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8,376,160 | 1. A key retainer for a railway car coupler key, comprising: a retainer guide having an open end, a closed end, and two opposed sides extending from the closed end defining a slot; the retainer guide having two opposed flanges, each of said opposed flanges having a through hole, and said through holes being vertically aligned; a key stop inserted in the open end of the retainer guide and slidable within the retainer guide to a position abutting the closed end of the retainer guide; the key stop having a flange having a through hole, said through hole on the key stop being vertically aligned with the through holes on the opposed flanges on the retainer guide when the key stop is abutting the closed end of the retainer guide; and a locking member received in said through holes in the flanges of the retainer guide and key stop to secure the key stop in the retainer guide; wherein, the retainer guide is adapted to be mounted on the outside of a railway car sill having a cutout at one end exposing at least a portion of a key slot on a yoke, so that at least a portion of said retainer guide is aligned with at least a portion of the cutout on the sill, and the locking member does not experience load when a lateral load is applied to the coupler key during normal operation of the railway car. | 21,404 |
9,294,039 | 1. A bias circuit, for providing a bias signal at a bias output connection, the bias circuit connected to a first power supply connection and to a second power supply connection, the bias circuit comprising: a current mirror, comprising a common terminal connected to the first power supply connection, a first current-carrying terminal and a second current-carrying terminal, the current mirror configured to source or sink a current, at the first current-carrying terminal, substantially equal to a current flowing out of or into the second current-carrying terminal; a first amplifying element; a second amplifying element; and a resistor, each of the first amplifying element and the second amplifying element comprising a first current-carrying terminal, a second current-carrying terminal and a control terminal, the first current-carrying terminal of the first amplifying element being connected to the first current-carrying terminal of the current mirror, the second current-carrying terminal of the first amplifying element being connected to the second power supply connection, a first terminal of the resistor being connected to the second current-carrying terminal of the current mirror, a second terminal of the resistor being connected to the first current-carrying terminal of the second amplifying element, the second current-carrying terminal of the second amplifying element being connected to the second power supply connection, the control terminal of the first amplifying element being connected to the first terminal of the resistor and to the bias output connection, and the control terminal of the second amplifying element being connected to the second terminal of the resistor. | 28,329 |
8,657,529 | 1. A method for planarizing unevenness which is an uneven surface of a seabed when installing submarine cables, tubes or pipelines, comprising the steps of: installing a plurality of bag-shaped filter units, each containing predetermined block objects, on said unevenness, an entirety of the installed plurality of bag-shaped filter units forming an uppermost surface adjacent the uneven surface of the seabed; leveling the installed said plurality of bag-shaped filter units so that the uppermost surface formed by the installed said plurality of bag-shaped filter units becomes flush with said seabed adjacent to the uneven surface, and installing submarine cables, tubes or pipelines on said flush seabed. | 6,638 |
9,084,968 | 1. An after treatment device of an engine, which includes a urea solution injection section configured to inject a urea solution to exhaust gas, which is discharged from a combustion chamber of the engine to the outside through an exhaust pipe, a nitrogen oxide treatment section configured to convert nitrogen oxide (NOx) in the exhaust gas, which is mixed with the urea solution which is injected from the urea solution injection section, into harmless water (H 2 O) and nitrogen (N 2 ), and an OC (oxidation catalyst) configured to reduce hydrocarbon (HC) and carbon monoxide (CO) in the exhaust gas which is discharged from the nitrogen oxide treatment section, the after treatment device comprising: a discharge gas control unit configured to distribute and supply the exhaust gas, which is discharged from the combustion chamber of the engine to the outside, to a first treatment path and a second treatment path at a uniform ratio in accordance with a concentration level of the nitrogen oxide (NOx) in the exhaust gas which is discharged from the combustion chamber of the engine to the outside. | 11,523 |
8,881,934 | 1. An adapter plate of a storage module adapter assembly for a modular container comprising: first and second longitudinal frame members each having generally horizontal flange members at a top portion thereof; and the first longitudinal frame member having a first height, and the second longitudinal frame member having a second height such that when two adapter plates are positioned adjacent to each other, the respective generally horizontal flange members of the two adapter plates overlap to enable connection of the two adapter plates together with the flange members in nested relationship. | 28,241 |
9,236,598 | 1. An electrode, comprising: a rectangular solid metallic frame having a solid metallic edge; a plurality of layers of carbon nano tubes wrapped on said solid metallic edge; and said plurality of layers of carbon nano tubes bonded to said solid metallic edge by a bonding agent. | 43,096 |
9,157,432 | 1. A compression apparatus comprising: a compressor main body that houses a rotor to be rotatively driven; an intake channel connected to an intake port of the compressor main body; a suction adjusting valve disposed in the intake channel; a discharge channel connected to a discharge port of the compressor main body; a discharge pressure sensor disposed in the discharge channel; a revolution speed controlling unit that causes the rotor to have a revolution speed matched to a set number of revolutions; a valve controlling unit that controls, based on a discharge pressure detected by the discharge pressure sensor, the suction adjusting valve in such a manner that a pressure of the discharge channel is maintained at a set pressure, and a controller that determines the set number of revolutions and sends the set number of revolutions to the revolution speed controlling unit, and determines the set pressure to send the set pressure to the valve controlling unit, wherein; the controller stores a plurality of service conditions, each of which consists of a pair consisting of a value of the set number of revolutions and a value of the set pressure, and determines the set number of revolutions and the set pressure in accordance with a service condition selected from among the plurality of service conditions. | 9,406 |
9,415,852 | 1. An aircraft, of the powered airship type with at least partial buoyancy, comprising: an external envelope having a shape defined by a rounded upper portion and a substantially flat bottom face, said shape designed to produce, under the effect of the relative wind, an overall resultant downward force, when said airship is in a horizontal attitude and is distant from the ground by less than a specified distance, with an overall nose-down torque; one or more elevators located forward of a centre of aerodynamic drag of the aircraft and arranged to produce, under the effect of the relative wind, a nose-up angle sufficient to produce an upward lifting force capable of reducing or cancelling said overall resultant downward force and said overall nose-down torque; a mooring station located under the external envelope, the mooring station including a rigid descent well supporting the aircraft; and an anchoring device including connecting means and a punch ending in a pointed or tapered portion, the punch movable between: wherein said connecting means are configured to allow the punch to rotate about a horizontal axis which is perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the aircraft. | 37,561 |
9,120,072 | 1. An ammonia detoxification device comprising: an electric heater; an ammonia decomposition chamber that receives gas to be treated containing ammonia, and thermally decomposes the ammonia in the absence of oxygen by heat from the electric heater; a thermally decomposed gas burning chamber that receives the gas to be treated containing nitrogen and hydrogen generated by thermal decomposition of the ammonia discharged from the ammonia decomposition chamber; air supplying means that supplies air for burning the hydrogen from outside to the thermally decomposed gas burning chamber; wherein the gas to be treated containing ammonia further contains an oxidizable substance that turns into powder when oxidized, the ammonia detoxification device has a casing including an outer casing having an internal space, and an inner casing in the shape of a cylinder with a bottom disposed in the internal space of the outer casing in a condition that a top end thereof is spaced from a ceiling inner face of the outer casing, the ammonia decomposition chamber is formed in an internal space of the inner casing, the thermally decomposed gas burning chamber is formed between an outer face of the inner casing and an inner face of the outer casing, the air supplying means includes first air supplying means that supplies the thermally decomposed gas burning chamber with air in an amount required for burning and oxidizing the hydrogen and the oxidizable substance contained in the gas to be treated from the ammonia decomposition chamber, and second air supplying means that supplies the thermally decomposed gas burning chamber on the downstream side of the first air supplying means with air for decreasing the temperature of the gas to be treated to be discharged from the thermally decomposed gas burning chamber the amount of the air supplied from the first air supplying means is set smaller than a theoretical air amount so that the temperature of the thermally decomposed gas burning chamber is lower than temperatures at which nitrogen oxides are generated, and the amount of the air supplied from the second air supplying means is adjusted to decrease the temperature of the gas to be treated to be discharged from the thermally decomposed gas burning chamber, and to burn and oxidize the hydrogen and the oxidizable substance that have not been burned or oxidized by the air from the first air supplying means. | 27,083 |
9,465,064 | 1. A wireless power transfer system, comprising: a power source comprising at least one resonator; a power receiver comprising at least one resonator, wherein the power receiver is configured to receive electrical power transmitted wirelessly by the power source; a first detector comprising one or more loops of conductive material, wherein the first detector is configured to generate an electrical signal based on a magnetic field between the power source and the power receiver; a second detector comprising conductive material; and control electronics coupled to the first and second detectors, wherein during operation of the system, the control electronics are configured to: | 47,111 |
8,707,656 | 1. A tower for a wind power installation, the tower comprising: a wall extending from a foundation in an upwards direction towards a nacelle and defining an enclosed space; a safety blanket distended across the tower interior along an inner surface of the wall to thereby split the enclosed space into an upper compartment above the blanket and a lower compartment below the blanket, wherein the safety blanket is flexible, wherein the safety blanket comprises a central part and a rim extending circumferentially about the central part, and wherein a bending stiffness of the rim is larger than a bending stiffness of the central part; and a fixation structure attached to the inner surface of the wall and further attached to the safety blanket to couple the safety blanket to the wall, wherein the fixation structure acts on the safety blanket at locations offset from the rim. | 27,094 |
