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9,437,255 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a storage unit configured to store a number of times a first command has been provided to a memory cell array; a control unit configured to generate a second command operable to activate at least one word line in the memory cell array based on a comparison of the number stored at the storage unit with a threshold value, when the first command is received; and a selection unit configured to select one of the first command and the second command based on a result of the comparison and transmit the selected command to the memory cell array, wherein the first command comprises a command to activate a first word line in the memory cell array. | 28,576 |
8,903,418 | 1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a position sensor for detecting position information; and a detection times control unit for acquiring detection accuracy information regarding detection accuracy of the position sensor based on a detection result of the position sensor, and controlling the number of detection times of the position sensor based on the acquired detection accuracy information, wherein the detection accuracy information indicates likelihood of an accurately detected position by the position sensor corresponding to respective detection results of the position sensor, and the detection times control unit sets a particular value for the number of detection times for each degree of a plurality of degrees of the likelihood indicated by the detection accuracy information, wherein the detection times control unit sets the particular value of the number of detection times for each degree to reduce a power consumption of the position sensor. | 7,897 |
9,715,715 | 1. A method for processing a graphics item comprising a plurality of graphics lines, each graphics line comprising one or more pixels, the method comprising: loading, by a computing device, a first cache line with a first set of pixels from a first graphics line of the graphics item, while loading the first cache line, generating, by the computing device, a preload table based on the properties of the first graphics line, and wherein the preload table indicates a pattern of pixel processing and cache line preloading operations for a single graphic line of the plurality of graphics lines, wherein the pattern of pixel processing comprises rendering one or more destination pixels; processing at least one pixel of first cache line and simultaneously preloading a next cache line with a next set of pixels until all but a last pixel of the first graphics line is processed; processing the last pixel of the first graphics line without issuing a preload command; and repeating the method for each graphic line in this manner until all graphic lines of the graphic item are processed. | 32,114 |
8,463,055 | 1. A method for progressive JPEG image decoding, suitable for decoding a bitstream data containing data of a plurality of scan layers into an image data, comprising: (a) dividing the scan layers into a plurality of decoding areas, wherein a size of each of the decoding areas is determined by a capacity of a memory; (b) sequentially selecting the decoding areas as a local decoding area; (c) sequentially receiving data of a first scan layer from the scan layers in the bitstream data, decoding the local decoding area of the first scan layer, and generating a plurality of local decoding coefficients stored in the memory; (d) after the decoding of the local decoding area of the first scan layer has been completed, then sequentially receiving data of a scan layer next to the first scan layer in the bitstream data, decoding the data in the local decoding area of the next scan layer, and accumulating the decoded data of the next scan layer to the local decoding coefficients stored in the memory; and (e) processing the accumulated local decoding coefficients through inverse quantizing and inverse DCT as a part of the image data. | 24,629 |
9,358,894 | 1. A method of identifying a grid connection point for bill processing of a charging event, comprising: reading an identity tag at the grid connection point that uniquely identifies the grid connection point; receiving, at an adapter associated with a vehicle that includes a charging device, identity tag information to uniquely identify the grid connection point, wherein the adapter is housed in a housing, the housing being external to and separate from the vehicle, and the housing is moveable together with the vehicle; receiving, at the adapter associated with the vehicle, operating constraints for realizing the charging event, wherein the operating constraints for realizing the charging event include one or more of: a state-of-charge constraint, a charging current constraint, a voltage constraint, and a temperature constraint; selecting, by the adapter associated with the vehicle, a type of energy service based on the received operating constraints to be realized during the charging event; managing the charging event based on the received operating constraints and the selected type of energy service to be realized during the charging event; monitoring, by the adapter associated with the vehicle, charge event information indicating attributes of the charging event, wherein the charge event information includes the type of energy service realized by the charging event; associating, by the adapter associated with the vehicle, the charge event information with the identity tag information, as associated information; and sending, by the adapter associated with the vehicle, the associated information for reconciliation of utility billing accounts associated with the grid connection point and the vehicle. | 10,334 |
9,253,716 | 1. A wireless communication system in which a base station and a communication terminal can conduct wireless communication by detecting a usable wireless link with different frame format and changing the wireless link with different frame format used for connection, comprising: one or more wireless communication networks using a plurality of frequencies within the same kind of wireless communication system; a single or a plurality of base stations corresponding to the wireless communication network; on a single or plurality of communication nodes at the communication network side, a memory that stores communication node modules and data, and a processor coupled to the memory, said communication node modules including and a communication terminal having a memory that stores communication terminal modules and data, and a processor coupled to the memory, said communication terminal modules including | 17,407 |
9,273,641 | 1. A gas flow unit comprising a gas flow inlet, a gas flow outlet and a gas flow chamber configured to convey a gas flow from the gas flow inlet to the gas flow outlet, wherein the gas flow inlet is configured to convey the gas flow in a first direction into the gas flow chamber and wherein the gas flow outlet is configured to convey the gas flow in a second direction from the gas flow chamber, wherein the second direction is angular in relation to the first direction, and wherein the gas flow inlet is an inlet into the gas flow chamber and the gas flow outlet is an outlet from the gas flow chamber, wherein, in the first gas flow direction, the gas flow chamber extends beyond a projection of an outer periphery of the gas flow outlet and defines a prolongation configured for conveying a first part of the gas flow such that it enters the gas flow outlet from a different direction than a second part of the gas flow entering the gas flow outlet without passing through the prolongation, wherein the prolongation has a shape of two part spheres and that there is provided a dividing wall between the part spheres. | 1,800 |
9,816,111 | 1. A non-naturally occurring C1 metabolizing bacterium, wherein the non-naturally occurring C1 metabolizing bacterium the bacterium comprises a heterologous nucleic acid molecule encoding 4-oxalocrotonate decarboxylase, a heterologous nucleic acid molecule encoding a crotonyl CoA thioesterase, and a heterologous nucleic acid molecule encoding a crotonase, and wherein the non-naturally occurring C1 metabolizing bacterium converts a C1 substrate to propylene. | 40,814 |
9,418,356 | 1. A method performed on a client computing device, the method comprising: receiving, by the client computing device from an on-line e-mail system, an e-mail that includes an attached document, where the received e-mail indicates a sender of the received e-mail and at least one recipient of the e-mail; opening, by the client computing device in response to a request by a user, the e-mail, where the user is one of the at least one recipients; presenting, by the client computing device from an on-line document system in response to the attached document being selected, an on-line version of the attached document, and where permissions were set on the on-line version in the on-line document system sufficient to allow reading and editing of the on-line version by the sender and by the at least one recipient; displaying, by the computing device in response to the presented online version being closed, a user interface asking the user if the user wants to send a reply to the received email with any changes made by the user to the presented online version; and sending, by the client computing device subsequent to the user indicating in the displayed user interface that the user wants to send the reply, the reply to the received e-mail, where the reply includes a link to the on-line version with the any changes. | 20,108 |
9,528,135 | 1. A method for treating biomass material, comprising: subjecting the biomass material to a pretreatment step to produce a pretreated biomass; transferring the pretreated biomass to a transfer system, wherein the transfer system comprises a mixing vessel; cooling and adjusting a pH of the pretreated biomass in the transfer system by adding a cooling liquid and a pH controlling material to obtain a cooled and pH controlled pretreated biomass having a temperature and a pH sufficient to allow enzymatic hydrolysis of the cooled and pH controlled pretreated biomass; transferring the cooled and pH controlled pretreated biomass from the transfer system to a first enzymatic hydrolysis vessel; subjecting the cooled and pH controlled pretreated biomass to a first enzymatic hydrolysis step to produce a liquefaction material in the first enzymatic hydrolysis vessel, wherein the liquefaction material has a concentration of monomeric sugar relative to polymeric cellulose and hemi-cellulose of less than 30 percent; extracting a first portion of the liquefaction material from the first enzymatic hydrolysis vessel and cooling the first portion of the liquefaction material to create a cooled first portion of the liquefaction material; reintroducing the cooled first portion of the liquefaction material to the transfer system, wherein a cooled first portion of the liquefaction material becomes the cooling liquid; cooling the pretreated biomass in the transfer system with the cooled first portion of the liquefaction material; and transferring a second portion of the liquefaction material from the first enzymatic hydrolysis vessel to a subsequent enzymatic hydrolysis vessel to undergo further enzymatic hydrolysis. | 26,646 |
8,984,088 | 1. A communication control apparatus for controlling data communication between a first network and a second network, the communication control apparatus comprising: a processor; a memory containing program instructions, the processor coupled to the memory executing the program instructions stored on the memory causing the processor to perform a procedure including: receiving a first packet sent from an access requesting apparatus over the first network, and upon determining that an access requested apparatus recognized from the received first packet exists in the second network, registering first identification information included in the received first packet in a storage unit of the communication control apparatus, the first packet being generated so as to include the first identification information identifying the access requesting apparatus and to enable communication control apparatuses which receives the first packet over the first network to recognize the access requested apparatus; receiving a second packet including the first identification information over the first network, the second packet being sent by multicast to search for a communication control apparatus connected to a network which the access requested apparatus is connected to; upon determining that the first identification information included in the received second packet is registered in the storage unit of the communication control apparatus, sending second identification information identifying the communication control apparatus to the access requesting apparatus; and upon determining that the first identification information included in the received second packet is not registered in the storage unit of the communication control apparatus, preventing sending of the second identification information to the access requesting apparatus. | 22,905 |
