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9,416,084 | 1. Method of producing ingenol-3-angelate (I), comprising the steps of: esterifying ingenol protected with a dihydroxyl protecting group at the 5 and 20 positions, with angelic anhydride or angeloyl chloride in the presence of a base to produce 5,20 hydroxyl-protected ingenol-3-angelate (VI), wherein D represents a dihydroxyl protecting group; and removing the dihydroxyl protecting group at the 5 and 20 positions to produce ingenol-3-angelate (I). | 21,691 |
8,932,400 | 1. A method for making a construction panel, comprising: contacting an alkaline earth-metal containing water with a CO subjecting the alkaline earth-metal containing water to one or more conditions comprising temperature, pH, precipitation, ion ratio, concentrations of additives and ionic species, mixing rate, form of agitation, presence of seed crystal, catalyst, membrane or substrate, stabilizing additives, residence time of the precipitate, dewatering of the precipitate, washing the precipitate with water, drying, milling, storage, or combinations thereof to make a composition, wherein the composition comprises at least 10% w/w vaterite and at least 1% w/w aragonite, wherein the composition has a carbon isotopic fractionation value (δ combining the composition with an aqueous medium; and allowing the composition to set and harden into a construction panel. | 16,056 |
8,737,332 | 1. A method for receiving an ACKnowledgment (ACK) at a Mobile Station (MS) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: transmitting a bandwidth request indicator to a Base Station (BS); and receiving an ACK for the transmitted bandwidth request indicator from the BS, the ACK including an extended advanced MAP (A-MAP) Type field, wherein the extended A-MAP Type field indicates a format of the ACK, wherein the format of the ACK includes a first ACK format, and wherein an ACK having the first ACK format includes a number of received codes field indicating a number of codes which the BS has decoded successfully. | 48,659 |
8,454,915 | 1. A process of leaching mineral values from a permeable ore body or from particulates derived from an ore, the ore having metal carbonate and metal sulfide components, comprising: a) leaching first the metal carbonate from the ore with an aqueous leachant comprising an acid selected from the group consisting of acetic acid, formic acid, nitric acid, sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid, fluoboric acid and fluosilicic acid and recovering at least one of manganese, calcium and magnesium; and b) leaching metal sulfides from the ore with an aqueous leachant comprising at least one ferric salt selected from the group consisting of ferric fluosilicate, ferric fluoborate, ferric sulfate, and ferric nitrate to oxidize sulfides into soluble oxidation products and recovering at least one of lead and zinc. | 9,880 |
9,212,735 | 1. An arrangement of a transmission ( 1 ) and an attachment module ( 4 ); wherein the transmission ( the attachment module ( the driveshaft ( a lubricating oil supply flows, via the central first axial bore ( a separation point ( an oil transfer element ( | 25,400 |
9,464,552 | 1. A mixer for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine for mixing a reactant with an exhaust gas flow, the mixer comprising: a pipe section, which borders a flow cross section through which the exhaust gas flow can flow in a circumferential direction, extending in an axial direction from a first axial side of the pipe section to a second axial side of the pipe section; a plurality of guide blades, which project from the pipe section at least on one of the axial sides such that the plurality of guide blades protrude into the flow cross section, wherein: the plurality of guide blades are divided into at least a first guide blade group and a second guide blade group, which are arranged offset in the circumferential direction; the guide blades of the first guide blade group are arranged axially offset in relation to the guide blades of the second guide blade group; and the first guide blade group and the second guide blade group follow each other in the circumferential direction, each of the first guide blade group and the second guide blade group extending only over a part of a circumference of the pipe section such that the first guide blade group and the second guide blade group do not overlap each other in the axial direction. | 41,022 |
9,423,621 | 1. A prism beam expansion system comprising two or more right angle prisms consecutively placed in alignment, each of the right angle prisms having an incident inclined plate (i wherein an incident light beam (r the vertex angle α satisfies an expression: n1 and n2 respectively represent refractive indexes of the light beam in the incident media and in the right angle prism. | 22,107 |
9,776,662 | 1. A sub-frame structure comprising: a longitudinal member extending in a vehicle front-rear direction; and a lateral member extending in a vehicle width direction, the sub-frame structure being configured to support a vehicle power plant through antivibration devices, to support a suspension member, and to be supported by a vehicle body frame, wherein: the suspension member is rigidly fixed to the longitudinal member, the longitudinal member is rigidly fixed to the vehicle body frame, at least one of the antivibration devices is mounted on the lateral member, and an elastic body is provided in order to support the lateral member in a floating manner relative to the longitudinal member, and wherein the longitudinal member is attached in such a way as to be sandwiched by opposed surfaces of the lateral member. | 33,681 |
9,384,905 | 1. An asymmetric supercapacitor comprising: a first electrode comprising a first active material and having a first operating window, wherein the first active material comprises a material selected from the group consisting of a metal oxynitride, a metal oxycarbide, a metal oxyboride, and combinations thereof, and the metal is selected from the group consisting of Groups III, IV, V, VI, or VII of the Periodic Table; a second electrode comprising a second active material and having a second operating window, wherein the first and second operating windows overlap by 0%, based on voltage; a separator disposed between the first and second electrodes; and an aqueous electrolyte. | 25,030 |
8,910,962 | 1. A transverse link for a vehicle, comprising: a connecting leg configured to connect the link to a vehicle body; a wheel leg attached to the connecting leg and configured to connect the link to a wheel carrier; and a bearing journal having a pin-shaped portion angled towards the wheel leg, and a transition region defining a flattened anchoring portion having a trapezoidal or triangular configuration secured to the connecting leg, wherein the connecting leg includes a recess region formed proximate a hollow connecting point at least partially surrounding the anchoring portion of the bearing journal, wherein the recess is configured to allow access to the anchoring portion from a top side and an underside of the transverse link. | 10,776 |
8,587,109 | 1. An assembly of microelectronic devices, comprising: a support member having support member circuitry; a first microelectronic die package attached to the support member and including a first die and a first substrate coupling the first die to the support member circuitry with first conductive members, wherein the first substrate has a first planform shape; and a second microelectronic die package attached to the first die package and including a second die and a second substrate, the second substrate coupling the second die to the support member circuitry with second conductive members, wherein the second substrate has a second planform shape that extends at least partially beyond the first planform shape, and wherein the second conductive members are positioned within the second planform shape. | 49,977 |
9,679,740 | 1. A charged particle beam apparatus comprising: a detection unit that detects secondary electrons or reflected electrons generated from a sample by a charged particle beam radiated to a sample from a charged particle gun; and an orthogonal electromagnetic deflection unit that deflects a traveling path of the secondary electrons or the reflected electrons towards the detection unit, wherein the orthogonal electromagnetic deflection unit includes: a first electric-field deflector and a first magnetic-field deflector that respectively apply an electric field and a magnetic field in a first direction crossing a traveling direction of the charged particle beam emitted from the charged particle gun and a second electric-field deflector and a second magnetic-field deflector that respectively apply an electric field and a magnetic field in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, first and second current-source circuits respectively supplying currents to the first and second magnetic-field deflectors, first and second voltage-source circuits respectively supplying voltages to the first and second electric-field deflectors, a first control circuit having the first current-source circuit, the first voltage-source circuit, and a gain adjustment unit, a second control circuit having the second current-source circuit, the second voltage-source circuit, and a gain adjustment unit, a first common voltage generation unit supplying a voltage to the first current-source circuit and the first voltage-source circuit, a second common voltage generation unit supplying a voltage to the second current-source circuit and the second voltage-source circuit, first and second gain adjustment units adjusting the voltage from the first common voltage generation unit, and third and fourth gain adjustment units adjusting the voltage from the second common voltage generation unit, the first control circuit has a first addition circuit adding voltages from the first gain adjustment unit and the third gain adjustment unit, and the second control circuit has a second addition circuit adding voltages from the second gain adjustment unit and the fourth gain adjustment unit. | 45,273 |
8,900,570 | 1. A method of treating irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in a human subject, the method comprising administering to the subject a fermented cereal comprising Lactobacillus plantarum cells of strain 299 or 299v, wherein the fermented cereal is administered in an amount providing at least 18 g (dry weight) of a fermented cereal and at least 1×10 11 cfu of said Lactobacillus plantarum cells on a daily basis, and wherein the fermented cereal is administered for a period of time effective to reduce at least one symptom of IBS. | 34,110 |
8,351,974 | 1. A method of controlling a transmit power of an uplink channel in a wireless communication system, the method performed by a user equipment (UE) comprising: receiving, from a base station, downlink control information (DCI) on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) by decoding at least one of a UE-specific search space and a common search space, wherein the received DCI is at least one of a first type DCI and a second type DCI different from the first type DCI, wherein the first type DCI includes a single TPC command, wherein the second type DCI includes a plurality of TPC commands, wherein cyclic redundancy check (CRC) parity bits associated with the second type DCI are masked with a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) corresponding to a type of the uplink channel, wherein the uplink channel is indicated by the RNTI, wherein the second type DCI is included in the common search space; and when the first type DCI is received by the UE, adjusting the transmit power of the uplink channel based on the single TPC command, when the second type DCI is received by the UE, selecting one of the plurality of TPC commands according to index information received from the base station, and adjusting the transmit power of the uplink channel based on the selected TPC command. | 12,565 |
9,160,031 | 1. A positive active material for a rechargeable lithium battery, comprising: a lithium/nickel-based compound; wherein primary particles of said positive active material with an average particle diameter ranging from 1 μm to 4 μm are agglomerated to form secondary particles of the lithium/nickel-based compound, and wherein an amount of carbon on a surface of the positive active material is 0.024% to 0.1% of the total weight of the positive active material. | 40,590 |
