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8,501,778 | 1. A compound represented by the following formula, or a salt thereof: wherein: A represents: OH, F, Cl, Br, or a (C when B is connected with an adjacent carbon through a single bond, B represents OH; when B is connected with an adjacent carbon through a double bond, B represents O or S; R R R n=0 or 1; m=1. | 4,095 |
8,748,390 | 1. An immunogenic epitope having no more than 20 amino acid residues and comprising GLFDEYLEMV (SEQ ID NO:1), wherein the immunogenic epitope binds to HLA-A2. | 41,890 |
8,446,660 | 1. An electrochromic display device, comprising: a first substrate; a first electrode provided on an upper surface of the first substrate; a second substrate provided to be opposed to the first substrate above the first substrate, the second substrate being formed of a transparent material; a second electrode provided on an undersurface of the second substrate, at least a part of the second electrode being formed of a transparent electrode material; and an electrochromic composition layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, the electrochromic composition layer containing an electrochromic composition including a supporting electrolyte, a polar solvent, a leuco dye, a hydroquinone derivative and/or a catechol derivative, a ferrocene derivative, and a compound having a carbonyl group. | 35,718 |
9,108,916 | 1. A method for treating a hematopoietic cancer, comprising administering to a patient in need thereof an effective amount of a compound of a structural formula: wherein R R R R R R R n is 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or hydrate thereof. | 42,722 |
9,363,707 | 1. A method of wireless communication, comprising: generating a frame comprising a physical layer preamble having a signal field, the signal field comprising: encoding the multiple fields comprising information associated with the frame type in the signal field of the frame, the information comprising: wherein the frame type is at least one of a set of frame types, the set comprising: an acknowledgement frame; a power save poll frame; a clear to send frame; and a block acknowledgement frame; and transmitting the frame. | 34,210 |
8,727,998 | 1. A method for measuring portal venous blood pressure in a subject, the method comprising the steps of: a) applying a mechanical excitation to spleen of the subject; b) acquiring displacement data relating to tissue displacement in the spleen in response to this applied force with a medical imaging system; c) calculating a splenic shear stiffness value from the acquired displacement data; d) developing a mathematic model between splenic shear stiffness and portal venous blood pressure; and e) calculating the portal venous blood pressure using the calculated splenic shear stiffness value and the mathematic model between splenic shear stiffness and portal venous blood pressure. | 22,964 |
9,140,178 | 1. An engine method, comprising: draining condensate from a charge air cooler coupled to an engine in response to a compressor bypass valve event including, via an electronic controller: | 20,804 |
9,257,702 | 1. A plate-like particle of a cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery, wherein the plate-like particle has a structure in which numerous primary particles are bound to one another, each primary particle having a layered rock salt structure, wherein the plate-like particle has a thickness of 5 μm or more and less than 30 μm, a ratio of intensity of X-ray diffraction by the (003) plane to intensity of X-ray diffraction by the (104) plane, [003]/[104], of 2 or less, a voidage of 3% or more and less than 30%, and an open pore ratio of 70% or higher, wherein the intensity of X-ray diffraction is attained by measuring an X-ray diffraction profile of only a plate surface of the plate-like particle. | 38,313 |
8,742,066 | 1. A process for preparing a recycled butyl ionomer material, the process comprising: a. providing a virgin uncured butyl ionomer material having a ultimate tensile strength at ambient temperature and having an initial Mooney visocosity ML (1+8) @ 125° C. of 25-35 Mooney units; b. heating the butyl ionomer to a temperature of from 80 to 200 ° C.; c. exposing the butyl ionomer to shear mixing conditions in an extruder for at least 10 to 60 seconds; and, d. cooling the butyl ionomer to ambient temperature to form the recycled butyl ionomer, wherein the recycled butyl ionomer is processible into thermo-reversible shaped articles. | 36,809 |
9,680,146 | 1. A device ( 1 ) for filling at least one cell ( 2 ) of a rechargeable battery ( 3 ) with electrolyte liquid ( 30 ), comprising: a filling apparatus ( an evacuatable sealing container ( a feed means ( mechanical guide means ( | 1,013 |
8,862,388 | 1. A method of operating a system for providing locations of collection, charging and distribution machines for collection, charging and distribution of portable electrical energy storage devices, the method comprising: receiving, by the system for providing locations of collection, charging and distribution machines, information regarding locations of a plurality of collection, charging and distribution machines for collection, charging and distribution of portable electrical energy storage devices, wherein the system for providing locations of collection, charging and distribution machines includes at least one computer processor coupled to a memory; receiving, by the system for providing locations of collection, charging and distribution machines, information regarding a location of a user; determining, by a computer processor of the system for providing locations of collection, charging and distribution machines, based on the information regarding the locations, locations of a group of collection, charging and distribution machines within the plurality of collection, charging and distribution machines that are one or more of: within a particular distance from the location of the user and within a particular driving time from the location of the user; and communicating to the user, by a computer processor of the system for providing locations of collection, charging and distribution machines, the determined locations of the group of collection, charging and distribution machines within the plurality of collection, charging and distribution machines that are one or more of: within a particular distance from the location of the user and within a particular driving time from the location of the user, wherein the determined locations of the group of plurality of collection, charging and distribution machines are selectable by the user for the user to proceed to a selected one of the determined locations of the group of plurality of collection, charging and distribution machines. | 33,868 |
8,702,693 | 1. A method of coagulating tissue, comprising the steps of: supplying power to a tissue coagulation apparatus at a constant power rate; supplying fluid to the tissue coagulation apparatus at a fluid flow rate that is equal to a base fluid flow rate; measuring a temperature at the tissue coagulation apparatus; determining a rate of temperature change; adjusting the fluid flow rate from the base fluid flow rate as a function of predetermined combinations of both the measured temperature and the rate of change of the measured temperature without attempting to maintain a constant temperature; and substantially reducing the power supplied to the tissue coagulation apparatus when the measured temperature is at least equal to an input safety temperature. | 49,233 |
9,377,833 | 1. A power management method for use in an electronic system, wherein the electronic system comprises a processor, and a power management unit, the power management method comprising: when the processor has entered a low power state and an awakening event of the processor occurs, calculating by the power management unit a staying time from the time point the processor entered the low power state till the time point the awakening event occurs, wherein an operation voltage of the processor is at a first voltage level in the low power state; when the processor starts to exit the low power state according to the awakening event, determining by the power management unit a wait time, during which the operation voltage of the processor is recovered to a second voltage level of a working state from the first voltage level, according to the calculated staying time, wherein the first voltage level is lower than the second voltage level, and wherein the determining operation further comprises: dividing the calculated staying time into a plurality of levels; and mapping the calculated staying time to the wait time according to one of the levels corresponding to the calculated staying time. | 18,742 |
9,601,926 | 1. A method of controlling a Multi-Terminal High Voltage Direct Current (MTDC) system with at least three terminals, each terminal including a Voltage Source Converter (VSC) controlled by a VSC controller, comprising: providing a converter schedule including at least one of a desired power flow value and a DC voltage; determining, by a MTDC master controller, a present state of the MTDC system including a dynamic topology of the MTDC system; determining, by the MTDC master controller, based on the present state of the MTDC system, based on the schedule and based on MTDC system constraints, VSC controller parameters including droop settings for local control by the VSC controllers; and transmitting the VSC controller parameters to the VSC controllers. | 48,279 |
9,832,991 | 1. An agrochemical aqueous composition comprising a pesticide and a copolymer comprising a) at least 20 wt % vinylimidazol and/or a quaternized vinylimidazol, b) an acidic comonomer, and c) up to 30 wt % of a hydrophobic comonomer, which comprises C wherein the pesticide is at least 80% dispersed in the aqueous composition and has a solubility in water of up to 10 g/l at 20° C., and wherein the composition comprises at least 5 wt % of a dissolved salt. | 5,496 |
9,068,826 | 1. A method for checking a blade contour of a turbomachine, comprising: registering an actual contour of a blade; scaling a setpoint contour of the blade, the scaling being a shape-invariant or geometrically similar change of the setpoint contour by enlargement or reduction of the setpoint contour as a whole, the setpoint contour being scaled so that a distance to the actual contour becomes minimal; and comparing the actual contour to the scaled setpoint contour, in order to determine if the actual contour is within a predetermined tolerance band around the scaled setpoint contour. | 17,389 |
9,809,110 | 1. A saddle-riding type vehicle comprising: a seat; a steering handle disposed forward of the seat; a fuel tank including a vent configured to discharge fuel vapor, the fuel tank being arranged such that at least a portion of the fuel tank is positioned below the seat; a canister connected to the vent of the fuel tank and configured to capture the fuel vapor; and an overflow prevention valve provided in a fuel vapor passage that connects the vent and the canister, the overflow prevention valve being configured to prevent liquid fuel from flowing from the fuel tank to the canister, and the overflow prevention valve being positioned higher than the vent of the fuel tank. | 4,273 |
9,308,965 | 1. An electric wheel hub drive for a vehicle, comprising: a hub housing pivot-mounted about an axis; a brushless electric motor coaxially arranged to said axis and including a rotor and a stator for driving the hub housing, wherein the stator includes a hollow-cylindrical stator winding, and wherein the rotor includes at least one permanent magnet and is arranged as an internal rotor radially within the stator winding, wherein the stator winding is a core-less stator winding and includes a plurality of windings circumferentially overlapping each other; a motor housing of the electric motor that encloses the stator winding; a magnetically soft yoke arranged between the stator winding and the motor housing; and a temperature sensor provided for monitoring an operating temperature of the electric motor, and the temperature sensor is located on the axial end of the yoke and the axial end of the stator winding, and the temperature sensor is in direct contact with the yoke and the stator winding. | 9,431 |