9,523,039 | 1. A method of upgrading coal and other carbonaceous fuels comprising: subjecting the carbonaceous fuel to a pyrolyzing process, thereby forming upgraded carbonaceous fuel and a flow of lean fuel gases; directing the flow of lean fuel gases and a flow of primary combustion air into a lean fuel combustor; combusting the lean fuel gases in the lean fuel combustor, thereby producing a gas stream of products of combustion; introducing at least a portion of the gas stream into the flow of primary combustion air; and directing the remainder of the gas stream to the pyrolyzer, wherein at least about 60% of the heat provided to the pyrolyzer is provided by the combustion of the lean fuel gases from the pyrolyzer, with the remainder of the heat being provided by an auxiliary fuel combustor; wherein the temperature of the lean fuel gases being introduced into the lean fuel combustor is controlled to be above the ignition temperature of an air-fuel mixture in the lean fuel combustor. | 19,180 |
8,510,594 | 1. A control system, comprising: a first control computer configured for interchanging data with at least one peripheral; at least one second control computer connected to said first control computer via a communication channel, said second control computer being configured to assume at least a part of a functionality of said first control computer; said first control computer being configured, in an event of a partial failure thereof, to forward data received from said second control computer via the communication channel to the peripheral and/or to forward data received from the peripheral to said second control computer via the communication channel. | 43,870 |
8,873,596 | 1. A mode-locked laser system operable at low temperature, the laser system comprising: a light source; an annealed, frequency-conversion crystal; a housing to maintain an annealed condition of the crystal during standard operation at the low temperature; first beam shaping optics configured to receive a beam from the light source and focus the beam to an elliptical cross section at a beam waist located in or proximate to the crystal; and a harmonic separation block to divide an output from the crystal into beams of different frequencies separated in space. | 45,457 |
9,810,219 | 1. A motor-driven compressor comprising: a compression unit adapted to compress refrigerant; an electric motor adapted to drive the compression unit; a housing that accommodates the compression unit and the electric motor; a cover coupled to the housing; a motor driving circuit arranged between the housing and the cover and adapted to drive the electric motor; a metal terminal that electrically connects the electric motor to the motor driving circuit; a coupling base disposed outside of the housing and coupled to the housing, the coupling based including a first side surface facing the cover and an opposing second side surface facing an end wall of the housing, wherein the motor driving circuit is coupled to the first side surface of the coupling base; and the end wall of the housing is coupled to the second side surface of the coupling base; a refrigerant passage, which is an internal is space formed within the coupling base, wherein the refrigerant flows in the refrigerant passage: and, a supply port formed in the coupling base to connect the refrigerant passage to an external refrigerator circuit, wherein each of the coupling base and the housing includes an insertion hole through which the metal terminal is inserted in an inserting direction, one of the coupling base and the housing includes a tubular protrusion portion that extends in a direction parallel to the inserting direction, wherein the tubular protrusion portion is separated from the insertion holes by a predetermined distance, the other of the coupling base and the housing includes a receiving hole that receives the tubular protrusion portion inside the receiving hole, the coupling base is positioned relative to the housing by insertion of the metal terminal into the insertion holes of the coupling base and the housing and by insertion of the tubular protrusion portion into the receiving hole in the direction parallel to the inserting direction of the metal terminal, and a communication passage is formed in the tubular protrusion portion to communicate the refrigerant passage of the coupling base and an interior of the housing to each other. | 38,819 |
9,499,729 | 1. A foamable composition comprising: (i) at least one foam forming component; and (ii) a blowing agent composition comprising: (a) from 30% to 95% 99% by weight of trans-3,3,3-trifluoro1-chloro-propene (trans-HFCO-1233zd); and (b) trans-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (transHFO-1234ze). | 23,936 |
9,546,609 | 1. An internal combustion engine comprising: a housing that defines at least one cylinder, the cylinder including an air port; an intake air system to supply intake air to the cylinder through the air port; a piston positioned to reciprocate in the cylinder; a gaseous fuel supply system that includes a metering valve fluidly positioned between a source of gaseous fuel and a gas supply nozzle assembly, which includes an outlet that opens and provides gaseous fuel directly into the cylinder, the gaseous fuel supply system different from the intake air system; a liquid fuel supply system that includes a source of liquid fuel fluidly connected to a fuel injector with a spray tip positioned in the cylinder; the gas supply nozzle assembly including a check valve attached between a main body attached to the metering valve and an end nozzle fluidly connected to the cylinder at the cylinder air port; and the check valve being movable between an open position to permit flow of gaseous fuel into the cylinder, and a closed position to prevent fluid flow from the cylinder into the main body; and wherein the engine includes a dual fuel configuration in which the metering valve and the check valve open to inject gaseous fuel into the cylinder each time the piston reciprocates in a cycle from top dead center to bottom dead center and back to top dead center; and wherein the engine includes a single fuel configuration in which the fuel injector sprays liquid fuel into the cylinder from the spray tip at least once during the cycle, and the check valve remains closed for the cycle. | 28,668 |
9,255,039 | 1. A method of treating soil comprising the steps of: applying to soil a composite comprising an agriculturally useful solid product coated with a solid, dried residue of a polymer-containing composition, said composite prepared by initially applying to said solid product an aqueous polymer-containing composition including a substantially water-soluble copolymer containing individual quantities of maleic and itaconic moieties, water, and an organic compound drying agent, and thereafter allowing said drying agent and a substantial part of the water present in the composite to evaporate, so that the composite does not contain said drying agent or water to any substantial degree, whereby the composite as applied to soil does not have any substantial presence of the drying agent and water which formed a part of the polymer-containing composition initially applied to said solid product. | 24,420 |
9,256,140 | 1. A movable body apparatus including a movable body which substantially moves along a predetermined plane, the apparatus comprising: a reflection surface which is arranged at one of the movable body and the outside of the movable body, with a first direction within a plane parallel to the predetermined plane serving as a longitudinal direction, and having a predetermined width in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; a measurement device which has a plurality of sensors, each of the plurality of sensors measuring positional information of the movable body in a third direction orthogonal to the predetermined plane at a plurality of measurement points placed on the reflection surface; and a controller which performs position control of the movable body, wherein: the placement of the plurality of measurement points is decided so that of the plurality of measurement points, n points (wherein, n is an integer of two or more) or more are positioned within the predetermined width on the reflection surface, and when the movable body is at a predetermined position, n+1 or more of the plurality of measurement points are positioned to be within the predetermined width on the reflection surface, and the controller performs the position control of the movable body, using first measurement information that includes measurement information at a first measurement point out of the n points or more measurement points positioned within the predetermined width on the reflection surface or the n+1 or more measurement points positioned within the predetermined width on the reflection surface when the movable body is at the predetermined position, and switches measurement information used for the position control of the movable body to second measurement information that includes measurement information at a second measurement point which is different from the first measurement point, in the case where abnormality occurs in the first measurement information due to malfunction of at least one of the plurality of sensors when the movable body is at a position where the measurement at the first measurement point is performed. | 7,157 |
8,686,233 | 1. A polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 99.5% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 8, wherein said polypeptide has insecticidal activity. | 15,678 |
8,402,793 | 1. A bushing system comprising: a bushing comprising a bottom plate having a plurality of holes from which filaments are drawn, the bottom plate having a longitudinal axis; an elongated support extending through the bushing generally along the longitudinal axis and applying an upward force on the bottom plate of the bushing; and a frame configured to support the bushing, wherein the frame includes a pair of horizontal rails upon which the elongated support is configured to rest, and wherein the horizontal rails comprise a treated surface that permits movement of the elongated support relative to the frame in the longitudinal direction as the bushing expands and contracts due to thermal heating and cooling. | 41,596 |
9,473,845 | 1. A noise cancelling earphone system, comprising: an earphone, having a microphone for detecting ambient noise and generating an ambient noise signal, and a speaker, and signal processing circuitry, connected to the microphone and to the speaker, wherein the speaker is located in the earphone for directing sound through an aperture provided in a front surface of the earphone, wherein the signal processing circuitry is adapted to receive the ambient noise signal from the microphone, and to apply the ambient noise signal to a filter having a controllable amount of gain, for generating a noise cancellation signal for transmission to the speaker, and wherein the earphone is provided with a plurality of ridges on the front surface thereof, the ridges defining at least one sound leakage channel across the front surface such that, however the earphone is worn within the outer ear of a user, an amount of sound leakage past the earphone into the ear canal of the user lies within a predetermined range. | 25,464 |
