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9,818,719 | 1. A microelectronic package comprising: a microelectronic die having an active surface, an opposing back surface, and at least two opposing sides extending between the microelectronic die active surface and the microelectronic die back surface, wherein the microelectronic die comprises a single structure formed of a single substrate material which includes an active area and an interposer area, wherein the active area includes in a central portion thereof further including integrated circuits formed therein and wherein the interposer area has no integrated circuits formed; an interposer formed within the interposer area of the microelectronic die proximate the at least one microelectronic die side; a build-up layer formed proximate the microelectronic die active surface, wherein the interposer area is in electrical communication with the microelectronic die active area through the build-up layer; an encapsulation material adjacent the at least one microelectronic die side; and a stacked microelectronic die attached to the interposer, wherein the encapsulation material includes a back surface that is coplanar to the microelectronic die back surface. | 38,664 |
9,684,153 | 1. A method for producing an infrared optical system consisting of an infrared sensor, an optical element having a curved surface, and a single ink layer, the method comprising: placing the optical element in a printer; and applying ink in a single layer to at least a portion of the curved surface of the optical element to form an optical aperture for the infrared optical system directly on the optical element, wherein the curved surface of the optical element with the optical aperture is an external surface of the infrared optical system. | 6,501 |
9,750,758 | 1. A method of treating endometrial cancer in a subject, the method comprising administering to the subject an inhibitor of sterol regulatory binding protein 1 (SREBP1) selected from the group consisting of: | 1,956 |
9,389,632 | 1. A method of powering an electronic device, comprising: receiving a high voltage line and a low voltage line from each of a plurality of variable DC power sources at a configurator; forming a combination of the high voltage lines to obtain a composite high voltage line at an output of the configurator; forming a combination of the low voltage lines to obtain a composite low voltage line at an output of the configurator, wherein a solar voltage is a difference between the composite high voltage line and the composite low voltage line; receiving a substantially constant DC voltage from a constant DC power source; combining the solar voltage with the substantially constant DC voltage to obtain the selected DC voltage; and providing the selected DC voltage to the electronic device. | 36,626 |
9,426,208 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, from a client computing device, one or more files that have been processed at said client computing device, wherein each of the one or more files is one of an image file, video file and audio file; in response to said receiving, processing said received one or more files in accordance with a first profile associated with a first of a plurality of computing devices to produce a first version of the one or more files for inclusion in a first destination web site, said first profile containing first size and format requirements of said first destination web site, and processing said received one or more files in accordance with a second profile associated with a second of said plurality of computing devices to produce a second version of the one or more files for inclusion in a second destination web site, said second profile containing second size and format requirements of said second destination web site; and transmitting, by a server device to said first and said second of said plurality of computing devices that are remote from said client computing device and said server device, said first and said second versions of the one or more files, respectively. | 215 |
8,820,680 | 1. A retractable landing gear mechanism for extended and retracted positions relative to an aircraft structure, wherein the landing gear mechanism comprises: at least front and rear wheels, at least front and rear connecting arms having one end operatively connected to the front and rear wheels, respectively, and an opposite end pivotally connected to aircraft structure; a balance beam element having front and rear end portions; front and rear shock absorbers having lower and upper ends, wherein the lower ends of the front and rear shock absorbers are pivotally connected to the one end of the front and rear connecting arms, respectively, and wherein the upper ends of the front and rear shock absorbers are connected pivotally to the front and rear end portions of the balance beam element at respective front and rear pivot points, wherein the balance beam is thereby indirectly linked to the front and rear wheels through each one of the front and rear connecting arms and each of the front and rear shock absorber elements, respectively; and a retracting arm having an upper end pivotally connected to the aircraft structure and a lower end pivotally connected to the balance beam element at an intermediate pivot point which is aligned with and equidistantly positioned between the front and rear pivot points. | 33,525 |
8,886,536 | 1. A computer-implemented method of providing promotional content related to one or more natural language utterances and/or responses, the method being implemented by a computer system that includes one or more physical processors executing one or more computer program instructions which, when executed, perform the method, the method comprising: receiving, at the one or more physical processors, a first natural language utterance; providing, by the one or more physical processors, a response to the first natural language utterance; receiving, at the one or more physical processors, a second natural language utterance relating to the first natural language utterance; performing, by the one or more physical processors, speech recognition to recognize one or more words of the second natural language utterance; determining, by the one or more physical processors, domain information for the one or more recognized words based on the first natural language utterance; processing, by the one or more physical processors, based on the domain information, the one or more recognized words to determine an interpretation of the second natural language utterance, wherein processing the one or more recognized words comprises: determining, by the one or more physical processors, promotional content based on the interpretation; and presenting, by the one or more physical processors, the promotional content to a user. | 14,233 |
9,749,716 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a processor unit and from a first sensor unit, a first signal indicative of an occurrence of an event; determining, by the processor unit, a level of confidence that the event occurred based on the first signal; receiving, by the processor unit and from a second sensor unit, a second signal indicative of the occurrence of the event; adjusting, by the processor unit, the level of confidence based on a signal strength of the second signal from the second sensor unit; establishing, by the processor unit, a signal transmit power level for a third signal, from the first sensor unit, that corresponds to the adjusted level of confidence; and causing, by the processor unit, the first sensor unit to transmit the third signal from the first sensor unit to a neighbor sensor unit at the established signal transmit power level, thereby enabling the first sensor unit to perform as a beacon and communicate the occurrence of the event as a warning to one of a user or a vehicle located in a boundary region of the occurred event. | 5,406 |
8,975,506 | 1. A solar cell module comprising: a plurality of solar cell strings, each of the solar cell strings comprising a plurality of solar cell elements arranged in a line and electrically connected in series, wherein each of the solar cell strings comprises an end solar cell element at an end in the line; a connecting member electrically connecting two of the end solar cell elements of two adjacent solar cell strings on a back surface of the solar cell strings; wiring members, each coupling one of the end solar cell elements to the connecting member; and a terminal box for extracting electric power electrically connected to the connecting member, wherein each wiring member is connected to either front or back surface of a first end solar cell element at a first end and is connected to the connecting member at a second end, wherein each wiring member is bent in a direction from a front surface to the back surface at a peripheral edge of the first end solar cell element and further bent in a direction from the second end to the first end such that the connecting member does not extend past the peripheral edge of the first end solar cell element. | 23,082 |
9,647,327 | 1. A multilayered film element comprising a dielectric layer having a front side and a rear side situated opposite the front side, wherein the film element further has a first electrically conductive layer forming a first component on the front side of the dielectric layer, and wherein the first electrically conductive layer has a surface facing away from the dielectric layer forming at least one component contact area arranged on the front side and connected to the first component and serving for arranging a second component, wherein the film element has at least one thermode contact layer comprising an inner end side which faces the dielectric layer and an outer surface facing away from the dielectric layer, the thermode contact layer being connected to the dielectric layer via the inner end side and which, as seen perpendicularly to the dielectric layer, is arranged in the region of the at least one component contact area and has a thermode contact area on the outer surface of the at least one thermode contact layer facing away from the dielectric layer, said thermode contact area forming an outer surface of the film element, and wherein the layer forming the first component is a metal layer having a thickness of 1 μm to 50 μm, and wherein that the thermode contact layer is likewise embodied as a metal layer, and wherein the at least one thermode contact layer is embodied as a rear-side thermode contact layer which is arranged on the rear side of the dielectric layer, and which overlaps and/or encloses the at least one component contact area, as seen perpendicularly to the dielectric layer, at least in regions, and wherein the thermode contact layer is adapted to conduct heat, applied by a thermode in contact with the thermode contact surface, through the dielectric layer to the component contact area, for mounting the second component on the surface of the component contact area, and wherein the thermode contact layer further forms a part of a third electrical component of the film element, the part of the third electrical component of the film element formed by the thermode contact layer being at least one of a capacitor area, a resistor area and a coil or coil element having a predefined inductance. | 48,450 |
9,174,956 | 1. A process for preparation of a compound of formula 7, or a derivative thereof, wherein PG 1 is an alcohol protecting group, the process comprising: nucleophillic addition of an allyl-silane derivative of formula 8 to a compound of formula 4 to form the compound of formula 5; deprotecting the compound of formula 5 under conditions to remove the R′ protecting group , and protecting the resulting aldehyde to form a compound of formula 6, wherein each R replacing the hydroxyl group with a methylene group in the compound of formula 6, followed by deprotection of the protected aldehyde to form the compound of formula 7; | 45,009 |
9,785,041 | 1. A discharge lamp driving device comprising: a discharge lamp driving unit configured to supply a driving current to a discharge lamp including electrodes; a controller configured to control the discharge lamp driving unit; and a voltage detection unit configured to detect an inter-electrode voltage of the discharge lamp, wherein the controller controls the discharge lamp driving unit so that the driving current includes a hybrid period in which a first period for supplying an AC current with a first frequency to the discharge lamp and a second period for supplying a DC current to the discharge lamp are alternately repeated, wherein the first frequency includes a plurality of different frequencies, and wherein the controller changes the first frequency on the basis of at least one of the detected inter-electrode voltage and driving power supplied to the discharge lamp. | 14,703 |
