9,276,616 | 1. An integrated circuit chip comprising: a first inductor; a second inductor having n a third inductor having n wherein the second and third inductors are coupled so as to cause current to circulate around the second inductor in a first rotational direction and around the third inductor in a second rotational direction opposite to the first rotational direction; and wherein n transmitter circuitry having a transmit signal path, wherein the second inductor and the third inductor are located on the transmit signal path; and a local oscillator configured to drive a frequency mixer on the transmit signal path, wherein the local oscillator comprises the first inductor, wherein the first, second and third inductors are configured to operate at a same frequency. | 17,437 |
9,531,748 | 1. A non-transitory, tangible, computer readable medium comprising one or more instructions that, when executed on a processor, configure the processor to perform operations comprising: monitoring, by a security system, file copy or create operations directed to a removable storage device to detect an attempt by a program on a first device to store a configuration file and an executable file on the removable storage device; and, in response to detecting the attempt, displaying, by the security system, an alert including at least a part of text in the configuration file, wherein the part of the text in the configuration file identifies that the executable file is to be executed via the configuration file. | 30,252 |
9,657,022 | 1. A compound wherein said compound is selected from: (2S,5R)-sulfuric acid mono-{2-[N′-(2-(S)-pyrrolidin-2-yl-acetyl)-hydrazinocarbonyl]-7-oxo-1,6-diaza-bicyclo[3.2.1]oct-6-yl}ester; (2S,5R)-sulfuric acid mono-{2-[N′-(2-azetidin-3-yl-acetyl)-hydrazinocarbonyl]-7-oxo-1,6-diaza-bicyclo[3.2.1]oct-6-yl}ester; (2S,5R)-sulfuric acid mono-{2-[N′-(2-(S)-piperidin-2-yl-acetyl)-hydrazinocarbonyl]-7-oxo-1,6-diaza-bicyclo[3.2.1]oct-6-yl}ester; (2S,5R)-sulfuric acid mono-{2-[N′-(2-(R)-piperidin-2-yl-acetyl)-hydrazinocarbonyl]-7-oxo-1,6-diaza-bicyclo[3.2.1]oct-6-yl}ester; (2S,5R)-sulfuric acid mono-{2-[N′-(2-(S)-piperidin-3-yl-acetyl)-hydrazinocarbonyl]-7-oxo-1,6-diaza-bicyclo[3.2.1]oct-6-yl}ester; (2S,5R)-sulfuric acid mono-{2-[N′-(2-(RS)-piperazin-2-yl-acetyl)-hydrazinocarbonyl]-7-oxo-1,6-diaza-bicyclo[3.2.1]oct-6-yl}ester; or a stereoisomer or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. | 37,052 |
9,169,013 | 1. A method comprising: operating an aerial vehicle to travel along a first closed path on a tether sphere while oriented in a crosswind-flight orientation, wherein a tether is connected to the aerial vehicle on a first end and is connected to a ground station on a second end, and wherein the tether sphere has a radius corresponding to a length of the tether; while the aerial vehicle is in the crosswind-flight orientation, operating the aerial vehicle to travel along a second closed path on the tether sphere, such that a speed of the aerial vehicle is reduced; and transitioning the aerial vehicle from traveling along the second closed path while in the crosswind-flight orientation to a hover-flight orientation. | 15,439 |
8,471,361 | 1. A circuit component comprising: an organic substrate; a die over said organic substrate, wherein said die comprises multiple active devices; a polymer layer over said organic substrate and in contact with at least one sidewall of said die; a glass substrate over said polymer layer, said die and said organic substrate, where a first opening in said glass substrate passes vertically through said glass substrate; a circuit device over said glass substrate; and a first interconnecting structure comprising a first portion in said first opening and a second portion over said glass substrate, wherein said second portion is connected to said die through said first portion. | 30,827 |
8,720,133 | 1. A stair system for an autoclaved aerated concrete structure comprising: a plurality of cementitious steps; each of said steps having two spaced ends; said ends having a top and a bottom edge; a pair of spaced side edges interconnecting said top and said bottom edges; a slot formed in each of said ends and extending angularly from said top edge to said bottom edge; a pair of elongated continuous support brackets secured to said structure; said support brackets being disposed parallel to and spaced from the pitch line of said steps; the angle of said slots being less than 90° and greater than 0° with respect to the horizontal plane and the vertical plane; said steps slidably disposed on said support brackets; and said support brackets disposed respectively in said slots. | 27,743 |
9,060,605 | 1. A drawer comprising: a front panel; a drawer side wall; an attachment element arranged at least partially over said drawer side wall; a fitment body separate from said drawer side wall for fixing said attachment element to said front panel, said fitment body having: a rear wall and a fixing device arranged at a rear end of said attachment element for fixing said attachment element to said rear wall; wherein said attachment element is configured to be introduced into said recess of said fitment body after mounting of said fitment body to said front panel; wherein said attachment element and said fitment body are configured to allow said attachment element to pivot about a notional axis extending in a height-wise direction of said front panel while being loosely received and removably held in said recess of said fitment body; wherein said fitment body has a fixing portion having said fixing location and a receiving portion having said recess, said fixing portion configured to be releasably connected to said receiving portion; wherein said fixing device has a main body with a grip element to be actuated manually, said grip element being configured to fix said attachment element in a locking relationship to said rear wall in an arresting position, and said grip element being configured to release said attachment element from said rear wall in a release position; and wherein said main body has an insertion opening for receiving said rear end of said attachment element. | 38,010 |
8,661,828 | 1. A turbomachine comprising: an annular combustion chamber; a sectorized turbine nozzle comprising a plurality of nozzle sectors which are circumferentially arranged end to end, the sectorized turbine nozzle being disposed at an outlet from the chamber; and sealing means interposed axially between the chamber and the sectorized turbine nozzle, wherein the sealing means comprises an annular gasket that is axially resilient, the gasket including a first axial bearing means for axially bearing against a downstream end of the chamber and a downstream annular lip that is sectorized into a plurality of sectors such that adjacent sectors of the downstream lip are structurally separated from each other, each sector of the downstream lip being in alignment with a nozzle sector of the sectorized turbine nozzle and including a second axial bearing means for axially bearing against an upstream end of the nozzle sector of the sectorized turbine nozzle. | 9,766 |
9,115,652 | 1. A variable valve lift system comprising: a housing including a control port and a drain port; a first seat disposed within the housing including a first penetration hole and forming a first chamber with the housing; a second seat disposed within the housing including a second penetration hole and forming a second chamber with the housing that fluidly communicates with the control port, the second seat also forming a third chamber with the housing communicating with the drain port; a first check valve disposed within the first chamber for selectively closing the first penetration hole; a second check valve disposed within the third chamber for selectively closing the second penetration hole, the second check valve including a third penetration hole; a control portion which selectively opens the first check valve and simultaneously closes the second check valve or selectively closes the first check valve and simultaneously opens the second check valve; an orifice connecting the first chamber with the second chamber; and a variable valve lift apparatus communicate with the control port by an oil line, wherein the control portion comprises: | 48,665 |
8,658,055 | 1. A solid-state hydrogen fuel with a polymer matrix, comprising: a polymer matrix; and a crushed mixture of a solid-state chemical hydride and a solid-state catalyst uniformly dispersed in the polymer matrix, wherein the polymer matrix comprises a hydrophobic polymeric elastomer comprising silicone rubber, wherein the solid-state catalyst is metal ions chelated by ion-exchange resins, wherein the solid-state hydrogen fuel is activatable to a steady state reaction with liquid water. | 3,908 |
9,167,634 | 1. A method for monitoring and controlling the performance of a bottom electrode structure and a deflection angle of an electric arc in an electric steel making furnace, the steps comprising: providing an organized matrix of electrically discrete elongated anode pins and refractory material means interspersed among the anode pins for maintaining the anode pins electrically discrete, the anode pins having exposed ends disposed within the refractory material means and extending in the direction of elongated length toward an electrically conductive plate secured to distal end portions of the elongated anode pins; sensing the temperature with a sensing device of at least two spaced apart locations along each one of the distributed select group of the elongated anode pins for providing corresponding electrical signals; providing in the bottom electrode structure an air cooling duct formed between a base refractory plate assembly and the electrically conductive plate, and wherein each one of the elongated anode pins of the distributed select group of the elongated anode pins is fitted with a sensing device with a first temperature sensor located within each elongated anode pin near its one exposed end extending into the refractory material means of the electric arc furnace and a second temperature sensor located near the bottom of each elongated anode pin within the air cooling duct of the electric arc furnace; sensing the electrical current flowing through each elongated anode pins of the distributed groups of select elongated anode pins for providing a corresponding electrical signal; providing a controller responsive to the electrical signals derived at each of the electrode anode pins of the distributed select group of the elongated anode pins of this organized matrix of elongated anode pins; providing a power supply responsive to the controller for providing process power through the bottom electrode structure and to the electric arc according to measured electrical operating parameters of electrical arc furnace; displaying an electrical performance monitored by the controller of the organized matrix of elongated anode pins for heating by the electric arc in the electric steel making furnace; wherein said sensing the temperature with the sensing device including a protective sheath containing an insulating material for providing electrical isolation so as to mitigate potential over voltage damage to the sensing device; and wherein the sensing device is located within the protective sheath and is held in contact with the anode pin by a biasing device, and wherein the sensing device also includes a spring acting axially along the protective sheath, and wherein the biasing includes a ball and spring plunger assembly. | 17,274 |
9,705,432 | 1. A pivot mount comprising: a pivot platform; a base; a primary spring arm fixed to the pivot platform at a primary inner root, fixed to the base at a primary outer root, and characterized by a corresponding primary axis length spanning between the primary outer root and primary inner root; and a secondary spring arm fixed to the pivot platform at a secondary inner root, fixed to the base at a secondary outer root, and characterized by a secondary axis length spanning between the secondary outer root and secondary inner root; and a strain sensing element along the secondary spring arm; wherein the secondary spring arm is characterized as having a lower stiffness than the primary spring arm. | 17,634 |
8,744,456 | 1. A wireless communication method for communicating between a base station and a plurality of terminals using M channels, comprising transmitting, by the base station, a notification indicating N (N is integer, N<M) channels to be allocated to each terminal; receiving, by each terminal, the notification; judging, among the M channels, whether each of the N channels is to be monitored or not on the basis of notification; starting, by each terminal, monitoring states of the N channels to be monitored on the basis of the step of judging; transmitting, by each terminal, to the base station, channel information related only the monitored N channels and not transmitting, by each terminal to the base station, channel information related to channels other than the monitored N channels; receiving, by the base station, a schedule of data packets to be transmitted, on the basis of the channel information transmittal from the terminals; and executing, by the base station, the schedule of data packets to be transmitted to the terminals, on the basis of the channel information. | 44,679 |