8,552,910 | 1. A method of locating missing nodes in a network, comprising the steps of: periodically receiving electronic GPS data including electronic GPS coordinates identifying the physical location of a mobile communication device, said mobile communication device comprising one or more radios, each radio having a respective receiver and corresponding antenna; collecting radio frequency (RF) data transmissions sent by one or more missing nodes in proximity to the mobile communication device, wherein each said RF data transmission comprises at least a node identifier used to identify whether a node in proximity to the mobile communication device is a missing node; determining a signal strength indicator from selected ones of the collected RF data transmissions, including those identified as being sent by missing nodes; wherein said RF data transmissions are received by the one or more radios and are collected while the mobile communication device is positioned in at least first and second different locations relative to each said one or more missing nodes; electronically implementing a triangulation procedure using the electronic GPS coordinates and the signal strength indicators for a given missing node as determined in said at least first and second different locations in order to identify an estimated location for the given missing node; and providing the estimated location for the given missing node as electronic output to a user; wherein said step of electronically implementing a triangulation procedure utilizes a weighted average of the GPS coordinates associated with different transmission collection locations such that transmission collection locations indicating a higher signal strength received from the missing node are weighted more heavily than transmission collection locations having a lower signal strength received from the missing node. | 8,197 |
9,434,072 | 1. A method of training a robot to complete a specified task comprising performing an action on an object, the robot having at least one appendage for manipulating the object and a machine-vision system for capturing images within a camera field of view, the method comprising: (a) selecting, by the robot, an object in the field of view and displaying the selection on a robot-controlled visual display, the displayed selection including a camera view of the selected object; (b) overlaying, by the robot, a representation of an end-effector onto the camera view and displaying, on the display, performance of an action on the object by the end-effector; (c) based on the displayed performance, providing feedback to the robot indicating whether the action is performed correctly, the robot modifying the performance of the action in response to the feedback; and (d) repeating steps (b) through (c) until the action is performed correctly on the display. | 1,283 |
8,588,987 | 1. A wind farm comprising: a plurality of wind energy installations comprising a first wind energy installation and a second wind energy installation; three control levels comprising a wind farm upper control level, a wind farm lower control level and a wind energy installation control level, the lower control level being between the upper control level and the installation control level; a master regulator associated with the wind farm upper control level, a plurality of submaster regulators associated with the wind farm lower control level and a plurality of installation regulators associated with the wind energy installation control level, the plurality of submaster regulators comprising a first submaster regulator and the plurality of installation regulators comprising a first installation regulator associated with the first wind energy installation and a second installation regulator associated with the second wind energy installation; a transfer point at which electrical energy produced by the wind energy installations is transferred to a public electricity grid system and for which nominal values are preset; and a measurement sensor configured to measure electrical actual values at the transfer point, wherein the master regulator is configured to use upper nominal values and upper actual values at the upper control level to determine a preset for the lower control level; and the first submaster regulator is configured to use the preset as a lower nominal value and, on the basis of the lower nominal value and a lower actual value, determine a preset for the first installation regulator and the second installation regulator. | 16,677 |
8,877,544 | 1. A method of manufacturing a solar cell, the method comprising: forming a first electrode over a substrate; forming a light-converting layer over the first electrode and patterning the light-converting layer to form a plurality of patterned light-converting layers that are spaced apart from each other; forming a transparent insulating layer; and forming a second electrode layer over the transparent insulating layer and patterning the second electrode layer to form the second electrode; wherein after forming the second electrode, the transparent insulating layer extends from a top surface of the patterned light-converting layers to the first electrode along a plurality of outer sidewalls of the patterned light-converting layers. | 28,203 |
9,502,524 | 1. A method of forming a semiconductor structure comprising the steps of: forming an aluminum gallium nitride layer (AlGaN) on a GaN layer; and forming a first gate stack on the AlGaN layer, the first gate stack including: forming a second gate stack disposed on the AlGaN layer, the second gate stack being different from the first gate stack. | 32,760 |
8,911,741 | 1. A stable liquid aqueous pharmaceutical formulation comprising (a) a human IgG1 anti-human Tumor Necrosis Factor alpha (TNFα) antibody, or an antigen-binding portion thereof, at a concentration of 20 to 150 mg/ml, (b) a polyol, (c) a polysorbate, and (d) a buffer system comprising phosphate and having a pH of 4.0 to 8.0, wherein the antibody comprises the light chain variable region and the heavy chain variable region of D2E7. | 43,935 |
8,768,277 | 1. A receiver circuit for processing of electrical signals, and comprising: an antenna, at least one amplifier coupled to the output of the antenna, an automatic gain control circuit coupled to the at least one amplifier to modify a gain thereof, and at least one voltage offset-compensating circuit embedded in the automatic gain control circuit and including a clock generator and at least one capacitor to effectively compensate an offset voltage, wherein the automatic gain control circuit includes a comparator, a peak detector and a threshold value generator, wherein the peak detector and the threshold value generator are coupled to inverting and non-inverting inputs of the comparator, respectively, and wherein at least one of a first capacitor and a second capacitor is operable to accumulate an offset voltage of at least one of the peak detector and the threshold value generator when at least one of the peak detector and the threshold value generator is driven in reset mode by a lower clock signal of the clock generator. | 43,037 |
8,584,439 | 1. A pickup assembly for an agricultural baler comprising: a main frame mountable on front of an agricultural baler, the main frame comprising two end members coupled to opposing ends of a reel assembly, the reel assembly comprising: a rotatable shaft; a bulkhead rotatable with the shaft, the bulkhead defining plural tine occupying areas and plural reel cover attachment areas in alternating succession around the periphery of the rotatable shaft; plural double-stacked tine rows, with one of said plural double-stacked tine rows in each tine occupying area such that each of the double-stacked tine rows is flanked by reel cover attachment areas, said double-stacked tine rows comprising a plurality of spaced apart tines, each tine comprising a coil portion, a tine fixing mechanism and a pair of radially extending portions for engaging crop material to be baled, wherein each double-stacked tine row comprises a first row of tines and a second row of tines having tines offset from tines in said first row such that adjacent tines in the first and second rows are offset in both a direction around the circumference of the rotatable shaft and also in a transverse direction along the shaft such that one of the radially extending portions of the tine in the first row is transversly positioned between the two radially extending portions of the adjacent tine in the second row; and a reel cover coupled to the plural reel cover attachment areas, the reel cover comprising a plurality of slots through which radially extending portions of the tines of the plural double-stacked tine rows extend. | 33,993 |
9,772,609 | 1. A method of enabling hydromodification management to compensate for changes in water runoff characteristics resulting from altered land use, the method comprising: creating parameters of a pre- and post-development continuous hydrologic simulation model of a drainage management area of interest; defining pre- and post-development flow duration data based upon the hydrologic simulation; defining desired post-development flow duration data resulting from use of flow control; creating flow rating data from the defined flow duration data; defining the physical parameters of a runoff detention facility having a water outlet with a selectively adjustable opening; defining control parameters for controlling the size of the outlet opening on the basis of the created flow rating data and the defined physical parameters; programming a controller in communication with the outlet with the control parameters; controlling, by the controller, the outlet opening based on the control parameters and thereby providing the flow control; actively monitoring characteristics associated with the detention facility over time to define an actual post-development flow duration; and comparing the actual post-development flow duration data with the previously defined post-development flow duration data and, if the actual post-development flow duration data differs from the previously defined post-development flow duration data, | 26,165 |
9,789,519 | 1. A mat cleaning device, wherein it comprises: at least a washing basket having the shape of a cage and intended to accommodate the mat in an adjacent arrangement, and in a non-folded position, said basket comprising: a support intended to support the basket, wherein the ends are enlarged and higher than the mesh, and the basket comprises an upper end parallel to the lower edge, joining the side ends at their top such that a space is created between the upper end and the free end of the metallic mesh so as to introduce the mat inside the basket; and the support comprises at least two horizontal bars between which the basket is arranged, and at least a vertical bar attaching to the horizontal bars at one of their ends; and wherein the basket is rotationally attached to the support by rotating elements such that it can rotate over a transversal axis, those rotating elements comprising axes situated in the upper end and in the lower edge of the basket, in correspondence to the transversal axis of the basket, and which are inserted in the horizontal bars of the support with. | 42,578 |
9,115,003 | 1. A method for increasing the evaporation rate of an evaporative pond comprising a pond liquor, said pond liquor comprising water and at least 1% by weight of sodium carbonate, said evaporative pond being in contact with an ambient air at an ambient air temperature of more than 0° C., said method comprising the following steps: heating a heat exchanger, said heat exchanger comprising a heated part section and a heating part section, with solar energy so that the temperature of said heating part section is at least 15° C.; feeding at least a part of said pond liquor to said heated part section of said heat exchanger; heating said pond liquor in said heating part section of said heat exchanger to produce a heated pond liquor at an operating temperature of at least 10° C. above the ambient air temperature, and at most 48° C.; and feeding said heated pond liquor heated at the operating temperature into an open area of said evaporative pond so that part of the water of said pond liquor evaporates. | 27,346 |
8,665,822 | 1. A method for handling physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) orders in a user equipment (UE) of a wireless communication system, the wireless communication system supports Carrier Aggregation (CA), which enables the UE to perform transmission and/or reception through multiple carriers, the method comprising: configuring a plurality of carriers; receiving a PDCCH order, the PDCCH order includes a carrier information that identifies a specific carrier, within the plurality of carriers, that the UE should use to trigger a random access (RA) procedure without having perform process of considering and selecting which carrier should be used to trigger the RA procedure; and using the specific carrier within the plurality of carriers to trigger the random access (RA) procedure according to the PDCCH order. | 36,505 |