9,386,465 | 1. A method implemented within a wireless transmission system comprised of a plurality of wireless client devices, a base station, and a plurality of distributed transceiver devices communicatively coupled to the base station comprising: simultaneously transmitting pre-coded radio signals from the plurality of distributed transceiver devices, the pre-coding creating deliberate radio frequency interference comprising a controlled constructive and destructive interference of RF waveforms so as to enable data reception upon each receiving antenna and resulting in a simultaneous plurality of non-interfering channels within a common frequency between the plurality of distributed transceiver devices and the plurality of wireless client devices. | 19,605 |
9,038,392 | 1. A gas turbine combustor comprising: (a) an inner liner and an outer liner surrounding a center axis and that are concentric and cylindrical, and an end liner disposed between upstream ends of the inner liner and the outer liner, wherein the gas turbine combustor forms a combustion chamber that is an area surrounded by the inner liner, the outer liner, and the end liner, wherein the combustion chamber includes a primary combustion chamber disposed close to the end liner and a secondary combustion chamber disposed downstream of the primary combustion chamber, wherein the primary combustion chamber is annular and surrounds the center axis, and wherein an annular restrictor reducing the outer diameter of the primary combustion chamber is disposed between the primary combustion chamber and the secondary combustion chamber; (b) a swirling air flow forming device disposed to introduce combustion air into a vicinity of the end liner in the annular primary combustion chamber from outside and form a swirling air flow surrounding the center axis; (c) a fuel ejector disposed to eject fuel to the annular primary combustion chamber in the swirling direction of the swirling air flow to form a premixed swirling flow to form a tubular flame surface when ignited; and (d) an igniter disposed to ignite the premixed swirling flow of the swirling air flow and the fuel to form a tubular flame surface wherein the swirling air flow forming device includes an annular member disposed at an end close to the end liner in the inner surface of the outer liner to form the primary combustion chamber therein, wherein the annular member has a thickness greater than a thickness of the outer liner; and a combustion air hole penetrating an outer surface of the annular member in the swirling direction of the swirling air flow in the primary combustion chamber. | 45,062 |
8,930,897 | 1. A method for providing a proactive validation of a transformation script, the method being performed by one or more processors and comprising: associating the transformation script with ontology parameters, wherein the ontology parameters assign a link between two entities; initiating a debugging operation of the transformation script having at least one condition, wherein the transformation script uses a builder that creates a link between two entities; importing, from a data source, at least one data item for transformation; determining, as part of the debugging operation, whether the at least one condition that uses the at least one data item is valid based on the ontology parameters, wherein the one or more processors determines that the at least one condition is not valid if the assigned link in the ontology parameters is inconsistent with the created link in the builder; and providing an indication of a result associated with the determination, wherein the result is at least one of an expressed result or an implicit result. | 35,663 |
8,858,164 | 1. An air discharge system for a compressor of an aviation turbomachine, comprising: a discharge valve disposed between a primary channel of the turbomachine and a secondary channel of the turbomachine, the primary channel being level with the compressor, and an outer shroud of the compressor including an air bleed orifice opening out into the secondary channel via the discharge valve, the discharge valve comprising: a main electric motor having a rotor which drives the camshaft of the discharge valve in rotation; | 27,284 |
9,054,595 | 1. An AC-DC converter comprising: a first device capable of switching between an open state to open a current path and a closed state to close the current path; a second device connected in series to the first device to form a first series circuit with a first end defined by the first device and a second end defined by the second device; a third device capable of switching between an open state to open the current path and a closed state to close the current path; a fourth device connected in series to the third device to form a second series circuit with a first end defined by the third device and a second end defined by the fourth device; a main inductor interposed between a first connection point between the first device and the second device and a second connection point between the third device and the fourth device; a common snubber circuit connected between each of the first connection point and the second connection point and at least one of the first end and the second end of the first series circuit; a fifth device connected between the first connection point and the snubber circuit; and a sixth device connected between the second connection point and the snubber circuit, wherein the first end of the first series circuit is connected to the first end of the second series circuit, the second end of the first series circuit is connected to the second end of the second series circuit, the second device blocks a current from a high potential side to a low potential side of the second device when the first device is in the closed state and allows the current from the low potential side to the high potential side of the second device when the first device is in the open state, the fourth device blocks the current from a high potential side to a low potential side of the fourth device when the third device is in the closed state and allows the current from the low potential side to the high potential side of the fourth device when the third device is in the open state, when the first device switches from the closed state to the open state to block the current through the first device, the current flows between the main inductor and the first connection point in a first direction, the fifth device blocks the current between the main inductor and the first connection point in a second direction opposite to the first direction from flowing through the fifth device, when the third device switches from the closed state to the open state to block the current through the third device, the current flows between the main inductor and the second connection point in a third direction, and the sixth device blocks the current between the main inductor and the second connection point in a fourth direction opposite to the third direction from flowing through the sixth device. | 45,524 |
9,260,687 | 1. An apparatus for contacting a fluid stream with microorganisms, the apparatus comprising: a housing having a contacting chamber therein defined by a wall of the housing; a first inlet for the fluid stream to be treated; a first outlet for removing a liquid culture medium stream containing microorganisms; a rotor assembly comprising an impeller moveable within the contacting chamber to promote contact between the fluid stream being treated and the liquid culture medium within the contacting chamber, the impeller comprising an elongate scoop or bucket; wherein the rotor assembly further comprises an array of light emitting devices to provide a source of artificial light within the housing; wherein at a least a portion of the wall of the housing defining the contacting chamber is transparent to light; wherein, in use, the contact chamber has a first region occupied by fluid from the fluid stream to be processed and a second region occupied by the liquid medium containing microorganisms, the inlet directing fluid to be processed into the first region of the contact chamber; the impeller moving through both the first and second regions of the contact chamber; the apparatus further comprising: low density or floating solid materials to clean the inner surface of the housing; and a system for applying a potential difference across the impellor of the rotor assembly. | 26,318 |
9,720,956 | 1. A method comprising, by one or more processors associated with a mobile client system: receiving, at the mobile client system, an unstructured text query from a first user of an online social network; accessing, from a data store of the mobile client system, a set of nodes of a social graph of the online social network, the social graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes, the nodes comprising: accessing, from the data store of the mobile client system, a set of grammar templates, each grammar template comprising one or more non-terminal tokens and one or more query tokens, wherein the query tokens comprise references to zero or more second nodes and one or more edges, and wherein each grammar template is based on a natural-language string; generating, by the mobile client system, one or more structured queries by matching the unstructured text query to one or more of the accessed nodes and one or more of the grammar templates having non-terminal tokens corresponding to the matched nodes, each structured query comprising references to one or more of the accessed nodes matched to the one or more non-terminal tokens and the zero or more of the second nodes and the one or more edges referenced in the corresponding grammar template; calculating, by the mobile client system, a cost for each grammar template based at least in part on the unstructured text query not corresponding to one of the non-terminal or query tokens; and displaying, at the mobile client system, one or more structured queries to the first user, wherein each of the displayed structured queries has a calculated cost below a threshold cost value. | 9,028 |
9,313,575 | 1. A multifunctional Light-Emitting Diode (LED) device for communicating with a smart terminal, comprising: at least one controller unit, at least one audio power amplifier unit, at least one speaker unit, at least one microphone module, at least one wireless transceiver module, and at least one LED light source assembly, wherein: the at least one wireless transceiver module is configured to receive an audio signal and a control signal sent from the smart terminal, wherein the at least one wireless transceiver module is configured to send the audio signal and the control signal to the at least one controller unit for data processing and lighting control; and to simultaneously transmit the audio signal and the control signal to at least a second LED device other than the multifunctional LED device; the at least one controller unit is configured to perform the data processing of the audio signal or to perform the lighting control corresponding to the control signal; the at least one audio power amplifier unit is configured to receive the audio signal processed by the at least one controller unit and to drive the at least one speaker unit to make a sound; the at least one microphone module is connected to the at least one controller unit to collect ambient sound to send to the at least one controller unit for data processing, and the at least one wireless transceiver module is configured to transmit the audio signal collected by the at least one microphone module and processed by the at least one controller unit to the smart terminal; and the at least one LED light source assembly is configured to provide lighting, and to receive the control signal transmitted from the at least one wireless transceiver module and to correspondingly control the lighting. | 41,891 |
8,364,292 | 1. A method for isolating a plant device of an industrial plant wherein a safety measure is implemented on the plant device in order to work safely on the isolated plant device, comprising: communicating isolation information comprising a first data to a control and protection system of the industrial plant using a data communication unit, wherein the data communication unit includes a data input device for receiving the first data from the plant device that identifies the plant device, wherein an interface exists between the data communication unit and the control and protection system; and wherein the first data is input into the data communication unit at the site of the plant device, and an operator communicates the isolation information to the control and protection system via the data communication unit via the interface, and the control and protection system isolates the plant device in response to receiving the isolation information from the data communication unit, and the control and protection system blocks automatic triggering of the plant device as part of the isolation; wherein the data communication unit is a portable unit which is brought to the plant device by the operator to receive the first data from the plant device that is to be worked on. | 13,781 |
