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G06F | 9,471,325 | 2016-10-18 | 1. A method of operating a processor, the processor comprising a rename map table (RMT) to store entries indicating assignments of physical registers to architected registers, each physical register having an associated physical register token and each architected register in an RMT entry having an associated architected register token, the method comprising: setting all architected register tokens in the RMT to a reset value in response to obtaining a potential pipeline flush instruction from a processor pipeline; in response to obtaining a producer instruction, where the producer instruction identifies an architected register as a target for a result of the producer instruction when executed: allowing the producer instruction result to be written to the physical register assigned to the architected register in the RMT if the physical register token associated with the physical register has a value indicating the producer instruction. |
H01L | 9,257,448 | 2016-02-09 | 1. A method for forming a semiconductor device, comprising: providing a first wafer comprising a first horizontal surface, an opposite horizontal surface, and a semiconductor layer extending from the first horizontal surface to the opposite horizontal surface; forming at least one insulating region on the opposite horizontal surface, the insulating region partly covering the semiconductor layer; forming a non-monocrystalline semiconductor layer on the opposite horizontal surface, the non-monocrystalline semiconductor layer covering at least the semiconductor layer; providing a second wafer comprising a pn-junction; and waferbonding of the first wafer and the second wafer such that an interface between the non-monocrystalline semiconductor layer and the second wafer is formed, so that a doping concentration of the non-monocrystalline semiconductor layer is at least one order of magnitude lower than the respective doping concentrations of semiconductor regions adjoining the non-monocrystalline semiconductor layer. |
H01L | 9,287,189 | 2016-03-15 | 1. A semiconductor device, comprising: a silicon die having an electrically conductive die pad; at least one routing segment configured as a non-linear compliant spring in at least one routing layer formed on the silicon die, the at least one routing segment being electrically conductive, wherein the non-linear compliant spring comprises a first routing segment and a second routing segment, and wherein the first and second routing segments intersect at a joint and form an acute angle; and an electrically conductive interconnect pad formed at a surface layer of the semiconductor device, the interconnect pad configured to mount an interconnect member, the at least one routing segment coupled between the die pad and interconnect pad, and the non-linear compliant spring configured to at least enable compliance to facilitate positional displacement of the interconnect pad relative to the die pad. |
G06F,H04B,H04M | 9,241,053 | 2016-01-19 | 1. A mounting system for an electronic device, comprising: an outer section having an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface adapted to face the electronic device when the electronic device is mounted in the mounting system; and a perimeter suspension section coupled to the outer section and adapted to secure the electronic device to the mounting system, the perimeter suspension section including a spring portion provided around a periphery of the perimeter suspension section, the spring portion adapted to isolate the electronic device from a shock force applied to the mounting system. |
F21K,F21V,F21Y,H01L,H05B,Y02B | 9,338,835 | 2016-05-10 | 1. A liquid-cooled LED lamp, comprising: a) a lamp head ( b) a lamp core ( c) a lamp shell ( wherein the lamp shell ( the cavity of the lamp shell ( one end of the lamp core ( wherein the lamp core ( the multi-row lamppost ( a plurality of LED light-emitting chips is disposed at a top surface of one end and each side face of the multi-row lamppost ( the connecting piece ( wherein the multi-row lamppost ( |
F23R | 9,447,973 | 2016-09-20 | 1. A combustion chamber of a gas turbine comprising: an external combustion chamber wall including a rear end area with respect to a flow direction of the combustion chamber, the rear end area of the external combustion chamber including an axially extending groove; at least one shingle mounted to the external combustion chamber wall; a base plate including an axially extending groove; a combustion chamber head, wherein the at least one shingle extends over an entire length of the combustion chamber, the at least one shingle including a front end area and a rear end area with respect to the flow direction of the combustion chamber, the front end area of the at least one shingle positioned within the groove of the base plate to engage and be supported by the groove of the base plate to connect the at least one shingle to the base plate, the rear end area of the at least one shingle positioned within the groove of the external combustion chamber wall to engage and be supported by the groove of the external combustion chamber wall; wherein at least a portion of the front end area of the at least one shingle is a spring, and the spring is positioned within the groove of the base plate to engage and be supported by the groove of the base plate to connect the at least one shingle to the base plate. |
H02M | 9,385,625 | 2016-07-05 | 1. A RF-to-DC converter comprising: a first Radio-Frequency (RF) input and a second RF input that receive a RF signal from an antenna; a buffer circuit for generating a first buffered RF signal and a second buffered RF signal from the first and second RF input, and for generating a first control signal and a second control signal; wherein the first control signal and the second control signal alternately indicate a pre-charge phase and a pumping phase; a first array of capacitors having bottom plates receiving the second buffered RF signal; a second array of capacitors having bottom plates receiving the first buffered RF signal; a first bank of L-switches, each L-switch coupled between an input capacitor in the second array of capacitors and an output capacitor in the first array of capacitors; a third array of capacitors having bottom plates receiving the first buffered RF signal; a fourth array of capacitors having bottom plates receiving the second buffered RF signal; a second bank of L-switches, each L-switch in the second bank coupled between an input capacitor in the fourth array of capacitors and an output capacitor in the third array of capacitors; wherein each L-switch comprises: a pre-charge transistor that charges the input capacitor during the pre-charge phase; a stage-transfer transistor that transfers charge from the input capacitor to the output capacitor during the pumping phase; wherein the first control signal and the second control signal are connected to the first bank of L-switches and to the second bank of L-switches to cause the first bank of L-switches to operate in the pre-charge phase when the second bank of L-switches operate in the pumping phase, whereby the first bank and the second bank operate in opposite phases. |
H04R | 9,288,598 | 2016-03-15 | 1. A method comprising: forming a pipe including a hole in the pipe configured to receive a headset mount, a first end and a second end by forming couplings between a plurality of sections of pipe, each coupling comprises a union configured to join adjacent sections of the plurality of sections of pipe, the adjacent sections being positioned in an inside diameter of a respective union, and the adjacent sections in each union being spaced apart from each other by a gap; connecting a loudspeaker to the first end, wherein the loudspeaker is a mouth simulator loudspeaker; placing an electronic device having a plurality of microphones substantially within a receptacle of the headset mount; holding the electronic device securely to the receptacle using a firm foam piece substantially disposed at an end of a toggle clamp; positioning the headset mount in the hole in the pipe with each of the plurality of microphones substantially disposed a third distance inside an inside surface of the pipe, the receptacle being positioned in the pipe a first distance from the first end and a second distance from the second end; generating an acoustic output at the loudspeaker; and generating at least one calibration filter using outputs of the plurality of microphones produced in response to the acoustic output. |
C03C,H01M,Y02E | 9,252,434 | 2016-02-02 | 1. A seal composition comprising: a first alkaline earth metal oxide; a second alkaline earth metal oxide, wherein the second alkaline earth metal oxide is different from the first alkaline earth metal oxide; aluminum oxide; and silica in an amount such that molar percent of silica in the composition is at least five molar percent greater than two times a combined molar percent of the first alkaline earth metal oxide and the second alkaline earth metal oxide; wherein the composition is substantially free of boron oxide and phosphorus oxide. |
