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8,782,722 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a processor; a network interface to receive, at a media server, a first video stream and first closed caption data associated with the first video stream; a memory storing state information indicating an incrementally updated processing time and a time of a previously received caption; and a closed caption decoder executable by the processor to: wherein the network interface is further to send, from the media server to a destination device, a second video stream including the second closed caption data. | 3,218 |
9,082,747 | 1. A method of forming a hafnium-doped aluminum oxide film in the process of manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising: (a) forming an aluminum first oxide film in an amorphous state; (b) forming a hafnium oxide film; and (c) repeating (a) and (b) a predetermined number of times to form the hafnium-doped aluminum oxide film in an amorphous state on a previously formed layer of the semiconductor device, wherein (a) is performed m times and (b) is performed n times to control a concentration of hafnium to be lower than that of aluminum in the hafnium-doped aluminum oxide film, where n>m>1. | 21,198 |
9,783,822 | 1. A vector comprising: a) a left (5′) retroviral LTR; b) a hematopoietic cell expression control sequence that comprises an erythroid cell specific promoter and optionally an erythroid cell specific enhancer, operably linked to a globin gene; c) an ubiquitous expression control sequence operably linked to a truncated erythropoietin receptor (tEpoR), wherein the tEpoR comprises a C-terminal truncation that reduces the turnover of the tEpoR compared to an endogenous erythropoietin receptor (EpoR) or that increases the half-life of the tEpoR compared to an endogenous erythropoietin receptor (EpoR); and d) a right (3′) retroviral LTR. | 2,517 |
9,064,405 | 1. An electronic apparatus performing two-way communication with a remote control device, the apparatus comprising: a receiving unit which receives a data signal from the remote control device; a signal processing unit which performs signal processing to convert the received data signal into a pulse signal; a storage unit which maps code information corresponding to a time interval between falling edges of the pulse periods and stores the code information; and a control unit which detects information included in the received data signal based on a time interval between starting points of pulse periods which are in a row in the pulse signal, wherein the control unit detects the code information corresponding to the time interval between the starting points of the pulse periods which are in a row in the pulse signal. | 48,543 |
9,127,578 | 1. A method for an engine, comprising: indicating a crankcase ventilation system degradation based on a lower vacuum than expected downstream of a PCV breather tube. | 8,726 |
9,539,577 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: (a) an instrument enclosure configured to contain a cassette, the cassette comprising: (b) a heater assembly disposed within the instrument enclosure, the heater assembly comprising a first heater module comprising a first lumen and a second lumen and configured to receive at least a portion of the reaction chamber; (c) an optics assembly disposed within the instrument enclosure, the optics assembly comprising an excitation module, a detection module, a first optical member, and a second optical member, wherein the first optical member is configured to convey electromagnetic energy from the excitation module to the reaction chamber via the first lumen, and wherein the second optical member is configured to convey electromagnetic energy from the reaction chamber to the detection module via the second lumen. | 43,695 |
8,583,191 | 1. A base station apparatus comprising: a unit configured to determine a discontinuous reception pattern for a user apparatus that is classified according to a channel quality indicator (CQI) of a radio link; and a unit configured to report the discontinuous reception pattern to the user apparatus, wherein the discontinuous reception pattern specifies at least a cycle of discontinuous reception. | 41,799 |
9,196,910 | 1. A fuel cell, comprising: a polymer electrolyte membrane; a catalyst layer provided on the polymer electrolyte membrane; a gas diffusion layer provided on the catalyst layer; a frame member provided on an outer circumferential region of the polymer electrolyte membrane positioned on an outer side relative to an outer edge portion of the gas diffusion layer in a width direction of the polymer electrolyte membrane; a separator provided on the gas diffusion layer, the separator having a direct attachment region which is directly attached to the frame member; and a gasket provided so as to seal between the separator and the frame member on an outer side relative to the direct attachment region in the width direction, wherein with respect to a cross-section taken along a thickness direction of the fuel cell, the frame member is arranged on an outermost side of the polymer electrolyte membrane in the thickness direction, the gasket is arranged on an outermost side of the frame member in the thickness direction, and the separator is arranged on an outermost side of the gasket in the thickness direction. | 31,516 |
9,276,442 | 1. A stator element comprising: a yoke comprising a plurality of laminated metal plates and a plurality of tooth radially protruding from one side of the yoke; a cooling cavity arranged on a back side of the yoke, the back side of the yoke disposed on a side of the yoke opposite of the plurality of tooth, the cooling cavity providing a path for a flow of a cooling medium; and a plated metal layer disposed on and forming only the upper area of the cooling cavity disposed on the yoke only in a region where the cooling cavity contacts the back side of the yoke, wherein the cavity is disposed in direct contact to the back side of the yoke. | 12,261 |
9,826,419 | 1. A method for wireless communication, the method comprising: obtaining, by a user equipment (UE), information for a cell, wherein the obtained information includes configuration information comprising a physical cell identity (PCI), a frequency (earFCN), and a bandwidth for the cell; storing, by the UE, the obtained information for the cell in a cell information database; employing, by the UE, the configuration information for the cell in the cell information database to determine an initial mutual information (Mi) hypothesis value for physical hybrid-automatic repeat request (HARQ) indicator channel (PHICH) group mapping of the cell; and performing, by the UE using the initial Mi hypothesis value, a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) decode for a system information block (SIB) on the cell, wherein the SIB is SIB1. | 1,481 |
8,474,693 | 1. A method comprising: (a) operating at least one data reader of an automated banking machine while the machine is in a consumer display mode, to read user data that is associated in at least one data store with a person authorized to use the machine, (b) subsequent to (a) and while the machine is still in the consumer display mode, operating the machine to receive from the person, at least one input corresponding to a first request to switch display modes; (c) operating the at least one processor responsive at least in part to the first request received in (b), to cause the at least one display device to output at least one first user interface for switching display modes, (d) subsequent to (c) and while the machine is still in the consumer display mode, operating the machine to receive from the person: (e) operating the at least one processor responsive at least in part to a determination that the servicer data received in (d) is associated in at least one data store with authorization to perform the at least one machine maintenance function, to cause the machine to switch from the consumer display mode to the maintenance display mode; (f) subsequent to (e) and while the machine is still in the maintenance mode, operating the machine to receive from the person, at least one input corresponding to a second request to switch display modes; (g) operating the at least one processor responsive at least in part to the second request received in (f), to cause the at least one display device to output at least one second user interface for switching display modes, (h) subsequent to (g) and while the machine is still in the maintenance display mode, operating the machine to receive from the person, at least one selection input corresponding to user selection of the consumer display mode; and (i) operating the at least one processor responsive at least in part to the user selection received in (h), to cause the machine to switch from the maintenance display mode to the consumer display mode. | 10,615 |
9,088,739 | 1. A process of controlling a pixel cell of an image sensor, the process comprising: initializing a sense node and a read node of the pixel cell; partially transferring electrical charges accumulated at the sense node since the initialization of the sense node, to the read node; completely evacuating electrical charges accumulated at the read node; partially transferring electrical charges accumulated at the sense node to the read node; obtaining a first pixel voltage corresponding to a quantity of electrical charges accumulated during a short integration period, the obtaining including performing a first measurement of electrical charges accumulated at the read node; after performing the first measurement, completely transferring electrical charges accumulated at the sense node to the read node; after completely transferring electrical charges accumulated at the sense node to the read node, obtaining a second pixel voltage for a long integration period by performing a second measurement of electrical charges at the read node, wherein the second measurement is performed without evacuating the electrical charges accumulated at the read node after performing the first measurement, the second pixel voltage obtained by performing the second measurement corresponding to the sum of the electrical charges accumulated during the short and long integration periods; obtaining a first pixel lighting value corresponding to the first measurement and a second pixel lighting value corresponding to the second measurement, wherein obtaining the first pixel lighting value includes analog-digital converting the first pixel voltage and obtaining the second pixel lighting value includes analog-digital converting the second pixel voltage, wherein the analog-digital converting steps are performing using an analog-digital converter having a dynamic and the steps of transferring electrical charges accumulated at the sense node to the read node are controlled by pulses having amplitudes; and allowing the first pixel voltage to fully reach the dynamic of the analog/digital converter, the allowing including avoiding saturation of the analog-digital converter during the analog-digital converting steps by adjusting the amplitude of at least one of the pulses according to the dynamic of the analog-digital converter. | 32,360 |
8,760,253 | 1. A coil assembly, comprising: a ferrite layer; a first thermally-conductive silicone layer overlying the ferrite layer; a first housing that surroundingly encloses the ferrite layer and the first thermally-conductive silicone layer; a heat sink structure distinct from the ferrite layer disposed within an opening in the first housing, wherein the heat sink structure is in direct contact with the first thermally-conductive silicone layer and wherein the heat sink structure is in thermal communication with the first thermally-conductive silicone layer; and a wire conductor wrapped about the first housing. | 25,818 |
