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9,451,862 | 1. A dishwasher for treating dishes according to at least one cycle of operation comprising: a tub at least partially defining a treating chamber for receiving the dishes; at least one sprayer located in the treating chamber and spraying liquid into the treating chamber; a liquid recirculation system defining a recirculation flow path having multiple recirculation circuits, with one of the circuits coupled to the at least one sprayer; a liquid diverter provided within the flow path and operable to select between at least two of the multiple circuits for inclusion in the recirculation flow path; an air supply system having an air supply conduit fluidly coupled to the tub and a blower having a selectively positionable blower shutter and fluidly coupled with the air supply conduit to supply air to the tub from the blower; and a drive system having a cam mechanism mounted to the blower shutter, a drive shaft mounted to the liquid diverter, and a single motor mechanically coupled to the cam mechanism and the drive shaft to control the position of the liquid diverter and the position of the blower shutter. | 20,115 |
8,810,489 | 1. A display comprising: a pixel array part that includes a plurality of a light emitting elements and a plurality of pixel circuits that are arranged in a matrix form in columns and rows, each of the plurality of pixel circuits having a pixel transistor whose conduction state is controlled by a drive signal received at a control terminal of the pixel transistor; and a scanner configured to have output stages that are arranged in a column direction and that each are configured to output the drive signal to a corresponding row of the plurality of pixel circuits, wherein each of the output stages includes at least one buffer that comprises buffer transistors that have a channel length extending in a first direction and that are formed through irradiation with laser light, wherein a crystal structure of each of the buffer transistors is such that a pitch of crystal grains considered along a center line of the buffer transistor in a second direction is more uniform than a pitch of crystal grains considered along a center line of the buffer transistor in the first direction, where the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction. | 35,637 |
8,615,260 | 1. A method of operating a wireless communications device, comprising operations of: responsive to wakeup from a reduced power sleep state, performing operations including: wherein evaluating the signal metrics of the one or more prescribed signals received at the wireless communications device comprises one from the group consisting of: | 12,874 |
8,558,163 | 1. An optical navigation system comprising: a coherent light source to emit light to illuminate a portion of a finger; a window covering the light source so that light emitted from the light source is transmitted through the window to illuminate the portion of the finger; and a detector to receive through the window light reflected from the portion of the finger, the detector including a speckle-based sensor configured to sense movement of the finger relative to the detector based on changes in a complex interference pattern created by the light reflected from the portion of the finger. | 21,976 |
9,189,946 | 1. A method for detecting that a hazardous condition is easing, the method comprising: measuring, by a hazard detector, a first amount of the hazardous condition present in an ambient environment of the hazard detector; comparing, by the hazard detector, the measured first amount of the hazardous condition to a first alarm criterion; setting, by the hazard detector, a mode of the hazard detector to a state indicative of the hazardous condition being present in the ambient environment of the hazard detector if an alarm condition is indicated by the comparison of the measured first amount to the first alarm criterion; measuring, by the hazard detector, a second amount of the hazardous condition present in the ambient environment of the hazard detector, the second amount of the hazardous condition being less than the first amount of the hazardous condition; comparing, by the hazard detector, the measured second amount of the hazardous condition to a second alarm criterion; determining, by the hazard detector, whether the measured second amount of the hazardous condition present in the ambient environment of the hazard detector is indicative of the alarm condition based on the comparison of the measured second amount of the hazardous condition and the second alarm criterion while the mode of the hazard detector is set to the state indicative of the hazardous condition being present; and if the second amount of the hazardous condition present in the ambient environment of the hazard detector is determined to be not indicative of the alarm condition while the mode of the hazard detector is set to the state indicative of the hazardous condition being present: | 46,118 |
9,396,192 | 1. A method for tagging a media asset, the method comprising: receiving, with control circuitry, a plurality of communications from a plurality of users, wherein each of the plurality of communications includes words spoken by a respective one of the users while accessing the media asset, and wherein each of the communications is associated with a media asset play position during which the respective words were spoken; selecting a subset of the plurality of communications for which the associated media asset play position is within a range of play positions, the range of play positions being shorter than a duration of the media asset; identifying, with the control circuitry, a word that a threshold number of the selected communications have in common; retrieving from an attribute database an attribute associated with the word; and assigning the retrieved attribute to the media asset within the range of play positions. | 5,717 |
9,710,302 | 1. A computer system, comprising: one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories, one or more computer-readable tangible storage medium, and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more tangible storage medium for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, wherein the computer system is capable of performing a method comprising a series of steps to dynamically time out a first process within a plurality of suspended processes running on a server computer to maintain throughput at the server computer by: | 45,165 |
9,457,908 | 1. A nitrogen generation system for an aircraft, comprising: a RAM air circuit; a motor driven compressor (MDC) having a rotor, a stator to drive rotor rotation and a compressor rotatably coupled to the rotor; and a cooling system to direct cooling air from the RAM air circuit to an inlet of the compressor and an alternative low pressure environment at an aircraft exterior such that the cooling air removes heat from the stator, the cooling system comprising a first duct extending from the RAM air circuit to the stator, a second duct extending from the stator to the aircraft exterior, a third duct extending from the second duct to the inlet and a valve arrangement configured to direct the cooling air from the second duct to the third duct, wherein the valve arrangement comprises: a first valve disposed along the third duct; and a second valve disposed along the second duct, wherein the first valve is opened and the second valve is closed when cabin air pressure and a RAM air circuit pressure are equal, and the first valve is closed and the second valve is opened when cabin air pressure exceeds a RAM air circuit pressure. | 3,110 |
9,397,598 | 1. A method comprising: identifying a parameter; determining when the parameter satisfies a condition; monitoring a duration of operation of a generator in an exercise mode, the generator not providing power to a load when operating in the exercise mode; comparing, using a control system, the duration to a time threshold; and stopping the operation of the generator in the exercise mode based on the determination of when the parameter satisfies the condition and the comparison of the duration to the time threshold. | 35,999 |
9,700,449 | 1. An endoscopically implantable weight control device that forms a partial gastric outlet obstruction in a patient's digestive tract to promote early and prolonged satiety in the patient, the weight control device comprising: an elongated internal module having a gastric portion, a tapered duodenal portion with a distal end, and an intermediate portion positioned between the gastric and duodenal portions, the internal module also having a central lumen extending through the gastric, duodenal and intermediate portions; a valve body assembly connected to a gastric end of the internal module, the valve body having a central aperture, a first set of an inflation valve and a deflation valve and a second set of an inflation valve and a deflation valve, wherein said first and second sets of valves are arranged radially about the central aperture; an inflatable member that receives the internal member and that is joined to only (i) the valve body assembly, (ii) the intermediate portion of the internal module and (iii) the distal end of the internal module, the inflatable member having (i) a major segment that has a linear configuration and that overlies the gastric and intermediate portions of the internal module and (ii) a minor segment that has a tapered configuration and that overlies the duodenal portion of the internal module; wherein when the inflatable member is supplied with a working fluid (i) a gastric bulb is formed in the inflatable member, said gastric bulb residing between the valve body assembly and the intermediate portion of the internal module, and (ii) a duodenal bulb in the inflatable member, said duodenal bulb residing between the intermediate portion of the internal module and the distal end of the internal module; wherein the valve body assembly and the internal module include both a first inflation passageway and a first deflation passageway for the transport of the working fluid to the gastric bulb, wherein the gastric bulb forms a partial gastric outlet obstruction when the weight control device is implanted in the patient; wherein the valve body assembly and the internal module include both a second inflation passageway and a second deflation passageway for the transport of the working fluid to the duodenal bulb, wherein the second inflation and deflation passageways extend through the gastric and intermediate portions of the internal module to reach the duodenal portion of the internal module; and, wherein the central lumen of the internal module and the central aperture of the valve body assembly are cooperatively aligned to provide an internal passageway extending through the weight control device that receives and allows for the passage of chyme from the patient's stomach through the device to the duodenum. | 34,950 |
8,967,445 | 1. A tool assembly for use with a surgical instrument comprising: a loading unit engageable with the surgical instrument, the loading unit including: a shipping wedge including: | 1,971 |
9,309,271 | 1. A process for the preparation of an alkoxysilyl group-containing isocyanate compound having the general Formula (I): wherein each R each R R a is 0, 1 or 2 comprising: (i) reacting ClC(═O)Cl with a corresponding alkoxysilyl group-containing amine having the general Formula (II): wherein each R each R R a is 0, 1 or 2, in the presence of a tertiary amino-containing compound having the general Formula (II): wherein each R each R R R X is hydrogen or a —NR x is 0 to 50; y is 0 to 50; and z is 0 to 50, with the proviso that the sum of x+y+z is from 2 to 100, to provide for an alkoxysilyl group-containing isocyanate compound; (ii) separating the hydrochloride salt tertiary amino-containing compound from the alkoxysilyl group-containing isocyanate compound of step (i); and optionally, (iii) purifying the alkoxysilyl group-containing isocyanate of step (ii). | 40,807 |
9,125,241 | 1. A heater comprising: a substrate; a heating resistor formed on the substrate; an electrode electrically connected to the heating resistor; and a diffusion prevention layer; wherein the heating resistor, the electrode and the diffusion prevention layer each contain Ag, wherein the diffusion prevention layer covers at least part of the electrode and intervenes between the heating resistor and the covered part of the electrode, and contains a higher percentage of Pd than the electrode, and wherein the heating resistor contains a higher percentage of Pd than the diffusion prevention layer. | 11,502 |
9,828,614 | 1. An engineered polypeptide having imine reductase activity, wherein said polypeptide has at least 90% sequence identity to the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO:2, and comprises a substitution at a position corresponding to position 201 of SEQ ID NO:2, wherein the amino acid at position 201 has been replaced with an aliphatic or non-polar residue. | 45,929 |