A24C,A24F | 9,402,420 | 2016-08-02 | 1. A smoking accessory kit system comprising: a primary tray having a bottom wall and a perimeter wall coupled to and extending upwardly from said bottom wall, a top edge of said perimeter wall defining an access opening into an interior of said primary tray; a plurality of magnets being attached to said primary tray; a plurality of attachments being magnetically attachable to said primary tray, wherein said plurality of attachments includes a secondary tray being magnetically attachable to said interior of said primary tray, said secondary tray having a lower wall and a peripheral wall coupled to and extending upwardly from said lower wall, said secondary tray defining an ashtray; at least one light being coupled to said primary tray; an elongated slot positioned in said perimeter wall, said slot being configured to receive rolling paper therethrough; at least two of said magnets being coupled to an exterior surface of said perimeter wall and extending around said slot; said plurality of attachments including a dispenser unit having a front panel, a pair of side panels and a back panel, said side panels being coupled to and extending between said front and back panels, said front panel abutting said back panel and being positioned parallel with respect to said back panel said dispenser unit being configured to support the rolling paper adjacent to said elongated slot, one of said attachments including a planar panel having an arcuate slit extending therein; at least two of said magnets being attached to said dispenser unit for magnetically attaching said dispenser unit to said perimeter wall of said primary tray; a splitter coupled to said secondary tray, said splitter having opposite ends each being open, a blade being positioned within said splitter; at least some of said magnets being coupled to a lower surface of said bottom wall; said plurality of attachments including a drawer unit, said drawer unit including a drawer frame and a drawer, said drawer frame having a lower wall and a peripheral wall coupled to and extending upwardly from said lower wall, said drawer frame having an upper edge defining an access opening into said drawer frame, an opening being positioned in a front end of said peripheral wall, said drawer being insertable into and slidably extendable from said opening; at least some of said magnets being attached to said upper edge of said drawer frame for magnetically attaching said drawer frame to said lower surface of said bottom wall; one of said attachments including a sifting unit having an outer wall and a mesh screen, said outer wall being attached to and extending around said mesh screen; at least some of said magnets being attached to said outer wall to permit said sifting unit to magnetically attach to said primary tray; and a supplemental light assembly attached to said primary tray, said supplemental light assembly including a base, a flexible neck, and a light, said flexible neck being coupled to and extending between said base and said light for allowing said light to be positioned at a selectable angle relative to said primary tray. |
G06F,G06K,G06T,H04N | 9,412,174 | 2016-08-09 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a computing device, an input image of an environment having a plurality of overlapping physical notes, each the plurality of physical notes having a background color and a border having a border color different from the background color; processing the input image with the computing device to apply a color segmenting process to identify, based on the background colors and the border colors of the overlapping physical notes, borders of each of the overlapping physical notes in the input image; processing the identified borders of each of the overlapping physical notes as fiducial markers for the respective physical note to extract, based on the fiducial markers, content for each of the respective overlapping physical notes, wherein the extracted content for a respective physical note includes portions of the border of the respective overlapping physical note not covered by another physical note of the plurality of overlapping physical notes; creating, by the computing device, a plurality of digital notes, each of the digital notes representing a particular one of the identified overlapping physical notes; and associating, by the computing device, the extracted content for each respective physical note of the identified overlapping physical notes with a corresponding digital note of the plurality of digital notes that represents the respective physical note. |
H03F,H03G,H03K | 9,450,540 | 2016-09-20 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a calibration circuit configured to generate a reference signal; and at least one differential circuit each being configured to operate at a calibrated transconductance over process or condition variations based on the reference signal, wherein the calibration circuit is further configured to generate the reference signal independent of the at least one differential circuit and to provide a feedback of the reference signal and adjust the reference signal based on the feedback, wherein the calibration circuit further comprises an operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) configured to generate a tail current based on the feedback. |
H04M,H04W,Y02D | 9,521,243 | 2016-12-13 | 1. A network connectivity device for use in low-resource environments, the device comprising: a plurality of external network interfaces each configured to connect to one of a plurality of external networks, at least a subset of the plurality of external networks having a first type and at least one of the external networks not in the subset of the plurality having a second type differing from the first type; at least one internal network interface configured to connect to one or more user devices; a power connection configured to power the network connectivity device, the power connection having at least a coupled external power source and a battery-based internal power source; one or more processors configured to: |
B65D,Y10T | 9,266,645 | 2016-02-23 | 1. A system for creating a container having a bottom and four lateral walls, said system comprising a first plate-like bottom member ( four second plate-like wall members ( an arrangement ( said arrangement ( a first elongated plate ( a second elongated plate ( a first part ( a second part ( forming a stop to said first plate ( said first part ( said first and second plates ( each said second plate ( the first plate ( a first part ( a second part ( with an end of the second part ( |
B60K,F16H,Y10T | 9,429,212 | 2016-08-30 | 1. An axle arrangement for a working machine with at least one drive-through axle, the drive-through axle comprising: a crown bevel gear ( a pinion gear ( an output shaft ( the crown bevel gear ( the crown bevel gear forming a first drive output of the first housing and the output shaft forming a second drive output of the first housing, and the output shaft ( |
H02G | 9,252,581 | 2016-02-02 | 1. A bracket for securing components to a surface of a structure with a radius of curvature, the bracket comprising; a center panel; at least two legs extending outwardly and downwardly from the center panel and terminating at a distal end wherein a curvature of the distal end of the at least two legs is matched to the radius of curvature of the structure to which the bracket is to be secured; at least one hole in the center panel for securing a component to the bracket; and at least one magnetic pad secured to each distal end of the at least two legs, wherein due to the curvature of the at least two legs a surficial contact of each magnetic pad with the surface of the structure is maximized and the holding power of the bracket to the surface is optimized. |
G06T,G09G,H04N | 9,478,054 | 2016-10-25 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a first image and a second image; determining one or more attributes of the first image and the second image, wherein the one or more attributes include at least one of the following attributes: an image type, image size, a face content, a body content, a texture, a lighting characteristic, a color characteristic, and a border characteristic; and selecting one or more of a gradient domain blending technique, an alpha blending technique, and a tone mapping technique to combine the first image and the second image based on the one or more attributes, wherein |
H04W | 9,301,301 | 2016-03-29 | 1. A method comprising: receiving network status information comprising a service quality measure for at least one user equipment in a cell of a communication network, wherein the cell is associated with a frequency resource and a communication technology; determining a refarming control signal for a network node comprising a weighting of the service quality measure, wherein the refarming control signal is related to a reuse of the frequency resource by a different communication technology; and wherein the weighting comprises on one or more of: |