8,994,794 | 1. An imaging apparatus comprising: a photographing optical system; an image pickup device having a plurality of light-receiving elements two-dimensionally arranged, the image pickup device including a first light-receiving element and a second light-receiving element other than the first light-receiving element; a first light-shielding member having a predetermined width and formed in a predetermined optical member included in the photographing optical system, the first light-shielding member dividing an entire pupil region of the photographing optical system into a first region and a second region; a second light-shielding member provided near the image pickup device, the second light-shielding member configured to make only a light beam passing through the first region enter the first light-receiving element and configured to make only a light beam passing through the second region enter the second light-receiving element; and an image generating device configured to generate a first image from an imaging signal of the first light-receiving element and configured to generate a second image from an imaging signal of the second light-receiving element. | 47,473 |
8,530,551 | 1. A battery box comprising a composition consisting of A) 77.0 to 85.0 parts by weight, relative to the sum of parts by weight of components A+B+C, of linear or branched aromatic polycarbonate or aromatic polyester carbonate, B) 9.0 to 11.0 parts by weight, relative to the sum of parts by weight of components A+B+C, of at least one graft polymer with C) 4.0 to 11.0 parts by weight, relative to the sum of parts by weight of components A+B+C, of one or more phosphorus compound according to formula (VII), in which R n independently denotes 0 or 1, a independently denotes 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4, q denotes 0 to 30 R Y denotes C D) 0.1 to 0.6 parts by weight, relative to the sum of parts by weight of components A+B+C, of one or more antidripping agents, and F) 0.2 to 5.0 parts by weight, relative to the sum of parts by weight of components A+B+C, of at least one additive selected from the group consisting of lubricants and release agents, nucleating agents, antistatics, stabilisers, dyes, pigments, fillers, reinforcing agents, and extremely fine-particle inorganic compounds, wherein the extremely fine-particle inorganic compounds have an average particle diameter of less than or equal to 200 nm, wherein the composition is free from thermoplastic vinyl (co)polymer (E.1) and polyalkylene terephthalate (E.2), and is optionally free from rubber-free polyalkyl(alkyl)acrylate, and wherein all stated parts by weight are standardised such that the sum of parts by weight of components A+B+C in the composition is 100. | 10,366 |
8,514,910 | 1. A receiver for signal processing in a mobile station, comprising: a front-end processor for receiving a signal; a searcher coupled to the front-end processor for detecting one or more signal paths in the signal; a selection module for selecting at least one of the one or more signal paths and selecting at least one of a plurality of available sectors for use in interference cancellation or equalization; a symbol estimator coupled to the selection module for generating one or more symbol estimates from at least one of the one or more signal paths; and a receiver module coupled to the symbol estimator for generating a substantially interference cancelled signal; wherein each of the at least one of the plurality of available sectors continues to be used for symbol estimation unless at least one of an override threshold and a time of override is satisfied. | 47,148 |
8,930,743 | 1. A computer hardware-implemented method of preventing a cascading failure in a complex stream computer system, wherein a cascading failure results in an untrustworthy output from the complex stream computer system, and wherein the computer hardware-implemented method comprises: receiving a first set of binary data that identifies multiple subcomponents in a complex stream computer system, wherein the identified multiple subcomponents comprise multiple upstream subcomponents and a downstream subcomponent; receiving a second set of binary data that identifies multiple outputs generated by the multiple upstream subcomponents; receiving a third set of binary data that identifies multiple inputs to the downstream subcomponent, wherein the identified multiple inputs to the downstream subcomponent are the identified multiple outputs generated by the multiple upstream subcomponents, and wherein the identified multiple inputs are inputs to a downstream computational process that is executed by the downstream subcomponent; generating, by computer hardware, accuracy values by assigning an accuracy value to each of the identified multiple outputs, wherein the accuracy value describes a confidence level of an accuracy of each of the identified multiple outputs, and wherein each of the identified multiple outputs are created by a separate upstream computational process in separate upstream subcomponents from the multiple upstream subcomponents; generating, by the computer hardware, weighting values by assigning a weighting value to each of the identified multiple inputs to the downstream subcomponent, wherein the weighting value describes a criticality level of each of the identified multiple inputs when executing the downstream computational process in the downstream subcomponent; and utilizing, by the computer hardware, the accuracy values and the weighting values to dynamically adjust which of the identified multiple inputs are used by the downstream subcomponent until an output from the downstream subcomponent meets a predefined trustworthiness level. | 35,914 |
9,093,585 | 1. An encapsulation composition comprising an ethylene-alpha olefin copolymer which satisfies the following General Formula 1; and a silane-modified ethylene-alpha olefin copolymer, wherein the ethylene-alpha olefin copolymer satisfying the following General Formula 1 has a melt flow index (MI) of 0.2 to 50 g/10 min, wherein the silane-modified ethylene-alpha olefin copolymer is contained in an amount of 10 to 900 parts by weight, based on 100 parts by weight of the ethylene-alpha olefin copolymer satisfying General Formula 1: wherein Re represents kee/kec, and Re represents kcc/kce, where kee represents a growth reaction rate constant when ethylene is added to a growing chain in which a terminal activating point is an ethylene monomer, kec represents a growth reaction rate constant when an alpha olefin comonomer is added to a growing chain in which a terminal activating point is an ethylene monomer, kcc represents a growth reaction rate constant when an alpha olefin comonomer is added to a growing chain in which a terminal activating point is an alpha olefin comonomer, and kce represents a growth reaction rate constant when an ethylene monomer is added to a growing chain in which a terminal activating point is an alpha olefin comonomer. | 46,753 |
9,602,011 | 1. A system, comprising: a switching stage that includes a first plurality of switches configured to produce an alternating current from a bulk voltage; a transformer having a primary and a plurality of secondaries, the primary configured to receive the alternating current; a second plurality of switches coupled to a first of the plurality of secondaries through a first resonant filter to provide a first voltage output; a third plurality of switches coupled to a second of the plurality of secondaries through a second resonant filter to provide a second voltage output, the second voltage output being of opposite polarity to the first voltage output; and a controller configured to control the second plurality of switches and the third plurality of switches according to on-and-off state of the first plurality of switches and criteria including whether an absolute value of the first voltage output or the second voltage output exceeds a reference voltage. | 6,446 |
8,789,393 | 1. A method of manufacturing an optical fiber from an optical fiber perform that includes a core region and a cladding layer surrounding the core region comprising: forming a porous layer by depositing a particle of a silica-based glass around a core rod made of a silica-based glass having the core region in a shape of a rod; dehydrating the porous layer under at least one condition of a decreased pressure, an ambient atmosphere with an inert gas and a halogen gas, and an ambient atmosphere with an inert gas and a halogen-based compound gas; sintering the dehydrated porous layer under a pressure equal to or lower than 2000 Pascals until the dehydrated porous layer becomes a glass layer containing a closed pore, the sintering being performed such that an average density of the porous layer becomes equal to or greater than 1.8 grams per cubic centimeter and less than 2.2 grams per cubic centimeter; placing a portion of the glass layer in a heating furnace; vitrifying only a leading edge of the glass layer and a portion of the glass layer extending in a longitudinal direction of the core rod on a side of starting a drawing, by heating the leading edge and the portion to form the optical fiber preform; removing the optical fiber preform in which only the leading edge and the portion have been vitrified from the heating furnace; inserting the optical fiber preform into a drawing furnace; and drawing the optical fiber preform. | 1,542 |
9,717,978 | 1. An electric vehicle, comprising: a board including first and second deck portions each configured to receive a left or right foot of a rider oriented generally perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the board; a wheel assembly including a ground-contacting element disposed between and extending above the first and second deck portions; a motor assembly mounted to the board and configured to rotate the ground-contacting element around an axle to propel the electric vehicle; at least one orientation sensor configured to measure orientation information of the board; a sensing region disposed within one of the deck portions and including two pressure-sensing transducers laterally spaced from each other, such that a first of the two pressure-sensing transducers registers with a first portion of the foot of the rider and a second of the two pressure-sensing transducers registers with a second portion of the same foot of the rider; and a motor controller configured to receive board orientation information measured by the orientation sensor and rider presence information based on outputs of the two pressure-sensing transducers, and to cause the motor assembly to propel the electric vehicle based on the board orientation information and the rider presence information; wherein the motor controller is further configured to halt the motor assembly in response to activation of exactly zero of the two pressure-sensing transducers. | 42,394 |
9,003,657 | 1. A manufacturing method comprising: providing a substrate with an outer surface and at least one interior space; machining the substrate to selectively remove a portion of the substrate and define one or more cooling supply holes therein, each of the one or more cooling supply holes in fluid communication with the at least one interior space; disposing an open cell porous metallic layer on at least a portion of the substrate, the open cell porous metallic layer in fluid communication with the one or more cooling supply holes; and disposing a coating layer on the open cell porous metallic layer, the coating layer having formed therein one or more cooling exit holes in fluid communication with the open cell porous metallic layer, wherein the substrate, the one or more cooling supply holes, the open cell porous metallic layer and the cooling exit holes provide a cooling network for a component. | 13,995 |
9,684,217 | 1. A method for manufacturing an array substrate comprising: step step step step wherein the insulation region surrounds the source-drain electrode pattern. | 11,663 |