8,921,658 | 1. A method of increasing a trait of a plant under non-stress growth conditions as compared to a non-transformed plant which is grown under the same growth conditions, the trait is selected from the group consisting of: rosette diameter, growth rate of plot coverage, growth rate of rosette diameter, growth rate of rosette area, and growth rate of leaf blade area, the method comprising: (a) expressing within the plant an exogenous polynucleotide comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding the polypeptide set forth in SEQ ID NO: 132, and (b) selecting plants resulting from step (a) for an increased rosette diameter, growth rate of plot coverage, growth rate of rosette diameter, growth rate of rosette area, and/or growth rate of leaf blade area under non-stress growth conditions as compared to a non-transformed plant which is grown under the same growth conditions, thereby increasing the trait of the plant under the non-stress growth conditions. | 10,231 |
8,978,085 | 1. A method for facilitating a transmission of at least one upstream data signal from at least one subscriber in a communications network comprising: receiving upstream radio frequency (RF) signals simultaneously from multiple pieces of subscriber equipment for conversion into a single optical signal, wherein the RF signals share a single return to a receiver and wherein the multiple pieces of subscriber equipment transmit the RF signals at individual rates; demodulating at the receiver the multiple upstream RF signals into individual baseband digital signals using timing information inherent in the RF signals; combining the baseband digital signals for upstream transmission; converting, at a premises associated with the at least one subscriber, the combined baseband digital signals into a single optical signal for transmission at a second rate, wherein the second rate of the optical signal transmission is higher than the individual rates of the multiple pieces of subscriber equipment; and transmitting the single optical signal upstream via a fiber optic link in the communications network. | 49,924 |
9,125,732 | 1. A method, comprising: inserting into an artery of a subject, via a catheter, an implantable device that is shaped to define: advancing the device out of a distal end of the catheter; and upon advancing the device out of the distal end of the catheter, stretching a wall of the artery by applying pressure to the arterial wall with the at least four longitudinal struts and by locking the locking mechanism in order to flatten at least four regions of an arterial wall and change the shape of the arterial wall such that the arterial wall has a rectangular cross-sectional shape to modulate baroreceptor activity. | 7,858 |
8,694,813 | 1. An electronic device comprising: storage capable of being activated and deactivated; and data processing circuitry configured to include a plurality of operational components, to obtain data from the storage upon request by the plurality of operational components, and to manage when the storage is activated and deactivated according to a first storage power management scheme when a first of the plurality of operational components requests the data and according to a second storage power management scheme when a second of the plurality of operational components requests the data, wherein the first of the plurality of operational components comprises an operating system component and wherein the second of the plurality of operational components comprises an application program component. | 37,566 |
9,408,777 | 1. A blister package for patient compliance with a dosage form; the blister package comprising a matrix of blisters; said matrix including a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows; each blister comprising a single dosage form for once a day administration; said column blisters representing a week and the row blisters representing days of the week; two adjacent columns form a group, with each group representing a week and each column of the group comprising a different dosage form; the dosage form in one column of the group comprising a fixed dose of metoprolol or salts thereof and the dosage form in the adjacent column of the group comprising a platelet inhibitor; each blister is printed with the day of the week on a backing strip; the backing strip is identifiable by a unique color selected from white, grey, green, orange, violet and indigo; the blister package is printed with a product name, a product strength, a lot number, an expiry date, an order time and last dose indication. | 47,736 |
9,829,393 | 1. A method for determining the ambient temperature of a mobile device, the method comprising: determining, via a processor, an operating condition of the mobile device for determining a thermal condition of the mobile device, wherein the operating condition is determined by analyzing at least one temperature value of one internal temperature sensor and a power consumption of the mobile device; estimating, via the processor, a dynamic parameter which characterizes the thermal behavior of the mobile device; and calculating, via the processor, an ambient temperature of the mobile device with the aid of the dynamic parameter; wherein the at least one temperature value of the internal temperature sensor of the mobile device is measured for calculating the ambient temperature of the mobile device, and wherein the ambient temperature is based on a first-order thermal network model, which is as follows: where Tamb(t) is the calculated ambient temperature, TG | 38,084 |
8,545,151 | 1. A device for engaging an elongated support for restraining cargo in a container having a pair of opposed walls and configured to transfer to shear stress at least some of the tensile force applied by the elongated support, the device comprising: a strip having a bottom strip surface with an adhesive disposed thereon for securing the device to one of the walls of the container, and a top strip surface, the strip having a pair of ends; a sleeve including a plurality of walls extending from the top strip surface generally perpendicular to the top strip surface defining a first cavity having an open end for receiving an end of the elongated support; a plurality of first gussets for transferring to shear stress at least some of the tensile force applied by the elongated support, the first gussets extending from the sleeve toward one of the ends of the strip and being generally parallel to each other; a gusset wall extending generally perpendicular to the first gussets, the gusset wall positioned between the sleeve and said one of the ends, the first gussets terminating in the gusset wall; and a plurality of second gussets extending from the gusset wall toward said one of the ends. | 26,374 |
9,036,918 | 1. An image processing apparatus that divides a frame into multiple fields each displayed at a different timing, divides an image of each field into multiple blocks, and performs motion compensating prediction based on a reference image selected for each block and from among a plurality of candidate reference images that are past reference images and a motion vector with respect to the reference image, the image processing apparatus comprising a processor that is configured to: determine whether all encoding modes of a plurality of adjacent blocks adjacent to a processing target block to be processed are an intra-encoding mode, determine upon determining that the encoding mode of at least one of the adjacent blocks is not the intra-encoding mode, whether the processing target block belongs to a quiescence area or a moving area, based on a motion vector of the adjacent block for which the encoding mode has been determined to not be the intra-encoding mode and a reference index indicating a reference image of the adjacent block for which the encoding mode has been determined to not be the intra-encoding mode, and select upon determining that all the encoding modes of the adjacent blocks are the intra-encoding mode, an index number assigned to an image that is temporally closest and in a field different from a field to which the processing target block belongs, select upon determining that the processing target block belongs to a quiescence area, an index number assigned to an image that is temporally closest and in a same field as the field to which the processing target block belongs, select upon determining that the processing target block belongs to a moving area and from among reference indexes indicating reference images of the adjacent blocks for which the encoding modes have been determined to not be the intra-encoding mode, an index number of a reference image that is temporally closest, and determine the selected index number as a reference index indicating a reference image of the processing target block. | 2,665 |
9,034,042 | 1. A method for repairing an intervertebral disc comprising: forming a hole in an annulus fibrosis; removing damaged annulus fibrosis or nucleus pulposus material from an intervertebral disc space of an intervertebral disc; inserting an interbody fusion implant that does not contain an osteogenic inhibitory agent into the intervertebral disk space; and closing the hole formed in the annulus fibrosis at least in part by delivering a growth-inhibiting matrix in or about the hole, the growth-inhibiting matrix adapted to prevent tissue or growth agents associated with the implant from migrating into areas outside the intervertebral disk space, and the growth-inhibiting matrix does not contain growth agents and comprises a bio-active additive that is present in an amount of about 1% to 10% of the total growth-inhibiting matrix volume. | 44,615 |
8,765,997 | 1. A process for preparing 4-borono- L -phenylalanine comprises steps of: reacting N-protected (S)-4-halophenylalanine of formula (I), a boronating agent and an organolithium to obtain a reaction mixture, wherein the reaction mixture comprises N-protected (S)-4-boronophenylalanine of formula (II) and the R group represents a protecting group; isolating the N-protected (S)-4-boronophenylalanine from the reaction mixture; and deprotecting the R group of the N-protected (S)-4-boronophenylalanine to obtain 4-borono- | 11,489 |
9,242,881 | 1. A method of processing an anaerobic digestion effluent having a solids concentration of about 2% to 4% comprising; a) providing a quantity of the anaerobic digestion effluent having a solids concentration of about 2% to 4% at a temperature of at least about 50° C.; b) adding the effluent to a biomass in a closed insulated tank to form a mixture having a solids concentration of at least about 20%; c) fermenting the mixture anaerobically without further heating or stirring in the insulated tank for a time period of from at least about 2 to 10 days; and d) isolating wet solids from liquid and biogas in the mixture. | 37,892 |
8,697,987 | 1. A solar cell structure comprising: a photovoltaic solar cell element having a back electrical contact; a front current-collection grid cap structure overlying and contacting the photovoltaic solar cell element and defining openings therethrough to the photovoltaic solar cell element, wherein the front current-collection grid cap structure comprises a grid cap structure made of a doped semiconductor material overlying and contacting the photovoltaic solar cell element, the grid cap structure comprising a top grid-cap central region, grid-cap sides, and top grid cap margins disposed between and contacting the top grid-cap central region and the grid-cap sides; an anti-reflection layer formed of an anti-reflection material overlying and contacting the photovoltaic solar cell element in the openings of the front current-collection grid cap structure; an edge stripe of anti-reflection material completely overlying and contacting the top grid-cap margins but not the top grid-cap central region; and a metallic electrical current collector overlying and contacting the top grid-cap central region, but not contacting the top grid cap margins, the grid-cap sides, the anti-reflection layer and the photovoltaic solar cell element. | 19,834 |
8,358,522 | 1. An apparatus comprising: receiving circuitry configured to receive a first signal; processing circuitry configured to generate a second signal by modifying the first signal to delay a transition from high to low for a non-zero overlap duration; and output circuitry configured: to apply an inverse of the first signal as a gate drive timing of at least a first transistor, the first transistor comprising a part of a primary side of a full-bridge synchronous rectifier and to apply the second signal as a gate drive timing of at least a second transistor, the second transistor comprising a part of a secondary side of the full-bridge synchronous rectifier, where the second signal and the inverse of the first signal are high during the overlap duration. | 9,252 |