9,053,227 | 1. One or more computer-readable storage hardware media comprising computer-executable instructions for executing on a computer system a computer process, the computer process comprising: monitoring write access attempts to a variable of an assertion; blocking the write access attempts; scheduling the write access attempts in a write access attempts queue until an evaluation of the assertion completes; releasing the write access attempt from the write access attempts queue after evaluating the assertion; disassembling an instruction scheduled to execute at a current program counter to determine the write access attempts to the variables of the assertion; and dynamically interpreting assembly instructions of the assertion evaluation. | 41,471 |
9,422,536 | 1. An isolated, synthetic, or recombinant polypeptide comprising: (i) an amino acid sequence at least 95% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:352, wherein the polypeptide has a glucanase activity; (ii) an amino acid sequence encoded by a nucleic acid having at least 95% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO.: 351, wherein the polypeptide has glucanase activity or (iii) the amino acid sequence of (i), or (ii), lacking a signal sequence and/or a carbohydrate binding module wherein the amino acid sequence of (i), (ii), or (iii), further comprising a heterologous sequence. | 3,710 |
9,028,610 | 1. A process for the production of a hydraulic binder, said process comprising co-grinding a clinker and 0.1 to 5% by dry mass relative to the mass of clinker, of a material comprising more than 15% by mass of calcium silicate hydrate relative to the solid fraction of the material, wherein a plasticizer or a superplasticizer is co-ground with the clinker, the material and optionally a grinding agent, the quantity of the plasticizer or superplasticizer being 0.05 to 3% by mass expressed as dry extract relative to the mass of clinker. | 28,569 |
8,476,485 | 1. A conditional TDP-43 gene-knockout mouse model for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) whose spinal cord motor neurons comprises a disrupted TDP-43 encoding gene and have a loss of TAR-DNA binding protein-43 (TDP-43) function, wherein the TDP-43-encoding gene in the spinal cord motor neurons comprises a homozygous disruption and the mouse exhibits ALS-like symptoms after the age of 13 weeks. | 26,453 |
8,859,891 | 1. A socket assembly comprising: a photovoltaic package having a substrate with an upper surface and a lower surface, the photovoltaic package having a photovoltaic cell and contact pads on the upper surface, the contact pads being electrically connected to the photovoltaic cell; flexible wires having discrete contacts terminated to ends thereof, the contacts having separable mating interfaces engaging corresponding contact pads to electrically couple the wires to the photovoltaic package; a dielectric housing removably receiving the photovoltaic package, the dielectric housing having channels removably receiving the wires and contacts, the dielectric housing holding the contacts in mating engagement with the contact pads, the contacts being deflectable and being spring biased against the contact pads; and a metal shell having an upper wall and side walls defining a chamber receiving the dielectric housing and the photovoltaic package, the metal shell having wire channels open through the side walls, the wires passing through the wire channels into the channels of the dielectric housing, the metal shell having a window through the upper wall providing access to the photovoltaic cell, the metal shell directly engaging the dielectric housing to deflect the contacts and to force the contacts into engagement with the contact pads; wherein the metal shell and dielectric housing both include mounting openings therethrough receiving fasteners for mounting the metal shell, dielectric housing and photovoltaic package to a heat sink such that the photovoltaic package is in direct thermal communication with the heat sink. | 20,220 |
8,622,382 | 1. A printing medium feeding cassette usable with an image forming apparatus, comprising: a first casing which comprises a guide member which extends along a sliding direction, and a plurality of coupling parts arranged in a central area of the guide member to be spaced from each other along the sliding direction; a second casing to form a printing medium containing space in cooperation with the first casing and to be configured to slide along the guide member; a stopper to reciprocate in a direction transverse to the sliding direction between a coupling position in which the stopper is coupled with any one of the plurality of coupling parts and a releasing position in which the stopper is released from the coupling part; and a releasing member which is coupled with the second casing to move in the sliding direction in connection with the second casing and is moved by an external force applied thereto in the sliding direction to allow the stopper to move to the releasing position from the coupling position. | 8,097 |
8,770,948 | 1. A motor-driven compressor to be mounted to a first mounting of a vehicle, comprising: a housing having therein a compression mechanism that is electrically powered to draw fluid into the housing for compression and to discharge the compressed fluid out of the housing; and a second mounting for securing the housing to the first mounting, the second mounting comprising wherein the second fastening member has a longitudinal axis that intersects a longitudinal axis of the first fastening member. | 23,027 |
9,770,062 | 1. A footwear cover, comprising: an inside surface; an outside surface; a front end; a back edge; a lower edge; front edge; a toe area at the front end; a first tab ( a second tab ( a third tab ( a first fastener ( a second fastener ( a third fastener ( a fourth fastener ( a fifth fastener ( wherein, when the cover is wrapped around a footwear: | 49,176 |
8,461,421 | 1. An isolated polypeptide with pesticidal activity, selected from the group consisting of: a) a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:96; b) a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 95% sequence identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:96, wherein said polypeptide has pesticidal activity; and c) a polypeptide that is encoded by the nucleotide sequence of any of SEQ ID NO:36, 206, 207, 282 and 283. | 46,802 |
8,875,156 | 1. A method, comprising: storing an object correlating to at least one parameter of an industrial automation device on a human machine interface configured to monitor, control, or monitor and control processes of an industrial automation system affected by the industrial automation device; designating a visual representation of the object in a display screen of a remote workstation; accessing, from the human machine interface, any properties, connections, and text associated with the object in response to a trigger event, the trigger event originating from the remote workstation; storing, on the human machine interface where the object is stored, an entity configured to store any accessed properties, connections, and text wherein the entity is smaller than the object; and creating, via the entity, an identical copy of the object in response to a second trigger event originating from the remote workstation, wherein the identical copy includes any accessed properties, connections and text associated with the object. | 41,931 |
8,478,016 | 1. A method for the collection and interpretation of radiographic data from an object comprising the steps of: providing a radiation source and a radiation detector system spaced therefrom to define a scanning zone there between in such manner as to define at least first and second laterally spaced scanning positions, the detector system being capable of detecting and collecting spectroscopically resolvable information about radiation incident thereon; causing an object to move relative to and through the scanning zone across the laterally spaced scanning positions; and thereby generating at least a first perspective dataset of intensity information from the detector output at the first scanning position; generating at least a second perspective dataset of intensity information from the detector output at the second scanning position; resolving each perspective dataset into at least three spectroscopic energy bands; for each such resolved spectroscopic energy band: performing a numerical image analysis of data from each perspective dataset to identify corresponding points in the different perspective datasets; thereby obtaining numerical data concerning disparity between each perspective dataset; thereby obtaining z-coordinate information using triangulation and using the z-coordinate information to divide each perspective dataset at each energy band into a plurality of depth slices; and thereby producing a series of output datasets each comprising a 2-D dataset of intensity information resolved to a single energy band and depth slice; wherein a depth resolution step is carried out for each energy band using data from plural perspective views separated at equivalent energy bands to produce an output dataset that includes separate maps of 2-D intensity information for each energy band at each notional depth slice. | 42,608 |
8,816,457 | 1. An image sensor device comprising: an image sensing region disposed in a substrate; an inter-layer dielectric layer disposed over the substrate; a multilayer interconnection structure disposed over the inter-layer dielectric layer and the substrate; a passivation layer disposed over the multilayer interconnection structure, wherein the passivation layer forms opposing sidewalls of a recess; a color filter continuously extending through the passivation layer, the multilayer interconnect structure, and the inter-layer dielectric layer and aligned with the image sensing region, the color filter having a length and a width, wherein the length is greater than the width; and a lens disposed within the recess over the color filter, wherein the lens includes a top surface facing away from the substrate, and wherein the passivation layer forming the opposing sidewalls of the recess extends away from the substrate beyond the top surface of the lens, wherein the passivation layer is a single contiguous dielectric layer extending from beyond the top surface of the lens to the image sensing region in the substrate such that the passivation layer physically contacts the image sensing region in the substrate. | 47,979 |
9,150,210 | 1. A method for operating a vehicle drivetrain, comprising: automatically decoupling an engine from vehicle wheels in response to a driver releasing an accelerator pedal, the vehicle drivetrain including a driver operated clutch, the vehicle then coasting without accelerator input while the engine is decoupled, where the engine is automatically decoupled differently depending on road grade. | 15,290 |