9,228,229 | 1. A method for analyzing a nucleic acid template in a biological sample, the method comprising the steps of: forming a plurality of microdroplets, each comprising a nucleic acid template and a plurality of sets of primer pairs, each set of primer pairs being specific for a different target site on a different nucleic acid template, binding only a single primer pair to the target site on the nucleic acid template in each microdroplet; amplifying a single target site from the nucleic acid template in each of the microdroplets using one of the sets of primer pairs specific for the single target site to generate amplification products; attaching a sequencing adaptor and a barcode sequence to the amplification products; and sequencing the amplification products, thereby to analyze the nucleic acid template. | 30,177 |
8,877,290 | 1. A method for producing a liquid-ejection head including: a substrate on or above which a plurality of actuators are formed, the plurality of actuators generating energy for ejecting a liquid; and a flow-passage-forming member on or above the substrate, the flow-passage-forming member defining ejection ports through which the liquid is ejected and a plurality of liquid chambers each having a corresponding one of the plurality of actuators, the flow-passage-forming member including an orifice plate defining the ejection ports and liquid-chamber side walls defining side walls of the plurality of liquid chambers, the method comprising the steps of: (1) forming molds on or above the substrate; (2) forming the flow-passage-forming member by depositing an inorganic material on or above the substrate and the molds by chemical vapor deposition, the flow-passage-forming member having depressed portions each formed in an area between an adjacent pair of the liquid-chamber side walls in which the molds are not formed; (3) forming a water-repellent layer on the orifice plate; (4) forming filling members in the depressed portions by applying a filling material to the flow-passage-forming member having the water-repellent layer formed thereon to fill the depressed portions with the filling material; (5) forming the ejection ports in the flow-passage-forming member; and (6) forming the plurality of chambers by removing the molds after forming the ejection ports. | 40,878 |
9,185,291 | 1. A zoom digital camera comprising: a) a Wide imaging section that includes a fixed focal length Wide lens with a Wide field of view (FOV), a Wide sensor and a Wide image signal processor (ISP), the Wide imaging section operative to provide Wide image data of an object or scene; b) a Tele imaging section that includes a fixed focal length Tele lens with a Tele FOV that is narrower than the Wide FOV, a Tele sensor and a Tele ISP, the Tele imaging section operative to provide Tele image data of the object or scene; and c) a camera controller operatively coupled to the Wide and Tele imaging sections, the camera controller configured to combine in still mode at least some of the Wide and Tele image data to provide a fused output image of the object or scene from a particular point of view and to provide without fusion continuous zoom video mode output images of the object or scene, each output image having a respective output resolution; | 3,449 |
9,197,593 | 1. A computer-implemented method for a metadata service to accumulate and organize data relating to videos, the method comprising a metadata service performing the steps of: receiving social data relating to videos from members of at least two Internet-based social network services (SNS), the social data associated with specific time points during the videos, the videos provided to the SNS members by video sources; storing video bookmarks for the videos; storing the social data indexed to the video bookmarks, the video bookmarks marking the time points associated with the social data but without storing clips of the videos; providing the video bookmarks to SNS members, wherein the video bookmark includes a thumbnail of a frame of the video from the marked time point, and wherein the SNS member activating the video bookmark causes playback by the video source of the video from the marked time point; and wherein the metadata service is operated by an entity different than entities operating the social network services and the video sources. | 45,265 |
8,532,307 | 1. A method of providing binaural hearing assistance to a user, comprising: capturing audio signals at a right ear unit which is worn at the right side of a user's head and which comprises means for stimulating a user's right ear; simultaneously capturing audio signals at a left ear unit which is worn at the left side of the user's head and which comprises means for stimulating a user's left ear; defining a target signal with regard to background noise; determining a difference in a target-signal-to-background-noise ratio of the audio signals captured at the right ear unit and the audio signals captured at the left ear unit; exchanging audio signals between the right ear unit and the left ear unit according to the determined difference in the target-signal-to-background-noise ratio; selecting, as a function of the determined difference in the target-signal-to-background-noise ratio, as input to each of the stimulating means at least one of the audio signals captured at the respective ear unit, the audio signals received from the other one of the ear units, and mixtures thereof; stimulating the user's right ear and the user's left ear according to the selected respective audio signals; and wherein the exchanged audio signals are delayed by 0.5 to 5 ms relative to the ear unit receiving the exchanged audio signals; wherein, if the difference in the target-signal-to-background-noise ratio exceeds a first pre-defined threshold value, audio signals are exchanged from that one of the ear units at which the captured audio signals have a better target-signal-to-background-noise ratio to the other one of the ear units and the audio signals having the better target-signal-to-background-noise ratio are selected as the input to the stimulating means of both ear units; and wherein, if the difference in the target-signal-to-background-noise ratio is between said first threshold value and a second pre-defined threshold value, audio signals are exchanged from that one of the ear units at which the captured audio signals have a better target-signal-to-background-noise ratio to the other one of the ear units and a mixture of the exchanged audio signals and the audio signals captured at that one of the ear units at which the captured audio signals have the better target-signal-to-background-noise ratio are selected as the input to the stimulating means of that one of the ear units. | 31,889 |
8,697,309 | 1. A proton conductor comprising an ionic liquid having a zwitterion wherein an anion moiety and a cation moiety coexist in one molecule, and a proton donor, wherein the cation moiety of the zwitterion is an onium cation represented by the following structural formula 1: (wherein R is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms; R′ is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms; R″ is an alkylene group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms) (wherein R | 15,531 |
9,162,617 | 1. An aircraft storage bin comprising: an upper housing that includes first and second side panels, a bucket that cooperates with the upper housing to define a bin interior, wherein the bucket includes a bottom and opposing first and second sidewalls extending upwardly from the bottom, a first pivot mechanism operatively associated with the first side panel and the bucket, and a second pivot mechanism operatively associated with the second side panel and the bucket, wherein the first and second pivot mechanisms are axially aligned along a pivot axis, and wherein the bucket pivots about the pivot axis with respect to the upper housing between an open position and a closed position, wherein the first side panel includes a first ear extending downwardly therefrom and the second side panel includes a second ear extending downwardly therefrom, wherein the first pivot mechanism extends between the first ear and the first side of the bucket and the second pivot mechanism extends between the second ear and the second side of the bucket, and wherein, in the closed position, in a direction generally parallel to the pivot axis, the first and second side panels do not overlap the first and second sidewalls of the bucket, except for where the first and second ears overlap with the first and second sidewalls of the bucket. | 23,489 |
8,562,484 | 1. A hybrid vehicle comprising: an engine having a starter and a turbocharger; a motor; a clutch operatively connecting the motor to the engine; a transmission connected to the motor; and a controller that actuates the starter when the engine is stopped and a barometric pressure signal is below a calibrated threshold, and launches the vehicle using the motor until an engine speed and a motor speed are within a calibrated threshold difference. | 24,161 |
8,569,615 | 1. A solar cell comprising: a substrate; an anti-reflection layer on the substrate; a first electrode on the anti-reflection layer; a photo-electro conversion layer on the first electrode; and a second electrode on the photo-electro conversion layer, wherein: the anti-reflection layer comprises a nanopattern and a nanostructure, and the anti-reflection layer is disposed between the substrate and the first electrode, such that a lower surface of the nanopattern comes in contact with the substrate, the nanostructure is disposed on an upper surface of the nanopattern; the nanopattern comprises a transparent conductive oxide; the nanostructure comprises a nanoparticle layer; the nanoparticle layer includes a plurality of nanoparticles that are covered by and come in contact with the first electrode; and the nanoparticle layer comprises different material from the nanopattern. | 28,512 |
9,214,717 | 1. A handheld electronic device comprising: a housing having a top side, a bottom side, a left side and a right side, wherein each of the sides lies in a unique plane such that no two sides lie in a common plane; a first antenna mounted at a first position of the housing on a first side; a second antenna mounted at a second position of the housing on a second side; a hand position monitoring system operative to determine a position of a hand of a user grasping the housing of the device, wherein the hand position monitoring system comprises a first pair of sensors and a second pair of sensors, each of the sensors of the first pair being positioned at opposing ones of the sides comprising the left side and the right side, each of the sensors of the second pair being positioned at alternate and opposing ones of the sides comprising the top side and the bottom side, wherein one of the first pair of sensors is further positioned on the first side adjacent to the first antenna such that a second of the first pair of sensors is positioned at a side opposing the first antenna, and wherein one of the second pair of sensors is further positioned on the second side adjacent to the second antenna such that a second of the second pair of sensors is positioned at a side opposing the second antenna; and an antenna selection system operative to selectively and alternately activate the first antenna and the second antenna responsive to the hand position monitoring system determining that the hand is in a vicinity of the first antenna or the second antenna, wherein input from either the first sensor or the second sensor of the first pair of sensors causes the antenna selection system to activate the second antenna, and wherein input from either the first sensor or the second sensor of the second pair of sensors causes the antenna selection system to activate the first antenna. | 39,477 |