G09G | 9,349,334 | 2016-05-24 | 1. A polarity inversion signal converting method, comprising: judging whether a preset number of frames of images with all-white picture or all-black picture are received continuously; and generating the judgment result indicating that the polarity inversion signal is required to be converted currently, when the preset number of frames of the images with all-white picture or all-black picture are received continuously and the polarity inversion signal currently output to the data driver is a first polarity inversion signal, adjusting the first polarity inversion signal currently output to the data driver as a second polarity inversion signal, when the judgment result indicates that the polarity inversion signal is required to be converted currently, wherein a power consumption generated by the data driver in a polarity driving manner corresponding to the second polarity inversion signal is lower than that generated by the data driver in a polarity driving manner corresponding to the first polarity inversion signal, the polarity driving manner corresponding to the second polarity inversion signal is a column polarity driving manner. |
B41J,H03M,H04J,H04L | 9,509,437 | 2016-11-29 | 1. A system comprising: a plurality of conductors configured to receive a set of input data bits; a pre-encoder configured to map the set of input data bits into symbols of a pre-code codeword of a pre-code, wherein the pre-code comprises a constrained set of vectors determined from a maximal set of vectors, and wherein the pre-code is associated with a constrained post-transformation alphabet comprising a portion of low magnitude symbol values selected from an unconstrained post-transformation alphabet associated with the maximal set of vectors, wherein each vector in the constrained set has values selected from a constellation of PAM-M values, wherein M is an integer greater than or equal to 3; an encoder configured to generate a constrained-alphabet codeword of a constrained-alphabet vector signaling code, the constrained-alphabet codeword representing a transformation of the pre-code codeword with a first non-simple orthogonal matrix, wherein the constrained-alphabet codeword comprises symbols of the constrained post-transformation alphabet; and, a driver configured to transmit the constrained-alphabet codeword on a multi-wire communication bus. |
B60T,B60W,B62D,G05D,G08G | 9,472,102 | 2016-10-18 | 1. An automotive vehicle comprising: a driver analyzer communicatively coupled to a controller; a driver assistance system communicatively coupled to the controller; and the controller including a non-transitory storage medium storing instructions for causing the controller to determine a level of attentiveness of a driver of the automotive vehicle and to adapt a response of the driver assistance system in response to the determined level of attentiveness and in response to at least one condition external to the vehicle, the condition external to the vehicle being an environmental condition affecting at least one of a last point to brake and a last point to steer, and wherein adapting the response of the driver assistance system includes loading one of a plurality of collision avoidance charts including at least a last point to brake data entry and a last point to steer data entry, each of said collision avoidance charts being distinct and corresponding to at least one environmental condition. |
B01D,B01L,B08B,B25J,F24F,Y10S | 9,494,328 | 2016-11-15 | 1. A filter unit for air purification attached to an outside of an air outlet of a work chamber so as to be connected to said work chamber for purifying air discharged from said work chamber comprising: a rectangular cylindrical body having a first wall portion provided with an air inlet portion through which the air discharged from said air outlet is introduced and a second wall portion formed so as to cross said first wall portion and provided with an air discharge port portion through which the introduced air is discharged; a filter member provided in said cylindrical body and for filtering said introduced air, wherein said filter member is provided with its air discharge surface at said air discharge port portion so as to constitute an outer wall surface of said air discharge port portion and to discharge said filtered air; an annular seal member surrounding an outer periphery portion of said air inlet portion so as to oppose said work chamber of said first wall portion; and a detachable lid body closing said air inlet portion in an airtight manner, wherein, when the filter unit is connected to said work chamber, said air inlet portion is attached so as to oppose an air outlet of said work chamber so that said seal member abuts an outer wall portion of said work chamber in an airtight manner. |
C12M,C12P,C25B,Y02E | 9,458,474 | 2016-10-04 | 1. A system for producing hydrogen from bio-organic material by microbial electrolysis, comprising: a completely mixed bioreactor having an inlet for continuously receiving bio-organic material and anaerobic, hydrogen producing microorganisms; a completely mixed reactor chamber containing a dark fermentation broth including the bio-organic material and the anaerobic microorganisms suspended therein for breaking down the bio-organic material into H a gravity settler downstream of the bioreactor and hydraulically connected by a drain conduit to the second outlet for receiving at least a portion of the first liquid effluent and separating at least a portion of the first liquid effluent into a concentrated biomass including at least a portion of the hydrogen-producing microorganisms and a second liquid effluent including at least a portion of the fatty acids and of the alcohols, the gravity settler hydraulically connected by a return conduit to the bioreactor for recovering at least a portion of the concentrated biomass and returning the recovered portion of the concentrated biomass into the completely mixed reactor chamber; and at least one pair of electrodes suspended in at least one of the dark fermentation broth in the bioreactor and the first liquid effluent in the gravity settler, each pair of electrodes including an anode and a cathode with exoelectrogenic, hydrogen-producing microorganisms on the anode for releasing electrons to the dark fermentation broth or the first liquid effluent upon breakdown of the bio-organic material into products including H a controller constructed for supplying an input voltage of 0.5 V to 1.8 V to each pair of electrodes for supporting microbial electrolysis at the anode for development of hydrogen at the cathode. |
A61N | 9,433,779 | 2016-09-06 | 1. A neurostimulation system, comprising: (a) an implantable neurostimulation pulse generator configured to generate one or more neurostimulation electrical signals; (b) a multi-branch electrode array configured to be coupled to the pulse generator and to transmit the one or more non-ablative neurostimulation electrical signals to a nerve tissue, the multi-branch electrode array comprising: |
G06F,H04N | 9,477,336 | 2016-10-25 | 1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: a display configured to display a plurality of images thereon; a coordinate detector configured to detect an input coordinate which is a coordinate indicating a position of an input object having touched or approached a display region of the display; and a controller configured to: control the display to display, at a first position in the display region, at least one first object image, of the plurality of images each for receiving a command for executing a corresponding predefined processing; when the input coordinate detected by the coordinate detector is a coordinate corresponding to one of the at least one first object image, execute a processing that is assigned to the one of the at least one first object image corresponding to the input coordinate detected by the coordinate detector, determine whether at least one second object image, which is different from the at least one first object image is to be displayed at the first position in the display region in place of the at least one first object when the coordinate detector detects a movement of the input object from a first input coordinate to toward a second input coordinate which is a coordinate indicating a position that the input object moved from the first input coordinate in a first direction; control the display to display the at least one second object image at the first position in place of the at least one first object image in response to the determining that the at least one second object image is to be displayed at the first position in pace of the at least one first object image; and in response to a detection of a release of the input object, detected by the coordinate detector, from the second input coordinate in the display region, control the display to repeatedly move the at least one second object image between a position located distant from the first position, respectively associated with each of the at least one second object image, in the first direction and a position distant from the first position. |