9,659,029 | 1. A method for a file system to classify files in a mounted storage in a storage format in which the files are each divided into metadata and a file main body and are recorded in association with each other, and in which a new file is merely written, and an already written file is not updated or deleted, the method comprising: making a first determination whether a file present in the mounted storage has already been present in the storage when the storage is mounted; classifying, responsive to the first determination being affirmative, using a processor and a memory, the file as belonging to a first group as a Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) file; rejecting, responsive to the file belonging to the first group, at least one of an update and a deletion of the file; classifying, responsive to the first determination being negative, when the file is written after the mounting, the file as belonging to a second group as a Read/Write (R/W) file; permitting, responsive to the file belonging to the second group, at least one of the update and the deletion of the file; making a second determination, when the mounted storage is accessed for a write operation from outside a data processing system where the storage is mounted, that an access target belongs to the first group, the access target including the file; rejecting by the file system, responsive to the second determination, at least one of the update and the deletion of the file; making a third determination, when the mounted storage is accessed from outside the data processing system, that an access target belongs to the second group, the access target including the file; and permitting by the file system, responsive to the third determination, at least one of the update and the deletion of the file. | 28,156 |
8,755,273 | 1. A scheduling method in a multi-user communication system, said method assigning to each packet of a user a transmission resource from a plurality of transmission resources during a transmission time interval in order to transmit said packet over a link, the method comprising: (a) categorizing the packets from different users into urgent packets and non-urgent packets; (b) assigning to urgent packets transmission resources providing a highest link quality; (c) assigning to non-urgent packets the remaining transmission resources by assigning to each non-urgent packet a remaining transmission resource ensuring a highest link quality out of the remaining transmission resources after the urgent packets are already assigned transmission resources; and (d) transmitting each non-urgent packet using the thus assigned transmission resource and with a transmission power lower than that which would be necessary to transmit it with a maximum spectral efficiency, in view of a quality of service required on the link, the method further comprising, for each non-urgent packet, determining the modulation and coding scheme (MCS | 26,670 |
9,232,807 | 1. A dairy-based comestible having high levels of lactose in moisture and a smooth texture, the dairy-based comestible comprising: a dairy protein component providing dairy protein and lactose to the dairy-based comestible; about 14 to about 22 percent lactose by total weight of the dairy-based comestible; about 10 to about 65 percent moisture by total weight of the dairy-based comestible; and a lactose-in-moisture phase of about 30 to about 50 percent calculated as the weight percent of the lactose divided by the sum of the weight percent of the lactose plus the weight percent of the moisture, the lactose-in-moisture phase including lactose crystals; wherein the lactose crystals have an average size of about 100 microns or below within the moisture phase to provide a smooth texture to the dairy-based comestible; and wherein the dairy-based comestible is substantially free of added lactose seed crystals. | 25,546 |
9,154,088 | 1. A method of selecting a mode for an SPS receiver, the method comprising: selecting either a first mode or a second mode for the SPS receiver based on a comparison between an output power of a communications transceiver and at least one mode switch point wherein the at least one mode switch point is a power value; transitioning from selecting the first mode for the SPS receiver to selecting the second mode for the SPS receiver based on the output power of the communications transceiver rising above a first mode switch point; and transitioning from selecting the second mode for the SPS receiver to selecting the first mode for the SPS receiver based on the output power dropping below a second mode switch point, the second mode switch point being lower than the first mode switch point, wherein the first mode corresponds to a first bias current value of the SPS receiver, the second mode corresponds to a second bias current value of the SPS receiver, and the first bias current value is different from the second bias current value. | 39,041 |
9,078,860 | 1. A human vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A) receptor antagonist comprising a substitution at an isoleucine residue corresponding to I83 in SEQ ID NO:4 or SEQ ID NO:13, wherein the substitution is a lysine, arginine or histidine, and the substitution results in a decrease in bioactivity as compared to wild-type VEGF. | 26,021 |
8,699,414 | 1. A method of operating a wireless communication device comprising: in a user interface, receiving a first user instruction to execute a first application requiring first wireless communications; in a processing system, selecting a first wireless protocol for the first wireless communications based on the first application and responsive to the first user instruction; in a transceiver, exchanging the first wireless communications with a first wireless communication access node for the first application using the first wireless protocol responsive to the application-based selection of the first wireless protocol; in the transceiver, monitoring a first paging channel of the first wireless protocol responsive to the application-based selection of the first wireless protocol; in a paging receiver, monitoring a second paging channel of a second wireless protocol responsive to the application-based selection of the first wireless protocol. | 28,570 |
8,502,323 | 1. A field-effect transistor, comprising: a first gate having a first connection to a variable voltage source; a second gate having a second connection to a fixed voltage source and held at a substantially fixed potential in a cascode configuration; and a semiconductor channel having | 24,930 |
9,453,313 | 1. A system for recycling water derived from ice from an ice rink, the system comprising: a snow tank for receiving ice shavings removed from said ice rink by an ice resurfacing machine; a snow tank heating subsystem for heating said ice shavings to thereby melt said ice shavings and produce water; a main water tank for receiving and storing the water produced from the melted ice shavings; a water tank heating subsystem for heating the stored water in said main water tank to produce heated water; a conduit system for routing heated water from said main water tank for use in resurfacing said ice rink; wherein said system is located on said ice resurfacing machine. | 48,822 |
9,326,120 | 1. A communication apparatus comprising: a short-range wireless communication unit that performs short-range wireless communication with an external communication device; an acceleration sensor that detects an acceleration by a movement of a chassis; and a control unit that: | 6,350 |
9,668,425 | 1. A combine harvester comprising: a frame; a threshing apparatus; a grain cleaning system; and, a feederhouse pivotally mounted to the frame on a transverse lift axis so as to move between a lowered position and a raised position; | 14,013 |
9,756,704 | 1. An automatic light control switch comprising: a housing configured to receive an optical fiber; a built-in light sensor located in the housing and configured to directly detect light through the housing; an external light sensor located in the housing and shielded from light, the external light sensor being configured to be coupled to the optical fiber and to detect light transmitted by the optical fiber; and a drive controller configured to: | 47,368 |
8,855,875 | 1. A method for controlling a prime mover adapted to drive at least one ground engaging element of a working machine, comprising the steps of receiving an operator control input indicative of the control of the prime mover, determining at least one operation signal in response to the operator control input, which operation signal is sent for controlling the prime mover, receiving an operating state input indicative of an operating state of the working machine, and selecting a control mode in response to the operating state input, from at least one speed control mode, in which mode the determined operational signal comprises a desired speed of the prime mover, and at least one torque control mode, in which mode the determined operational signal comprises a desired torque of the prime mover, shifting the control mode from the torque control mode to the speed control mode when the machine switches to a reverse gear operating state. | 24,079 |
9,665,559 | 1. A method of checking electronic text document files containing descriptions of products and/or services on a computing system comprising: defining a plurality of separate target audiences for the electronic text document files using the computing system; wherein said plurality of separate target audiences are associated with a plurality of separate associated undesirable content vocabularies; receiving a plurality of electronic text document files designated to be communicated to said plurality of separate target audiences including a plurality of identified intended recipients; wherein at least two of said plurality of intended recipients are from different ones of said plurality of separate target audiences; providing at least one first electronic filter containing a first set of words corresponding to a first one of said separate associated undesirable content vocabularies for a first target audience; providing at least one second electronic filter containing a second set of words corresponding to a second one of said separate associated undesirable content vocabularies for a second target audience; wherein said first set of words and said second set of words are designated as offensive and/or inappropriate for communication with a corresponding designated first or second target audience respectively for the products and/or services; checking said plurality of electronic text document files for inappropriate content concerning the products and/or services with the computing system using said first and/or second electronic filter prior to initially distributing said plurality of electronic text document files to any designated identified intended recipients; wherein said first and second electronic filters can be invoked selectively by an operator of the computing system on a document-by-document basis, such that a first content in a first electronic text document file is not processed with said electronic filters, and a second content in a second electronic text document file is processed based on both said first electronic filter and said second electronic filters; controlling distribution of said plurality of electronic text document files to corresponding designated target audiences and said plurality of identified intended recipients with the computing system based on checking content with said electronic filters. | 29,124 |
9,121,295 | 1. A multilayer coating comprising: a metal sublayer positioned on a superalloy metal substrate; a ceramic layer comprising zirconia stabilized with yttrium covering the metal sublayer and having a column structure defining pores; a protective layer comprising an oxide, wherein the protective layer is a continuous film that covers the ceramic layer; and an anchoring sublayer comprising zirconia, positioned between the ceramic layer and the protective layer and further disposed in at least one portion of the pores of the ceramic layer, wherein the anchoring sublayer is obtained from a sol, and wherein a size of grains of the protective layer is larger than a size of grains of the anchoring sublayer. | 40,786 |
8,691,386 | 1. A bonded body of a carbon thin film covered article and a vulcanized rubber, wherein the bonded body is obtained by bonding a carbon thin film covered article having a carbon thin film formed on a surface of an article to an unvulcanized rubber by affixing and vulcanizing, wherein the vulcanized rubber and the carbon thin film are cross-linked as a result of the vulcanizing. | 16,104 |
9,843,347 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by at least one computing device, interference data from a plurality of interference sources; generating, based on the received interference data, an interference pattern; determining a change in the interference pattern; determining, based on the change in the interference pattern and a respective interference source type of each of the plurality of interference sources, an interference source of the plurality of interference sources that contributes to the change in the interference pattern; and causing adjustment of at least one characteristic of one or more of the plurality of interference sources to mitigate interference associated with the interference source that contributes to the change in the interference pattern. | 16,974 |