9,194,919 | 1. An electric storage device comprising: an electric storage unit that includes at least one electric storage element; a measurement unit configured to measure a temporal voltage, a temporal current, and a temporal temperature of the electric storage element; a calculation unit configured to calculate an internal resistance of the electric storage element based on the temporal voltage, the temporal current, and the temporal temperature measured by the measurement unit; and a determination unit configured to determine whether the electric storage element has been exchanged based on a discontinuity of temporal variation of the internal resistance. | 34,646 |
8,420,239 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a substrate; a seed layer disposed on the substrate; an interstitial volume surrounding resist columns that are in a pattern of bit patterned magnetic media; a filler layer in the interstitial volume; and means, on top of the resist columns and not in the interstitial volume surrounding the resist columns, for resisting wetting by a material of the filler layer. | 17,622 |
8,770,893 | 1. An apparatus for recovering historical artifacts, eradicating invasive species, or restoring plant life in contaminated bottoms of a body of water, comprising: an elongate flexible bladder blanket divider having first and second ends; and an open bore vertical support operably coupled to the first and second ends, a releasable seal between the at least one bladder and the bottom of the body of water. | 25,942 |
8,910,668 | 1. A hose for transporting fluids in which a plurality of reinforcing layers is disposed between an inner surface rubber layer and a cover rubber layer, a visible design continuous in a hose axial direction being provided on an outer surface of the cover rubber layer, the hose for transporting fluids comprising: a sliding-surface layer that is adjacent to the cover rubber layer, that is embedded at least partially in the hose axial direction in the cover rubber layer and that is non-adhesive with respect to the cover rubber layer; and a constraining layer that is adjacent to and embedded in the cover rubber layer in a state in which opposite ends in a longitudinal direction of the constraining layer are not in contact with one another, the constraining layer being wound partially in a hose circumferential direction on an outer side of the sliding-surface layer and being adhesive with respect to the cover rubber layer. | 24,960 |
9,850,171 | 1. A ceramic precursor batch composition, comprising: inorganic ceramic-forming ingredients; a cellulose-based binder; an aqueous-based solvent; and a heteroatom polyol agent, wherein the heteroatom polyol agent is represented by X(R) where X is at least one of S and P, and R is at least two of CH | 29,706 |
8,717,668 | 1. A combined transport optical fiber cable and optical fiber amplifier for carrying a high power laser beam in the optical fiber cable from a laser source and the laser beam has a fundamental mode and higher order and transverse modes, the transport optical fiber cable and optical fiber amplifier comprising: a long length of large mode area, doped, clad fiber cable, the doped optical fiber cable amplifying a laser beam carried in the cable to overcome losses introduced by the cable; and a laser source for cladding pumping the large mode area optical fiber cable operating as a fiber cable amplifier; wherein the optical fiber cable has at least one segment that is coiled to filter out the unwanted higher order modes and transverse modes by launching them into the cladding of the optical fiber cable in the coiled cable segment, and leaving only the fundamental mode of the laser beam that is amplified, and wherein the filtering and amplifying of only the fundamental mode enhances the laser beam quality and provides a near diffraction-limited laser beam exiting the optical fiber cable. | 16,967 |
9,177,933 | 1. A three dimensional high surface electrode comprising at least one pillar between 1 micron and 50 nm tall with a core of silicon or silicon alloy, a complete and uniform layer of insulator between 50 nm and 250 nm, and a complete and uniform layer of conductive metal between 50 nm and 250 nm. | 14,404 |
9,169,501 | 1. A method for producing biodegradable polymer and ethanol converted from carbon source, comprising the steps of: (A) providing (B) culturing the (C) inducing expression of the (D) recovering the polyhydroxyalkanoate and the ethanol; wherein the recombinant microorganisms utilize more than 90% of the glycerol as a substrate (w/w), and have polyhydroxyalkanoate accumulated therein to a biomass content thereof of at least 30% (w/w). | 27,246 |
9,692,537 | 1. A method for processing data, said method comprising: receiving, by processing circuitry, a first transport stream comprising a first elementary stream and a second elementary stream, wherein the first elementary stream comprises first data, wherein a substantially constant number of bits of the first data are to be consumed per unit time, and wherein the second elementary stream comprises second data, wherein a varying number of bits of the second data are to be consumed per unit time, the first transport stream associated with a first delivery schedule for delivering the first transport stream to a decoder; storing, by the processing circuitry, at least the first elementary stream in a buffer; determining, by the processing circuitry, a second delivery schedule that is different from the first delivery schedule by: generating, by the processing circuitry, a second transport stream using the second delivery schedule, the second transport stream comprising the first elementary stream and the second elementary stream and associated with the second delivery schedule; delivering the second transport stream to the decoder according to the second delivery schedule; and adjusting, by the processing circuitry, a time base provided by a system time clock based at least in part on time stamps of the second transport stream, the time base provided by the system clock configured to control processing of both the first elementary stream and the second elementary stream of the second transport stream. | 40,845 |
8,572,983 | 1. A gas turbine engine component comprising: a gas path wall having a first surface and second surface; an impingement baffle having impingement holes for directing cooling fluid onto the first surface of the gas path wall; a cooling hole extending through the gas path wall, the cooling hole continuously diverging from an inlet in the first surface to an outlet in the second surface such that cross-sectional area of the cooling hole increases continuously from the inlet to the outlet; and a longitudinal ridge dividing the cooling hole into lobes. | 25,262 |
9,228,230 | 1. A method for real-time monitoring of nucleic acid amplification comprising: (a) reverse transcribing a viral RNA to DNA; (b) amplifying a target nucleic acid sequence of the DNA, using a thermostable nucleic acid polymerase, in the presence of a first oligonucleotide probe and a second oligonucleotide probe, wherein (c) detecting fluorescence of said first probe fluorophore in real-time to monitor amplification, wherein an increase in fluorescence correlates with amplification. | 10,002 |
9,448,508 | 1. A development device comprising: a developer container configured to contain a developer; a developer bearing member configured to be rotatably supported by the developer container, have a surface facing an image bearing member on which an electrostatic latent image is to be formed, and bear the developer on the surface; a mixing/transporting member configured to mix and transport the developer in the developer container; an opening/closing member configured to open and close a developer outlet for discharging an excess of the developer in the developer container; a pipe-like transport path provided in the developer container and configured to transport the developer and have an outer circumferential surface in which the developer outlet is formed; and a drive mechanism configured to drive the opening/closing member in association with driving of the mixing/transporting member to open the developer outlet by sliding the opening/closing member along the outer circumferential surface of the pipe-like transport path about a center axis of the pipe-like transport path, wherein the mixing/transporting member also serves as the drive mechanism, the opening/closing member has an opening, before the opening/closing member is driven, the opening does not overlap with the developer outlet and the opening/closing member is in a state closing the developer outlet, when the opening/closing member slides along the outer circumferential surface of the pipe-like transport path such that the opening overlaps with the developer outlet, the opening/closing member transitions from the state closing the developer outlet to a state opening the developer outlet, once the opening overlaps with the developer outlet, the opening/closing member stops and then is not driven in association with driving of the mixing/transporting member to be kept in the state opening the developer outlet. | 22,559 |
8,551,242 | 1. A cement composition comprising water and a cementitious material, wherein the cementitious material comprises vitrified shale, wherein the cementitious material further comprises blast furnace slag, calcium sulfate hemi-hydrate or combinations thereof. | 23,444 |
8,881,077 | 1. A diagnosis method for enabling automated debugging of pre-fabricated and post-fabricated digital hardware designs comprising the steps of: (a) applying a sequence of values to inputs, memory elements, or other signals of said hardware designs; (b) gathering an initial error trace t_e with a predetermined number of clock cycles K_f after applying said sequence of values; (c) copying the signal and value pairs from the initial error trace t_e into a new error trace t_e_i for a predetermined number of clock cycles K_f−K_i+1 to K_f wherein the length K_i is an initial trace bound and the length t_e_i is K_i<K_f; (d) performing debugging using the new error trace t_e_i thereby generating a set of debugging results; (e) analyzing the debugging results to determine if the suspect locations returned are the actual errors; and (f) analyzing the debugging results to determine if they denote one or more error locations. | 16,514 |
8,774,205 | 1. A network device for relaying a packet, comprising: an interface module provided to include a plurality of ports for connecting with a line and configured to send and receive a packet via the line, wherein the plurality of ports are controllable to be individually powered on and off, and a link aggregation is set for at least two ports among the plurality of ports; a forwarding module configured to analyze the packet received by the interface module, determine a forwarding destination to which the packet is to be forwarded, and forward the packet to the determined forwarding destination; and a port state controller configured to control a power on-off state of each of the plurality of ports, wherein the port state controller comprises: wherein the forwarding module comprises: a filter state controller configured, when the first determination module determines that the link aggregation is set for the packet receiver port, to keep one of the receiving filters corresponding to the packet receiver port in the power ON state and change one of the sending filters corresponding to the packet receiver port to the power ON state, while changing all other of the receiving filters and all other of the sending filters respectively corresponding to all the ports subjected to the change to the power OFF state by the first changeover module, to the power OFF state. | 12,051 |
9,782,653 | 1. A method of operation of a sports training safety system, comprising: providing a frame having a delivery rail, a delivery carriage, and a magnetic release, the delivery carriage attached between the frame and the magnetic release; magnetically attaching a training dummy to the magnetic release, the magnetic release including an electromagnet that is strength adjustable to accommodate a weight of the training dummy; transporting the training dummy to a target location along the frame; detecting a contact event on the training dummy based on a sensor; stopping motion of the transport system by a controller and releasing the training dummy from the magnetic release by electrically disengaging the electromagnet based on the contact event, thereby increasing physical safety to a user during impact with the training dummy. | 3,895 |