B42D,G09F,H04R | 9,305,474 | 2016-04-05 | 1. A gift package accessory comprising: a three-dimensional gift package accessory; a base structure which contains and conceals a motor module operative to cause movement to the three-dimensional gift package accessory and a sound module operative to store and playback at least one audio file, the base structure having a backing layer on the bottom surface thereof which may be removed to expose an adhesive surface; a press-button which operates as a toggle switch and controls activation and deactivation of the sound and motor module; wherein the three-dimensional gift package accessory comprises at least two components which are attached to each other at a pivot point; and wherein the at least two components of the three-dimensional gift package accessory pivot or move about the pivot point when the motor module is activated. |
G21B,H05H,Y02E | 9,230,694 | 2016-01-05 | 1. A device for determining nuclear fusion irradiation coordinates as an information processing device that calculates irradiation coordinates of energy lines when the energy lines are irradiated onto nuclear fusion fuel, comprising: an initial arrangement means that arranges a predetermined number of electric charges at the predetermined number of initial coordinates on a spherical surface centered at the nuclear fusion fuel set by using random numbers; a coordinate analysis means that analyzes coordinates r a potential evaluation means that determines a timing at which potential energies of the predetermined number of electric charges were stabilized based on the coordinates analyzed by the coordinate analysis means; and an irradiation coordinate deriving means that derives coordinates of the predetermined number of electric charges at the timing determined by the potential evaluation means as irradiation coordinates of the energy lines when nuclear fusion fuel is arranged at the center of the spherical surface, wherein the potential evaluation means calculates a sum E calculates a temporal change of the sum E |
B28B,B82Y,C04B,C09K | 9,227,874 | 2016-01-05 | 1. A method for producing a proppant comprising the steps of: a. forming two or more green body materials comprising sacrificial materials, reactive materials, riders, pore formers, flow agents, or any combination thereof, b. co-extruding said two or more green body materials to form a green body extrudate, wherein the green body extrudate comprises a core and at least one layer that surrounds the core, c. separating and optionally shaping said green body extrudate into individual green bodies, and d. sintering said green bodies. |
H04J,H04L,H04W | 9,351,309 | 2016-05-24 | 1. A method of operating an eNodeB to dynamically provide carrier aggregation to wireless communication devices, the method comprising: exchanging first wireless communication signals with a wireless communication device using a first carrier aggregation configuration for a first quality of service, wherein the first carrier aggregation configuration comprises one of an intra-band carrier aggregation configuration or an inter-band carrier aggregation configuration; identifying a request from the wireless communication device for a modified quality of service; determining a second carrier aggregation configuration based on the request and the modified quality of service, wherein the second carrier aggregation configuration comprises an inter-band carrier aggregation configuration if the first carrier aggregation configuration is an intra-band carrier aggregation configuration or an intra-band carrier aggregation configuration if the first carrier aggregation configuration is an inter-band carrier aggregation configuration; and exchanging second wireless communication signals with the wireless communication device using the second carrier aggregation configuration. |
G06F,H04L,H04W | 9,323,914 | 2016-04-26 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving a unique identifier based on user input; initializing a virtual smart card in response to the received unique identifier; reading data associated with the unique identifier via a reader device, wherein the data comprises a key stream of digital data bits associated with the unique identifier; identifying a user's smart card base address from a first portion of the digital data bits of the key stream; and authenticating the user based on received unique identifier and results of the read data. |
B23K | 9,440,307 | 2016-09-13 | 1. A spot welding method using a welding gun including a pair of electrodes holding and welding a welding point of a workpiece, the method comprising: transmitting an ultrasonic from one of the electrode pair to the workpiece with the electrode pair holding the workpiece; receiving the ultrasonic at the other electrode passed through the electrode pair and the workpiece; and detecting a holding state of the workpiece on a basis of an amplitude of the received ultrasonic. |
B63B | 9,499,235 | 2016-11-22 | 1. A kayak paddle holder comprising: a handle retention clip includes a lengthwise body and a pair of opposing lips, said lengthwise body includes an outer perimeter and an inner perimeter, said inner and outer perimeters having a substantially semi-circular shape, said pair of opposing lips extend inward from opposing edges of said lengthwise body, a length of said pair of opposing lips is greater than a distance between said opposing lips, said inner perimeter is sized to receive a handle of a kayak paddle, a material reduction opening is formed through said lengthwise body directly below said pair of opposing lips, said lengthwise body includes a first support portion and a second support portion, said first support portion extends beyond a length of said pair of opposing lips from a first end of said opposing lips, said second support portion extends beyond a length of said pair of opposing lips from a second end of said opposing lips, said first and second support portions make contact with the handle; and at least one suction cup, each one of said at least one suction cup includes a suction cup portion and a mounting portion, said mounting portion is secured to a bottom of said lengthwise body. |
G06F | 9,274,718 | 2016-03-01 | 1. A method comprising: replicating a first volume of a first storage array to a second volume of a second storage array; notifying a first splitter of a start of migration of data from the first volume to a third volume of a third storage array, the first splitter configured to send I/Os sent from an application to the first volume to a first data replication appliance (DPA) to be replicated at the second volume and configured to send the I/Os to the first volume; configuring a second splitter of a third storage array to: migrating data from the first volume to the third volume, the third volume having an ID identical to the first volume. |
F16H | 9,447,846 | 2016-09-20 | 1. A suspended wheel crossing-zero multilevel transmission, comprising: a front planetary gear train including one multilevel gear shift mechanism; a rear planetary gear train including a rear sun wheel, a rear planetary wheel and a rear inner gear ring; and a suspended wheel, wherein the rear inner gear ring is shaped at an inner peripheral surface of the suspended wheel and integral with the suspended wheel, the multilevel gear shift mechanism includes: the input gear wheel engages with one set of the plurality of sets of the output gear wheels, the input gear wheel is transmissively coupled with the front inner gear ring through said one set of the output gear wheels, the rear sun wheel is transmissively coupled with the rear inner gear ring through the rear planetary wheel, a wheel center of the rear sun wheel and a wheel center of the input gear wheel are rigidly coupled with a power input shaft, a wheel center of the rear planetary wheel is coupled with a power output shaft for outputting power, a reduction ratio of one set of the plurality of sets of output gear wheels to the input gear wheel is identical to a reduction ratio of the rear planetary wheel to the rear sun wheel. |
C08F,C08J,C08L | 9,403,956 | 2016-08-02 | 1. A process for making an impact copolymer, comprising: polymerizing, in a gas-phase reactor, ethylene and at least one comonomer in the presence of one or more catalysts, polypropylene particles, and an inert solvent to produce an impact copolymer comprising the polypropylene particles and an ethylene copolymer, wherein: 1) the polypropylene particles introduced into the gas phase reactor have a weight average particle size along the longest cross-sectional length thereof of about 0.05 mm to about 5 mm and a pore volume of less than 80%, 2) the inert solvent is present in a volume amount of about 0.1 to about 2 times the pore volume of the polypropylene particles, and 3) the inert solvent comprises pentane, hexane, heptane, octane, nonane, decane, isomers thereof, and/or any mixture thereof; cyclopentane, cyclohexane, cycloheptane, cyclooctane, cyclononane, cyclodecane, or any mixture thereof; toluene, naphthalene, xylene and biphenyl, or any mixture thereof; cyclohexane, cyclopentane, methyl cyclohexane, or any mixture thereof; tetramethyl silane, tetraethyl silane, triethyl borane, or any mixture thereof; or hexane, cyclohexane, toluene, or any mixture thereof. |