8,472,986 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: identifying a term of a short message generated with a mobile device; determining a meaning of a component of the short message; selecting at least one sensor of the mobile device that measures an environmental attribute of the mobile device that is relevant to the meaning of the component of the short message; populating a list with the at least one sensor of the mobile device; sorting the list according to a specified metric; measuring a physical quantity of the environmental attribute of the mobile device with a first listed sensor; and converting the measurement into a context data. | 17,103 |
8,547,050 | 1. A system, comprising: a controller coupled to a solid-state switch interposed on a phase path, wherein the controller is configured to: | 8,285 |
8,621,527 | 1. An entertainment system in an aircraft comprising: a plurality of electronic units that are daisy chain connected by segments of a packet data network (PDN) loop to a content server containing media content, and each of the electronic units are connected to at least one seat video display unit and comprise: | 8,959 |
9,251,114 | 1. In a cloud storage system, a method for providing access to objects associated with a particular client, said method comprising: establishing a connection with a user associated with said client over a network; providing a client namespace associated with said client to said user, said client namespace representing objects stored on said cloud storage system and objects stored on a private storage system apart from said cloud storage system; receiving a request from said user to access an object stored on said private storage system; and providing information to said user to facilitate access to said object stored on said private storage system by said user; and wherein said step of providing said client namespace to said user includes | 12,420 |
9,023,183 | 1. A method, comprising: processing a petroleum-containing material that has been exposed to an ion beam generated by an accelerator, the accelerator having a filter to remove undesired species, to extract a hydrocarbon component from the petroleum-containing material; the ion beam effecting a chain scission reaction effective to provide a yield increase in the hydrocarbon component extracted at a temperature and pressure effective to extract the hydrocarbon component. | 31,692 |
9,566,977 | 1. A method of operating a hybrid vehicle driveline, comprising: adjusting torque output of a driveline integrated starter/generator (DISG) in response to a difference between a desired driveline torque and an actual driveline torque during at least partially closing a driveline disconnect clutch; and modulating a torque converter bypass clutch in response to a difference in speed upstream of a dual mass flywheel and speed downstream of the dual mass flywheel. | 44,847 |
9,352,304 | 1. A method for producing ethylene glycol from a polyhydroxy compound, comprising the steps of: a) reacting a polyhydroxy compound in a reaction environment comprising water, hydrogen, and a catalyst system; and b) obtaining a product stream comprising ethylene glycol, wherein the catalyst system comprises catalyst A and catalyst B; the active component of catalyst A comprises a transition metal selected from the group consisting of elements in Group 8, 9, or 10 of the Periodic Table; the active component of catalyst B comprises a compound selected from a group consisting of tungsten oxide, tungsten sulfide, tungsten chloride, tungsten hydroxide, tungsten bronze oxide, tungsten acid, tungstate, metatungstate acid, metatungstate, paratungstate acid, paratungstate, peroxotungstic acid, pertungstate, heteropoly acid containing tungsten, and a mixture thereof. | 21,032 |
9,365,733 | 1. An ink jet ink, comprising: water; and a pigment dispersed by a polymer dispersant, wherein the pigment has a secondary amino group, wherein the polymer dispersant includes (i) a unit derived from an acryloylmorpholine and (ii) a unit derived from an acidic monomer, and wherein a content of the unit derived from the acryloylmorpholine is 0.1 times or more and 4.0 times or less as high as a content of the unit derived from the acidic monomer in terms of mass ratio. | 10,933 |
8,474,137 | 1. A method for repairing turbine blades by replacing at least a part of the blade profile, the method comprising: a) manufacturing a replacement blade part including a plurality of webs; b) separating a damaged area of a blade with a standardized cutting plane, leaving behind a remaining blade including a plurality of webs; c) matching of the replacement blade part to the actual geometry of the remaining blade; d) connecting or joining of the replacement blade part to the remaining blade by high temperature soldering of at least two of the webs of the replacement part and the remaining blade together and beam welding of an outer contour associated with the replacement part and the remaining blade. | 8,308 |
9,127,853 | 1. A thermostat for controlling an HVAC system comprising: a housing; a processing system disposed with in the housing; a rounded electronic display coupled to the processing system and mounted on the housing and adapted to display information to a user; a ring-shaped control member mounted on the housing so as to surround the rounded display and rotate about a central axis, the ring-shaped control member being configured to be inwardly pressable by the user along a direction of the central axis; and an optical sensor mounted within the housing and directed away from the central axis and toward a radially inward-facing surface of the ring-shaped control member, so as to detect optical signals indicating rotational movement of the ring-shaped control member and generate electrical signals therefrom, wherein the processing system is adapted and configured to detect user input based on the electrical signals generated by the optical sensor. | 21,509 |
8,690,775 | 1. A method for inserting a transcutaneous analyte sensor into a host using an applicator, the method comprising the steps of: placing an applicator system against a skin of a host, the applicator system comprising a housing configured for placement against the skin of the host, a sensor configured for transcutaneous placement through the skin of a host, and an applicator comprising applicator components, a needle and a spring-loaded mechanism configured to insert the needle and the sensor into the host and subsequently retract the needle from the host; and inserting the needle and the sensor into the host and subsequently retracting the needle from the host using a continuous torque whereby the applicator components rotatingly engage one another to insert the sensor into the host, wherein the sensor is inserted automatically into the host to a predetermined depth responsive to actuation of a trigger. | 17,546 |
9,321,369 | 1. A power conversion system, comprising: a switching element; an output circuit that outputs a transmission signal for transmitting information on a physical quantity that indicates a state of the switching element and for transmitting information on abnormality of the switching element; an isolating element that transmits the transmission signal in an electrically isolated state; a filter that deletes the information on the physical quantity from a signal transmitted through the isolating element; a control circuit to which the signal transmitted through the isolating element but not through the filter is input, wherein the output of the isolating element is directly connected to the filter and the control circuit; and a shutdown circuit that shuts down power supply to the switching element based on the signal transmitted through the filter. | 20,399 |
8,603,132 | 1. A method, comprising: positioning a sponge system in an area of a patient who is to undergo a cardiovascular procedure, wherein the sponge system includes a series of two or more sponges, wherein each of the two or more sponges includes at least one groove configured to enable a portion of blood flow to pass through the grooves, wherein the sponge system is operable to collect debris present in or proximate to the area and to allow a portion of the blood flow to pass through the sponge concurrently, and wherein the at least one groove of one of the two or more sponges is offset from the at least one groove of an adjacent one of the two or more sponges. | 24,742 |
9,585,020 | 1. A method of controlling access to the Internet on a mobile device, the mobile device having a radio layer and RF circuitry for making and breaking radio data connections with wireless telephone networks, the method comprising the steps of: receiving by a signal intervention mechanism a request to transmit IP data from an application; determining if a radio data connection is required to be established for the mobile device to transmit the IP data; upon making a determination that a radio data connection is required, determining whether a minimum time period has elapsed from at least one of: | 22,363 |
8,541,950 | 1. A method of operating an outdoor illumination system including at least one sensor and at least one control subsystem separately replaceable from the at least one sensor, the method comprising: processing by the at least one separately replaceable control subsystem information indicative of a level of illumination sensed by the at least one sensor over a plurality of daily cycles; the processing by the at least one separately replaceable control subsystem including: causing at least one illumination source to be turned ON at a first illumination level during a current one of the daily cycles; causing the at least one illumination source to be turned OFF during the current one of the daily cycles; causing a level of illumination produced by the at least one illumination source to be reduced from the first level to a non-zero level between the at least one illumination source being turned ON and OFF during the current one of the daily cycles; determining when to cause the level of illumination produced by the at least one illumination source to be increased, the increase to occur between the causing the level of illumination produced by the at least one illumination source to be reduced from the first level and the at least one illumination source being turned OFF, the determining based at least in part on the sensed level of illumination sensed during at least one previous one of the daily cycles which occurred before the current one of the daily cycles; and causing the level of illumination produced by the at least one illumination source to be increased between the causing the level of illumination produced by the at least one illumination source to be reduced and the at least one illumination source being turned OFF during the current one of the daily cycles. | 13,536 |
9,090,232 | 1. A vehicle braking/driving force control device, comprising: a plurality of in-wheel motors, each of the plurality of in-wheel motors being provided with a corresponding one of a plurality of wheels of a vehicle, each of the plurality of in-wheel motors generating a driving force or a braking force for the corresponding wheel, an electronic control unit configured to independently control each of the plurality of in-wheel motors to produce the driving force or the braking force in each of the corresponding wheels, wherein the electronic control unit is configured to calculate a size of a thermal margin of each of the plurality of in-wheel motors, and calculate a distribution of the driving force or the braking force to be produced in each of the plurality of wheels by each of the plurality of in-wheel motors to reduce differences between the thermal margins of each of the plurality of in-wheel motors based on the calculated sizes of the thermal margins of each of the plurality of in-wheel motors. | 21,793 |
9,805,260 | 1. A vehicle safety system comprising: a sensing unit configured to capture an image frame containing an eyeball image of an eyeball from a predetermined distance; a processing unit configured to a control unit configured to trigger the vehicle device associated with the one of the at least two sub-regions in which the pupil position locates according to the drive signal. | 34,060 |
9,478,794 | 1. A secondary battery comprising: a cathode comprising a primary cathode active material and an alkaline source material selected from the group consisting of Li an anode comprising an anode active material; an electrolyte; and a separator; wherein the secondary battery is a sodium-ion battery, a sodium-sulfur battery, or a sodium-air battery. | 44,691 |