8,591,047 | 1. An exterior sideview mirror assembly suitable for use on a vehicle, said exterior sideview mirror assembly comprising: a mirror housing; a mirror backing plate element; wherein said mirror backing plate element is movable within said mirror housing by an electrically-operable actuator; a main plano mirror element fixedly disposed at a first portion of said mirror backing plate element; said main plano mirror element having a first primary field of view rearward of a vehicle equipped with said exterior sideview mirror assembly; an auxiliary non-plano curved mirror element fixedly disposed at a second portion of said mirror backing plate element; wherein said main plano mirror element and said auxiliary non-plano curved mirror element are adjacently disposed at said mirror backing plate element in a side-by-side relationship and are not superimposed with one mirror element on top of the other mirror element; wherein said mirror backing plate element comprises a polymeric molding; said auxiliary non-plano curved mirror element having a second auxiliary field of view rearward of the equipped vehicle; wherein said first primary field of view of said main plano mirror element overlaps said second auxiliary field of view of said auxiliary non-plano curved mirror element; wherein said auxiliary non-plano curved mirror element that is at said second portion of said mirror backing plate element is angled relative to said main plano mirror element that is at said first portion of said mirror backing plate element; wherein said mirror backing plate element mounts to said actuator such that movement of said mirror backing plate element by said actuator simultaneously and similarly moves said main plano mirror element and said auxiliary non-plano curved mirror element; wherein said main plano mirror element comprises one of (a) a generally flat glass substrate having a surface coated with a metallic reflector coating and (b) a generally flat polymeric substrate having a thin glass element applied to a surface thereof and with an opposing surface thereof having a reflecting layer applied thereto; and wherein said first primary field of view of said main plano mirror element overlaps said second auxiliary field of view of said auxiliary non-plano curved mirror element by between about 2 degrees and about 20 degrees. | 33,444 |
9,639,642 | 1. A method of forecasting an electrical load of a site, the method comprising: receiving historical load data and historical ambient condition data, the historical load data and the historical ambient condition data including time series data pertaining to a site; generating additional data from one or more of the received historical load data and the received historical ambient condition data; building a best sub-model for each of multiple forecast intervals, the building including: forecasting an electrical load of the site for each of the forecast intervals using an ensemble of the best sub-models. | 5,372 |
8,836,285 | 1. A power management system comprising: a system controller configured to receive load-related information data including power requirement of a load and storage battery-related information data including state of a storage battery assembly including a plurality of storage batteries and to create an overall charge-discharge control instruction for an entire power management system based on the load-related information data and the storage battery-related information data; a hierarchical charge-discharge control apparatus configured to receive the overall charge-discharge control instruction from the system controller and to perform charge-discharge control of the plurality of storage batteries, which are classified into a plurality of hierarchical levels, on a hierarchical level basis; and a plurality of power converters configured to perform electric power conversion among a power source electrically connectable to the power management system, the storage battery assembly, and the load, wherein the hierarchical levels of the storage battery assembly comprise: level of a storage battery unit including a predetermined number of storage battery packs arranged in an array, each storage battery pack including a plurality of storage battery unit cells; and level of a unit group including a predetermined number of storage battery units arranged and connected to each of the plurality of power converters, the unit groups correspondingly assigned to the plurality of power converters, respectively, the hierarchical charge-discharge control apparatus comprises: a master controller configured to receive an overall charge-discharge control instruction from the system controller and to create an assembly charge-discharge control instruction of the storage battery assembly based on the overall charge-discharge control instruction; and a power converter manager configured to receive the assembly charge-discharge control instruction and to perform charge-discharge control for each of the plurality of power converters by controlling charge-discharge of the storage battery units belonging to the unit group corresponding to each power converter. | 41,143 |
8,466,216 | 1. An aqueous binder composition comprising an unreacted mixture of a carboxylated vinyl acetate-ethylene terpolymer emulsion and a water-soluble poly(methyldiallylamine)-epichlorohydrin resin having 4 or more pendant epoxy groups, wherein the amount of the water-soluble poly(methyldiallylamine)-epichlorohydrin resin relative to the amount of the carboxylated vinyl acetate-ethylene terpolymer emulsion is from about 0.5 to about 25 weight percent on a solids basis, said composition further comprising an anti-blocking additive selected from the group consisting of glyoxal, glutaraldehyde and glyoxalated polyacrylamides. | 29,251 |
8,609,861 | 1. A Hexaaza[3.3.3]propellane compound represented by Formula 1: wherein R is H, C | 26,869 |
9,525,316 | 1. A stator assembly comprising: a plurality of bar pins configured to define a wire end portion including a plurality of wire ends; wherein the plurality of wire ends are configured in a weave pattern defining a plurality of wire end pairs; wherein each respective one of the plurality of wire end pairs is joined by a respective crimpable element to form an electrical connection between the wire ends of the respective one of the plurality of wire end pairs; and wherein each respective one of the plurality of wire end pairs further includes a crimped joint defined by a crimped portion of the crimpable element intermediate a first nondeformed portion and a second nondeformed portion of the crimpable element; wherein at least one of the plurality of wire end pairs further includes a soldered joint formed between the wire ends of the respective one of the plurality of wire end pairs, wherein the soldered joint comprises a solder material directly connecting the wire ends to each other; the crimpable element including a continuous interior surface defining a hollow portion; and wherein the continuous interior surface is one of tapered and flared. | 42,391 |
9,714,782 | 1. A compressor control device, comprising: a commercial power source that supplies power to a compressor having a motor, a power converter that converts the power of the commercial power source into a driving power of the motor and outputs the converted driving power; a compressor controller, connected directly to the commercial power source, that receives, from the commercial power source, an input voltage or an input frequency that is not rectified and that operates the compressor by connecting the commercial power source directly to the compressor or through the power converter, based on an input voltage or an input frequency of a non-rectified commercial power source; and at least one switch that connects the commercial power source directly to the compressor or connects the commercial power source to the compressor through the power converter, wherein the compressor controller includes a plurality of operation modes, and wherein the compressor controller drives the at least one switch by generating a switching signal based on one of the plurality of operation modes that is based on the input voltage or the input frequency of the commercial power source, wherein the compressor controller that operates the compressor by connecting the commercial power source directly to the compressor or by connecting the commercial power source to the compressor through the power converter in a second operation mode after the compressor controller detects whether the input voltage or the input frequency of the commercial power source is within a predetermined range after the compressor is actuated in an initial operation mode, and wherein the compressor controller operates the compressor by connecting the commercial power source directly to the compressor when the input voltage or the input frequency of the non-rectified commercial power source is within the predetermined range, or actuates the compressor through the power converter when the input voltage or the input frequency of the non-rectified commercial power source is out of the predetermined range, in the second operation mode. | 29,456 |
8,452,812 | 1. A system for accessing, by a locally executing application, a setting in a virtualized user profile comprising: an isolation environment executed by a processor of a local machine; an application executed by the processor outside of the isolation environment, the application requesting access to a setting in a user profile outside of the isolation environment; and a filter driver executed by the processor to: | 25,194 |
8,516,575 | 1. A method for enforcing a security policy in a network including a plurality of components, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of events describing component behavior detected by a plurality of sensors, each sensor monitoring a different component of the plurality of components; attributing a first event of the plurality of events to a first principal; attributing a second event of the plurality of events to a second principal; determining whether the first and second events are correlated; storing a data structure that attributes each of the first and second events to the first principal, if it is determined that the first and second events are correlated; comparing the second event to the security policy; and modifying network behavior to enforce the security policy against the first principal based on the comparison of the second event to the security policy and the attribution of the second event to the first principal. | 41,696 |
9,092,036 | 1. A pressure regulator assembly comprising: a first chamber having a first surface, a side surface, a fluidic input port, and a fluidic output port, wherein the first chamber encloses a force-activated valve element; a second chamber configured to enclose the first and side surfaces of the first chamber, and in communication with a reference pressure port; and a third chamber configured to enclose the second chamber and that is in fluidic communication with a feedback input port in fluidic communication with the fluidic output port; wherein the force-activated valve element does not extend outside the first chamber. | 31,707 |
8,576,803 | 1. A communication system comprising: a plurality of base stations; and mobile subscriber stations located respectively in areas corresponding to the plurality of base stations, wherein each mobile subscriber station in each area transmits a channel estimation signal to each base station corresponding to the area and to base stations corresponding to areas contiguous to the area, and each of the base stations transmits data to the mobile subscriber stations using a transmission beam that is directed to the mobile subscriber stations in the corresponding area and is not directed to adjacent mobile subscriber stations in the areas contiguous to the corresponding area, the data being transmitted by the base stations to the mobile subscriber stations on the basis of | 40,882 |
9,395,438 | 1. A method of displaying an indication of a hazard on an aircraft display using an avionics warning system, the method comprising: sensing presence of lightning using a lightning sensor to provide lightning detection data; providing a first turbulence assessment in response to a spectral width parameter associated with radar returns output from an airborne radar antenna using the avionics warning system; providing an inferential turbulence detection assessment in response to the lightning detection data using the avionics warning system; and providing the indication using the inferential turbulence detection assessment and the first turbulence assessment using a processing system in the avionics warning system. | 4,444 |