9,391,380 | 1. An alternating current (AC) module assembly comprising: a first string, a second string, and a third string of AC modules, each string comprising a plurality of AC modules connected by at least one wiring harness to provide a first phase power output and a second phase power output, each AC module comprising a photovoltaic module and an inverter; a first junction box, a second junction box, and a third junction box respectively coupled to the first string, the second string, and the third string to receive the first phase power output and the second phase power output of each of the first string, the second string, and the third string; and a service panel in electrical communication with the first junction box, the second junction box, and the third junction box to provide a three-phase power output at a first node, a second node, and a third node, | 17,288 |
9,433,061 | 1. A handheld device comprising: a user interface; a communications interface; and a central processing unit associated with the user interface and the communications interface and adapted to send to at least one lighting fixture an instruction assigning an address that is used by other lighting fixtures in a lighting network to communicate with the at least one lighting fixture. | 44,767 |
8,776,001 | 1. A program binding method for an integrated circuit, the method implemented using one or more processors, the integrated circuit having a plurality of cluster zones, each cluster zone of the plurality of cluster zones having a plurality of computational elements having a plurality of types and having an interconnect coupling each output of a computational element to each input of a computational element of the plurality of computational elements in the cluster zone, the integrated circuit having a plurality of intercluster queues coupling the interconnects of adjacent cluster zones of the plurality of cluster zones, the method comprising: using one or more processors, assigning a first action to a first computational element having a first type of the plurality of types of computational elements, the first computational element in a first cluster zone of the plurality of cluster zones; using one or more processors, assigning a second action to a second computational element having a second type of the plurality of types of computational elements, the second computational element in the first cluster zone; using one or more processors, assigning a third action to a third computational element having the second type of the plurality of types of computational elements, the third computational element in an adjacent second cluster zone of the plurality of cluster zones; using one or more processors, establishing a first data routing between the first computational element and the second computational element through a first interconnect of the first cluster zone; and using one or more processors, establishing a second data routing between the first computational element and the third computational element through a first intercluster queue, the first intercluster queue coupling the first interconnect to a second interconnect of the adjacent second cluster zone. | 1,137 |
8,647,403 | 1. A method of combusting a fuel in a gasifier comprising: providing a fuel to the gasifier; recovering first fines and a first slag from the gasifier in a water-filled trough coupled in flow communication with the gasifier, wherein combustion of the fuel and the first fines would generate a sludge having a first viscosity; separating the first fines from the first slag by removing the first slag from the water-filled trough using at least one conveyor and by forcing the first fines out of the water-filled trough using a conveying pump; providing second fines recovered from a source other than the gasifier; mixing the first fines, the second fines and the fuel to generate a fuel mixture wherein combustion of the fuel mixture in the gasifier generates a second slag having a second viscosity, the second viscosity being less than the first viscosity; and combusting the fuel mixture in the gasifier. | 28,141 |
9,046,884 | 1. A robotic butterfly, comprising: one or more bio sensors configured to sense indicators of an emotional state of a user; mechanical wings configured to react based on the emotional state of the user; and a microcontroller configured to cause the mechanical wings to move in a first way if a first emotional state of the user is sensed by the one or more bio sensors, and to move in a second, different, way if a second emotional state of the user is sensed by the one or more bio sensors. | 3,131 |
8,378,859 | 1. A compression unit comprising: a transform circuit configured to transform data according to one or more transformation algorithms, wherein a result of the one or more transformation algorithms is a set of coefficients; and a control circuit configured to scan the set of coefficients to locate subsets of coefficients having a same combination of one or more most significant set bits dependent on a sign bit, wherein the control circuit is configured to generate a linked list of pointers to coefficients in each subset, wherein each pointer identifies a next coefficient in the subset, and wherein the control circuit is configured to transmit the coefficients by traversing the linked lists for each subset, reading and transmitting each coefficient in the subset using the coefficient's respective pointer in the corresponding linked list. | 20,411 |
9,607,475 | 1. A method for playing an interactive computer game, comprising: moving a user-controlled play implement, wherein the user-controlled play implement models at least one of a motion of a virtual object in the computer game and a force applied to a virtual object in the computer game; transmitting a signal by the play implement, wherein the signal includes an indication of the motion of the play implement; receiving the signal by a computer, wherein the signal includes an indication of a particular physical action performable by a user, wherein the particular physical action is selected from a change in position, a change in orientation, a three dimensional (3D) motion, rotation, and acceleration; responding by the computer to the signal received, in accordance with the interactive computer game; and controlling an action figure to respond to movement of the user-controlled play implement, said responding including a corresponding movement of the action figure. | 47,745 |
8,407,002 | 1. An information provision apparatus for providing information for reaching a destination to a driver of a vehicle which includes a chargeable electricity storage unit and is driven by using electric energy supplied from the electricity storage unit, the information provision apparatus comprising: an arrival determination section which determines whether or not the vehicle can reach the destination from the present location in such a manner as to satisfy a predetermined condition, on the basis of present location information, which is information regarding a present location of the vehicle, destination information, which is information regarding the destination, and electric energy remaining amount information, which is information regarding a remaining amount of electric energy stored in the electricity storage unit; a rental car information acquisition section which acquires rental car information, which is information regarding a rental car to which the driver can change from the vehicle directly or indirectly; and an information provision section which provides the rental car information acquired by the rental car information acquisition section, when the arrival determination section determines that the vehicle cannot reach the destination from the present location. | 38,663 |
8,441,790 | 1. An electronic device comprising: a housing; one or more acoustic transducers positioned within the housing, each operative to generate an electrical signal in response to detecting sound resulting from an impact with the housing; a microprocessor coupled to the one or more acoustic transducers and configured to receive the electrical signals generated by the one or more acoustic transducers, the microprocessor operative to interpret a generated electrical signal as input to the electronic device; a digital signal processor coupled to the microprocessor and configured to process the generated electrical signals; and one or more additional acoustic transducers configured to sense noise, the digital signal processor using the sensed noise to filter the generated electrical signals. | 31,350 |
9,317,606 | 1. A computer implemented method, comprising: receiving a search query; identifying a plurality of search terms of the search query; determining a model term score for each of the identified search terms, the model term score for a given search term of the identified search terms being indicative of a probability of misspelling of the given search term, wherein determining the model term score for the given search term includes determining whether the given search term is in a dictionary of a language model and wherein the model term score for the given search term is determined independent of any alternative suggestions that are alternative spellings of the given search term; selecting candidate search terms from the identified search terms of the search query based on the model term scores, the candidate search terms being a subset of the identified search terms of the search query, wherein selecting a candidate search term of the candidate search terms comprises selecting the candidate search term based on the model term score for the candidate search term being more indicative of misspelling than the model term scores of other of the identified search terms not selected as one of the candidate search terms; and providing the candidate search terms to a spell correction system. | 5,744 |
9,251,652 | 1. A method of operating a gaming apparatus configured to provide player access to one or more gaming apparatus features, at least one of said gaming apparatus features comprising initiating play of a game using a plurality of game symbols and having a game outcome determined by said game symbols, the gaming apparatus having a credit input mechanism configured to accept a credit for establishing a credit balance, a game controller, a random number generator, a memory storing data of a plurality of elements including one or more images and password elements, an input interface, and a display, said method comprising: displaying on the display a number of the elements including one or more images from the memory; receiving via the input interface at least a player password defined using password elements selected from the number of elements including one or more images displayed on the display, wherein at least one of said one or more images comprises one of said game symbols used for determining said game outcome; determining via the game controller whether the received password is valid; and providing player access to at least one gaming apparatus feature in view of the credit balance in the event that the received password is valid. | 31,111 |
9,682,824 | 1. Support structure comprising a combination of a first plate-shaped support element having a first circumference and a second plate-shaped support element having a second circumference, wherein circumferential parts of the first circumference and the second circumference, respectively, have corresponding shapes such that a shape fitting connection between the respective circumferential parts in aligned condition of the first plate-shaped support element and the second plate-shaped support element is possible, wherein the combination comprises at least one passage near the connection in the connected condition of the circumferential parts, as well as at least one connecting element which extends at least partially within the at least one passage so as to limit movement of the first plate-shaped support element and the second plate-shaped support element relative to each other in the thickness direction of the respective plate-shaped support elements, wherein the at least one passage is formed by parts of the connecting circumferential parts of the first circumference and the second circumference. | 15,091 |