8,597,418 | 1. An absorbent that absorbs CO 2 or H 2 S contained in gas, the absorbent consisting essentially of: a main component which is 2-n-butylaminoethanol (n-BAE); minor components selected from any two of piperazine (P), 1-(2-aminoethyl)piperazine (AEPRZ), 2-amino-2-methylpropanol (AMP), and piperidinol (PDN); and water, wherein the main component accounts for 30 to 55 weight percent, the minor components account for 20 to 1 weight percent, and the water accounts for the remaining weight percent. | 36,523 |
9,450,438 | 1. A power device, comprising: at least three power sources being a first power source, a second power source, and a third power source; a load configured to be driven by a power, the power being supplied from the power source; and a voltage control unit configured to control a voltage to be applied to the load, the voltage control unit comprising: | 7,513 |
9,036,718 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a memory array to store data; an output multiplexer to provide data to a read path; a serializer, coupled to the memory array and the output multiplexer, to receive data from the memory array, and provide data received from the memory array to the output multiplexer at a first speed; and an out of band access circuitry, coupled to the memory array and the output multiplexer, in parallel with the serializer, to receive data from the memory array, and provide data received from the memory array to the output multiplexer at a second speed, wherein the second speed is slower than the first speed. | 418 |
8,991,181 | 1. A method for producing work from heat in a continuous cycle, comprising: pressurizing a first working fluid having a first chemical composition; heating the first working fluid under pressure to obtain a first vapor comprised of the first working fluid; compressing a second working fluid comprising a second vapor, the second working fluid have a second chemical composition different from the first chemical composition; mixing said first vapor and said second vapor to form a third vapor; transferring heat from said first vapor to said second vapor subsequent to said mixing; expanding said third vapor to perform work; cooling said third vapor to separate a condensate of said first vapor from said second vapor; repeating said continuous cycle using said condensate recovered in said cooling step as said first working fluid, and said second vapor as said second working fluid; and controlling an operational dynamic of the continuous cycle by selectively varying at least one of a first mass flow rate of the first vapor and a second mass flow rate of the second vapor used in the mixing to dynamically vary a mixing ratio of the first and second vapor contained in the third vapor; wherein said cooling step further comprises using said condensate as a refrigerant in an evaporator, and disposing said evaporator in an environment where it can absorb heat from a waste heat source. | 9,904 |
9,699,730 | 1. A communication method performed by a station (STA) that operates in a wireless LAN system, the method comprising: receiving, by the STA, first change information ; transmitting, by the STA, a probe request frame including the first change information; and in response to the probe request frame, receiving, by the STA, a probe response frame including updated information to be updated by the STA, wherein the updated information is received by the STA after the first change information is compared with second change information, wherein the first change information includes information related to a change of at least one information element of a beacon frame from previously configured information elements of the beacon frame, and wherein the second change information includes information related to another change of at least one information element of the beacon frame from previously configured information elements of the beacon frame updated by the change of at least one information element. | 38,673 |
9,850,492 | 1. An aptamer comprising a sequence represented by the following formula (Ia), which binds to IL-17 to inhibit binding of IL-17 and IL-17 receptor: g(M)g(M)g(M)u(M)a′(M)g′(X1)c(M)c(M)g′g(M)a′(X4)g(X5)g(M)a(M)g(X5)u′(F)c(X7)a′(X2)g(X6)u′(F)r(X3)a′(X3)u(M)c(M)g(M)g(M)u′(X7)a′(M)c′(M)c′(M)c′(M) (SEQ ID NO: 95) wherein a, g, c and u are each an RNA wherein the base is adenine, guanine, cytosine and uracil, respectively, r is an RNA wherein the base is adenine or guanine, a′, g′ and c′ are each an RNA or DNA wherein the base is adenine, guanine and cytosine, respectively, u′ is an RNA wherein the base is uracil, a DNA wherein the base is uracil or a DNA wherein the base is thymine, parentheses in nucleotide indicate modification of the nucleotide, (M) indicates that, when the nucleotide is an RNA, a hydroxyl group at the 2′-position of ribose therein is substituted by an O-methyl group, (F) indicates that, when the nucleotide is an RNA, a hydroxyl group at the 2′-position of ribose therein is substituted by a fluorine atom, (X1) indicates that nucleotide is non-modified or phosphorothioated, or when the nucleotide is an RNA, a hydroxyl group at the 2′-position of ribose therein is substituted by a fluorine atom, (X2) indicates that nucleotide is non-modified, or when the nucleotide is an RNA, a hydroxyl group at the 2′-position of ribose therein is substituted by a fluorine atom, (X3) indicates that nucleotide is non-modified, or when the nucleotide is an RNA, a hydroxyl group at the 2′-position of ribose therein is substituted by an O-methyl group, (X4) indicates that nucleotide is non-modified, or when the nucleotide is an RNA, a hydroxyl group at the 2′-position of ribose therein is substituted by a fluorine atom or an O-methyl group, (X5) indicates that nucleotide is non-modified or phosphorothioated, (X6) indicates that nucleotide is non-modified or phosphorothioated, or when the nucleotide is an RNA, a hydroxyl group at the 2′-position of ribose therein is substituted by an O-methyl group, and (X7) indicates that when nucleotide is an RNA, a hydroxyl group at the 2′-position of ribose therein is substituted by a fluorine atom or an O-methyl group. | 25,929 |
9,694,062 | 1. An immunogenic composition comprising a vector expression system, wherein said vector comprises nucleic acid sequences encoding separate polypeptides wherein the separate polypeptides comprise a polypeptide with the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NOs: 6 and a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 10, wherein said suitable vector expression system is a DNA plasmid or replicating or nonreplicating viral vector. | 38,045 |
9,582,505 | 1. A method for handling user-specific information for content during content-altering operations, the method comprising: storing an instance of content at an electronic device comprising a television receiver having a satellite communication link or cable television communication link; associating, utilizing at least one processing unit of the electronic device, user-specific information for the instance of content, wherein the user-specific information is received from a plurality of different users and is stored in at least one non-transitory storage medium of the electronic device, wherein the user-specific information identifies each user of the plurality of users who may access the instance of content at the electronic device; presenting a user identification list to access the instance of content at the electronic device, wherein the user identification list includes identification of at least two users of the plurality of users who may access the instance of content at the electronic device; receiving, utilizing the at least one processing unit, a request from a first user of the at least two users of the plurality of users to transfer the instance of content from the electronic device to a secondary electronic device; determining, utilizing the at least one processor, that the transfer will alter the accessibility of the content for the first user of the at least two users of the plurality of users; requesting, utilizing the at least one processing unit, identification confirmation of which user of the plurality of users requested the transfer; accessing the instance of content at the electronic device; transferring a copy of the instance of content to the secondary electronic device; accessing the user-specific information for the instance of content for the first user; transferring the user-specific information allowing access to the instance of content for the first user to the secondary electronic device with the association between the first user and the instance of content; deleting from the at least one non-transitory storage medium of the electronic device the user-specific information for the instance of content for the first user, wherein removing the user information for the first user from the electronic device disables access to the instance of content at the electronic device for the first user; and subsequent the deleting, presenting a user identification list to access the instance of content at the electronic device, wherein the user identification list does not include identification of the first user of the at least two users of the plurality of users. | 35,811 |
8,729,233 | 1. A nanowire consisting of a purified protein filament isolated from a Geobacteraceae bacterium, wherein the purified protein filament is substantially free from contaminating proteins, metals, ions and/or redox cofactors and contains purified peptide subunits capable of assembling into the purified protein filament and establishing an electrical connection with an insoluble electron acceptor, wherein the peptide subunits are encoded by a PilA polypeptide. | 46,972 |
9,593,606 | 1. A suppressor for a gaseous fuel system comprising: a cylindrical body having a first end opposite a second end along an axis; a vent opening being disposed at the second end; and a conduit passing through the first end and having an inlet disposed outside the cylindrical body and an outlet disposed inside the cylindrical body, an acoustic core between the outlet of the conduit and the vent opening and configured to reduce a sound level of fluids exiting the conduit; and a thermal mass between the outlet of the conduit and the vent opening, wherein the thermal mass includes fluid channels and is configured to transfer heat energy to fluids exiting the conduit. | 32,206 |
8,876,490 | 1. A method of operating a hydraulic system, the hydraulic system including a hydraulic pump in communication with a source of hydraulic fluid and operable to draw fluid from the source of hydraulic fluid and deliver the fluid under a supply pressure, an air motor in communication with and powered by a source of compressed air and operable to drive the hydraulic pump, and a pressure limiting valve including a valve housing having an air inlet port in communication with the source of compressed air, an air outlet port and a hydraulic fluid sense port, and a valve element movably supported in the housing and having a hydraulic section in fluid communication with the hydraulic fluid sense port and a pneumatic section in fluid communication with the air inlet port and the air outlet port, the method comprising: applying a pressure from the hydraulic pump to the hydraulic fluid sense port; when the pressure is below a pressure limit, positioning the valve element in an open position to provide fluid communication between the air inlet port and the air outlet port; and when the pressure is at the pressure limit, moving the valve element toward a closed position to close fluid communication between the source of compressed air and the air motor. | 42,468 |
8,415,512 | 1. A method comprising: providing a first quantity of alkane; providing a quantity of bromine; reacting the first quantity of alkane with the quantity of bromine to form alkyl monobromides, hydrogen bromide, and alkyl polybromides; providing a second quantity of alkane; reacting the second quantity of alkane with the alkyl polybromides to form additional alkyl monobromides; reacting the alkyl monobromides and the additional alkyl monobromides with a metal oxide to form a metal bromide and at least one reaction product selected from the group consisting of an alcohol and an ether; contacting the metal bromide with oxygen or air to regenerate the metal oxide and to form bromine; and recycling the bromine. | 42,446 |
9,146,270 | 1. A method for testing a plurality of transistors in a target chip by automatically selecting pre-defined transistors on the target chip and adding a connection layer to key layers of each transistor such that the transistor to be tested is connected with and measured by an outside tester, the method further comprising: Step 1: entering coordinate information of the transistor in a product layout, determining positions required to be tested; Step 2: automatically selecting the transistors and keeping the key layer; Step 3: automatically identifying pins; Step 4: automatically adding pads; Step 5: determining the one-to-one correspondence between the pins and the pads, and completing wiring of the transistors from the pins to the pads; and Step 6: taping out and testing. | 41,852 |