8,903,700 | 1. A computer-implemented method for guiding a simulation of a System Under Test (SUT) to reach a coverage goal, the method comprising: receiving a coverage goal associated with the SUT; simulating an execution of the SUT using a processor; said simulating the execution of the SUT comprises: determining a measurement of similarity between a trace obtained from the simulated execution and an abstract trace covering the coverage goal, wherein the abstract trace is a trace obtained from an execution of an abstracted model of the SUT; and in response to said determining the measurement of similarity, modifying the probability function; determining a convergence rate of the trace to the abstract trace based upon at least three measurements of similarity; wherein the convergence rate is defined as a rate of improvement in similarity; and in respect to the convergence rate falling below a threshold of less than 10% improvement between two iterations, outputting an indication that the coverage goal is not reachable, wherein said simulating the execution of the SUT, said determining the measurement of similarity, and said modifying the probability function are performed iteratively. | 823 |
8,590,303 | 1. An energy harvesting system comprising: a first region having a first temperature; a second region having a second temperature that is different from the first temperature; a conduit located at least partially within the first region; a heat engine configured for converting thermal energy to mechanical energy including: | 21,724 |
8,535,631 | 1. Method for the catalytic removal of sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide from waste gases in a reactor charged with an activated carbon catalyst, characterised by the following steps: saturating the activated carbon with SO saturating or partially saturating the waste gases with water, introducing the exhaust gases into the reactor, catalytically converting the SO washing out the catalyst and discharging the H | 45,078 |
8,838,177 | 1. A method for power saving of NodeB, comprising: when a first condition is met, the NodeB entering a power saving mode, and at least one multi-input multi-output (MIMO) cell of the NodeB being reconfigured as a non-MIMO cell; when a second condition is met, the NodeB entering a normal mode, and at least one non-MIMO cell of the NodeB being reconfigured as a MIMO cell; the method further comprising: before the MIMO cell is reconfigured to the non-MIMO cell, a NodeB controller notifying user equipment (UE) that the MIMO cell will be reconfigured as the non-MIMO cell in CFN through a system information block (SIB) message with the CFN, the reconfiguration message with the CFN or a customized message with the CFN. | 3,681 |
9,281,054 | 1. A computer-implemented method for performing a memory access operation with a memory module, the method comprising: identifying a row of bit cells residing within the memory module; determining that the memory access operation involves a subset of bit cells within the row of bit cells, wherein each bit cell in the subset of bit cells is indexed with a numerical value having a first parity; pre-charging the subset of bit cells via a wordline coupled to the subset of bit cells without pre-charging bit cells within the row of bit cells indexed with a numerical value having a second parity; and performing the memory access operation with the subset of bit cells. | 28,868 |
8,673,827 | 1. A method of selective quantitation of a polymerizable monomeric species in well spacer fluid, said method comprising adding at least one solvent having a refractive index of less than about 1.33 to a sample of the well spacer fluid to produce a solvent phase, measuring the refractive index of the solvent phase, and thereafter using the well spacer fluid with a drilled well. | 37,255 |
9,538,322 | 1. A method for reconstructing graphically a map of an environment surrounding a wireless device, said environment being equipped with a plurality of radio frequency tags set in a number dependent on a level of detail to be obtained in said reconstruction, said device comprising: at least one wireless receiver configured to receive identification and localization data of said radio frequency tags associated with elements present in said environment; at least one processor; at least one filing and/or storage component; at least one output component configured to provide visual information about said environment, said method comprising the steps of: receiving identification and localization data of said plurality of radio frequency tags available in said environment over a wireless connection by said at least one wireless receiver, wherein said identification and localization data comprises associated information about at least one element present in said environment and about an element type thereof; storing said identification and localization data and said associated information of said one or more radio frequency tags into said filing and/or storage component by said processor; providing on said output component at least one map of said environment, wherein the map is reconstructed by said processor by representing graphically the environmental elements associated to said radio frequency tags based on their position, associated element and element type, wherein single elements belonging to the same type are characterized by the same graphic representation and connected to other elements of the same type individuated by a common identification datum, when pertaining to a complex environmental structure made up of multiple elements; wherein said identification and localization data are stored in the form of at least one table, and that in said at least one table there is at least one row for each of said radio frequency tags, and that in columns of said table are represented, either fully or partially, at least the following fields belonging to said identification and localization data of said radio frequency tags: univocal identifier of one of said radio frequency tags; coordinates, in particular latitude, longitude, elevation, or geographical position of one element of said environment associated with the radio frequency tag; type of radio frequency tag defining at least one element present in said environment which the radio frequency tag is associated with. | 8,691 |
9,120,006 | 1. A method for playing a card game combining elements of poker and elements of a sporting event, the game method of play comprising the steps of: (a) providing a deck of fifty-six cards comprising the standard fifty-two rank and suit cards with the addition of four cards of rank “1” in each of the standard suits, the deck of cards suitable for playing the game of poker, a plurality of the cards each comprising indicia representing a non-zero numerical score in the sporting event, and each of the remaining cards comprising indicia representing a zero numerical score in the sporting event; (b) carrying out the play of at least one hand of the game of poker with the deck of cards and determining a poker winner based on the rules of poker; and (c) concurrent with the play of the at least one hand of the game of poker, for every poker hand having at least a rank pair, totaling a sum of the sporting event numerical score indicia present on the cards in that hand and determining a sporting event winner based on the sporting event numerical score totals. | 30,789 |
8,683,092 | 1. A device, comprising: circuitry; and a transceiver in communication with the circuitry, the device configured to cause the transceiver to: | 42,621 |
8,928,573 | 1. A shift register applied to a Gate driver On Array TFT-LCD panel, including a protection circuit for ensuring an output signal of an output circuit to be at a first level signal, a retaining circuit for controlling the protection circuit, an output circuit for outputting a signal, a first driving circuit for driving the output circuit, a second driving circuit for driving the retaining circuit, a resetting circuit for resetting the shift register, a timing control terminal for supplying a first number of timing control signals to the GOA TFT-LCD panel, a first power supply terminal for supplying a power signal to the protection circuit, a second power supply terminal for supplying a power signal to the retaining circuit and the protection circuit, a third power supply terminal for supplying a power signal to the retaining circuit, and a fourth power supply terminal for supplying a power signal to the first driving circuit and the second driving circuit; wherein the timing control terminal is connected to an input terminal of the output circuit; a control terminal of the first driving circuit is connected to a first external signal terminal, and an input terminal of which is connected to the fourth power supply terminal; a control terminal of the second driving circuit is connected to the first external signal terminal, an input terminal of which is connected to the fourth power supply terminal, and an output terminal of which is connected to the protection circuit; a first input terminal of the retaining circuit is connected to the third power supply terminal, a second input terminal of which is connected to the second power supply terminal, and an output terminal of which is connected to the protection circuit; a first input terminal of the protection circuit is connected to the second power supply terminal and the second input terminal of the retaining circuit, and a second input terminal of the protection circuit is connected to the first power supply terminal; a control terminal of the output circuit is connected to an output terminal of the first driving circuit, a first output terminal of the protection circuit, a first control terminal of the protection circuit, an output terminal of the resetting circuit and a control terminal of the retaining circuit, respectively, and an output terminal of the output circuit is connected to a second control terminal of the protection circuit; and an input terminal of the resetting circuit is connected to the first power supply terminal, and a control terminal of which is connected to a second external signal terminal. | 6,948 |
8,906,500 | 1. An engineered composite building material comprising: a porous fiber cement substrate having an exterior fiber cement layer, and a subsurface layer, the subsurface layer comprising fiber cement and a polymeric impregnating agent, wherein the polymeric impregnating agent is chemically bonded to hydroxyl functional groups in the fiber cement; and a coating applied to the exterior fiber cement layer wherein a portion of the coating penetrates the subsurface layer and forms a chemical bond with the polymeric impregnating agent, wherein the composition of the polymeric impregnating agent is different from the composition of the coating, wherein the polymeric impregnating agent and the coating cause the density of the subsurface region to be greater than the density of the exterior fiber cement layer. | 13,816 |
8,409,364 | 1. A process for removing at least some of at least one layer of a composite coating present on a surface of a gas cylinder, in which said composite coating is brought into contact with at least one liquid-nitrogen jet at a temperature below −100° C. and at a pressure of at least 500 bar, so as to remove at least some of at least one layer of the composite coating, wherein said composite coating is formed from fibers and at least one thermosetting or thermoplastic resin, and said fibers are selected from the group consisting of glass, basalt, carbon or aramid fibers. | 25,149 |
9,477,620 | 1. A storage device of a storage system, comprising: a device Direct Memory Access (DMA) configured to calculate a data transfer amount based on size information of data provided to a DMA queue from a host; a command manager configured to receive the data transfer amount from the device DMA and to calculate a transfer speed using a speed mode table; and a device interface configured to transfer the transfer speed to the host, wherein the device DMA calculates an amount of data received using size information of data received through the device interface and calculates an amount of data to be transmitted using size information of data to be transmitted to the host through the device interface, wherein the device DMA comprises: a reception DMA queue of the DMA queue configured to store the size information of data received through the device interface; a transmission DMA queue of the DMA queue configured to store the size information of data to be transmitted to the host through the device interface; and a DMA manager configured to calculate an amount of data stored in the reception DMA queue, to calculate an amount of data stored in the transmission DMA queue, and to provide the command manager the amount of data received and the amount of data to be transmitted as the data transfer amount. | 25,956 |