9,070,923 | 1. An electric vehicle battery attaching/detaching device comprising: a battery mounting unit formed on an electric vehicle and adapted to detachably mount a battery; a loader having a plurality of battery stands, each battery stand being adapted to detachably mount a fully-charged battery to be exchanged with the battery mounted on the battery mounting unit; and a battery attaching/detaching unit adapted to move along X-axis, Y-axis, and Z-axis between the battery mounting unit and the battery stand by means of a movement device, detach a battery mounted on the battery mounting unit or the battery stand, and exchange and mount the battery on the battery stand or the battery mounting unit, wherein the battery has coupling holes formed near corners, upper surface incisions formed on both lateral portions, respectively, each upper surface incision having an engaging ledge formed at a predetermined height from a bottom portion, and lower surface incisions formed on front and rear portions, respectively, each lower surface incision having an engaging ledge formed at a predetermined height from a top portion. | 43,376 |
8,345,830 | 1. A method comprising: receiving an audio indication of a recipient for a message, the message to be sent by a user to the recipient; searching an electronic database for an existing electronic account of the recipient, the account populated with information, the information not being created or interactively provided by the user sending the audio indication, the information including an existing first informational component and an existing second informational component; subsequently, when the account of the recipient is found in the electronic database, retrieving the first informational component and the second informational component from the account; subsequently automatically analyzing the first informational component and the second informational component from the account of the recipient and, based upon the analyzing, automatically determining a variable and non-fixed, next type of information that is needed to compose the message, the next type of information not being interactively provided by the user and being different from the first informational component and the second informational component; subsequently forming an audio prompt including content that relates to the variable, next type of information that is needed to compose the message, the entire format of the entire prompt being customizable and changeable based upon the determined variable, next type of information and the identity of the recipient, the prompt not being part of a predetermined script or series of prompts. | 10,293 |
9,416,545 | 1. A post mount comprising: a base attachable to a surface, the base having a post-receiving portion, the post-receiving portion having a flange-receiving portion defining a first slot and a shaft-receiving portion defining a second slot and having an underside, the second slot being narrower than the first slot; and a pedal pivotally attached to the base, the pedal having an actuator portion, a first pivot arm connected to and extending from the actuator portion, a second pivot arm connected to and extending from the actuator, and a paddle connected to the actuator portion, the paddle having a first surface and a wall adjacent a portion of the first surface, the paddle disposed between the first pivot arm and the second pivot arm; the pedal pivotable between a first position wherein an upper edge of the wall is a first distance from the underside of the shaft-receiving portion and a second position wherein the upper edge of the wall is a second distance from the underside of the shaft-receiving portion, the second distance greater than the first distance. | 547 |
8,658,398 | 1. An isolated polynucleotide comprising a nucleic acid which encodes the mature endoglucanase of SEQ ID NO:36, wherein said nucleic acid is codon-optimized for expression in a yeast strain wherein at least one nucleotide within a sequence of 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 consecutive A, T, C or G nucleotides is replaced with a different nucleotide, wherein the nucleotide replacement does not alter the amino acid sequence encoded by the polynucleotide and wherein the nucleotide replacement creates a codon that is the second most frequently used codon to encode an amino acid in the yeast strain. | 30,755 |
8,897,705 | 1. A data transmitting system, comprising: a processor; a first transmitting interface; a first transmitting apparatus, utilizing the first interface to output data; a second transmitting interface; a second transmitting apparatus, utilizing the second transmitting interface to output data; and a signal transmitting line, coupled between the first transmitting apparatus and the second transmitting apparatus; wherein the processor enters a power down mode when the first transmitting apparatus does not output data; the first transmitting apparatus generates a data transmitting indication signal when the processor is operated in the power down mode and the first transmitting apparatus has data to be output; and the second transmitting apparatus generates a recovery signal according to the data transmitting indication signal and transmits the recovery signal to the processor via the second transmitting interface, such that the processor goes back to a normal mode to control the first transmitting apparatus to output data. | 8,304 |
8,670,889 | 1. Unitary rolling vehicle ( 10 ) comprising a rolling member, a drive system supported by the rolling member and arranged to drive the rolling member for rotation, the centre of mass of the drive system being lower compared to the centre of the rolling member in the vertical direction at rest, and a control system for controlling the drive system, wherein the control system comprises dynamic state sensors arranged to detect an instant dynamic state of the vehicle and the drive system, wherein the control system is arranged to analyze the detected instant dynamic state over time and to control vehicle motion by feedback of the instant dynamic state, and wherein the control system further is arranged to compare the analyzed instant dynamic state with a desired state and to control the vehicle drive system in dependence of a deviation from the desired state, wherein the desired state is determined based on at least one setpoint specifying a desired route for the unitary rolling vehicle ( 10 ). | 12,093 |
9,343,990 | 1. A control switch device for connection between an alternating current (AC) power supply and a load to be controlled by said control switch device, said control switch device comprising: a switch control component, said switch control component having a control input for receiving control instructions to alter switching state of said switch control component to control current supply from said AC power supply to the load, a microprocessor, said microprocessor being operatively connected to said control input of said switch control component for providing said control instructions, a wireless signal receiver for receiving a control signal, said control signal consisting of a preamble portion and a message portion, said preamble consisting of a data pattern, free of said control instructions, said message portion consisting of pre-arranged data bits encoded with one or more said control instructions, said wireless signal receiver being configured to alternate between at least two current consumption modes and to remain in a higher current consumption mode of said at least two current consumption modes for receiving remainder of said control signal upon detection of said data pattern of said preamble in said higher current consumption mode, and a direct current (DC) power supply connected between the AC power supply and the load, said DC power supply drawing from said AC power supply an AC current that passes through the load and converting said AC current to a DC output to power said wireless signal receiver, said microprocessor and said switch control component, said AC current being below a pre-configured threshold value when said switch control component is in an off switching state. | 17,191 |
9,719,440 | 1. A diesel particulate filter (DPF) regeneration control device, provided for an exhaust-gas processing device of a diesel engine, the exhaust-gas processing device including a diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) disposed in an exhaust channel and a DPF disposed on a downstream side of the DOC, for controlling execution of forced regeneration of heating the DPF to remove particulate matter (PM) which accumulates on the DPF, the forced regeneration comprising automatic regeneration automatically executed if a predetermined forced-regeneration execution condition is satisfied, and manual regeneration executed by manual operation to heat the DPF to a higher temperature than in the automatic regeneration, and the DPF regeneration device comprising: a central processor to: | 40,306 |
8,565,127 | 1. A method of managing a communication system having a first end and a second end, comprising steps of: (a) monitoring a respective level of voice activity at the second end; and (b) making a decision regarding a corresponding level of voice activity at the first end based at least in part on the respective level of voice activity at the second end. | 41,282 |
9,780,676 | 1. A power converter circuit, comprising: a switching circuit comprising a transformer and at least one electronic switch; an auxiliary voltage source configured to provide a supply voltage, the auxiliary voltage source comprising a capacitor and a first inductor inductively coupled to the transformer and electrically coupled to the capacitor; a voltage regulator coupled to the capacitor; a second inductor; and a snubber circuit comprising a third inductor inductively coupled to the second inductor and electrically coupled to the capacitor. | 757 |
8,884,425 | 1. A semiconductor package comprising: an interposer having: an upper semiconductor die affixed to the upper face of the interposer; a lower semiconductor die affixed to the undercarriage face of the interposer, wherein the interposer is positioned between the upper semiconductor die and the lower semiconductor die, and wherein the lower semiconductor die, when the undercarriage face is coupled to the substrate, is positioned between the interposer and the substrate; a heat sink affixed to the upper semiconductor die; and a heat pipe thermally coupling the lower semiconductor die to the heat sink. | 20,755 |
8,884,217 | 1. A system comprising: an ion source; a cell coupled to the ion source and configured to operate in at least three different modes comprising a collision mode, a reaction mode and a standard mode, the three different modes each configured to select analyte ions from a plurality of ions introduced into the cell from the ion source, the cell configured to couple to the ion source at an entrance aperture to permit introduction of the plurality of ions from the ion source into the cell, the cell further comprising a gas inlet configured to receive a substantially inert gas to pressurize the cell in a collision mode and to receive a reactive gas to pressurize the cell in a reaction mode, the pressurized cell further comprising an exit aperture configured to provide the analyte ions from the cell; a mass analyzer coupled to the cell; and a controller electrically coupled to the cell and configured to provide the substantially inert gas to pressurize the cell in the collision mode, configured to provide the reactive gas to pressurize the cell in the reaction mode, and configured to maintain the cell under vacuum in the standard mode, in which the controller is configured to provide an effective voltage from a voltage source to the cell in the collision mode to select ions comprising an energy greater than a barrier energy and an effective voltage from the voltage source in the reaction mode to select ions using mass filtering. | 5,202 |
8,842,699 | 1. A wireless communication system comprising: a transmitting apparatus; and a receiving apparatus, wherein the transmitting apparatus transmits first data to the receiving apparatus, the transmitting apparatus performs transmission of second data, data part of which is same as that of the first data, without waiting for a first feedback signal from any receiving apparatus regarding the first data, the transmitting apparatus does not perform retransmission of the first data when the transmitting apparatus receives the first feedback signal regarding the first data and waits for a second feedback signal regarding the second data, and the receiving apparatus transmits the second feedback signal regarding the second data to the transmitting apparatus. | 12,887 |