9,068,076 | 1. A process for making a thermoplastic polyurethane composition comprising the steps of: (a) providing a first rigid thermoplastic polyurethane polymer, said first rigid thermoplastic polyurethane polymer being made by reacting a polyisocyanate with a chain extender, without any polyol being present; and (b) providing a second thermoplastic polyurethane polymer; (c) absorbing at least one hydrolytically and thermally stable catalyst into said second thermoplastic polyurethane polymer after polymerization of said second thermoplastic polyurethane polymer, said catalyst being capable of depolymerizing said first rigid thermoplastic polyurethane at melt processing temperatures and repolymerizing said first rigid thermoplastic polyurethane as said first rigid thermoplastic polyurethane is cooled below melt processing temperatures, wherein said catalyst comprises dimethyl tin dilauryl mercaptide, dibutyl tin dilauryl mercaptide, or dioctyl tin dilauryl mercaptide; (d) blending said first rigid thermoplastic polyurethane polymer and said second thermoplastic polyurethane polymer to form a thermoplastic polyurethane polymer blend; (e) melting said thermoplastic polyurethane blend, wherein while the thermoplastic polyurethane blend is melting, said catalyst depolymerizes said first thermoplastic polyurethane polymer; and (f) cooling said thermoplastic polyurethane blend, wherein while the thermoplastic polyurethane blend is cooling, said catalyst repolymerizes said first thermoplastic polyurethane polymer. | 6,918 |
9,163,265 | 1. A method for separating an ethanol target molecule from a viscous hydrocarbon-containing material, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a source material comprising the viscous hydrocarbon-containing material and moving the source material into a liquification vessel for processing the source material to provide a liquid medium comprising reduced viscosity hydrocarbon-containing material and sugar-type molecule; (b) providing at least four cross-flow filtration cassettes comprising: an array of sheet members of generally rectangular and generally planar shape with main top and bottom surfaces, wherein the sheet members include in sequence in said array a first retentate sheet, a first filter sheet, a permeate sheet, a second filter sheet, and a second retentate sheet, wherein the liquid medium to be filtered flows across the filter sheets, solids or high-molecular-weight species of diameter larger than the filter sheet's pore size, are retained in the retentate flow, and at least a portion of the liquid medium with any permeate species diffuse through the filter sheets and enter the permeate sheet and permeate flow; wherein each of the sheet members in said array has at least one inlet basin opening at one end thereof, and at least one outlet basin opening at an opposite end thereof, with permeate passage openings at longitudinal side margin portions of the sheet members, wherein each of the first and second retentate sheets having a multiplicity of retentate channel openings therein extending longitudinally between the inlet and outlet basin openings of the sheets in the array, and being bonded to an adjacent filter sheet about peripheral end and side portions thereof, with their basin openings and permeate passage openings in register with one another and the permeate passage openings of each of the retentate sheets being circumscribingly bonded to the adjacent filter sheet, and with a central portion of each of the retentate sheets and adjacent filter sheets being unbonded to permit permeate contacting the retentate sheet to flow through the filter sheet to the permeate sheet and wherein the retentate channels openings have a sufficient height to allow unrestricted passage of any larger material and depending on the viscosity of the material in the retentate stream; (c) moving the liquid medium comprising the reduced viscosity hydrocarbon-containing material and sugar-type molecules from the liquification vessel through a first of the cross-flow filtration cassette to form a permeate stream and a retentate stream, wherein the permeate stream comprises sugar-type molecules for subsequent conversion to the ethanol target molecule and the retentate steam comprises other molecules that did not pass through the filter sheets of the first cross-flow cassette; (d) moving the permeate stream into a fermentation vessel comprising fermenting medium and fermentation microorganisms or enzymes for converting the permeate stream comprising sugar-type molecules to the ethanol target molecule and forming a fermentation stream; (e) moving the fermentation stream into a second cross-flow filtration cassette, wherein the ethanol target molecule is contained in the permeate stream and the retentate comprising solids and fermentation microorganisms or enzymes; (f) moving the permeate stream into a distillation column for subsequent capture of ethanol and moving the retentate stream into a third cross-flow filtration cassette for separation of the fermentation microorganisms or enzymes for recapture and further use; and (g) drawing the ethanol off in the distillation column and removing the bottom solution from the distillation column and introducing into a fourth cross-flow filtration cassette for providing a setback permeate stream for introduction into the fermentation vessel and reuse of the liquid therein and a retentate stream containing solids for reuse or sale as a viable product. | 34,511 |
9,374,614 | 1. A wired communication method for a video source device comprising an Ethernet MAC and an asymmetric multi-rate Ethernet PHY, the wired communication method comprising: transmitting data from the asymmetric multi-rate Ethernet PHY over a twisted-pair wire of an Ethernet cable at a first downstream data rate; receiving data at the asymmetric multi-rate Ethernet PHY over the twisted pair wire at a first upstream data rate, the first downstream data rate being larger than the first upstream data rate; and reducing the first downstream data rate to a second downstream data rate that is less than the first downstream data rate while performing a signal processing operation on the data transmitted at the first downstream data rate to at least one of extending a range of the Ethernet cable and increasing an insertion loss of the Ethernet cable. | 23,422 |
9,420,877 | 1. A method for extrusion blow molding a unitary toothbrush having an inner cavity comprising: a) providing an extrusion blow mold having a longitudinal axis and a cavity, the cavity having a head portion, neck portion and handle portion and a surface that defines a cross-sectional area; wherein the cavity has at least one of a greater cross-sectional area, bordered by two smaller cross-sectional areas along the longitudinal axis of the blow mold or a lesser cross-sectional area bordered by two greater cross-sectional areas along the longitudinal axis of the blow mold; b) extruding a parison comprising a thermoplastic resin, the parison includes an interior cavity and an outer surface, wherein the outer surface defines a cross-sectional area of the parison; c) closing the blow mold; d) expanding the parison using a fluid to contact the cavity surface and subassembly to produce a toothbrush handle having an inner cavity; wherein the head portion of the blow mold cavity comprises one or more movable tuft hole pins. | 31,146 |
9,328,660 | 1. A method of oxidization, comprising: heating a first gas mixture to at least an autoignition temperature of the first gas mixture, the first gas mixture comprising an oxidant mixed with determined ranges of a low-energy-content (LEC) fuel gas and a high-energy-content (HEC) fuel gas; injecting, after the heating, a second gas mixture of the LEC fuel gas and the HEC fuel gas, wherein the rate of injection of the LEC and HEC fuel gases into the second gas mixture is selected to produce substantially the same ratio as the ratio of LEC fuel and HEC fuel gases in the first gas mixture; mixing the second gas mixture with the first gas mixture that has been heated, at a rate to produce a third gas mixture that is substantially homogeneous in a time less than an ignition delay time for the second gas mixture while allowing the third gas mixture to auto-ignite; and maintaining the temperature of the third gas mixture below a flameout temperature while the third gas mixture that has auto-ignited oxidizes. | 8,633 |
8,404,883 | 1. A process for the preparation of an oxysulfide and fluorinated organic compound, comprising reacting, in the presence of a polar aprotic organic solvent: (i) a fluorocarboxylic acid having the formula Ea-CF (ii) a sulfur oxide, and further wherein the ratio of the number of moles of sulfur oxide to the number of moles of fluorocarboxylic acid is less than 1. | 48,771 |
8,652,534 | 1. A method for treating pre-cancerous lesions present in or on a mammalian subject which method comprises contacting a composition containing a hamelia patens extract to the skin of said subject in an effective amount and frequency for reducing symptoms of pre-cancerous lesions. | 47,757 |
9,622,078 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving a request to establish a data session or a call from a mobile device; querying an enterprise gateway server in an enterprise network for a data session associated with the mobile device, when a request to establish a data session is received, or call policy associated with the mobile device, when a call is received; and automatically establishing a secure tunnel between the enterprise gateway server and a carrier gateway server in a carrier network, when the request to establish the data session is received, to provide a secure data session for the mobile device to communicate with at least one node on the enterprise network, wherein the secure tunnel supports selectable security and encryption specific to requirements of the enterprise network. | 42,308 |
9,507,910 | 1. A method for identifying a patient for later access to an electronic patient record for the patient using a communication device by an inquiring person, the electronic patient record being stored in a database using a primary key which serves to identify the patient and which has at least one secondary key that is associated with the primary key, the method comprising: using the secondary key to identify a patient, the secondary key being at least one item of subscriber information which characterizes a subscriber in a wireless communication network, the item of subscriber information is a number associated with a telephone of the patient including one of a telephone number of the patient's telephone, a SIM (subscriber identity module) card number of a SIM card of the patient's telephone, and a IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) number of a patient's mobile terminal; transmitting the secondary key and authentication information between the communication device and a portal by the inquiring person, the transmitting including transmitting the secondary key for identification of the patient via at least one communication network, the communication device being used for communication in the wireless communication network, the transmitting of the secondary key comprising sending data including the secondary key from the communication device to the portal; identifying the primary key of the patient using the secondary key and the authentication information received by the portal, the secondary key received at the portal from the communication device being used to obtain the primary key, the authentication information including at least one information selected from the set consisting of: information that identifies the inquiring person who is sending the request to the portal, subscriber information of a mobile device SIM card of the inquiring person, location coordinates of the communication device, and an identification key; determining that the communication device is an authorized device based on a successful verification of the authentication information; transmitting the primary key to the communication device; and accessing, by the communication device, the patient medical record by providing the primary key to the server. | 1,162 |
8,994,346 | 1. An information handling system, comprising: a system load; and DC/DC voltage regulation circuitry comprising: | 13,784 |