8,615,954 | 1. An apparatus for mounting or securing a piece of roof-mounted equipment above a roof, the apparatus comprising: a pedestal having a top wall surface and a bottom wall surface spaced apart from one another by a side wall surface; a plurality of protrusions extending along and away from a portion of said bottom wall surface; one or more protrusions including a keyway, said keyway capable of receiving an adhesive for securing said pedestal to a roof; and means on said top wall surface for attaching a piece of roof-mounted equipment to said pedestal. | 27,266 |
8,588,064 | 1. A method, comprising: obtaining a first message at a transport layer of a communication device from a first application being executed at the communication device; comparing an amount of data stored in a first queue at the transport layer with a first threshold value; determining at the transport layer a first potential communication bottleneck associated with a target node of the first message in response to determining the amount of data stored in the first queue at the transport layer exceeds the first threshold value; in response to determining the first potential communication bottleneck, determining at the transport layer a second potential communication bottleneck associated with the target node based on a comparison of the amount of data stored at the first queue with a second threshold value, the second threshold value different from the first threshold value; in response to determining the second potential communication bottleneck, | 42,380 |
8,808,478 | 1. A method for adhering, sealing, and isolating an automotive vehicle structure, comprising the steps of: providing at least two dissimilar materials with at least one non-planar surface; providing an insert including at least one aperture to assist in deforming the insert to conform to the shape of the at least one non-planar surface; installing between the two dissimilar materials (i) the insert that includes a metal mesh isolator having a plurality of openings therein; and (ii) a matrix material in contact with the metal mesh isolator and being received in the plurality of openings and in the at least one aperture, the matrix material having a tackiness in a green state that is sufficiently high so that the matrix material resists displacement after application to a surface; exposing the matrix material to heat after the step of installing the insert; wherein after the exposing of the matrix material to heat a joint is formed between the two dissimilar materials by which the insert bonds the two dissimilar materials and resists any displacement that would bring the two dissimilar materials into direct contact with one another. | 16,617 |
8,982,107 | 1. A scanning signal line drive circuit configured to drive scanning signal lines of a display unit, the scanning signal line drive circuit comprising: a shift register having a plurality of stages that sequentially transfer a shift pulse based on a plurality of clock signals that are externally inputted and are cyclically driven to one of a first level and a second level, wherein a stage constituent circuit constituting each stage of the shift register includes the second electrode of each of the P output control switching elements included in the stage constituent circuit is supplied with one of the plurality of clock signals as the output control clock signal such that signals different from each other are respectively supplied to the second electrodes of the P output control switching elements, in each stage constituent circuit, the stage constituent circuit includes two output nodes as the P output nodes and two output control switching elements as the P output control switching elements, two clock signals are inputted as the output control clock signals to the stage constituent circuit, on-duty of the two clock signals being substantially one thirds, the two clock signals being out of phase by 120 degrees, the stage constituent circuit each stage constituent circuit is supplied with, as the shift pulse, a scanning signal later driven to the ON level out of two scanning signals outputted from the two output nodes included in a previous-stage stage constituent circuit of the each stage constituent circuit, and the first-node controller changes the first-node from the ON level to the OFF level during a period after a scanning signal later driven to the ON level out of two scanning signals outputted from the two output nodes included in the stage constituent circuit or the second clock changes from the ON level to the OFF level until the first clock next changes from the OFF level to the ON level. | 34,241 |
9,376,316 | 1. A bulk solid consisting essentially of a metal hydride of the formula (I): wherein wherein | 43,780 |
8,900,766 | 1. A method for determining if and when to perform a freeze purge of flow channels in a fuel cell stack on a vehicle, said method comprising: identifying that the vehicle has been keyed off; determining whether a stack membrane humidification value is less than a predetermined humidification value that identifies the humidification of membranes in fuel cells in the fuel cell stack; determining if an ambient temperature is less than a predetermined ambient temperature if the membrane humidification value is not less than the predetermined humidification value; performing a short non-freeze purge of the flow channels in the fuel cell stack if the ambient temperature is not less than the predetermined ambient temperature; determining a wake-up time for a system controller based on a wake-up temperature for a next time to determine whether a freeze purge should be performed; causing the controller to go into a sleep mode for the wake-up time after the wake-up time has been determined; determining whether the wake-up temperature is less than a predetermined freeze-purge temperature when the controller wakes up after being put in the sleep mode and the wake-up time has elapsed; determining a new wake-up time for the system controller based on the wake-up temperature if the freeze-purge temperature is not less than the wake-up temperature; causing a vehicle auto-start if the freeze-purge temperature is less than the wake-up temperature; performing a stack warm-up process after the vehicle auto-start to increase the temperature of the stack to a predetermined stack temperature; and performing the freeze purge after the fuel cell stack has been increased to the predetermined stack temperature. | 23,158 |
9,353,730 | 1. A wind energy system comprising: a nacelle; a rotor driven alternator housed in the nacelle; a rotor connected to the alternator, the rotor including a rotor hub and three or more rotor blades, each blade being connected to the rotor hub; and a load control system in communication with the alternator, the load control system receiving wind data and comparing the wind data to parameters of the wind driving the rotor blades such that the load control system anticipates changes in wind speed and adjusts alternator load to optimize rotor rpm and optimize tip-speed ratio. | 17,800 |
9,049,310 | 1. A method for communication of data with respect to at least two telephony user devices in a data communications network, the method comprising: determining call party details for a telephone call, the telephone call involving at least a first telephony user device and a second telephony user device, said call party details including a first identity associated with said first telephony user device and a second identity associated with said second telephony user device; establishing, on the basis of said first and second identities in said call party details, a separate communications session, separate from said telephone call, for the communication of data to and/or from said at least two user devices; and transmitting, via the separate communications session, an alert activation request for an alert mechanism associated with the at least one of the at least two user devices, the alert activation request being capable of causing the at least one of the at least two user devices to activate the alert mechanism. | 30,745 |
9,361,233 | 1. A processor comprising: a plurality of processor cores grouped into modules, wherein each module has at least two processor cores grouped therein; a plurality of level 1 (L1) caches, each L1 cache directly accessible by one of the processor cores; a level 2 (L2) cache associated with each module, the L2 cache directly accessible by each of the processor cores associated with its respective module; a shared unified cache to store data and/or instructions for each of the processor cores in each of the modules; and a cache management module to manage cache lines in the shared unified cache using a first cache line eviction policy favoring cache lines which are shared across two or more modules over cache lines which are shared within one module, and wherein the first cache line eviction policy favors cache lines which are accessed relatively more frequently from the modules, wherein the plurality of processor cores, the plurality of L1 caches, the L2 caches, and the shared unified cache are on a same chip. | 47,151 |
9,191,834 | 1. An apparatus for managing a satellite service resource, the apparatus comprising: a service resource management unit to calculate an optimum frequency and an optimum output power for at least one satellite service through analysis of a satellite service resource, and to allocate the calculated frequency and the calculated output power to the at least one satellite service; and a communication system monitoring unit to measure at least one satellite service signal being received for the at least one satellite service, to compare the measured information to the allocated information received from the service resource management unit, and to transmit a result of the comparison to the service resource management unit. | 37,328 |
9,634,429 | 1. A connector for a power input, the connector comprising: a socket including a socket head provided with a plurality of plug insert receptacles, each plug insert receptacle in the plurality of plug insert receptacles receiving a conductive insert, the conductive insert connecting with a cable that extends from the plug insert receptacle through and out of the socket; a plug including: a handle for the plug that covers the base of the plug, the handle including: | 6,921 |
8,628,303 | 1. A wave energy converter comprising: a column platform to be submerged in a body of water, the platform being supported in the water at a first end by a submerged float and being restrained by a tether coupled to a second end and the bed of the body of water; a pump assembly comprising (i) a cylinder mounted on the first end of the platform, (ii) a weighted surface float configured to float on the surface of the body of water, the surface float comprising a buoyant portion and a weight portion; (iii) a double acting reciprocating pump comprising (a) a double acting piston housed in the cylinder; (b) a reciprocating member extending downwardly from an underside of the surface float and further extending inside the cylinder to connect the double acting piston and the weighted surface float; (c) an outlet pipe; and (d) a manifold operably coupled to the cylinder and to the outlet pipe; wherein the buoyant portion of the weighted surface float drives an up stroke of the double acting piston as wave height increases, and the weight portion of the weighted surface float drives a down stroke of the double acting piston as wave height decreases; the pump assembly being configured to draw water from the body of the water into the cylinder on both the up stroke and on the down stroke of the double acting piston and to expel pressurised water from the cylinder via the outlet pipe on both the up stroke and the down stroke of the double acting piston; and wherein the displacement of the fully submerged float is greater than the combined submerged weight of the platform, the pump assembly, and the tether, such that the tether remains taut during the down stroke of the double acting piston. | 38,202 |
8,586,064 | 1. A method of treatment of eczema in a mammal, comprising administering or having self-administered to said mammal an effective amount of a medicament consisting of cetyl palmitate and one or both of an excipient and a diluent, wherein said administration is oral administration. | 46,163 |
9,563,203 | 1. A buoy comprising: a shell; at least one communication device; at least one energy-providing device comprising at least one solar cell, magnet configured to move in a solenoid when the buoy moves, or wind turbine; at least one propulsion control unit; and an extendible tube or stick comprising a means for penetrating ice, said extendible tube or stick being fully retractable into an inner structure of the shell, said extendible tube or stick being controlled by the propulsion control unit. | 10,491 |