9,252,309 | 1. A method of soldering a power conductor to a power contact, the method practiced upon an electronic component module having an electronic component soldered to a substrate at a first area of the substrate and having the power contact at a second area of the substrate, the method comprising: pre-heating the first area of the substrate to a first temperature for a first duration starting at T0 and ending at T2; generating heat by a separate heat element in each of two protruding edges of a hot solder module, thereby separately causing the two protruding edges to heat up, wherein the hot solder module includes an open channel between the two edges; selectively contacting the power conductor with the two protruding edges to solder the power conductor to the power contact at the second area of the substrate at a second temperature for a second duration starting at T1 and ending at T3, wherein the first duration overlaps the second duration such that T0<T1<T2; and increasing the first temperature during at least a portion of the time that the first duration overlaps the second duration. | 43,547 |
9,150,875 | 1. A method for modifying a tiller angle or a laminar joint angle, the method comprising: transforming a plant with a gene encoding a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 to increase or decrease expression of the polynucleotide within a cell, as compared to wild type expression. | 9,129 |
8,792,561 | 1. A method of decoding video by using deblocking filtering, the method comprising: receiving a bitstream including data of a picture, information about a size of a maximum coding unit, and split information; splitting the picture into a plurality of maximum coding units using the information about the size of the maximum coding unit; hierarchically splitting the maximum coding unit into one or more coding units based on the split information; determining one or more prediction units in the coding unit using partition type information wherein the partition type information indicates one of a symmetric type and an asymmetric type; determining one or more transform units in the coding unit using size information of a transform unit, wherein the transform unit is rectangular with a horizontal size and a vertical size indicated by the size information; performing prediction on the prediction unit in the coding unit and inverse-transformation on the transform unit in the coding unit, in order to generate a reconstructed coding unit; when a boundary included in the reconstructed coding unit corresponds to at least one of a boundary of the prediction unit and a boundary of the transform unit, determining a boundary strength for the boundary based on at least one of non-zero transformation coefficients, prediction mode, a motion vector, and a reference index; determining deblocking filtering method including at least one of a number of filter-taps and location of pixels to be deblocking-filtered, based on at least one of the boundary strength and neighboring pixels adjacent to the boundary; and performing deblocking filtering on the neighboring pixels according to the deblocking filtering method, in order to generate a filtered coding unit including the deblocking-filtered pixels. | 17,265 |
8,799,676 | 1. A magnetic disk device comprising: a read and write channel configured to transfer data to and from a magnetic disk, data stored in the magnetic disk being in encrypted state; a buffer configured to store write data to be written to the magnetic disk and read data read out from the magnetic disk; a cipher processor coupled to a write data path and a read data path of the read and write channel and configured to encrypt and decrypt data to be transferred to and from the magnetic disk; a data processor configured to cancel an inter-track interference by reading data on the read path from an adjacent track to a track where write data to be written and concurrently receiving the write data encrypted by the cipher processor on the write path from the buffer, data read out from the adjacent track to be written back to the magnetic disk; and a bypass module configured to bypass an encryption process and a decryption process of the cipher processor with respect to data read out from the adjacent track when the inter-track interference is cancelled by the data processor. | 49,810 |
9,721,728 | 1. A biaxially orientated polypropylene film comprising protrusions on both surfaces thereof, the biaxially orientated polypropylene film having a thickness (t1) of 1 to 3 μm, having a ten point average roughness (SRz) of 50 nm or more and less than 500 nm on both surfaces, and meeting equations (1) and (2) where one surface and another surface are referred to as a surface A and a surface B, respectively: wherein Pa denotes number of protrusions per 0.1 mm 2 on the surface A and Pb denotes number of protrusions per 0.1 mm 2 on the surface B, wherein the biaxially orientated polypropylene film meets both of equations (3) and (4): wherein Pa50-250 denotes number of protrusions with a height of 50 nm or more and less than 250 nm per 0.1 mm 2 on the surface A and Pb50-250 denotes number of protrusions with a height of 50 nm or more and less than 250 nm per 0.1 mm 2 on the surface B. | 6,405 |
9,396,430 | 1. A particle counting and controlling system, comprising: a particle counting actuator, a sensing platform, a signal count processing apparatus, a motor driver and a timer, and wherein the particle counting actuator permits a passage of particles to the sensing platform, the sensing platform generates a first count signal and transmits the first count signal to the signal count processing apparatus, and the signal count processing apparatus calculates a value of quantity of the particles falling from the particle counting actuator per unit time according to the first count signal, and compares the value of quantity of the particles falling from the particle counting actuator per unit time with a predetermined value to get a ratio between the value of quantity of the particles falling from the particle counting actuator per unit time and the predetermined value, and the signal count processing apparatus sends a control signal to one of the timer and the motor driver based on the ratio, and wherein the timer controls the startup and stop of the motor driver according to the control signal, and wherein the motor driver sends a driving signal to the motor driver according to the control signal, and the motor driver changes a rotating speed according to the driving signal from the motor driver, so as to drive a vertical shaft of the particle counting actuator to change the rotating speed of the vertical shaft, and which results of change of the quantity of the particles falling from the particle counting actuator per unit time. | 32,559 |
9,830,761 | 1. An electronic key, for a vehicle, comprising: a key housing; at least one button separate from and movably coupled to the key housing; and a switch housing which is provided in the key housing and comprises: wherein the diaphragm forms one or more first predetermined sections on an outer face of the frame, the frame bearing against an inner face of the key housing with the diaphragm between the frame and the inner face of the key housing at each of the one or more first predetermined sections. | 21,433 |
9,845,881 | 1. A shaft seal, composed of an outer case, an inner case, and, a seal element and a gasket held between the outer case and the inner case, comprising a construction in which a protruding portion for locally increasing holding pressure is disposed on a pressing face of held members of the inner case or the outer case, the seal element and the gasket being the held members; the inner case has a first wall portion at right angles with an axis, the outer case has a second wall portion at right angles with the axis, the seal element and the gasket are held with the first wall portion at right angles with the axis and the second wall portion at right angles with the axis, and, the protruding portion is disposed on a pressing face of adjacent the first wall portion at right angles with the axis or on a pressing face for held member of the held members adjacent the second wall portion at right angles with the axis; the protruding portion is extends along a circumferential path that is one of an eccentric circular protrusion, an elliptic protrusion, and a polygonal protrusion when observed in the axial direction; and the seal element abuts a shaft for rotation movement for sealing thereof, wherein a radial distance between the protruding portion and a shaft surface around a circumference of the rotation shaft varies, wherein a sliding resistance between the protruding portion and the seal element increases when the radial distance increases, and stops rotation of the seal element when the radial distance increases. | 22,556 |
8,607,928 | 1. A multilayer laminate for use as a flame barrier in an aircraft comprising (i) a polymeric film layer capable of withstanding a temperature of at least 200 C for at least 10 min, (ii) an adhesive layer having an area weight of from 2 to 40 gsm capable of activation at a temperature of from 75 to 200 degrees C., (iii) an inorganic refractory layer, and (iv) aramid paper comprising from 50 to 90 weight percent of aramid fibers and from 10 to 50 weight percent of meta-aramid binder; | 10,616 |
9,806,342 | 1. A lithium secondary battery, comprising: a negative electrode comprising a negative electrode active material, the negative electrode active material comprising: wherein: | 9,195 |
8,908,875 | 1. An electronic device comprising: an input data interface for receiving digital audio data; a memory storing dimensions of a virtual room in which the digital audio data is to be emitted, the virtual room having a plurality of virtual surfaces; a digital reverberator for simulating the sound of the digital audio data in the virtual room, the digital reverberator comprising: an output data interface for receiving the digital audio output signal and outputting an audio signal; wherein each delay line connecting the source injection node with a respective junction comprises a source unidirectional delay line in the direction from the source injection node to the junctions, each source unidirectional delay line having a separate injection point in the digital reverberation network through which digital audio data is input; and wherein each delay line connecting junctions of the digital reverberation network with the receiver node comprises a receiver unidirectional delay line in the direction from the junctions to the receiver node, each receiver unidirectional delay line having a separate extraction point in the digital reverberation network through which digital audio data is extracted. | 28,360 |
9,153,596 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a semiconductor substrate; two or more parallel bitlines formed within the semiconductor substrate; a charge storage layer capable of storing a negative charge formed over the semiconductor substrate and the two or more parallel bitlines; two or more parallel wordlines formed over the charge storage layer, the semiconductor substrate and the two or more parallel bitlines, the two or more parallel wordlines being perpendicular to the two or more parallel bitlines; one or more wordline spaces comprising the area between the two or more parallel wordlines; and an implant comprising at least one of boron, indium, and a combination thereof embedded into the floor of at least one space of the one or more wordline spaces, wherein the implant forms an implant region which is adjacent the two or more parallel wordlines and located over the charge storage layer and the semiconductor substrate. | 5,254 |