8,938,696 | 1. A method comprising: creating an initial fragmentation of a mask data pattern, wherein the initial fragmentation comprises a plurality of fragments, and wherein each fragment in the plurality of fragments comprises a length and a position; calculating an objective function at a sample point in each fragment in the plurality of fragments, wherein the calculating is performed using a computer; moving a fragment in the plurality of fragments, based on the objective function calculation; inserting a new fragment between a first pair of consecutive fragments in the plurality of fragments when the movement of the first pair of fragments is larger than a pre-determined maximum value; merging a second pair of consecutive fragments in the plurality of fragments when the movement of the second pair of fragments is smaller than a pre-determined minimum value; and iteratively performing the calculating, moving, inserting, and merging until movement of each pair of fragments is below the pre-determined maximum value and above the pre-determined minimum value. | 14,250 |
9,469,407 | 1. A fluid temperature control installation for an aircraft, the installation comprising at least one cooling system that requires cooling at least one member for cooling, and at least one temperature control system for controlling the temperature of the air of a cabin of the aircraft; the cooling system comprising a closed circuit for circulating a fluid for cooling between the member for cooling and at least one heat exchanger fitted with an airflow generator member, the heat exchanger being interposed on the closed circuit by means of an internal circuit for the fluid for cooling, and including a heat exchange structure through which there is passed a stream of cooling air generated by the airflow generator member; and the air temperature control system comprising a distributor valve for regulating a stream of heating air admitted to the cabin, and an open circuit conveying a plurality of air streams, the open circuit having a first air circuit for conveying a source air stream generated by a compressor to at least one temperature control device, and a second air circuit for conveying to the cabin the stream of heating air from the temperature control of the source air stream; wherein: the airflow generator member is a bladeless ventilator generating the cooling air stream from an activation air stream; and wherein the cooling system and the temperature control system include a group of members in common, comprising at least: a) the compressor generating a source air stream, the compressor being an accessory compressor provided with an air inlet and driven by a drive member; b) the heat exchanger comprising co-operating means for cooling the fluid for cooling and for heating the source air stream coming from the accessory compressor, the heating of the source air stream producing a hot air stream by taking heat contributing to cooling the heat exchange structure; and c) the distributor valve distributes the source air stream selectively: in a first mode solely to the bladeless ventilator thereby forming the activation air stream, in a second mode solely to the cabin thereby forming the heating air stream coming from the hot air stream and in a third mode to both of the bladeless ventilator and the cabin. | 38,735 |
8,651,073 | 1. A lift-control device for a poppet valve of an internal-combustion engine comprising: a first valve-lift configured to define a first valve-lift law and operatively connected with a rocker that acts on a stem of said valve to move said stem of said valve according to the first valve-lift law; a second valve-lift configured to define a second valve-lift law and also operatively connected with the rocker; and a de-activation mechanism for selective de-activation of the second valve-lift; wherein the first valve-lift comprises a profile of a cam or eccentric configured to act on the rocker to cause the rocker to oscillate about a first axis and to move said valve stem according to the first valve-lift law; the second valve-lift comprises: an auxiliary rocker co-operating in contact with the first valve-lift to receive from the first valve-lift a motion of oscillation about a second axis parallel to the first axis; and a profiled portion of one of the rocker and the auxiliary rocker, which has a profile defining the second valve-lift law and co-operating with a shoulder carried by the other of the rocker and the auxiliary rocker; and the shoulder is configured to be movable along a pre-set path and against the action of a biasing mechanism between a first operative position and a second operative position and can be selectively blocked in the first operative position via a latch. | 39,491 |
8,807,653 | 1. An adjustable vehicle head restraint assembly comprising: at least one post adapted to be mounted in a vehicle proximate to a seat back; a transverse shaft mounted to the at least one post; a head restraint pivotally connected to the transverse shaft; a series of teeth provided on the head restraint; a locking mechanism mounted to the transverse shaft for translation in a transverse direction for engagement with the series of teeth; and an actuator mounted to the head restraint in cooperation with the locking mechanism such that actuation of the actuator in the transverse direction disengages the locking mechanism from the series of teeth for permitting adjustment of a tilt of the head restraint relative to the transverse shaft; wherein the locking mechanism comprises: | 20,808 |
9,010,684 | 1. A method for scanning spars of a hollow structure containing spars, each spar comprising first and second filleted join regions connected by a web, said method comprising: (a) moving a first sensor along the first filleted join region; (b) actuating the first sensor to transmit beams into the first filleted join region during step (a); (c) moving a second sensor along a first strip-shaped area of the web adjacent to the first filleted join region; (d) actuating the second sensor to transmit beams into the first strip-shaped area during step (c); (e) moving a third sensor along a second strip-shaped area of the web that is not adjacent to the first filleted join region; and (f) actuating the third sensor to transmit beams into the second strip-shaped area during step (e). | 13,436 |
9,520,608 | 1. A system for converting a waste stream to energy comprising: a water purification device that outputs purified water and a waste stream, the waste stream including an electrolyte; a wind and electrolytic energy generation device that receives the waste stream from the water purification device, wherein the wind and electrolytic energy generation device comprises a means to emit the waste stream into a wind stream, wherein the wind and electrolytic energy generation device outputs energy based on the electrolyte present in the waste stream; and a power distribution system which receives and stores the energy from the wind and electrolytic energy generation device; and wherein the water purification device is further connected to the power distribution system and receives energy enabling further operation of the water purification device. | 11,265 |
9,304,306 | 1. An optical imaging system for generating an image of an object plane, the optical imaging system defining an optical axis and comprising: a lens system including a main objective and a reduction optical unit arranged between said main objective and the object plane; said lens system being aligned along the optical axis; said reduction optical unit including a first composite element having a positive refractive power and a second composite element having a negative refractive power; said first composite element being disposed between said main objective and the second composite element; said first composite element includes a first lens and a second lens; said second composite element includes a third lens and a fourth lens; said lens system defining an object-side first main plane (H) and an image-side second main plane (H′); the optical imaging system defining an observation beam path which is guided through the lens system so as to cause said observation beam path to be at a distance B from the optical axis of the lens system in each of said first main plane (H) and said second main plane (H′); said first lens having a lower refractive power than said second lens and said third lens having a lower refractive power than said fourth lens; said first lens being manufactured from a first material having a first Abbe number; said second lens being manufactured from a second material having a second Abbe number; said third lens being manufactured from a third material having a third Abbe number; and, said fourth lens being manufactured from a fourth material having a fourth Abbe number; said first Abbe number being less than said second Abbe number and said third Abbe number being less than said fourth Abbe number; and, said lens system being configured so as to cause the following relation to be satisfied for a wavelength range (λ) of 480 nm≦λ≦660 nm and for a main wavelength e=546 nm: wherein: f f f | 39,844 |
8,813,416 | 1. A fishing accessory comprising: a bottom end comprising a curved surface extending between a front end and a back end, said curved surface configured to seat against a fishing rod; and a top end coupled to the bottom end defining a cavity extending between the front end and the back end, said cavity having a first open end proximal the back end configured to receive an anchored bait and a second open end proximal the front end configured to support and capture the anchored bait while allowing an anchored portion to extend therethrough, wherein a channel extending from at least one surface external of the cavity to at least one surface defined by the cavity extends from the first open end to the second open end and allows for the anchored portion to pass therethrough when mounting and unmounting the anchored bait at the second open end of the cavity. | 23,170 |
9,654,338 | 1. A customer premise equipment (CPE) device at a physical customer location, the CPE device comprising: a wireless interface to a wireless cellular network; a wired interface to a wired network; and processing circuitry to: | 15,015 |
8,779,430 | 1. A semiconductor device, comprising: a gate electrode arranged on a substrate; a semiconductor layer arranged above the gate electrode and including a source region, a drain region, and a channel region; a source electrode connected to the source region above the semiconductor layer; and a drain electrode connected to the drain region above the semiconductor layer, wherein the semiconductor layer includes, at a portion overlapping the drain electrode, a protrusion that protrudes outward along an extending direction of a drain line that is drawn out from the drain electrode, the protrusion includes at least one point of inflection at a portion of the protrusion overlapping the drain electrode, and at an outside of the channel region sandwiched between the drain electrode and the source electrode, the semiconductor layer includes an adjustment portion where an outer boundary of the semiconductor layer is positioned more inward than an outer boundary of the gate electrode. | 22,236 |
9,249,066 | 1. A process comprising: a) introducing in a reactor a stream (A) comprising ethanol, optionally water, and optionally an inert component, b) contacting said stream (A) with an acidic catalyst in said reactor at conditions effective to dehydrate at least a portion of the alcohol to make a corresponding olefin having the same number of carbon atoms as the alcohol, c) recovering from said reactor a stream (B) comprising the olefin, water and optionally the inert component and unconverted alcohol, d) optionally fractionating the stream (B) to recover the optional unconverted alcohol and recycling said optional unconverted alcohol to the reactor of step a), e) optionally fractionating the stream (B) to recover the optional inert component, the water and the olefin, and optionally recycling said optional inert component and optionally a part of the water to the reactor of step a), wherein: | 38,221 |
8,799,389 | 1. A system for communicating during an instant messaging (“IM”) session, comprising: a computer comprising a processor; and instructions which are executable, using the processor, to implement functions comprising: | 10,552 |