9,430,009 | 1. An electronic apparatus comprising: a determination unit configured to, in a case where the electronic apparatus is requested to execute a process, determine whether power consumption for executing the requested process is greater than a predetermined amount of power; a notification unit configured to, in a case where the determination unit determines that the power consumption for executing the requested process is greater than the predetermined amount of power, notify another electronic apparatus that the power consumption for executing the requested process is greater than the predetermined amount of power by transmitting a power reallocation notification; and an execution unit configured to, after the notification unit notifies the other electronic apparatus that the power consumption for executing the requested process is greater than the predetermined amount of power, execute the requested process, wherein the other electronic apparatus, which has received the power reallocation notification from the notification unit and has reallocated power to the electronic apparatus in response to the power reallocation notification, is limited from sending a power reallocation notification in a case that the other electronic apparatus determines that the power consumption for executing a requested another process is greater than a reduced amount of available power. | 26,065 |
9,506,126 | 1. Austenitic stainless steel comprising: in mass percent, C: at most 0.050%; Si: 0.01 to 1.00%; Mn: 1.75 to 2.50%; P: at most 0.050%; S: at most 0.0100%; Ni: 20.00 to 24.00%; Cr: 23.00 to 27.00%; Mo: 1.80 to 3.20%; and N: 0.130 to 0.180%, the balance being Fe and impurities, wherein a grain size number of crystal grains based on JIS G0551 (2005) is at least 6.0, and an area fraction of a σ phase is at most 0.1%, and wherein yield strength at 230° C. is at least 220 MPa, and a corrosion rate in a 65% nitric acid corrosion test in conformity with JIS G0573 (1999) is at most 0.085 g/m | 35,154 |
9,548,730 | 1. A circuit, comprising: a first FET having a corresponding first size; a first resistive element having a first end coupled to a gate of the first FET; a second FET having a corresponding second size and a drain coupled to the gate of the first FET; and a second resistive element having a first end coupled to a gate of the second FET and a second end coupled to a second end of the first resistive element, wherein a ratio of the first size to the second size is in a range R wherein each of the first and second FETs is a depletion-mode device. | 20,843 |
9,796,643 | 1. A hydrocarbon conversion process, comprising: (a) providing a feed comprising ≧1 wt. % of C (b) providing first and second catalysts, wherein (c) exposing the feed to the first catalyst under conversion conditions effective for (i) converting ≧10 wt. % of the feed's C | 9,392 |
8,994,592 | 1. An apparatus for forming a three-dimensional object by layer-wise addition of a build material, the apparatus comprising: a build-support for supporting the object during forming, and a flexible metallic mesh, film, or foil that is removably securable to the build-support, and to which the object can be anchored during forming, wherein the mesh, film, or foil is made of a material to which the build material can be adhered, and the apparatus is configured to form the object by selective laser melting, selective laser sintering, electron beam melting, or electron beam sintering. | 46,788 |
9,567,456 | 1. A rubber composition for a tire tread comprising: a diene rubber; a silica; a sulfur-containing silane coupling agent; and an alkyl triethoxysilane represented by Formula (I); a content of the silica being from 60 to 200 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the diene rubber, the sulfur-containing silane coupling agent being a polysiloxane represented by the following Formula (1); a content of the sulfur-containing silane coupling agent being from 1 to 20 mass % relative to the content of the silica, and a content of the alkyl triethoxysilane being from 0.2 to 20 mass % of the content of the silica; wherein Formula (1) is an average composition formula, and in Formula (1), A is a divalent organic group containing a sulfide group; B is a monovalent hydrocarbon group having from 5 to 10 carbon atoms; C is a hydrolyzable group; D is an organic group containing a mercapto group; R wherein in Formula (I), R is an alkyl group having from 7 to 20 carbon atoms. | 19,459 |
9,502,893 | 1. A distributed power supply system, comprising: a plurality of power storage units; a plurality of DC power supply units, each particular DC power supply unit of the plurality of DC power supply units corresponding to one particular power storage unit of the plurality of power storage units, each particular DC power supply unit being operable in at least one of: a power supply controller in communication with each of the plurality of power storage units, the power supply controller configured for controlling output power of each of the plurality of power storage units by optimizing output power of each of the plurality of power storage units based on status of charge (SOC) C and load L of each of the plurality of power storage units, wherein optimizing output power of each of the plurality of power storage units based on SOC and load of each of the plurality of power storage units further comprises: | 26,876 |
9,320,266 | 1. A bail support mechanism for a spinning reel, the spinning reel including a bail pivotably supported on a rotor between a line guiding position and a line releasing position, the bail support mechanism comprising: a bail support member supporting the bail and being pivotably supported on the rotor between the line guiding position and the line releasing position; a striking member disposed on one of the rotor and the bail support member; a biasing member configured to bias the striking member toward the other of the rotor or the bail support member; and an abutting surface disposed on the other of the rotor or the bail support member, the abutting surface including a first portion, the striking member configured to abut the first portion when the bail is in the line guiding position, a second portion, the striking member configured to abut the second portion when the bail is in the line releasing position, a stepped portion having an apex and being disposed between the first portion and the second portion, and a sliding portion continuously extending between the first portion and the apex of the stepped portion, the sliding portion being curved and inclined in a biasing direction of the biasing member. | 35,282 |
8,980,909 | 1. A compound of Formula I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: wherein | 11,042 |
9,524,488 | 1. A method to facilitate sharing information between a plurality of processing entities that each have a corresponding private data area at least in part in a memory of a same processing platform hosting the plurality of processing entities, data stored in a private data area of one of the processing entities being accessible thereto and inaccessible to any other of the processing entities, the method comprising: by a control circuit, operably coupled to the memory of the same processing platform hosting the plurality of processing entities: | 24,476 |
8,433,465 | 1. A method for operating a powertrain, comprising: (a) determining maximum and minimum series-drive power limits of the powertrain; (b) operating the powertrain in parallel-drive if vehicle speed exceeds a reference, demanded wheel power is between said limits, or demanded engine power exceeds a reference engine power; (c) operating the powertrain in series-drive if the reference exceeds vehicle speed, demanded wheel power is between said limits, and the reference engine power exceeds demanded engine power. | 23,374 |
8,347,609 | 1. A method, comprising: operating an engine including an SCR catalyst downstream of an exhaust turbine and a particulate filter upstream of the turbine; and adjusting a turbine wastegate coupled around the turbine to adjust a catalyst temperature to a desired catalyst temperature including, increasing wastegate opening when the catalyst temperature is below the desired catalyst temperature, and decreasing wastegate opening during filter regeneration when the catalyst temperature is above the desired catalyst temperature. | 17,942 |
8,816,142 | 1. A method comprising the steps of a) providing a fatty acyl mixture comprising: b) oligomerizing at least some of the mixture to yield a second mixture comprising C c) hydrotreating the second mixture to yield a quantity of diesel fuel blendstock and C d) separating at least some of the diesel fuel blendstock from the C wherein the diesel fuel blendstock of step d) comprises at least 70 wt. % C | 7,978 |
8,989,256 | 1. A method for encoding a video signal having at least one frame with a plurality of blocks, comprising: assigning at least some of the plurality of blocks to a segment; determining segment-level values for each of a first prediction element and a second prediction element for the segment using a processor, wherein the first prediction element and the second prediction element are different types of prediction element; determining, for at least some blocks in the segment, a block-level value for the first prediction element using the processor; determining, for at least some blocks in the segment, a block-level value for the second prediction element using the processor; for each block in the segment that is not associated with a block-level value for the first prediction element and is not associated with a block-level value for the second prediction element, applying the segment-level values for the first prediction element and the second prediction element to the respective block; for each block in the segment that is not associated with a block-level value for the first prediction element and is associated with a block-level value for the second prediction element, applying the segment-level value for the first prediction element and applying the block-level value for the second prediction element to the respective block; for each block in the segment that is associated with a block-level value for the first prediction element and is not associated with a block-level value for the second prediction element, applying the block-level value for the first prediction element and applying the segment level value for the second prediction element to the respective block; for each block in the segment that is associated with a block-level value for the first prediction element and is associated with a block-level value for the second prediction element, applying the block-level values for the first prediction element and the second prediction element to the respective block; and outputting a compressed bitstream based in part on the plurality of blocks from the segment. | 19,296 |
9,828,089 | 1. A rotor drive system, comprising: a stationary mast defining a rotation axis; an electric motor with a stator portion fixed to the mast and a rotor portion rotatable relative to the stator portion about the rotation axis; a clutch connected to the rotor portion of the electric motor; and a rotor assembly rotatable about the rotation axis and operably connected to the clutch, wherein the clutch is coaxially arranged between the electric motor and the rotor assembly about the rotation axis to disengage the electric motor from the rotor assembly when rotational speed of the rotor assembly about the rotation axis exceeds rotational speed of the rotor portion of the electric motor. | 2,505 |
9,356,303 | 1. A flow battery system, comprising: a first reservoir containing a first solution comprising a first reversible redox couple reactant; a plurality of flow battery cells that receive the first solution; a hydrogen sensor connected to and in fluid communication with the first reservoir, wherein the hydrogen sensor is configured to receive gas from a top region of a cavity of the first reservoir; and a power converter that exchanges electrical power with the flow battery cells as a function of a current signal provided by the hydrogen sensor. | 45,251 |