9,475,029 | 1. A reactor comprising: a substantially fluid tight tank comprising an interior and an exterior; a heat transfer media positioned within said tank; at least one reaction line positioned within said tank, wherein said reaction line is in thermal communication with said heat transfer media and wherein said reaction line is in fluid communication with said exterior of said tank; at least one heater in thermal communication with said heat transfer media; at least one pump configured to drive reactant fluids through said at least one reaction line; at least one shell positioned within said tank and substantially surrounded by said heat transfer media; a packing material positioned within said at least one shell; and wherein said at least one reaction line is positioned within said at least one shell and wherein said at least one reaction line is substantially surrounded by said packing material. | 14,667 |
8,381,717 | 1. A system for solar heating water, said system comprising: a. a housing including a dual paned window having an inner pane separated from an outer pane by an air gap of approximately 1 to 2 inches thick; b. a uniformly pigmented glass absorber within said housing, said glass absorber containing at least one metal oxide pigment, and including a plurality of cells each having a texturized upper surface and forming an approximately 1 inch space between said inner pane and said upper surface; c. at least one inlet in fluid communication with said glass absorber; and d. at least one outlet in fluid communication with said glass absorber. | 24,435 |
8,919,310 | 1. A valve open/close timing control device comprising: a drive-side rotating body which is rotatable synchronously with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine; a driven-side rotating body which is arranged coaxially with the drive-side rotating body and in a rotatable manner relative to the drive-side rotating body, and is integrally rotatable with a camshaft for opening or closing a valve of the internal combustion engine; a fluid pressure chamber which is formed on either one of the drive-side rotating body and the driven-side rotating body; a partition portion mounted on the other of the drive-side rotating body and the driven-side rotating body so as to partition the fluid pressure chamber into an advanced angle chamber and a retarded angle chamber; a fluid control valve part which controls the supply and the discharge of a fluid to and from the advanced angle chamber or the retarded angle chamber; a first locking mechanism which restrains a relative rotational phase of the driven-side rotating body relative to the drive-side rotating body at a first predetermined phase between a most retarded angle phase and a most advanced angle phase; and a second locking mechanism which restrains the relative rotational phase at a second predetermined phase on a more retarded angle side than the first predetermined phase, wherein the relative rotational phase is changed to the first predetermined phase when a shift lever position is changed to a parking range. | 13,239 |
9,742,624 | 1. A computer-implemented method associated with processing log messages from a plurality of handlers that are distributed among a plurality of hosts in an application cluster, the method comprising: by one or more handlers of the plurality of handlers: periodically transmitting to a logging appliance that includes at least a processor, the first set of log messages collected at the coarse granularity level from one or more of the plurality of handlers; analyzing the first set of log messages having the coarse granularity level to determine whether an error has been encountered; in response to detecting the error in the first set of log messages: | 20,494 |
8,684,344 | 1. A combination of a vacuum device with a bundle of lids for plastic cups disposed vertically within a chamber of said vacuum device, each lid being covered by a plastic film, said chamber comprising at the bottom a mold the shape of said lid and the first bottom lid of said bundle being positioned concavely over said mold, said chamber comprising means of extracting air therefrom destined to stick each said plastic film over a corresponding lid, said lid covered by said plastic film being thereby protecting from germ and bacteria; said vacuum device comprising: a vacuum machine ( said chamber ( | 18,738 |
9,268,328 | 1. A production efficiency improving apparatus in a production processing system including a production execution control apparatus, a plurality of processing apparatuses, and a conveyance system having a plurality of conveyance apparatuses and a conveyance control apparatus configured to control the plurality of conveyance apparatuses, comprising: a first communication unit configured to communicate information with the plurality of processing apparatuses each of which is configured to process one or more workpieces; a second communication unit configured to communicate control information regarding a control of each of the plurality of conveyance apparatuses with the conveyance system, each of the conveyance apparatuses being configured to convey one or more workpieces to one or more of the plurality of processing apparatuses; a conveyance time estimation unit configured to estimate, based on the information communicated by the first communication unit, a conveyance time when a processing apparatus of the plurality of processing apparatuses requires the conveyance of a workpiece; and a generation unit configured to generate control information for the conveyance system such that one or more of the plurality of conveyance apparatuses arrive at one or more of the plurality of processing apparatuses at the conveyance time estimated by the conveyance time estimation unit, wherein the production efficiency improving apparatus is separately provided from the conveyance control apparatus and the production execution control apparatus. | 28,024 |
9,372,589 | 1. A method comprising: maintaining a plurality of nodes in a social networking system, where the plurality of nodes represent a plurality of entities and concepts in the social networking system; maintaining, in the social networking system, a plurality of sub-nodes of the plurality of nodes; generating a plurality of associations between the plurality of sub-nodes and the plurality of nodes, comprising: receiving, from a user device associated with a viewing user of the social networking system, information identifying a particular sub-node of the plurality of sub-nodes; retrieving one or more particular nodes of the plurality of nodes associated with the particular sub-node related to the received information identifying the particular sub-node; determining, based on the plurality of associations, which of a plurality of users is connected to the viewing user in the social networking system; determining a number of interactions between the users connected to the viewing user and the particular sub-node; providing a suggestion for display on the user device to the viewing user, the suggestion including the one or more particular nodes associated with the particular sub-node with the highest determined number of interactions between the users connected to the viewing user and the associated particular sub-node. | 32,969 |
8,934,943 | 1. A method of controlling a mobile terminal, the method comprising: displaying a list of a plurality of items on a display area of a touchscreen of the mobile terminal, wherein a first item of the plurality of items is displayed in a middle of the list horizontally such that a cover of the first item can be displayed on the list horizontally, and other items of the plurality of items are displayed in a left and right of the middle of the list at an angle such that a portion of a cover of each item can be displayed on the list; and displaying a second item in a middle of the list horizontally such that a cover of the second item can be displayed on the list horizontally in response to a first touching operation for scrolling of the list; wherein the first item is moved to a direction related to the first touching operation and is displayed at an angle such that a portion of the cover of the first item can be displayed on the list, and wherein the first item is displayed with an enlarged size when it is displayed in the middle of the list compared to a size of the first item when it is not displayed in the middle of the list. | 22,303 |
9,515,427 | 1. A cable connector assembly comprising: a cable including a plurality of wires; and an electrical connector electrically connected with the cable, the electrical connector including a mating member, a printed circuit board (PCB) electrically connected with the mating member, a light emitting element mounted on the PCB, a light pipe to pass the light emitted by the light emitting element therethrough, a metal shell enclosing the PCB, and an outer case covering the metal shell, the light pipe mounted to the PCB; wherein the light pipe defines a first step portion and a second step portion on a bottom side of the first step portion, the first step portion defines a first surface exposing to a light-transmissive region of the outer case, the second step portion defines a second surface, and the metal shell bears against the second surface to press the light pipe against the PCB. | 29,804 |
9,617,479 | 1. A method for processing a biocomponent feedstock, comprising: exposing a feedstock, the feedstock comprising at least 40 wt % of a biocomponent feed containing triglycerides, to a first catalyst in the presence of hydrogen and at least 300 vppm of CO under first effective deoxygenation conditions for forming an at least partially deoxygenated effluent, the first catalyst comprising a Group VI metal and a Group VIII non-noble metal, the at least partially deoxygenated effluent having an oxygen content that is at least 40% less than an oxygen content of the feedstock; separating the at least partially deoxygenated effluent to form a gas phase effluent comprising propylene and a liquid phase effluent; and separating at least a portion of the propylene from the gas phase effluent. | 44,210 |
9,746,839 | 1. A method using a controller to control a responsive load coupled in operation to an electric power supply network having a nominal grid frequency (f 0 ), the responsive load being adapted to deliver a responsive load service by varying its power consumption with respect to a function of grid frequency (f n ) of the electric power supply network, the method comprising: (a) arranging for the responsive load to be triggered to provide responsive load service when the grid frequency (f (b) while the responsive load is not triggered to provide responsive load service, the grid frequency (f (c) when the responsive load is triggered by the trigger frequency (g) being closer to the nominal frequency f (d) when the responsive load is triggered by the trigger frequency (g) being closer to the nominal frequency f (e) when triggering of the responsive load ends, namely after a first temporal step when the grid frequency (f | 28,411 |
9,074,200 | 1. A method for recycling an enzyme, comprising: step A: adding a first substrate and a cellulosic substrate to an enzyme having a module that is combinable with cellulose to obtain and obtaining an enzyme reaction liquid that contains an enzyme combination formed by combining the enzyme with the cellulosic substrate; step B: separating the enzyme combination from the enzyme reaction liquid; step C: adding a substrate, a cellulosic substrate or both of the substrate and the cellulosic substrate to the enzyme combination; and repeating the steps B and C using the enzyme combination in an enzyme reaction, wherein the module is a carbohydrate binding module. | 17,611 |
9,261,714 | 1. A plasmonic all-optical switch, comprising: a graphene layer; a first dielectric layer located on the graphene layer; a nano-antenna located on the first dielectric layer; and a second dielectric layer located on the nano-antenna, wherein an incident beam is propagated by means of a surface plasmon wave generated at an interface between the graphene layer and the first dielectric layer, and wherein localized surface plasmon resonance is selectively generated at an interface between the nano-antenna and the second dielectric layer by means of a pump beam incident to the nano-antenna to decrease an intensity of the incident beam. | 831 |
