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9,095,761 | 1. A method comprising: determining a current position of a device; accessing vectorized golf course map data to identify a plurality of points associated with a feature of a golf hole represented by the vectorized golf course map data, where the feature is selected from the group consisting of a sand trap and a water hazard; determining when one or more of the identified points is within a lateral range of a vector extending from the current position of the device to a point associated with the golf hole corresponding to a desired geographic location on the golf hole; and causing the distance between the current position of the device and the one or more identified points within the lateral range to be displayed by a display of the device when the one or more identified points of any feature of the golf hole is determined to be within the lateral range; wherein the plurality of points associated with the feature are geographic locations to be avoided on the golf hole; and wherein an accurate distance may be determined to any identified point associated with the feature. | 29,379 |
8,381,519 | 1. An electronic control module for an engine comprising: a computer readable medium having a table for EGR valve position for diesel particulate filter regeneration based upon an at least one ambient condition, a table for injection timing for diesel particulate filter regeneration based upon at least one ambient conditions, a table for engine speed for diesel particulate filter regeneration based upon at least one ambient condition, a table for a turbo waste gate position for diesel particulate filter regeneration based upon at least one ambient condition, a table for an intake throttle position for diesel particulate filter regeneration based upon at least one ambient condition, a table for the turbo waste gate position for diesel particulate filter regeneration based upon at least one engine exhaust parameter, and a table for the intake throttle position for diesel particulate filter regeneration based upon at least one engine exhaust parameter; a processor generating a feed back loop for the turbo waste gate position and a feed back loop for the intake throttle position to control exhaust gas temperature and exhaust mass flow rate for regeneration of the diesel particulate filter, the feed back loops utilizing at least one engine exhaust parameter. | 24,294 |
8,430,934 | 1. An occlusion device comprising: first and second disk members which are connected together, each of the first and second disk members having a self-expanding, non-metallic structure including a plurality of integral rib members which are flexible so as to be compressible within a catheter and are biased towards an open position to automatically expand the disk members when the disk members are removed from the catheter, wherein one or more of the rib members are thinner towards an outer end of the rib member such that a periphery area of each disk member is more flexible than an inner area of each disk member; and a collapsible central rim connecting the first and second disk members together, the collapsible central rim defining a central occluding area located within the central rim that is dimensioned to extend across a diameter of a hole to occlude the hole, wherein the central rim has an outer periphery defining a membrane surface and a sinuous skeleton structure on the membrane surface extending around the outer periphery of the central rim. | 6,940 |
9,406,950 | 1. A fuel cell module comprising: a fuel cell stack formed by stacking a plurality of fuel cells for generating electricity by electrochemical reactions of a fuel gas and an oxygen-containing gas; a reformer for reforming a mixed gas of water vapor and a raw fuel chiefly containing hydrocarbon to produce the fuel gas supplied to the fuel cell stack; an evaporator for evaporating water and supplying the water vapor to the reformer; a heat exchanger for raising a temperature of the oxygen-containing gas by heat exchange with a combustion gas, and supplying the oxygen-containing gas to the fuel cell stack; an exhaust gas combustor for combusting the fuel gas discharged from the fuel cell stack as a fuel exhaust gas and the oxygen-containing gas discharged from the fuel cell stack as an oxygen-containing exhaust gas to produce the combustion gas; and a start-up combustor for combusting the raw fuel and the oxygen-containing gas to produce the combustion gas, wherein the fuel cell module includes: a first area where the exhaust gas combustor and the start-up combustor are provided; an annular second area around the first area and where the reformer and the evaporator are provided; and an annular third area around the second area and where the heat exchanger is provided, wherein the heat exchanger includes an annular oxygen-containing gas supply chamber to which the oxygen-containing gas is supplied, an annular oxygen-containing gas discharge chamber to which the heated oxygen-containing gas is discharged, a plurality of heat exchange pipes each having one end connected to the oxygen-containing gas supply chamber and another end connected to the oxygen-containing gas discharge chamber, and a combustion gas channel for supplying the combustion gas to spaces between the heat exchange pipes; and a circumscribed non-uniform flow suppression plate is provided along a minimum circumscribed circle which is tangent to outer surfaces of the plurality of heat exchange pipes. | 33,386 |
9,755,035 | 1. A construction, comprising: a dielectric material supported by a semiconductor substrate; a first opening within the dielectric material; a second opening within the dielectric material, the second opening being separated from the first opening by a single block consisting of the dielectric material, the single block of the dielectric material having a first sidewall of the dielectric material within the first opening and a second sidewall of the dielectric material within the second opening, the single block of the dielectric material having an upper surface consisting of the dielectric material and extending an entirety of a distance between the first and second sidewalls; metal oxide liners lining the first and second openings, the metal oxide liners being in direct contact with the first sidewall of the dielectric material within the first opening and in direct contact with the second sidewall of the dielectric material within the second opening; platinum within the first and second openings, the platinum being in direct contact with the metal oxide liners, the platinum and the metal oxide liners entirely filling the first and second openings; and a planarized surface extending across the platinum, the dielectric material and the metal oxide liners. | 5,113 |
9,571,885 | 1. A system comprising: a satellite television receiver comprising a first amplifier, a plurality of signal processing paths, and a path selection circuitry, wherein: | 49,031 |
8,593,244 | 1. A transformer apparatus comprising: a first conductive coil wound solely about a first coil axis; a second conductive coil wound solely about a second coil axis that is distinct from the first coil axis, wherein the second coil axis is substantially parallel with the first coil axis, and the second conductive coil is disposed proximate the first conductive coil, wherein the first conductive coil is electrically isolated from the second conductive coil; and a closed-loop conductive winding disposed substantially around the first conductive coil and the second conductive coil, the closed-loop conductive winding being wound about a loop axis at least one time, the loop axis being orientated substantially parallel to the first coil axis and the second coil axis and being positioned substantially between the first coil axis and the second coil axis, the closed-loop conductive winding including a conductive material electrically coupled in series with a resistor, wherein the closed-loop conductive winding is distinct from the first conductive coil and the second conductive coil, and wherein the closed-loop conductive winding being configured to control leakage inductance of at least one of the first conductive coil and the second conductive coil. | 32,070 |
9,641,244 | 1. An opto-electronic measuring arrangement, comprising: a transmitter, a compensation transmitter, and a receiver for measuring the transmission properties of a first transmission path between the transmitter and the receiver, wherein: a control unit that generates a compensation control signal from the receiver output signal for actuating the compensation transmitter and/or a transmitter control signal for actuating the transmitter for feedback-controlled adjustment of the receiver output signal such that the receiver output signal remains substantially unchanged if the transmission properties of the first transmission path are changed; wherein coupling of optical signals between the compensation transmitter and the receiver is performed at least partially via an optical system in a printed circuit board on which the compensation transmitter and the receiver are arranged. | 47,861 |
9,338,920 | 1. A mounting device for attaching a module to a vehicle window pane, comprising: a front side; and a pin element that is configured to attach the front side to the vehicle window pane; a laterally springy pin opening that is configured to receive the pin element, the pin opening including a first portion and a second portion, with a first web portion and a second web portion defined along the second portion of the pin opening in a longitudinal direction by two recesses that extend along the second portion to an area beyond an end of the second portion, with each of the first web portion and the second web portion extending from an opposite side of the second portion and coupled together at the end of the second portion to partially encircle the second portion of the pin opening. | 11,855 |
9,279,328 | 1. A method of making a leading edge component for an airfoil device having a shape substantially conforming to an airfoil, the method comprising: providing a first elongate sheet having a shape conforming to a surface on one of a suction side or a pressure side of the airfoil and comprising an elongate edge; providing a second elongate sheet having a shape conforming to a surface on the other of the suction side or the pressure side of the airfoil and comprising an elongate edge; welding together the first elongate sheet and the second elongate sheet at least along their respective elongate edges in such a way as to form a leading edge base structure comprising a weld and a convex outer surface, the weld extending along a length of the convex outer surface; and applying a plurality of material deposits onto an outer surface of the leading edge base structure in such a way as to cover the weld and form the leading edge component. | 18,008 |
8,640,711 | 1. A method for treating a subject, the method comprising: moving an elongate assembly along a lumen of an airway of a bronchial tree, wherein the elongate assembly includes an expandable distal energy delivery portion having an electrically conductive region defined by an electrically nonconductive portion; and by delivering energy with the energy delivery portion, damaging nerve tissue of a nerve trunk extending along the airway to attenuate nervous system signals transmitted to a portion of the bronchial tree. | 22,994 |
9,475,783 | 1. A compound of formula (I): wherein: R W is CR R or R or R R Z is —O—, —S—, —S(O)—, —SO Alk Alk Q is hydrogen, halo, cyano, or hydroxyl, or an optionally substituted monocyclic carbocyclic or heterocyclic radical having 3 to 7 ring atoms, or an optionally substituted bicyclic heterocyclic radical having 5 to 10 ring atoms; the bond represented by ---- is a double bond, R R each R each R each R each R each R m, p, and n are each independently 0 or 1, provided that at least one of m, p, and n is 1; and optional substituents are independently selected from, (C or a salt thereof. | 43,960 |
8,464,667 | 1. A hydrogen system for diesel and gas engines, comprising: A) a housing assembly containing an aqueous solution; B) a heating assembly comprising a first inlet, a first outlet, and tubing connecting said first inlet to said first outlet; C) a hydrogen generator contained within said housing assembly, said hydrogen generator comprising a second inlet and a second outlet, said hydrogen generator generates hydrogen and oxygen gas for use in an internal combustion engine to improve combustion efficiency and to decrease emissions, said hydrogen generator serves as an electrolysis cell to generate said oxygen and hydrogen gas with electric current from a power source being passed through said aqueous solution; D) a hydrogen separator comprising a cylindrical section and a frustro-conical section; and E) a cone assembly suspended within said cylindrical section. | 14,001 |