H03F,H03G,H04B | 9,331,738 | 2016-05-03 | 1. An apparatus comprising, a first amplifier; a first amplifier power control module; a second amplifier; a second amplifier power control module; and a control signal module for receiving a common control input and generating a first gain signal for controlling the first amplifier through the amplifier control module and a second gain signal for controlling the second amplifier through the amplifier control module, wherein the first gain signal is generated independently from the second gain signal based on the common input signal, wherein the control signal module is configured to receive a first and second bias voltage and the first gain signal and the second gain signal are modified based on the first and second bias voltages. |
H01R | 9,306,349 | 2016-04-05 | 1. A current distributing device comprising: a first current conducting element, a second current conducting element, and a third current conducting element, wherein the three current conducting elements are oriented in or substantially in three orthogonal directions, wherein the three current conducting elements are coupled at each of the three orthogonal directions, forming at least one current supply component at each of the three orthogonal directions, wherein the at least one current supply component at each of the three orthogonal directions is a power socket, and wherein each of the three current conducting elements contains one or more single metal bended sheets without soldering. |
B60N | 9,254,763 | 2016-02-09 | 1. A vehicle seat comprising a seat cushion, a seat back, and a headrest, the seat back including a seat back frame constituting a frame of the seat back, and a seat back pad covering the seat back frame, and the vehicle seat being configured to allow an upper body of an occupant to sink into the seat back when a backward movement load acts on the seat back from the occupant's upper body, wherein the seat back pad comprising a center portion configured to face a back region of the occupant's upper body, and right and left side portions provided at right and left sides of the center portion and each configured to protrude frontward farther than the center portion, said seat back pad having through-openings or recessed portions at positions where regions between the center portion and the right and left side portions overlap the support members, wherein each of the right and left side portions has an upper side portion corresponding to a height of a chest region of the occupant and a lower side portion corresponding to a height of a lumbar region of the occupant, which are configured such that when they receive the backward movement load, the upper side portion is more easily deformable than the lower side portion, wherein the vehicle seat further comprises support members provided in the seat back and configured to support the upper side portions from inside the seat back and to be movable in a backward direction, and wherein the support members are disposed frontward of right and left side frames of the seat back frame with a gap provided between each of the side frames and each of the support members. |
B22F,B23K,B29C,B33Y,Y02P | 9,527,246 | 2016-12-27 | 1. An optical irradiation device for a system for producing work pieces by irradiation of powder layers of a powdered raw material using laser radiation, comprising: a multimode optical fiber suitable for a central wavelength of a beam of light for multimode guidance having a first beam profile and entering through an input connection, the multimode optical fiber having a cut-off wavelength that is greater than the central wavelength of the beam of light; and a switching device which is selectively switchable between a first light conducting state and a second light conducting state, wherein the switching device is configured to conduct the beam of light having a first beam profile and entering through the input connection in the first light conducting state to an output connection, such that the beam of light has the first beam profile on emerging from the output connection, and to conduct the beam of light having the first beam profile and entering through the input connection in the second light conducting state to the output connection by means of selective redirection of the beam of light through the multimode optical fiber such that the beam of light has a second beam profile which is different from the first beam profile on emerging from the output connection by the multimode guidance in the multimode optical fiber, wherein a characteristic width of the first beam profile in a lateral intensity distribution of the first beam profile is narrower than a characteristic width of the second beam profile in a lateral intensity distribution of the second beam profile. |
G06F | 9,311,008 | 2016-04-12 | 1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with processing instructions for implementing a method for performing a system memory save in non-volatile cached storage, the processing instructions for directing an information handling system comprising at least one processor to perform the steps of: receiving a command to transition into a decreased power state; determining if available space in a non-volatile primary storage exceeds a reserve requirement; invalidating a first part of the contents of a non-volatile cached storage in the information handling system, wherein the invalidating continues until available space of the non-volatile primary storage is large enough to store a second part of the contents of the non-volatile cached storage; transferring the second part of the contents of the non-volatile cached storage to the non-volatile primary storage, wherein the non-volatile cached storage is operable to cache files for the non-volatile primary storage; and transferring at least part of the contents of volatile memory in the information handling system to the non-volatile cached storage. |
A63C | 9,289,675 | 2016-03-22 | 1. A ski binding for a cross country or touring ski that advances in a forward direction, the ski binding comprising: a flexor having a slot that has spaced apart forward and rearward walls for receiving therebetween a rotation pin of a ski boot, wherein the forward wall is configured to engage a front surface of the ski boot when the ski boot is attached to the ski binding and the rotation pin is received within the slot; and a shoe attachment device for removeable attachment of the ski boot, wherein the shoe attachment device is provided with a pin receiving section for receiving and holding the rotation pin of the ski boot such that a hinge action of the ski binding is provided in an interface between the binding and the ski boot; and wherein the ski binding is further structured so as to hold the flexor in a position such that the slot of the flexor is coaxially aligned with the pin receiving section such that when the rotation pin of the ski boot is held in the pin receiving section the rotation pin is also within the slot of the flexor for holding the flexor in the ski binding thereby to prevent the flexor from being lost. |
G02B | 9,417,393 | 2016-08-16 | 1. An optical waveguide device comprising: a wiring board; an optical waveguide disposed on the wiring board and including a first cladding layer, a core layer, and a second cladding layer; an optical path conversion mirror formed in the optical waveguide; a hole formed in the first cladding layer and the second cladding layer and outside an optical waveguide formation region where the optical waveguide is formed; and a lens component that is optically coupled to the optical path conversion mirror, wherein the lens component comprises a diameter of a tip end of the bump of the lens component is smaller than a minimum diameter of the hole. |
G06F,Y02D | 9,529,406 | 2016-12-27 | 1. A method of managing a physical link layer of an external interface connecting processing units within a computer system, the method comprising: receiving an indication of a required bandwidth for operation of the physical link layer; from the required bandwidth, determining an active width and operating frequency for the physical link layer that meet the required bandwidth; setting a current active width of the physical link layer to the determined active width; setting a current operating frequency of the physical link layer to the determined operating frequency; operating the physical link layer using the current active width and the current operating frequency; predicting a future bandwidth requirement for the physical link layer, and wherein the receiving receives the predicted future bandwidth requirement; determining whether or not a current utilization of the external interface is less than a threshold usage; evaluating a quality of the predicting; comparing the quality of the predicting to a threshold quality; and responsive to determining that the current utilization of the external interface is less than the threshold usage and responsive to the comparing determining that the quality of the predicting is less than the threshold quality, reducing at least one of the current operating frequency or the current active width, wherein the reducing the at least one of the current operating frequency or the current active width comprises reducing the current operating frequency while maintaining the current active width of the physical link layer. |
C04B,C09K | 9,290,693 | 2016-03-22 | 1. A process for the preparation of a composition, the composition comprising: an inorganic core; and a shell based on an aluminate of formula (1): wherein the process comprises: |