9,004,904 | 1. An apparatus for moulding plastic preforms into finish-blown plastic containers, comprising a clean room having at least one blow station comprising a blow mould for shaping the plastic preforms using at least one process pressure, and comprising a venting device for venting or reducing the process pressure to a recovery pressure into the atmosphere, wherein the venting device comprises at least one venting valve through which the process pressure or the recovery pressure can be vented into the atmosphere via a sound absorber, wherein a pressure drop safety device for closing the venting valve before the atmospheric pressure level is reached is provided on the venting device, wherein the venting valve is closed at the latest when a predefined positive pressure is reached in the finish-blown plastic container. | 36,252 |
9,603,549 | 1. An apparatus comprising: an ambulatory or implantable medical device comprising: | 31,645 |
9,038,723 | 1. A cutting tool comprising: a housing assembly; a first blade actuating wedge assembly inside the housing assembly and movable relative to the housing assembly along a longitudinal axis, the first blade actuating wedge assembly comprising a plurality of first tapered blade actuating wedges; and a first plurality of cutting blades, each cutting blade in the first plurality of cutting blades being supported in a substantially fixed position relative to the housing assembly along the longitudinal axis, wherein each cutting blade in the first plurality of cutting blades is coupled to a respective one of the first tapered blade actuating wedges, wherein movement of the first tapered blade actuating wedge assembly along the longitudinal axis causes each cutting blade in the first plurality of cutting blades to move perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, a second blade actuating wedge assembly inside the housing assembly and movable relative to the housing assembly along the longitudinal axis, the second blade actuating wedge assembly comprising a plurality of second tapered blade actuating wedges; and a second plurality of cutting blades, each cutting blade in the second plurality of cutting blades being supported in a substantially fixed position relative to the housing assembly along the longitudinal axis, wherein each cutting blade in the second plurality of cutting blades is coupled a respective one of the second tapered blade actuating wedges, wherein movement of the second tapered blade actuating wedge assembly along the longitudinal axis causes each cutting blade in the second plurality of cutting blades to move perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, wherein the first blade actuating wedges are tapered in a first direction substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis and the second blade actuating wedges are tapered in a second direction, opposite the first direction, substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis. | 24,840 |
8,501,638 | 1. A method of annealing semiconductor device structures supported by a semiconductor wafer, comprising: providing the semiconductor wafer having a wafer surface, with the semiconductor device structures having a cross-scan width WD and spaced apart by scribe lines having a cross-scan width WS: defining a length L of an annealing laser beam that satisfies the relationship n·WD+(n−1)·WS<L<n·WD+(n+1)·WS for integer n, the annealing laser beam having a central section of substantially uniform intensity and opposite tails of substantially reduced intensity as compared to the central section; and scanning the annealing laser beam over the semiconductor device structures over a scan path having adjacent scan path segments such that the center section simultaneously passes over at least n semiconductor devices while the tails of the annealing laser beam associated with the adjacent scan path segments reside only within the scribe lines. | 34,374 |
8,867,302 | 1. A data input circuit comprising: a data alignment unit configured to align internal data in synchronization with first and second internal strobe signals to generate rising data and falling data; a data strobe signal detection circuit configured to detect a last falling edge of a data strobe signal and generate a write latch signal; and a data latch unit configured to latch the rising data and the falling data in response to the write latch signal and output latched data. | 33,192 |
8,380,502 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by one or more processors, a voice search query from a user; deriving, by the one or more processors, a plurality of recognition hypotheses from the voice search query; determining, by the one or more processors, a plurality of scores associated with the plurality of recognition hypotheses, the plurality of scores being based on a comparison of the plurality of recognition hypotheses to previously received search queries; discarding, by the one or more processors, at least one of the plurality of recognition hypotheses that is associated with at least one first score, of the plurality of scores, that is less than a threshold value; constructing, by the one or more processors, a first query using at least one first non-discarded recognition hypothesis of the plurality of recognition hypotheses, where the at least one first non-discarded recognition hypothesis is associated with at least one second score, of the plurality of scores, that at least meets the threshold value, constructing the first query including: forwarding, by the one or more processors, the first query to a search system; receiving, by the one or more processors and from the search system, first results associated with the first query; and providing, by the one or more processors and to the user, the first results. | 27,797 |
8,909,538 | 1. A voice interface method comprising: operating a device including a processor to generate a user prompt to solicit input from a user, and prior to receiving a user response to said user prompt, generating an audible keyword prompt indicating at least some keywords that may be included by a user in a response to said user prompt, the audible keyword prompt including speech that has overlapping words, wherein said overlapping words comprise two or more voice keyword prompts that are mixed together to be at least partially overlapped. | 15,387 |
9,586,339 | 1. A method comprising: a) determining a bow in an extrusion direction of one or more linear paths on an outer surfaces or outer surfaces of an extruded greenware part so that maximum extrusion direction bow of the one or more linear paths or outer surfaces of the extruded greenware part may be determined; b) identifying the one or more linear paths on the outer surface or the outer surfaces having maximum convex bow; c) placing the extruded greenware part on a carrier with the one or more linear paths on the outer surface or the outer surfaces having the maximum convex bow in contact with the carrier; and d) processing the extruded greenware part while disposed on the carrier with the one or more linear paths on the outer surface or the outer surfaces having a convex shape on the carrier, such that the bow is reduced as a result of a process of converting the extruded greenware part to a ceramic part; | 41,010 |
9,797,608 | 1. An air-conditioning apparatus comprising: a heat source unit that exchanges heat between outdoor air and a heat source-side heat exchanger thereby generating cooling energy or heating energy; a plurality of indoor units each connected to the heat source unit, and configured to exchange heat between air in a space to be air-conditioned supplied by an indoor air-sending device and a use-side heat exchanger and transmit the cooling energy or heating energy supplied from the heat source unit to the space to be air-conditioned thereby conditioning air in the space to be air-conditioned; a plurality of remote controllers respectively provided for the plurality of indoor units to input an instruction to start and stop an operation of the corresponding indoor unit, an operation mode, and a target temperature of the space to be air-conditioned by the corresponding indoor unit; a heat source unit controller provided in the heat source unit and configured to control devices constituting the heat source unit; and a plurality of indoor unit controllers respectively provided in the indoor units and configured to control devices constituting the indoor unit, wherein the remote controllers each include a temperature sensor that detect a temperature of the corresponding space to be air-conditioned, and are each configured to communicate with the heat source unit controller and the indoor unit controller of the corresponding indoor unit, transmit the instruction to start and stop the operation and data related to rotation speed of the indoor air-sending device to the corresponding indoor unit controller, and transmit the instruction to start and stop the operation, and the target temperature and the temperature detected by the temperature sensor or a difference therebetween, to the heat source unit controller. | 48,598 |
8,508,065 | 1. A windmill generator system comprising: (a) a base (b) a shaft (c) a rotor housing (d) a first flange (e) a first wing | 40,792 |
9,380,227 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a processor; and a recording medium having a program, the program causing the processor to execute operations including: a normal mode and a visible light communication mode, wherein the normal mode and the visible light communication mode are switchable, in the normal mode, obtaining first image data by image capture with a first exposure time by sequentially starting exposure for a plurality of exposure lines in an image sensor each at a different time and each of the plurality of exposure lines partially overlaps in exposure time an adjacent exposure line, in the visible light communication mode, wherein, a gap time between a exposure starting time of each of the plurality of exposure lines and a exposure starting time of the adjacent exposure line is longer than a transition time of the change in luminance of the subject, the transition time indicating a time for change in luminance of the subject from a high brightness to a low brightness. | 28,054 |
9,370,066 | 1. A light emitting device, comprising: a light emitting unit including at least one LED string; and a constant current controller connected to a cathode terminal of the LED string, the constant current controller configured to control a driving current flowing through the LED string, wherein the constant current controller includes a transistor connected to the cathode terminal of the LED string, and a switching unit and a sensing resistor that are connected to the transistor, wherein the switching unit is configured to connect the transistor to a ground voltage terminal through the sensing resistor during a first period and directly connect the transistor to the ground voltage terminal during a second period. | 30,999 |
9,627,773 | 1. A parabolic antenna, comprising: a parabolic dish having a concave side; a first radiating element disposed above the concave side of the parabolic dish at a focal point of the parabolic dish; a second radiating element disposed at the focal point of the parabolic dish; and a housing configured to enclose the parabolic dish, the first radiating element, and the second radiating element; wherein the first radiating element and the second radiating element uniformly radiate radio frequency (RF) waves to the parabolic dish. | 42,636 |
9,171,065 | 1. A method comprising: maintaining relationship data describing relationships between data objects in a collection of data objects; identifying search results for a set of query terms, each result of the search results being a subset of related data objects within the collection, the subset comprising, for each particular term of the set of query terms, at least one data object that matches the particular term; wherein identifying the search results comprises: | 7,808 |
9,770,744 | 1. A flat steel product with high reflectivity, which in the finished re-rolled state on at least one of its surfaces has an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of less than 0.03 μm with a preferred direction aligned parallel to the direction of rolling, a gloss determined according to DIN 67530 of greater than 1,200 gloss units and a directed reflection of greater than 60%. | 30,319 |
9,537,326 | 1. A battery comprising: a first battery terminal; a second battery terminal; and a plurality of submodules individually comprising: control circuitry configured to control operation of the switching circuitry, wherein the control circuitry is configured to monitor the cells of the submodules during charging of the cells and to control the switching circuitry of the submodules during the charging and responsive to the monitoring of the cells; and wherein the control circuitry is configured to control the switching circuitry to provide increased current from a charging source external of the battery to the cells of one of the submodules compared with a current provided from the charging source to the cells of another of the submodules during the charging of the one of the submodules. | 29,739 |