8,570,948 | 1. A communication system comprising a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus which communicate with each other by aggregating a plurality of cells of different frequencies, wherein the base station apparatus, in a case of configuring a plurality of cells of different frequencies to the mobile station apparatus, notifies the mobile station apparatus of and configures linkage information indicating a cooperation relation between an uplink and a downlink for the cell and a timer for managing a state of the cell, and the mobile station apparatus simultaneously changes states of the uplink and the downlink of the cell, the timer for which has expired, based on the linkage information configured by the base station apparatus. | 40,674 |
8,380,051 | 1. A digital video player, comprising: a form factor that allows the digital video player to be built into a separate enclosure, where the form factor comprises: a casing that contains the form factor, wherein the casing is built into the separate enclosure such that the color display, the one or more physical interaction buttons, and the speaker are associated with at least one opening in the separate enclosure, wherein the separate enclosure comprises at least one of: a physical packaging around the product, a physical packaging accompanying the product, a Point of Sale (POS) structure associated with the product, and a casing of the product. | 42,365 |
9,768,138 | 1. A bump structure comprising: a metal pad comprising a second copper layer overlying a first copper layer, the second copper layer having a recess extending partially into the second copper layer with a portion of the second copper layer being below a lowermost surface of the recess; a passivation layer over the metal pad, the passivation layer having an opening exposing a portion of the metal pad; and a metal bump over the metal pad, the metal bump having a lip extending laterally beneath a lowermost surface of the passivation layer, the lip anchoring the metal bump to the passivation layer. | 18,574 |
9,723,919 | 1. A work station including a work surface upon which a task can be completed and/or an item can be stored, the work station comprising: a frame comprising a pair of vertical rails connected by at least one horizontal support rail; a base joined with each of the pair of vertical rails at a first end thereof to support the frame on a surface; and a work surface extending between the pair of vertical rails, the work surface moveable between a first position in which the work surface extends perpendicular to the frame and a second position in which the work surface is parallel with the frame; a drive system connected to the work surface, wherein the drive system is configured to move the work surface upward and downward along a length of the pair of vertical rails to adjust a height of the work surface; and wherein movement of the work surface from the first position to the second decreases a profile of the work station to facilitate storage and transportation of the work station. | 39,533 |
9,209,458 | 1. A battery cell, comprising: a housing, a positive electrode, a negative electrode and an electrolyte, wherein the electrolyte comprises SO wherein the positive electrode comprises a compound of the formula Li M′ is at least one metal selected from the group consisting of the elements Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu and Zn, X is selected from the group consisting of the elements P, Si and S, x is greater than 0, y is greater than 0, a is greater than 0 and b is greater than or equal to 0, wherein the sum of positive charges in the compound equals the sum of negative charges, wherein the positive electrode further comprises a current collector having a first portion comprising a porous metal which has a first and second surface and a thickness located therebetween and comprises a plurality of pores containing the compound that extend at least partially through the thickness, wherein at least some of the pores have void spaces accessible to the electrolyte and wherein the battery cell is a rechargeable lithium ion battery cell. | 23,525 |
9,506,963 | 1. A method, comprising: (i) collecting, at a predetermined sampling interval, data indicative of power consumption of at least one appliance of a plurality of appliances from at least one power meter, wherein a number of power meters of the at least one power meter is less than a number of outlets of a plurality of outlets coupled to the plurality of appliances; (ii) collecting, over a first time interval, data indicative of a time-stamped set of binary power states of a plurality of appliances, wherein a binary power state is an ON power state or an OFF power state; and (iii) estimating an energy consumption of at least one appliance of the plurality of appliances over the first time interval. | 27,209 |
8,576,318 | 1. An image sensor comprising: a substrate having a pixel region including a plurality of unit pixels and a non-pixel region; at least one first well in the non-pixel region; an interconnect structure including an interlayer dielectric layer on a first side of the substrate; and a base well in the non-pixel region and between the at least one first well and a second side of the substrate, wherein the base well does not overlap the unit pixels in the pixel region, and wherein the base well does not contact the interlayer dielectric layer. | 48,183 |
8,554,083 | 1. A method for producing an electromagnetic carrier wave in a frequency range between 0.1 and 10 terahertz that is suitable for wireless transmission of data, the method comprising: generating a pump wave, wherein the pump wave is a first mixing wave; generating a second mixing wave based on the pump wave via a converter, wherein the second mixing wave and the first mixing wave have a defined frequency difference; producing a carrier wave by frequency mixing the first and second mixing waves; and modulating the carrier wave with data to be transmitted. | 982 |
8,453,620 | 1. A control system for a vehicle that includes an engine, comprising: an engine-stop module that determines whether to stop the engine based on at least one of input from a driver of the vehicle and vehicle operating parameters; and a fuel control module that stops the engine and controls a rate of engine speed decay by disabling fueling to cylinders of the engine according to a predetermined sequence. | 48,379 |
9,302,780 | 1. An aircraft including a cockpit wherein the cockpit comprises: a seat for a pilot; a viewing surface for piloting entirely formed by a digital display device, wherein the viewing surface for piloting extends at least partially around a front and opposite sides of the seat; wherein: | 20,367 |
9,736,616 | 1. A method for configuring a component of a home automation system that initially is inaccessible on a Wi-Fi network to be able to interact with one or more other components of the home automation system over the Wi-Fi network, comprising: executing a configuration application (app) on a mobile device having a touch-sensitive display screen, a user interface of the configuration app being displayed to a user on the touch-sensitive display screen; coupling the mobile device to the component of the home automation system that initially is inaccessible on the Wi-Fi network via a connection device, the connection device connecting a wired serial communication interface of the mobile device to a wired serial communication interface of the component and capable of operating as a transparent middle node in response to a pass-through command; in response to input entered in the user interface being displayed on the touch-sensitive display screen, sending control signals from the mobile device to the wired serial communication interface of the component via the connection device to configure Wi-Fi settings of the component to cause the component to join the Wi-Fi network, the control signals to include the pass-through command to cause the connection device to forward the control signals to the component; and in response to additional input entered in the user interface being displayed on the touch sensitive screen, sending additional control signals from the mobile device to the wired serial communication interface of the component via the connection device to at least one of assign the component a role within the home automation system and bind the component to a controller of the home automation system, the additional control signals to include the pass-through command to cause the connection device to forward the control signals to the component, wherein the sending control signals and the sending additional control signals via the connection device renders the component able to interact over the Wi-Fi network with the one or more other components of the home automation system during ongoing operation of the home automation system. | 24,690 |
9,268,403 | 1. A method of producing a haptic effect comprising: receiving a first gesture signal; receiving a second gesture signal; comparing the first gesture signal with the second gesture signal; generating a difference vector based on a change between the first gesture signal and the second gesture signal; generating a dynamic interaction parameter using the first gesture signal, the second gesture signal and the difference vector; and applying a drive signal to a haptic output device according to the dynamic interaction parameter. | 31,510 |
9,470,056 | 1. A fibre composite rod fishing tool comprising a ring base with an axis and provided with peripherally arranged, axially extending radially resilient arms with slips with a common axial bore being tapered-off towards a rod receiving aperture opposite of said ring base, wherein said common axial bore is provided with a plurality of sets teeth of common radial cutting depth, an engaging edge of each of said teeth having the tapering off of the common axial bore, an engaging edge of an uppermost set of the plurality of sets of teeth being blunt, and each consecutively lower set of the plurality of sets of teeth having an engaging edge extending higher and being sharper inwards toward the common axis, in the direction away from said rod receiving aperture than an upwardly adjacent set of the plurality of sets of teeth. | 17,372 |
9,275,434 | 1. A device configured to process video information, the device comprising: a memory configured to store a downscaling filter comprising a first set of coefficients; and a processor in communication with the memory, the processor configured to: | 24,488 |
9,661,072 | 1. A method comprising: storing obligatorily acquired digital content items under service control in one or more local storage machines of a computer based on service-commands provided via a centralized management service computer; storing voluntarily acquired digital content items under user control in the one or more local storage machines of the computer based on user-commands provided via user input to the computer; deleting the obligatorily acquired digital content items from the one or more local storage machines based on service-commands provided via the centralized management service computer, wherein the obligatorily acquired digital content items cannot be deleted based on user-commands; deleting the voluntarily acquired digital content items from the one or more local storage machines based on user-commands; identifying a plurality of sources storing portions of a digital content item, the digital content item including a plurality of pieces, at least one piece of the plurality of pieces stored on a peer computer of a peer-to-peer network and at least another piece of the plurality of pieces stored on the one or more local storage machines under service control; for each piece of the plurality of pieces of the digital content item, storing the piece under user control in the one or more local storage machines; and computer-reading the plurality of pieces from the one or more local storage machines under user control while presenting the digital content item. | 43,541 |
9,725,480 | 1. A guanine deoxyribonucleotide analogue having the structure: wherein R (a) represents a small, chemically cleavable, chemical group capping the oxygen at the 3′ position of the deoxyribose of the deoxyribonucleotide analogue, (b) does not interfere with recognition of the analogue as a substrate by a DNA polymerase, (c) is stable during a DNA polymerase reaction, and (d) does not contain a ketone group; wherein OR is not a methoxy group or an ester group; wherein the covalent bond between the 3′-oxygen and R is stable during a DNA polymerase reaction; wherein tag represents a detectable fluorescent moiety; wherein Y represents a chemically cleavable, chemical linker which (a) does not interfere with recognition of the analogue as a substrate by a DNA polymerase and (b) is stable during a DNA polymerase reaction; and wherein the guanine deoxyribonucleotide analogue: | 24,526 |