8,464,681 | 1. A vehicle power unit comprising: a speed reducing gear train including a starter driven gear relatively rotatably borne on a crankshaft rotatably borne on a crankcase constituting part of an engine body, a starting one-way clutch interposed between the starter driven gear and the crankshaft so as to permit power transmission from the starter driven gear to the side of the crankshaft, the speed reducing gear train and the starting one-way clutch being provided between a starter motor mounted to the engine body and the crankshaft; a transmission accommodated in the crankcase, the transmission having gear trains for a plurality of gear speeds which can be selectively established, the gear trains being provided between a main shaft and a counter shaft which have axes parallel to the crankshaft; said starter motor being selectively changed over between a normal rotational operation at the time of imparting a starting torque to the crankshaft through the speed reducing gear train and the starting one-way clutch and a reverse rotational operation at the time when power transmission from the starter driven gear to the side of the crankshaft is cut off by the starting one-way clutch; and a power transmission idle gear meshing with the starter driven gear and the power transmitting gear relatively rotatably borne on the main shaft through a running one-way clutch for permitting power transmission to the side of the main shaft is interposed between the starter driven gear and the power transmitting gear. | 14,416 |
8,979,472 | 1. A wind turbine, comprising: an elongated outer housing including an intake portal; a plunger extending along a plunger longitudinal axis in a direction of said elongated outer housing, said plunger being movable in a lateral direction to seal said intake portal; at least one sealable exit vent; and a blade situated between said plunger and said elongated outer housing; wherein: | 18,490 |
9,163,860 | 1. A solar collector module forming a support structure for solar collectors, of the type formed by a lattice bar structure including a central beam, the solar collector module comprising: a central beam or torque box with multi-face polyhedron or cylinder geometry, assembled from several longitudinal sections and each longitudinal section being formed by several plates; a surrounding triangular lattice structure to support a parabolic reflector; wherein the module is prestressed by using a plurality of tension rods increasing the stiffness of the said module; and wherein the tension rods have anchoring points located at the ends of the tension rods, which provide the tension rods with the required prestress; and wherein the tension rods have intermediate points located between the anchoring points, and the intermediate points interact with the triangular lattice structure to maintain a curvature of the tension rods and the tension; and wherein at least one tension rod is located on one side of the torque box. | 387 |
8,867,490 | 1. A method of offloading data from a cellular network to a Wi-Fi network, comprising: receiving a request from a user equipment (UE) to connect to a Wi-Fi network; determining that the UE is a subscriber to a cellular network; determining whether to offload data from the cellular network to the Wi-Fi network based at least in part on a set of offload criteria; obtaining a Home IP Address, wherein the Home IP Address comprises a mobile IP address corresponding to the UE assigned by the cellular network; allocating the Home IP Address to the UE as the UE's IP address for communicating with the UE on the Wi-Fi network; and offloading data from the cellular network to the Wi-Fi network. | 6,734 |
9,610,343 | 1. An immunogenic composition, comprising: one or more live viruses in a powder formulation spray dried from a composition comprising mannitol at 50-100 mg/ml, cyclodextrin at 0.2-1 mg/ml, trehalose at 0.5-5 mg/ml, and dextran at 0.5-5 mg/ml. | 16,794 |
9,706,966 | 1. A method for determining a personalized patient alarm management profile configured to be used when monitoring one or more medical parameters of a patient, the method comprising: providing to a processor at least two profile determinants, wherein the at least two profile determinants comprise a clinical environment of the patient, a background characteristic of the patient, a treatment profile of the patient, or any combination thereof; and determining the personalized patient alarm management profile based on the at least two profile determinants, wherein the personalized patient alarm management profile comprises a contextual threshold value for triggering an alarm, and wherein the contextual threshold value is weighted by an incremental time factor. | 9,333 |
9,790,259 | 1. A bis-met histone polypeptide comprising two methionine residues as first and second N-terminal amino acid residues linked via a peptide bond to a mature eukaryotic H1 histone. | 26,096 |
9,745,454 | 1. A tire, comprising a tire component formed of a vulcanized rubber composition, the vulcanized rubber composition being obtained by vulcanizing an unvulcanized rubber composition, the unvulcanized rubber composition comprising a rubber component, at least one filler including silica, and a silane coupling agent, wherein the rubber component comprises natural rubber, a first styrene-butadiene rubber that has a styrene content of 35% by mass or more, a second styrene-butadiene rubber that has a styrene content of 30% by mass or less, and polybutadiene rubber, an amount of the natural rubber based on 100% by mass of the rubber component being 5 to 30% by mass, an amount of the first styrene-butadiene rubber based on 100% by mass of the rubber component being 20 to 60% by mass, an amount of the second styrene-butadiene rubber based on 100% by mass of the rubber component being 10 to 30% by mass, an amount of the polybutadiene rubber based on 100% by mass of the rubber component being 5 to 30% by mass, and a combined amount of the first styrene-butadiene rubber and the second styrene-butadiene rubber based on 100% by mass of the rubber component being 30 to 80% by mass, an amount of the filler per 100 parts by mass of the rubber component is 60 parts by mass or more, and the silane coupling agent is a compound of Formula (1) wherein p is an integer of 1 to 3, q is an integer of 1 to 5, and k is an integer of 5 to 12, and wherein an amount of the silane coupling agent per 100 parts by mass of the silica is 0.5 to 20 parts by mass. | 41,111 |
8,509,190 | 1. A handheld computing unit comprises: a plurality of user applications and system applications; a femtocell access point, wherein when the handheld computing unit is in a femtocell access point (AP) mode, is operably coupled to: a local wireless interface (LWI) operable to communicate over a wireless local area network (WLAN) and operably coupled to: | 15,599 |
8,662,415 | 1. A pop-up sprinkler, comprising a housing having an inlet opening for a water supply, the housing further having an opening at an operatively upper end, and a flexible membrane having, in a first configuration, a neutral, concave shape that extends from the upper end of the housing, downward to a lower threaded neck, the membrane being concave in an operatively vertical sectional plane, when viewed from the top, when no external force is applied to the membrane, the flexible membrane being deformable between its neutral, first configuration and a second configuration in which a portion of the flexible membrane is bowed upward, the threaded neck defining a site for securing a sprayer head to the membrane, wherein the supply of water via the inlet opening acts on a lower surface of the flexible membrane to cause the flexible membrane to change configuration from its neutral, concave shape in which the sprayer head is in a first, lower position, and its second configuration in which the sprayer head is in a second, upper position, and wherein the neutral, concave shape of the flexible membrane causes the flexible membrane to return to its concave shape when water pressure to the lower surface of the flexible membrane is removed. | 48,649 |
8,638,011 | 1. A method for operating a power manager having a plurality of device ports for connecting with external power devices and a power bus for connecting with each device port comprising the steps of: disconnecting each device port from the power bus when no external power device is connected to the device port by operating a different controllable switch to interrupt each power channel disposed between the device port and the power bus; accessing information from newly connected external power devices; determining if the newly connected external power devices can be connected to the power bus without power conversion; if not, determining if the newly connected external power devices can be connected to the power bus over an available power converter; if so, configuring the available power converter for suitable power conversion, and connecting selected external devices to the power bus by operating a different controllable switch to complete each power channel disposed between device ports associated with the selected external devices and the power bus. | 45,990 |
8,745,287 | 1. A data transfer apparatus comprising: a virtual channel unit configured to time share a serial bus for a first virtual channel and a second virtual channel and include a switching unit configured to control storing of the data received via the first virtual channel in the second receive buffer when the buffering control unit receives the data from another data transfer apparatus which is configured to use only the first virtual channel and the capacity of the first receive buffer provided to store the data is smaller than the capacity of the second receive buffer provided to store the data; and a clock generating unit that generates a clock signal to be supplied to the first receive buffer and the second receive buffer, and wherein the switching unit is configured to block supplying of the clock signal to the first receive buffer when controlling storing of the data received via the first virtual channel in the second receive buffer. | 11,935 |
9,559,588 | 1. A power managing apparatus, having an enable pin used to couple a first level control circuit, the power managing apparatus comprising: a second level control circuit, coupled to the enable pin; and a level detecting circuit, coupled to the enable pin, for detecting a control signal on the enable pin, wherein the control signal is transmitted from the first level control circuit, wherein the control signal has at least three levels according to the operations of the first level control circuit and the second level control circuit, when the level detecting circuit detects that the control signal is at a first level or a second level, the level detecting circuit controls the power managing apparatus operated in a disable state. | 30,265 |
8,903,707 | 1. A method for determining a dropped pronoun from a source language, wherein the method comprises: collecting parallel sentences from a source language and a target language; creating at least one word alignment between the parallel sentences in the source language and the target language; mapping at least one pronoun from the target language sentence onto the source language sentence; computing multiple features from the mapping, wherein the multiple features are extracted from both the source language and the at least one pronoun projected from the target language; using the multiple features to train a plurality of classifiers to predict position and spelling of at least one pronoun in the target language when the at least one pronoun is dropped in the source language; updating the plurality of classifiers based on user feedback provided in response to a prediction of position and spelling of at least one pronoun in the target language when the at least one pronoun is dropped in the source language; providing a graphical user interface to enable a user to select one of the plurality of classifiers to apply to a portion of the source language, wherein said plurality of classifiers are displayed to the user via the graphical user interface for selection and comprise (i) a conditional random field classifier, (ii) a tree-relabeling classifier, and (iii) a maximum entropy classifier; wherein each of said collecting, said, creating, said mapping, said computing, said using, said updating, and said providing is carried out by a computer device. | 23,654 |