9,355,431 | 1. A system comprising: a processor; a memory; a spatial analysis module comprising computer-executable instructions stored in the memory and executed on the processor to determine a physical topology of a projection surface onto which a source image is to be displayed; a user identification module comprising computer-executable instructions stored in the memory and executed on the processor to determine a view direction of a user; and a coordinate transformation module comprising computer-executable instructions stored in the memory and executed on the processor to generate a modified source image based at least in part on the source image, the physical topology of the projection surface, and on the determined view direction. | 19,046 |
8,643,694 | 1. A method for implementing automatic answering and recording in videophone services comprising: step A: when a video call is coming, a called terminal automatically answering the call and playing a prerecorded automatic answering prompting message to a calling user; and step B: the called terminal recording audio and video of the calling user and ending the call after the recording is completed, wherein the called terminal deletes the video recorded for the calling user and recommences to record the audio and video of the calling user when the called terminal receives a response of the calling user deleting the video recording and recommencing recording. | 13,843 |
9,030,969 | 1. A wireless communication device supported by a communication architecture, the communication architecture having a first radio access technology network infrastructure, a second radio access technology network infrastructure and a common backhaul pathway between the first radio access technology network infrastructure and the second radio access technology network infrastructure, the wireless communication device comprising: a first transmitter module configured to communicate upstream via the first radio access technology network infrastructure; a second transmitter module configured to communicate upstream via the second radio access technology network infrastructure; a first receiver module configured to communicate downstream via the first radio access technology network infrastructure; a second receiver module configured to communicate downstream via the second radio access technology network infrastructure; and a controller module coupled to each of the first transmitter module, the second transmitter module, the first receiver module and the second receiver module, the controller module configured to enable upstream communication with the first radio access technology network infrastructure via the first transmitter module while both disabling the downstream communication with the first radio access technology network infrastructure by disabling the first receiver module and enabling downstream communication with the first radio access technology network infrastructure via the second radio access technology network infrastructure by enabling the second receiver module, such downstream communication via the second receiver module being supported via backhaul interchanges between the first radio access technology network infrastructure and the second radio access technology network infrastructure. | 169 |
8,630,605 | 1. A synchronization system for achieving low power battery operation of a vehicle locating unit in a stolen vehicle recovery system which receives transmissions from at least one transmission source, each of said transmissions having a transmission cycle period and providing an expected message to the synchronization system, the expected message having a transmission duration, comprising: a radio receiver for receiving said transmissions; and a microprocessor configured to turn on said radio receiver for a limited time to detect the expected message; if the expected message is not found, turning off said radio receiver and turning it on again after a time asynchronous with the transmission cycle period; after finding the expected message, waiting for a length of time equal to the difference between the cycle period of the transmissions less the transmission duration length of the expected message and then looking for a synchronization symbol in the expected message and synchronizing subsequent actuation of said radio receiver using said synchronization symbol. | 28,483 |
9,853,556 | 1. An isolated power conversion system, comprising: a rectifying unit for converting an AC power into a DC power; a transformer comprising a primary coil, an auxiliary coil and a secondary coil, the primary coil receiving the DC power, the auxiliary coil generating an auxiliary induced current by induction of a current flowing through the primary coil, the auxiliary induced current flowing through a serial resistor and generating an auxiliary signal, the secondary coil generating a secondary induced current by induction of the current flowing through the primary coil; a switching transistor implemented by a MOS (metal-oxide-semiconductor) transistor with a drain, a gate and a source or a BJT (bipolar junction transistor) with a collector, a base and an emitter, the drain or the collector connected to the primary coil, the gate or the base connected to an end of a sensing resistor, another end of the sensing resistor grounded, the source or the emitter generating a sensing signal; an output unit comprising an output transistor, an output diode and an output capacitor, a positive end of the output diode connected to a drain of the output transistor and an end of the output capacitor, a negative end of the output diode connected to a source of the output transistor, another end of the output capacitor connected to the secondary coil, the output capacitor connected to a load in parallel for generating an output power; a first Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) controller having a first end, a second end, a third end, a fourth end, a transmit end and a receive end, the first end floating, the second end connected to the gate or the base of the switching transistor through a driving serial resistor, the third end receiving the auxiliary signal, the fourth end connected to the source or the emitter of the switching transistor through a sensing serial resistor for receiving the sensing signal; a second PWM controller having a first end, a second end, a third end, a fourth end, a transmit end and a receive end, the first end connected to the negative end of the output diode, the second end connected to the gate of the output transistor, the third end connected to the positive end of the output diode, the fourth end connected to the load; and a signal blocking unit connected between the first and second PWM controllers, and implemented by a signal sensing coil provided in the transformer to perform bi-directional signal communication for the primary and secondary coils, wherein the first PWM controller performs a first control process based on the sensing signal and the auxiliary signal and electrical signal from the receive end to generate a driving signal with a PWM feature, the second end of the first PWM controller transmits the driving signal to the gate or the base of the switching transistor to drive the switching transistor, the first PWM controller generates a first digital output signal, the transmit end of the first PWM controller transmits the first digital output signal to the receive end of the second PWM controller through the signal blocking unit, the second PWM controller performs a second control process based on electrical signals from the first, third, fourth ends and receive end of the second PWM controller so as to generate a secondary coil adjust signal, the second end of the second PWM controller transmits the secondary coil adjust signal to the gate of the output transistor, the second PWM controller generates a second digital output signal, the transmit end of the second PWM controller transmits the second digital output signal to the receive end of the first PWM controller through the signal blocking unit, and connection interface provided for the signal blocking unit to communicate with the first and second PWM controllers is operated by signals in a digital form. | 24,578 |
8,764,439 | 1. A device for recovering heat of molten slag, comprising: a fluidized bed provided in a device main body and formed of fluidized bed material composed of crushed solidified slag; a molten slag feeder for supplying molten slag to said fluidized bed; heat exchangers for recovering heat from said fluidized bed; a solidified slag recovery device for recovering solidified slag, said solidified slag being formed in said fluidized bed as said molten slag is solidified; a crusher for crushing said solidified slag recovered by said solidified slag recovery device; a circulation device for returning to said bed material grains of said solidified slag crushed by said crusher; a bed material drawing device for partially drawing out said bed material; and an exhaust gas duct disposed on upper section of said device main body, particularly above said fluidized bed, wherein | 13,452 |
9,684,139 | 1. A multi-fiber fiber optic connector interconvertible between a male connector and a female connector, the connector comprising: a ferrule comprising: a pin retainer configured for releasably retaining the alignment pins in the connector when the alignment pins are disposed in the passages; and a housing disposed around the pin retainer and at least a portion of the ferrule; wherein the pin retainer comprises a portion for engaging each alignment pin to retain the alignment pins in the connector for a male configuration, and the portion for engaging being selectively releasable from the alignment pins for removal of the alignment pins for a female configuration, the housing and pin retainer being configured for interconversion of the connector between the male configuration and the female configuration without disassembly of the housing from the connector. | 44,692 |
9,177,213 | 1. A method for use in forming an image of an object comprising: providing an initial image of an object, said object comprising a surface having a variation in appearance across the surface; obtaining, by a processor, data representing a measured reflectance from positions on the surface of the object; associating, by the processor, a pixel, point or portion of the initial image of the object with a corresponding position on the surface of the object from which the reflectance is measured; and setting, by the processor, a value of an attribute of the pixel, point or portion of the initial an image of the object according to the measured reflectance of the corresponding position on the surface of the object to form an enhanced image of the object. | 49,776 |
8,913,607 | 1. A method for Space Time Block Coding (STBC) in a mesh network having a mesh STBC mesh point and at least one neighboring STBC mesh point, the method comprising: determining whether the STBC mesh point and the at least one neighboring STBC mesh point are high throughput STBC mesh points; setting a dual clear-to-send (CTS) protection field of a high throughput operation element of the high throughput STBC mesh points to 1; and responsive to the STBC mesh point setting the dual CTS protection field of the high throughput operation element to 1 and the at least one neighboring mesh point failing to set the dual CTS protection field of the high throughput operation element to 1, the STBC mesh point transmitting as an access point with the dual CTS protection field of the high throughput operation element set to 1 for communications with the at least one neighboring mesh point. | 8,349 |