9,839,562 | 1. An infant or adult diaper having a longitudinal centerline and a lateral centerline perpendicular to the longitudinal centerline, a diaper front edge and a diaper rear edge, wherein the diaper comprises a topsheet and a backsheet and positioned therein between an absorbent core having front and rear core edges, and a first and second longitudinally extending opposing elastic cuffs, positioned on either longitudinal side of the topsheet, each of the diaper, topsheet, backsheet, absorbent core and elastic cuffs having a crotch region, positioned in between a front region and a back region, wherein the diaper comprises a transverse separator sheet made of a separator sheet material, the transverse separator sheet having a transversely extending top edge and top edge portion and an opposing transversely extending bottom edge and bottom edge portion, wherein parts of the top edge portion are attached to the cuffs in the respective crotch regions or front regions of the cuffs at a first cuff attachment area and a second opposing cuff attachment area, each cuff attachment area having an inner edge towards the longitudinal centerline of the diaper; and at least part of the bottom edge portion is attached to the topsheet at at least one topsheet attachment area, the topsheet attachment area being forward of and spaced from the rear edge of the absorbent core, and being positioned closer to the diaper front edge than are the cuff attachment areas, whereby the separator sheets minimum transverse dimension in relaxed state of the separator sheet between the opposing inner edges of the first and second cuff attachment areas is at least 20 mm and whereby the separator sheets minimum longitudinal dimension in relaxed state of the separator sheet between the top edge and the bottom edge of the separator sheet is at least 30 mm; and the transverse separator sheet: has a transverse strain of 0.8 at a first cycle extension force of 1.0N or less, as measured according to the in-use two-cycle hysteresis test described herein; and has 30% set or less after having been extended to a transverse strain of 0.8, as measured according to the in-use two-cycle hysteresis test; and is elastically extensible in the transverse direction to a strain of at least 0.8, as measured according to the in-process two-cycle hysteresis test described herein at 22° C. | 4,080 |
8,817,068 | 1. A digital hologram image display device comprising: a spatial light modulator configured to receive a holography interference pattern and represent the holography interference pattern; a light source positioned at one side of the spatial light modulator and configured to generate a reference beam, wherein the light source includes a laser diode and a collimated LED positioned at one side of the digital hologram image display device; an optical device configured to control the reference beam generated from the light source to collimate the reference beam onto an entire surface of the spatial light modulator to generate a 3D (3-Dimensional) image corresponding to the holography interference pattern, wherein the optical device includes an expander configured to enlarge a cross-sectional area of the reference beam, and a lens system configured to control the enlarged cross-sectional area of the reference beam to correspond to the entire surface of the spatial light modulator; and a diffusion sheet configured to selectively and effectively lower an intensity of a 0 wherein the diffusion sheet is disposed between the light source and the expander. | 18,451 |
9,358,280 | 1. A process for preparing an inactivated influenza vaccine from influenza virus that has been grown in a culture of a Vero cell line, comprising (i) testing for the presence of a Circoviridae (a) during manufacture of the vaccine on a sample obtained during one or more of viral infection, growth stages, viral harvest, viral processing, splitting, surface protein extraction, and vaccine formulation, and/or (b) in a seed virus, the vaccine, the culture, or combinations thereof, (ii) culturing influenza virus in the culture of the Vero cell line, and (iii) formulating the vaccine manufactured from the influenza virus cultured in the culture of the Vero cell line, wherein the testing is performed before, during and/or after the formulating. | 6,983 |
9,664,313 | 1. An assembly comprising: a fitting ( pipeline components welded to the respective associated opposite end surfaces. | 40,789 |
9,555,436 | 1. A substrate treatment method for discharging a treatment solution to a substrate, said method comprising the steps of: (a) holding a to-be-newly-treated substrate on a substrate holder; (b) moving, after the to-be-newly-treated substrate is held on said substrate holder, a nozzle that discharges a treatment solution from a standby position outside a cup surrounding said substrate holder toward a treatment position above the substrate held on said substrate holder; (c) imaging, after said nozzle receives an instruction to start discharging the treatment solution, an imaging area including an area in which a liquid flow is to be formed when said nozzle discharges the treatment solution at said treatment position; (d) cutting out, from an image acquired in said step (c), a test image and a first reference image, said test image being an image including the area of the surface of the substrate held on the substrate holder in which said liquid flow is to be formed, said first reference image being an image of the surface of the substrate except for said area; and (e) comparing said first reference image and said test image to determine a discharge of the treatment solution from said nozzle. | 43,679 |
8,795,670 | 1. A stable liquid aqueous pharmaceutical formulation comprising (a) a human IgG1 anti-human Tumor Necrosis Factor alpha (TNFα) antibody, or an antigen-binding portion thereof, at a concentration of 45 to 105 mg/ml, (b) a polyol, (c) a polysorbate at a concentration of 0.1 to 10 mg/ml, and (d) a buffer system comprising histidine and having a pH of 4.5 to 7.0, wherein the antibody comprises the light chain variable region and the heavy chain variable region of D2E7. | 40,979 |
9,190,153 | 1. A memory system comprising: a memory access device; a memory device coupled to the memory access device, the memory device comprising: wherein three or fewer additional memory interface control signals include a bidirectional data strobe signal and are utilized in the synchronous mode in addition to memory interface control signals utilized in the asynchronous mode, and wherein the memory interface is configured to utilize a signal on a first contact of the memory interface as a write enable signal in an asynchronous mode and as a clock signal in a synchronous mode, and the memory interface is configured to utilize a signal on a second contact of the memory interface as a read enable signal in the asynchronous mode and as a write/read signal in the synchronous mode. | 21,615 |
9,846,940 | 1. An image processing method, comprising: projecting at least one light ray from a probe, wherein the light ray is presented by a vector in a first affine coordinate system with a tip of the probe as an origin; intercepting the light ray with a projection surface, the projection surface satisfying a function in the first affine coordinate; obtaining a distance between the tip of the probe and an interception point of the light ray on the projection surface based on a rotation angle of the probe, a wavelength of the light ray, and a deflection angle of the light ray from the probe; obtaining a relationship between the first coordinate and a second affine coordinate system, the second coordinate system being defined with the projection surface as a reference; acquiring image data from the light ray reflected from the projection surface presented in the first affine coordinate; converting the image data presented in the first affine coordinate into image data presented in the second affine coordinate; and resampling the image data in the second coordinate system by interpolating or extrapolating a gray scale. | 32,529 |
8,665,989 | 1. A phase shifter that adds phase information to two baseband signals to be output to an orthogonal modulator so as to control a phase of an output signal of the orthogonal modulator, the phase shifter comprising: a 90° step phase shifter that contributes to adding any one of phases 0°, 90°, 180°, and 270° to the baseband signals according to a first control signal; and a 45° phase shifter that contributes to adding one of phases 0° and 45° to the baseband signals according to a second control signal, wherein the phase shifter performs replacement of component signals of one of the baseband signals with component signals of the other of the baseband signals and inversion of polarities of the component signals, and wherein the phase shifter outputs the baseband signals including the phase information to the orthogonal modulator modulating a local signal according to the baseband signals including the phase information. | 41,509 |
9,777,741 | 1. A well fluid pump assembly, comprising: a motor; a centrifugal pump operatively coupled to and driven by the motor, the pump having a plurality of stages, each of the stages comprising an impeller and a diffuser, the impeller comprising: a plurality of vanes curving outward from a central intake area to a periphery of the impeller, each of the vanes having a high pressure side and a low pressure side; the high pressure side of each of the vanes being located on a single curved high pressure line extending from the central intake area to the periphery of the impeller; the low pressure side of each of the vanes being located on a single curved low pressure line extending from the central intake area to the periphery of the impeller; an upstream slot and a downstream slot extending through each of the vanes from the high pressure to the low pressure side to divert some of the fluid flowing along the high pressure side into the low pressure side; wherein a flow area of each of the upstream slot and the downstream slot of each of the vanes is fixed and greater at the high pressure side than at the low pressure side; and the flow area of the upstream slot at the low pressure side of each of the vanes is greater than the flow area each of the downstream slot at the low pressure side. | 24,406 |
9,334,166 | 1. A method for removing water from a material having associated free water, comprising combining a material having associated free water with a magnesium source and a phosphate source in quantities sufficient to consume the associated free water to produce struvite and a substantially dry material. | 8,699 |
8,900,502 | 1. A method for manufacturing a shaped product constituted by a fiber-reinforced composite material, the method comprising: 1) obtaining a prepreg by heating a random mat including reinforcing fibers with an average fiber length of 5 mm to 100 mm and a thermoplastic resin up to a temperature of a melting point or more and less than a thermal decomposition temperature in a case where the thermoplastic resin is crystalline, or up to a temperature of a glass transition temperature or more and less than a thermal decomposition temperature in a case where the thermoplastic resin is amorphous such that the random mat is impregnated with the thermoplastic resin; 2) arranging the prepreg that is set at a temperature of the melting point or more and less than the thermal decomposition temperature in the case where the thermoplastic resin is crystalline, or at a temperature of the glass transition temperature or more and less than the thermal decomposition temperature in the case where the thermoplastic resin is amorphous, in a mold to be a charge ratio represented by equation (3) is 50% or more and 100% or less, the mold which is controlled to a temperature less than the melting point temperature in the case where the thermoplastic resin is crystalline or a temperature less than the glass transition temperature in the case where the thermoplastic resin is amorphous; and 3) obtaining the shaped product by completion of molding the prepreg at a temperature less than the melting point in the case where the thermoplastic resin is crystalline, or at a temperature less than the glass transition temperature in the case where the thermoplastic resin is amorphous, while pressurizing the prepreg within the mold, wherein the random mat includes the reinforcing fibers which are substantially two-dimensionally randomly oriented at a fiber areal weight of 25 g/m reinforcing fiber bundles (A) constituted by the reinforcing fibers of a critical single fiber number or more, the critical single fiber number defined by equation (1), are included in an amount of 20 Vol % or more and less than 99 Vol % with respect to a total amount of the reinforcing fibers in the random mat, and an average number of the reinforcing fibers (N) in the reinforcing fiber bundles (A) satisfies equation (2): wherein, in equation (1) and equation (2), D represents an average fiber diameter (μm) of single reinforcing fibers: wherein, in equation (3), a base material area represents a projection area of all the arranged prepreg in a draft direction, and a mold cavity projection area represents a projection area in the draft direction. | 21,199 |