8,626,551 | 1. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising: receiving an event scheduling request from a user, wherein the event scheduling request includes one or more parameters of an event; in response to receiving the event scheduling request, associating a disruption factor with each of a plurality of invitees, the disruption factor based upon, at least in part, the one or more parameters of the event and at least one invitee attribute, each disruption factor corresponding to a likelihood that a proposed event time for the event is disruptive to one of the plurality of invitees, wherein associating the disruption factor with each of the plurality of invitees includes associating a weighting factor with each of the plurality of invitees, wherein each required invitee is given full weighting and each optional invitee is given half weighting; displaying a level of the disruption factor for each of the plurality of invitees for the event; receiving an interrogation request relative to the displayed level of the disruption factor of at least one of the plurality of invitees; ascertaining a cause of the disruption factor for at least one of the plurality of invitees for the event, and displaying the cause of the disruption factor with the disruption factor level via a pop-up associated with the at least one of the plurality of invitees; providing a recommendation for reducing the disruption factor of the at least one of the plurality of invitees; and scheduling the event based upon, at least in part, an input from the user and the disruption factors associated with each of the plurality of invitees. | 9,341 |
9,620,980 | 1. A charging system, comprising: a charger configured to be coupled to an external power source with its one end; a plurality of secondary batteries configured to be coupled to the charger, respectively; a control device configured to be coupled to the charger and the plurality of secondary batteries to control the charger to perform a charging operation on the plurality of secondary battery; and a battery grouping unit configured to group the plurality of secondary batteries, so that harmonics of each group of the grouped secondary batteries are reduced or eliminated after superposition. | 14,428 |
9,308,957 | 1. A saddle-type electric vehicle comprising: an electric motor for driving the electric vehicle; a power transmission mechanism for transmitting driving power generated by the electric motor; and a motor unit case including a motor accommodating section for accommodating the electric motor and a transmission mechanism accommodating section for accommodating the power transmission mechanism such that the motor accommodating section and the transmission mechanism accommodating section have a unitary construction; wherein an output shaft of the electric motor extends in a rightward and leftward direction of the vehicle, and one end portion of the output shaft in the rightward and leftward direction is coupled to the power transmission mechanism; wherein the transmission mechanism accommodating section of the motor unit case is fastened at right and left sides to a vehicle body frame, and the motor accommodating section is connected to the transmission mechanism accommodating section in a cantilever state such that the motor accommodating section is joined at one end portion of the right and left sides in the rightward and leftward direction to the transmission mechanism accommodating section and is not joined at another end portion of the right and left sides to the transmission mechanism accommodating section; wherein the electric motor has a cylindrical motor case which is accommodated in the motor accommodating section; wherein the motor case is provided with bearings on wall portions at both ends of the motor case, a rotor is supported between the bearings such that the rotor is rotatable integrally with the output shaft of the electric motor, and a stator of the electric motor which encloses an outer periphery of the rotor is internally fitted to a peripheral wall of the motor case; and wherein the peripheral wall of the motor case has a greater thickness than a peripheral wall of the motor accommodating section which is adjacent to the peripheral wall of the motor case. | 20,823 |
9,512,346 | 1. A method of primary cementing in a subterranean formation comprising: introducing a cement composition comprising nano-hydraulic cementitious particles and water into the subterranean formation, wherein the water is present in an amount between about 33% to about 200% of the cement composition, wherein the nano-hydraulic cementitious particles have a mean particle size of between about 20 nanometers to about 100 nanometers, the nano-hydraulic cementitious particles being selected from the group consisting of a Portland cement, a pozzolanic cement, a gypsum cement, a soil cement, a calcium phosphate cement, a high-alumina content cement, a silica cement, a high-alkalinity cement, and any combination thereof; and allowing the cement composition to set in the subterranean formation by reaction of the nano-hydraulic cementitious particles and the hydraulic cement with the water to form a hardened mass in a space between the subterranean formation and a pipe string. | 10,156 |
9,624,645 | 1. A double-structure bush made of a polymeric composite, the double-structure bush constructed and arranged to be placed between a boss and a pin unit inserted thereinto, and the double-structure bush comprising: a slide layer configured to receive a pin unit, in which the inner circumferential surface of the slide layer is in contact with the pin unit to support rotation of the pin unit; and a load support layer integrally stacked on the outer circumferential surface of the slide layer, configured to be received in a boss, in which the load support layer is in contact with the inner circumferential surface of the boss to support radial load of the pin unit, wherein the slide layer is made of a first polymeric composite comprising (a) a first polymeric matrix, (b) a self-lubricative material, and (c) a first fiber base, and the mixing ratio of the first polymeric matrix, self-lubricative material, and first fiber base is 20 to 22:20 to 55:25 to 30 by weight, and the load support layer is made of a second polymeric composite comprising (a) a second polymeric matrix and (b) a second fiber base, and the mixing ratio of the second polymeric matrix and the second fiber base is 18 to 21:79 to 82 by weight. | 4,507 |
9,573,380 | 1. A liquid discharging apparatus comprising: a liquid discharging unit which discharges liquid to a discharged medium after an initial filling for filling with the liquid; a liquid accommodation portion which is provided with a pouring port through which a user pours the liquid, and which accommodates the liquid; a sensor for detecting whether or not the level of the liquid in the liquid accommodation portion is equal to or greater than a first threshold value; and a control portion which performs the initial filling based on a result of the detection of the sensor, with the initial filling to the liquid discharging unit including a plurality of steps, wherein, in response to the result of the detection by the sensor being less than the first threshold value after one of the steps of the initial filing is performed, the control portion postpones performing of next one of the steps of the initial filing which is intended to be performed next to the one of the steps of the initial filing. | 28,564 |
9,096,674 | 1. An isolated immune complex comprising an antibody fragment and a peptide, wherein: the peptide includes at least a complete prothrombin fragment F2; the carboxy terminus of the complete prothrombin fragment F2 of the peptide is bound to the antibody fragment; the antibody fragment has specificity for a carboxy-terminal neoepitope of the prothrombin fragment F2 and/or fragment F1+2; and wherein the antibody fragment is a fragment of a monoclonal antibody made by hybridoma cell line DSM ACC 2911. | 36,438 |
9,285,174 | 1. A thermal energy system comprising at least two exchanger modules, each exchanger module including i) at least one heat exchanger, ii) at least a first circuit for a first fluid traversing, in a regular mode of operation, through the heat exchanger in a main flow direction, iii) a second circuit for a second fluid for exchanging thermal energy between the first fluid and the second fluid, and iv) at least one pump including a fluid drive device for driving the first fluid in the main flow direction, wherein the drive device is arranged, along the main flow direction, upstream of the at least one heat exchanger, and wherein the system is adapted to connect in series, in a cleaning mode, the first circuits of at least two exchanger modules in a manner such that the first fluid traverses through at least the first circuit of one of the exchanger modules in the main flow direction and traverses through at least the first circuit of another exchanger module in a direction opposite to the main flow direction. | 4,494 |
8,651,816 | 1. A fan blade connection system for connecting at least one composite blade to a rotor hub, the system comprising: an intermediary interface part disposed between a blade root of the blade and the rotor hub; a tensioning member having a first end inserted into the blade root and a second end attached to the intermediary interface part; a fastener element arranged in the blade root and extending substantially transversally to a longitudinal axis of the blade, the fastener element adapted for receiving the first end of the tensioning member in a substantially longitudinal position in relation to said blade and for attaching the tensioning member to the blade root; and a fastener component having a first end attached to the intermediary interface part and a second end connected to the rotor hub, wherein the fastener component extends substantially parallel to the tensioning member; wherein the fastener element and the intermediary interface are each configured to be in direct contact with a portion of the blade root comprising a composite material, and wherein the intermediary interface has a cross-sectional area, in a plane normal to the longitudinal axis of the blade, that is smaller than a cross-sectional area of the portion of the blade root comprising the composite material, in the plane normal to the longitudinal axis of the blade. | 4,495 |
9,069,352 | 1. A process for determining a root cause problem for an out-of-tolerance component manufactured by a plurality of operations performed on the component, the process comprising: providing a manufacturing stream with a plurality of operation stations and a plurality of manufacturing machines with a manufacturing machine at each operation station; passing one or more components through each of the plurality of operation stations such that a manufacturing operation is completed on each of the one or more components and a plurality of manufactured components is produced; providing a virtual database connected to a first subset of the manufacturing machines and not connected to a second subset of the manufacturing machines; providing a gauge station downstream from the plurality of operation stations, the gauge station taking measurements on manufactured components that have passed through the first subset of manufacturing machines and on other manufactured components that have passed through the second subset of manufacturing machines; providing the virtual database with manufacturing data on the manufactured components from each of the first subset of manufacturing machines and measurement data from the gauge station on the other manufactured components that have passed through the second subset of manufacturing machines; providing a data synthesis manager, the data synthesis manager discovering an out-of-tolerance measurement from at least one of the virtual database manufacturing data on at least a subset of the manufactured components that have passed through the first subset of manufacturing machines or the virtual database measurement data on at least another subset of the manufactured components that have sassed through the second subset of manufacturing machines; the data synthesis manager also performing an auto-regression analysis between the out-of-tolerance measurement and the plurality of manufacturing machines using at least one of the virtual database manufacturing data or the virtual database measurement data; and the data synthesis manager also finding a correlation between at least one of the plurality of manufacturing machines and the out-of-tolerance measurement, the correlation identifying at least one manufacturing operation that is the root cause of the out-of-tolerance measurement. | 14,890 |
8,475,333 | 1. Method for operating a powertrain system including a hybrid transmission and an internal combustion engine coupled to an exhaust aftertreatment device, comprising: operating the hybrid transmission to generate tractive torque responsive to an operator torque request with the internal combustion engine in an engine-off state so long as the tractive torque is less than a threshold; operating the internal combustion engine in an engine-on state at preferred operating conditions to effect light-off of the exhaust aftertreatment device and coincidentally operating the hybrid transmission to generate tractive torque responsive to the operator torque request when the operator torque request exceeds the threshold; and then operating the internal combustion engine in the engine-on state to generate tractive torque responsive to the operator torque request. | 24,607 |