9,113,294 | 1. A method for positioning an Internet Protocol (“IP”) location, comprising steps of: obtaining location data of a plurality of mobile terminals used by a first plurality of users in a preset period to generate a first geographic location data set, wherein the first geographic location data set comprises a first plurality of location data records and each of the first plurality of location data records comprises a first user identity, a first time and a geographic location; pre-processing the first geographic location data set to obtain a second geographic location data set; obtaining a second plurality of location data records of each of the first plurality of users in a first time period from the second geographic location data set, clustering the second plurality of location data records to obtain a plurality of first groups and computing a first center of each of the plurality of first groups to obtain a first selected location corresponding to each of the first plurality of users; obtaining a third plurality of location data records of each of the first plurality of users in a second time period from the second geographic location data set, clustering the third plurality of location data records to obtain a plurality of second groups and computing a second center of each of the plurality of second groups to obtain a second selected location corresponding to each of the first plurality of users; obtaining IP address data corresponding to a plurality of fixed terminals used by the first plurality of users in the preset period to generate an IP address data set, wherein the IP address data set comprises a first plurality of IP address data records and each of the first plurality of IP address data records comprises a second user identity, a second time and an IP address; converting the IP addresses of the first plurality of IP address data records into a first plurality of IP sections, judging whether a number of IP address data records corresponding to each IP section is less than a first threshold, and if yes, deleting the IP address data records corresponding to the each IP section and a second plurality of IP sections are obtained; and obtaining a second plurality of users corresponding to each of the second plurality of IP sections and computing the IP location corresponding to each of the second plurality of IP sections according to a plurality of first selected locations and a plurality of second selected locations corresponding to the second plurality of users. | 49,170 |
8,525,003 | 1. A plant of corn variety CV126318, wherein a sample of seed of corn variety CV126318 has been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-11777. | 47,382 |
9,540,624 | 1. A glucoamylase variant having improved thermostability, comprising a substitution at a position corresponding to position 327 of the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 3, wherein the variant has glucoamylase activity and wherein the variant has at least 90% sequence identity to the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 3. | 42,675 |
9,700,573 | 1. A method for treatment of malignant cells, comprising: administering to the malignant cells nanoparticles and etoposide, wherein the nanoparticles are selected from the group consisting of single wall carbon nanotubes, silver nanoparticles, gold nanoparticles and combinations thereof. | 41,189 |
9,144,035 | 1. A method for controlling uplink transmit power by a user equipment in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: determining an uplink transmit power of at least one type of channels, when the at least one type of channels among a first type of channels corresponding to a plurality of physical uplink control channels (PUCCHs), a second type of channels corresponding to physical uplink shared channels (PUSCHs) with uplink control information (UCI), and a third type of channels corresponding to PUSCHs without the UCI is simultaneously transmitted in a specific cell; and transmitting the at least one type of channels at the determined uplink transmit power, wherein the uplink transmit power is determined by applying a scaling factor to a power value of the at least one type of channels when the power value exceeds maximum transmittable transmit power of the user equipment or remaining transmit power of the user equipment, and wherein the scaling factor is determined in consideration of a timing adjustment (TA) group index which identifies each of a plurality of TA groups, and each TA group of the plurality of TA groups is a set of uplink resources sharing a same TA value. | 22,149 |
8,393,398 | 1. A device for inhibiting severe slug flow in a multiphase fluid stream flowing through a subsea pipeline and into a riser, wherein the device is positioned upstream of the riser and comprises at least one unit comprising (i) an upwardly inclined section of pipe having a lower end and an upper end and (ii) either a substantially horizontal section of pipe having a first end and a second end or a downwardly inclined section of pipe having an upper end and a lower end, wherein the lower end of the upwardly inclined section of pipe is connected either directly or indirectly with the pipeline, the upper end of the upwardly inclined section of pipe is connected either directly or indirectly with the first end of the horizontal section of pipe or with the upper end of the downwardly inclined section of pipe, and the second end of the horizontal section of pipe or the lower end of the downwardly inclined section of pipe is connected either directly or indirectly with the riser, and wherein the angle of inclination of the upwardly inclined section of pipe is in the range 5 to 90° to the horizontal, and the length of the upwardly inclined section of pipe is in the range 1 to 30 feet so that the device causes the multiphase flow to create a liquid slug in the upwardly inclined section of the pipe to cause gas from the multiphase flow to accumulate upstream of the liquid slug until pressure in the gas is sufficient to move the liquid slug downstream along the pipeline. | 40,603 |
8,527,223 | 1. A method for managing an industrial process wherein a processor transforms an energy related test signal into an energy prognosis, the method comprising: receiving automatically with the processor the energy related test signal comprising effective power test data indicative of electrical energy consumed by an energy consuming machine; partitioning automatically with the processor the energy related test signal into an energy related test sub-signal; applying automatically with the processor mathematical functions to the energy related test sub-signal to extract a feature set of data from the energy related test sub-signal; transforming automatically with the processor the feature set of data with a transformation matrix into a reduced test feature set; inputting automatically with the processor the reduced test feature set into a performance assessment algorithm, wherein the performance assessment algorithm is based at least in part upon a reduced training feature set derived from data indicative of electrical energy consumed during healthy operation; and generating automatically with the processor the energy prognosis, wherein the energy prognosis is based at least in part upon a power-based performance index calculated by the performance assessment algorithm. | 25,108 |
9,209,434 | 1. A cap for an energy storage cell, the cap comprising: a metallic body comprising a dome with a first shape, the metallic body having a hole therethrough; a non-metallic insulator with a second shape having at least a portion disposed within the dome, said portion substantially conforming to the first shape to form an interference fit between the portion and an inner surface of the dome, wherein the insulator is made from a compressible material and includes a through way passing through the insulator; and an electrode extending through the through way and the hole, | 34,875 |
8,689,840 | 1. An apparatus for conveying free flowing fine solids from a first vessel to a second vessel, the system equipped with means for fragmenting agglomerates of fine solids that impede or block the free flow of fine solids from the first vessel to the second vessel, the system comprising: A. A first vessel for receiving and discharging free-flowing fine solids, the first vessel comprising a narrow discharge section through which the free-flowing fine solids pass; B. A breaker plate located in or beneath the discharge section of the first vessel such that fine solids passing from the first vessel to the second vessel must pass through the plate, the plate comprising a grid-like structure of interconnected blades that form holes that extend through the plate, the holes sized and configured such that the free-flowing fine solids can pass through the plate; C. A second vessel with an inlet for receiving the fine solids from the first vessel; D. A flow detector located above or within or about the inlet of the second vessel such that fine solids entering the second vessel through the inlet must pass by or through the flow detector, the flow detector designed and equipped to sense the movement of the fine solids by or through it and comprising a signal emitter for transmitting a signal that the flow of fine solids has been diminished below a pre-determined flow rate or stopped; and E. A press for fragmenting agglomerates that are located in the discharge section of the first vessel and on or closely above the top facial surface of the breaker plate, the press located above and about the top facial surface of the breaker plate and comprising (1) a press arm, the press arm comprising a press head, (2) a signal receiver for receiving the signal transmitted by the signal emitter of the flow detector, and (3) means for activating the press arm to compress and fragment the agglomerates upon receiving the signal from the flow detector such that the fragments pass through the breaker plate and the free flow of fine solids is restored. | 24,677 |
8,484,448 | 1. An information processing system formed on a single semiconductor substrate, the information processing system comprising: a processing unit; a peripheral circuit module; a bus coupled to said processing unit and said peripheral circuit module; and a boot address register coupled to said bus, wherein said information processing system includes a first operation mode and a second operation mode having an operating current which is lower than that of said first operation mode, wherein said boot address register holds an address of an instruction to be executed by said processing unit first when the boot address register returns from said second operation mode to said first operation mode, wherein said address is output from said boot address register to the processing unit when said information processing system shifts from said second operation mode to said first operation mode, wherein said boot address register is able to be written from said bus to replace said address held by said boot address register with another address, an information holding circuit that holds a value of a register contained in said peripheral circuit module, wherein said information holding circuit holds, in said second operation mode, information about the register contained in said peripheral circuit module, and, transfers information held in said information holding circuit to the register contained in said peripheral circuit module when the information holding circuit shifts from said second operation mode to said first operation mode, and wherein when an interrupt request is posted from the outside of said information processing system in said second operation mode, said information processing system performs interrupt processing corresponding to said interrupt request. | 17,178 |