9,372,625 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a data storage device configured to communicate with a host via multiple communication speeds, the data storage device including: a first controller configured to access data at a first memory, the first controller and the first memory distinct from the host; a second controller configured to access data at a second memory, the second controller and the second memory distinct from the host; and a third controller configured to: | 16,735 |
9,034,469 | 1. A tempered glass substrate, which has a compression stress layer on a surface thereof, and has a glass composition comprising, in terms of mass %, 40 to 70% of SiO 2 , 12 to 23% of Al 2 O 3 , 0 to 3.5% of Li 2 O, 10 to 20% of Na 2 O, 2% or less of K 2 O, and 0 to 4.5% of TiO 2 , wherein a mass ratio of K 2 O/Na 2 O is 0 to 0.2 and a mass ratio of (MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO)/(Li 2 O+Na 2 O+K 2 O) is 0.5 or less, wherein the tempered glass substrate has a plate thickness of 1.5 mm or less, and wherein the surface is an unpolished surface formed by an overflow down draw method and an internal tensile stress in the tempered glass substrate is 15 to 150 MPa. | 12,016 |
9,127,624 | 1. A method, comprising: in an engine system having a first hydraulic system and a second hydraulic system that is separate from the first hydraulic system, where a first hydraulic fluid of the first hydraulic system does not mix with a second hydraulic fluid of the second hydraulic system, sending a signal from a controller including non-transitory computer readable storage media to an actuator to: actuate a hydraulically actuated engine valve with the second hydraulic fluid, where an electrically driven pump provides fluid pressure to actuate the valve and where the valve is external to a combustion chamber of the engine system; range the valve through at least a partial range of motion and record and scale the range of motion based on feedback from a position feedback sensor of the valve while continuing to provide fluid pressure to the second hydraulic fluid with the electrically driven pump during a first condition when the engine is off; adjust the valve to a desired position during a second condition; and dither the valve during a third condition. | 15,624 |
9,534,232 | 1. A transgenic plant cell comprising a polynucleotide comprising at least one nucleotide sequence(s) selected from the group consisting of: SEQ ID NO:7; the complement of SEQ ID NO:7 a native coding sequence comprising SEQ ID NO:7 of a the complement of a native coding sequence comprising SEQ ID NO:7 of a SEQ ID NO:28; and the complement of SEQ ID NO:28, wherein the polynucleotide is expressed in the transgenic plant cell as a ribonucleic acid molecule, and wherein contacting the ribonucleic acid molecule with a coleopteran pest inhibits the expression of an endogenous nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence specifically complementary to the nucleotide sequence comprised in the polynucleotide. | 46,726 |
8,386,067 | 1. A machine tool monitoring device, comprising: an identification unit for identifying an operating situation of a machine tool, the identification unit including at least one UWB radar sensor configured to determine position and/or speed of at least one of a human tissue and/or an animal tissue; and at least one optical projection unit for defining at least one region to be monitored, wherein the at least one region to be monitored by the at least one optical projection unit marks at least one region to be monitored by the identification unit, wherein at least one region to be monitored by the at least one projection unit has an optical appearance, the at least one optical projection unit comprises: | 8,511 |
8,851,849 | 1. A pitch change apparatus for a propeller assembly having a row of propeller blades which rotate around an axis of the assembly, the apparatus comprising: a unison ring which is coaxial with the propeller assembly, the unison ring being movable to drive respective mechanisms for varying the pitch of the blades, and a plurality of pitch lock assemblies circumferentially distributed around the unison ring; wherein each pitch lock assembly has a free state which allows movement of the unison ring and a locked state which prevents or limits movement of the unison ring and thus prevents or limits variation of the pitch of the blades, the pitch lock assembly moving from the free to the locked state when the assembly receives a signal to lock the blades. | 36,361 |
9,181,837 | 1. A secondary air supply system for an internal combustion engine, the secondary air supply system comprising: a secondary air supply passage through which secondary air is supplied to a location upstream of an exhaust gas purification catalyst arranged in an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine; an electric air pump that supplies secondary air into the secondary air supply passage; a control valve provided downstream of the electric air pump to open and close the secondary air supply passage; a pressure detector that measures a pressure in the secondary air supply passage at a location between the electric air pump and the control valve; a voltage detector that detects a driving voltage supplied to the electric air pump; and an electronic control unit that is configured to detect a first pressure in the secondary air supply passage using the pressure detector in a first operating state where the control valve is closed and the electric air pump is operating, to detect a second pressure in the secondary air supply passage using the pressure detector in a second operating state where the control valve is open and the electric air pump is operating, and to execute flow rate estimating control for estimating a secondary air flow rate at which secondary air flows through the secondary air supply passage in the second operating state on the basis of the first pressure and the second pressure, wherein in the flow rate estimating control, the electronic control unit corrects at least one of the first pressure and the second pressure on the basis of a first driving voltage for the electric air pump in the first operating state and a second driving voltage for the electric air pump in the second operating state, and estimates the secondary air flow rate on the basis of the first pressure and the second pressure at least one of which has been corrected, and wherein the electronic control unit detects the first driving voltage and the second driving voltage using the voltage detector or detects the first driving voltage using the voltage detector and uses a preset reference driving voltage as the second driving voltage. | 44,905 |
9,046,883 | 1. A station energy consumption management method, comprising: obtaining location information of a station and an energy consumption value that corresponds to the station; generating a visual station distribution diagram according to the obtained location information of the station, graphically representing the obtained energy consumption value corresponding to the station in the visual station distribution diagram, wherein the graphical station energy consumption value and a geometric position of the corresponding station in the station distribution diagram are associated with each other; generating an energy consumption value selection control that is graphically represented on the display interface, wherein the energy consumption value selection control is configured to select at least one target energy consumption value or a target energy consumption value range; and obtaining the at least one target energy consumption value or the target energy consumption value range selected through the energy consumption value selection control, and highlighting the graphical station complying with a preset display rule and the graphical energy consumption value that corresponds to the graphical station complying with the preset display rule according to the target energy consumption value or the target energy consumption value range selected by the energy consumption value selection control. | 27,835 |
9,804,768 | 1. A method for generating at least one report from an examination of an object using a computer, comprising: displaying on a screen, a user-selectable sequence of a plurality of data entry tools related to performance of a respective one of a plurality of tasks on the object that constitute the examination of the object; accepting data entered using at least one of the displayed data entry tools relating to performance of the task on the object; then storing the entered data in a memory component; generating, using the processor, an interim report from the data entered using the at least one displayed data entry tool related to the performance of a first one of the tasks immediately after the first one of the tasks is performed and before an immediately following, second one of the tasks is performed; then updating, using the processor, the interim report as each additional one of the tasks is performed to include information derived from the data accepted using the at least one displayed data entry tool related to the performance of the additional one of the tasks immediately after each additional one of the tasks, except for the last one of the tasks, is performed and before an immediately following one of the tasks is performed; displaying, during the examination, a designated content area representing interim report on the screen; enabling, using the processor, display of the interim report on the screen during the examination by monitoring use of a user interface to determine when the designated content area representing interim report display is activated and when it is determined by the processor that the designated content area representing interim report display is activated, displaying the interim report on the screen to thereby allow for display of a current report after each task during the performance of the tasks that constitute the examination prior to ending the examination; and then generating a finished report from the entered data after all of the tasks that constitute the examination have been performed, the steps of generating the interim report, updating the interim report and generating the finished report each comprising automatically generating examination report content from completion of performance of each task performed prior to generation of the interim or finished report or updating of the interim report and for which data was entered using the at least one displayed data entry tool related to the performance of that task, and including the generated examination report content in the report. | 2,245 |
8,784,691 | 1. A process for preparing a conductive composite, comprising: a) contacting an electrically resistive material with an ionic liquid having at least one cation and at least one anion that comprises a transition metal, thereby producing a treated electrically resistive material where the anion is absorbed, adsorbed, or both onto at least a portion of the electrically resistive material; and b) contacting the treated electrically resistive material with a monomer solution comprising a conductive polymer precursor to polymerize the polymer precursor into a conductive polymer, thereby forming the conductive composite. | 13,031 |
8,538,787 | 1. A method for configuring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in a service model, the method comprising: constructing the service model, by a processor, such that the service model depicts multiple resources; assigning, by the processor, a first KPI to a first depicted resource in the service model; assigning, by the processor, a second KPI to a second depicted resource in the service model; chaining, by the processor, the first KPI to the second KPI; and visually coding the service model, by the processor, to indicate a status of the second depicted resource and a status of the first depicted resource. | 18,752 |
8,975,405 | 1. A compound of formula (II): | 48,022 |