8,879,096 | 1. An information processing device comprising: a data generating section for generating compatible format data of application data that is generated on the basis of an application program; a searching section for searching, when the data generating section is instructed to generate the compatible format data, for at least one image output device connected to a network and capable of printing out the compatible format data, wherein the compatible format data of the application data is printable even by an image output device whose printer driver has not been installed in the information processing device, wherein the searching section further obtains, when the searching of the at least one image output device capable of printing out the compatible format data is carried out, information on at least one output process which is other than printing and in which the compatible format data can be used; a disclosing section for disclosing the at least one image output device, which has been searched by the searching section, wherein the disclosing section further discloses the obtained information on the at least one output process which is other than printing; a receiving section for receiving (i) a selection of an image output device, out of the at least one image output device, to which the compatible format data is transmitted, (ii) input of a condition for printing, and (iii) an instruction for execution, wherein the receiving section further receives (a) a selection of an output process other than printing out of the at least one output process, (b) input of a condition for the output process, and (c) an instruction for execution; and a command generating section for generating, when the receiving section receives the instruction for execution, a command for causing the printing to be executed in accordance with the received condition for the printing, wherein the command generating section further generates, when the receiving section receives the instruction for the execution, a command for causing a selected output process to be executed in accordance with the received condition for the output process. | 44,354 |
9,295,118 | 1. A method for operating a circuit configuration which includes a power source, a light diode field switched serially with the power source in which the light diode field comprises at least two serial circuits which include at least one light diode and a controllable switch, a control regulation means for the light diode field, and a voltage sensor, the method comprising the steps of: controlling the controllable switches and the power source with the control regulating means, wherein the control regulation means addresses the controllable switch of at least one serial circuit of the light diode field during a clock cycle for a pulse duration determined by the control regulation means using a control pulse at the control input of the controllable switch for closing, and wherein the control regulation means address the power source shortly before or at the latest simultaneous with the end of the pulse duration such that the power is reduced, namely by the amount of current through the serial circuit, with its controllable switch at the end of the pulse duration being addressed by the control regulation means for opening, and wherein during subsequent clock cycles the control regulation means address exclusively one of the controllable switches of the serial circuits for a period identified as diagnostics period for closing. | 45,059 |
9,089,797 | 1. A feed delivery system for use with a froth separation unit, the system comprising: at least one feed delivery pipe for delivering and conditioning the feed into the froth separation unit through one or more side inlets in a side wall of the froth separation unit; and a flow conditioning system, within the at least one pipe, for flow conditioning solvent-treated bitumen froth to a side-inlet Richardson number of equal to or greater than 1.0, the froth comprising bitumen, water, precipitated asphaltene aggregates, and mineral solids; wherein the flow conditioning system comprises a perforated sparger and a perforated plate, the perforated sparger being upstream of the perforated plate. | 20,611 |
9,328,501 | 1. A mechanical secured block building system for constructing structures with concrete masonry units, the system comprising: (a) a masonry unit, the masonry unit being made of concrete and comprising: a masonry longitudinal length, a masonry width measured perpendicularly to the masonry longitudinal length, wherein the masonry width which is substantially one half the longitudinal length and which is substantially uniform along the masonry longitudinal length, a masonry top surface, the masonry top surface being substantially planar, a masonry bottom surface, the masonry bottom surface being substantially planar, a masonry height which is substantially one half the longitudinal length and which is measured between the masonry top and masonry bottom surfaces, the masonry height being substantially uniform along the masonry longitudinal length, a first through-cavity formed through the masonry unit from the top surface to the bottom surface, a second through-cavity formed through the masonry unit from the top surface to the bottom surface, a third through-cavity formed through the masonry unit from the top surface to the bottom surface, and an anchor bar recessed channel formed in the masonry top surface and oriented substantially along the masonry longitudinal length; (b) an anchor bar, the anchor bar comprising: (c) a fastener, the fastener comprising: whereby the mechanical secured block building system can be assembled in unique ways due to a cube effect of the masonry block to construct multiple width walls, grade beams, and horizontal decks. | 13,994 |
9,237,305 | 1. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a video conferencing application for execution by a first electronic device, the video conferencing application for conducting a video conference between the first electronic device and a second electronic device, the video conferencing application comprising sets of instructions for: in a first display area, presenting a video captured by the first electronic device prior to initiating a video conference; in a partially transparent second display area that is superimposed on a portion of the video in the first display area, presenting a set of selectable items representing a set of contacts for the video conferencing application, wherein the portion of the video presented in the first display area remains partially visible under the second display area; and upon receiving selection of a particular selectable item in the partially transparent second display area, initiating a video conference with the second electronic device corresponding to a contact represented by the particular selectable item. | 37,587 |
9,382,593 | 1. A continuous or a semi-continuous process for treating biomass comprising: (a) providing a biomass containing polysaccharides; (b) contacting the biomass with a solution containing at least one α-hydroxysulfonic acid at a temperature within the range of about 50 ° C. to about 150° C. and a pressure within the range of 1 barg to about 10 barg to provide a biomass solution, wherein said biomass solution contains in the range of about 1 wt % to about 25 wt % of biomass based on the solution, and thereby hydrolyzing the biomass to produce at least one fermentable sugar containing product; (c) removing at least a portion of the α-hydroxysulfonic acid in its component form from the product by heating and/or reducing pressure to produce an acid-removed product containing at least one fermentable sugar; (d) separating a high solids/liquid mixture from said acid-removed product to form a wet solids stream containing at least 12 wt % undissolved solids based on wet solids stream, and a bulk liquid stream containing fermentable sugar; (e) recycling said removed α-hydroxysulfonic acid to step (b) as components or in its recombined form; and (f) recycling at least a portion of the bulk liquid stream to step (b); wherein the bulk liquid stream comprise greater than about 2 wt % of the fermentable sugar based on the bulk liquid stream. | 36,564 |
8,731,656 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a therapy adjustment from a user, wherein the therapy adjustment received from the user comprises an adjustment of a value of at least one parameter of a therapy delivered to a patient by a medical device; determining a value of a patient parameter in response to the receipt of the therapy adjustment from the user, wherein the patient parameter is sensed via a sensor and is indicative of at least one of patient posture or patient activity; updating a table in response to the receipt of the therapy adjustment, the table comprising a plurality of records stored in a data structure, each record of the plurality comprising at least one value of the patient parameter and associated therapy information, the therapy information including the at least one parameter, wherein updating the table comprises associating the value of the patient parameter with the value of the at least one parameter; and delivering the therapy to the patient via the medical device, wherein the therapy is delivered according to a respective record of the plurality of records that is associated with a currently sensed value of the patient parameter, wherein receiving, determining, updating, and delivering are performed using one or more processors. | 12,556 |
9,748,608 | 1. A secondary battery, comprising an electrode element comprising a positive electrode and a negative electrode placed opposite to each other, an electrolyte, and an outer package housing the electrode element and the electrolyte; wherein the negative electrode is formed by binding a negative electrode active material, which comprises a metal (a) capable of being alloyed with lithium, a metal oxide (b) capable of intercalating/deintercalating lithium ions, and a carbon material (c) capable of intercalating/deintercalating lithium ions, to a negative electrode current collector with a negative electrode binder; and the electrolyte comprises a lithium salt dissolved in a solvent comprising 65 vol % or more of a phosphate ester compound, and more than 0 vol % and less than 20 vol % of a fluorinated carbonate compound. | 32,744 |
9,510,153 | 1. A mobile electronic device, comprising: an acceleration sensor configured to detect an acceleration; a communication module configured to perform communication; and a controller wherein the communication module includes an access point communication module configured to perform communication via an access point, the mobile electronic device further comprises a base station communication module configured to perform communication via a base station, and when the communication function of the access point communication module is turned OFF, the controller switches from communication using the access point communication module to communication using the base station communication module. | 27,264 |
9,090,603 | 1. A compound represented by structural formula (VI): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, clathrate, or prodrug thereof, wherein: one of R k or R 1 is —H and the other is represented by the following formula: the dashed line indicates that the bond is a single bond or a double bond; X X R R R R R R R R R R R p is 1 or 2. | 17,235 |
8,475,766 | 1. A method of obtaining a dual-specificity antibody, or antigen-binding portion thereof, that specifically binds two different proteins that are members of the IL-1 cytokine family, the method comprising: providing an antigen which is a hybrid peptide, wherein said hybrid peptide has a structure X-Y-Z, wherein Y represents an overlapping region that is common to the two different proteins that are members of the IL-1 cytokine family, X represents a region from one of the two proteins that is a member of the IL-1 cytokine family and Z represents a region from the other of the two proteins that is a member of the IL-1 cytokine family; exposing an antibody repertoire to the antigen; and selecting from the repertoire an antibody that specifically binds the two different proteins that are members of the IL-1 cytokine family to thereby obtain the dual specificity antibody. | 23,895 |