8,836,007 | 1. A programmable logic switch comprising: a first path transistor having a first gate electrode; first and second word lines stacked immediately above the first path transistor; a first pillar passing through the first and second word lines and having a bottom end connected to the first gate electrode; a second pillar passing through the first and second word lines and having a bottom end connected to the first gate electrode; a first bit line connected to a top end of the first pillar; a second bit line connected to a top end of the second pillar; a first nonvolatile memory device between the first pillar and the first word line; a second nonvolatile memory device between the first pillar and the second word line; a third nonvolatile memory device between the second pillar and the first word line; and a fourth nonvolatile memory device between the second pillar and the second word line, wherein a first context is stored in the first and third nonvolatile memory devices and a second context is stored in the second and fourth nonvolatile memory devices. | 27,012 |
8,546,106 | 1. A method for producing a secreted polypeptide having biological activity, comprising: (a) transforming a fungal host cell with a fusion protein construct encoding a fusion protein, wherein the fusion protein construct comprises: (i) a first polynucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a signal peptide; (ii) a second polynucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding at least a catalytic domain of a (iii) a third polynucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding at least a catalytic domain of a polypeptide having biological activity; wherein the signal peptide and at least the catalytic domain of the (b) cultivating the transformed fungal host cell under conditions suitable for production of the fusion protein; and (c) recovering the fusion protein comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 74 or SEQ ID NO: 76 from the cultivation medium, wherein the fusion protein has biological activity. | 5,883 |
8,590,527 | 1. A solar collector system comprising: a frame comprising at least a pair of side members spaced apart from each other in a first direction, and a plurality of cross members connected to the pair of side members; a plurality of stantions extending from the frame in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; a plurality of heliostats, first heliostats of the plurality of heliostats being arranged in a first row and each mounted to a corresponding one of the stantions at a first side of the frame, second heliostats of the plurality of heliostats being arranged in a second row and each mounted to a corresponding one of the stantions at a second side of the frame, the second row being spaced apart from the first row in the first direction; and a plurality of ballasts coupled to the frame and configured to maintain a position of the frame on the ground, wherein each cross member is pivotable relative to at least one of the side members about an axis extending in the second direction between a shipping configuration and a deployed configuration. | 22,568 |
9,240,286 | 1. A photoelectric conversion device comprising: a substrate containing single crystalline titanium dioxide; adhesion layers that are thin metal films formed on a surface of the substrate; metal structure bodies, each of which has a volume of 1,000 nm a container for containing an electrolyte solution in an arrangement region of the metal structure bodies on the surface of the substrate; a conductive layer formed on another surface of the substrate; and a counter electrode in contact with the electrolyte solution in the container, wherein a Schottky barrier is formed between the substrate and the metal structure bodies, wherein photoelectric conversion is carried out for light in an infrared region by utilizing a plasmon resonance phenomenon, and wherein the predetermined intervals are set independently of a size of the metal structure bodies. | 49,567 |
9,283,949 | 1. A system comprising: a hydraulic actuator coupled to a joint of a mobile robotic device; an electric actuator coupled to the joint of the mobile robotic device, wherein the electric actuator is configured for operation; and a controller configured to operate the hydraulic actuator and the electric actuator, wherein the controller is further configured to: | 18,860 |
8,693,611 | 1. A liquid-metal cooled fast reactor core having a fuel reactor core comprising: a first nuclear fuel assembly in an inner reactor core region at a center of the fuel reactor core, a second nuclear fuel assembly in a middle reactor core region surrounding the first nuclear fuel assembly of the inner reactor core region, and a third nuclear fuel assembly in an outer reactor core region surrounding the second nuclear fuel assembly of the middle reactor core region, wherein the fuel reactor core is installed in a hexagonal duct, wherein each of the first, the second and the third nuclear fuel assembly respectively includes a plurality of first nuclear fuel rods in the inner reactor core region, a plurality of second nuclear fuel rods in the middle reactor core region and a plurality of third nuclear fuel rods in the outer reactor core region, wherein a thickness of the first cladding is thicker than a thickness of the second cladding and a thickness of the second cladding is thicker than a thickness of the third cladding, | 9,951 |
8,983,673 | 1. A method of optimizing power management system characteristics for peak mitigation of a site, the method, implemented on a computer comprising: gathering a plurality of load samples from a site; classifying load samples as peak-range load samples for load samples exceeding a peak threshold level; determining characteristic data of the load samples, the characteristic data at least comprising: calculating a peak demand factor for the site using the characteristic data; assigning a peak mitigation category to the site by comparing the peak demand factor to reference data, the reference data comprising power management system characteristics associated with one or more peak demand factors; and generating optimized power management system characteristics for the site using the power management system characteristics associated with the peak mitigation category assigned. | 44,980 |
8,504,180 | 1. A method comprising: presenting a set location setting within a graphical user interface (GUI) of a mobile device; detecting a selection of the set-location setting; detecting on-site location information of the mobile device in response to the selection of the set location setting; detecting at least one on-site 802.11 based network in communication with the mobile device in response to the selection of the set location setting; identifying an on-site IP address associated with the at least one on-site 802.11 based network; associating both the on-site location information and the on-site IP address with an on-site zone of a site associated with the mobile device; and altering an operating condition of a network device located at the site in response to a location of the mobile device relative to the on-site zone. | 622 |
9,760,140 | 1. A method for monitoring and controlling electrical power to an electrically-powered device, the method comprising: monitoring and measuring a power usage of an electrically powered device connected to an apparatus; transmitting the power usage of the electrically powered device to a remote controller; transmitting a command from the remote controller over a network, the command to disable power to the electrically powered device; receiving the command at a transceiver of the apparatus; communicating the command from the transceiver to a processor of the apparatus; switching an electro-mechanical relay from an enabling state to a disabling state to disable power to the electrically powered device, the electro-mechanical relay receiving instructions from the processor to switch from an enabling state to a disabling state; transmitting a response to the remote controller from the transceiver of the apparatus, the response updating the status of the electrically powered device; and receiving the response from the apparatus over the network at the remote controller. | 12,934 |
8,586,189 | 1. A gas-barrier film comprising at least one silicon hydronitride layer and at least one silicon nitride layer on a surface of a flexible supporting substrate; wherein the flexible supporting substrate is a plastic film; wherein the silicon hydronitride layer and the silicon nitride layer are in direct contact with each other and laminated to each other; and wherein no definite boundary exists between the silicon hydronitride layer and the silicon nitride layer and the composition continuously changes from the silicon hydronitride layer to the silicon nitride layer. | 38,704 |
9,277,434 | 1. A method performed by a base station of reporting Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) counting results, comprising: receiving, by the base station, from a Multi-cell/Multicast Coordination Entity (MCE), a base station counting request, the base station counting request including an update time and an identifier for each of one or more MBMS services; transmitting, by the base station, to UEs supported by the base station, corresponding user equipment (UE) counting requests to determine whether each of the UEs is either receiving or wants to receive the one or more MBMS services; if no counting results are received from the supported UEs within a defined reporting window for the one or more identified MBMS services, transmitting, to the MCE, an empty list of service identifiers; and if counting results are received from the supported UEs for the one or more identified MBMS services within the defined reporting window, transmitting, to the MCE, a report, the report including: | 14,500 |
9,556,804 | 1. A multi-cylinder internal combustion engine, comprising: an odd number n of cylinders (n≧3), arranged in line; an applied ignition system; a fuel system for delivering fuel to the cylinders; an exhaust gas recirculation system; and a controller having computer-readable instructions stored therein, the instructions executable to: during partial-load operation when engine load is below threshold, enable a partial cutoff of the cylinders, the partial cutoff comprising operating each cylinder intermittently such that each cylinder is fired and cut off in turn at an interval of (2*720° CA)/n, wherein each cylinder is cut off through deactivation of the applied ignition. | 45,305 |
8,905,065 | 1. A pressure regulator comprising: a regulator body having a source end, an application end and a main bore extending therebetween, a first portion at the source end and a second portion at the application end, wherein the source end is adapted to being placed in fluid communication with a source of pressurized gas; and a capsule subassembly including a capsule body and a piston, the capsule body having a distal end and a proximal end, and being at least partially defined by a capsule wall housing a cavity therein, the cavity extending generally from the distal end toward the proximal end, the capsule wall having an inner surface, an outer surface and at least one capsule port extending therethrough; wherein the capsule subassembly is adapted to being in removable received engagement with the main bore and disposed thereat in fluid communication between a source chamber and an output chamber such that the distal end is in fluid communication with the source chamber; and wherein the piston is adapted to being received by the cavity for defining, at least in part, a pressurizible bias chamber within the cavity and for slidable axial movement of the piston within the cavity between a charge configuration, a fluid release configuration and a fluid seal configuration, the at least one capsule port being in fluid communication with the bias chamber when the piston is in its charge configuration, the at least one capsule port being in fluid communication with the distal end when the piston is in its fluid release configuration, and the at least one capsule port being sealed from fluid communication with the bias chamber and the distal end when the piston is in its fluid seal configuration. | 21,339 |