H04L,H04W | 9,253,290 | 2016-02-02 | 1. A method of communicating in a wireless network, the method comprising: generating a block acknowledgment frame comprising a plurality of fields in the following order: wirelessly transmitting the block acknowledgment frame. |
H04N | 9,386,202 | 2016-07-05 | 1. A camera module, the camera module comprising: a lens barrel including at least one lens; an actuator moving the lens barrel; a terminal electrically connected to the actuator; a holder supporting the actuator; a substrate mounted with an image sensor and coupled with the holder at a coupling area with a through hole or a groove; a yoke coupled to the holder, and covering the actuator; and an EMI (Electromagnetic Interference) shield can covering the substrate, wherein the terminal is protrusively disposed at the coupling area and is electrically connected to the substrate by being inserted into the through hole or the groove to apply a power to the actuator, wherein the terminal is spaced from the yoke, wherein the EMI shield can covers at least a portion of the holder, and wherein a height of the EMI shield can is higher than a height from a bottom surface of the EMI shield can to an upper surface of the holder exposed on the camera module. |
G08B | 9,324,222 | 2016-04-26 | 1. A method comprising: reading data from a capacitive sensor located within an intrusion detector; comparing the data from the capacitive sensor to a baseline to determine whether the data from the capacitive sensor is indicative of a masking material on or near an optical window of the intrusion detector; and when the data from the capacitive sensor is indicative of the masking material on or near the optical window of the intrusion detector, activating an anti-mask system to capture additional data from an ambient environment for determining whether to activate a mask alarm, wherein capturing the additional data from the ambient environment for determining whether to activate the mask alarm includes: |
A43B | 9,301,573 | 2016-04-05 | 1. A footwear apparatus for customizing a footwear, the footwear apparatus comprising: an electronic display housing and a hooked latch, wherein said hooked latch is integrally connected to the electronic display housing by a hinge on a first side of the electronic display housing, wherein said electronic housing comprises a battery, a microprocessor, a circuit board, a data port, and an image display that uses visible radiant energy to make a footwear visible; wherein said hooked latch comprises an L-shaped bar including a sliding portion with a substantially smooth and flat top surface, wherein said sliding portion has a greater length than a width, wherein said width of the sliding portion is less than a width of the electronic display housing to allow a more effective way of rapidly and securely attaching and detaching the electronic display housing to a lace of the footwear; wherein said sliding portion, is integrally connected to a tab portion forming an angle of greater than 45 degrees; wherein said tab portion has a substantially flat inner and an outer surfaces, wherein said inner surface further comprises a first catch portion that removably attaches to a second catch portion on a second opposite side of said electronic display housing for securely fastening the footwear apparatus to the footwear. |
G10L,H04S | 9,232,334 | 2016-01-05 | 1. An apparatus for generating a multi-channel audio signal using spatial information, the apparatus comprising: a processor configured to: receive a down-mixed stereo signal and side information which corresponds to the spatial information including a level difference between channels; and up mix a signal obtained by applying an inverse Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF) and the received side information to the received down-mixed stereo signal, to generate the multi-channel audio signal. |
E04H | 9,228,368 | 2016-01-05 | 1. An anti-limb entrapment insert for a pipe for a pool circulation system comprising: a cylindrical body including an inner surface; and a fin mounted to the inner surface of the cylindrical body wherein the fin extends inside the cylindrical body, wherein the fin comprises a geometry that sheds hair strands, said fin geometry that sheds hair strands comprises an iso-friction curved segment, wherein the iso-friction curved segment has a distance, R, at any point of the curve defined by: where R o equals an initial distance of the curve at an initial angle, θ o , θ equals the angle of R, α equals the angle of R to a tangent to the curve of the fin at R, and γ equals the compliment of the angle α. |
B29C,B29L,F16L | 9,494,271 | 2016-11-15 | 1. A method of lining a length of pipe having varying diameters along the length of the pipe, the method comprising: inserting a pipe liner into the length of pipe, wherein the pipe liner has an inner surface and an outer diameter greater than an inner diameter of at least a portion of the length of pipe and wherein the pipe liner has been impregnated with a resinous material capable of curing and hardening; inserting a bladder capable of stretching circumferentially into the pipe liner, wherein the bladder has an unstretched outer diameter less than the inner diameter of at least a portion of the length of pipe; expanding the bladder under fluid pressure against the pipe liner, creating folds in the inner surface of the liner as it bunches upon itself at the portion of the length of pipe where the liner outer diameter is greater than the pipe inner diameter, allowing the resinous material to cure and harden to produce a substantially smooth finished surface along the portions of the length of pipe where the inner surface of the liner has folded and bunched upon itself; and removing the bladder from the length of the pipe. |
H04L,H04W | 9,468,000 | 2016-10-11 | 1. A method for optimizing a cloud based radio access network (RAN), comprising: transmitting a first message from a base station to a user equipment (UE); determining that a second message from the user equipment (UE) in response to the first message from the base station is not received by a media access control (MAC) scheduler within a selected amount of time, the MAC scheduler residing remotely at a MAC layer in a cloud; delaying re-transmission of the first message or transmitting a third message from the base station to the UE in response to determining that the second message from the UE is not received by the MAC scheduler within the selected amount of time; and scheduling other hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes of the UE or other UEs in intervening sub-frames after delaying re-transmission of the first message or transmitting of the third message from the base station to the UE. |
B01D,C01B,Y02C,Y02P | 9,381,461 | 2016-07-05 | 1. A method of preventing scattering of a CO 2 absorption liquid in a CO 2 recovering method for bringing CO 2 in flue gas into contact with the CO 2 absorption liquid to reduce CO 2 , the flue gas being generated from an industrial facility, the preventing method comprising: a first step of injecting ammonia gas to the flue gas generated from the industrial facility to convert SO a second step of reducing the ammonium sulfate from the flue gas with a dust collector; and a third step of supplying the flue gas, from which the SO |
G01C,G08G | 9,401,091 | 2016-07-26 | 1. A method for increasing the vertical situational awareness of a pilot of a host aircraft, comprising: receiving, by a data communication module, current flight status data of aircraft near the host aircraft; processing current flight status data of aircraft near the host aircraft to determine approved flight level allocation data, the approved flight level allocation data corresponding to an ITP transition of a second aircraft and assigned to the second aircraft by air traffic control; rendering symbology on a vertical situation display on-board the host aircraft, the symbology comprising (1) a traffic scenario including at least the host aircraft and the second aircraft, and (2) the approved flight level allocation data. |
G06Q,H04L | 9,451,034 | 2016-09-20 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: as implemented by one or more computing devices configured with specific executable instructions, |
H04B,H04L,H04W,Y02D | 9,438,389 | 2016-09-06 | 1. A method of communication, the method comprising: in a first device that comprises a plurality of distributed transceivers, each distributed transceiver of the first device comprising an antenna array comprising a plurality of antennas: |
F16H,Y10T | 9,309,963 | 2016-04-12 | 1. A transmission device for a vehicle disposed within the vehicle and configured to operate a transmission for transmitting the output of the engine of the vehicle to driving wheels, comprising: a first rotating unit configured to be rotatably coupled to a first rotating axis; a second rotating unit configured to be rotatably coupled to a second rotating axis separated from the first rotating axis; a joint unit configured to connect the first rotating unit and the second rotating unit to allow the first rotating unit and the second rotating unit to rotate relative to each other; a shift mode selection unit configured to be mounted on at least one of the first rotating unit, the second rotating unit, and the joint unit; and a driving unit configured to rotate the second rotating unit about the second rotating axis in response to receiving an operating signal to change an angle between the first rotating unit and the second rotating unit with respect to the joint unit. |