9,090,466 | 1. A method for generating free oxygen from an oxygen generating liquid, said method comprising the steps of: introducing an oxygen generating liquid into a vessel, wherein the oxygen generating liquid comprises a high concentration lithium chlorate aqueous solution; heating the vessel to boil water out of said oxygen generating liquid and said vessel, wherein lithium chlorate remains in said vessel; further heating said lithium chlorate in said vessel to a decomposition temperature sufficient to thermally decompose said lithium chlorate to generate free oxygen and lithium chloride product from said lithium chlorate, wherein said lithium chloride product remains in said vessel; and rinsing said lithium chloride solid from the vessel with a rinse liquid to prepare the vessel for another introduction of oxygen containing liquid. | 17,693 |
9,677,444 | 1. A reductant supply system for an exhaust aftertreatment system, comprising: a controller configured to receive an engine system operation signal and transmit a reductant delivery signal in response to the engine system operation signal; an injector configured to dispense a reductant fluid into an exhaust gas flow of the exhaust aftertreatment system in response to the reductant delivery signal; a pump configured to actuate between an off condition and an on condition in response to the reductant delivery signal, the off condition precluding the pump from propelling the reductant fluid to the injector, the on condition permitting the pump to propel the reductant fluid to the injector; a recycle line; a two-way valve positioned in the recycle line configured to actuate between a closed position and an open position in response to the reductant delivery signal, the closed position precluding the reductant fluid from flowing through the recycle line to a reductant fluid tank, the open position permitting the reductant fluid to flow through the recycle line to the reductant fluid tank, the two-way valve initially being in the open position, the pump being further configured to propel the reductant fluid to the injector at a first mass flowrate, the injector being further configured to dispense the reductant fluid to the exhaust gas flow at a second mass flowrate greater than the first mass flowrate, the two-way valve thereafter actuating to the closed position in response to the reductant delivery signal thereby precluding the reductant fluid from flowing through the recycle line to the reductant fluid tank. | 35,088 |
9,334,854 | 1. A method for operating a cryogenic engine having a high temperature heat reservoir represented by a natural heat energy in a surrounding environment at an ambient temperature and an artificial low temperature heat sink of at least two degrees Kelvin below the temperature of the surrounding environment in a closed cycle comprising the steps of: creating the artificial low temperature heat sink by evaporating a supply of water; isothermally compressing a gaseous working fluid at said low temperature from an initial low pressure to a high pressure by absorbing the heat of compression by evaporating water, heating said compressed low temperature gaseous working fluid by absorbing said natural heat energy in the surrounding environment at a higher temperature; expanding said heated compressed working fluid in an expander thereby converting a portion of said absorbed natural heat energy into mechanical work and producing an expanded low pressure working fluid: repeating said heating and expansion steps with a plurality of at least three heating and expansion steps in series, wherein the working fluid discharged from one expander in the series is fed into a heat exchanger, heated, and fed into a next expander in the series thereby extracting and converting most of the absorbed natural heat energy from the environment and converting most of the absorbed natural heat energy into mechanical work; and repeating said heating and expansion steps in a closed cycle wherein said working fluid remains in the gaseous state; and storing said compressed low temperature gaseous working fluid in a thermally insulated high pressure storage vessel and accumulating the expanded low pressure working fluid in a separate thermally insulated low pressure storage vessel, wherein said working fluid is withdrawn from said high pressure storage vessel and accumulated in said low pressure storage vessel; wherein said storage vessels have variable volumes, and the volumes of said storage vessels are changed by movable pistons that are connected to each other such that as one piston moves increasing the volume of one of the high pressure storage vessel and the low pressure storage vessel, the other piston moves decreasing the volume of the other of the high pressure storage vessel and the low pressure storage vessel such that the temperature and pressure in each storage vessel remains unchanged. | 10,137 |
9,204,298 | 1. An authentication method, comprising: storing user information associated with a user account of a user, the user information comprising: receiving, from a payment terminal, a request to authenticate a financial transaction associated with a requesting user, wherein the request comprises: identifying, by a processor, information included in the request to facilitate authentication of the requesting user, wherein at least a portion of the information included in the request from the payment terminal obtained from a mobile device of the requesting user; determining, by the processor, that the information included in the request matches the user information associated with the user account, wherein determining that the information included in the request matches the user information associated with the user account comprises comparing the requesting user account identifier to the user account identifier, comparing the requesting mobile device identifier to the mobile device identifier, comparing the requesting peripheral device identifier to the peripheral device identifier, comparing a hash value of the first user credential to a hash value of the first requesting user credential, and comparing the second requesting user credential to the second user credential; and authenticating, by the processor, the requesting user in response to determining that the information included in the request matches the user information associated with the user account; and communicating a message to the payment terminal indicating that the requesting user is authenticated for the financial transaction in response to authenticating the requesting user. | 38,880 |
8,491,571 | 1. An orifice device for delivering one or more drugs comprising: an inner member having a proximal end and a distal end; a winding helically wound around the inner member, the winding comprising a plurality of distinct wires helically wound in parallel around the inner member, at least two of the plurality of distinct wires having a different diameter; the winding and the inner member defining at least three separate channels for carrying two or more drugs therethrough and an inlet at the proximal end of the winding and an outlet at the distal end of the winding for the plurality of distinct wires, wherein one of the at least three separate channels carries a first drug and another of the at least three separate channels carries a second drug. | 3,276 |
9,853,379 | 1. A cartridge having a front end and a rear end and capable of connecting to a game apparatus by inserting the cartridge, the front end first, into a cartridge insertion slot of the game apparatus, the cartridge comprising: a terminal placement region that includes a first region and a second region and that includes a plurality of terminals configured to electrically connect to terminals of the game apparatus in the cartridge insertion slot, wherein a direction in which the cartridge is inserted into or removed from the cartridge insertion slot is a first direction, and a direction perpendicular to the first direction is a second direction, the second region and the first region are adjacent to each other in the first direction, the first region is closer in the terminal placement region to the front end of the cartridge than the second region is, the plurality of terminals include at least a first data input/output terminal, a second data input/output terminal, a strobe terminal, a clock terminal, a power supply terminal, and a ground terminal, the clock terminal and the first data input/output terminal are in the first region, the strobe terminal and the second data input/output terminal are in the second region, a plurality of long terminals are each located with a first portion in the first region and a second portion in the second region, the strobe terminal and the clock terminal are sequentially arranged in the first direction, the second data input/output terminal and the first data input/output terminal are sequentially arranged in the first direction, the plurality of long terminals include the power supply terminal and the ground terminal, one of the plurality of long terminals is adjacent to the second data input/output terminal and the first data input/output terminal on at least one side of the one of the long terminals in the second direction, and one of the plurality of long terminals is adjacent to the strobe terminal and the clock terminal on at least one side of the one of the long terminals in the second direction. | 16,490 |
9,003,208 | 1. A method comprising: controlling, by a first processor, a device, where the device includes the first processor, a second processor, and a peripheral device, where the first processor is a low-power processor relative to the second processor that is a high-power processor relative to the first processor; directly controlling, by the first processor, the peripheral device; switching, by the device, control of the device from the first processor to the second processor of the device; maintaining state of the peripheral device through the switching based on switching control of the peripheral device to the second processor that is configured for indirectly controlling the peripheral device via the first processor. | 10,904 |
9,074,508 | 1. An exhaust gas purification device, comprising a) at least one pyrolysis reactor which has a catalyst and which, by means of intermittently progressing anaerobic catalytic pyrolysis of combustibles, selected from the group consisting of liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons, oxygen-comprising combustibles, liquid or gaseous hydrocarbon mixtures or gas mixtures which comprise hydrocarbons and aerobic regeneration of the catalyst, enables the production of a hydrogen-comprising gas mixture and a hydrogen-comprising gas mixture with cracked products from the material used, and b) connected subsequent to the pyrolysis reactor the oxidation catalyst and/or the soot particulate filter and/or the NO | 31,240 |
9,176,878 | 1. A computer-implemented method for filtering pre-fetch requests to reduce pre-fetching overhead, the method comprising: executing an instruction that involves a memory reference which is directed to a memory; determining a frequency of cache misses for the instruction from a tracked history of cache misses for the instruction; determining a frequency of performance penalties of the cache misses from a tracked history of performance penalties of the cache misses for the instruction; when the frequency of cache misses exceeds a threshold, filtering a pre-fetch request that is associated with the instruction; and otherwise, when the frequency of cache misses does not exceed the threshold: | 38,042 |
9,543,653 | 1. A dual mode antenna comprising: an insulative sheet; a loop-shaped NFC coil formed on the insulative sheet; a wireless power transmission coil formed inside the loop of the NFC coil and electrically isolated from the NFC coil, the wireless power transmission coil formed on opposite surfaces of the insulative sheet and electrically connected from each other through a via hole of the insulative sheet; a pair of NFC coil connection terminals electrically connected to both ends of the NFC coil, respectively; a pair of wireless power transmission (W/C) coil connection terminals electrically connected to both ends of the wireless power transmission coil, respectively; and a pair of extension patterns electrically connecting the pair of W/C coil connection terminals and both ends of the wireless power transmission coil, wherein the wireless power transmission coil formed on opposite surfaces of the insulative sheet form loops to reinforce current flowing in the wireless power transmission coil when viewed at the front of the insulative sheet, and wherein the pair of extension patterns and the NFC coil are formed on different surfaces of the insulative sheet from each other. | 6,490 |
9,338,979 | 1. A plant of soybean variety 01046581, wherein a sample of seed of said variety has been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-122370. | 9,107 |