9,822,049 | 1. A method for removing heat from an exothermic reaction comprising: (a) dividing a reactant feed stream into at least two separate reactant substreams; (b) feeding each reactant substream into a separate reaction train which comprises a reactor; (c) feeding a coolant stream from a common coolant reservoir into each reactor; (d) performing the exothermic reaction in said each reactor to produce reaction products and wherein heat from the exothermic reaction is transferred to the coolant; (e) feeding the coolant to which heat has been transferred from each reaction train to a single common reservoir in which the heat is removed from the coolant; (f) feeding the coolant from which the heat has been removed in step (e) back into step (c), wherein: the coolant is a fluid which has a boiling point lower than the exothermic reaction temperature; the coolant to which heat has been transferred in steps (d) and (e) is a two phase coolant; and the progress of the exothermic reaction in each reactor is controlled by adjusting the pressure of the two phase coolant. | 42,747 |
9,130,090 | 1. A olefin composition for a filler, comprising: an olefin polymer that has at least one hydrolyzable group or at least one hydrolyzed product of the hydrolyzable group; and a basic hydrolysis catalyst which is alkylamine, wherein the olefin polymer is a graft polymer that comprises polyethylene to which an unsaturated silane compound of Formula 2 is grafted, wherein the polyethylene has a density of 0.85 g/cm wherein the basic hydrolysis catalyst is comprised in an amount of 0.01 to 5 parts by weight relative to 100 parts by weight of the olefin polymer, wherein D is an alkenyl group bound to the silicon atom, X is a hydrolyzable residue bound to the silicon atom, Y is a non-hydrolyzable residue bound to the silicon atom, and m is a number of 1 to 3, and wherein the composition has a 90-degree peel strength at a peel rate of 50 mm/min that measured after being compressed on a glass substrate using a laminator at 150° C. for 10 minutes is not less than 160 N/15 mm. | 5,170 |
8,642,170 | 1. A coating system for use over a substrate, comprising: an IR interaction portion comprising at least one layer, an outermost layer of the IR portion dissipating incident infrared radiation in the range of 0.9-2.5 micrometers while being transparent to incident radar; a performance portion underlying and in contact with the IR interaction portion, the performance portion further comprising at least one layer that includes microspheres, the performance portion being transparent to radar and acting as a thermal insulator; a compliance portion underlying and in contact with the performance portion comprising at least one layer that acts to reduce thermal mismatch between the performance portion and the substrate; wherein the performance portion comprises an aluminosilicate glass that includes ceramic microspheres; wherein the ceramic microsphere composition is graded so that the performance portion adjacent the compliance portion includes microspheres up to 52% by weight, in its fired condition; and the performance portion adjacent the IR interaction portion includes 10-20% microspheres by weight, in its fired condition; and wherein the substrate comprises a metallic material. | 41,027 |
8,772,238 | 1. A method of inhibiting growth of a cell expressing tissue factor (TF), comprising contacting the cell with an effective amount of an Ixolaris polypeptide such that the growth of the cell is inhibited, wherein the amount of Ixolaris polypeptide is 1-250 ug kg −1 , wherein the Ixolaris polypeptide is at least 95% identical to SEQ ID NO: 2. | 28,119 |
8,666,952 | 1. A method for concurrently resizing and modifying an Read-Copy Update (RCU)-protected hash table in a computer system having one or more processors operatively coupled to a memory, said memory including a computer usable medium storing an RCU-protected first hash table and at least one program of instructions executable by said processor to concurrently perform hash table resizing and modifying operations representing said method, said operations comprising: allocating a second RCU-protected hash table in said memory, said second hash table representing a resized version of said first hash table that has a different number of hash buckets than said first hash table, said second hash table buckets being defined but initially having no hash table elements; populating said second hash table by linking each hash bucket of said second hash table to all hash buckets of said first hash table containing elements that hash to said second hash table bucket; publishing said second hash table so that it is available for searching by hash table readers; if said modifying comprises an inserting a new hash table element, inserting said new hash table element at the head of a corresponding bucket in said second hash table; if said modifying comprises deleting an existing hash table element, entering an RCU read-side critical section, removing or redirecting all pointers in one or more hash buckets of said first hash table and said second hash table that reference said existing hash table element, exiting said RCU read-side critical section, waiting for a grace period which guarantees that no readers searching said first hash table or said second hash table will be referencing said existing hash table element, and freeing said existing hash table element from said memory; and freeing said first hash table from said memory after waiting for a grace period which guarantees that no readers searching said first hash table will be affected by said freeing. | 32,589 |
8,682,787 | 1. A computer-implemented method for providing an advance payment for the trade-in of an item, the method comprising performing computer-implemented operations for: determining by way of a computer system whether a customer of a merchant is eligible for a payment for a trade-in of an item prior to receiving the item from the customer at the merchant, and initiating an advance payment to the customer by way of the computer system for the item prior to receiving the item from the customer in response to determining that the customer is eligible. | 35,107 |
9,701,975 | 1. A maize plant or a maize plant cell comprising an expression cassette effective for reducing expression of at least one endogenous short lived auxin responsive production gene, wherein said expression cassette comprises a promoter that functions in plants operably linked to a nucleic acid configured for RNA silencing or interference, wherein said endogenous short lived auxin responsive production gene encodes a polypeptide that comprises an amino acid sequence that is at least 95% identical to the sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOS: 2, 4 and 6. | 37,223 |
8,490,030 | 1. A method of characterizing a plurality of clips of an integrated circuit layout for clustering, at least one clip including multiple polygons, the method comprising: (a) identifying polygons of a first clip and a second clip; (b) initializing states of all polygons in the first and second clips as unmatched; (c) for a first unmatched polygon in the first clip, finding a second unmatched polygon in the second clip where a distance metric between the first and second unmatched polygons is minimized, the distance metric being computed using a processor by integrating differences of radial and angular functions of the first unmatched polygon in the first clip and the second unmatched polygon in the second clip, the distance metric providing a quantitative measure of similarity; (d) when the distance metric is less than a predefined threshold, setting the first and second unmatched polygons as a matched pair, and setting states of the first and second unmatched polygons as matched; (e) when the distance metric is not less than the predefined threshold, setting the state of the first unmatched polygon as unique; (f) repeating steps (c), (d), and (e) for each remaining unmatched polygon in the first clip; (g) calculating matched distances for all matched pairs; (h) calculating unmatched distances for all unique polygons; (i) computing a total distance for the first and second clips by summing all matched distances and all unmatched distances; (j) repeating steps (b)-(i) for each of eight transformations of the first clip, a transformation being a reflection or a rotation of the first clip; and (k) determining a minimized total distance metric from the eight transformations, wherein the minimized total distance determines whether the first and second clips should be clustered, wherein the method is performed by a computer. | 25,510 |
8,477,264 | 1. A liquid crystal module comprising: a transmissive liquid crystal cell; a board included a light guide plate compromising a frame including a projection | 39,220 |
9,458,771 | 1. A method of adaptively synchronizing performance margins of a multi-engine system, the method comprising the steps of: continuously, and in real-time, determining a performance margin of a first engine and a performance margin of a second engine; calculating a difference between the performance margins of the first and second engines; creating a load imbalance between the first and second engines whenever the calculated difference between the performance margins of the first and second engines is non-zero; and controlling the first and second engines to attain a predetermined difference between the performance margins of the first and second engines. | 23,332 |
8,514,659 | 1. A dual beam system comprising: a planar array of transducers; and a multiplexer configurable into at least a first state and a second state, the multiplexer configured to electrically connect transducers of the planar array of transducers to a plurality of connections differently in the first state than in the second state, the plurality of connections configured to function as inputs to the multiplexer when the system is in a transmit mode; wherein the system is configured to transmit a first beam from the planar array of transducers when the multiplexer is in the first state, the first beam having a first beam angle with respect to a central axis; and wherein the system is configured to transmit a second beam from the planar array when the multiplexer is in a second state, the second beam having a second beam angle with respect to the central axis, the second beam angle being different than the first beam angle. | 45,641 |
9,155,088 | 1. A delivery edge profile aggregation system, comprising: a user profile aggregation device (UPAD) for a subscriber that is located at a delivery edge at a subscriber location and configured to interface with at least one subscriber database in a wired network core of a wired service provider and at least one subscriber database in a wireless network core of a wireless service provider, wherein the wired service provider and the wireless service provider are affiliated with a Multi-System network Operator (MSO); wherein the delivery edge is where each service of the wired and wireless service providers affiliated with the MSO is received; wherein the at least one subscriber database in the wired network core and the at least one subscriber database in the wireless network core are non-interoperable; an external profile aggregation module that is part of the UPAD and is configured to aggregate profile information at the UPAD regarding the subscriber from the non-interoperable subscriber databases at the wired and wireless network cores; and an internal profile aggregation module that is part of the UPAD and is configured to aggregate consumption information at the UPAD about the subscriber regarding the subscriber's consumption of wired and wireless services provided by a Multi-System network Operator (MSO); and a subscriber profile communication module that is part of the UPAD and is configured to communicate the subscriber's aggregated profile information from the UPAD to the MSO. | 6,681 |
8,626,885 | 1. A franking system, comprising: a plurality of franking machines capable of communicating through a public communications network, with a management server, to send invoice indexes, each franking machine of said plurality of franking machines sending an invoice index indicative of franking performed by itself; and a supervision terminal adapted to communicate, through the public communications network, with the management server, the supervision terminal being never in communication with the plurality of franking machines; wherein: | 11,938 |