H02J,H02M,Y02B,Y02E | 9,293,946 | 2016-03-22 | 1. A method for providing uninterruptible power, comprising the actions of: using a bidirectional multiport power converter to convert and route a power input, wherein the bidirectional multiport power converter comprises: connecting a DC power source to a first input/output portal of the bidirectional multiport power converter to supply converted AC power to an AC-powered construct under normal condition, the AC-powered construct connected to a second input/output portal; connecting a plurality of batteries to a third input/output portal of the bidirectional multiport power converter; and operating the bidirectional multiport power converter to supply AC power to the AC-powered construct from the plurality of batteries if the DC power source fails to deliver sufficient DC power to convert and supply an AC power requirement to the AC-powered construct. |
G06K,G06T,H04N | 9,384,424 | 2016-07-05 | 1. A method for focusing on different objects in media assets during playback of the media assets, the method comprising: receiving, using control circuitry, a media asset frame associated with a plurality of light field frames, wherein each of the plurality of light field frames has different objects in focus; identifying, using the control circuitry, an object appearing in each of the plurality of light field frames associated with the media asset frame; determining, using the control circuitry, a focus of the identified object; determining, using the control circuitry, a light field frame of the plurality of light field frames, associated with the media asset frame, that has the object at the determined focus; replacing, using the control circuitry, the media asset frame with the light field frame; and generating for display the media asset frame with the light field frame on a display device. |
B22F,C21D,C22C,C23C,H01F | 9,443,652 | 2016-09-13 | 1. A method of manufacturing soft magnetic cores having an excellent high current DC biased characteristic and an excellent core loss characteristic, the method comprising the steps of: performing a preliminary heat treatment of Fe-based amorphous metal ribbons prepared by using a rapid solidification process (RSP) and nanocrystallizing the preliminarily heat treated Fe-based amorphous metal ribbons; obtaining alloy powders made of nanocrystalline grains obtained by grinding the metal ribbons; after classifying the alloy powders, mixing the alloy powders so that a particle size distribution is configured to have a particle size of 75˜100 μm with 10˜85 wt %, a particle size of 50˜75 μm with 10˜70 wt %, and a particle size 5˜50 μm with 5˜20 wt % to thereby obtain mixed powders; obtaining a core molded body by adding the mixed powders with a binder and compression molding the mixed powders mixed with the binder; and performing an annealing treatment of the core molded body, and coating the annealing treated core molded body with an insulating resin, to thus prepare the soft magnetic cores. |
C01G,C01P | 9,327,995 | 2016-05-03 | 1. A method for preparing barium titanate product, comprising: 1) preparing a Ba—Ti mixed solution by: dissolving BaCl 2) preparing a synthetic agent by: adding ammonia and ammonium bicarbonate into deionized water and preparing the synthetic agent in solution, the synthetic agent having a NH 3) preparing barium titanate by: adding the Ba—Ti mixed solution, the mixed solution having a flow rate of 100-4000 L/h, and the synthetic agent, the synthetic agent having a flow rate of 100-4000 L/h, into a reactor for synthesis reaction thereby obtaining a slurry; 4) separation: separating the slurry from step 3) by pressure filtration, thermal washing the obtained solid, then pressure filtering and obtaining a filter cake; 5) calcination: calcining the filter cake from step 4) for 1 hour at 590-610° C., and then calcining for an additional 2 hours at 700-950° C.; and 6) crushing: crushing the solid from step 5) by using a crusher to obtain the barium titanate product. |
H01Q,H04B,H04M | 9,525,761 | 2016-12-20 | 1. A mobile communication device, comprising: a substrate, comprising a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other; an antenna element, disposed on the first surface and converting a feeding signal into an electromagnetic wave, wherein the antenna element comprises: a sensing element, disposed on the second surface and generating a sensing signal in response to proximity of an object, and an orthogonal projection of the sensing element on the first surface and an orthogonal projection of the second portion on the first surface being overlapped with each other and having the same shape. |
A61K,Y02A | 9,308,213 | 2016-04-12 | 1. A solid solution pharmaceutical composition comprising: a) one or more non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in an amount of about 20% to about 40% by weight of the pharmaceutical composition; b) one or more pharmaceutically-acceptable hard fats in an amount of at least 30% by weight of the pharmaceutical composition; c) one or more pharmaceutically-acceptable monoglycerides or acetylated monoglycerides that is liquid at room temperature in an amount of less than 30% by weight of the pharmaceutical composition, wherein the solid solution pharmaceutical composition is formulated to be a solid at a temperature of about 15° C. or lower. |
A43B | 9,510,644 | 2016-12-06 | 1. High foot mobility shoe, comprising: a sole and an upper which define separate front seats to hold respective toes or toes groups, wherein said sole is divided into separated portions positioned at different zones of the sole of the foot, wherein said separated portions of said sole comprise a heel portion and a metatarsal portion, said sole comprising at a bottom of the heel portion and the metatarsal portion a distribution of ridges and valleys configured like dermatoglyphics, in order to increase a prehensility of the foot, wherein said metatarsal portion and said heel portion of said sole comprise respective perimetral edges surrounding the respective distributions of ridges and valleys, the ridges and valleys terminating at said respective perimetral edge; wherein the perimetral edges comprise outermost edges of the respective heel portion and the metatarsal portion; wherein the perimetral edges have a width which extends laterally from the terminated ridges and valleys such that the perimetral edges are configured and disposed to contact the ground during walking; wherein at least one of the heel portion and the metatarsal portion comprise a contour delimiting an inlet in the respective heel and/or metatarsal portion which accomplishes a thinning of the respective portion of said sole at the tarsal zone of the foot; and wherein the inlet comprises a substantially flat and generally smooth surface from which the ridges and valleys are absent, the inlet disposed at an interior of the respective heel and/or metatarsal portions such that the ridges and valleys extend around but do not enter the inlet. |
G03G | 9,429,872 | 2016-08-30 | 1. An image forming apparatus comprising; an image forming station including an image bearing member for bearing a latent image and a developing device configured to develop the latent image formed on said image bearing member using toner; a toner container configured to accommodate toner to be supplied to said developing device, said toner container being provided with an expansion-and-contraction portion capable of being expanded and contracted in a longitudinal direction thereof by being driven; a holding member configured to hold said toner container; a first side plate provided at one end side of said holding member with respect to the longitudinal direction and configured to support one end portion of said holding member; a second side plate provided at the other end side of said holding member with respect to the longitudinal direction and configured to support the other end portion of said holding member; and a driving device configured to drive said image forming station, wherein said driving device is provided on said first side plate, wherein said holding member is supported by said first side plate so as to be movable relative to the first side plate in the longitudinal direction and is fixed to said second side plate, and wherein said first and second side plates face each other. |