9,677,485 | 1. An exhaust gas recirculation apparatus for an engine, the apparatus including: an exhaust gas recirculation passage to allow part of exhaust gas discharged from a combustion chamber of an engine to an exhaust passage to flow as exhaust recirculation gas into an intake passage and recirculate back to the combustion chamber; a motor-driven exhaust gas recirculation valve provided in the exhaust gas recirculation passage to regulate a flow rate of the exhaust recirculation gas in the exhaust gas recirculation passage, the exhaust gas recirculation valve including a valve seat, a valve element provided to be seatable on the valve seat, a motor to drive the valve element, and a constituent component related to the valve seat, the valve element, and the motor; and a control unit configured to control the exhaust gas recirculation valve according to an operating condition of the engine, wherein the control unit is configured to: calculate a target correction value corresponding to the operating condition of the engine; cut off energization to the motor when the exhaust gas recirculation valve is to be held at a fully closing degree during operation of the exhaust gas recirculation valve; and then restart energization to the motor, calculate an energization cutoff correction value corresponding to an elapsed time since energization to the motor is cut off in order to correct displacement of the valve element with respect to the valve seat in association with thermal contraction of the constituent component caused by reduction in temperature, and correct the target correction value by the calculated energization cutoff correction value when the exhaust gas recirculation valve is to be controlled to a target opening degree. | 21,374 |
9,332,557 | 1. A method comprising: at a second access point, determining one or more antennas paths for which to disable reception in order to suppress co-channel interference associated with transmissions made by a first access point; and sending channel state information from the second access point to the first access point, the channel state information indicating which one or more antennas paths are to be disabled at the second access point. | 23,704 |
8,877,478 | 1. An isolated, synthetic, or recombinant variant polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence that is at least 95% identical to the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 2 and one single amino acid substitution to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2, wherein said one single amino acid substitution is selected from the group consisting of: A47F, T136F, N159V, N159E, T163R, D164R, G179R, V233W, Q275V, R289A, and T349Y; wherein said variant polypeptide has phytase activity. | 43,094 |
9,442,498 | 1. A method of heating while fracturing of the formation occurs, fluid for use in fracturing a formation producing at least one of oil and gas, comprising the steps of: a) providing a heating apparatus for heating fluid to a temperature of at least about 40 degrees F. (4.4 degrees C.); b) transmitting a stream of cool or cold fluid to a mixer, the cool or cold fluid stream being at a temperature of less than a predetermined target temperature; c) the mixer having a first inlet that receives cool or cold fluid from the stream of step “b” and a first outlet that enables discharge of a substantially continuous stream of fluid; d) the mixer having a second inlet that enables heated water to enter the mixer; e) adding heated water from the heating apparatus of step “a” to the mixer via the second inlet; f) wherein the volume of fluid of step “b” is much greater than the volume of water of step “e”; g) wherein fluid exiting the first outlet of the mixer is transmitted into a formation producing at least one of oil and gas and includes a proppant when transmitted into the formation; and h) wherein fluid flows substantially continuously from the first inlet to the first outlet during the fracturing process, wherein the water is heated in the heating apparatus before fracing chemicals are added to the water, wherein the heating apparatus has a heating capacity to add about 100 F. to 150 F. to the fluid at a flow rate of about 100 barrels per minute of fluid discharged from the first outlet, and wherein the fluid exiting the first outlet of the mixer flows at a rate of at least 20 barrels per minute into the formation. | 658 |
8,641,023 | 1. A thermocompensated spring for a sprung balance including: a section comprising (a) a first metallic material, and (b) a plurality of surfaces, wherein at least one of the plurality of surfaces of the section has an external layer including a second metallic material, and wherein the thermoelastic coefficient of the second metallic material varies oppositely to the thermoelastic coefficient of the first metallic material. | 17,720 |
9,587,955 | 1. A method for providing adaptive audio guidance, the method comprising: determining, by one or more processors, a route of a computing device, wherein the route is from an initial location of the computing device to a destination; determining, by one or more processors, an estimated time of arrival at which the computing device would arrive at the destination; prompting, by one or more processors, a user to input a desired arrival time; and determining, by one or more processors, whether to provide audio guidance based on a determination of whether the estimated time of arrival is within a pre-determined time period before the desired arrival time. | 48,008 |
9,101,737 | 1. A splittable sheath introducer, comprising: a splittable sheath; a splittable hub disposed at a proximal end of the splittable sheath; a valve included with the splittable hub; and a valve actuator movable from a first position to a second position, the valve actuator opening the valve when in the second position, the valve actuator including a retaining member that enables the valve actuator to be retained by a portion of the splittable hub when the splittable sheath introducer is split apart. | 35,512 |
9,090,605 | 1. A compound represented by the following structural formula: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein: Cy Cy Cy R R R R R R R R R Q is NH; and V | 46,429 |
9,767,929 | 1. A grid spacer design for a nuclear fuel assembly, comprising several straps which intersect each other alternatively to form a plurality of grid cells and fuel rods reside in some of the cells; the grid spacer further comprises mixing elements at the corner of the grid cells in which the fuel rods have resided; wherein the mixing element comprises a mixing vane stretching towards the direction of the fuel rod and a flow funnel set on the bended edge of the mixing vane continuously and extending towards adjacent grid cells; wherein the flow funnel and the mixing vane are formed from a single sheet; wherein one flow funnel is only connected to one mixing vane; the flow funnel protrudes outwards from the bended edge of the mixing vane; the mixing vane and the flow funnel set across two sides of two adjacent grid cells respectively, and the flow funnel directs the coolant in the grid cell to the mixing vane, then the mixing vane directs the coolant to the grid cell, wherein the mixing vane is on the opposite side of the grid cell as the flow funnel; the flow funnel is streamlined, and the cross-sectional area of the channel in the flow funnel is gradually reduced in the direction towards the mixing vane and the gradual decreasing begins at an inlet of the flow funnel. | 8,942 |
8,527,504 | 1. A method for filtering content received from a data network comprising: transmitting, by a browser executing on a computer, a request identifying a category of filtering parameters; receiving a first plurality of categorized filtering parameters from a database in response to the request; generating an additional categorized filtering parameter; adding the additional categorized filtering parameter to the first plurality of categorized filtering parameters to generate a second plurality of categorized filtering parameters comprising the first plurality of categorized filtering parameters and the additional categorized filtering parameter; receiving content comprising a uniform resource locator associated with additional content; filtering the content received using the second plurality of categorized filtering parameters, wherein filtering the content received comprises comparing the uniform resource locator to the second plurality of categorized filtering parameters; and if a match is detected between the uniform resource locator and the second plurality of categorized filtering paramaters: | 24,896 |
8,999,715 | 1. An in vitro method for obtaining a genetically modified memory T cell population that is CD4+ or CD8+, comprising the steps of: a) activating lymphocytes in vitro in a cell-free medium with at least two specific activating receptor agonist antibodies that are able to drive lymphocyte activation, wherein one of the lymphocyte activating receptor agonist antibodies is specific for CD3 polypeptide and the other lymphocyte activating receptor agonist antibody is specific for CD28; b) exposing activated lymphocytes in vitro, in a cell-free medium, to an effective amount of interleukin added to the medium, wherein the interleukin is at least IL-7 and IL-15, able to selectively expand populations of memory T cells; and c) inserting and expressing an exogenous gene by means of an appropriate vector into the lymphocytes as obtained in b) to produce a genetically modified memory T cell population that is CD4+ or CD8+; wherein the effective amount of the interleukin added to the medium is from 5 ng/ml to 50 ng/ml; wherein the medium and interleukin of step b) are replaced every 3 to 4 days; and wherein about 80% of both CD8+ and CD4+T− cells of steps b) and c) are positive for the marker CD62L and marker CD127 and are central memory T-lymphocytes. | 43,841 |
8,785,177 | 1. A method for creating a transient nano scale opening in the membrane of a cell, the method comprising the steps of: a. providing a probe and a cell, the probe having a longitudinal axis and a solid tip end, the diameter of the tip end being from 10 to 300 nm and the cell being immersed in an extracellular solution; b. contacting the end of the tip with the outer surface of the cell membrane; c. following step b), piercing through the membrane of the cell by moving the probe in a longitudinal direction until the end of the tip is located within the intracellular environment of the cell; d. following step c), creating an opening in the membrane of the cell by inducing motion of the tip in at least two directions transverse to the longitudinal axis of the probe, the motion of the tip comprising e. following step d), retracting the tip completely from the cell and allowing the cell membrane to reseal the created opening, wherein the cell is substantially stationary during steps b) through e) and the longitudinal speed of the probe in step c) and the first and second average lateral speeds of the probe in step d) are greater than zero and less than 100 microns/sec. | 35,740 |
9,852,516 | 1. A river velocity estimation system comprising: a memory; at least one processor coupled to the memory; an image analysis component executable by the at least one processor and configured to receive at least one image including a river and identify an area of interest in the at least one image, the area of interest including the river; a river analysis component executable by the at least one processor and configured to receive terrain information and the area of interest in the at least one image, identify a course of the river and a boundary of the river based on the area of interest in the at least one image, estimate a slope of the river based on the terrain information, determine a hydraulic radius of the river based on the boundary of the river and the course of the river, and generate a model of riverbed contours of the river based on normalized locations of a thalweg of the river, a shape of the riverbed contours being defined by curve parameters corresponding to the normalized locations of the thalweg; and a flow rate estimation component executable by the at least one processor and configured to estimate a flow rate of water in the river based on at least the slope of the river and the hydraulic radius of the river. | 18,598 |
8,942,959 | 1. A method for predicting an output of a photovoltaic (PV) device, comprising the steps of: aligning data in two dimensions according to days in a year, and hours in a day; applying a two-dimensional Fourier analysis to the data to obtain frequencies and a mean of the frequencies in the data, wherein the data are time series of a historical outputs of the PV device; applying regression analysis to the data to obtain a regression coefficient; and predicting the PV output at a time step by summing the mean at the time step and a deviation from the mean at a previous time step, wherein the means are approximated by selected frequencies, and wherein the deviation for the previous time step is weighted by the regression coefficient, and wherein the steps of the method are performed in a processor of a control module generating a control strategy for operating the PV device. | 44,077 |