9,313,882 | 1. An electronic component, comprising: a main body, one side of the main body having a plurality of recesses, wherein each of the recesses has a first inner width along a first direction, a second inner width along a second direction which is perpendicular to the first direction, a third inner lateral side, and a fourth inner lateral side which is opposite to the third inner lateral side, the first direction is parallel to a long side of the main body, and the distance between the third inner lateral side and the fourth inner lateral side is equal to the second inner width; and a plurality of pins respectively inserted into the plurality of recesses, wherein each of the pins has a first outer width along the first direction, a second outer width along the second direction, a third outer lateral side, and a fourth outer lateral side which is opposite to the third outer lateral side, the first outer width is smaller than the first inner width, the second inner width is equal to the second outer width, the distance between the third outer lateral side and the fourth outer lateral side is equal to the second outer width, the third inner lateral side is in contact with the third outer lateral side, and the fourth inner lateral side is in contact with the fourth outer lateral side. | 13,264 |
8,822,450 | 1. A compound of Formula (I) or a stereoisomer or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; wherein: R n is 0, 1 or 2; R M is hydrogen or a cation; R R R R | 2,684 |
9,471,539 | 1. A processor-implemented method of improving a gyroscope based on determining a noise variance of an axis of a gyroscope, the method comprising: representing, by the processor, a plurality of gyroscope readings for the axis in a histogram, the histogram including a plurality of bins associated with respective ranges; determining, by the processor, a bias for the axis of the gyroscope by identifying a concentration of the gyroscope readings within the histogram; determining, by the processor, a noise variance for the axis of the gyroscope based on features of the plurality of bins in the histogram and based on the identified concentration of gyroscope readings; obtaining, by the processor, a gyroscope reading; and correcting the gyroscope reading based on the bias and the noise variance by: | 36,291 |
9,429,084 | 1. A method for operating an engine, comprising: defining an efficient engine operating region over an engine operating domain; applying a first filter to a desired engine power to provide a filtered engine power via a controller if the desired engine power is within the efficient engine operating region; applying a second filter to the desired engine power to provide the filtered engine power via the controller if the desired engine power is not within the efficient engine operating region; and commanding the engine to operate at the filtered engine power via the controller. | 33,414 |
9,314,757 | 1. A method for generating a ternary carburizing gas mixture, the method comprising: removing atmosphere from inside a reactor, the inside of the reactor containing a layer of a regiospecific hydrogenation catalyst comprising palladium or platinum, heating the inside of the reactor to an operating temperature of the catalyst with heated inert gas, hydrogenating at least a portion of a reactant mixture consisting of 45 to 55% hydrogen and 55 to 45% acetylene, respectively, in the presence of the regiospecific catalyst to selectively catalyze the hydrogenation of a portion of the acetylene into ethylene and produce the carburizing gas mixture, and removing the ternary carburizing gas mixture from the reactor; wherein: generating the ternary carburizing gas mixture is carried out in a continuous mode at an operating temperature range of the regiospecific catalyst between 293 K and 398 K; and the generated ternary carburizing gas mixture has a ratio of acetylene to ethylene in a range of 0.6 to 2.0. | 46,891 |
8,514,843 | 1. A method of propagating routes for routing at least one digital stream towards a destination, the method being performed by a first location server of a first IP telephony domain and suitable for managing locations of clients and telephony routes of said first IP telephony domain, and comprising the following steps: said first location server receiving, from at least one neighboring server, at least two telephony routes enabling a telephony destination to be reached, referred to as propagation routes, received by at least one propagation message; and said first location server advertising in a further propagation message, according to a protocol configured to exchange IP telephony routes, said at least two propagation routes to at least one second location server of a second telephony domain neighboring the first, said further propagation message comprising a route attribute for each of the at least two propagation routes, which has a flag field indicating whether that propagation route is locally preferred. | 35,523 |
8,586,574 | 1. A pharmaceutical composition comprising compound 196 having the structure: and one or more excipients selected from calcium carbonate, sodium carbonate, lactose, calcium phosphate, sodium phosphate, croscarmellose, cellulose, sodium carboxymethylcellulose, povidone, methylcellulose, hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, and magnesium stearate. | 7,272 |
8,490,103 | 1. A computer system comprising: an operating system instance; plural multi-core processors, each of said multi-core processors being an integrated circuit with plural processor cores, each of said cores being configured to execute processes assigned by said operating system instance; a utilization monitor to track respective per-core utilizations of said processor cores by computer processes and to compile a utilization history; allocation policies to generate a plan specifying how processes are to be allocated to said processor cores at least in part as a function of said utilization history; and a workload manager to implement said plan, wherein said workload manger allocates said processes to processor cores so that the processes with highest expected per-core utilizations are allocated to respective cores on a first processor while processes with lowest expected per-core utilizations are allocated to respective processor cores on a second processor which is set at a lower-power active state than is said first processor. | 24,365 |
8,429,831 | 1. A dryer having an inlet conduit supplying an incoming gas stream and an exit area that produces a drying gas, comprising: a first gas conditioning chamber and a second gas conditioning chamber together forming a closed space for the conditioning of a gas supplied by a gas source and discharged at a nozzle exit, the gas having a mass flow rate that is the same at the nozzle exit as the mass flow rate supplied by the gas source during a steady state flow condition; the first gas conditioning chamber including a circular inlet coupled to the gas source and a linear array of apertures downstream of the circular inlet; and the second gas conditioning chamber including the linear array of apertures and a linear array of nozzle exit channels downstream of the linear array of apertures; wherein the dryer is adapted for producing a substantially uniform drying air mass from the linear array of nozzle exit channels. | 15,392 |
9,425,641 | 1. A battery charger non-concurrently performing a first operation to charge a main battery and a sub-battery by using an external power supply, and a second operation to charge the sub-battery by using the main battery, comprising: a power supply circuit connected to the external power supply and configured to generate an AC voltage; a transformer including a primary winding, a first secondary winding, and a second secondary winding, the primary winding being connected to the power supply circuit; a secondary-side circuit along a power supply route connecting the first secondary winding to the main battery, the secondary-side circuit being configured to perform, in a first time period for which the first operation is performed, an operation to rectify an AC voltage induced in the first secondary winding and supply the rectified voltage to the main battery, and, in a second time period for which the second operation is performed, an operation to convert a DC voltage from the main battery into an AC voltage and supply the AC voltage resulting from the conversion to the first secondary winding; a conduction angle adjustment circuit along a power supply route connecting the second secondary winding to the sub-battery, the conduction angle adjustment circuit being configured to adjust a conduction angle of an AC voltage induced in the second secondary winding; and a control circuit configured to control the power supply circuit, the secondary-side circuit, and the conduction angle adjustment circuit, wherein the secondary-side circuit is a full-bridge circuit including a plurality of arms connected in parallel, the arms each including a plurality of parallel-connected bodies connected in series, the parallel-connected bodies each including a switching unit and a rectifying unit connected in parallel, and in the first time period, the control circuit controls the conduction angle adjustment circuit so that the conduction angle adjustment circuit is in a conductive state at a timing at which a voltage having a positive or negative finite value not equal to 0 V is induced in the primary winding. | 5,195 |
8,993,852 | 1. A plant, a plant part, or a seed of soybean variety XB11K13, representative seed of said soybean variety XB11K13 having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-13446. | 37,432 |
9,585,370 | 1. A harness to releasably restrain an animal, the harness comprising: a pivotable frame, said pivotable frame having a first hinge coupler and a second hinge coupler configured to removeably affix said first hinge coupler and said second hinge coupler together, said first hinge coupler is configured having a first finger and a first opening handle and said second hinge coupler configured having a second finger and a second opening handle, wherein said first finger is formed having at least a first conduit and said second finger is formed having at least a second conduit; a pin to rotationally connect said first hinge coupler and said second hinge coupler; a spring positioned between each of said first hinge coupler and said second hinge coupler, said spring biases said first finger and said second finger together; and at least one harness comprising a breast strap and a torso strap in combination, wherein said at least one harness passes through said first conduit and said second conduit, wherein said at least one harness slidably adjusts therethrough said first conduit and said second conduit. | 47,539 |
9,516,643 | 1. A terminal device comprising: a reception circuit configured to and/or programmed to receive first information; and a transmission circuit configured to and/or programmed to transmit a physical uplink shared channel based on a detection of a physical downlink control channel with a downlink control information format 0, wherein a demodulation reference signal sequence of a demodulation reference signal associated with the transmission of the physical uplink shared channel is generated based on a certain sequence, the certain sequence is given with reference to the first information in a case that cyclic redundancy check bits attached to the downlink control information format 0 are scrambled by a cell radio network temporary identifier, and the certain sequence is given without reference to the first information in a case that the cyclic redundancy check bits attached to the downlink control information format 0 are scrambled by a temporary cell radio network temporary identifier. | 9,039 |
9,206,116 | 1. A process for producing a compound according to formula (18) or a salt thereof comprising the steps a) providing a compound according to formula (1), or tautomer, or salt thereof, b) methylating the compound according to formula (1), or tautomer, or salt thereof, to obtain a compound according to formula (2), or tautomer, or salt thereof, c) reacting the compound according to formula (2), or tautomer, or salt thereof, with a ring opening agent to obtain a compound according to formula (3) or a salt thereof d) reacting a compound according to formula (3) or a salt thereof to obtain a compound according to formula (18) or a salt thereof, wherein in the above formulae R1 and R2 are independently, of each other, hydrogen or a nitrogen protecting group and R3 is hydrogen or alkyl. | 30,562 |