8,800,287 | 1. ORC system (Organic Rankine Cycle) at least partially co-generative for the production of electric energy and the heating of a user fluid, the system comprising: at least one main thermal source (S a primary circuit covered by the fluid vector, that comes from said thermal source, put into circulation by at least a recycling pump, a thermal exchange group for the exchange of heat between the vector fluid and a work fluid circulating in a relative work fluid circuit by means of a pump, an electric expander-generator group supplied in the entrance by the work fluid exiting from said thermal exchange group, and at least one condenser group connected to the exit of the electric expander-generator group, at least two regenerative exchangers positioned in series on the path of the work fluid between the exit of the electric expander-generator group and the condenser inlet of the ORC system, and by a heat exchanger-user connected by means of an offtake line to at least one of said regenerative exchangers to receive from it a part of the rate of flow of the work fluid and crossed by the user fluid to be heated by means of a thermal exchange with said rate of work fluid, and where the part of the rate of flow of the derived work fluid is returned to the same regenerative exchanger after having crossed the exchanger user. | 45,926 |
8,662,983 | 1. A method comprising: displaying a supplemental graphical element over at least one symbol element in one or more displayed reels of a casino gaming machine, the supplemental graphical element comprising pre-recorded video information including full motion video of a person, place or thing, the displaying including overlaying in a memory storing video data pixel values of the at least one symbol element with pixel values of the supplemental graphical element, wherein each of the at least one symbol element that is overlaid remains at least partially visible while the supplemental graphical element is displayed. | 10,308 |
9,297,341 | 1. A method for an engine, comprising: selectably recirculating intake air from downstream of a compressor to upstream of the compressor through a bypass passage and an aspirator arrangement arranged in parallel with the bypass passage, the aspirator arrangement comprising a suction tap at a throat of an aspirator fluidly coupled via a leak passage with a suction tap at a diffuser of the aspirator, an exit of the suction tap at the diffuser narrowing as it approaches the diffuser, wherein the selectably recirculating intake air is based on a desired level of vacuum generation and a desired level of compressor recirculation flow. | 12,202 |
8,546,954 | 1. A stacked semiconductor package comprising: a first semiconductor package including a first package substrate and a first semiconductor chip mounted on the first package substrate, the first package substrate having lateral first and second sides constituting the outer peripheral region thereof, wherein the first side is longer than the second side; a second semiconductor package including a second package substrate and a second semiconductor chip mounted on the second package substrate; and a plurality of connections electrically connecting the first semiconductor package and the second semiconductor package, the connections being disposed outside the first semiconductor chip along an outer peripheral region of the first package substrate which includes the first and second sides, and wherein a first group of the connections is disposed along the first side of the first package substrate as spaced from one another along the first side, and the heights of the connections of the first group vary from a central to an outer region of the first side. | 21,800 |
9,249,976 | 1. A method for servicing a combustor cap assembly of a turbine, the method comprising: determining a defect is present in a center ring of the cap assembly, the center ring being disposed within a plurality of vanes; removing the center ring from the cap assembly; installing the cap assembly in a fixture, wherein the fixture includes: placing the replacement center ring in the cap assembly, on and in contact with the platform of the fixture, wherein dimensions of the replacement center ring are substantially the same as the center ring that has been removed; and brazing the replacement center ring to the plurality of vanes including heating a braze material to a temperature ranging from about 1100 and about 1300 degrees Fahrenheit for a period of time, and heating the braze material to a temperature ranging from about 2060 to about 2160 degrees Fahrenheit for a final period of time. | 14,574 |
9,611,521 | 1. A system for processing a material comprising gallium arsenide, the system comprising: one or more furnaces configured to heat the material comprising gallium arsenide to a first heating condition of about 415 degrees C. to less than about 1100 degrees C. and to a second heating condition of above about 1100 degrees C.; an arsenic collection bed housing an arsenic collection medium comprising aluminum, wherein the aluminum is configured to react with arsenic, and wherein the arsenic collection bed is fluidicly coupled to the one or more furnaces to receive a first exhaust produced by the material undergoing the first heating condition; a gallium collection bed housing a gallium collection medium comprising aluminum, wherein the aluminum is configured to react with gallium, and wherein the gallium collection bed is fluidicly coupled to the one or more furnaces to receive a second exhaust produced by the material undergoing the second heating condition; and a vacuum apparatus fluidicly coupled to the gallium collection bed and configured to draw a vacuum on the one or more furnaces during the second heating condition; further comprising an arsenic collection bed isolation valve fluidicly interposing the one or more furnaces and the arsenic collection bed; and a gallium collection bed isolation valve fluidicly interposing the one or more furnaces and the gallium collection bed. | 30,488 |
9,764,518 | 1. A method of manufacturing a composite panel, the method comprising: fitting a control member through the panel; fitting a plug through a compaction tool; compacting the panel with the compaction tool to form a compacted panel; controlling thickness of said panel during compaction with the compaction tool by engaging the control member with the plug; engaging the plug with a datum surface of the compaction tool; disengaging the plug from the control member after the panel has been compacted without removing the control member from the compacted panel; and subsequently to the disengagement of the plug, removing the control member from the compacted panel by drilling through the control member and an area of the compacted panel surrounding the control member to form a hole through the compacted panel. | 42,963 |
8,721,888 | 1. A wastewater treatment method, comprising the steps of: a) providing a reaction tank, a plurality of microorganism carriers and a stirrer, said reaction tank defining therein an upper reaction area in a top side, a lower reaction area in a bottom side and a passage area in communication between said upper reaction area and said lower reaction area, said passage area having a width smaller than the width of said upper reaction area and the width of said lower reaction area, said microorganism carriers arranged in said reaction tank around said passage area and defining the passage area thereby, the width of the passage area reducing gradually in direction toward the upper reaction area, said stirrer arranged in said reaction tank, said passage area and said lower reaction area of said reaction tank filled with water containing microorganisms including nitrifying bacteria and autotrophic denitrifying bacteria, said microorganism carriers dipped in the water; b) guiding wastewater into said reaction tank to have said upper reaction area be filled up with the wastewater; c) operating said stirrer to stir up the water in said reaction tank and to cause the water to circulate in said reaction tank; d) stopping said stirrer to let suspended solids settle down in the water in said reaction tank; and e) exhausting the water of the upper reaction area out of said reaction tank. | 13,005 |
9,599,498 | 1. Method for determining the density of a multiphase fluid flowing through a pipe in relation to each time period of a series of consecutive time periods, when said multiphase fluid contains a gas being subject to a discontinuous flow which determines a fluctuation of the actual instantaneous density of said multiphase fluid, said method being particularly suited for multiphase fluids produced m oil-wells, comprising the following steps: a) conveying through a section of said pipe a photon beam suited to undergo an attenuation depending on the density of the fluid being crossed by said photon beam; b) counting the actual number of photons of said beam which cross said pipe during a current time period of said series to define a corresponding actual count; c) determining the density of said multiphase fluid corresponding to said current time period according to the value of said actual count through a predefined algorithm; d) repeating steps b) and c) for each subsequent time period in said series of consecutive time periods; wherein said method comprises the following steps: wherein said predefined algorithm comprises the following steps: converting the value of said corrected count into a corresponding value of said density through a predefined function. | 7,762 |
9,683,021 | 1. A method of preparing a vaccine for generating a protective response to exposure to porcine reproductive and respiratory virus (PRRSV), the method comprising: determining the number of glycans of the glycoprotein 5 (GP5) of a North American or European porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) strain, preparing a vaccine comprising a first GP5 having glycosylation at position 44 of the GP5 in a North American (NA) PRRSV or glycosylation at position 46 of the GP5 in a (EU) PRRSV; and preparing a vaccine comprising a second GP5 having no glycosylation at position 44 in a North American (NA) PRRSV or at position 46 of a GP5 in a European (EU) PRRSV, wherein the position number of 44 is determined by sequence alignment with the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, and the position number 46 is determined from the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:4. | 18,668 |
9,161,416 | 1. A method for adjusting a color point of light emitted from an organic light emitting diode (OLED) by using current with a modulated waveform for driving the OLED, the waveform comprising at least three different parameters and the color point located in a color space, the method comprising: defining a color point target; adjusting the at least three parameters to tune the waveform by: determining a set of groups of parameters, wherein each group of parameters of the set of groups of parameters is defining a specific shape of the modulated waveform; selecting the group of parameters of the set of groups of parameters for which the resulting light output of the OLED is lying within a predefined area around the color point target and the brightness of the OLED remains at a predefined level; for each group of the parameters defining the respective modulated waveform and calculating an averaged color point, wherein the calculation of the averaged color point comprises a summation over at least one period of the waveform of every color point associated to the current amplitude at each point in time of the modulated waveform, weighting the summation by a luminance associated to the current amplitude at each point in time of the modulated waveform, wherein the summation is performed such that the luminance is linearly correlated to the current; for each averaged color point calculating a color distance to the target color point; selecting the modulated waveforms for which the color distances are lying within a predefined distance from the target color point; choosing one of the selected modulated waveforms; and employing the chosen waveform to provide the current with the modulated waveform to the OLED. | 37,099 |
9,529,774 | 1. An interconnection network comprising: a plurality of nodes arranged in a hierarchical ring topology, wherein the nodes comprise a first node and a second node, and wherein the first node is not adjacent to the second node; a base ring comprising a plurality of base links coupled to the plurality of nodes and configured to interconnect adjacent nodes to provide point-to-point communications between the adjacent nodes; and a first shortcut coupled to the first node and the second node, wherein the first shortcut is configured to provide a point-to-point communication between the first node and the second node, wherein the first node and the second node comprise gray code encoded addresses that are differed by 1-bit at a particular bit position, and wherein the gray code encoded addresses are node addresses of the first node and the second node encoded by a gray code algorithm that provides a 1-bit difference between successive integer values in a binary format. | 8,829 |