8,713,882 | 1. A synthetic polymer based, generally flat or arch-shaped roofing product of a shingle or tile type, having a headlap portion adapted to be covered by a tab portion of a shingle or tile in a next-overlying course of shingles or tiles when installed on a roof and having a tab portion adapted to be exposed when installed on a roof, and having a core portion and a capstock portion; with the core portion having at least first and second selectively located zones of the product; with the capstock portion at least partially covering the core portion; with the capstock portion having at least a third selectively located zone of a product; with each of the first, second and third zones of the product having one of the following features and the others of the first, second and third zones of the product each having different ones of the following features; wherein each zone of the product is free of any of the following features shared by any other zone of the product; (a) a flame retardant or resistant composition; (b) a solar reflective component; (c) multiple layers of different polymer based materials; (d) a core of a first polymer-based material and a capstock or partial or complete covering of another polymer-based material; (e) a weather-resistant composition in whole or in part; (f) multiple colors; (g) heat stabilizer composition; (h) reduced-cost filler material; (i) algae-resistant composition; and (j) solar collection component for electrical generation. | 6,387 |
9,113,212 | 1. A method comprising: receiving an audio/video signal from a specific channel corresponding to an audio/video program; storing the audio/video program as a vitally-formatted data stream corresponding to the audio/video program; storing audio and video data from the digitally-formatted data stream in one or more storage devices; retrieving the audio and video data from the one or more storage devices; playing the audio/video program a first time by: playing the audio/video program a second time in a manner such that the flow of the audio/video program during the second time that that the audio/video program is played is also affected by the control command input that was received during the first time that the audio/video program was played. | 25,134 |
9,115,085 | 1. A pharmaceutical composition comprising crystalline [(4-hydroxy-1-methyl-7-phenoxy-isoquinoline-3-carbonyl)-amino]-acetic acid (Compound A Form A) characterized by an X-ray powder diffractogram comprising the following peaks: 8.5, 16.2, and 27.4° 2θ±0.2° 2θ, and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient, wherein at least about 85% of Compound A is in Form A. | 36,821 |
9,179,263 | 1. A method comprising: activating a radio in a mobile device by a processor of the mobile device, the radio configured to communicate with a wireless network; provisioning the mobile device with at least one pre-determined environment profile, wherein the at least one pre-determined environment profile comprises conditions under which the radio is unable to connect with the wireless network; sensing, by a sensor of the mobile device, an environmental condition of the mobile device to generate a sensor signal; generating, by the processor of the mobile device, an environmental profile of the mobile device based at least on the sensor signal; comparing, by the processor of the mobile device, the environmental profile of the mobile device with the at least one pre-determined environmental profile; deactivating, by the processor of the mobile device, the activated radio when the comparing indicates that the environmental profile is above a threshold of the pre-determined environmental profile for a first period of time; and reactivating, by the processor of the mobile device, the deactivated radio when the comparing indicates that the environmental profile is below a threshold of the pre-determined environmental profile for a second period of time, wherein the sensor is an altimeter and the wireless network comprises an IEEE 802.11 wireless communication system, and wherein the environmental profile further comprises a rate of change in altitude of the mobile device, and wherein the threshold indicates that the mobile device is within a building, whereupon the radio is activated. | 49,697 |
8,673,678 | 1. A process of making a thin-film photovoltaic device comprising the steps of: a) providing a first layer of a chalcopyrite semiconductor of a first doping type; b) after step a), depositing a second layer of intrinsic zinc oxide by chemical vapor deposition by flowing gases over the first layer of chalcopyrite of step a) in a vacuum chamber, the gases comprising: wherein the mole ratio of water to organozinc compound is greater than 1.0; and wherein the flowing is performed: such that the second layer is deposited; and c) after step b), depositing a third layer of zinc oxide semiconductor of a second doping type opposite to the first doping type by a method other than chemical vapor deposition. | 26,808 |
9,045,030 | 1. An energy absorbing and distributing side impact system for a vehicle comprising: a battery pack enclosure mounted between front and rear suspensions of the vehicle, the battery pack enclosure having a first side member attached to a first side sill, and a second side member attached to a second side sill; and cross-members integrated into the battery pack enclosure, each of the cross-members extending from the first to the second side member, the cross-members segregating the battery pack enclosure into sections each configured to hold one or more battery modules, each cross-member comprising an upper portion and a lower portion, wherein a spacing between the upper and the lower portions is configured to receive a mounting bracket for at least one of the battery modules, and wherein each of the first and second side sills comprises multiple longitudinal channels, at least an upper longitudinal channel positioned above a vehicle floor panel and at least a lower longitudinal channel positioned below the vehicle floor panel, wherein the first side member is attached to the lower longitudinal channel of the first side sill and the second side member is attached to the lower longitudinal channel of the second side sill. | 16,719 |
8,358,110 | 1. An apparatus comprising a rigid-flex circuit board and an electrolyte, the rigid-flex circuit board comprising first and second rigid regions physically and electrically connected to one another by a flexible region, the flexible region comprising first and second sections each comprising an electrically conductive layer and a capacitive element, wherein the apparatus is configured such that a chamber is defined between the first and second sections with the respective capacitive elements contained therein and facing one another, the chamber comprising the electrolyte, and wherein the apparatus is configured to store electrical charge when a potential difference is applied between the respective capacitive elements. | 26,359 |
8,986,518 | 1. A cartridge-based, hydrogen on-demand generator system comprising: (a) a hydrogen on-demand cartridge for generation of hydrogen as an additive for fossil-fuel-powered systems; (b) at least one conductive material member for creating a specified serpentine-shaped, substantially longitudinal hydrodynamically-engineered flow path or paths for electrolyte solution to flow through in which an electrochemical reaction is facilitated; (c) an enclosure for an artificial or natural sealed-off area to protect and separate parts and processes inside a said cartridge from those outside said cartridge, defining a conduit for said hydrodynamically-engineered flow path or paths within said cartridge, rigidly constructed to said cartridge to further provide a complimentary hydrodynamically-engineered flow for electrolyte solution through said path or paths to dislodge gas bubbles without the need for additional air or exhaust gas outside a closed-loop system, wherein inner walls relative to the hydrogen on-demand cartridge complete enclosure contain at least one enclosure rounded corner to facilitate transfer of gases through the cartridge; (d) at least one conductive material electrical interface tab that is part of at least one conductive material member in which it supports and maintains the position of each said member to facilitate at least heat and electrical energy transfer into and out of said cartridge, rigidly connected to said at least one conductive material member creating a specified serpentine-shaped, substantially longitudinal hydrodynamically-engineered flow path or paths for electrolyte solution to flow through in which an electrochemical reaction is facilitated; (e) at least one narrow aperture to support each said material member from said tab, structurally embedded to said cartridge for said material member to support and maintain the position of each said member to facilitate said energy transfer into and out of said cartridge, and structurally embedded to said enclosure, said at least one aperture oriented in parallel with respect to said members; (f) at least one mounting flange for a projected rim, collar, or rib that serves to support and maintain the position of said cartridge as-mounted in any orientation; (g) at least one mounting hole for a hollow place in said cartridge to help support and maintain the position of said cartridge as-mounted in any orientation; (h) at least one inlet for attachment to facilitate at least one entrance of matter into said cartridge in one or more locations transverse to said members and substantially parallel to said serpentine-shaped, substantially longitudinal hydrodynamically-engineered flow path or paths; (i) at least one outlet for attachment to facilitate at least one exit of matter from said cartridge in one or more locations transverse to said members and substantially parallel to said serpentine-shaped, substantially longitudinal hydrodynamically-engineered flow path or paths; and (j) at least one fitting hole for a hollow place in the solid surface of said cartridge to support and maintain a fitting or similar device connected snugly to said cartridge as-mounted in any orientation. | 13,201 |
8,651,103 | 1. A dry powder inhalation apparatus, comprising a reservoir for medicament, a mouthpiece for insertion in the mouth of a user for inhalation of a predetermined dose of medicament, a delivery channel between a discharge outlet of the reservoir and the mouthpiece for delivering said predetermined dose of medicament, a device normally held adjacent the reservoir for receiving said predetermined dose of medicament from said discharge outlet and the device being biased by a spring force toward the delivery channel for transferring the medicament to the delivery channel under the spring force, a yoke member that translates vertically along a longitudinal axis of the apparatus upon actuation of the dry powder inhalation apparatus, a mechanism adapted to release the device and permit controlled movement of the device under the spring force to the delivery channel for said delivery, and an abutment that protrudes from the device and interacts with the yoke member to guide horizontal translation of the device between the reservoir and the delivery channel under the spring force upon release of the device by the mechanism and vertical translation of the yoke member, wherein the mechanism comprises abutment means which is movable transversely to the longitudinal axis of the apparatus to release the device for movement to the delivery channel. | 46,694 |
8,441,988 | 1. A system for providing communication between Home Agents comprising: a plurality of Home Agents including a first Home Agent acting as a primary Home Agent and at least one second Home Agent acting as backup Home Agents and communicating with the first Home Agent; a communication link coupling the first Home Agent and the at least one second Home Agent; the first Home Agent being able to send at least one Hello Message to the at least one second Home Agent, each of the at least one Hello Message containing system attributes including Home Agent state, priority information, and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) modifier, wherein the priority information includes a weight assigned to a Home Agent for use in operation and the BGP modifier is an attribute used to determine a Home Agent's preference in a routing domain; the first Home Agent being able to send a Service Checkpoint Message to the at least one second Home Agent which provides information used to perform as the primary Home Agent; and one of the at least one second Home Agent being able, in response to at least one of the at least one Hello Message and the Service Checkpoint Message, to transition to become the primary Home Agent based on the priority information and the BGP modifier in the at least one Hello Message, wherein the BGP modifier is initially used to determine which one of the at least one second Home Agent should transition to become the primary Home Agent and the priority information is used to further determine the primary Home Agent if more than one Home Agent shares a same BGP modifier value. | 22,646 |