9,570,939 | 1. A double-port energy storage system comprising: a bidirectional power conversion circuit including an AC side and a DC side; a DC-AC inverter circuit including a DC side and an AC side; an electric energy storage facility connecting between the DC side of the bidirectional power conversion circuit and the DC side of the DC-AC inverter circuit; a first AC port connecting with the AC side of the DC-AC inverter circuit; a second AC port connecting between a utility power source or an AC power source and the AC side of the bidirectional power conversion circuit; a first switch connecting between the utility power source or the AC power source and the AC side of the bidirectional power conversion circuit; a second switch connecting between a first connection point, which is formed between the first switch and the AC side of the bidirectional power conversion circuit, and the first AC port; a third switch connecting between the utility power source or the AC power source and the second AC port; and a fourth switch connecting between a second connection point, which is formed between the second switch and the first AC port, and the second AC port; wherein when the utility power source or the AC power source stays within a normal tolerance, the first switch and the third switch are selectively switched on as a close state and the second switch and the fourth switch are selectively switched off as an open state allowing the utility power source or the AC power source to directly supply an AC power to the second AC port and further to directly supply the AC power to the AC side of the bidirectional power conversion circuit, such that the bidirectional power conversion circuit converts the AC power of the utility power source or the AC power source into a DC power to charge the electric energy storage facility, and the DC power is further converted into a stable AC power by the DC-AC inverter circuit to supply to the first AC port; or, when the utility power source or the AC power source stays within the normal tolerance and the electric energy storage facility discharges, the first switch and the third switch are selectively switched on as a close state and the second switch and the fourth switch are selectively switched off as an open state allowing the utility power source or the AC power source to directly supply the AC power to the second AC port, the DC-AC inverter circuit to convert the DC power stored in the electric energy storage facility into the stable AC power to supply to the first AC port, further the bidirectional power conversion circuit to selectively convert the DC power stored in the electric energy storage facility into the AC power to supply to the utility power source or the AC power source; or, when the utility power source or the AC power source is out of tolerance, failure or under maintenance, the first switch and the third switch are selectively switched off as an open state and the second switch and the fourth switch are selectively switched on as a close state allowing the bidirectional power conversion circuit and the DC-AC inverter circuit to convert the DC power stored in the electric energy storage facility into the AC power to supply to the first AC port and the second AC port in parallel. | 17,233 |
9,801,188 | 1. A method of managing interference by a serving access point (AP), comprising: identifying a neighboring AP whose transmissions on particular resources potentially interfere with transmissions between the serving AP and a served access terminal (AT); sending a request for the neighboring AP to modify transmissions on the particular resources, wherein the request specifies the particular resources on which the neighboring AP's transmissions potentially interfere with the transmissions between the serving AP and the served AT, and wherein the request comprises a priority level associated with the specified particular resources on which the neighboring AP's transmission potentially interfere with the transmissions between the serving AP and the served AT; receiving a response to the request transmitted directly to the serving AP from the neighboring AP and indicating whether or not the request will be obeyed by the neighboring AP, wherein, an indication that the neighboring AP will obey the request indicates that the neighboring AP will allocate, based on the request, available transmission power between the specified particular resources and the other resources used by the neighboring AP; receiving a signal quality report from the served AT; and scheduling data transmissions to the served AT based, at least in part, on the signal quality report and the response to the request. | 44,688 |
9,665,668 | 1. A method comprising: identifying a dispatching rule corresponding to a dispatching decision to be made in a simulation of a production environment, wherein the dispatching rule is associated with a plurality of data processes; identifying, by a computing system, a simulation marker in a representation of the dispatching rule in a graphical user interface, the simulation marker indicating a subset of the plurality of data processes that correspond to the dispatching rule, the subset of the plurality of data processes to be executed in the simulation; executing the subset of data processes to simulate the dispatching rule to make the dispatching decision; and generating a simulation decision that describes the dispatching decision made from executing the subset of data processes. | 21,527 |
9,241,986 | 1. An immunogenic composition comprising the M2e peptide and at least one peptide derived from the HA2 protein of influenza virus, wherein said peptides are fused to an outer surface of Dps as fusion proteins, wherein said M2e and said at least one peptide derived from HA2 are fused separately and simultaneously to N- and C-termini of Dps as one fusion protein. | 4,214 |
8,563,440 | 1. A process for chemical treatment of a substrate that features a top surface and lateral surfaces by means of making contact with a liquid, chemically effective process medium with at least the bottom surface of the substrate, wherein the substrate is moved relative to the process medium during the simultaneous implementation of a triple-line between the substrate, the process medium and the atmosphere that surrounds it, and a chemical ablation reaction is achieved, characterized in that, the relative movement is performed while avoiding a contact of the process medium with the top surface of the substrate, that the triple-line is implemented in reference to the relative movement between the substrate and the process medium at a height on the lateral surface that is facing away from the side of the process medium that is moved towards the substrate, that the atmosphere is adjusted in regard to the partial pressures of the components present in the process medium in such a manner that in the top surface, hydrophobic properties are implemented and that the substrate is rotated about an axis that runs perpendicularly to the plane spanned by the substrate, that a triple-line originates from every upper edge of the substrate or from the lateral surfaces during the chemical treatment. | 23,406 |
9,853,655 | 1. A method comprising: controlling a first set of switches to deliver a first voltage signal through a first set of capacitors to a common node; controlling a second set of switches to deliver a second voltage signal through a second set of capacitors to the common node, wherein the first set of capacitors is electrically connected to the second set of capacitors by the common node, and wherein the second voltage signal includes an opposing polarity to the first voltage signal; and measuring a time duration to discharge the common node. | 8,179 |
8,612,261 | 1. An method comprising: receiving clinician note data in a first electronic system that includes patient medical-related data; processing the clinician note data using a natural language data processor and medical record interpretation rules to automatically convert the clinician note data into an electronic medical record; sending the electronic medical record to a second electronic system to allow review and modification of the converted clinician note data in the electronic medical record; receiving feedback data in the first electronic system that indicates modifications to the converted clinician note data in the electronic medical record; processing the feedback data to identify modifications to the converted clinician note data in the electronic medical record; analyzing the modifications in the feedback data to determine whether to modify the medical record interpretation rules; and modifying the medical record interpretation rules in accordance with at least a portion of the feedback data for use in processing subsequently received clinician note data if analysis of the modifications in the feedback data determines to modify the medical record interpretation rules. | 12,969 |
9,784,226 | 1. A vehicle fuel delivery system, comprising: a first line configured to deliver fuel from a fuel tank to an internal combustion engine (ICE); a second line configured to return fuel from the ICE to the fuel tank; a heat exchanger which abuts a portion of the second line and is in thermal communication with the second line; a third line configured to deliver fuel from the second line, downstream of the heat exchanger, to the first line; and a latent material in the heat exchanger configured to change from a solid state to a liquid state when fuel in the second line reaches a predetermined temperature, wherein the heat exchanger is a passive heat exchanger, and wherein the heat exchanger is journaled onto and around the portion of the second line. | 7,674 |
9,414,064 | 1. An image processing method of performing filtering on image blocks using a plurality of deblocking filters having different filter strengths, the image processing method comprising: a first calculating step of calculating a boundary strength between two adjacent image blocks; a second calculating step of calculating a parameter determining a range of filtered data outputted from each of the deblocking filters, based on a linear sum of the boundary strength and a quantization parameter; and a selecting step of selecting a deblocking filter to be used in the filtering from among the deblocking filters, using one or more threshold values which are determined based on the parameter. | 43,793 |
9,109,219 | 1. A vector for expressing recombinant proteins in isolated host cells, comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding in a single open reading frame, from 5′ to 3′: a) a peptidic secretion signal which is functional in said isolated host cells, b) a 6-methylguanine-DNA-methyltransferase enzyme (MGMT) or mutant thereof, wherein said MGMT enzyme or MGMT mutant is the protein of SEQ ID NO:2, or a homologous sequence thereof that is at least 80% identical to SEQ ID NO:2, and c) a recombinant protein. | 41,054 |
8,574,022 | 1. A toy car comprising: a chassis having four wheels rotatably attached thereto and having a body secured to the chassis; and the four wheels have a first weight that is at least 40% of the total weight of the toy car, and wherein the chassis further includes: a rear portion having a pair of oppositely facing openings, rear pin ends extending from the openings to connect a pair of rear wheels, defined from the four wheels, to the rear portion of the chassis; and a front portion being secured to a front end sway suspension system, the front end sway suspension system defined as haying: | 43,563 |
8,408,456 | 1. A system comprising: a media content processing subsystem configured to transmit to, communicate with, and receive a signal or data stream containing a media content instance from, a media content provider; and an input device comprising a plurality of control surfaces each configured to cause said input device to transmit at least one command to said processing subsystem, each of said control surfaces selectively transmitting a fingerprint of a finger touching said control surface to said input device; wherein said input device is configured to acquire an image of a fingerprint of a finger touching one of said control surfaces, to determine a command corresponding to said one of said control surfaces, allow a pre-determined time period to pass after acquiring said fingerprint image before acquiring a subsequent fingerprint image, and cause said processing subsystem to execute, within said pre-determined time period, said command corresponding to said one of said control surfaces in accordance with a user profile that corresponds to said acquired fingerprint image; wherein said input device includes at least one fingerprint scanning subsystem configured to acquire said image of said fingerprint of said finger touching said one of said control surfaces, analyze a quality of said fingerprint image acquired based at least in part on whether said quality is acceptable for a particular application associated with said one of said control surfaces through which said fingerprint image was acquired to determine whether said fingerprint image is acceptable for further processing and adjust settings and reacquire said fingerprint image if said fingerprint image is unacceptable for further processing. | 22,026 |