8,725,721 | 1. A method of establishing personalized limits on a search responsive to a key word query to an enterprise search system, including: receiving an object types access history for at least one particular user; wherein the object types access history includes records of object types selected by the particular user from search results returning multiple object types and records of object types selected by the particular user via interfaces other than search results; and determining and storing in computer readable memory a personalized scope of object types by analyzing frequencies of individual object type selections in the object types access history; wherein the personalized scope limits individual object types initially returned by an enterprise search system to object types that have frequencies above a pre-determined threshold in response to key word queries by the particular user that do not specify object types to search. | 3,512 |
9,145,620 | 1. A single crystal pulling apparatus, comprising: a chamber; a crucible disposed within the chamber for containing a melt; a water-cooling means within which a water channel is disposed, the water cooling means being disposed within the chamber in such a manner as surrounding a single crystal to be pulled up from the melt in the crucible; water piping for feeding cooling water to and discharging the same from the water channel of the water-cooling means, the water piping extending above the chamber; and supporting arms connected to the chamber for supporting the water-cooling means, wherein the supporting arms are disposed between the single crystal and the water piping so as to cover the water piping on the side facing the crystal and the supporting arms are fixedly mounted onto an inner surface of an upper part of the chamber and an upper part of the water-cooling means, wherein the water-cooling means is made of copper, wherein the water piping is extended to the outside of the chamber, and the water piping comprises a part made from copper as being connected to the water-cooling means and the other part made of stainless steel, the copper part and stainless steel part being jointed to each other outside the chamber. | 24,290 |
9,126,679 | 1. An airplane, comprising: a turbojet; and means for taking at least a portion of a boundary layer of a flow of air over a surface of the airplane and for guiding the air that has been taken to an air inlet of the turbojet, wherein the means for taking and guiding air comprise a channel having an upstream end that opens out into the boundary layer of the air flow over the airplane surface and an intermediate portion that forms means for performing circumferential diffusion, the intermediate portion having a transverse cross-section that varies progressively going downstream into a section that is substantially circular and that is connected continuously at the downstream end over 360° to an upstream end of the air inlet of the turbojet so as to diffuse the air taken from the boundary layer circumferentially in uniform manner over 360° at the inlet of the turbojet. | 39,128 |
8,628,216 | 1. A lighting and communication system for use in a standardized fluorescent fixture, the lighting and communication system comprising: a light source adapter to produce a generally constant flux of light to at least partially satisfy a general lighting requirement in an area surrounding the system: a communication apparatus configured to generate one or more signals indicative of a presence of a person in the area; a housing at least partially enclosing the light source and the communication apparatus; at least one end cap including a pair of pin-carrying connectors configured at least for physical connection to the fixture, wherein the housing and the pair of pin-carrying connectors at least partially define a single package sized for use in the fixture; and a controller operative to control the light source in response to the one or more signals to produce a generally constant flux of light. | 16,289 |
8,913,748 | 1. A method, comprising: in a device adapted to communicate using a Bluetooth low energy link layer, maintaining a protocol data unit (PDU) sequence number that has a size greater than one bit; initializing the PDU sequence number to zero if the device is a source device; incrementing the PDU sequence number by one when a new PDU is sent by the source device; setting an acknowledgement bit in a returned PDU to zero if a last received PDU contained errors; and setting the acknowledgement bit to one if a last expected PDU was received without errors, wherein bits comprising the PDU sequence number are represented at least in part by bits of a field reserved for future use in a Bluetooth Low Energy Controller specification, and wherein a bit comprising the acknowledgement bit is represented by a next expected sequence number field in the said specification. | 34,886 |
8,778,534 | 1. A battery, comprising: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; a separator between said positive and negative electrode; and an electrolyte comprising an ionic liquid composition, the ionic liquid composition comprising: a phosphonium based cation of the formula: and; one or more anions comprised of any one or more of the following: | 25,652 |
8,731,782 | 1. A control method for a vehicle, comprising: during a condition with an engine driving the vehicle, closing grill shutters located at a vehicle front end opening to reduce engine cooling when engine temperature is below a threshold temperature; and during a deceleration condition with the engine not driving the vehicle, opening the grill shutters to pre-cool vehicle components when engine temperature is below the threshold temperature. | 40,626 |
9,608,003 | 1. An integrated circuit product, comprising: an SOI structure comprising: a semiconductor bulk device comprising a first gate structure positioned on said bulk semiconductor substrate in said first region; and an SOI semiconductor device comprising a second gate structure positioned on said semiconductor layer in said second region, wherein said first and second gate structures have a final gate height substantially extending to a common height level above an upper surface of said bulk semiconductor substrate. | 3,709 |
9,554,796 | 1. A surgical stapling apparatus, comprising: a cartridge assembly configured to house a plurality of surgical fasteners; a firing assembly coupled to the cartridge assembly and configured for actuation, the firing assembly being configured to move from a first position to a second position to at least partially eject one surgical fastener of the plurality of surgical fasteners from the cartridge assembly; a lockout assembly coupled to the firing assembly, the lockout assembly configured to permit a predetermined number of actuations of the firing assembly, the lockout assembly configured to transition from a first condition, wherein actuation of the firing assembly is permitted, to a second condition, wherein the lockout assembly inhibits substantial movement of the firing assembly from the first position thereby inhibiting subsequent actuation of the firing assembly, the lockout assembly transitioning from the first condition to the second condition when a number of previous actuations of the firing assembly is equal to the predetermined number of actuations permitted by the lockout assembly; a cam track and a cam member included within the lockout assembly, the cam track defining a plurality of full actuation paths interconnected by a plurality of full actuation return paths, wherein the cam member is configured to translate along one actuation path of the plurality of actuation paths and return along one full actuation return path of the plurality of full actuation return paths upon actuation and resetting of the firing assembly when the number of previous actuations of the firing assembly is less than the predetermined number of actuations; and a disposable loading unit housing the cartridge assembly, the firing assembly, and the lockout assembly. | 1,947 |
9,458,389 | 1. A method of estimating a property of a hydrocarbon comprising the steps of: (a) preparing a liquid sample of said hydrocarbon, said hydrocarbon having asphaltenes that include different asphaltene fractions of different polarity, and selected from the group consisting of oil and asphalt; (b) intentionally precipitating at least some of said asphaltenes from said liquid sample with one or more precipitants, within a substantially chemically inert stationary phase in a chromatographic column; (c) dissolving at least two of said different asphaltene fractions from said precipitated asphaltenes during a successive dissolution protocol that uses dissolving solvents of increasing strength; (d) eluting said at least two different dissolved asphaltene fractions from said chromatographic column; (e) monitoring the amount of said fractions eluted from said chromatographic column with a liquid chromatography detector that generates a detector signal for each said eluted fraction, wherein each of said signals is related to the amount of a respective one of said eluted fractions; (f) using said signals to calculate at least one separation profile peak value for a first of said asphaltene fractions wherein said at least one separation profile peak value is derived from at least one of said signals, to determine a solubility-related parameter; and (g) estimating said property of said hydrocarbon based on said solubility-related parameter, wherein said property of said hydrocarbon is selected from the group consisting of sediment content, oil processability, asphaltene content, polarity based makeup, proximity to coke formation, oil stability, reserve pyrolysis capacity, severity of pyrolysis, degree of thermal treatment, residue amount, asphaltene amount, asphaltene fraction amount, coke amount, pre-coke amount, insoluble material amount, and soluble material amount. | 5,440 |
8,486,433 | 1. An antibacterial deodorant formed of inorganic particles comprising: a metal component having an antibacterial activity and odor-eliminating activity, said metal component being selected from the group consisting of silver, copper and zinc, and an inorganic oxide other than said metal component, wherein said inorganic oxide comprises crystalline titanium oxide, and at least one of silica and zirconia, which form complex inorganic oxide particles, wherein a content of the metal component in the inorganic oxide particles is in a range from 0.1 to 30% by weight as converted to an oxide thereof, wherein an average particle diameter of said inorganic oxide particle is in a range from 2 to 500 nm, wherein the crystalline titanium oxide is presented in a range of 50-90% by weight, wherein the silica is present in a range of 0-30% by weight, and wherein the zirconia is present in a range of 0-30% by weight. | 24,648 |
8,858,702 | 1. A phosphate ceramic spray composition comprising an atomized combination of: a first component comprising a high-solids content aqueous suspension of an acid-phosphate of chemical formula A a second component comprising shear-thinned, high solids content aqueous suspension of an alkaline oxide or alkaline hydroxide represented by B a rheology modifier/suspending agent present in an amount providing the shear thinned second component, the rheology modifier/suspending agent further suspending the high solids content of either the first component or the second component in their respective aqueous suspensions; and optionally, aggregate material present in an amount in at least one of the first and the second component capable of imparting an observable color and/or texture. | 11,961 |