8,628,436 | 1. An accessory for use in combination with a lacrosse stick having an elongated shaft that terminates at a first end and includes a lacrosse head mounted at its opposite, second end, the accessory comprising: a. a butt cover adapted for positioning over the first end of the shaft and comprising a closed end and at least one sidewall that extends upwardly from said closed end, wherein said closed end and said at least one sidewall define a cavity, wherein said butt cover is mounted to said shaft by frictional engagement of at least a portion of said at least one sidewall with said first end of the shaft; b. a base adapted for removeable positioning within said cavity; c. a pedestal extending outwardly from said base; and d. a tool attached to said pedestal and adapted for storage in said cavity when not in use and for selective removal from said cavity, wherein said tool is adapted for use in maintenance of the lacrosse stick wherein said tool is a screwdriver. | 23,371 |
9,275,809 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: ascertaining an orientation of a computing device that includes a kickstand, the orientation being based at least in part on an angle of the kickstand relative to the computing device; and | 42,985 |
9,471,887 | 1. A machine-implemented method, comprising: requesting a plurality of users to generate human-generated user requests for each of a plurality of task categories to collect a plurality of the human-generated user requests to create a training database of user requests, each user request corresponding uniquely to one of the task categories; for each task category, extracting a training feature vector from each corresponding user request in the training database by assigning a numeric value to each different word in the corresponding user request to form a training data set having a plurality of training feature vectors for each task category; for each task category, processing the training feature vectors in the training data set corresponding to the task category to determine a task classifier model for the task category; receiving an additional request from a user, the additional request being classifiable into one of the task categories; and in the machine, comparing an extracted feature vector from the additional request to the task classifier model to identify which task category corresponds to the additional request. | 13,702 |
9,383,790 | 1. An integrated circuit comprising: a communication interconnect; a plurality of functional hardware units each coupled to the communication interconnect; and a power management unit (PMU) coupled to the plurality of functional hardware units and the communication interconnect, wherein the PMU comprises an interconnect frequency controller to: a phase-locked loop (PLL) coupled to the PMU, wherein the PLL is to receive an input from the PMU to set the operating frequency of the communication interconnect, and wherein the PMU is to adjust the operating frequency by changing the input of the PLL. | 40,611 |
9,461,535 | 1. A photovoltaic system to track the maximum power point, comprising: a photovoltaic array that generates a varying DC output voltage and current depending on one or more weather conditions; a buck/boost converter to step down/step up of the output voltage from the photovoltaic array; a DC link capacitor to connect the buck/booster converter to a load/inverter, wherein the load/inverter provides a grid output of the photovoltaic system; an adaptive network-based fuzzy inference maximum power point tracking controller to generate a reference voltage; a voltage control loop to compare the output voltage of the photovoltaic array to the reference voltage, and a proportional integral controller to maintain the output voltage of the photovoltaic array to the reference voltage by adjusting the duty ratio of buck/boost converter. | 21,310 |
9,304,955 | 1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having executable instructions stored thereon, wherein, when executed by a processor, the executable instructions perform a method comprising: receiving a System Management Interrupt (SMI) signal, wherein the SMI signal is associated with a set of SMI instructions; entering the set of SMI instructions; determining whether the SMI signal is from one of a plurality of verified sources; when the SMI signal is from one of the plurality of verified sources: incrementing the counter when the SMI signal is not from one of the plurality of verified sources; and when the counter reaches a pre-determined threshold value: | 30,053 |
8,880,357 | 1. Apparatus for estimating a resonant frequency of a wind turbine tower, comprising a measuring module adapted for measuring acceleration values of the wind turbine tower wherein the acceleration values represent acceleration of the wind turbine tower, a filter module adapted for receiving the measured acceleration values, the filter module comprises a variable filter wherein the variable filter is adapted to attenuate frequencies in a band hereby attenuating frequencies for an output of the filter module, an adaptive algorithm module comprising an adaptive algorithm wherein the adaptive algorithm module is adapted for communicating with the filter module and wherein the adaptive algorithm is adapted to minimise the energy of the output of the filter module during operation of the wind turbine by adjusting the band of attenuated frequencies of the variable filter, a resonant frequency estimating module adapted for estimating the resonant frequency of a wind turbine tower based on the attenuated frequencies. | 21,227 |
8,740,496 | 1. A supporting conduit for the formation of pervious pavement, the supporting conduit comprising: a first connector having a first receiving section, a first connector coupling end, and a first connector distal end, the first receiving section including a first stop member, the first connector coupling end defining an opposed and generally axially extending pair of first receiving notches, the first connector coupling end also including a first latching structure, the first latching structure defining one of a male latching member and a female latching member; and a second connector having a second receiving section, a second connector coupling end, and a second connector distal end, the second receiving section including a second stop member, the second connector coupling end defining an opposed and generally axially extending pair of second receiving notches, the second connector coupling end also including a second latching structure, the second latching structure defining the other of a male latching member and a female latching member, wherein the first and second coupling ends are joinable to one another through engagement of the first and second latching structures, wherein when the first and second latching structures are engaged the pair of first receiving notches is substantially transverse to the pair of second receiving notches, wherein the pair of first receiving notches cooperates with the second connector to define a pair of first attachment openings, and wherein the pair of second receiving notches cooperates with the first connector to define a pair of second attachment openings. | 29,014 |
8,418,446 | 1. An exhaust gas purification system for an internal combustion engine comprising: an exhaust passage; a NOx storage reduction catalyst provided in the exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine; and an electronic control unit (ECU) that includes control logic, so that when the NOx storage reduction catalyst is active and NOx stored in the NOx storage reduction catalyst is to be reduced, the ECU; | 21,653 |
8,930,183 | 1. A method of converting speech from the characteristics of a first voice to the characteristics of a second voice, the method comprising: receiving a speech input from a first voice, dividing said speech input into a plurality of frames; in a processor, mapping the speech from the first voice to a second voice using a Gaussian process; and outputting the speech in the second voice, wherein mapping the speech from the first voice to the second voice comprises, deriving kernels demonstrating the similarity between speech features derived from the frames of the speech input from the first voice and stored frames of training data for said first voice, the training data corresponding to different text to that of the speech input and wherein the mapping step uses a plurality of kernels derived for each frame of input speech with a plurality of stored frames of training data of the first voice and using said plurality of kernels to define a non-parametric Gaussian process prior for said mapping. | 26,480 |
8,911,981 | 1. A recombinant host cell comprising a mutant ketol-acid reductoisomerase enzyme, wherein said enzyme has a ketol-acid reductoisomerase HMM search profile E value of <10 −3 using the hmmsearch program and comprises at least one mutation within the phosphate binding loop of said enzyme wherein said at least one mutation comprises a substitution at the residue corresponding to T52 of SEQ ID NO:17 wherein the substitution at residue T52 is a substitution to a polar, negatively charged amino acid. | 38,701 |
9,680,647 | 1. A computer implemented method comprising a hardware processor to predetermine a token for use in a cryptographic system, the method comprising: providing a memento; mapping, by the hardware processor, the memento to a candidate token according to a rule that updates a parameter; predetermining the token to be the candidate token, if the candidate token meets a test condition according to the rule; identifying a parameter value of the parameter; and providing the memento and the parameter value for future use as an input to re-generate the token, wherein the parameter is a counter configured to count a number of iterations performed in mapping the memento to the candidate token. | 29,516 |
9,219,048 | 1. A substrate, comprising: a body having a surface; a conductive pad group disposed on the surface, wherein the conductive pad group comprises a plurality of conductive pads each with at least one inner side and at least one outer side, a first inner side of a first conductive pad is faced towards a second inner side of an adjacent second conductive pad, and the first inner side and the second inner side are separated by a spaced section; a plurality of conductive traces electrically connected to respective ones of the conductive pads; and a metal pillar group formed on the conductive pad group, the metal pillar group including a plurality of metal pillars formed on corresponding ones of the conductive pads; wherein a metal pillar of the metal pillar group includes a pillar inner side and a pillar outer side, and either: the pillar inner side partially aligns with the first inner side of the first conductive pad; or the pillar outer side partially aligns with an outer side of a corresponding conductive pad. | 4,702 |
9,718,206 | 1. A method of milling a log on a table saw with a table, a table top surface in a table flat plane, a circular saw blade fixed to a shaft for rotation about a saw blade axis of rotation that is below the table top surface, parallel to the table flat plane, and with said circular saw blade extending through a slot through the table top comprising; supporting a log on the table top surface, above the table flat plane and pivotally about an indexing shaft axis that extends through a first end and a second end of said log; positioning the indexing shaft axis above the table top surface, to one side of the saw blade, parallel to the table flat plane and perpendicular to the saw blade axis of rotation; forming a log first generally flat surface by manually moving said log parallel to the indexing shaft axis toward the circular saw blade and cutting a first groove in said log extending from the first end to the second end of said log, returning said log to a starting position in line with and spaced from the circular saw blade, reversing a position of the first end and the second end of said log, manually moving said log parallel to the indexing shaft axis, toward the circular saw blade and cutting a second groove in said log extending from the second end to the first end of said log and intersecting the first groove, and returning said log to the starting position; forming a log second generally flat surface by pivoting said log ninety degrees about the indexing shaft axis, manually moving said log parallel to the indexing shaft axis toward the circular saw blade and cutting a third groove in said log extending from the first end to the second end of said log, returning said log to the starting position, reversing the position of the first end and the second end of said log, manually moving said log parallel to the indexing shaft axis toward the circular saw blade and cutting a fourth groove in said log extending from the first end to the second end of said log and intersecting the third groove, and returning said log to the starting position; forming a log third generally flat surface by pivoting said log ninety degrees about the indexing shaft axis, manually moving said log parallel to the indexing shaft axis toward the circular saw blade and cutting a fifth groove in said log extending from the first end to the second end of said log, and returning said log to the starting position, reversing the position of the first end and the second end of said log, manually moving said log parallel to the indexing shaft axis toward the circular saw blade and cutting a sixth groove in said log extending from the first end to the second end of said log and intersecting the fifth groove and returning said log to the starting position; forming a log forth generally flat surface by pivoting said log ninety degrees about the indexing shaft axis, manually moving said log parallel to the indexing shaft axis toward the circular saw blade and cutting a seventh groove in said log extending from the first end to the second end of said log, returning said log to the starting position, reversing the position of the first end and the second end of said log, manually moving said log parallel to the indexing shaft axis toward the circular saw blade and cutting an eighth groove in said log, extending from the first end to the second end of said log and intersecting the seventh groove, and returning said log to the starting position; wherein the first generally flat surface is parallel to the third generally flat surface and spaced from the third generally flat surface; and wherein the second generally flat surface is parallel to the fourth generally flat surface, spaced from the second generally flat surface and perpendicular the first generally flat surface. | 7,337 |