8,391,252 | 1. A method, comprising: scheduling at a base station of a wireless communication network a first radio access terminal mode for a first mobile station during a first time region of a radio frame, the first time region of the radio frame comprising a downlink communication region, an unused time region, and an uplink time communication region, the unused time region including a second time region; scheduling at the base station a sleep mode for the first mobile station during the second time region of the radio frame; and scheduling at the base station a second radio access terminal mode for a second mobile station during the unused time region of the first time region of the radio frame. | 20,474 |
9,538,959 | 1. A system for monitoring a user comprising: a transmitter positioned in a first location in a vicinity of the user; a sensor system to be worn by the user, configured to collect data comprising sound and image data of the user, a user's vital data and ambient condition data and transmit the collected data wirelessly to the transmitter; first and second monitoring devices configured to communicate wirelessly with the transmitter and to be worn by first and second caregivers of the user, respectively, wherein the first and second caregivers are located in a second location that is different from the first location; a controller located in the second location and configured to communicate wirelessly with the first and second monitoring devices and the transmitter; wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit wirelessly live data feeds to the first and second monitoring devices and to the controller and wherein the live data feeds comprise the sound and image data of the user and the user's vital data; an application comprising an analyzer configured to analyze the live data feeds and determine whether any of the collected data has a value above a predetermined threshold or out of a predetermined range and to send an alarm notification to at least one of the first and second monitoring devices in cases when at least one of the collected data has a value above the predetermined threshold or out of the predetermined range. | 43,162 |
9,302,363 | 1. A dust collecting device that is attached to an impact tool and collects dust generated by the impact tool in which a tool bit coupled to a front end region of a tool body is caused to rectilinearly move in an axial direction of the tool bit, the dust collecting device comprising: a dust collecting part having a dust suction port at a front end of the dust collecting device, the dust suction port having a non-uniform contour shape around an axis of the tool bit; and a dust collecting hose which is connected to the dust collecting part and through which dust is transferred downstream, wherein an external frontmost end of the dust collecting part defines an opening and is inclined such that the frontmost end extends toward a rear of the tool bit on one side thereof having a connecting part connected with the dust collecting hose, while extending toward a front of the tool bit on an opposite side from the connecting part side with respect to the tool bit. | 23,630 |
8,413,940 | 1. A holding device for fastening an add-on part to a support frame of a vehicle, the holding device comprising: an upper bracket fastened to the support frame in a mounted state of the holding device; a lower bracket separate from the upper bracket and selectively fastened to the support frame below the upper bracket in the mounted state of the holding device, the upper bracket and the lower bracket being designed as identical parts, the upper and lower brackets being fastened to the support frame in angular positions rotated by 180° from each other in a mounted state of the holding device; a holder fastened to the add-on part in the mounted state of the holding device, wherein: the holder has a hook, the upper bracket having a hook mount shaped complementarily to the hook, the hook mount receiving the hook with the hook being hung from a top; the holder has a fixing plate; the lower bracket has a plate mount shaped complementarily to the fixing plate and into which the fixing plate can be inserted; and a positive-locking connection, which secures the fixing plate at right angles to a direction of insertion in the plate mount, is formed between the plate mount and the fixing plate inserted into the plate mount. | 11,799 |
8,530,385 | 1. A stable high strength herbicidal composition consisting essentially of: (a) water; (b) glyphosate, predominantly in the form of a combination of dimethylamine salt and potassium salt, in solution in the water in an amount of about 540 grams or greater of acid equivalent per liter of the composition, wherein the composition is formulated to include dimethylamine in an amount to form a salt with about 5% or greater, by weight, of total glyphosate and to include potassium in an amount to form a salt with about 20% or greater, by weight of total glyphosate, and wherein the combined sum of glyphosate in dimethylamine and potassium salts is at least 45% of total glyphosate. | 42,074 |
9,263,339 | 1. A method for forming a semiconductor structure, the method comprising: forming a gate stack over a semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor substrate having a first lattice constant; forming a recess in the semiconductor substrate and adjacent the gate stack; performing a first selective epitaxial growth to grow a first semiconductor material in the recess and adjoining a bottom-most surface of the recess, the first selective epitaxial growth substantially only growing the first semiconductor material from one or more crystalline surface, the bottom-most surface of the recess comprising a surface of the semiconductor substrate, the first semiconductor material having a second lattice constant; after the step of performing the first selective epitaxial growth, performing a selective etch-back on the first semiconductor material, wherein the selective etch-back is performed using process gases comprising a first gas for growing the first semiconductor material, and a second gas for etching the first semiconductor material, wherein after the selective etch-back is performed at least a portion of a top surface of the first semiconductor material is at or above a top surface of the semiconductor substrate; and performing a second selective epitaxial growth to grow a second semiconductor material adjoining the first semiconductor material to form a cap region, the second selective epitaxial growth substantially only growing the second semiconductor material from one or more crystalline surface, the second semiconductor material having a third lattice constant, a magnitude of a difference between the first lattice constant and the second lattice constant being greater than a magnitude of a difference between the first lattice constant and the third lattice constant. | 27,465 |
8,799,397 | 1. A method comprising: creating, by a processing device executing a virtual machine (VM), a first channel for a first application executed by the virtual machine, wherein the first channel is identified by a name of a group to which the first application is a member, the first channel providing communications for the first application to all members of the group; creating, by the processing device, a second channel for a second application executed by the virtual machine, wherein the second channel is identified by a name of another group to which the second application is a member, the second channel providing communications for the second application to all members of the another group; when a protocol of a transport layer of a protocol stack of each of the first channel and the second channel is the same, sharing, by the processing device, resources to implement a shared transport layer between the first channel and the second channel, wherein the shared resources comprise a default thread pool, an out of bound thread pool, and a timer thread pool, and wherein other protocol layers of the first and second channels operate independently of each other except for the shared transport layer; receiving, by the processing device, a message from a member application through a network interface device connected to a network; and multiplexing, by the processing device, the received message over the shared transport layer to the first application or the second application via the first or second channel in view of a group name identifier located in the received message corresponding to the name of one of the groups to which the first or the second application belongs. | 48,739 |
8,753,957 | 1. Method for producing solar panels/modules comprising: employing a number of semiconductor wafers which are pre-processed to a point where at least their front surface is made ready to be mounted onto a front glass of the solar panel/module, placing and attaching the intended number of the pre-processed wafers adjacent to each other and with their front side facing downwards onto the back side of the front glass, and forming electric contacts, including both cell metallization and module interconnects by: | 26,682 |
9,756,973 | 1. A beverage brewing apparatus having a water heating portion and a brewing portion, the water heating portion comprising: a three heating element tank having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet and first, second and third heating elements therein; a switch associated with each heating element, said switch controlled by a processor; first, second, and third current sources; wherein each of the first, second and third heating elements is powered by each of the first, second and third current sources and each of the first, second and third current sources operates at a different phase and each of the first, second and third heating elements has a different heating capacity; and wherein a load on the first heating element or the second heating element rises or falls equally in comparison with the other of the first heating element or the second heating element with each respective actuation or deactivation of the third heating element. | 29,849 |
8,413,622 | 1. An oil supply device of an engine, comprising: lash adjustors respectively provided at valve drive portions located on an intake side and an exhaust side of a cylinder; a first extending oil passage supplying operational oil to one of said lash adjustors; a second extending oil passage supplying operational oil to the other of said lash adjustors; a first connection oil passage interconnecting respective one end portions of said first and second extending oil passages; a variable valve-drive mechanism selecting valve characteristics by using the operational oil supplied through said one of the lash adjustors; an oil-pressure control valve provided at the other end portion of said first extending oil passage and selecting a first state in which the first extending oil passage does not connect to a drain oil passage or a second state in which the first extending oil passage connects to the drain oil passage; and an orifice provided in an oil passage which is located on the side of said first connection oil passage relative to a supply portion of the operational oil supplied to the one of said lash adjustors provided on the side of the one end portion of said first extending oil passage and located on the side of said first connection oil passage relative to another supply portion of the operational oil supplied to the other of said lash adjustors provided on the side of the one end portion of said second extending oil passage. | 47,909 |
8,705,473 | 1. A base station apparatus in a small-scale cell of a second system having a system band comprised of a single or a plurality of base frequency blocks, for sharing at least a part of a frequency band with a first system having a large-scale cell and covering the small-scale cell, wherein the base station apparatus comprising: an indication information generating section configured to generate indication information for a number of subframes, each subframe assigned individually to each of the plurality of the base frequency blocks constituting the system band of the second system, indicating another subframe to which user data is assigned besides a same subframe on a downlink control channel; and a transmission frame generating section configured to generate a transmission frame including the indication information. | 19,564 |