9,359,150 | 1. A singulator comprising: a layer break-up system for receiving a pallet layer of products and for creating gaps between each of the products so as to yield longitudinally and laterally separated products; a vision system that determines at least one characteristic and a position of each separated product, the gaps sufficient to allow the vision system to detect each of the products independently; and at least one robot that receives information indicative of the at least one characteristic and the position of said each separated product to grip and position said each separated product onto an output station within at least one line. | 11,165 |
9,619,237 | 1. A computer implemented method for branch handling for transaction abort, the method comprising: detecting a beginning of a current execution of a transaction, the transaction being one of a plurality of transactions in a lock elision transaction system; based on detecting the beginning of the transaction: disabling updating of a history table for the initial branch instruction based on the the mask branch instruction not having an entry in the history table; updating the history table for the initial branch instruction based on the mask branch being resolved as taken, and disabling the updating of the history table based on the mask branch instruction having an entry in the history table. | 34,551 |
8,494,277 | 1. A computer system comprising a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a computer readable storage device coupled to the processor, said storage device containing program code configured to be executed by the processor via the memory to implement a method for recognizing handwriting, said method comprising: said processor capturing a handwritten character as an image of pixels that include black pixels and white pixels; said processor partitioning the image into a plurality of segments, wherein each segment of the image has a pixel ratio of a total number of black pixels in the segment of the image to a total number of black pixels in the image, wherein a reference character has segments corresponding to the segments in the image, and wherein each segment of the reference character has a value range of a pixel ratio of a total number of black pixels in the segment of the reference character to a total number of black pixels in the reference character; said processor ascertaining that the pixel ratio of more than a predetermined number of segments in the image are within the value range of the pixel ratio of the corresponding segments of the reference character; and in response to said ascertaining, said processor recognizing the handwritten character as the reference character. | 16,164 |
9,830,403 | 1. A communication apparatus configured to transmit and receive a frame comprising: a contents addressable memory (CAM) configured to retain at least a portion of header information of the frame; an action determination unit configured to refer to the CAM and determine an action related to transferring the received frame; and a CAM diagnosis unit configured to diagnose a failure at the CAM, wherein the CAM includes: a plurality of entries each storing therein at least a portion of the header information of the frame, and a search circuit for each entry configured to determine whether or not a search key matches data stored at the entry, wherein, in a case of receiving the frame, the action determination unit uses, as a search key, at least a portion of the header information of the frame and determines an action related to transferring the received frame based on identification information of an entry matching at least a portion of the header information of the frame, wherein the CAM diagnosis unit determines an entry to be a test object, wherein the CAM diagnosis unit stores a plurality of test patterns which each include a pattern ID, a data pattern, a search key pattern for a test purpose, and an expected search result, wherein the expected search result has information indicating whether an entry matches the search key for a testing purpose and identification information of an entry matching the search key for a test purpose, wherein the CAM diagnosis unit causes the CAM to search for an entry matching the search key for a test purpose, wherein the CAM diagnosis unit determines whether or not a result of the search matches the expected search result correlated to the search key for a test purpose, and wherein the CAM diagnosis unit diagnoses a failure occurring at the search circuit of an entry to be the test object in a case where it is determined the result of the search does not match the expected search result correlated to the search key for a test purpose. | 44,266 |
8,458,065 | 1. A method for performing content-based indexing of a financial database, said method comprising: causing at least one memory device to store data representative of a plurality of potential financial object features, each feature representing a complex set of characteristics of the financial object useful to a financial professional; causing the at least one memory device to store a user preference including at least one of a past decision about a financial object and a preferred feature of a financial object; causing at least one processor to retrieve a database record containing time series data from the financial database; causing the at least one processor to apply a mathematical transform function to the time series data contained in the database record to generate transformed data; causing the at least one processor to operate with the at least one memory device to create an indexed database wherein any of the plurality of potential financial object features is usable as a query to search for such feature in different time series data sets by, for each of the plurality of potential financial object features: causing the at least one processor to operate with at least one display device to display a subset of at least one of the time series data and the transformed data based on the user preference, the subset representing at least one stored feature that was found to exist in at least one of the time series data and the transformed data. | 9,664 |
9,064,033 | 1. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage device having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising: computer readable program code configured to receive an access request for a record; computer readable program code configured to identify information associated with the record and the access request, including record type, an identity of a requestor, and a purpose associated with the access request; computer readable program code configured to compute an importance measurement for the access request; computer readable program code configured to compute a sensitivity measurement for the access request; computer readable program code configured to compute a threshold value reflecting probability of values drawn from a distribution from granted requests and a distribution from declined requests, and employing the threshold value as a factor in the consent recommendation; computer readable program code configured to compute a relevance measurement for the access request, including determining a mathematical value associated with any previous requests on a same purpose for the record type; and computer readable program code configured to compute a consent recommendation based upon the computed importance measurement, sensitivity measurement, relevance measurement, and threshold value; the consent recommendation for the access request for the record, including a decision selected from the group consisting of: granting access to the requested record and denying access to the requested record; wherein the computer readable program code is stored on a memory storage device. | 38,997 |
8,881,474 | 1. A skylight module comprising: a frame comprised of: a plurality of vertical walls, at least one of said vertical walls being comprised of a multi-wall polycarbonate panel and a plurality of light diffusing strips configured to simultaneously redirect downwardly directed light from the sun and upwardly directed light from a roof surface through the skylight module and into a space below the skylight module. | 37,145 |
9,051,899 | 1. An exhaust cone for an aircraft turbojet engine, said exhaust cone comprising; a front part having at least one of a front end equipped with a front connecting flange connecting to an outlet of a turbojet engine and a rear end equipped with a rear connecting flange connecting to; and a rear part of the exhaust cone, the rear connecting flange connected to the rear part of the exhaust cone, and said front part further being equipped with at least one sound attenuation structure comprising a cellular core covered by an outer skin, wherein the outer skin overlaps at least one of the front connecting flange and the rear connecting flange. | 37,438 |
9,070,304 | 1. A debris-flow simulation apparatus, comprising: a flume comprising a plurality of flume bodies connected to each other in a longitudinal direction, wherein heights of the flume bodies are able to be adjusted so that angles of inclination of the flume bodies are variable, wherein length of the flume is variable, wherein the flume bodies of the flume comprise: wherein each of the upper flume body, the medial flume body and the lower flume body comprises: | 16,014 |
8,727,945 | 1. A method for controlling a transmission assembly of a vehicle, the method comprising: providing a vehicle having a first power source, the first power source including a prime mover and a transmission assembly, the transmission assembly including a torque converter that is coupled to the prime mover, the transmission assembly further including a clutch that selectively engages the torque converter to a transmission of the transmission assembly; disengaging the clutch of the transmission assembly so that the torque converter of the transmission assembly is disengaged from the transmission of the transmission assembly only when an accelerator pedal of the vehicle is released and a speed of the vehicle is zero; and engaging the clutch when the accelerator pedal is depressed or the vehicle has a speed greater than zero. | 49,339 |
8,675,504 | 1. An ethernet transceiver integrated circuit chip comprising: a plurality of transceivers for coupling to a corresponding plurality of physical channels; and a channel switcher coupled to the plurality of transceivers, | 38,826 |
9,129,141 | 1. A method of generating a connectivity model of a power distribution network, said method comprising one or more steps for: inserting, via a processor, a power directing element in the connectivity model, the power directing element having a first node coupled to a first branch of the connectivity model and a second node coupled to a second branch of the connectivity model; assigning, via the processor, an actual phase value to the power directing element and to the first node and the second node, the actual phase value for the first node and the second node corresponding to, respectively, the first branch and the second branch, wherein assigning the actual phase value is based on information received corresponding to the power directing element and the first node; and generating, via the processor, the connectivity model with the actual phase values. | 37,428 |
9,837,470 | 1. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device, the method comprising: forming a pillar on a semiconductor substrate; forming a hard mask pattern for covering a top surface and an upper sidewall of the pillar; forming an electric field-buffering region in a selected portion of the sidewall of the pillar, wherein the selected portion is defined by the hard mask pattern; forming a gate insulating layer on the pillar; and forming a gate on the gate insulating layer, wherein forming the electric field-buffering region comprises doping the selected portion of the sidewall of the pillar, with one selected from a group including Ge, SiGe, GaAs and SiC. | 23,964 |
8,408,044 | 1. An automated system for processing a liquid test sample, comprising: (a) a gas and liquid separator configured for removing at least one volatile component from the test sample; (b) a first trapping vessel in fluid communication with the gas and liquid separator, wherein the first trapping vessel contains a trapping material capable of adsorbing at least one of the at least one volatile component to provide at least one adsorbed component; and (c) an infrared heat source configured for providing infrared emissions to heat the trapping material at the same location as adsorption to a temperature sufficient to release at least one of the at least one adsorbed component from the trapping material to provide at least one released component. | 17,292 |