9,764,077 | 1. A method for treating a subject in need thereof, by extracorporeal removal of a bacterium or pro-inflammatory cytokine, said method comprising: a) contacting said subject's whole blood with heparin immobilized on a solid substrate, said heparin having a terminal residue, wherein heparin immobilization consists of a single covalent link of said terminal residue to said solid substrate by covalent end-point attachment, under conditions allowing binding of said bacterium or pro-inflammatory cytokine in said subject's whole blood sample to the heparin; b) separating the whole blood from the solid substrate; c) recovering said whole blood containing a reduced amount of said bacterium or pro-inflammatory cytokine; and d) reintroducing into said subject said whole blood containing a reduced amount of said a bacterium or pro-inflammatory cytokine. | 16,397 |
8,528,169 | 1. A patch fitting with auto-return function for a glass door, comprising: a clamping seat having a seat body for clamping a top edge of the glass door and a shaft; wherein the seat body has an oil chamber for storage of hydraulic oil and a shaft hole in fluid communication with and perpendicular to the oil chamber, and the shaft is pivotally inserted into the shaft hole of the seat body and has a shaft body with an end protruding out of the shaft hole and an eccentric cam provided on the shaft body; a damper installed in the oil chamber and contacted with the eccentric cam of the shaft for being pushed by the eccentric cam to press the hydraulic oil contained in the oil chamber to provide a damping resistance in response to a sweeping movement of the glass door; and a misalignment adjuster including a mounting plate having a center provided with a concave space and a periphery provided with a plurality of adjustment holes communicated with the concave space, a plurality of adjustment members each moveably mounted in one of the adjustment holes, and an adjustment plate, which is smaller in dimension than the concave space, arranged in the concave space of the mounting plate, connected with the end of the shaft body of the shaft and stopped by at least one of the adjustment members, such that a position of the clamping seat is adjustable by movements of the adjustment members. | 5,132 |
8,501,032 | 1. An immobilized composition comprising a structure selected from a group consisting of a formula as set forth in Formula 1, 2, and 2b structures: wherein independently: R R R L is CH X is an anion, and optionally a halide, a hydride, a carboxylate or a sulfonate, m is a cation having an appropriate balance of charge for anion X when the overall charge of the complex is zero, p is C and the composition is immobilized. | 21,377 |
8,557,469 | 1. A direct oxidation fuel cell comprising at least one cell, said cell being a stacked body comprising: a membrane electrode assembly comprising an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte membrane disposed between said anode and said cathode; an anode-side separator having a fuel flow channel for supplying a liquid fuel to said anode; and a cathode-side separator having an oxidant flow channel for supplying an oxidant to said cathode, wherein said anode-side separator comprises a first region comprising an upstream half of said fuel flow channel and a second region comprising a downstream half of said fuel flow channel, said anode comprises an anode catalyst layer in contact with said electrolyte membrane and an anode diffusion layer in contact with said anode-side separator, said anode catalyst layer comprises an anode catalyst and a polymer electrolyte, said anode catalyst layer comprises an upstream-side region facing said first region and a downstream-side region facing said second region, and the content of said polymer electrolyte in said anode catalyst layer is 27 to 50% mass at said upstream-side region, and 5 to 25% mass at said downstream-side region. | 7,219 |
9,569,524 | 1. A system comprising a first portable device and a database, said first portable device being used to identify a physical reference point; associating a logical reference point in said database with said physical reference point; said first portable device collecting data relating to said physical reference point to produce a first data file based on the collected data; uploading said first data file to said database; linking said first data file to said logical reference point in said database, wherein said first portable device and said database are part of a data network and said physical reference point is not necessarily part of said data network. | 47,966 |
9,507,405 | 1. A system comprising: a processor having a plurality of processor cores, each configured to execute program instructions; and a power management unit coupled to the plurality of processor cores and configured to throttle each of a subset of the plurality of processor cores by a number of throttle events in response to determining that the processor is operating above a predetermined power threshold during a given monitoring cycle; wherein the number of throttle events is based upon a relative priority of each of the plurality of processor cores to one another and an amount that the processor is operating above the predetermined power threshold; wherein the power management unit is further configured to determine the number of throttle events dependent upon a product of a number of throttle events per watt and the difference between the total power consumed by the processor and the predetermined power threshold. | 27,894 |
9,022,306 | 1. A compounding system for feed material containing plastic waste, the compounding system comprising: a chamber assembly defining a working chamber; a shaft; a sleeve assembly comprising first and second sleeve members each defining at least one arm opening, where the first and second sleeve members are arranged in a plurality of arms, where each of the arms is configured to be feed material is processed by rotating the sleeve assembly such that the arms engage the feed material. | 25,166 |
8,775,793 | 1. A method to manage features for a network node in accordance with a license, the network node configured to provide one or more services to a user device according to the license, the method comprising: generating an encryption combined hardware ID (CHWID) associated with the node based on hardware IDs (HWIDs) of hardware components of the node; and encrypting node license credentials with the encryption CHWID; wherein the credentials include certificates used for authorization of the node to enable and disable the features for the node in accordance with the license, the encryption CHWID includes encryption data and an encryption check code, the encryption data reflects a configuration of the hardware components of the node at a time when the encryption CHWID is generated, and the encryption check code corresponds to the encryption data. | 32,359 |
8,916,216 | 1. An apparatus comprising: at least four wires; each of said wires comprising a seat connected to one end of each of said wires; each of said seats further comprising a clip wherein said clip is connected to said seat; said seat and said clip forming a respective petal on an end of each wire; wherein said clip is configured to hold a piece of candy; wherein the wires are connected together; and a piece of candy is attached to each clip. | 4,041 |
8,888,995 | 1. A method for processing hydrocarbons, the method comprising: containing a hydrocarbon material in a reaction chamber connected to a resonant ring; directing radio frequency energy to the resonant ring through a four-port coupler; amplifying the radio frequency energy using the resonant ring; and receiving the radio frequency energy in the reaction chamber to process the hydrocarbon material by breaking covalent bonds of the hydrocarbon material without use of a catalyst and without a microwave absorbent additive material. | 9,955 |
9,660,075 | 1. A method for fabricating an integrated circuit, the method comprising: providing a semiconductor substrate with fin structures having PFET source/drain regions and NFET source/drain regions, wherein the fin structures have upper surfaces; selectively forming a contact resistance modulation material on the upper surfaces of the fin structures in the PFET source/drain regions; and depositing a band-edge workfunction metal overlying the PFET source/drain regions and the NFET source/drain regions. | 32,306 |
9,049,659 | 1. A method for improving power consumption in a multi-mode mobile terminal, the method comprising: checking current location information of the multi-mode mobile terminal through a first communication module; turning-on a second communication module for a local network when the current location information of the multi-mode mobile terminal being checked through the first communication module corresponds to at least one stored location information; and turning-off the second communication module when the current location information of the multi-mode mobile terminal being checked through the first communication module does not correspond to at least one stored location information. | 33,449 |
9,214,663 | 1. A method of fabricating an alkaline storage battery positive electrode, comprising the steps of: (A) fixing active material particles to a current collector, a surface of the active material particles being coated with conductive agent particles, the conductive agent particles containing a cobalt compound as a main component; and (B) reducing the cobalt compound of the conductive agent particles such that a cobalt atom in the cobalt compound has an oxidation number of less than +2, by applying a reduction current in an electrolyte solution to the current collector to which the active material particles are fixed, after the step (A) wherein the active material particles are formed as aggregates of nickel hydroxide particles, and the cobalt compound of the conductive agent particles is at least one kind of cobalt compound selected from the group consisting of cobalt hydroxide, tricobalt tetroxide, and cobalt oxyhydroxide. | 16,990 |
8,590,656 | 1. A battery holding structure of a two-wheeled vehicle, wherein the two-wheeled vehicle comprises a frame and a saddle, a storage box being arranged under the saddle, a power unit being arranged under the storage box, characterized in that the frame is provided with a battery mounting seat located outside and separate from the storage box, the storage box having a front end forming a shielding section, the shielding section forming a maintenance opening, the maintenance opening corresponding in position in a vertical direction to the battery mounting seat, wherein the battery mounting seat receives a battery support frame mounted thereon and the battery support frame receives a battery case mounted thereto, the battery case receiving therein a battery so that the battery is located within a range of dimension of an outer circumference of the maintenance opening. | 8,955 |
8,574,704 | 1. An article comprising a liquid-impregnated surface, said surface comprising a plurality of micro-scale and/or nano-scale solid features spaced sufficiently close to stably contain an impregnating liquid therebetween, said surface stably containing said impregnating liquid between said solid features, wherein said impregnating liquid fills the volume between said solid features, wherein said impregnating liquid is held in place between said plurality of features regardless of orientation of said surface, wherein 0<φ<0.5, where φ is the surface area fraction of said surface non-submerged by said impregnating liquid, and wherein said surface is a textured surface and said solid features are engineered protrusions of said textured surface. | 33,340 |
9,843,223 | 1. In a building having an area circuit wired to a circuit breaker, a system for selectively controlling electricity flowing into said area circuit through said circuit breaker, said system comprising: an electronically controlled switch wired in series between said circuit breaker and said area circuit, said switch having an on condition, wherein said switch enables electricity to flow between said circuit breaker and said area circuit, and an off condition, wherein said switch prevents electricity from flowing between said circuit breaker and said area circuit; a control unit, remote from said switch, that communicates with said switch, wherein said control unit selective controls said switch between said on condition and said off condition; and a credit card reader coupled to said switch, wherein said credit card read communicates with said control unit and causes said control unit to activate said switch to said on condition when a fee is paid through said credit card reader. | 37,222 |