9,490,992 | 1. A remote conference system comprising: a communication terminal; and a conference server connected to the communication terminal via an IP network, wherein the communication terminal comprises: a first processor; and first memory storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the first processor, instruct the first processor to perform processes comprising: wherein the conference server comprises: a second processor; and second memory storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the second processor, instruct the second processor to perform processes comprising: | 13,520 |
9,285,046 | 1. A control valve comprising: a body having an internal passage through which a working fluid flows; a valve hole provided in the internal passage; a driven member configured to open and close a valve section by touching and leaving the valve hole; a guide member configured to slidably support the driven member inserted thereto; and a shield part, provided in the driven member, configured to close one end opening of a spacing between the driven member and the guide member when the valve section is fully opened, wherein the shield part is provided in an end of the driven member on a side exposed from a sliding portion of the driven member relative to the guide member when the valve section is closed, wherein as the driven member is displaced in a valve opening direction, the shield part becomes seated on an end surface of one end side of the guide member, and further displacement of the driven member in the valve opening direction is restricted when the valve section is fully opened, wherein after the driven member starts opening until the shield part becomes seated on the end surface, a pressure difference between the one end opening and another end opening of the spacing allows the working fluid to leak from the one end opening toward the other end opening, and wherein when the valve section is fully opened, the shield part closes a space formed between the driven member and the guide member from outside by touching the end surface of one end side of the guide member. | 38,122 |
9,166,624 | 1. A CRC coding method for calculating, as check symbols, coefficients of a remainder polynomial through a first operation, generating a code word by combining the check symbols and information symbols, and transmitting the code word as data, the first operation being calculating a remainder by dividing, by a generator polynomial, a shift information symbol polynomial obtained by multiplying, by x k (k is a degree of the generator polynomial), an information symbol polynomial obtained by expressing the information symbols in a polynomial having x as a variable (modulo 2), the method comprising: generating, by multiplying only a matrix G by a matrix G a predetermined number of times in advance, a submatrix that represents a sub operation unit of the first operation after a second operation is repeated the predetermined number of times, the second operation being (i) deleting in stages each of terms from a highest degree of the variable x of the shift information symbol polynomial in the first operation by multiplying the generator polynomial by a power of the variable x and subtracting the product from each term and (ii) represented by a product of a vector obtained by arranging coefficients of the shift information symbol polynomial and a corresponding matrix G and a product of a vector obtained by arranging remainder coefficients of the shift information symbol polynomial still in one of the stages of the deletion and a corresponding matrix G; and generating the check symbols by sequentially performing an operation starting from calculating, as a remainder vector still in one of the stages, a product of a vector of the shift information symbol polynomial and the submatrix, to calculating, as a next remainder vector still in one of the stages, a product of the remainder vector still in the stage and the submatrix for each of the predetermined number of times. | 4,873 |
9,351,257 | 1. A terminal including: a BLUETOOTH communication unit; a main processor configured to operate in one of a sleep mode and an active mode, wherein the main processor is configured to consume less energy in the sleep mode than in the active mode; and a sub processor configured to: | 38,403 |
8,474,397 | 1. A system for manufacturing a continuous glucose sensor, comprising: a plurality of stations configured to serially deposit a plurality of membrane layers to form a membrane surrounding an electroactive surface of a substantially cylindrically-shaped conductive body, wherein the membrane comprises an enzyme layer comprising an enzyme configured to catalyze reaction of glucose and a resistance layer configured to control a flux of glucose to the electroactive surface; and an automated or semi-automated mechanism configured to continuously move the substantially cylindrically-shaped conductive body through the plurality of stations. | 3,567 |
9,027,326 | 1. A vehicle exhaust heat recovery system, comprising: an internal combustion engine; an exhaust line communicating exhaust flow from the internal combustion engine; and an inanimate flow regulator configured to limit exhaust flow under predetermined conditions; wherein the inanimate flow regulator is an airfoil formed in the vehicle exhaust heat recovery system. | 46,284 |
8,387,387 | 1. An energy conversion apparatus floating in seawater, comprising: a closed peripheral seawall having a portion that is submerged in said seawater; a horizontal barrier fastened to the submerged portion of said peripheral seawall at a depth of seawater that defines a first seawater chamber above said horizontal barrier and a second seawater chamber below said horizontal barrier, with both of said first and second seawater chambers being laterally bounded by said submerged portion of said peripheral seawall; a boiler chamber and first heat exchange system submerged in said first seawater chamber for transferring heat energy from said first seawater chamber to a liquid working fluid in said boiler chamber for vaporizing said working fluid; generating means for receiving vaporized working fluid from said boiler chamber to produce electricity; a cold-water intake pipe extending into ambient seawater below said second seawater chamber; a condenser chamber and second heat exchange system submerged in said second seawater chamber for receiving vaporized working fluid downstream of the generating means, and transferring heat energy from said vaporized working fluid to ambient seawater drawn from said cold-water intake pipe for condensing the vaporized working fluid; and a working fluid pump that returns condensed working fluid from said condenser chamber to said boiler chamber. | 34,571 |
9,341,131 | 1. A method for controlling operation of a vehicle based on a sensor, the method comprising: with a controller of a controller area network of the vehicle, receiving sensed parameter data and an indication of calibration data from the sensor, and communicating the sensed parameter data and the indication of calibration data to a vehicle controller; and adjusting a vehicle operating parameter with the vehicle controller in response to the sensed parameter data and the indication of calibration data, the indication of calibration data being one of a limited set of calibration codes corresponding to a sensor light-off response for the sensed parameter data. | 49,390 |
9,766,878 | 1. A method comprising: managing, by a storage device, a non-volatile memory to store a first firmware, a first firmware revision identifier, a second firmware, and a second firmware revision identifier; receiving, by the storage device, the first firmware from a computing host, the first firmware being associated with the first firmware revision identifier; receiving, by the storage device, the second firmware from the computing host, the receiving the second firmware occurring after the receiving the first firmware, the second firmware being associated with the second firmware revision identifier; returning, by the storage device, the first firmware revision identifier to the computing host, the returning being responsive to a read-identity command type from the computing host and occurring while the storage device is executing the second firmware and before a power cycle occurs; and returning, by the storage device, the second firmware revision identifier to the computing host while the storage device is executing the second firmware, after the power cycle occurs, and responsive to the read-identify command type from the computing host, wherein the returning the first firmware revision identifier to the computing host enables an Operating System (OS) executing on the computing host to continue executing without detecting an error in response to a change in a value of a returned firmware revision identifier throughout the storage device executing the first firmware and during executing the second firmware until the power cycle occurs. | 16,439 |
9,102,534 | 1. A process for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from a combined cycle power generation process utilizing a gaseous hydrocarbon feed, comprising the steps of: (i) dividing the gaseous hydrocarbon feed into two portions; a first smaller portion comprising ≦45% by volume of the gaseous hydrocarbon feed and a second larger portion comprising ≧55% by volume of the gaseous hydrocarbon feed, (ii) subjecting a mixture comprising the first smaller portion and steam to adiabatic steam reforming by passing the mixture though a bed of steam reforming catalyst, to form a pre-reformed gas mixture, (iii) autothermally reforming the pre-reformed gas mixture by partially combusting the pre-reformed gas mixture with an oxygen-containing gas to form a partially combusted gas and bringing the partially combusted gas towards equilibrium over a reforming catalyst in an autothermal reformer, thereby forming a reformed gas mixture comprising hydrogen, steam and carbon oxides, (iv) increasing the hydrogen content of the reformed gas mixture by subjecting it to one or more water-gas-shift stages thereby producing a hydrogen-enriched reformed gas, (v) cooling the hydrogen-enriched reformed gas to below the dew point of the steam therein to condense water and separating condensed water to give a de-watered hydrogen-enriched reformed gas, (vi) passing the de-watered hydrogen-enriched reformed gas to one or more stages of carbon dioxide separation to generate a carbon dioxide stream and a hydrogen-containing stream, (vii) mixing the hydrogen-containing stream with the second larger portion of the gaseous hydrocarbon feed to form a hydrogen-containing fuel stream, and (viii) combusting the hydrogen-containing fuel stream with a second oxygen-containing gas in a gas turbine to generate electrical power and an exhaust gas mixture, and passing the exhaust gas mixture to a heat recovery steam generation system to provide steam for one or more steam turbines to generate additional electrical power. | 22,499 |
8,369,332 | 1. A method of routing packets in a communications network by a network node, the method comprising: establishing, at the network node, a first Child Link Aggregation Group (CLAG), wherein the first CLAG includes at least one link to a first downstream node; establishing, at the network node, a second CLAG, wherein the second CLAG includes at least one link to a second downstream node; establishing, at the network node, a Parent Link Aggregation Group (PLAG), wherein the PLAG includes the first CLAG and the second CLAG; receiving, at the network node, a packet including an address of a destination of the packet; determining that the destination of the packet is associated with the PLAG; and transmitting the packet to both the first downstream node and the second downstream node over the first CLAG and the second CLAG individually. | 40,178 |