9,783,668 | 1. A thermoplastic resin composition, comprising: (A) a first rubber-modified acrylic-based graft copolymer having a volume average rubber particle diameter of greater than or equal to about 100 nm and less than about 200 nm, wherein the first rubber-modified acrylic-based graft copolymer (A) comprises: (a1) an acrylic-based rubbery polymer core comprising (a1-1) an internal core layer consisting of a copolymer of an alkyl (meth)acrylate monomer and an aromatic vinyl monomer and (a1-2) an external core layer consisting of an alkyl (meth)acrylate-based polymer; and (a2) a shell layer formed by grafting a copolymer of an aromatic vinyl monomer and unsaturated nitrile monomer on the acrylic-based rubbery polymer core, (B) a second rubber-modified acrylic-based graft copolymer having a volume average rubber particle diameter of greater than or equal to about 200 nm and less than or equal to about 400 nm, (C) a first vinyl-based copolymer of an aromatic vinyl monomer and a unsaturated nitrile monomer, and (D) about 5 to about 30 wt % based on the total amount of (A), (B), (C) and (D) of a second vinyl-based copolymer comprising about 5 to about 30 wt % of an alkyl (meth)acrylate monomer, about 50 to about 80 wt % of an aromatic vinyl monomer, and about 10 to about 35 wt % of an unsaturated nitrile monomer, wherein the difference between an average refractive index of the first rubber-modified acrylic-based graft copolymer (A) and the second rubber-modified acrylic-based graft copolymer (B) and a refractive index of the second vinyl-based copolymer (D) is about 0.001 to about 0.02. | 14,346 |
8,885,859 | 1. A hearing device, comprising: a microphone; and a wax filter arrangement arranged to cover at least one audio canal through which sound propagates from a position outside the hearing aid and into the microphone, wherein the wax filter arrangement comprises one or more wax filters, the one or more wax filters defining at least two wax filter zones, wherein the one or more wax filters are movable relative to the hearing device such that different wax filter zones can cover the audio canal at different points in time. | 35,634 |
9,066,959 | 1. A process for isolating a Ficus extract having angiogenesis inhibiting activity, the process comprising: a) mixing a latex-containing portion of a b) washing the liquid extract with an organic solvent to provide an aqueous extract; and c) fractionating the aqueous extract to provide a | 19,402 |
9,535,128 | 1. A test path compensating circuit comprising: a plurality of electrical paths electrically coupling a plurality of test pads to a test target circuit; a control voltage generation circuit configured to generate a plurality of control voltages; and a plurality of voltage-control delay circuits electrically coupled to the plurality of electrical paths, respectively, and configured to linearly control delay amounts of input test signals received from one or more of the plurality of test pads, based on one or more of the plurality of control voltages, and provide output test signals to the test target circuit. | 6,882 |
8,956,212 | 1. A game system for playing an electronic bingo game, comprising: a player game device for allowing a player to place a wager, the player game device including a first mechanical device and a second mechanical device; and, a game controller coupled to the player game device for playing the electronic bingo game and establishing a result of the electronic bingo game, wherein an award representation of the result is directly displayed upon and represented by the first and second mechanical devices at the player game device. | 18,089 |
9,693,433 | 1. A luminaire, comprising: at least one light source; at least one luminaire processor operatively coupled to the at least one light source; at least one luminaire transceiver operatively coupled to the at least one luminaire processor and to at least one data communications channel; and at least one luminaire nontransitory processor-readable storage medium operatively coupled to the at least one luminaire processor and which stores at least one of data or instructions which, when executed by the at least one luminaire processor, cause the at least one luminaire processor to: | 41,455 |
9,442,381 | 1. A method of operating a microlithography projection exposure tool comprising a projection objective, the projection objective being configured to use electromagnetic radiation to image object structures on a mask into an image plane, the method comprising: calculating a change in optical properties of the projection objective caused by the electromagnetic radiation during an imaging process, the calculation of the change in optical properties being done on the basis of a Fourier transform of a layout of the mask; and adjusting the imaging behavior of the projection exposure tool on the basis of the calculated change of the optical properties to at least partly compensate for the change of the optical properties of the projection objective, wherein calculating the change in the optical properties is performed on the basis of thermal eigenmodes of at least one single optical element of the projection objective. | 36,617 |
8,548,421 | 1. A wireless communications device comprising: a display screen; an electronics system configured to provide communications over a communications network; a primary battery configured to power the electronics during a power-on mode; a secondary battery configured to power the electronics in response to an emergency signal being received while said electronics are in a power-off mode; wherein the electronics system: | 32,902 |
9,450,231 | 1. A process for producing a positive electrode including an active positive-electrode material of LiFePO 4 , said active positive-electrode material made from a composite having: said process comprising the steps of: (1) mixing, by extrusion, the ingredients of the composite so as to obtain an extruded composite; (2) forming the composite extruded through a die; (3) rolling or calendering the extruded composite into the form of a positive electrode film on a current collector; and, (4) drying the positive-electrode film applied to the current collector, wherein the extrusion step is carried out via an extruder in the presence of an aqueous solvent, wherein the water-soluble polymer is selected from the group consisting of polyoxyethylene, polyoxypropylene, polyoxybutylene, polyoxyethylene-based copolymers, polyoxypropylene-based copolymers, polyoxybutylene-based copolymers, polyoxyethylene based terpolymers, polyoxypropylene-based terpolymers, and polyoxybutylene-based terpolymers, wherein the lithium salt is selected from the group consisting of LiTFSI, LiClO wherein said aqueous solvent is of a composition that is sufficient to reduce the viscosity of the composite so that it is extruded below 95° C. such that said positive electrode film includes at least 60% active material while the positive-electrode film being 100μm or less in thickness. | 6,560 |
8,981,138 | 1. A method (I) for producing an aminoorganyltriorganylsilane of the general formula (1) by reacting a cyclic or acyclic amine of the general formula (2), with a (haloorganyl)silane of the general formula (3) in which R′ is an acyloxy radical or an alkoxy radical having in each case 1-10 C atoms, R R R R n is a number equal to 0, 1, 2 or 3 and X is chlorine, bromine or iodine, the reacting comprising the successive steps: a) reaction of 1.1 to 100 mol of the amine of the general formula (2) per mole of the (haloorganyl)silane of the general formula (3) in a reaction mixture at a temperature of from 0 to 250° C., an ammonium halide of the amine of the general formula (2) being formed as a byproduct in addition to the silane of the general formula (1), b) addition of a base (B) to the reaction mixture, wherein the base (B): c) distillation of the amine of the general formula (2) out of the reaction mixture, d) addition of base (B) to the reaction mixture in an amount sufficient to form two liquid phases, one phase containing at least 90% by weight of a hydrohalide of the base (B) and e) removal of the liquid phase which contains at least 90% by weight of the hydrohalide of the base (B). | 45,148 |
8,439,517 | 1. A system for adapting a perimeter of an open space for accepting a fixture, wherein the open space includes a first portion and a second portion, the system comprising: a first member configured for engagement with a first portion of the perimeter; a second member configured for engagement with a second portion of the perimeter; a fixture having a first portion configured for engagement with the first member and a second portion configured for engagement with the second member, wherein the fixture is pivotally movable relative to the first member and the second member between a first position where the fixture covers the first portion of the open space and a second position where the fixture is disposed at an angle relative to the perimeter; and a trim element engaged with the first member, the second member, the fixture, or combinations thereof, wherein the trim element is pivotally movable relative to the fixture, and wherein the trim element covers the second portion of the open space. | 2,268 |
9,401,033 | 1. A method for data reconstruction or deconstruction, comprising: (a) acquiring, by inputting into a processing device or storing in a memory, a starting-space data set comprising a plurality of N-dimensional starting-space sample points selected by a user or a computer from an acquired image, audio, video, molecular analysis, chemical analysis, protein analysis, digital signal, digital data compression, or spectroscopy data superset, wherein each N-dimensional starting-space sample point comprises a set of associated sample-point component numbers, each set of sample-point component numbers notated herein as {k (b) calculating, on a processor, for each of at least one user-selected or computer-selected x-coordinate p wherein j 2 =−1, index z is a positive integer, and r 1 =1 and r 2 =L i , wherein L i is a number of k y values paired with at least one of the k x -notated values in the starting-space data set, and further wherein E 1 and E 2 are each a region scaling factor, ky i,z is one of the sample-point component numbers in the starting-space data set, <a i,z , b i,z > is one of a plurality of complex-number starting-space data values in the starting-space data set, and wherein * represents complex-number multiplication; (c) calculating, on the processor, for each of at least one user-selected or computer-selected target-space point (p wherein j 2 =−1, index i is a positive integer, r 3 =1 and r 4 =n, wherein n is a number of k x values in the starting-space data set, and further wherein E 5 and E 6 are each a region scaling factor, kx i is one of the sample-point component numbers in the starting-space data set, res1 i is one of the horizontal key elements associated with at least one of the horizontal keys, and wherein * represents complex-number multiplication; and (d) forming, by storing in the memory, outputting to a display device, storing on a storage device, or outputting to an output device, target-space data comprising at least one of the computed colors, thereby generating target-space data having a resolution corresponding to a number or density of the selected target-space points. | 3,925 |
9,718,755 | 1. A process for production of a chemical product comprising terephthalic acid or terephthalate by utilizing furan, ethylene oxide, and carbon monoxide as the feedstocks, the process comprising the steps of: reacting the ethylene oxide and carbon monoxide to form beta propiolactone; and deriving the chemical product from the beta propiolactone wherein the chemical product comprises at least one of terephthalic acid, a mono or diester of terephthalic aid, and a mono or bis metal salt of terephthalic acid. | 17,735 |
9,531,127 | 1. A power feed connector which is connected to a power receiving connector of an electromotive machine and supplies electric power to the electromotive machine, the power feed connector comprising: a tubular case that is formed to have a tubular shape and has a front end opening portion being open at a front end in a central axis direction thereof; a connector main body that is accommodated inside the tubular case and is slidable in the central axis direction of the tubular case; an operation lever portion that is turnably and axially supported by the tubular case; a link mechanism that is directly connected to the connector main body and the operation lever portion and converts a turning motion of the operation lever portion into a linear motion of the connector main body in the central axis direction; and a grip portion that is integrally provided with the tubular case and extends in a direction intersecting the central axis direction, wherein a first end of the operation lever portion is disposed inside the tubular case, a second end of the operation lever portion protrudes outward through the open hole formed at a rear end of the tubular case, is disposed in the rear end portion of the tubular case regardless of a turning position of the operation lever portion, and is positioned on an inner side from both end portions of the tubular case in a width direction, the width direction being a direction orthogonal to the central axis direction of the tubular case and the extending direction of the grip portion, the first end of the operation lever portion is axially supported by the tubular case, an intermediate portion of the operation lever portion is joined to the connector main body through the link mechanism, and the operation lever portion is formed in a bent manner such that the second end is positioned on a rear side from the intermediate portion regardless of the turning position of the operation lever portion. | 3,643 |