9,155,459 | 1. A method for observation of two dimensional deformation and two dimensional shape of an inner ear membrane, the method comprising the steps of: exciting the inner ear with a predetermined acoustic input; the predetermined acoustic input provided by a sound generator; detecting a response to inner ear excitation by the predetermined acoustic input using a microphone; providing an incident light into inner ear, while the inner ear is responding to the inner ear excitation; the incident light provide by a light source; receiving a portion of the incident light, the portion being reflected or scattered due to the inner ear excitation; obtaining an interference pattern from the received portion of the incident light and a reference lightbeam; the reference lightbeam provided by a reference source; the received portion of the incident light and a reference lightbeam being received by an image detecting component; and analyzing the interference pattern to determine spatial and temporal information related to inner ear function; the spatial and temporal information comprising the two dimensional deformation and two dimensional shape of the inner ear membrane; the interference pattern being generated by a processing component and computer usable media having computer readable code embodied therein, which, when executed by the processing component, causes the processing component to analyze the interference pattern; | 31,440 |
9,215,638 | 1. A method for regulating wireless system reselection in a femtocell, comprising: detecting, by the femtocell, frequent system reselections from a macrocell to the femtocell by at least one mobile device operating in an idle mode; transmitting, by the femtocell, a reselection beacon at a transmission frequency based on the detected frequent system reselections; and controlling, by the femtocell, the frequent system reselections from the macrocell to the femtocell by concurrently increasing power of a pilot transmission of the femtocell that occurs with the transmitting of the reselection beacon. | 48,124 |
8,956,626 | 1. A modified influenza A/PR/8/34 virus, whose quantity of HA-NA (hemagglutinin and neuraminidase) glycoproteins on the surface is greater than 550 glycoproteins for a virion of 100 nm in diameter, including a mutated PB1 gene of SEQ ID NO: 1 coding for a PB1 protein having at least two specific amino acid modifications selected from the group consisting of: 188 (K→E), 205 (M→I), 212 (L→V), 216 (S→G), 398 (E→D), 486 (R→K), 563 (I→R), 576 (I→L), 581 (E→D), 584 (R→Q), 586 (K→R), 617 (D→N), 621 (Q→R), 682 (V→I) and 691 (R→K), wherein the modified influenza A/PR/8/34 virus is reassortant including the HA and NA genes of another influenza virus. | 32,699 |
9,052,074 | 1. A method for manufacturing lighting devices comprising at least one lighting module, the method comprising: providing a plurality of lighting modules, wherein each lighting module comprises a first set of contacts placed at a first end of said lighting module and a second set of contacts placed in corresponding positions at a second end of said lighting module; connecting together a plurality of said lighting modules for forming a series of lighting modules, wherein each lighting module is connected to the next lighting module by means of interconnection elements which connect the first set of contacts of each lighting module to the second set of contacts of the next lighting module; and cutting said series of lighting modules into lighting devices comprising at least one lighting module, wherein the interconnection elements of the last lighting module of each lighting device are cut along their transverse axes, wherein said interconnection elements comprise a base plate and a hollow portion in order to form female connectors when said interconnection elements are cut along their transverse axis, wherein said interconnection element has a cup shape with wings extending away from the cup shape. | 11,249 |
8,576,595 | 1. A method of a biased current limit for limiting a maximum output power of a power converter, comprising: generating a pulse signal and an oscillation signal; generating a waveform signal in response to the oscillation signal; sampling the waveform signal to generate a hold signal in response to a switching signal; sampling the hold signal to generate a current-limit threshold in response to a second-sampling signal, wherein the switching signal is utilized to switch a transformer of the power converter, and the second-sampling signal is correlated to the pulse signal; and comparing a current-sensing signal with the current-limit threshold to limit a maximum on-time of the switching signal, wherein the current-sensing signal is correlated to a switching current of the transformer. | 519 |
8,499,823 | 1. A radiant heating panel comprising a receptacle for heat transfer tubing, said receptacle being divided into at least two separate and immediately-adjacent tracks, each track for receiving respective heat transfer tubing, with a portion of said at least two immediately-adjacent tracks forming a partition which extends directly between two of said at least two immediately-adjacent tracks and defines a mutual wall of said two immediately-adjacent tracks, and additionally comprising at least one fin mounted upon an outer surface of said receptacle. | 47,935 |
9,166,187 | 1. An organic light emitting device, comprising: a first substrate, wherein a surface of the first substrate is divided into a first region and a second region by a symmetry axis on the surface of the first substrate; at least an organic light emitting unit being disposed on the first substrate; a plurality of first electrode contacts being disposed on the first region at a margin of the organic light emitting unit, wherein adjacent two first electrode contacts are spaced by a first interval, and an end of each first electrode contact is electrically connected to the organic light emitting unit; a plurality of second electrode contacts being disposed on the second region at a margin of the organic light emitting unit, wherein adjacent two second electrode contacts are spaced by a second interval, an end of each second electrode contact is connected to the organic light emitting unit, and the second interval is different from the first interval; a second substrate being disposed on the organic light emitting unit; and a sealing structure being provided around an outer periphery of the organic light emitting unit so that a sealed space is formed between the first substrate and the second substrate. | 4,445 |
9,836,533 | 1. A method of operation in an evaluation system, the evaluation system including at least one processor and at least one nontransitory processor-readable medium that stores at least one of processor-executable instructions or data, the at least one nontransitory processor-readable medium communicatively coupled to the at least one processor, the method comprising: deriving by the at least one processor a set of user interest groups from a plurality of user interests specified by a plurality of users as freeform text, where the number of interest groups in the set of user interest groups is less than a total number of user interests in the plurality of user interests specified by the plurality of users; for each of a number of the users, determining by the at least one processor a respective interest group membership vector based on respective user interests specified by the respective user, the interest group membership vector having one or more elements which represent a partial membership in respective ones of one or more of the interest groups; and assessing by the at least one processor at least one of the users based at least in part on at least one of the interest group membership vectors. | 46,646 |
8,830,307 | 1. An image display apparatus that sequentially displays a series of input images, the image display apparatus comprising: an image processor comprising hardware, the image processor executing: an image classification unit that classifies each of images included in the series of images into two or more image groups, including one or more temporally consecutive images, based on a correlation level among each of the images; a feature-image detector that detects a feature-image area including a predetermined feature from each of the images, and detects each of feature images including the detected feature-image area from the series of images; a representative-image extracting unit that extracts each of the feature images included in each of the two or more image groups as one or more representative images that represent each of the two or more image groups when each of the two or more image groups includes at least one feature image, and extracts one image based on a predetermined criteria as a representative image from each of the two or more image groups when each of the two or more image groups does not include a feature image; a feature-image selector that calculates a variation amount of a predetermined feature amount of the feature-image area generated between the temporally continuous feature images from among a plurality of the feature images detected by the feature-image detector, and selects a feature-representative image that represents a plurality of the feature images based on the calculated variation amount; and an image display controller comprising hardware that performs a control of sequentially displaying the representative images extracted by the representative-image extracting unit one by one in a temporal order by displaying the representative image which is a feature image at a slow-display rate and displaying the representative image which is not a feature image at a normal-display rate which is faster than the slow-display rate; wherein the feature-image detector calculates the predetermined feature amount of each of the detected feature-image areas, the feature-image selector calculates the variation amount based on the feature amount calculated by the feature-image detector, the representative-image extracting unit extracts the feature-representative image as the representative image from among the feature images in each of the image groups, and the predetermined feature amount is a position of the feature-image area in the feature-image. | 4,962 |
9,463,800 | 1. A control method for a motor-driven vehicle comprising steps of: comparing a motor output with a hill holding condition on an inclined road; and performing a hill holding fail safe through a brake cooperation control when the motor output is less than the hill holding condition, wherein in the step of comparing the motor output with the hill holding condition, a determination of the comparison with the hill holding condition is performed with a condition of the incline road, an over temperature condition of an inverter, and an output limitation condition of a driving motor. | 31,714 |
9,389,602 | 1. A method comprising: establishing, by a server computer in communication with a programmable logic controller, one or more classes of objects, including defining at least one attribute or method for each object; assigning, by the server computer, a project object to the programmable logic controller, the project object being associated with at least one program file object residing on the programmable logic controller and at least one data file object residing on the programmable logic controller; executing, by the server computer, an automation interface exposed to a client application; receiving, by the server computer via the automation interface from the client application, a data request to upload control process data from a data file object, the data request specifying the control process data as an attribute of the project object or an object associated with the project object; and based on the specified control process data attribute in the received data request, executing, by the server computer via the automation interface, the data request with the programmable logic controller associated with the project object associated with the specified control process data attribute. | 23,792 |