8,999,302 | 1. A skin dye protectant formulation consisting of: about 30% to about 45% by weight of a film forming composition; about 40% to about 50% by weight of a solvent selected from the group consisting of: alkyl alcohols and derivatives thereof, isomers of alkyl alcohols and derivatives thereof and mixtures thereof; about 2% to about 20% by weight of water; about 0.1% to about 0.2% by weight of a dye which dissolves in water; about 1% to about 5% by weight of antioxidants optionally, a plasticizer; and optionally, a water solubilizing agent; wherein the formulation substantially maintains the color of the dye, when the skin dye protectant formulation subjected to gamma sterilization. | 10,708 |
8,386,149 | 1. A fuel system ( 18 ) for an internal combustion engine including an engine block ( 12 ), at least one combustion chamber ( 14 ) associated with the engine block, at least one piston ( 11 ) mounted for movement within the chamber ( 14 ), a shaft ( 7 ) driven by the at least one piston ( 11 ), and a flywheel ( 2 ) mounted to and rotatable with the shaft; comprising: a throttle body ( a fuel pump ( a fuel pressure regulator ( an electronic control unit (ECU) ( a fuel injector ( an air purge pump ( an ignition module and power generating assembly ( | 39,939 |
9,502,581 | 1. A storage transistor comprising: a substrate; a first polysilicon layer over the substrate; an oxide layer disposed on top of the first polysilicon layer; a tunneling dielectric layer disposed on the first polysilicon layer and the oxide layer, wherein the oxide layer is between the first polysilicon layer and the tunneling dielectric layer; and a second polysilicon layer disposed on the tunneling dielectric layer, wherein the second polysilicon layer comprises at least a first edge extending into the tunneling dielectric layer towards the first polysilicon layer or filling a first space surrounded by the first polysilicon layer. | 49,236 |
8,885,367 | 1. A switched-mode power supply unit comprising: a mains input that connects the power supply to a primary supply voltage; an input circuit comprising a shared electrical path connected to the mains input and extending from the mains input to an internal node, and comprising a first mains filter, a first electrical path, connected between the shared electrical path and at least one supply output of the input circuit and extending from the internal node to the supply output that provides a filtered primary input voltage, the first electrical path comprising a second mains filter and a first switching element that opens the first electrical path, the first switching element being arranged serially in the first electrical path, the input circuit further comprising a second electrical path connected between the shared electrical path and the at least one supply output of the input circuit and extending from the internal node to the supply output, the second electrical path connected in parallel with the first electrical path; at least one switched-mode converter having an input coupled to the at least one supply output of the input circuit that converts the filtered primary supply voltage to a secondary supply voltage; and a control circuit that selectively switches the power supply unit to a first mode of operation with a high power output or to second mode of operation with a reduced power output in comparison with the first mode of operation, wherein the control circuit actuates the input circuit such that in the first mode of operation the first switching element is closed as a result of which an operating current is filtered by the first mains filter and the second mains filter, and in the second mode of operation the first switching element is open as a result of which said operating current is filtered only by the first mains filter. | 34,879 |
9,242,950 | 1. A method for manufacturing a fatty acid derivative represented by formula (I): wherein X wherein R1 is a protecting group for hydroxy group; Y wherein R2 is a protecting group for hydroxy group; Z wherein R3 is a protecting group for hydroxy group, provided that at least one of X A is —CH B is a single bond, —CH Ra is bivalent saturated or unsaturated lower-medium aliphatic hydrocarbon group, which is unsubstituted or substituted by halogen atom, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, oxo, aryl or heterocyclic group, provided that one or more carbon atoms of the aliphatic hydrocarbon group may optionally be replaced with oxygen, nitrogen or sulfur atom; and Rb is hydrogen atom; saturated or unsaturated lower-medium aliphatic hydrocarbon group which is unsubstituted or substituted by a halogen, oxo, hydroxy, lower alkoxy, lower alkanoyloxy, cyclo(lower)alkyl, cyclo(lower)alkyloxy, aryl, aryloxy, heterocyclic or heterocyclic oxy; cyclo(lower)alkyl; cyclo(lower)alkyloxy; aryl; aryloxy; heterocyclic; or heterocyclic oxy, which comprises the step of, reacting a compound of formula (II): wherein, X X Y Y Z Z provided that at least one of X and, A, B, Ra and Rb are the same as above; with a co-oxidizer under the presence of an azaadamantane-N-oxyl compound. | 33,889 |
9,545,564 | 1. An electronic device comprising: a display; an accelerometer; and one or more computer-readable media maintaining instructions that are executable by one or more processors to: | 10,907 |
9,655,176 | 1. A light emitting diode (LED) light source, comprising: input terminals for connection to a mains voltage supply source to receive a mains supply voltage, a rectifier coupled to the input terminals for rectifying the mains supply voltage supplied by the mains supply voltage source and comprising rectifier output terminals, a DC-DC converter for generating a DC current out of the rectified mains supply voltage, comprising converter input terminals connected to the rectifier output terminals and comprising a first converter output terminal and a second converter output terminal, a LED load with an anode coupled to the first converter output terminal via a current control element for blocking a current flowing from the anode of the LED load to the first converter output terminal, and with a cathode coupled to the second converter output terminal via a first controllable switch having a control electrode coupled to first control circuitry for rendering the controllable switch non-conductive in case the LED light source is in standby mode, wherein the first control circuitry comprises a voltage divider comprising a series arrangement of a first resistor and a second resistor connecting the first converter output terminal to the second converter output terminal and the control electrode of the controllable switch is coupled to a terminal between the first resistor and the second resistor. | 31,787 |
9,271,534 | 1. A pair of board shorts having a drawstring closure, comprising: a first front panel, wherein: a second front panel, wherein: a first drawstring, wherein: a second drawstring, wherein: | 28,779 |
8,641,519 | 1. A computer-implemented method for collecting player information, the method comprising: receiving player performance data from a plurality of gaming establishments, the player performance data relating to at least one player; receiving non-gaming player information from a plurality of independent organizations comprising advertising networks, consumer websites, data collection organizations, or combinations thereof; storing the received player performance data and the received non-gaming player information; and determining a rating of the at least one player based at least in part on the received player performance data and the received non-gaming player information, wherein the rating is indicative of the player's value to one of the plurality of gaming establishments. | 20,551 |
8,596,375 | 1. A row cleaner for cleaning a row in the soil, comprising: a wheel mount, a spaced pair of hubs mounted on said wheel mount, and | 821 |
9,853,565 | 1. A method comprising: coupling inputs of a power converter across a string of photovoltaic modules; directly connecting a first input of the inputs of the power converter to an output of the power converter via a direct bypass link; and dividing a current output by the string of photovoltaic modules into: | 6,357 |
8,824,347 | 1. A method in a wireless communications device having a discontinuous receive mode in which a receiver is configured to monitor a first downlink signal during a series of regularly scheduled awake intervals and to monitor the first downlink signal for retransmissions during retransmission-monitoring intervals scheduled at a first predetermined delay from each detected data transmission to the receiver, wherein the method comprises: detecting that a first retransmission-monitoring interval overlaps a previously scheduled radio activity during which the receiver is unavailable to monitor the first downlink signal; and adjusting the first retransmission-monitoring interval, adding an additional retransmission-monitoring interval, or both, responsive to said detecting; wherein adjusting the first retransmission-monitoring interval, adding an additional retransmission-monitoring interval, or both, comprises extending the first retransmission-monitoring interval for a duration approximately equal to the overlap between the first retransmission-monitoring interval and the previously scheduled radio activity. | 10,672 |
8,750,755 | 1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image carrying body configured to carry an image; a transfer unit configured to move between a first position at which the image from the image carrying body is transferred to the transfer unit and a second position at which the transfer unit is further away from the image carrying and a guide assembly having a shape which guides movement of the transfer unit between the first position and the second position, wherein while the transfer unit moves from the second position to the first position, the guide assembly configured to reduce momentum of the transfer unit in steps or gradually so as to reduce impact force transmitted to the image carrying body. | 25,684 |
9,275,699 | 1. A memory device for storing and retrieving data responsive to memory commands, the memory device comprising: memory banks; control logic having a command interface to receive the memory commands, the control logic to extract memory control signals and memory addresses from the memory commands to provide access to each and every one of the memory banks on the memory device; and a command multiplexer having alternative first and second command ports, the command multiplexer to direct the memory commands from the first command port to the command interface in a first mode, and to direct the memory commands from the second command port to the command interface in a second mode; the control logic providing access to each and every one of the memory banks on the memory device responsive to the commands from the first command port in the first mode, and providing access to each and every one of the memory banks on the memory device responsive to the commands from the second command port in the second mode. | 41,198 |
9,506,007 | 1. A low sulfur marine distillate fuel trunk piston diesel engine lubricating oil composition comprising: (a) a major amount of a Group I base oil and/or a Group II base oil; (b) a detergent composition comprising: wherein the ratio of weight % medium overbased detergent to weight % high overbased detergent is from about 0.1:1 to 10:1; wherein the TBN of the composition is less than 30 mg KOH/g; wherein the composition does not contain: | 43,259 |