9,164,246 | 1. A docking station for an electronic device, the docking station comprising: a mating surface; and an optical connection disposed in the mating surface, the optical connection comprising an optical interface portion and a magnetic coupling portion disposed about at least a portion of the optical interface portion, wherein the optical interface portion comprises at least one alignment fiducial. | 14,267 |
9,428,464 | 1. A compound selected from the group consisting of: 6-Naphthalen-2-yl-pyrimidine-4-carboxylic acid; and 6-Biphenyl-3-yl-pyrimidine-4-carboxylic acid; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. | 37,012 |
8,729,209 | 1. An organopolysiloxane composition which does not contain any metal catalyst, said composition comprising, firstly, a silicone base B which does not comprise an organic polymer having polycondensation-crosslinkable silica-containing groups, comprising at least one polyorganosiloxane oil which can be crosslinked via a polycondensation reaction so as to form a silicone elastomer and, secondly, a catalytically effective amount of at least one polycondensation catalyst A which is a nonsilylated organic compound corresponding to formula (I): in which the R the R when the R with the additional condition that the R | 13,526 |
9,228,115 | 1. A method of fabricating a flexible substrate structure, comprising: providing a supporting carrier; forming a release layer on the supporting carrier, wherein the release layer comprises a photo-sensitive adhesive layer; and performing a local modification process to form a bonding region with adhesion property in modified parts of the release layer, and to form a release region without adhesion property in unmodified parts of the release layer, wherein the local modification process comprises performing a local exposure process with a light source to form the bonding region with adhesion property in illuminated parts of the release layer, and to form the release region without adhesion property in unilluminated parts of the release layer. | 25,970 |
9,184,426 | 1. A battery module including a plurality of batteries placed in a housing, wherein the plurality of batteries are connected in parallel by a battery connection member, the battery connection member includes a main conductive path portion made of a flat metal plate, and a plurality of connection terminals each configured to connect the main conductive path portion to one of electrodes of each battery, the main conductive path portion has a plurality of through holes in each of which the one of electrodes of each battery is inserted, and the main conductive path portion is arranged in direct contact with a shoulder portion of each battery such that a first surface of the main conductive path portion faces and directly contacts each battery, the battery module is partitioned by the main conductive path portion to have the housing and a vent space, the vent space created between a second surface of the main conductive path portion opposite to the first surface and a lid body, where gas released from a vent provided to the one of electrodes of each battery is released to the vent space via the through hole, one end of each connection terminal is connected to the one of electrodes of each battery, and the other end of each connection terminal passes through the through hole, and extends in the vent space to be connected to the second surface of the main conductive path portion, and the connection terminals also serve as fuse portions which are blown when a current over a predetermined value flows therethrough. | 1,962 |
8,690,341 | 1. An image display device comprising: a first light source arranged to provide a first input light beam having a first color; a second light source arranged to provide a second input light beam having a second color; at least one transmissive input grating implemented on a substantially transparent body; and an output grating implemented on the transparent body, wherein the at least one input grating is arranged to provide a first diffracted beam by diffracting light of the first input beam, and to provide a second diffracted beam by diffracting light of the second input beam such that the diffracted beams propagate in the transparent body, a centerline of the first diffracted light beam intersects with a centerline of the second diffracted light beam at an intersection point, wherein a distance between the intersection point and the output grating is smaller than or equal to 50% of a full width at half maximum width of the first input beam, and the output grating is arranged to form an output light beam by diffracting light of the first diffracted light beam and light of the second diffracted light beam substantially in a same direction, wherein said full-width-at-half-maximum width is determined by points where intensity of said first input beam reaches 50% of a maximum intensity of said first input beam. | 34,979 |
9,697,129 | 1. A method for implementing multiple window based segment prefetch used for data pages that are out of sequence, the method comprising: initiating, by a computer, a buffer for the segment prefetch; building up, by the computer, windows in the buffer, each of the windows comprising data pages among which neighboring data pages are within a predetermined distance therebetween; determining, by the computer, whether a respective one of the windows exceeds a predetermined window size; triggering, by the computer, the segment prefetch, in response to determining that the respective one of the windows exceeds the predetermined window size; using an asynchronous I/O to get the data pages in the respective one of the windows; and using, by the computer, a synchronous I/O to get the data pages in the respective one of the windows, in response to determining that the respective one of the windows does not exceed the predetermined window size, and clearing the buffer, in response to determining that a number of the windows in the buffer exceeds a predetermined threshold. | 30,025 |
9,524,005 | 1. A server rack comprising: a cabinet having a vertically extending longitudinal axis and at least one door, a first sidewall, and a second sidewall, wherein the at least one door provides access to an interior of the cabinet defined by the first sidewall, the second sidewall, a back wall, a top wall, and a bottom wall, wherein the first sidewall includes a plurality of openings; a mounting fixture disposed in the cabinet for receiving a plurality of server units that are positionable within the cabinet; a first vertically extending trough adjacent an exterior of the first sidewall, the first trough including a longitudinal axis arranged parallel to the longitudinal axis of the cabinet and a trough door that provides access to an interior of the first trough, wherein the first trough defines an interior space for receiving cables from the interior of the cabinet into the interior space of the first trough through the plurality of openings in the first sidewall of the cabinet. | 24,251 |
8,445,975 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a substrate; a gate dielectric layer on the substrate; and a metal gate electrode on the gate dielectric layer; wherein, the gate dielectric layer comprises an oxide layer containing an oxide having a dielectric constant (k) greater than 4, and silicon concentrated at interfaces of the gate dielectric layer with the substrate and with the metal gate electrode; wherein the gate dielectric layer further comprises: | 35,794 |
9,465,124 | 1. A seismic data acquisition unit comprising: a. a seismic sensor; b. a sample clock to provide a clock signal for analog-to-digital conversion of an output of said seismic sensor; c. an environmental sensor to provide environmental condition data concerning at least one local environmental condition; d. an adjustable timing signal device to provide an adjustable timing signal for disciplining the sample clock, wherein the adjustable timing signal device produces the adjustable timing signal at a nominal frequency; and e. a control processor, operably coupled to the adjustable timing signal device, to: | 596 |
8,544,816 | 1. A valve comprising a housing with a valve passage extending through the housing, the valve further having a valve body movable along a movement direction relative to the housing for selectively opening and closing the valve passage, a first sealing element arranged on the valve body and movable into abutment with a first valve seat if the valve body is moved in a closing direction, at least one outer peripheral section of the first sealing element being resiliently movable or elastically deformable substantially in the movement direction of the valve body, and a protective collar fixed to the valve body and having a piston skirt arranged radially outside of the peripheral section of the first sealing element and projecting beyond the first sealing element in the closing direction and with all of the first sealing element being radially inward of the piston skirt, the piston skirt being slidable within the housing and a second sealing element arranged on the valve body and movable into abutment with a second valve seat if the valve body is moved in the closing direction. | 45,647 |
9,290,795 | 1. A nucleic acid amplification apparatus for amplifying a target nucleic acid derived from a living organism, comprising: a sample setting part for setting a first container accommodating a first sample prepared from a living organism and a second container accommodating a second sample obtained by diluting the first sample; a reagent setting part for setting a third container accommodating a nucleic acid amplification enzyme and a fourth container accommodating a primer for a target nucleic acid in the living organism; a reaction container setting part for setting a first reaction container and a second reaction container; a dispensing unit for dispensing the first sample, the nucleic acid amplification enzyme and the primer to the first reaction container in order to prepare a first measurement sample that is not diluted, and dispensing the second sample, the nucleic acid amplification enzyme and the primer to the second reaction container in order to prepare a second measurement sample that is diluted; a measurement unit for amplifying the target nucleic acid in the first measurement sample in the first reaction container and the second measurement sample in the second reaction container, and measuring an amount of a product of the amplification of the target nucleic acid in each of the first measurement sample and second measurement sample, wherein the second measurement sample has a higher dilution ratio than that of the first measurement sample; and a hardware unit comprising: a controller configured to calculate a first measurement value from the first measurement sample without using any measurement value from a control sample, and a second measurement value from the second measurement sample without using any measurement value from a control sample, and judging that amplification inhibition of the target nucleic acid occurs when the second measurement value is larger than the first measurement value, or when the first measurement value and the second measurement value are not proportional to dilution ratios of the first measurement sample and the second measurement sample; and an output unit to output information from the controller indicating that the target nucleic acid in the living organism exceeds a predetermined amount, when: (1) the first measurement value is larger than a first threshold value, or (2) the first measurement value is smaller than the first threshold value, the second measurement value is larger than a second threshold value and amplification of the target nucleic acid is inhibited; wherein the information from the controller comprises at least one graph showing turbidity data of the first measurement sample and the second measurement sample, an amplification rising time display column, a concentration measurement display column, or a judgment result display column. | 38,713 |
8,925,428 | 1. A returning device of a wrench tool comprising: a body including a tool segment disposed on at least one end portion thereof, and the tool segment having two jaws, an engaging face of at least one of the two jaws including a recessed section in which a receiving groove is formed in a cylinder shape, and the receiving groove having a stop rim, the stop rim of the receiving groove including a slot defined on an eccentric position thereof; an auxiliary retainer inserted in the receiving groove of the body and having a retaining portion defined on a frond end thereof, the auxiliary retainer being formed in a circular column shape; a positioning shaft including a front end connected at an eccentric position of a rear end of the auxiliary retainer and including a rear end extending out of the slot of the body and allowing to prevent the auxiliary retainer from disengagement from the receiving groove of the body; a resilient element used to push the auxiliary retainer so that the retaining portion of the auxiliary retainer elastically extends out of the recessed section of the at least one of the two jaws of the body; wherein a central axis of the receiving groove is parallel to a central axis of the slot of the stop rim of the receiving groove, and the slot is defined on the eccentric position of the stop rim of the receiving groove, such that the auxiliary retainer, formed in the circular column shape, slides and does not rotate in the receiving groove. | 12,608 |