8,806,010 | 1. A system comprising: an enterprise-level network architecture including a communication system; a first tool in communication with the communication system and configured to perform a first number of tasks using a first number of process parameters; a first sensor system in communication with the communication system and configured to collect first process data while the first tool performs the first number of tasks; a second tool in communication with the communication system and configured to perform a second number of tasks using a second number of process parameters, the second tool being different than the first tool, the second number of tasks being different than the first number of tasks, and the second number of process parameters being different than the first number of process parameters; a second sensor system in communication with the communication system and configured to collect second process data while the second tool performs the second number of tasks, the second sensor system being different than the first sensor system; and a central server that is part of the enterprise-level network architecture, the central server configured to monitor the first tool as the first tool performs the first number of tasks and also to monitor the second tool as the second tool performs the second number of tasks, the central server further configured to receive the first process data and the second process data, the central server further configured to analyze the first process data and the second process data to determine whether a process parameter update is needed for the first tool, for the second tool, or for both; wherein the first tool further comprises a first data processing system in communication with the communication system and configured to receive a first number of process parameter updates from the central server while the first tool performs the first number of tasks, and wherein the second tool further comprises a second data processing system in communication with the communication system and configured to receive a second number of process parameter updates from the central server while the second tool performs the second number of tasks. | 42,789 |
9,393,243 | 1. A pharmaceutical composition formulated for: a. topical application to a body surface, and b. antibacterial activity localized to the body surface, the pharmaceutical composition consisting essentially of: a therapeutically effective amount of a non-betaine form ciprofloxacin; at least one member selected from the group consisting of a pH adjusting agent and a preservative; water; and a pH of from more than 6 to about 8.5, wherein: more than 10% of the non-betaine form ciprofloxacin is in the pharmaceutical composition in suspended form; the body surface is: at least one member of the group consisting of a dermal surface, an ophthalmic surface, a mucosal surface, and a fingernail surface, and/or in at least one member selected from the group consisting of an ear canal, an oral cavity, a pharyngeal cavity, a nasal cavity, a pulmonary cavity, a vaginal cavity, and a rectal cavity; and the pharmaceutical composition exhibits a more rapid onset of antibacterial activity than a comparator formulation that differs from the pharmaceutical composition by having: a pH of about 4.5 and 5% or less of the non-betaine form ciprofloxacin in suspension. | 42,802 |
9,075,911 | 1. A system, comprising: a processor configured to execute: a scenario observer configured to acquire event data relating to a plurality of events on a system having software and hardware, wherein the plurality of events comprises user input; a scenario associator configured to associate the event data with a plurality of scenarios by identifying a scenario start event included in a first scenario and assigning all subsequent event data to the first scenario; a scenario analyzer configured to analyze the plurality of scenarios to identify usage patterns of the system; and a simulation of a revised system, wherein the simulation receives the usage patterns as input and derives simulated activities of the revised system, wherein the scenario observer is configured to select the scenario start event by querying a repository storing a plurality of user-reconfigurable start events comprising the scenario start event and a second scenario start event, and wherein the scenario associator is configured to apply the scenario start event in a first logging run of the first scenario and to apply the second scenario start event in a second logging run of the first scenario. | 41,211 |
8,931,856 | 1. A brake control apparatus that obtains a required braking force using a hydraulic braking force in combination with a regenerative braking force, comprising: a hydraulic brake unit that controls the hydraulic braking force, wherein when a deviation of an actual hydraulic pressure from a target pressure falls outside a permissible range, the hydraulic brake unit controls the actual hydraulic pressure in such a manner that the deviation falls within the permissible range, whereas when the deviation is within the permissible range, the hydraulic brake unit maintains the actual hydraulic pressure, wherein the hydraulic brake unit includes a control unit that determines timing at which usage of the hydraulic braking force needs to be started to compensate for a deficiency from the required braking force, and that raises the target pressure at the determined timing or that executes pressure-increase promotion control so that the actual hydraulic pressure starts increasing at the determined timing wherein the control unit determines that usage of the hydraulic braking force is started, to compensate for the deficiency from the required braking force, when a state continues for a time that exceeds a determination reference time, the state being when an actual output value of the regenerative braking force is smaller than a required braking force that is prepared a predetermined time before detection of the actual output value, the predetermined time accounting for a time between the control unit preparing the required braking force and receiving the actual output value based on the required braking force. | 14,031 |
8,773,559 | 1. A solid-state imaging device comprising: a semiconductor substrate; and a plurality of pixels arrayed two-dimensionally in the semiconductor substrate, each of the pixels having a photoelectric conversion element that performs photoelectric conversion, the photoelectric conversion element having a first impurity region, formed in the semiconductor substrate, containing an impurity of a first conductivity type; a second impurity region formed in the semiconductor substrate so as to be in contact with the first impurity region, containing an impurity of a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type; and a PN junction portion in which the first impurity region and the second impurity region are in contact with each other, formed in a protruding shape projecting toward a surface side of the semiconductor substrate, and further wherein the protruding shape is substantially conical, and wherein isolation regions are formed at opposite sides of the PN junction such that a top of each opposed isolation region is at a level that is proximate a highest portion of the PN junction and lower portions of the opposed isolation regions are located at a lowest portion of the PN junction, the isolation regions being tapered to provide a greater area for the pixel at a lowermost portion. | 5,817 |
9,186,952 | 1. A vehicle comprising: a frame; a left ground engaging member operatively connected to a first end portion of the frame and being disposed on a left side of a longitudinal centerline of the vehicle; a left suspension arm operatively connecting the left ground engaging member to the first end portion of the frame; a left shock absorber operatively connected between the left suspension arm and the frame; a right ground engaging member operatively connected to the first end portion of the frame and being disposed on a right side of the longitudinal centerline; a right suspension arm operatively connecting the right ground engaging member to the first end portion of the frame; a right shock absorber operatively connected between the right suspension arm and the frame; at least one other ground engaging member operatively connected to a second end portion of the frame opposite the first end portion of the frame; at least one other suspension arm operatively connecting the at least one other ground engaging member to the second end portion of the frame; at least one other shock absorber operatively connected between the at least one other suspension arm and the frame; a motor operatively connected to at least one of the left ground engaging member, the right ground engaging member and the at least one other ground engaging member; a sway bar pivotally connected to the frame; a left hinge pivotally connecting a left end of the sway bar to the left suspension arm, the left hinge including: a right hinge pivotally connecting a right end of the sway bar to the right suspension arm, the right hinge including: | 13,787 |
9,263,892 | 1. A method of managing energy supply in which an aggregator receives an energy demand from at least one operator of an energy distribution network and sends instructions to a plurality of energy facilities driven by said aggregator and capable of producing and/or storing energy in order to satisfy said demand, the method being characterized by the following steps: each energy facility transmits to the aggregator a description of instantaneous variations of the energy state and technical constraints linked to its operation in order to satisfy said demand; and the aggregator automatically defines for each energy facility a response profile for the demand as a function of said description by taking into account non-linear responses and energy state history data from each energy facility and by using a finite set of continuous curves, each describing the energy state of each energy facility, a present energy demand, the energy available in each energy facility, and the time of said demand from the operator and transmits said response profile to the operator of the energy distribution network, and transmits a set of control signals to each energy facility in order to satisfy said demand from the operator. | 24,223 |
8,521,535 | 1. A biochemical analyzer having a microprocessing apparatus with expandable voice capacity, the biochemical analyzer comprising: a detector being configured to conduct assays; a data processor, connected to said detector, comprising a driving module and a signal amplifying module, being configured to process and store assay results of the assays coming from the detector; a voice carrier, connected to said data processor, being configured to store voice files and being demountable and replaceable; a voice player, connected to said data processor, being configured to play voice files stored in the voice carrier by the driving module and increase the volume of the voice by the signal amplifying module of said data processor; a display, connected to said data processor, being configured to display information and data related to the biochemical analyzer; a transmitter, connected to the data processor, being configured to transmit the assay results to an external computer; thereby the driving module solving the problem of being demountable and replaceable without diver on the voice carrier, needing not to be set separately in an additional element, since the voice carrier is replaceable, other voice carriers of different levels of capacity being allowed to work with the biochemical analyzer for expansibility; and the signal amplifying module serving to stably amplify audio signals of the voice files in the voice carrier for the voice player to play the voice files. | 33,227 |
8,599,299 | 1. A method comprising: accessing a digital image by an imaging device having a display comprising a first display portion and a second display portion; identifying an output image product that is to include at least a first portion of the digital image wherein parameters of the output image product relate to an appearance of the digital image in the output image product; generating an adjusted digital image by digitally modifying at least a second portion of the digital image, wherein the modifying is based at least in part on the parameters of the output image product, wherein the adjusted digital image represents how the digital image would appear in at least a portion of the output image product; displaying the adjusted digital image in the first display portion; displaying the adjusted reference image in the second display portion. | 19,814 |
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