8,625,816 | 1. A device comprising: a boom having two receptacles that define an axis; a first directional microphone, the first directional microphone having a first vector normal to a first front of the first directional microphone, the first vector approximately parallel with the axis, and a first of the two receptacles configured to receive and hold the first directional microphone; a second directional microphone positioned on the axis a first distance from the first directional microphone, the second directional microphone having a second vector normal to a second front of the second directional microphone, and a second of the two receptacles configured to receive and hold the second directional microphone, wherein the second vector forms an angle relative to the first vector; a vent positioned in proximity to the first directional microphone, the second directional microphone, or both, the vent having a first diameter that is less than a diameter of the first and second directional microphones; and logic configured to determine whether the first directional microphone or the second directional microphone is closer to a source of speech. | 21,803 |
9,399,400 | 1. A vehicular acceleration suppression device for suppressing acceleration of a vehicle which depends on a manipulation amount of a drive force instruction manipulation element manipulated by a driver to instruct a drive force to control suppression of the drive force, the vehicular acceleration suppression device comprising: a drive force manipulation amount detection unit configured to detect a drive force manipulation amount which is the manipulation amount of the drive force instruction manipulation element; an acceleration control unit configured to control the acceleration of the vehicle depending on the drive force manipulation amount detected by the drive force manipulation amount detection unit; a surrounding environment recognition unit configured to recognize an environment surrounding the vehicle based on detection information of a surrounding environment recognition sensor provided on the vehicle; a vehicle travel direction detection unit configured to detect a travel direction of the vehicle; a parking frame certainty degree calculation unit configured to calculate a parking frame certainty degree indicative of a degree of certainty about a presence of a parking frame in the travel direction of the vehicle based on the environment recognized by the surrounding environment recognition unit; and an acceleration suppression unit configured to suppress the acceleration controlled by the acceleration control unit based on the parking frame certainty degree calculated by the parking frame certainty degree calculation unit and the travel direction detected by the vehicle travel direction detection unit, wherein the acceleration suppression unit is configured to decrease a suppression degree of the acceleration depending on the travel direction detected by the vehicle travel direction detection unit. | 10,773 |
9,621,073 | 1. A Z-source inverter network comprising: a plurality of cascaded Z-source inverter modules, each of the plurality of cascaded Z-source inverter modules comprising; a control system coupled to each of the plurality of cascaded Z-source inverter modules, the control system comprising; | 13,651 |
8,791,653 | 1. An apparatus for coupling a power source to a lamp, the lamp comprising one or more light emitting diodes, the apparatus comprising: a first part for receiving a first voltage signal and a first current signal from the power source, the first part comprising a detection part for detecting a first amplitude reduction in at least one of the first signals; and a second part for supplying a second voltage signal and a second current signal to the lamp, the second part comprising an introduction part for, in response to a detection result of the detection part detecting the first amplitude reduction in at least one of the first signals, introducing a second amplitude reduction into at least one of the second signals, the first amplitude reduction resulting in an output power of the power source being reduced, and the second amplitude reduction resulting in the output power being further reduced, wherein the first amplitude reduction has a first slope, which first slope is detectable by the detection part. | 36,380 |
9,749,594 | 1. A method of identifying map coordinates of a location within an image captured by a camera, the method comprising: obtaining, at a location server communicatively coupled to the camera, a first image captured by the camera; selecting, at the location server, a single reference point appearing within the first image captured by the camera, the single reference point having known image coordinates and depicting a location with known two-dimensional map coordinates in an associated two-dimensional map; computing, at the location server, at least one transformation parameter to transform two-dimensional camera coordinate locations for a camera frame of reference to two-dimensional map coordinate locations for the associated two-dimensional map, with the at least one transformation parameter including a rotation angle and a tilt angle of the camera relative to the single reference point, based on location data for the camera and the single reference point appearing within the image captured by the camera, with the location data expressed in terms of image coordinates and map coordinates and including a location and an elevation of the camera in the map coordinates and the image coordinates and the known two-dimensional map coordinates of the single reference point; obtaining, at the location server, a second image captured by the camera; detecting, within the second image, a target location to be tracked; determining, at the location server, image coordinates of the target location; and computing, at the location server, map coordinates of the target location based on the image coordinates of the target location and the at least one transformation parameter computed based on the location data for the camera and the single reference point appearing within the image captured by the camera, including the location and the elevation of the camera in the map coordinates and the image coordinates and the known two-dimensional map coordinates of the single reference point. | 33,478 |
9,247,527 | 1. An apparatus comprising: one or more computer-readable media having instructions; and one or more processors, coupled with the one or more computer-readable media, to execute the instructions to implement a communication module and a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) module, wherein the communication module is to: the (HARQ) module is to: | 20,555 |
8,576,527 | 1. An intelligent electronic device providing a real-time communications channel and one or more virtual communications channels, the intelligent electronic device comprising: i) a processor and a transmit module coupled to a serial communications link and the processor, the processor transmitting real-time data related to said real-time communications channel; ii) said real-time communications channel including a plurality of real-time bits and one or more bits; and iii) said processor serializing and injecting a background session data channel into said one or more bits to form a virtual communications channel, wherein said virtual communications channel communicates fault location information. | 6,227 |
9,594,478 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a first user input that specifies a first status from a set of statuses; in response to receiving the first user input, displaying, on a screen of a device, a first flow element corresponding to the first status; receiving a second user input that specifies a second status from the set of statuses; in response to receiving the second user input, displaying, on the screen, a second flow element corresponding to the second status; receiving a third user input that relates the first flow element to the second flow element; in response to receiving the third user input, determining a quantity of objects that changed status from the first status to the second status; displaying, on the screen, a directional indicator that connects the first flow element to the second flow element and that indicates a direction of flow from the first the first flow element to the second flow element and displaying, on the screen, an indication of the quantity of objects. | 43,920 |
9,130,170 | 1. An inverted photosensitive device comprising: a surface-treated reflective electrode comprising stainless steel foil; an organic donor-acceptor heterojunction over said reflective electrode; and a transparent electrode over said donor-acceptor heterojunction. | 35,691 |
8,883,406 | 1. A method for supplying a first gas and a second gas using a purge ring in a photonic processing system, comprising: arranging a first layer and a second layer to define a first plenum and a first baffle; arranging the second layer and a third layer to define a second plenum and a second baffle; receiving a first gas at the first plenum that flows through the first plenum and the first baffle to an inner region; and receiving a second gas at the second plenum that flows through the second plenum and the second baffle to the inner region, wherein the second baffle is one of less restrictive and more restrictive than the first baffle. | 20,821 |
8,970,136 | 1. A semiconductor light source lighting circuit which receives an input voltage and applies a drive voltage to a semiconductor light source, comprising: a voltage step-down unit configured to generate the drive voltage lower than the input voltage by turning on or off a first switching element in a voltage step-down mode, the first switching element having one end to which the input voltage is applied; a voltage step-up unit configured to generate the drive voltage higher than the input voltage by turning on or off a second switching element in a voltage step-up mode, the second switching element having one end to which a fixed voltage lower than the input voltage is applied; and a controller configured to control on or off of the first switching element and the second switching element, wherein the first switching element is turned on when a voltage applied to a control terminal of the first switching element is higher than a voltage at the other end of the first switching element, and wherein the controller includes: a bootstrap unit configured to charge a first capacitor based on a change in voltage at the other end of the first switching element in the voltage step-down mode; a charge pump unit configured to repeat charging from a terminal to which the drive voltage is applied to a second capacitor and discharging from the second capacitor which is charged to the first capacitor in the voltage step-up mode; and a switch drive unit configured to apply a voltage higher than the voltage at the other end of the first switching element to the control terminal of the first switching element by using a voltage of the first capacitor which is charged when the first switching element is turned on. | 48,853 |
8,591,195 | 1. A cambered turbine blade comprising a root portion and an airfoil portion, the airfoil portion extending radially outward from the root portion and defining a blade tip at a radially outermost end thereof, the airfoil portion being un-cooled and substantially solid from the root portion to the blade tip and thus free of internal cooling passageways therein, the airfoil portion including a leading edge, a trailing edge opposite the leading edge, a pressure side located between the leading edge and the trailing edge, a suction side opposite the pressure side, the pressure side having a pressure surface extending from the root portion to the blade tip, and a stiffening rib disposed at the blade tip and projecting from the pressure surface on the pressure side of the airfoil portion the stiffening rib extending at least a portion of a normal distance from the pressure surface at the blade tip to a chord extending between the trailing edge and the leading edge, and the stiffening rib extending in a chordwise direction beginning at the trailing edge and spanning at least a portion of the chord between the trailing edge and the leading edge. | 11,348 |