9,422,904 | 1. A vehicle engine starting apparatus in which a pinion gear mounted to a starter motor is detatchably engaged with a ring gear of a crank shaft of an engine, and the starting motor rotates the pinion gear to start the engine, the vehicle engine starting apparatus comprising: a pinion gear displacement means configured to cause the pinion gear to move closer to and to separate from the ring gear; a means configured to energize an armature of the starting motor to rotate the starting motor; an engagement detection means configured to detect whether the pinion gear has been engaged with the ring gear; and a control means configured to control operations of the pinion gear displacement means and the starter motor based on an engagement detection signal from the engagement detection means, wherein the pinion gear displacement means and the means to rotate the starting motor are controllable independently of each other, the control means monitors an engaged state of the pinion gear with the ring gear by the engagement detection means until an engine restart request occurs after the pinion gear is engaged with the ring gear during a drop of an engine rotation speed in a process of a stop operation of the engine, and when the engine restart request occurs, the control means controls the pinion gear displacement means and the means configured to rotate the starting motor to be driven simultaneously when the control means determines that the pinion gear is engaged with the ring gear based on the engagement detection signal from the engagement detection means, and controls the pinion gear displacement means and the means configured to rotate the starting motor such that the starting motor is driven after the pinion gear displacement means is driven when the control means determines that the pinion gear is not engaged with the ring gear based on the engagement detection signal from the engagement detection means. | 28,750 |
8,495,974 | 1. A method of preparing a mixture of ammonia and fuel oil for use in an internal combustion engine, comprising steps: first providing a supply of ammonia at a predetermined pressure, temperature and flow rate to a metering-mixing module; second providing a supply of fuel oil at a predetermined pressure, temperature and flow rate to the metering-mixing module; mixing a predetermined ratio of the supplies of fuel oil and ammonia in the metering-mixing module; and supplying the predetermined ratio at a specified temperature and pressure into a fuel control loop for use by the internal combustion engine, the supplying including: a) using a jet pump, first channelling the predetermined ratio into an emulsifier sub-system to generate an emulsified fuel mixture flow; b) injecting a portion of the emulsified fuel mixture flow into a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine to generate a disperse distribution of liquid fuel droplets therein to facilitate the formation of small combustion cells and thus produce efficient burning of both the ammonia and fuel oil components to provide a desired power; c) second channelling a remaining portion of the emulsified fuel mixture flow to cool the engine; and d) recirculating the remaining portion exiting the combustion engine head to the pump while regulating its temperature and pressure and combining it with the incoming predetermined ratio from the mixing-metering module in the step of first channelling. | 39,583 |
8,886,903 | 1. A storage management system for managing a storage system having one or more copy functions, comprising: a processor; and a storage device, wherein: | 28,847 |
9,675,635 | 1. A dietary supplement composition formulated in a therapeutic amount to treat and alleviate symptoms of joint pain, the composition comprising pro-inflammatory low molecular weight microbial fermented sodium hyaluronate fragments having a molecular weight of 0.5 to 300 kilodaltons (kDa), Type II collagen, glucosamine and chondroitin in an oral dosage form. | 21,293 |
9,502,943 | 1. A method for implementing the beginning stages of power generating comprising: providing a generating system comprising at least one of the following elements: providing at least one unit control that monitors and manages the circulating coolant of the at least one element. | 27,804 |
8,750,545 | 1. A hearing aid configured to be worn on or in a wearer's ear, comprising: a microphone; a receiver; an RF antenna, an RF receiver, and an RF transmitter, wherein the hearing aid is configured to operate in at least a two-way RF mode; and a signal processor programmed with instructions to provide an adaptive filter configured with an adaptation rate that varies based on an operation mode of the hearing aid to reduce or prevent an echo at a far end of a communication channel, the signal processor configured to execute instructions for a mode specific adjuster to assist in adjustment of the adaptation rate, the signal processor programmed to provide an acoustic signal path from the microphone to the signal processor in an acoustic mode, and provide an RF transmit signal path from the microphone to the RF transmitter and provide an RF receive signal path from the RF receiver to the signal processor in the RF mode and to provide the adaptive filter with a first adaptation rate for the acoustic mode and a second adaptation rate for the RF mode, and wherein the second adaptation rate is faster than the first adaptation rate, wherein in the RF mode, the RF transmitter transmits, using the antenna, a signal representative of a sound detected by the microphone, the signal processor processes a signal representative of a signal received by the RF receiver using the antenna, and the receiver outputs an audio signal representative of the processed signal. | 101 |
9,623,955 | 1. A composite reinforcement component for an aircraft or spacecraft, comprising: a first element assembly being aligned in a first plane of extension; and a second element assembly being aligned in a second plane of extension generally perpendicular to the first plane of extension, the second element assembly intersecting the first element assembly at a line of intersection of the first and second planes of extension, wherein the first and second element assembly each comprise: wherein the comb teeth portions of a first element assembly are offset along the line of intersection by a single comb tooth width with respect to the comb teeth portions of the second element assembly, such that each of the first and second element assembly intersect through the rectangular opening of the other element assembly at the line of intersection. | 41,121 |
9,456,527 | 1. A method comprising: providing a first liquid-cooled heat sink comprising at least one coolant-carrying first channel, the first liquid-cooled heat sink being separably coupled to an electronic assembly comprising at least one first electronic component and at least one second electronic component, and being in thermal contact with the at least one first electronic component to facilitate thermal conduction of heat generated by at the least one first electronic component to the first liquid-cooled heat sink; providing a second liquid-cooled heat sink comprising at least one coolant-carrying second channel, the second liquid-cooled heat sink being fixedly secured to the electronic assembly, and facilitating removal of heat generated by the at least one second electronic component; and providing inlet and outlet fluid couplers positioned between and fluidically coupling the first and second liquid-cooled heat sinks and facilitating liquid coolant flow through the at least one coolant-carrying second channel of the fixedly-secured, second liquid-cooled heat sink from the separably-coupled, first liquid-cooled heat sink, wherein the first liquid-cooled heat sink overlies the second liquid-cooled heat sink, and the inlet and outlet fluid couplers reside in between and coupled in fluid communication the second liquid-cooled heat sink and the overlying first liquid-cooled heat sink. | 8,169 |
8,650,844 | 1. A product dispenser, comprising: a shell defining a product dispensing chamber, wherein the product dispensing chamber is environmentally controlled; an inlet port disposed within the shell, wherein the inlet port is in communication with a product source, whereby the product source delivers a product into the product dispensing chamber through the inlet port; a portioning station disposed within the product dispensing chamber, wherein the portioning station houses at least one product receptacle having a receiving chamber for receiving the product, and further wherein a predetermined amount of the product is dispensed into the receiving chamber of the at least one first product receptacle, thereby creating a portioned product receptacle; a sealing apparatus disposed at the portioning station, wherein the portioned product receptacle is sealed after the portioning; a dispense buffer disposed within the product dispensing chamber, wherein the dispense buffer comprises a conveyor bank comprising: an ejection device disposed within the product dispensing chamber and in communication with the portioning station, wherein the ejection device extends from a first position to a second position to move the portioned product receptacle from the portioning station to the receiving slot of the dispense buffer; and an outlet port disposed within the shell, whereby the portioned product receptacle is dispensed through the outlet port when an external demand is registered. | 21,912 |
8,456,400 | 1. A liquid crystal device comprising: a plurality of scanning lines; a plurality of data lines that intersect with the scanning lines; a plurality of pixel electrodes that are provided at positions corresponding to intersections of the plurality of scanning lines and the plurality of data lines; a capacitor electrode that is provided opposite each of the pixel electrodes and that forms a capacitor with each of the pixel electrodes or with an electrode layer connected to each of the pixel electrodes; a control circuit that alternately supplies the capacitor electrode with a first voltage or a second voltage that is higher in electric potential than the first voltage, the control circuit including transistors; a scanning line driving circuit that sequentially supplies the plurality of scanning lines with a scanning line selection voltage that selects the scanning line; and a data line driving circuit that, when the scanning line is selected, alternately supplies the plurality of data lines with a positive polarity image signal that is higher in electric potential than the first voltage or a negative polarity image signal that is lower in electric potential than the second voltage, wherein the control circuit includes a selection circuit and a selection signal output circuit, wherein the selection circuit alternately selects and outputs the first voltage or the second voltage to the capacitor electrode, wherein the selection signal output circuit outputs a selection signal to the selection circuit, wherein the first voltage is higher in electric potential than a low electric potential of the selection signal, and the second voltage is lower in electric potential than a high electric potential of the selection signal, wherein a difference in electric potential between a gate and a source of each transistor that constitutes the selection circuit is set lower than a difference in electric potential between a gate and a source of each transistor that constitutes the selection signal output circuit, and wherein a gate length of each transistor that constitutes the selection circuit is set shorter than the gate length of each transistor that constitutes the selection signal output circuit to reduce an amount of crosstalk between the plurality of data lines and the capacitor electrode. | 46,083 |
9,355,265 | 1. An information handling system comprising: a mechanical lock configured to receive a first key and configured to rotate between a locked position and an unlocked position, wherein the lock comprises a contact and contact pads, wherein when the mechanical lock is in the locked position, the contract is in physical communication with the contact pads, and wherein when the mechanical lock is in the unlocked position, the contact is not in physical communication with the contact pads, and wherein a second key attached to a particular location by cable is securely connected to the first key, thereby securing the information handling system in the particular location; a control line circuit comprising a resistor and a switch, wherein the switch is configured to receive a signal from the contact and contact pads of the mechanical lock, wherein the resistor has a first terminal connected to a control line and a second terminal connected to a high voltage reference, wherein the switch has a first terminal connected to the control line and a second terminal connected to a low voltage reference, and wherein: a south bridge, wherein the control line is connected to a GPIO of the south bridge, and wherein during a start-up of the information handling system, the south bridge executes a basic input/output system (BIOS) power-on self-test (POST), and wherein during the BISO POST, the south bridge disables individual ones of or all of a plurality of communication ports of the information handling system in response to the voltage level of the control line being connected to the GPIO and based upon user presets in the BIOS. | 3,423 |