9,307,520 | 1. A method for configuring serviceless Multicast Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) sub-frames in a radio frame, comprising: obtaining, by a base station of a neighboring cell of a first cell, configuration information of a first frame of the first cell, wherein the configuration information of the first frame comprises position information of a first set of one or more serviceless MBSFN sub-frames in the first frame; and configuring, by the base station of the neighboring cell, a second set of one or more serviceless MBSFN sub-frames in a second frame according to the configuration information of the first set of one or more serviceless MBSFN sub-frames in the first frame, wherein at least one serviceless MBSFN sub-frame of the second set of one or more serviceless MBSFN sub-frames in the second frame is not at the same position of any of the first set of one or more serviceless MBSFN sub-frames in the first frame; wherein a serviceless MBSFN sub-frame is an idle sub-frame, and radio frames of both the first cell and the neighboring cell are configured with at least one MBSFN sub-frame. | 14,439 |
8,674,372 | 1. A high electron mobility transistor, comprising: a source, gate and drain; a first III-V semiconductor region having a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) which provides a first conductive channel controllable by the gate between the source and drain; a second III-V semiconductor region below the first III-V semiconductor region and having a second conductive channel connected to the source or drain and not controllable by the gate; and wherein the first and second III-V semiconductor regions are spaced apart from one another by a region of the high electron mobility transistor having a different band gap than the first and second III-V semiconductor regions. | 40,017 |
9,760,145 | 1. A method, comprising: performing a save state operation for each sector in a set of sectors of an architectural state of a processor, where each sector in the set of sectors comprises a different and separate portion of the architectural state of the processor, and wherein each sector in the set of sectors includes processor circuit elements that are used for storing a corresponding portion of the architectural state of the processor, by: | 23,497 |
9,217,391 | 1. An aircraft turbine engine comprising: contrarotating propeller receiver and a dual-body gas generator comprising a low-pressure compressor and a high-pressure compressor separated by an intermediate housing, said dual-body gas generator being arranged upstream from said contrarotating propeller receiver; a structural casing for supporting the contrarotating propeller receiver, said structural casing surrounding the dual-body gas generator and having a downstream end attached to an upstream flange of a stator outer housing of said contrarotating propeller receiver and an upstream end attached to said intermediate housing, said structural casing extending between said intermediate housing and said contrarotating propeller receiver; an annular space is defined externally by an inner surface of said structural casing and defined internally by an outer casing of said dual-body gas generator; and connection means connecting said structural casing to a downstream end of said outer casing of the dual-body gas generator, said connecting means being arranged between the upstream and downstream ends of the structural casing, wherein said connection means are designed to enable relative movement between said structural casing and the dual-body gas generator, wherein the contrarotating propeller receiver includes a free power turbine at an upstream end thereof, and wherein said connection means comprise a plurality of connecting rods distributed circumferentially with respect to each other, about a longitudinal axis of the aircraft turbine engine. | 32,107 |
8,772,295 | 1. A compound of Formula Ic: wherein X wherein wherein z is the integer 0, 1, or 2, with the provisos that: 1) z =0 when X =halogen and where Ar is selected from a substituted phenyl and a substituted thiophene group; wherein the phenyl group is substituted with one or more C or a pro-drug, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, or a derivative thereof. | 29,815 |
9,595,684 | 1. A substrate for an organic electronic device (OED), comprising: a first polymer base layer having a refractive index with respect to light with a wavelength of 633 nm of 1.6 or more; an optical functional layer formed on the first polymer base layer; and a high refractive layer including a planarization layer formed on the optical functional layer and having a refractive index with respect to light of a wavelength of 633 nm of 1.7 or more and a second polymer base layer formed on the planarization layer and having a refractive index with respect to light with a wavelength of 633 nm of 1.6 or more, wherein the optical functional layer is a light scattering layer including a matrix material and scattering particles having a different refractive index of more than 0.3 from the matrix material. | 39,097 |
8,739,415 | 1. Two-stage force multiplier tin snips, comprising: a pair of cutting blades and associated tangs, the blades and tangs being pivotable about a cutting blade axis; a pair of handles pivotally attached to each other at a handle axis, each handle further being coupled to a respective tang by a respective pivot slidably residing within a slot; a handle housing at least partially overlying a handle of the pair of handles; a side cutter having a blade, wherein the handle housing is selectively retractable such that the blade may be disposed within and/or extended out of the handle housing; and a notch associated with each respective slot for selectively receiving and locking the pivots therein to prevent sliding movement of the cutting blade axis, the handle axis or the pivots relative to another of the cutting blade axis, the handle axis or the pivots while cutting and in order to fix the cutting blades in a position having a greater force multiplier. | 23,959 |
9,404,006 | 1. An ethylene (meth)acrylic acid copolymer composite latex emulsion prepared by a method comprising: a) mixing an ethylene (meth)acrylic acid copolymer and a neutralizer in water to form a mixture; and b) mixing the mixture with an ethylenically unsaturated monomer component to form an ethylene (meth)acrylic acid copolymer composite latex emulsion. | 25,733 |
8,599,067 | 1. A global positioning satellite (GPS) receiver, including: a radio frequency (RF) receiver receiving a first GPS signal from a GPS satellite; and a processor configured to: | 20,033 |
8,864,739 | 1. An infusion pump for infusing fluid from a reservoir into a body of a user through delivery of one or more separate pulses of infusion fluid, wherein consecutive pulses of infusion fluid are separated by a period of time during which no fluid is infused into the user's body, the infusion pump comprising: a housing; a motor contained within the housing; one or more drive train components coupled to the motor within the housing and configured to move in response to the motor to deliver fluid from the reservoir through a fluid path into the body of the user; a sensor that periodically measures the value of a parameter associated with the motor or one of the drive train components during delivery of a single one of said one or more separate pulses of infusion fluid to obtain a series of measurements; and a processor contained within the housing, wherein the processor determines a peak value of the series of measurements, selects a second value later in time than the peak value within the series of measurements, calculates a difference between the peak value and the second value, and declares an occlusion has occurred if the difference exceeds a threshold value. | 43,344 |
9,097,462 | 1. A laundry drier comprising an outer box casing, a laundry drum which is located in axially rotating manner inside the casing to rotate about an longitudinal axis, and a closed circuit hot-air generator for circulating a stream of hot air inside said laundry drum; said closed circuit hot-air generator comprising: an air recirculating conduit connected at both ends to laundry drum so that to form the closed circuit; a centrifugal fan located along said air recirculating conduit to produce, inside the latter, an airflow flowing through the laundry drum; heat-pump means comprising a first and second air/refrigerant heat exchangers located into the air recirculating conduit to rapidly cool the airflow coming out from the laundry drum for condensing the surplus moisture in said airflow, and, respectively, to heat the airflow returning back into said laundry drum; the laundry drier further comprising: an electric motor which is designed to simultaneously rotate both said centrifugal fan and said laundry drum through transmission system means; said laundry drier further comprising electronic control means for controlling the speed of the electric motor and configured to: receive a predetermined speed which is associated with a nominal airflow rate within the air recirculating conduit and to a nominal drum speed; said nominal airflow rate and nominal drum speed being both related to a drying program selected by a user; and control the electric motor so that the output motor speed is maintained substantially equal to said predetermined speed, independently of decreasing of the airflow rate caused by clogging-up of particles within said first and/or second air/refrigerant heat exchangers of the said heat-pump means. | 10,265 |
8,661,268 | 1. A computerized apparatus, comprising: a dual interface, comprising: | 36,593 |
9,063,383 | 1. A liquid crystal display (LCD) device, comprising: a first substrate; a second substrate opposite to the first substrate; and a liquid crystal (LC) layer, sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate, the LC layer comprising negative LC molecules; the first substrate comprising: the second substrate comprising a second common electrode; wherein the first pixel-electrode portions are strip-shaped and are substantially parallel to each other, the second pixel-electrode portions are strip-shaped and are substantially parallel to each other, the first common electrodes are strip-shaped and are substantially parallel to each other, and the first common electrodes are substantially parallel to the second pixel-electrode portions; wherein each two adjacent of the first pixel-electrode portions has a gap therebetween which is in a range from 0 μm to 6 μm in width, each two adjacent of the second pixel-electrode portions has a gap width therebetween which is in the range from 0 μm to 6 μm, and each two adjacent of the first common electrodes has a gap width therebetween in the range from 3 μm to 8 μm. | 37,463 |
9,589,344 | 1. A volume data analysis system comprising: a modality for receiving a measured signal acquired by scanning a measuring object and generating three-dimensional volume data; an input device for inputting information in response to manipulation; a controller for processing the three-dimensional volume data generated by the modality and the information input from the input device; and a display device for displaying a processing result of the controller; wherein the controller includes: a cluster generator for polygonizing and converting the three-dimensional volume data generated by the modality into polygon data and dividing the converted polygon data into a plurality of clusters; a feature vector calculation unit for calculating an L2 norm vector of spherical harmonics as a feature vector with respect to each of the clusters based on the polygon data constituting the each cluster; an identification unit for identifying whether each cluster is a target or not, based on each feature vector calculated by the feature vector calculation unit and learning data acquired by machine learning by using training data; and an image generator for generating an image of a cluster identified as the target by the identification unit among each of the clusters generated by the cluster generator, from the polygon data constituting the relevant each cluster and having the display device display at least the generated image. | 2,706 |