9,720,649 | 1. A game object used to provide a random outcome event by movement and final stoppage in an outcome indicating mode comprising: a) a game object body; b) the game object body containing an accelerometer microchip, power source and light-emitting elements within the game object body, light from the light-emitting body being visible outside the game object body; and c) the accelerometer microchip closing an electronic circuit for a period of time after the game body is moved, wherein the game object is provided as a moving object to provide a random outcome event by movement and final stoppage in an outcome indicating position or mode and the game object has: a) a game object body; b) the game object body containing the accelerometer microchip, the power source and light-emitting elements within the game object body, light from the light-emitting body being visible outside the game object body or by a receiver; and c) the accelerometer microchip or receiver closing an electronic circuit for a period of time less than 5 minutes after the game body is moved, wherein the random outcome event comprises a random light effect used in determining the random outcome event, wherein the game object body contains a receiver in communication with the accelerometer microchip or a transmitter outside of the game body, the transmitter transmitting outcomes from a random number generator to the receiver to close the electronic circuit, and wherein there are multiple light-emitting elements within the game object body, and multiple independent circuits each in communication with individual ones of the multiple light-emitting elements, the receiver providing signals to close at least one circuit to cause a light-emitting element to be lit, and wherein at least two of the multiple light-emitting elements emit light of different colors and the random number generator outcome identifies which of the multiple light-emitting elements will be lit. | 183 |
9,221,733 | 1. A method of dehydrating an ethanol water mixture comprising, a. contacting an ethanol:water mixture of at least 80% w/w ethanol with a first end of a column containing a bed of spherically shaped pearled starch particles; and b. removing a dehydrated ethanol product of at least 99% ethanol from a second end of the column. | 12,798 |
9,833,842 | 1. A rail shoe assembly for mounting a drilling machine to a rail of a railway track, with the drilling machine including a drill, a cutter, and a support frame with the support frame mounted to the rail of the railway track, said rail shoe assembly comprising: a base adapted to be positioned with respect to the rail and adapted to be coupled to the support frame; and an adjustable bar coupled to and slideable relative to said base, with said adjustable bar having a bottom edge for engagement with the rail, and with said adjustable bar defining a plurality of position indicators; wherein said base defines a plurality of mounting chambers, with at least one of said plurality of position indicators and at least one of said plurality of mounting chambers being alignable at a predetermined position for positioning said base relative to the rail such that the drill and the cutter are positioned relative to the rail. | 13,232 |
8,909,850 | 1. A memory management method, comprising the steps of: storing, via a controller embedded in a vehicle, a power cycle value representative of a number of power cycles that a first subset of memory space of a first memory has undergone, said first memory having an assigned predetermined maximum number of erase/write cycles, wherein said power cycle value is stored in a second memory that has an assigned predetermined maximum number of erase/write cycles which is larger than said predetermined maximum number of said first memory; writing, via said controller, data to said first subset of memory space dependent upon whether said power cycle value is below said predetermined maximum number; and storing, via said controller, in said second memory, a location value representative of a memory location of said first memory at which data is currently being stored; wherein said first and second memories are external to said controller and are embedded in said vehicle; wherein said first subset of memory space includes multiple memory sectors having a first range of addresses; wherein said writing step includes writing data to a new subset of memory space if said power cycle value is one of equal to and greater than said predetermined maximum number; wherein said new subset of memory space includes multiple memory sectors having a second range of addresses different from said first range of addresses; and wherein when said data written to said new subset of memory space is different from historical data previously written to said first subset of memory space, and said historical data is preserved in said first subset of memory space. | 48,589 |
9,673,470 | 1. A method for preparing a gadolinium-doped cerium oxide slurry having a patchwork surface structure with a nanoporous grain boundary, the method comprising: mixing a gadolinium-doped cerium oxide and a polymer binder, thereby forming a first mixture having 12 to 20% by weight of the polymer binder; wet-atomizing the first mixture under a pressure of 100 to 200 MPa, thereby obtaining a second mixture; coating the second mixture on a substrate, thereby forming a coated substrate; and sintering the coated substrate at a temperature of 1300 to 1450° C., wherein the patchwork structure has polygonal grains having a size of from 0.1 μm to 3 μm; and wherein the nanoporous grain boundary is present on all surroundings of all of the polygonal grains. | 41,089 |
9,667,171 | 1. A switching circuit comprising: a full-bridge circuit that includes a first leg, in which a first switch and a second switch are connected in series, and a second leg, in which a third switch and a fourth switch are connected in series, the first leg and the second leg being connected in parallel; and a control circuit that outputs a first control signal group and a second control signal group at different timings, wherein the full-bridge circuit operates in a plurality of periods that include: the first control signal group turns the first switch, the second switch, the third switch, and the fourth switch on and off on a first cycle that transitions, in a continuous manner, in an order of the first period, the second period, the third period, and the fourth period, and the second control signal group turns the first switch, the second switch, the third switch, and the fourth switch on and off on a second cycle that transitions, in a continuous manner, in an order of the third period, the second period, the first period, and the fourth period. | 41,306 |
8,663,784 | 1. A structure comprising: a substrate; a crosslinked polymer film disposed over the substrate, the crosslinked polymer comprising a random copolymer polymerized from a first monomer, a second monomer, and a third monomer, wherein the third monomer is an epoxy-functional monomer or an acryloyl-functionalized monomer; and a diblock copolymer film defining a pattern disposed over the crosslinked polymer film; wherein the pattern is induced by the self-assembly of the diblock copolymer on the crosslinked polymer film. | 20,466 |
9,633,545 | 1. A soap or sanitizer dispenser comprising: a housing; the housing having a base and a cover; a refill unit located within the housing; a communication interface located within the housing; a power source located in the dispenser for providing power to the dispenser; a power conductor providing power to the communication port; a dispenser controller in circuit communication with the communication interface for providing a signal indicative of a dispense event to the communication interface; a compliance module; the compliance module having wherein when the compliance module is installed in the dispenser, the compliance module receives power from the dispenser power supply via the connector and receives the signal indicative of the dispense event. | 35,868 |
8,482,146 | 1. A wind power support structure, comprising: a fixed position superstructure; and a plurality of wind power turbine modules, wherein each of the plurality of wind power turbine modules is mounted on a rotating bearing facility in the fixed position superstructure such as to allow each one of the wind power turbine modules to rotate to a wind direction independently of the other ones of the plurality of wind power turbine modules, and wherein each one of the plurality of wind power turbine modules includes a nozzle for wind acceleration, a turbine, and a mechanical-to-electrical power conversion facility. | 18,783 |
9,612,602 | 1. A hazard detection system, comprising: a plurality of safety sensors comprising a smoke sensor, a carbon monoxide sensor, and a heat sensor; a safety processor operative to: a system processor operative to execute a plurality of user interface features, wherein the safety processor is characterized by relatively low power consumption and relatively limited processing power in comparison to that of the system processor, and wherein the safety processor is operative to independently activate the alarm regardless of whether the system processor is functioning. | 29,665 |
8,857,491 | 1. A draft curtain assembly for a roll-up overhead door, the overhead door used to permit and prohibit access to an opening, the opening having a height and a width, the draft curtain assembly comprising: a draft curtain having an upper end and a lower end; a molding coupled to the upper end of the draft curtain; a pair of spaced apart wheels, the pair of spaced apart wheels being coupled to the lower end of the draft curtain, the pair of spaced apart wheels being positioned to be biased against a portion of the overhead roll-up door so as to allow the draft curtain to substantially extend between the molding and the pair of spaced apart wheels biased against the overhead roll-up door; and a repositionable arm having a first end and a second end, the repositionable arm having the pair of spaced part wheels mounted proximate the first end of the repositionable arm, and a pivot point located proximate the second end of the repositionable arm, the repositionable arm being capable of being pivotably coupled to a perpendicular plate at the pivot point. | 42,890 |
9,144,228 | 1. A method of reef construction comprising: a. preparing a scaffold comprising an exposed hard calcium containing material; b. exposing the scaffold to a first set of conditions in which a first group of bivalve organisms attach to the scaffold; c. allowing the first group of bivalve organisms to grow to sexual maturity such that a group of sexually mature bivalve organisms is present on the scaffold; and d. moving the scaffold and the group of sexually mature bivalve organisms from a first location having a first fetch to a second location having a second fetch; e. wherein the second location has a feature selected from: f. wherein upon moving the scaffold and the group of sexually mature bivalve organisms to the second location a first fraction of the group of sexually mature bivalve organisms are located above mean low water for the second location. | 29,323 |
8,668,725 | 1. A bone screw, comprising: a) a screw head; b) a smooth cylindrical shaft region, wherein said smooth cylindrical shaft region is adjacent to said screw head and is unthreaded to disengage from a bone screw hole upon full insertion; c) a first cylindrical shaft region comprising external threading, said threading of said first cylindrical shaft region having a first pitch, a first crest width, and a first thread diameter larger than a diameter of said bone screw hole to engage with said bone screw hole, wherein said first crest width is adapted to resist shearing when engaging with said bone screw hole; d) a second cylindrical shaft region comprising external threading, said threading of said second cylindrical shaft region having a pitch that transitions over one to three revolutions from said first pitch to a second smaller pitch, having a crest width that transitions over said one to three revolutions from said first crest width to a second smaller crest width, and having a thread diameter substantially equal to said first thread diameter; e) a tapered shaft region comprising external threading, said threading of said tapered shaft region having said second smaller pitch, said second smaller crest width, and a tapered thread diameter decreasing in diameter from said first thread diameter, said tapered shaft region further comprising at least one recessed flute; and f) a sharp tip. | 48,420 |
8,674,423 | 1. A semiconductor structure, comprising: a capacitor arranged in a first trench formed in a substrate; a transistor on a top surface of the substrate opposite a back side of the substrate; and a via arranged in a second trench formed in the substrate, wherein the first and second trenches have different depths in the substrate, the via and the capacitor comprise a first conductive film, a second conductive film, and a dielectric film arranged there-between, the via is a through wafer via, the second conductive film is centrally inside the dielectric film and the first conductive film in the via, the first conductive film and the second conductive film in the via each contacts a back side metal layer of the substrate, and the back side metal layer extends continuously across the entire back side of the substrate. | 31,801 |
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