9,174,860 | 1. A method of controlling the condition of a suspension of solid mineral particles within a liquid by flocculation and/or coagulation, said method comprising contacting said solid mineral particles with a chemical additive consisting of a stimulus-sensitive polymer, the stimulus-sensitive polymer consisting of a polymer selected from the group consisting of a cationic, anionic, non-ionic, and a combined polyelectrolyte, and applying a stimulus, said polymer adapted to control inter-particle forces between said solid mineral particles in response to said stimulus, wherein said inter-particle forces consist of attraction and repulsion, and wherein said stimulus is selectively and repeatedly added and removed to effect reversibly operable conditioning between an initial state of said solid mineral particles and said polymer prevailing prior to applying said stimulus and a conditioned state resultant from applying said stimulus, thereby to control interaction between said solid mineral particles and said polymer within said liquid. | 22,418 |
9,048,151 | 1. A method of forming an integrated circuit with a photovoltaic cell, comprising: forming PMOS and NMOS transistors in a front side of a semiconductor wafer; forming first and second contacts to the PMOS and NMOS transistors; forming first and second through-silicon vias (TSVs) into the semiconductor wafer; bonding the semiconductor wafer to a carrier wafer on the front side of the semiconductor wafer; thinning the semiconductor wafer from a backside to a bottom level of the first TSV; after thinning the semiconductor wafer, forming a photovoltaic cell on the backside of the semiconductor wafer, wherein the first TSV electrically and directly contacts the photovoltaic cell; and removing the carrier wafer from the semiconductor wafer. | 11,462 |
8,989,764 | 1. A method for location distinction, comprising: determining a baseline temporal link signature of a channel between a transmitter located at a first location and a receiver at a second location, wherein said baseline temporal link signature is characteristic of a first impulse response of at least one transmitted signal over said channel, the transmitted signal comprising a plurality of multipath signal components, each multipath signal component including a time delay and an amplitude, wherein the baseline temporal link signature is based on the amplitude of each multipath signal component at each time delay; receiving a signal at said receiver based on a second transmitted signal from an unknown transmitter at an unknown location; determining a temporal link signature based on said second signal that is received, wherein said temporal link signature is characteristic of a second impulse response of said second transmitted signal over an unknown channel between said unknown transmitter and said receiver; and detecting a change between said first location and said second location by determining if said temporal link signature is different from said baseline temporal link signature, wherein said detecting a change comprises: | 38,179 |
8,874,242 | 1. An enterprise-integrated system optimizer, comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer instructions encoded thereon, wherein the computer instructions comprise instructions for: transmitting a graphical representation of a well-posed optimization problem comprising an interconnected network of nodes and connections to a remote electronic device, wherein the optimization problem relates to an enterprise-integrated system and comprises a parametric objective function, one or more decision variables, and one or more parametric constraints, wherein at least one of the nodes comprises a parametric hybrid model whose output is a decision variable in the parametric objective function, and at least one connection comprises a parametric hybrid model that describes parametric constraints on at least one decision variable in the optimization problem, and the graphical representation of the optimization problem enables graphically modifying at least one of the parametric objective function, a decision variable, and a parametric constraint of the optimization problem by interaction with a node or a connection, wherein the parametric hybrid model for a node or connection comprises: receiving a user command input relating to a node or connection in the graphical representation of the optimization problem; processing the user command input, wherein processing the user command input comprises modifying the optimization problem; and executing the optimizer with the modified optimization problem to determine current and future values of decision variables to implement in the enterprise-integrated system. | 18,996 |
8,896,010 | 1. An electronic device comprising: a solid shaped volume of a polymeric binder; suspended within the binder, a semiconductor die having a first face, a second face opposite the first face, and at least one sidewall spanning the first and second faces, the semiconductor die being a bare-die light-emitting element comprising a plurality of active semiconductor layers that cooperatively emit light; disposed on the first face of the semiconductor die, at least two spaced-apart contacts each having a terminal end not covered by the polymeric binder, the contacts each contacting a different active semiconductor layer of the semiconductor die; and disposed over a portion of the polymeric binder and in electrical contact with the terminal ends of the contacts, an anisotropic conductive adhesive (ACA), wherein (i) at least a portion of the polymeric binder is transparent to a wavelength of light emitted by the bare-die light-emitting element and (ii) the polymeric binder contains therein a wavelength-conversion material for absorption of at least a portion of light emitted from the bare-die light-emitting element and emission of converted light having a different wavelength, converted light and unconverted light emitted by the bare-die light-emitting element combining to form mixed light. | 36,769 |
9,839,097 | 1. A method for controlling a lamp based on a switching action, wherein if a switching-on action is detected, the lamp is switched on, and if a switching-off action is detected, the lamp is switched off; and wherein, another switching-on action performed within a period t0 after the switching-off action is detected is defined as a quick switching-off-and-on operation; the method further comprises: a first switching step in which when the lamp is switched on, after a quick switching-off-and-on operation is detected, if another quick switching-off-and-on operation is detected within a period t1, a first group of working states are switched; and a second switching step in which if the lamp is switched on for a period t2 which is longer than the period t1, and if yet another quick switching-off-and-on operation is detected, a second group of working states are switched; wherein switching of the first group of working states is allowed only under a state A of the second group of working states, and is not allowed under other states of the second group of working states. | 46,751 |
8,650,553 | 1. A computer-implemented method for managing localization workflow for video game development, wherein the method is implemented in a computer system comprising one or more processors, the method comprising: analyzing, by the one or more processors, an executable asset of a video game under development to determine whether a string has been added to or modified in the executable asset; responsive to a determination that the string has been added to or modified, automatically inspecting, by the one or more processors, the executable asset to determine whether the string is to be visually displayed or audibly played during game play; and responsive to a determination that the string is to be visually displayed or audibly played during game play, automatically generating, by the one or more processors, an electronic message for a translator, wherein the electronic message notifies the translator of a translation task associated with at least the string to be translated; wherein the electronic message is included a metadata that have data types and content types, and limits the length of the translated string such that the program automatically rejects a translation that exceeds the length requirement and display a message indicating the reason for the rejection; when an exact match for the string is found, the corresponding translated phrase is reused into the corresponding dictionary file(s), and the translated phrase is linked into the executable code by the linker. | 5,831 |
8,679,830 | 1. A herpes virus which lacks a functional ICP34.5 encoding gene and which comprises: (i) a heterologous gene encoding a prodrug converting enzyme; and (ii) a heterologous gene encoding a protein capable of causing cell to cell fusion. | 23,547 |
9,851,590 | 1. A product display system, comprising: a product display assembly comprising a power supply configured to produce a first electrical current, the power supply including a wireless power transmitter configured to receive the first electrical current; and a product positioned in proximity to the product display assembly, the product comprising: | 113 |
8,540,798 | 1. A system for processing sludge from a fume scrubbing system that scrubs fumes from a steelmaking converter, wherein the sludge includes metallic iron microspheres and non-metallic-iron material, the system comprising: separating equipment designed and configured to process the sludge so as to isolate substantially only metallic iron microspheres from the non-metallic-iron material, said separating equipment including an ultrasonic cleaner designed and configured to remove surficial fines bound to the metallic iron microspheres using at least two differing acoustic-cavitation excitation frequencies so as to create surface-cleaned metallic microspheres; and forming equipment designed and configured to receive the surface-cleaned metallic iron microspheres isolated by said separating equipment and form therewith cohesive bodies consisting essentially of the metallic iron microspheres isolated by said separating equipment. | 22,739 |
9,243,789 | 1. A plant lighting device, constructed at an indoor planting system planted with a plurality of plants, comprising: an illumination module, comprising an assembly seat, and an illumination unit comprising a plurality of light emitting elements that emit light toward at least one of the plurality of plants when powered up; and a power module, mounted on the assembly seat, comprising a power input line connected to an external power source to obtain an external power, a ring transformer module connected to the power input line and receiving the external power to perform power transformation, and a power output line connected to the ring transformer module and the illumination unit; the ring transformer module comprising a ring core, a primary coil winding around the ring core and connected to the power input line to receive the external power, and a secondary coil winding around the ring core and forming magnetic coupling with the primary coil to output a non-harmonic alternating current power to the power output line. | 3,145 |
8,537,682 | 1. A method for assigning and utilizing an Ethernet physical data port in an Ethernet Link Aggregation Group (LAG) in a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network, the method comprising the steps of: selecting, by a first MPLS/LAG switch, from a plurality of physical data ports in said first MPLS/LAG switch, a single physical tunnel port of the LAG which meets a bandwidth requirement of a network tunnel, wherein said single physical tunnel port has a port serial number; assigning, by said first MPLS/LAG switch, said single physical tunnel port to said network tunnel; preparing, by said first MPLS/LAG switch, a data packet label by which said single physical tunnel port may be identified, wherein said preparing includes dedicating sub-set of bits of said data packet label to encode said port serial number of said single physical tunnel port; sending, by said first MPLS/LAG switch, a message Comprising said data packet label to a preceding node; receiving from the preceding node, by said first MPLS/LAG switch, a data packet comprising said data packet label; and switching, by said first MPLS/LAG switch, said data packet to said single physical tunnel port according to said serial port number, and sending said data packet to a second MSPLS/LAG switch via said single physical tunnel port. | 13,582 |