9,158,044 | 1. An optical film comprising an optically-transparent substrate, and a low refractive index layer having a thickness d on one side of the optically-transparent substrate, wherein the low refractive index layer comprises hollow particles having a refractive index from 1.20 to 1.40 and having an average primary particle diameter of 10 to 100 nm, and solid particles having a refractive index from 1.42 to 1.46 and having a dispersion average particle diameter of a value which is in the range from 1 to 20 nm and a half or less of the thickness d, wherein a ratio of the average primary particle diameter of the hollow particles and the dispersion average particle diameter of the solid particles (average primary particle diameter/dispersion average particle diameter) is 2.0 or more; and in an area of a cross-sectional surface of the low refractive index layer in a thickness direction with a width of 500 nm in a plane direction of the low refractive index layer, at least one of the hollow particles is covered with a cured resin of the low refractive index layer and allowed to contact with an interface on a side opposite to an optically-transparent substrate side of the low refractive index layer, and the solid particles occupy 50% or more of the interface excluding a part in which the hollow particles are in contact with and are eccentrically located from the interlace to the depth which is twice the dispersion average particle diameter of the solid particles in the thickness direction, and a maximum height (Ry) defined by JIS B 0601-1998 of the interface is 0.050 μm or less. | 9,330 |
9,681,361 | 1. A wireless transmission system comprising: a transmission apparatus that transmits a wireless signal indicative of a vehicle parameter; and a mobile computing device having an input device for accepting user input and a wireless transceiver configured to receive the wireless signal, the mobile computing device including a processor that communicates with the wireless transceiver and the input device, the processor being configured to run an application that disables the input device if the vehicle parameter exceeds a threshold, the processor being further configured to detect if the application is disabled, wherein the processor sends an alert if the application is disabled. | 6,788 |
8,753,404 | 1. A hip prosthesis, comprising: a shell having an outer surface configured to engage acetabular tissue, the outer surface transitioning to a portal surface, and an inner surface forming a shell cavity; a liner disposed within the shell cavity; a non-split locking ring disposed within the shell, wherein in use a diameter of the locking ring is smaller than the largest diameter of a femoral head sized to articulate with the liner; and wherein the locking ring comprises a portal surface, at least a portion of which portal surface of the locking ring is coplanar with the portal surface of the shell; and a retainer for securing the locking ring and the shell, wherein the retainer is capturable in respective grooves formed in the shell and the locking ring, and wherein an access formed in the shell portal surface provides access to the retainer. | 2,873 |
9,447,356 | 1. A diesel fuel composition having a derived cetane number of 40 or greater comprising a diesel base fuel and at least one dihydrocarbyl diazene dicarboxamide. | 5,247 |
9,578,600 | 1. A method for determining whether an enhanced physical downlink control channel (ePDCCH) transmission exists for a user equipment (UE) in a subframe, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, at the UE, a transmission on physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) resources of the subframe; extracting downlink control information (DCI) from the PDCCH resources, the DCI comprising at least one bit indicating whether the ePDCCH transmission exists for the UE in the subframe; determining, at the UE, whether the ePDCCH transmission exists using the at least one bit; and buffering and decoding additional symbols of the subframe when the ePDCCH transmission exists, wherein the at least one bit comprises two bits indicating one of absence of the ePDCCH transmission for the UE, presence of the ePDCCH transmission carrying an uplink assignment or power control information for the UE, and presence of the ePDCCH transmission carrying a downlink assignment for the UE, and wherein, when the two bits indicate the presence of the ePDCCH transmission carrying the uplink assignment or power control information, buffering and decoding the additional symbols comprises: buffering and decoding only resources corresponding to the ePDCCH transmission for the UE; and ignoring remaining physical resource blocks (PRBs) of the subframe. | 40,685 |
8,539,499 | 1. A computer system comprising: a processor; one or more deprivileged Virtual Machines (VM), wherein each of the one or more deprivileged VMs have a guest operating system, and are running under control of a corresponding Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM); each of the corresponding VMM is controlled by a corresponding hyperswitch inside a Hypervisor, wherein the Hypervisor controls a plurality of virtualization spaces, each of the plurality of virtualization spaces contain the corresponding VMM; a primary operating system (OS) having access to at least some hardware resources of the computer system and the Hypervisor controlling at least some of the remaining hardware resources; each of the virtualization space maintaining data of the corresponding instance of the deprivileged VM and each of the VM executing atomic and non-atomic instructions and being associated with at least one virtual processor that runs under control of its corresponding VMM; the Hypervisor containing a scheduling routine and one or more hyperswitches, wherein each of the one or more hyperswitches correspond to each of the one or more VMs; a Virtual CPU (VCPU) worker thread that runs under control of the primary OS and receives a time quantum from the primary OS without intervention from the one or more VMs, wherein the time quantum is a duration of time that the VM can execute; upon receiving the time quantum, the VCPU calls the scheduling routine inside the Hypervisor, wherein the scheduling routine upon receiving the call from the VCPU, looks ahead to a control list and determines a VM from the one or more VMs that will be executed during the duration of the time quantum using a scheduling policy that is any of: priority based, weight based, bursting limit or quarantine condition; the scheduling routine invokes the corresponding hyperswitch of the determined VM; the corresponding hyperswitch invoked by the scheduling routine redirects the time quantum to the VMM that controls the VM; the VM starts execution under the control of the VMM for the duration of the time quantum, wherein the VM executes atomic and non-atomic instructions; wherein for each executed non-atomic instruction, calculates a new value and updates a random access memory location, the Hypervisor checks if an original value in the random access memory location had changed during execution of the non-atomic instruction, and only when the original value has changed, the non-atomic instruction is rolled back to recalculate the new value using the changed value and then stores it in the random access memory location, and does not recalculate the new value when the original value has not changed. | 4,942 |
9,780,260 | 1. A semiconductor light emitting device comprising: a substrate; a base layer made of a semiconductor of a first conductivity type and disposed on the substrate; a plurality of nanoscale light emitting units spaced apart from each other on an upper surface of the base layer, each of the plurality of nanoscale light emitting units including: a plurality of light emitting laminate segments respectively disposed in spaces between adjacent nanoscale light emitting units of the plurality of nanoscale light emitting units on the upper surface of the base layer, each of the plurality of light emitting laminate segments comprising a laminated active layer, wherein a first composition of the nano-active layer of each of the plurality of nanoscale light emitting units is different from a second composition of the laminated active layer of each of the plurality of light emitting laminate segments. | 49,945 |
8,452,205 | 1. An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a sheet, comprising: a pair of panels which constitute a main body skeletal structure of the image forming apparatus and face each other; a plurality of main body skeletal structure shafts which connects between the pair of panels and are fixed to each of the pair of panels; and a unit which is installed between the pair of panels and needs positioning based on the plurality of main body skeletal structure shafts, wherein an exposed section is provided on each of the plurality of main body skeletal structure shafts and serves as a measuring reference position for a measuring instrument when a positional relationship between each of the plurality of main body skeletal structure shafts and the unit is measured by use of the measuring instrument after completing assembling of the image forming apparatus. | 48,920 |
9,838,645 | 1. A method of monitoring usage of a patient medical support system, comprising: providing a patient with a patient medical support system, the patient medical support system including: receiving the first usage data signal at the monitoring location; receiving the second usage data signal at the monitoring location; receiving the identification data signal at the monitoring location; determining at least one user identification associated with a user of the patient medical support system based at least in part on the identification data signal; determining a first amount of usage of the at least one article of medical equipment based at least in part on the first usage data signal during a first time period; determining a second amount of usage of the at least one article of medical equipment during a second time period based at least in part on the second usage data signal; retrieving at least one base rate, a first unit rate for usage of the at least one article of medical equipment in the first operational mode, and a second unit rate for usage of the at least one article of medical equipment in the second operational mode from a database in a data storage system; and determining a monetary value of the usage of the at least one article of medical equipment based at least in part on the first amount of usage and at least in part on the second amount of usage of the at least one article of medical equipment by multiplying the first amount of usage and the first unit rate to obtain a first value, multiplying the second amount of usage and the second unit rate to obtain a second value, and summing the at least one base rate the first value and the second value. | 7,481 |
8,341,841 | 1. A method for machining components of a gas turbine comprising: providing at least one component carrier having at least one component receptacle for detachable accommodation and fastening of a component that is to be machined, the component receptacle having a contour resembling at least one contour of a subarea of the component to be accommodated; introducing the at least one subarea of the component into the component receptacle by form-fitting and/or substance-to-substance bonding of the subarea of the component to the component receptacle, the form-fitting and/or substance-to-substance bonding being performed by adhesively bonding the subarea to the component receptacle; machining the component joined to the component carrier; and releasing the machined component from the component carrier. | 40,402 |
9,788,201 | 1. Apparatus for user equipment (UE) to facilitate coordinated selected internet protocol (IP) traffic offload (CSIPTO) in an evolved packet core (EPC) network, the apparatus comprising circuitry configured to: establish, through a radio access network (RAN), a first packet data network (PDN) connection between the UE and a first PDN gateway (PGW) in the EPC network for wireless communication of a first IP flow requiring IP address preservation; and request, while maintaining the first PDN connection for the first IP flow, a second PDN connection between the UE and a second PGW in the EPC network for wireless communication of a second IP flow having a same communication service type as that of the first IP flow so as to cause a mobility management entity (MME) of the EPC network to invoke CSIPTO to establish, while preserving the IP address associated with the first IP flow, the second PDN connection to the second PGW that is geographically separated from the first PGW, in which the UE maintains the IP address as a first IP address associated with the first PDN connection and a second IP address associated with the second PDN connection. | 35,730 |