8,540,422 | 1. A method of performing circuit analysis on a circuit comprising at least first and second electrical components, the method comprising: a) providing power to at least a portion of the circuit; b) monitoring a characteristic of operation of the circuit; c) manipulating a temperature of a component analysis tool; d) placing the temperature-manipulated component analysis tool relative to the first component to modify a temperature of the first component while not modifying a temperature of the second component; e) observing whether the characteristic of operation of the circuit changes in response to temperature modification of the first component of the circuit; f) placing the temperature-manipulated component analysis tool relative to the second component to modify a temperature of the second component while not modify a temperature of the first component; g) observing whether the characteristic of operation of the circuit changes in response to temperature modification of the second component; and h) comparing any observed changes in the characteristic of operation of the circuit in response to modifying the temperature of the first component to any observed changes in the characteristic of operation of the circuit and in response to modifying the temperature of the second component. | 13,683 |
8,436,107 | 1. A two-part, water-based mold release agent comprising: a first part comprising a mixture of a silanol-terminated polysiloxane, an organohydride cross-linker, a surfactant and water; a second part comprising water and a catalyst selected from the group consisting of tin compounds, zinc compounds and hydroxylamine; and silica, wherein said organohydride cross-linker is structurally different from the silanol-terminated polysiloxane and comprises the structure: wherein one of R R p is an integer from about 3 to about 500. | 18,993 |
8,727,821 | 1. An apparatus for generating electricity in a liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier having an LNG storage tank, the apparatus comprising: a reformer configured for reforming boil-off gas from the LNG storage tank using steam to produce synthetic gas; a separator installed at a rear stage of the steam reformer and configured for separating ash while the boil-off as is being reformed; a fuel cell configured for generating electricity through an electrochemical reaction of the synthetic gas produced by the reformer; a compressor configured for compressing air and for supplying the compressed air to the fuel cell; and an electricity storage unit connected to the fuel cell and configured for storing electricity generated by the fuel cell, wherein the reformer, the separator, the fuel cell, the compressor, and the electricity storage unit are provided as a single module. | 6,666 |
8,884,456 | 1. A turbine unit adapted to be placed in a flowing fluid, the turbine unit comprises a driving turbine blade set and a pumping turbine blade set mounted within a passage of a housing such that in use the driving turbine blade set is located upstream from the pumping turbine blade set, the driving turbine blade set and pumping turbine blade set are confined to rotate in the same direction such that when the fluid flow rotates the driving turbine blade set, the pumping turbine blade set rotates simultaneously at the same rotational speed, the driving turbine blade set and the pumping turbine blade set are mounted in opposed relation whereby the pumping turbine blade set is in reverse relation to the driving turbine blade set such that in operation a region between the two turbine blade sets has a lower pressure than the fluid pressure at an opening of the passage. | 795 |
9,028,781 | 1. A renewable energy storage system for storing renewable energy, comprising: electrical power generator converting the renewable energy into an electrical power; energy storing device storing the electrical power; hydrogen producing device producing hydrogen, using the electrical power obtained by the electrical power generator and/or the electrical power stored by the energy storing device; hydrogenating device for adding the hydrogen produced by the hydrogen producing device to unsaturated hydrocarbon; saturated hydrocarbon storing device for storing saturated hydrocarbon produced by adding the hydrogen to the unsaturated hydrocarbon; unsaturated hydrocarbon storing device for storing the unsaturated hydrocarbon; unsaturated hydrocarbon supply amount controller for controlling an amount of the unsaturated hydrocarbon that is stored in the unsaturated hydrocarbon storing device and is to be supplied to the hydrogenating device; output voltage detector detecting an output voltage value of the electrical power generator; charge voltage detector detecting a charge of voltage value of the energy storing device; and electrical current detector detecting an electrical current amount supplied to a hydrogen producing detector, wherein an amount of hydrogen produced by the hydrogen producing device is estimated based on detected output voltage value, detected charge voltage value, and detected electrical current amount, and wherein the supply amount controller controls the amount of the unsaturated hydrocarbon to be supplied to the hydrogenating device based on the estimated amount of hydrogen. | 1,491 |
8,858,088 | 1. A tapered roller bearing assembly including inner and outer rings, inner and outer ring raceway surfaces, and a plurality of rollers, in which a crowning profile is formed in a roller rolling surface in an outer periphery of at least each roller, the crowning profile including a crowning profile formed portion of the roller rolling surface comprising: a contact area crowned portion, which lies within an axial range of the inner ring raceway surface and is held in contact with the inner ring raceway surface; and a non-contact area crowned portion which lies outside the axial range of the inner ring raceway surface and is held in non-contact with the inner ring raceway surface, the non-contact area crowned portion being configured not to contact the inner ring raceway surface under all load conditions of the tapered roller bearing assembly, wherein the contact area crowned portion and the non-contact area crowned portion have their generatrices extending in an axial direction of the roller, the generatrices being represented by corresponding continuous lines represented by different functions and continued smoothly at a point of connection, and a curvature of the generatrix of the non-contact area crowned portion in the vicinity of the connection point is chosen to be smaller than a curvature of the generatrix of the contact area crowned portion. | 35,012 |
9,486,385 | 1. An assistive device, utilized by a user having diminished abilities to walk, stand, maintain balance while standing or during the act of sitting or standing, comprising: a) a right hand and a left hand structure; b) where in the left and right hand structure held in union with a bearing surface so as to provide rotational movement around the common longitudinal axis of the right hand and left hand structures; c) the right hand and left hand structures having horizontal and vertical struts as to provide an elevated platform with restrictive side access, partial front access and open rear access; d) a mechanism coincident to the rear face of the right hand and left hand structures being movable in the vertical plane further being retained in its vertical path by guides and concurrently held in parallel alignment with the apex of the right hand and left hand structures; e) said mechanism movable in the vertical plane having a means of restricting movement of the mechanism in an upward or downward vertical direction; f) said mechanism movable in the vertical plane having a means of supplying force in the upward direction between said mechanism and the right hand and left hand structures; g) the forward bottom face of each right hand and left hand structure having affixed a swivel wheel, the vertical axis of the swivel wheel being offset and perpendicular from the axis of rotation of the swivel wheel; h) the rear bottom face of the right hand and left hand structure being joined independently with a cantilevered bogie structure comprised of multiple wheels mounted in-line with the axis of rotation being perpendicular to the mechanism; i) the rear most bogie wheel of the device having a wheel center of rotation located vertical and beyond the rear most edge of the mechanism movable in the vertical plane of both the right hand and left hand structures; j) the bogie wheels having such diameters as to allow the bogie structure to move unobstructed under objects of limited clearance between the object's base and the rolling surface; k) and the bogie structure further having a means for limiting wheel movement to stop or redirect the assistive device. | 9,362 |
8,515,816 | 1. A method performed by a processor in a computing system for analyzing text capture operation traffic, the method comprising: receiving, by the computing system, a plurality of indications of operations for capturing text from rendered documents, each of the plurality of the received indications specifying a text sequence captured as part of the indicated text capture sequence; for each of the plurality of received indications, identifying, by the processor, an electronic document containing the captured text sequence; performing, by the processor, collective analysis on the plurality of received indications and the electronic documents; and outputting, by the processor, a result produced by the performed analysis. | 3,023 |
8,558,103 | 1. A device comprising: a solar cell element, wherein the solar cell element comprises two solar cell terminals; and a switch component integrated with an N-type solar cell terminal to control the solar cell element, wherein the switch component comprises a source region or a drain region of one or more MOS-based switches, the source region or the drain region is arranged within a second N region of a solar cell within the solar cell element, the source region is disposed in a p-type region, the p-type region is in direct physical contact with the second N region of the solar cell, and the N-type solar cell terminal is in direct physical contact with the second N region of the solar cell and an external contact of the solar cell. | 12,039 |
9,128,889 | 1. A system, comprising: a sensor comprising a meter, the sensor configured to receive measure data associated with an item coupled to the meter; a network device configured to connect to a network; at least one memory that stores computer-executable instructions; at least one processor configured to access the at least one memory, wherein the at least one processor is configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to: receive, from the sensor, the data associated with the item; prepare the data associated with the item for interaction with a filing system, wherein the computer-executable instructions to prepare the data further configure the at least one processor to send, via the network device to the filing system, the data and a reference to a location in the filing system for storing the data in association with the sensor; receive, from the filing system in response to sending the data and the reference, information associated with operation of the sensor; and send the information to the sensor, wherein the sensor loads the information to update the operation of the sensor. | 20,824 |