8,406,420 | 1. A magnetic-push slide cover driving device comprising: a slide seat having at least one slide guide section, two pivot pins being respectively disposed at middle sections of two sides of the slide seat; a base seat connected on the slide guide section and reciprocally slidable along the slide guide section; two movable members respectively pivotally disposed on the pivot pins, the movable members respectively having two opposite sides; at least two magnetic bodies respectively disposed on the opposite sides of the movable members with the poles of different polarities facing each other; and at least one middle magnetic body disposed at a middle section of the base seat and slidable between the opposite sides of the movable members along with the base seat, the middle magnetic body being such positioned that the adjacent poles of the middle magnetic body and the magnetic bodies respectively disposed on the opposite sides have the same polarity. | 15,058 |
8,925,303 | 1. An exhaust gas control device for an internal combustion engine, the exhaust gas control device comprising: an exhaust pipe; an exhaust passage that conveys exhaust gas, the exhaust passage including the exhaust pipe; an exhaust treatment device that purifies an exhaust gas, and that is disposed in the exhaust passage; a flame generator that supplies unburned fuel, generates a flame through ignition of the unburned fuel contained in the exhaust gas, and causes a generated flame to reach an upstream end of the exhaust treatment device, the flame generator being located in the exhaust pipe upstream of the exhaust treatment device in the exhaust passage; and an electronic control unit having control logic configured to cause the electronic control unit to control the flame generator to supply the unburned fuel so that the unburned fuel becomes adhered to the upstream end of the exhaust treatment device before the flame generated by the flame generator reaches the exhaust treatment device, and to cause the unburned fuel adhered to the upstream end of the exhaust treatment device to burn by the flame. | 37,921 |
9,853,497 | 1. A battery system comprising: a plurality of battery strings comprising more than two batteries connected in series, where the plurality of battery strings are connected in parallel; a charge equalization circuit capable of equalizing the charge on any pair of series connected batteries in any one of the plurality of battery strings; and a relay matrix operatively connected between the charge equalization circuit and the plurality of battery strings; wherein based on at least one of a voltage and a current of any one of the batteries, the relay matrix is operated such that the charge equalization circuit is connected across any one of the pairs of series connected batteries in any one of the plurality of battery strings. | 10,532 |
9,026,679 | 1. A computer-implemented method for persisting management information changes received from a remote node in a storage area network (SAN) at a storage computer system in the SAN, the method comprising: receiving a change set from the remote node, the change set having changes to a stored data set; receiving a validator from the remote node, the validator computed at the remote node and indicative of a data set to which the change set is relative according to a value specific to at least a subset of selected values in the data set to distinguish the data set from other data sets having different values; comparing the received validator to a previous validator indicative of a present state of the stored data set; applying the changes in the received change set to the stored data set if the received validator corresponds to the previous validator; and ignoring the changes in the received change set if the received validator does not correspond to the previous validator. | 34,780 |
9,374,579 | 1. A method of decoding a video, the method comprising: extracting, from a bitstream, information about a size of a coding unit and split information indicating whether a coding unit is split into smaller coding units; determining, using the split information, coding units of a hierarchical structure split from a maximum coding unit; and decoding the coding units of a hierarchical structure in the maximum coding unit, wherein the image is split into a plurality of maximum coding units, based on the information about a size of a coding unit, the maximum coding unit, among the plurality of maximum coding units, is hierarchically split into one or more coding units of depths according to the split information, when the split information indicates that a coding unit of the current depth is split, the coding unit of the current depth is split into four rectangular coding units of a lower depth, independently from neighboring coding units, when the split information indicates that the coding unit of the current depth is not split, one or more prediction units are obtained from the coding unit of the current depth and prediction is performed on the one or more prediction units, and when the split information indicates that the coding unit of the current depth is not split, one or more transformation units are obtained from the coding unit of the current depth and inverse-transformation is performed on the one or more transformation units. | 6,678 |
9,192,007 | 1. A pulse-width modulation (PWM) dimming control method for a light-emitting diode (LED) load, the method comprising: a) receiving a PWM dimming signal and a clock signal in a control circuit, wherein said clock signal is used to determine an effective width of said PWM dimming signal; b) setting a minimum value of said effective width of said PWM dimming signal; c) using said PWM dimming signal as a dimming control signal when said effective width of said PWM dimming signal is greater than said minimum value; d) regulating said effective width of said PWM dimming signal as said minimum value, and using said regulated PWM dimming signal as said dimming control signal, when said effective width of said PWM dimming signal is less than said minimum value; and e) controlling a driving current of said LED load according to said dimming control signal. | 45,100 |
9,183,142 | 1. A method of storing data to a nonvolatile solid-state memory, comprising: distributing data from a host to a plurality of nonvolatile solid-state memories using a RAID-0 technique; based on a utilization of a first region of a first one of the plurality of nonvolatile solid-state memories, selecting the first region of the first one of the plurality of nonvolatile solid-state memories for garbage collection; copying valid data from a region of a nonvolatile random access memory to at least the first region of the first one of the plurality of nonvolatile solid-state memories as part of a process of garbage collection; and while the process of garbage collection is being performed, distributing the data from the host to a subset of the plurality of nonvolatile solid-state memories using the RAID-0 technique, the subset of the plurality of nonvolatile solid-state memories not including the first one of the plurality of nonvolatile solid-state memories selected for garbage collection. | 27,497 |
8,659,113 | 1. A semiconductor device, comprising: a substrate; a first interconnect structure formed over the substrate, wherein the first interconnect structure includes a conductive post and a plurality of lead fingers extending from the conductive post; a semiconductor die disposed within the first interconnect structure; and an encapsulant deposited over the semiconductor die. | 5,953 |
9,127,405 | 1. A method for preparing an aqueous suspension comprising microfibrillated cellulose, the method comprising: providing a fibrous substrate comprising cellulose having a Canadian Standard freeness equal to or less than 450 cm microfibrillating the fibrous substrate comprising cellulose in an aqueous environment by grinding in the presence of a grinding medium which is to be removed after completion of grinding, wherein the grinding is carried out in the absence of grindable inorganic particulate material, wherein the grinding medium is present in an amount of at least about 10% by volume of the aqueous environment, and wherein the microfibrillated cellulose has a fibre steepness of from about 20 to about 50. | 7,243 |
9,349,427 | 1. A method for screening MTJ cells in an MRAM device having a plurality of MTJ cells, the method comprising the steps of: initializing the MTJ cells into a first group having a first state and a second group having a second state by driving a selected electric current through each of the MTJ cells; applying an externally generated variable magnetic field to the MRAM device to switch a first subset of the first group to the second state and a first subset of the second group to the first state while leaving a second subset of the first group in the first state and a second subset of the second group in the second state; and sorting each of the MTJ cells based upon the state thereof into a passing group consisting of the second subsets of the first and second groups or a rejected group consisting of the first subsets of the first and second groups of the MTJ cells. | 84 |
9,484,545 | 1. An organic electroluminescent element comprising: a cathode; an anode; and a plurality of light emitting units that are provided between the cathode and the anode and include at least a light emitting layer made of an organic compound, wherein white light emitted from the plurality of light emitting units has a continuous emission spectrum in a wavelength range of at least 380 nm to 780 nm, and the emission spectrum includes one peak wavelength in a red wavelength range of 600 nm to 640 nm, one peak wavelength in a green wavelength range of 500 nm to 540 nm, and two peak wavelengths in a blue wavelength range of 440 nm to 490 nm, the plurality of light emitting units include: | 9,162 |
9,021,154 | 1. A device comprising: a bus interface to at least one memory module; memory controller logic that when operates performs operations, the operations comprising: | 5,961 |
9,681,432 | 1. A method by a terminal in a mobile communication system, the method comprising: receiving, by the terminal, first information for activating a secondary cell (SCell) from a base station; activating, by the terminal, the SCell based on the first information; starting, by the terminal, a timer associated with the SCell; restarting, by the terminal, if second information for the activated SCell is received from the base station, the timer associated with the SCell; and if the timer expires, applying by the terminal, one or more corresponding actions for deactivating the SCell no later than in a predefined subframe, wherein the one or more corresponding actions include at least one of preventing, by the terminal, from monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) on the SCell and preventing, by the terminal, from monitoring a PDCCH for the SCell. | 33,482 |
8,592,568 | 1. A composition suitable for detecting Plasmodium in a sample, said composition comprising one or more of: a probe consisting of PV1 [SEQ ID NO.: 7] or the full-length complementary sequence thereof, and a label; a probe consisting of PV2 [SEQ ID NO.: 8] or the full-length complementary sequence thereof, and a label; and a probe consisting of PF2 [SEQ ID NO.: 10] or the full-length complementary sequence thereof, and a label. | 39,553 |
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