8,408,155 | 1. A marine vessel comprising: a command module; first and second buoyant tubular foils; and first and second struts for connecting the first and second buoyant tubular foils to the command module, respectively; wherein the first and second buoyant tubular foils provide substantially all of the buoyancy required for the marine vessel; and wherein the marine vessel further comprises a plurality of spoilers mounted on the first and second buoyant tubular foils for steering the marine vessel as it moves through the water; wherein some of the spoilers are disposed on the leading ends of the first and second buoyant tubular foils and some of the spoilers are disposed on the trailing ends of the first and second tubular foils; and wherein the marine vessel further comprises a control system for coordinating the disposition of the spoilers, such that when a spoiler disposed on the leading end of a buoyant tubular foil is activated, a diametrically-opposed spoiler disposed on the trailing end of that same buoyant tubular foil is also activated. | 34,492 |
8,444,739 | 1. A honeycomb filter comprising: partition walls having a porous partition wall base material which separates and forms a plurality of cells functioning as the flow paths of fluid and a surface layer provided on only an inflow side or both the inflow side and an outflow side of the partition wall base material, wherein predetermined cells each having an end opened on one side and the other end plugged on the other side and the remaining cells each having an end plugged on one side and the other end opened on the other end are alternately arranged, and the following conditions (1) to (5) are satisfied, (1) a peak; pore diameter of the surface layer is equal to or smaller than the average pore diameter of the partition wall base material, and the porosity of the surface layer is larger than that of the partition wall base material, (2) the surface layer has a peal; pore diameter of 3 μm or more and less than 10 μm and a porosity of 75% or more and less than 90% (measurement method is mercury porosimetry), (3) a thickness L 1 of the surface layer is 0.5% or more and less than 30% of the thickness L 2 of the partition walls, (4) a mass of the surface layer per filtration area is 0.01 mg/cm 2 or more and less than 6 mg/cm 2 and (5) the partition wall base material has an average pore diameter of 11 μm or more and less than 55 μm and a porosity of 40% or more and less than 65%. | 209 |
9,227,149 | 1. A vapor condensate collection apparatus, comprising: a substantially planar member having at least one perimeter edge and a vapor collection surface; a first collection device, said first collection device being an elongated member coupled with and running along at least a portion of said at least one perimeter edge of said substantially planar member; at least one elongated support member coupled with said substantially planar member; and at least one storage vessel coupled with said at least one elongated support member, wherein when said vapor collection surface is inclined relative to a horizontal plane, vapor condensate that forms on said vapor collection surface from moisture in the surrounding air travels via gravity along said vapor collection surface into said first collection device, along said first collection device, down said at least one elongated support member, and into said at least one storage vessel to form an accumulated vapor condensate in said at least one storage vessel. | 48,353 |
8,722,023 | 1. A method of cosmetic treatment for depigmenting the skin by acting on the melanin or the melanocyte, said method comprising selecting as a person in need of such depigmentation a person having lentigo pigmentation spots and/or hyperpigmented melasma lesions on his or her skin, and then administering a composition comprising at least one oxazoline selected from the group consisting of 2-undecyl-4-hydroxymethyl-4-methyl-1,3-oxazoline; 2-undecyl-4,4-dimethyl-1,3-oxazoline; (E)-4,4-dimethyl-2-heptadec-8-enyl-1,3-oxazoline; 4-hydroxymethyl-4-methyl-2-heptadecyl-1,3-oxazoline; (E)-4-hydroxymethyl-4-methyl-2-heptadec-8-enyl-1,3-oxazoline, and 2-undecyl-4-ethyl-4-hydroxymethyl-1,3-oxazoline, as a depigmenting active ingredient, to said person in need thereof, thereby depigmenting said lentigo pigmented spots and/or hyperpigmented melasma lesions. | 18,175 |
9,337,620 | 1. A manufacturing method for optical devices each including a substrate, and a light emitting layer formed on a front surface of said substrate, both the front surface and a back surface of said substrate being parallel to each other and having substantially the same rectangular shape, said substrate having four side surfaces connecting the front surface and the back surface of said substrate, wherein of said four side surfaces, each of the two side surfaces adjacent to each other has a convex sectional shape between the front surface and the back surface of said substrate, and each of the other two side surfaces adjacent to each other has a concave sectional shape between the front surface and the back surface of said substrate, said manufacturing method comprising: an attaching step of attaching a protective tape to a front side of an optical device wafer having a light emitting layer on the front side, said light emitting layer of said optical device wafer being partitioned by a plurality of crossing division lines to define a plurality of separate regions where said optical devices are respectively formed; a modified layer forming step of applying a laser beam having a transmission wavelength to said optical device wafer along each division line from a back side of said optical device wafer after performing said attaching step, in the condition where the focal point of said laser beam is adjusted inside said optical device wafer so as to be stepwise shifted along the thickness of said optical device wafer from the front side to the back side thereof, thereby forming a plurality of modified layers juxtaposed in the direction along the thickness of said optical device wafer; and a dividing step of applying an external force to said optical device wafer after performing said modified layer forming step, thereby dividing said optical device wafer along each division line to obtain said individual optical devices; said plurality of modified layers juxtaposed in the direction along the thickness of said optical device wafer being arcuately arranged in the direction along the thickness of said optical device wafer in said modified layer forming step; a crack being formed between any adjacent ones of said plural modified layers arcuately arranged in the direction along the thickness of said optical device wafer in said dividing step, thereby dividing said optical device wafer along each division line so as to form an arcuate sectional shape corresponding to the shape of each side surface of said substrate of each optical device. | 46,404 |
8,814,857 | 1. An irrigated ablation electrode assembly comprising: a distal member having a longitudinal axis associated therewith and comprising: a first manifold comprising: a second manifold comprising: wherein the first manifold outer surface is disposed radially inwardly from at least one of the second manifold and distal member outer surfaces, and the second manifold is disposed proximally of the distal end portion of the distal member. | 10,876 |
9,422,582 | 1. A method for producing isobutanol comprising: a. providing a recombinant yeast cell comprising: b. contacting said recombinant yeast cell of a) with a carbon substrate under conditions whereby isobutanol is produced; wherein at least a portion of said contacting occurs under anaerobic conditions. | 36,393 |
9,723,562 | 1. A position-based mobile terminal power management device, comprising a positioning module, a network connection monitoring circuit, a power management and control module, a storage module, and a terminal function module, wherein, the positioning module is connected to the power management and control module, and sends position information of a mobile terminal at a first location to the power management and control module in response to a wireless connection between the mobile terminal and a WLAN station emitting a WIFI signal at the first location, wherein the position information is obtained using a cell positioning identifier including at least one of a location area code (LAC), a cell ID (CI), and a Base Station Identity Code (BSIC); the network connection circuit is connected to the power management and control module, and is configured to send a network connection monitoring result of the mobile terminal at the first location to the power management and control module; the power management and control module is connected to the positioning module, the network connection circuit, the storage module, and the terminal function module respectively, and is configured to control the enabling and disabling of the terminal function module; the storage module is connected to the power management and control module, and is configured to record the position information of the mobile terminal at the first location using at least one of the LAC, CI, BSID, and the corresponding network connection monitoring result at the first location when the mobile terminal connects to the WLAN station emitting the WIFI signal; wherein the terminal function module is connected to the power management and control module, and is enabled or disabled under the control of the power management and control module. | 45,690 |
9,546,689 | 1. A machine arrangement, comprising at least one bearing ring; a glass fiber connected with the machine arrangement, wherein the connection between the glass fiber and the machine arrangement is established by a metallic material, wherein the metallic material is connected to each of the machine arrangement and the glass fiber by a material bonding, the metallic material encasing the glass fiber such that when viewing a cross section of the glass fiber the metallic material contacts and completely surrounds an outer surface of the glass fiber, the metallic material is materially bonded entirely around the outer surface of the glass fiber such that when viewing the cross section the metallic material is materially bonded to every circumferential location of the outer surface of the glass fiber, and wherein the metallic material is made of a single material composition such that the single material composition both encases the glass fiber and is the only material composition located between the glass fiber and a surface of the machine arrangement. | 34,080 |
9,752,700 | 1. A valve device comprising a valve tappet ( 18 ) that effects a controlled opening or blocking of a fluid flow channel ( 16 ) in an engaged position on a valve seat ( 22 ), which is movable from a starting position into the engagement position in response to pressure loading with a pressure fluid, wherein pressure fluid drawn from the fluid flow channel is conveyed by electromagnetically driven pumping means ( 24 ) into a pressure chamber ( 44 ) assigned to the valve tappet in such manner that the pressurization for driving the valve tappet is achieved through multiple pump strokes of the pumping means that comprise a delivery piston ( 26 ). | 44,670 |
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