9,447,660 | 1. A subsea containment system for capturing fluids leaking from a subsea well having an upper end including a primary conductor extending into the sea bed, an outer wellhead housing coupled to the primary conductor, and an inner wellhead housing mounted to the outer wellhead housing, the system comprising: a clamping assembly including an annular clamp body configured to be disposed about the upper end of the well and a fluid outlet extending from the clamp body, wherein the fluid outlet is in fluid communication with an inner cavity of the clamp body; wherein the clamp body has a central axis, an upper end, and a lower end, and wherein the clamp body includes: wherein the upper annular seal assembly is configured to sealingly engage the inner wellhead housing; wherein the lower annular seal assembly is configured to sealingly engage the primary conductor; and wherein the inner cavity is sized to receive the outer wellhead housing with the clamp body disposed about the outer wellhead housing; and a storage system coupled to the fluid outlet of the clamping assembly, wherein the storage system includes a first storage tank having an inlet in fluid communication with the inner cavity of the clamp body and a plurality of vertically spaced outlets. | 49,420 |
9,270,191 | 1. A power conditioning unit with maximum power point tracking (MPPT), for delivering power from a dc power source to an ac mains power supply output, the power conditioning unit comprising: an input for receiving power from said dc power source; an output for delivering ac power to said ac mains power supply; an energy storage capacitor for storing energy from said dc power source for delivering to said ac mains power supply output; a dc-to-ac converter coupled to said output for converting energy stored in said energy storage capacitor to ac power for said ac mains power supply output; and a power injection control block having a sense input coupled to said energy storage capacitor and having an output coupled to said dc-to-ac converter, to control said dc-to-ac converter to control power injected into said ac mains power supply, wherein, in operation, a voltage on said energy storage capacitor has a sinusoidal voltage component at twice a frequency of said ac mains, wherein said power injection control block is configured for controlling an amplitude of an ac current provided to said ac mains power supply output such that an amount of power transferred to said ac mains power supply output is dependent on an amplitude of said sinusoidal voltage component on said energy storage capacitor, and wherein said power injection control block is configured to track a maximum power point of said dc power source by controlling said dc-to-ac converter. | 14,943 |
9,149,901 | 1. A method of polishing a diamond-surface by: using a polishing member that has a linear, belt-like or rod-like shape and has a polishing surface that is one of: polishing the diamond-surface with said polishing member by bringing into direct contact with one another the polishing surface and the diamond-surface and while continuously or intermittently varying the polishing surface of said polishing member; and heating said polishing member and/or said the diamond-surface prior to polishing with said polishing member, wherein the metal-surface that easily reacts with carbon is made of a simple metal selected from a group consisting of Zr, Ta, Ti, W, Nb or Al, and wherein the carburizing metal surface is made of a simple metal selected from a group consisting of Fe, Ni or Co. | 1,226 |
9,786,504 | 1. A method, comprising: forming a first material layer over a first substrate; forming a photoresist layer on the first material layer, wherein the photoresist layer includes at least one island portion and a spacing laterally surrounding the at least one island portion; trimming the at least one island portion of the photoresist layer to enlarge the spacing; forming a second material layer in the enlarged spacing and surrounding the trimmed at least one island portion of the photoresist layer, the second material layer completely filling the enlarged spacing; removing the trimmed at least one island portion of the photoresist layer to form a first opening in the second material layer and expose a portion of the first material layer; and removing the exposed portion of the first material layer through the first opening to form a second opening in the first material layer. | 16,788 |
8,885,836 | 1. A method for decorrelating an input audio signal that comprises: filtering the input audio signal according to a first impulse response in a first frequency subband to generate a first subband signal that represents the input audio signal in the first frequency subband with a frequency-dependent change in phase having a bimodal distribution in frequency with peaks substantially equal to positive and negative ninety-degrees, and according to a second impulse response in a second frequency subband to generate a second subband signal that represents the input audio signal in the second frequency subband with a frequency-dependent delay, wherein: generating an output signal that represents a combination of the first subband signal and the second subband signal, and has a measure of mathematical correlation with the input audio signal that varies over frequency and has averages across perceptual subbands that are closer to zero than averages across narrower bandwidths. | 1,938 |
9,257,769 | 1. A contact element that is formed by pressworking a metal plate, and is configured to be mounted on a contact, the contact element comprising: a plurality of linking portions that extend parallel to each other with a fixed spacing therebetween; first and second beam portions that extend in a manner bridging between said linking portions, wherein the first and second beam portions are arranged at a predetermined pitch in an alternating manner; a first contact portion that is continuous with a first beam portion, and is brought into contact with the contact; a second contact portion that is continuous with said first beam portion, and is brought into contact with a mating contact to which the contact is connectable; a third contact portion that is continuous with a second beam portion, and is brought into contact with the contact; and a fourth contact portion that is continuous with said second beam portion, and is brought into contact with the mating contact, wherein said first and third contact portions protrude in a first direction parallel to an arranging direction of said first and second beam portions, wherein said second and fourth contact portions protrude in a second direction opposite to the first direction, wherein said first and second beam portions are twisted, whereby said first and third contact portions protrude in a third direction parallel to a thickness direction of said linking portions, and said second and fourth contact portions protrude in a fourth direction opposite to the third direction, wherein said second and fourth contact portions are displaced from each other in an orthogonal direction orthogonal to the arranging direction and the thickness direction, wherein when the metal plate is blanked, said first and fourth contact portions are displaced from each other in a longitudinal direction of said first and second beam portions, wherein when the metal plate is blanked, said second and third contact portions are displaced from each other in the longitudinal direction of said first and second beam portions, and wherein a pitch of said first and second beam portions is less than a spacing between an end of said first contact portion and an end of said second contact portion, and less than a spacing between an end of said third contact portion and an end of said fourth contact portion. | 14,072 |
9,469,209 | 1. A vehicular power reception device for receiving electric power from a power source outside a vehicle, comprising: a first power reception unit receiving the electric power from said power source via a power line; a second power reception unit receiving the electric power from said power source in a non-contact manner; a first communication unit for communicating first information about power reception by said first power reception unit with an outside of the vehicle: a second communication unit for communicating second information about power reception by said second power reception unit with the outside of the vehicle; and, a control unit controlling said first and second communication units, when power reception from said power source is performed using both of said first and second power reception units, to communicate common information with the outside of the vehicle using only one of said first and second communication units, said common information being information in common with each other in information contained in said first information and information contained in said second information. | 28,146 |
9,726,155 | 1. A solar receiver system comprising: a low pressure fluid chamber comprising a fluid inlet, a fluid outlet, and an opening for receiving concentrated solar radiation; a solar absorber housed within the low pressure fluid chamber; a transparent object that defines at least a portion of a wall of the low pressure fluid chamber; a gas turbine having an inlet and an exhaust outlet; a first fluidic pathway fluidically connected to the fluid outlet of the low pressure fluid chamber; and a second fluidic pathway positioned to receive heat transferred from the first fluidic pathway, the second fluidic pathway being connected to the inlet of the gas turbine; wherein the fluid inlet of the low pressure fluid chamber is fluidically connected with the exhaust outlet of the gas turbine via one or more conduits to receive a substantially uncompressed fluid having a pressure of between 0.9 and 1.1 ATM into the low pressure fluid chamber; and wherein concentrated solar radiation received through the opening passes through the transparent object into the low pressure fluid chamber and impinges upon the solar absorber, and wherein the low pressure fluid chamber defines a fluid flow path from the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet, wherein, between the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet, the fluid flow path extends across at least a portion of the transparent object and through one or more passages within the solar absorber. | 6,494 |
9,268,902 | 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 at least one coronary artery emanating from an aorta; create a three-dimensional model representing at least the portion of the at least one coronary artery using the received patient-specific image data; determine a blood flow model defining the flow of blood through the three-dimensional model representing at least the portion of the at least one coronary artery; calculate one or more values of a blood flow characteristic within the portion of the at least one coronary artery using by modeling blood flow through the three-dimensional model using the determined blood flow model, where the blood flow model is a function of the three-dimensional model; calculate at least one of: (i) a risk of plaque rupture within the portion of the at least one coronary artery using the modeled blood flow through the three-dimensional model and the one or more calculated values of the blood flow characteristic, and (ii) a risk of perfusion deficit within at least a portion of the anatomical structure of the patient using the modeled blood flow through the three-dimensional model and the one or more calculated values of the blood flow characteristic; and display on the three-dimensional model representing at least the portion of the at least one coronary artery, a visual representation associated with at least one of: (i) the calculated risk of plaque rupture within the portion of the at least one coronary artery, and (ii) the calculated risk of perfusion deficit within at least the portion of the anatomical structure. | 17,483 |
9,374,433 | 1. A mobile terminal comprising: a touch screen configured to receive an input of a terminal user; a transceiver configured to receive presence information including at least one communication type supported by a terminal of another party via a communication network; a memory configured to store the received presence information and information of the other party; and a controller configured to: | 29,554 |
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