9,269,916 | 1. An organic thin-film solar cell module comprising: a plurality of solar cell panels, each panel comprising a substrate with first and second main surfaces, a first electrode facing the first main surface, a second electrode interposed between the substrate and the first electrode, and a photoelectric conversion layer interposed between the first and second electrodes; a plurality of reflective surfaces, each obliquely facing a portion of the second main surface of each solar cell panel; and bus bars each disposed on the substrate of the solar cell panel, each of the bus bars being electrically connected to the second electrode and made of a material whose electric conductivity is higher than that of the second electrode, wherein a first plane including the reflective surface and intersecting with the second main surface of the substrate, an intersection line at which the first plane intersects with the second main surface of the substrate, and a second plane including the intersection line and forming an angle of 45° with the second main surface of the substrate and forming an angle smaller than 45° with the first plane are defined so that the second main surface of the substrate of the solar cell panel receives incident light from the reflective surface mainly in an oblique direction, an edge of the reflective surface directing toward the second main surface of the substrate is not in contact with the second main surface to provide a gap between them, the second plane intersects with the solar cell panel to divide the solar cell panel into a first region on which incident light falls and a second region on which incident light does not fall, the first region and the second region bordering on each other in the solar cell panel, the photoelectric conversion layer is provided in the first region and an edge of the photoelectric conversion layer adjacent to the second region is in contact with the second plane, and the bus bar is disposed on the second region. | 14,485 |
8,918,220 | 1. A method for managing energy usage of a building, the method comprising: obtaining at least one energy usage value from a metering device, the at least one energy usage value based on an amount of energy used by one or more devices of the building corresponding to an operational condition based on an unoccupied schedule of the building over a cycle; binning, by an energy system manager, the at least one energy usage value according to the operational condition; determining, by the energy system manager, a minimum feasible load for the operational condition based on a plurality of binned energy usage values obtained over a plurality of cycles from the metering device, the minimum feasible load representing a minimum energy usage to power the one or more devices of the building; determining, by the energy system manager, whether a data point for energy usage corresponding to the operational condition is above a threshold based on the minimum feasible load; taking an action, by the energy system manager, when the data point is above the threshold; and updating the minimum feasible load in response to receiving at least one energy usage value from the metering device corresponding to the operational condition of the building over another cycle. | 45,279 |
8,560,213 | 1. An exhaust gas recirculation device of an engine, comprising: a first exhaust gas recirculation passage for connecting an exhaust passage and an intake passage to each other and introducing into said intake passage an exhaust gas discharged from a combustion chamber to said exhaust passage; a second exhaust gas recirculation passage for connecting a part of said exhaust passage upstream of a part of said exhaust passage connected to said first exhaust gas recirculation passage and a part of said intake passage downstream of a part of said intake passage connected to said first exhaust gas recirculation passage to each other and introducing into said intake passage the exhaust gas discharged from said combustion chamber to said exhaust passage; control means for controlling the amount of the exhaust gas introduced into said intake passage via said first exhaust gas recirculation passage to a predetermined first target exhaust gas recirculation amount and controlling the amount of the exhaust gas introduced into said intake passage via said second exhaust gas recirculation passage to a predetermined second target exhaust gas recirculation amount; and setting means for setting said first and second target exhaust gas recirculation amounts, wherein said setting means sets a first reference exhaust gas recirculation amount set depending on an operation condition of said engine as said first target exhaust gas recirculation amount and a second reference exhaust gas recirculation amount set depending on the operation condition of said engine as said second target exhaust gas recirculation amount when the temperature of the flame on the combustion of a fuel in said combustion chamber is lower than or equal to a predetermined allowable upper limit flame temperature, and wherein said setting means sets one of said first reference exhaust gas recirculation amount and an amount smaller than said first reference exhaust gas recirculation amount as said first target exhaust gas recirculation amount and setting an amount larger than said second reference exhaust gas recirculation amount as said second target exhaust gas recirculation amount when the temperature of the flame on the combustion of the fuel in said combustion chamber is higher than said allowable upper limit flame temperature. | 42,835 |
8,980,575 | 1. A method for reducing growth inhibition by carbon monoxide (CO) of microbes in fermentation, comprising: a) providing syngas to a first fermentation zone; b) fermenting the syngas; and c) determining the CO concentration in the fermentation medium in the first fermentation zone, wherein if the CO concentration in the fermentation medium in the first fermentation zone has a calculated value of 0.12 mM or greater, then at least a portion of the syngas being provided to the first fermentation zone is provided to one or more subsequent fermentation zones in an amount effective for providing a calculated CO concentration in the first fermentation zone of at least 0.12 mM or less. | 26,193 |
9,435,006 | 1. An extraction method for metals, the method comprising subjecting an acid solution containing one or more metals selected from precious metals and rhenium to solvent extraction with a metal extraction agent to extract the one or more metals selected from the precious metals and the rhenium from the acid solution, wherein the metal extraction agent that comprises an amide derivative represented by the following general formula (I): wherein, R the alkyl group can be a straight chain or a branched chain; R R | 20,802 |
9,708,930 | 1. A panel for attenuating noise, comprising: a first skin; a second skin; and a cellular core connected to and forming a plurality of cavities between the first skin and the second skin, the cellular core including a wall and a septum, the cavities including a first cavity and a second cavity, and the septum fluidly dividing the first cavity into a first sub-cavity and a second sub-cavity; wherein a plurality of perforations in the first skin are fluidly coupled with the first sub-cavity, and a plurality of perforations in the wall fluidly couple the first sub-cavity with at least a region of the second cavity. | 37,779 |
9,387,131 | 1. An apparatus for threading a material layer through a machine path, the apparatus comprising a forwarding series of blowing air mechanisms aimed at said material layer in a machine direction to guide said material layer in said machine direction forwards through said machine path until an acceptable material state is achieved; a sensor; and a reversing series of blowing air mechanisms aimed at said material layer in a reverse machine direction to guide said material layer in said reverse direction; said sensor operatively coupled with said forwarding series of blowing air mechanisms and operatively coupled with said reversing series of blowing air mechanisms; at most one of said forwarding series of blowing air mechanisms and said reversing series of blowing air mechanisms instantaneously operative upon said material layer. | 18,200 |
8,622,995 | 1. A method of delivering an antimicrobial composition into the proximal end of a transdermal catheter, the method comprising: a) providing a transdermal catheter implanted within a patient, the transdermal catheter having a proximal end located outside of the patient and a distal end located at least partially within a blood vessel of the patient, the catheter comprising: b) providing an antimicrobial composition delivery device for insertion into the proximal opening of the catheter, the antimicrobial composition delivery device comprising: c) injecting a liquid lock solution into the transdermal catheter such that at least the proximal end of the transdermal catheter is substantially filled with the lock solution; d) applying a clamp across the proximal end of the catheter, the clamp substantially preventing the flow of fluids across the clamped portion of the catheter; and e) after applying the clamp, insertion of the elongate member and tapered member of the antimicrobial delivery device into the hub located at the proximal end of the catheter; wherein the elongate member is retained substantially within the hub of the transdermal catheter; wherein the elongate member is entirely proximal to the clamp; wherein the tapered member of the antimicrobial delivery device sealingly engages the tapered member of the hub of the catheter; and wherein the antimicrobial composition elutes into the lock solution on the proximal end of the clamp. | 1,603 |
9,505,034 | 1. A system for washing electrodes, each of the electrodes including first and second sides and peripheral edges, the system comprising: a) a conveyor for conveying the electrodes edgewise along a path; and b) a plurality of wash nozzles positioned adjacent to the path on opposing sides thereof, the wash nozzles directed towards the path for impinging the electrodes as the electrodes are conveyed along the path, wherein the conveyor comprises a conveyor belt for supporting a bottom peripheral edge of each electrode, the conveyor belt comprising at least one support cleat for supporting the bottom peripheral edge of each electrode and maintaining the electrode generally above the conveyor belt, and at least one safety stop for engaging a rear peripheral edge of the electrode to urge the electrode along the path. | 1,768 |
9,649,951 | 1. An automotive vehicle drive unit, comprising: a fuel cell comprising a flat non-linear control whose control input Pfc* is a setpoint of the electrical power to be delivered by the fuel cell; a reversible electrical energy storage system; an electric motor configured to propel the wheels of a vehicle; an electrical connection element configured to selectively connect the fuel cell and/or the energy storage system to the electric motor; a control circuit: | 18,802 |
8,509,653 | 1. A fixing device comprising: a fixing member; a heating member configured to approach and withdraw from the fixing member; an endless fixing belt, wound around the fixing member and the heating member, configured to be driven to rotate; a nip forming member to form a nip while contacting the fixing belt at a position opposite the fixing member; a pressing member to press the heating member so as to separate it from the fixing member; and a temperature detector to detect a temperature of the fixing belt at a position opposite the heating member, positioned such that one of a distance and a contact pressure between the temperature detector and the fixing belt remains substantially constant as the heating member approaches and withdraws from the fixing member, wherein the temperature detector is a thermistor in contact with the fixing belt, and a contact surface of the thermistor with the fixing belt is coated with a lubricant. | 46,994 |
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