9,198,443 | 1. A food preparation apparatus utilizing vacuum and pressurization to saturate a food substance with smoke flavor very quickly and efficiently while using very small amounts of smoke producing fuel, the apparatus comprising: (a) an ignition and burn chamber having an ignition/burn device adapted so that a small amount of wood or other smoke producing material can be ignited to produce smoke within the confines of said ignition/burn chamber in sufficient quantities to be pulled into an adjacent and separate vacuum/compression chamber containing meat or other food and capable of holding a partial vacuum and sustaining a compressed atmosphere; (b) a vacuum pump for creating a partial vacuum in the vacuum/compression chamber containing the meat or other food and drawing smoke from the ignition/burn chamber into the vacuum/compression chamber; (c) a compressor for creating a pressurized atmosphere in the vacuum/compression chamber containing the meat or other food for pressurizing the smoke in contact with the meat or other food; (d) a smoke transfer pipe for transferring the smoke created in the ignition/burn chamber by the vacuum created in the vacuum/compression chamber containing meat or other food. | 3,672 |
8,715,775 | 1. A process for making a photovoltaic layer on a substrate comprising: (a) providing a substrate coated with an electrical contact layer; (b) depositing a first layer of an ink onto the contact layer of the substrate, wherein the ink contains one or more monomer compounds having the formula M (c) heating the first layer; (d) depositing a second layer onto the first layer, the second layer comprising one or more copper chalcogenides, or a CIGS material; and (e) heating the layers; wherein the depositing of the copper chalcogenides or CIGS material is done by chemical vapor deposition, metal-organic chemical vapor deposition, plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition, atomic layer deposition, plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition, sputtering, RF sputtering, DC sputtering, magnetron sputtering, evaporation, electron beam evaporation, laser ablation, and combinations thereof. | 27,710 |
8,895,067 | 1. A method for stimulating a Th1 immune response against an allergen in a subject in need of treatment by immunotherapy against said allergen, said method comprising administering to the subject a Th1 immune response stimulating composition comprising nanoparticles based on a methyl vinyl ether and maleic anhydride (PVM/MA) copolymer, and an allergen, wherein said allergen is encapsulated inside said PVM/MA copolymer nanoparticles, wherein said allergen comprises an allergenic food or an allergenic food product extract, wherein the PVM/MA-based nanoparticles further comprise an immunostimulating agent at least partially coating the surface of said nanoparticles, and wherein the stimulation of the Th1 immune response in the subject is due to said nanoparticles based on a PVM/MA copolymer. | 13,127 |
8,475,224 | 1. Method for manufacturing a compact fluorescent lamp comprising the steps of: a) providing an outer envelope comprising a substantially spherical portion and an elongated end portion being terminated by an open end on a base side; b) closing and sealing the open end of the elongated portion of the envelope with a seal of the same material as the material of the outer envelope to provide a hermetic seal, the seal also comprising power supply lead-out wires and an exhaust tube; c) subsequently separating the envelope by cutting along a circumferential separating line along the elongated end portion in a plane substantially perpendicular to a principal axis of the envelope into an upper part for receiving a discharge tube arrangement having a maximum cross-sectional, first dimension less than a cross-sectional, second dimension of the elongated end portion of the outer envelope for receiving the discharge tube arrangement therethrough with lead-in wires and a lower part closed by the seal at the base side for receiving a ballast circuit with connection points for the power supply lead-out wires and lead-in wires of the discharge tube arrangement; d) next introducing the ballast circuit into the lower part and connecting the respective connection points of the ballast circuit to the power supply lead-out wires; e) connecting the lead-in wires of the discharge tube arrangement to the respective connection points of the ballast circuit; f) after the ballast circuit, lead-out wires, and lead-in wire connections have been completed, bringing the two separated parts of the envelope along the separating line into contact with each other; g) subsequently connecting and sealing the upper and lower part of the envelope along the separating line; h) providing the envelope with a base; and i) connecting the lead-out wires to contact terminals of the base. | 24,120 |
8,826,769 | 1. A steering device comprising: an outer column constituted by an embracing body portion, a slot portion formed at either of a lower side or an upper side of the embracing body portion along an axial direction thereof, and fastening pieces formed at the embracing body portion to face each other at both sides of the slot portion in a width direction thereof; a fixed bracket having a fixed side portion clamping the outer column from both sides in the width direction; a fastener that fastens both fastening pieces of the outer column and both fixed side portions of the fixed bracket; an inner column clamping the outer column; and a pushing member having an expanding shaft portion, wherein the two fastening pieces of the embracing body portion are connected by the fastener so that the two fastening pieces can be expanded and contracted; and the expanding shaft portion is elastically biased in an axial center direction of the outer column so as to abut on end zones of the slot portion and expand the two fastening pieces. | 5,716 |
8,742,615 | 1. Method for operating an on-vehicle DC/DC converter configured to transform high-voltage electric power originating from an on-vehicle high-voltage source to low-voltage electric power at a regulated voltage level, the low-voltage electric power distributed by a low-voltage bus, the method comprising: monitoring a state of charge and a temperature of a low-voltage battery connected to the low-voltage bus; setting a DC/DC converter command to a nominal voltage level as a function of the state of charge and temperature of the low-voltage battery; monitoring a total low-voltage electric load; and adjusting the DC/DC converter command to a minimum low-voltage reference voltage when the vehicle is operating below a predetermined speed and the total low-voltage electric load is greater than a predetermined load. | 3,697 |
9,606,571 | 1. An information handling system comprising: a plurality of information handling resources having shared heat-rejecting media for transferring heat from the plurality of information handling resources; and a thermal management driver comprising a program of instructions embodied in non-transitory computer-readable media and executable by a processor, the thermal management driver configured to: | 14,758 |
9,469,156 | 1. A wheel hub comprising: a rim having a circumferential surface with axial ends; one rim flange being arranged at each axial end of the circumferential surface, wherein the rim comprises a fiber-reinforced plastic as a main component and each of the rim flanges is releasably connectable to the rim; and a locking element, wherein at least one of the rim flanges is structured to slide onto the circumferential surface axially from an outside and to be secured against a movement axially outwards by the locking element, and wherein the locking element is structured and arranged to form a rotation protection between the rim and the rim flange. | 16,945 |
9,370,053 | 1. A method for controlling a melt process in an arc furnace having at least two electrodes, in which sound signals propagating through an interior of a furnace container are evaluated to produce at least one type of characteristic values for a distribution of melt stock, melt and slag in a furnace fill, the characteristic values comprising one of characteristic values as a measure of thermal radiation striking a furnace wall of the furnace container, characteristic values as a measure of a lumpiness of a melt stock in the volume of the furnace fill, and characteristic values as a measure of the change in a melt stock component located on the furnace wall, the method comprising: generating characteristic values as a measure of thermal radiation striking the furnace wall of the furnace container by generating local characteristic values for a thermal region of influence of each electric arc of the relevant electrode, and deducing local thermal load peaks in the regions of influence of electric arcs based on the local characteristic values, modifying an energy distribution between the electric arcs as a function of the local characteristic values generated for as long as required so that thermal load peaks are attenuated or their occurrence is avoided, and reducing thermal power of the electric arcs as a function of the generated characteristic values for as long as required when it is determined or predicted that the effect achieved by the energy distribution modification is not sufficient to reduce or avoid thermal load peaks, wherein the thermal power of the electric arcs is reduced by at least one of (a) reducing a secondary voltage of a furnace transformer supplying the electrodes and (b) modifying a reactance of an auxiliary reactance connected in series with the electrodes, and generating a characteristic value for the specific energy introduced per unit mass of melt stock of the last charge since the last charge of melt stock was added; and correlating the characteristic values as a measure of thermal radiation striking the furnace wall with the characteristic value for the specific energy introduced per unit mass of melt stock of the last charge since the last charge of melt stock was added. | 13,615 |
9,533,249 | 1. A process for preparing an acid gas adsorption-desorption material comprising a linear organo-amine material having a weight average molecular weight of from about 160 to about 1×10 6 , a total pore volume of from about 0.2 cubic centimeters per gram (cc/g) to about 2.0 cc/g, and an adsorption capacity of at least about 0.2 millimoles of CO 2 adsorbed per gram of adsorption-desorption material, or mixtures thereof; said process comprising reacting at least one organo halide material comprised of at least two haloalkyl functional groups, with at least one organo-amine material under conditions sufficient to produce said linear organo-amine material. | 9,864 |
9,122,336 | 1. A conductive electrode structure, comprising: a substrate layer; at least one adhesion layer being formed on the substrate layer for forming a circuit pattern; a conductive electrode layer being formed on the adhesion layer for forming a conducting circuit corresponding to the circuit pattern; a first blackened layer being formed on the conductive electrode layer corresponding to the circuit pattern, and being manufactured with an easily etched material; and a weatherproof layer being formed on the first blackened layer and having a thickness smaller than that of the first blackened layer, and being manufactured with an etch-resistant material; wherein the material for manufacturing the first blackened layer has a dark color, so that light is absorbed by the first blackened layer and stopped from entering into the conductive electrode layer, and accordingly, the first blackened layer forms a shielding surface that prevents the conductive electrode layer from being directly visually perceived by a user. | 30,391 |
9,362,913 | 1. An integrated circuit, comprising: a first circuit that includes a plurality of sub-circuits, wherein at least first and second sub-circuits in the plurality of sub-circuits are functionally equivalent to a third sub-circuit in the plurality of sub-circuits; and a second circuit that receives at least three signals from the first circuit, wherein the second circuit computes a sum of the at least three signals in a first mode, wherein the second circuit produces a majority signal based on a majority vote function of the at least three signals in a second mode, wherein the first, second, and third sub-circuits produce the at least three signals and receive the same signals, and wherein the at least three signals produced by the sub-circuits are different than the signals received by the sub-circuits. | 47,939 |
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