9,823,722 | 1. A method for adjusting a voltage of a supercapacitor, wherein the supercapacitor is used to perform power failure protection on a control chip that executes a service, wherein the control chip comprises a Cache, wherein the method comprises: acquiring information that carries a system service volume, wherein the information that carries a system service volume includes information about an effective traffic volume of a system interface; configuring a size of an available capacity value of the Cache according to the information, by configuring the available capacity value of the Cache to a larger value in response to an increase in the effective traffic volume, and configuring the available capacity value of the Cache to a smaller value in response to a decrease in the effective traffic volume; and adjusting a working voltage of the supercapacitor according to the configured size of the available capacity value of the Cache, wherein adjusting includes: increasing the working voltage of the supercapacitor in response to an increase in the available capacity value of the Cache; and decreasing the working voltage of the supercapacitor in response to a decrease in the available capacity value of the Cache; and wherein the control chip is a Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) controller that executes a RAID service and the system interface is a PCIE interface, and the acquiring the effective traffic volume of the system interface includes acquiring an effective traffic volume of the PCIE interface, or wherein the control chip is an SSD controller and the system interface is a PCIE interface or a SAS/SATA interface, and the acquiring the effective traffic volume of the system interface includes acquiring an effective traffic volume of the PCIE interface or the SAS/SATA interface. | 39,202 |
9,643,440 | 1. An information processing device comprising: a first communication interface for communicating via a serial communication standard; a second communication interface or communicating via network communication; a first processor that runs a program stored in a first memory, the first processor communicating with an external device through the first communication interface; and a second processor that runs a program stored in a second memory, the second processor executing a process related to communicating with the external device through the second communication interface; wherein the information processing device has a first operating mode in which the first processor and the second processor operate according to a first clock signal that is supplied to the first processor and to the second processor; wherein the information processing device has a second operating mode in which the first processor executes some functions of the second processor, the first processor operates according to the first clock signal, and the second processor operates according to a second clock signal that is supplied to the second processor, the second clock signal having an operating frequency lower than the first clock signal; and wherein the first processor executes some of the processes related to communication with the external device in the second operating mode. | 1,002 |
9,389,665 | 1. A system for mission critical processor power event recovery, comprising: a mission critical processor configured for controlling a mission critical display, the mission critical processor including at least one core processor powered by a mission critical processor power supply; a first memory source coupled with the mission critical processor and storing non-transitory processor readable program code to cause the mission critical processor to execute a normal operation of the mission critical display; a power warning monitor coupled with the mission critical processor and with the first memory source, and configured for receiving an indication of a power anomaly in the mission critical processor power supply; a capacitive power source coupled with the mission critical processor power supply, the capacitive power source configured for powering the mission critical processor and the power warning monitor during the power anomaly; at least one second memory source coupled with the power warning monitor and storing non-transitory processor readable program code to cause the power warning monitor to execute a power event operation and recovery of the mission critical processor during the power anomaly, the at least one second memory source separate from the first memory source; the power warning monitor further configured for: | 17,934 |
8,622,170 | 1. A multiple envelope control system for a lift vehicle, the lift vehicle including a platform mounted to a telescoping main boom, the main boom being configured for lift/lower function and telescope function, the multiple envelope control system comprising: a selector switch for selecting between a plurality of capacity modes including at least a low load mode and a high load mode; a plurality of sensors strategically positioned on the main boom, the sensors cooperatively defining position zones of the platform; and a control system communicating with the selector switch and the plurality of sensors, the control system receiving output from the plurality of sensors to determine in which position zone the platform is located, wherein the control system controls a predefined envelope of the platform based on a position of the selector switch and controls operation of the main boom based on which position zone the platform is located in, and wherein the control system is configured such that when the selector switch is in the high load mode, the control system selectively prevents at least one of the lift/lower function and the telescope function based on which position zone the platform is located in. | 38,054 |
8,629,346 | 1. An electrode substrate, comprising: a base material; a metal circuit layer that is provided on the base material; and a transparent conductive layer that is electrically connected to the metal circuit layer, and wherein the metal circuit layer is covered by a plurality of insulating layers; and the plurality of insulating layers comprise a material that includes a glass component, wherein the glass component is present as a paste that contains glass frit, such that the plurality of insulating layers is formed by printing said paste, and the paste comprises two or more types of glass paste that have different melting temperatures. | 7,775 |
8,911,614 | 1. A hydrocarbon conversion process comprising contacting a hydrocarbon stream with a catalyst at hydrocarbon conversion conditions to generate at least one converted product, wherein the catalyst is selected from the group consisting of a microporous crystalline AlPO-59 material, a microporous crystalline AlPO-59M material, a microporous crystalline AlPO-59-C material, or mixtures thereof, where AlPO-59 has a three-dimensional framework of EO 2 − , PO 2 + and at least one of [M 2+ O 2 ] 2− and SiO 2 tetrahedral units and an empirical composition in the as synthesized and anhydrous basis expressed by an empirical formula of: where M is at least one framework cation of valence 2+ selected from the group consisting of alkaline earth and transition metals, “m” is the mole ratio of M to E and varies from 0 to about 1.0, R is an organoammonium cation selected from the group of ethyltrimethylammonium (ETMA and is characterized in that it has the x-ray diffraction pattern having at least the d-spacings and intensities set forth in Table A: the microporous crystalline AlPO-59M material comprises a three-dimensional framework of EO where M is at least one metal cation of valence +2 selected from the group consisting of Be and is characterized in that it has the x-ray diffraction pattern having at least the d-spacings and intensities set forth in Table A: and the microporous crystalline AlPO-59C material comprises a three-dimensional framework of EO where M is at least one metal cation of valence +2 selected from the group consisting of Be and is characterized in that it has the x-ray diffraction pattern having at least the d-spacings and intensities set forth in Table B: | 33,958 |
8,931,407 | 1. A stamp assembly comprising: a bracket having a stamping member mounted in the bracket below the bracket hole, and capable of being moved in a longitudinal direction relative to the bracket and being rotated; an ink cartridge mounted in the bracket hole of the bracket; a spring mounted in the bracket and having a housing mounted around the bracket, capable of being moved in a longitudinal direction relative to the bracket, connected with the stamping member, and having a pushing device mounted on the front side of the shell, the pushing device having a pushed member slidably mounted in the through hole of the housing and capable of pushing the ink cartridge out of the bracket, the pushed member having | 9,219 |
9,017,828 | 1. A compound represented by Formula below, Wherein: (1) R i) each of R a C a C ii) at least one of the R (2) L may represent single bonding, a substituted or unsubstituted arylene group, a substituted or unsubstituted hetero arylene group, a divalent or trivalent group selected from the group including substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic hydrocarbons, or a divalent linking group, (3) Ar (4) n and m are an integer from 1 to 3, and (5) X is any one selected from the group consisting of: a hydrogen atom; a halogen atom; a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic hydrocarbon group; a C a C | 39,862 |
9,651,562 | 1. A method of determining inflammatory bowel disease activity in a subject, the method comprising: (a) contacting a biological sample obtained from the subject with an antibody that Specifically binds cathelicidin; (b) detecting the binding of antibody to cathelicidin in (a), thereby measuring cathelicidin protein level; (c) determining inflammatory bowel disease activity level in the subject when the cathelicidin protein level is lower than 35 pg/μg protein or lower than 40 ng/ml plasma; and (d) treating the patient with an immunosuppressant or anti-inflammatory agent effective against inflammatory bowel disease in accordance with the inflammatory bowel disease activity level determined in step (c). | 7,946 |
8,530,528 | 1. A hydrogenation reaction process comprising the steps of: providing a hydrothermally stable alumina support, the hydrothermally stable alumina support produced by the process comprising: (a) forming a mixture of a crystalline hydrous alumina precursor and a first structural stabilizer, wherein the crystalline hydrous alumina precursor comprises two or more crystalline boehmites having different average crystallite sizes differing by at least about 1 nm; (b) drying the mixture to form a dried material, wherein the step of drying comprises spray-drying; (c) impregnating the dried material with a second structural stabilizer to form a support precursor; and (d) heat treating said support precursor to form a stabilized support, wherein the step of heat treating comprises calcining at a temperature between about 450° C. and about 900° C. to convert the two or more crystalline boehmites to a hydrothermally stable alumina support; reacting a plurality of reactants under conversion promoting conditions in the presence of a catalyst supported by the hydrothermally stable alumina support to produce a plurality of products through a water-forming hydrogenation reaction; wherein the step of reacting comprises allowing the water-forming hydrogenation reaction to occur wherein the water-forming hydrogenation reaction is selected the group consisting of: an alcohol synthesis reaction; a dehydration reaction; a hydrodeoxygenation reaction; a catalytic combustion reaction; a hydrocondensation reaction; and a sulfur dioxide hydrogenation reaction; and allowing a plurality of products to be formed according to the water-forming hydrogenation reaction. | 2,854 |
9,271,657 | 1. A system for determining cardiovascular information for a patient, the system comprising: at least one computer system configured to: receive patient-specific image data regarding a geometry of an anatomical structure of the patient, the anatomical structure including at least a portion of one or more coronary arteries; create a three-dimensional model representing at least the portion of the one or more coronary arteries, using the received patient-specific image data; create, using the three-dimensional model, a blood flow model relating to a blood flow characteristic within the portion of the one or more coronary arteries, the blood flow model including one or more equations of blood flow and one or more boundary conditions of the blood flow; modify the one or more boundary conditions using the patient-specific image data; determine a value of the blood flow characteristic at each of a plurality of locations of the portion of the one or more coronary arteries by solving one or more equations of the blood flow model using the one or more modified boundary conditions; and display a representation of the portion of the one or more coronary arteries, wherein the determined values of the blood flow characteristic are indicated on the display of respective locations of the one or more coronary arteries using at least one visual indicator. | 48,915 |
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