8,588,674 | 1. An image-forming apparatus, comprising: an image-forming unit for forming a toner image transferred to paper, based on image data; a fixation unit for fixing the toner image transferred to the paper; a double-sided print conveyance path for connecting a lower path in the paper conveyance direction from the fixation unit and an upper path in the paper conveyance direction from the image-forming unit, and, for during double-sided printing, conveying a paper imprinted on one side toward the image-forming unit; a decurling unit for passing paper discharged from the fixation unit through a double-roller nip and uncurling the paper, the nip including a hard roller and a soft roller that is softer than the hard roller and is pressed against the hard roller; a calculation unit for using image data related to respective sides in double-sided printing to calculate an amount of toner deposited on each of a first side, which is the side printed first, and a second side, which is the side on the reverse of the first side and is the side printed next; and a rotation unit for rotating the decurling unit on the basis of calculation results from the calculation unit in order to change a curl removal direction, wherein the calculation unit performs a calculation to count deposited toner dots in respective regions, or any one region, obtained by dividing, in a secondary scanning direction, image data for each of the first and second sides into a plurality of regions, the rotation unit creates a state of contact between the soft roller and a side including a region having a highest dot count or a highest ratio calculated by the calculation unit on the basis of the dot count, the ratio being a highest ratio of deposited toner dots in relation to a total number of dots in the region, the calculation unit compares a highest first ratio from among the ratios of the regions on the first side, and a highest second ratio from among the ratios of the regions on the second side, and the rotation unit creates a state of contact between the soft roller and a side including the region having the higher of the highest first ratio and the highest second ratio. | 20,740 |
9,272,706 | 1. A method for a hybrid vehicle engine, comprising: during selected non-combusting engine conditions in which a vehicle has been placed into a service mode, receiving an operator input via a coupleable and uncoupleable service diagnostic tool coupled to the vehicle, wherein the operator input is a requested engine position including a piston position of a specified cylinder, and rotating the engine via an electric motor responsive to the requested engine position. | 8,127 |
9,643,494 | 1. A fuel cell system comprising: a fuel cell generating electrical energy by reacting a hydrogen gas supplied from a hydrogen gas supply source and an oxidizing agent gas supplied from an oxidizing agent gas supply source; a hydrogen circulating pump provided in a hydrogen circulation path where hydrogen gas that has not been used in the fuel cell is recirculated to the fuel cell, the hydrogen circulating pump transferring hydrogen gas of the hydrogen circulation path to the fuel cell; a sensor provided on the hydrogen circulation path, the sensor being configured to sense the supply of hydrogen gas from the hydrogen gas supply; and a control means configured to control the supply of oxidizing agent gas from the oxidizing agent gas supply source, to control the hydrogen circulating pump, and to detect the supply of hydrogen gas from the hydrogen gas supply based on information provided by the sensor, wherein, as a result of the supply of hydrogen gas from the hydrogen gas supply source to the fuel cell being discontinued, the control means is configured to discontinue the supply of oxidizing agent gas from the oxidizing agent gas supply source to the fuel cell and to activate the hydrogen circulating pump such that the control means supplies electrical energy generated in the fuel cell to the hydrogen circulating pump. | 31,325 |
9,196,322 | 1. A semiconductor memory device that does not require a sense amplifier, said semiconductor memory device comprising: a data line unit that includes a plurality of spaced-apart and mutually electrically isolated data lines for transmitting read data and write data; a control line unit that includes a plurality of spaced-apart and mutually electrically isolated control lines, each of which is for transmitting a control signal and is electrically isolated from said data lines; a memory cell array including a plurality of memory elements, each of said memory elements is respectively connected to a data line and a control line and is configured to be controlled by a control signal to receive the write data or to output the read data; a tri-state buffer unit including a plurality of tri-state buffers, each of said tri-state buffers having an input terminal coupled to at least one of said memory elements, and an output terminal coupled to a respective one of said data lines of said data line unit, said tri-state buffers being controlled to switch between a conducting state and a non-conducting state; and a bias voltage unit coupled to said input terminal of each of said tri-state buffers to supply a preset bias voltage to said input terminals of said tri-state buffers. | 28,870 |
8,788,641 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a control processor configured to control operation of a managed device; and an interface module having one or more state machines communicatively coupled to the control processor, the one or more state machines configured to the enclosure service operation is a power failure warning (PFW) operation, and the one or more state machines comprise a PFW state machine configured to receive a PFW signal from the enclosure services processor and transmit an interrupt signal to the control processor based on the PFW signal. | 19,921 |
8,504,361 | 1. A method for labeling a selected word of a sentence, the method comprising the steps of: providing a deep neural network including a first deep layer for extracting and indexing word features of the sentence and extracting and indexing selected predicate-to-selected word distance features that are relevant to a given natural language processing (NLP) task, and a second deep layer for converting feature indices to vectors using one or more look-up tables, the deep neural network being trained using a multiple NLP task learning process, the multiple NLP task learning process sharing look-up tables during training; determining, with the first layer of the deep neural network in a computer process, an index term for each extracted word feature of the selected word; transforming, with the second layer of the deep neural network in a computer process, each of the index terms of the selected word into a vector; determining, with the first layer of the deep neural network in a computer process, an index term for distance data between a selected predicate and the selected word; transforming, with the second layer of the deep neural network in a computer process, the index term for the distance data into another vector; concatenating, in a computer process, the vectors to generate a single vector; and predicting, with another layer of the deep neural network in a computer process, a label for the word using the single vector. | 32,512 |
9,000,672 | 1. A lighting fixture, comprising: a light source; electronics electrically coupled to and powering said light source; a terminal block connector, said terminal block connector being within the lighting fixture and having a housing supporting a live connection block, a neutral connection block, and a ground connection block; said live connection block, said neutral connection block, and said ground connection block each having a high voltage power source input and a lighting fixture electronics output; each said lighting fixture electronics output electrically connected to said power source input; said lighting fixture electronics output of at least said live connection block and said neutral connection block electrically connected to said electronics; said terminal block connector further including a first varistor electrically connected between said live connection block and said neutral connection block, a second varistor electrically connected between said live connection block and said ground connection block, and a third varistor electrically connected between said neutral connection block and said ground connection block; wherein said first varistor, said second varistor, and said third varistor are inaccessibly enclosed within said housing. | 5,044 |
9,115,626 | 1. Method for monitoring a discrete substrate element from an ammonia-selective catalyst reduction device configured to treat an exhaust gas feedstream of an internal combustion engine, comprising: monitoring an amount of ammonia that is adsorbed, an amount of ammonia that is desorbed, an amount of ammonia that is oxidized and an amount of ammonia that is consumed in reducing NOx in the exhaust gas feedstream for the discrete substrate element; determining an amount of ammonia consumption for the discrete substrate element based on the amount of ammonia that is oxidized and the amount of ammonia that is consumed in reducing NOx in the exhaust gas feedstream; comparing the amount of ammonia that is adsorbed and the amount of ammonia that is desorbed for the discrete substrate element; and adjusting the amount of ammonia consumption for the discrete substrate element when the amount of ammonia that is adsorbed is less than the amount of ammonia that is desorbed and injecting urea using a urea injection device based upon the adjusted amount of ammonia consumption. | 15,234 |
8,977,776 | 1. A system, comprising: a communication interface configured to couple to a network; at least one memory storing computer-executable instructions; and at least one processor coupled to the communication interface and configured to access the at least one memory and execute the computer-executable instructions to: | 35,016 |
8,458,832 | 1. A duvet comprising four side edges, wherein three of the side edges, hereinafter referred to as a first side edge, a second side edge, and a third side edge, are temporarily secured together via a zipper assembly having a first zipper chain side, a second zipper chain side, and a zipper slider with pull tab, wherein the duvet is adapted to be folded making a folded side edge, wherein the folded side edge is not detachable, wherein a first inside surface faces a second inside surface, wherein the first zipper chain side is continuously disposed on a first side edge, a second side edge, and a third side edge each disposed on the first inside surface, wherein the second zipper chain side is continuously disposed on a first side edge, a second side edge, and a third side edge each disposed on the second inside surface, wherein the zipper assembly engages and joins the first zipper chain side to the second zipper chain side, wherein the first side edge of the first inside surface is joined to the first side edge of the second inside surface, wherein the second side edge of the first inside surface is joined to the second side edge of the second inside surface, wherein the third side edge of the first inside surface is joined to the third side edge of the second inside surface, wherein the zipper assembly originates at a first end of the folded side edge and runs continuously across the first side edge, the second side edge, and the third side edge of the duvet, wherein the zipper assembly terminates at a second end of the folded side edge, wherein the duvet comprises four internal corners, wherein a clip is permanently sewn into a side edge proximal to each of the four internal corners, thus comprising four clips, wherein two clips are permanently sewn into one of the side edges and two clips are permanently sewn into the opposing side edge, wherein the remaining two side edges comprise no clips sewn therein, wherein a comforter is disposed in the duvet, interfacing with the first inside surface and the second inside surface, wherein each clip is attached to a side edge of the comforter, wherein a border is disposed around the comforter between the comforter and each of the four side edges of the duvet. | 40,993 |
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