G06F,G06Q | 9,311,197 | 2016-04-12 | 1. A distribution center computer system comprising: a module for checking the status of the distribution center computer system; a module for generating error codes associated with errors found in the distribution center computer system, the error codes categorized as a resubmittable error code or a non-resubmittable error code; a timer which is set in response to the generation of a resubmittable error code; a module for receiving a request for a key; and a module for generating a response to a received request for a key, the response being: I. a failover status indicator indicating that the request for the key cannot be fulfilled because either (1) a timer is active for a resubmittable error or (2) a non-resubmittable error has been identified by an error code, wherein the non-resubmittable error codes include errors that the failover status indicator indicates that the request for the key should not be redirected to another distribution center computer system; or II. the key when neither (1) a timer is active or (2) a non-resubmittable error has been generated by the module for generating error codes. |
C02F,Y10T | 9,284,205 | 2016-03-15 | 1. An apparatus comprising: an open recirculating cooling system having recirculating system water therein; a blowdown system operably connected to the cooling system for periodically draining an amount of the system water from the cooling system when the system water is overloaded with one or both of minerals and impurities; an unsoftened makeup water source and a softened makeup water source each operably connected to one of the cooling system and the blowdown system for adding makeup water back into the system water; a water meter generating a signal indicating the amount of system water discharged to a drain; and a controller operably connected to the water meter and to the softened makeup water source and that is programmed to proportionately add to the system water an amount of the softened makeup water based on cycles of concentration of the system water and also based in part on the signal indicating the amount of system water drained from the cooling system. |
H01H | 9,269,512 | 2016-02-23 | 1. A rocker switch assembly comprising: a housing having an interior cavity for locating electronic components; a plunger member movably located during, actuation within said interior cavity of said housing, the plunger member coupled to at least one contact; at least one terminal fixed within said housing, said at least one terminal corresponding with said at least one contact that engages or disengages with said terminal during actuation; a lever structure pivotally coupled to said housing by a fulcrum fixedly attached to the housing, said lever structure comprising a lever having an upper side for receiving an external force and a lower side for engaging a head on said plunger member to generate actuation of the rocker switch assembly during pivotal rotation of the lever; a biasing member located within the housing for biasing the plunger member into engagement with the lower side of the lever, the biasing member having a centerline that is coaxial with a centerline of the plunger. |
A63F,G06F,G06T | 9,492,742 | 2016-11-15 | 1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon an information processing program to be executed by a computer of an information processing apparatus capable of displaying an image on a portable display apparatus that outputs at least data based on an attitude and/or a motion of the portable display apparatus body, the information processing program causing the computer to perform functionality comprising: calculating, on the basis of the attitude and/or motion data output from the portable display apparatus, at least a direction of rotation and an amount of rotation of the portable display apparatus about a predetermined direction in real space; calculating a corrected amount of rotation by offsetting the calculated amount of rotation by a predetermined amount; calculating, with respect to a direction that corresponds to the predetermined direction and is set in a virtual world, an operation indication direction based on the direction of rotation and the corrected amount of rotation; performing predetermined processing on the virtual world in accordance with the operation indication direction; generating a first image including at least a part of the virtual world subjected to the processing; and displaying the first image on the portable display apparatus. |
G06F | 9,465,943 | 2016-10-11 | 1. A method comprising: creating, by a processing device, a first hash value of a binary of a component of a computing system using a hash function; retrieving, by the processing device, a signature created by a provider of the component from a data store of the computing system; creating a second hash value from the signature created by the provider of the component; determining whether the signature that is created by the provider of the component is valid by comparing the second hash value to the first hash value; generating, by the processing device, a first platform configuration register value using a public key associated with the signature responsive to determining that the signature that is created by the provider of the component is valid; validating, by the processing device, integrity of the component of the computing system by replacing a current platform configuration register value in a trusted platform module with the first platform configuration register value; and generating, by the processing device, a second platform configuration register value using the first hash value that is generated by hashing the binary of the component responsive to determining that the signature that is created by the provider of the component is not valid. |
A61B,A61M | 9,468,748 | 2016-10-18 | 1. A multineedle assembly, comprising: a plurality of needles; a central hub exposing front portions of the needles, while surrounding rear portions of the needles to fix the needles in place; a suction cap surrounding one side of the needles and the central hub, being in close contact with the central hub, and comprising needle penetrating holes through which the needles are passed; and an adjusting portion rotatably connected to a rear end of the suction cap, being screw engaged with an edge of one side of the central hub to move the central hub with respect to the suction cap according to a direction of rotation, to thereby adjust a length that the needles are exposed, the adjusting portion having a series of numbers of scale on one side along the direction of rotation. |
H01L | 9,472,552 | 2016-10-18 | 1. A semiconductor structure comprising: a semiconductor substrate; a first isolation region and a second isolation region extending into the semiconductor substrate; an n-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (NMOS) device comprising: a p-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (PMOS) device comprising: |
H01R | 9,300,064 | 2016-03-29 | 1. A connector comprising: a housing; contacts arranged and held in the housing; and a shell attached around the housing; wherein the shell comprises a plate and includes an elongated part extending along a sidewall of the housing and a spring piece configured to contact a ground contact of a mating connector; the spring piece comprises a base part that protrudes from the elongated part in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the elongated part extends and includes a bend such that a front end of the base part is positioned inwardly of the sidewall, an intermediate part that extends from the front end of the base part in the direction in which the elongated part extends, and a contact tip that extends from a front end of the intermediate part in the direction perpendicular to the direction in which the elongated part extends; the intermediate part is spaced from an inner surface of the sidewall; and the contact tip is positioned further inward from the inner surface than the intermediate part and a front end of the contact tip is directed to the side from which the mating connector is inserted. |
C07C | 9,464,040 | 2016-10-11 | 1. A process for fluorinating a double bond comprising: forming a reaction mixture comprising a hydrofluorocarbon or fluorocarbon solvent, fluorine gas, and a compound of formula 5 to form a compound of formula 6 |
A61P,C07D | 9,266,855 | 2016-02-23 | 1. A heterocyclic compound of the general formulae IA or IB a stereoisomer, N-oxide, tautomer and/or physiologically tolerated acid addition salt thereof; or a compound of the general formulae IA or IB, wherein at least one of the atoms has been replaced by its stable, non-radioactive isotope, wherein X each R R R R each R each R R each R |
H01L,H01Q | 9,431,369 | 2016-08-30 | 1. A device comprising: a semiconductor die embedded in a molding compound layer to form a fan-out package, wherein the fan-out package comprises a first through via extending through the fan-out package and a second through via extending through the fan-out package, and wherein the semiconductor die is between the first through via and the second through via; a plurality of post passivation interconnects formed over the molding compound layer; and an antenna structure electrically connected to the semiconductor die through the post passivation interconnects, wherein the antenna structure is formed by a first metal line and a second metal line, and wherein: |
H02J,H02M | 9,413,233 | 2016-08-09 | 1. A method comprising: dynamically programming a threshold voltage, wherein the dynamically programming comprises varying the threshold voltage based on one or more network statistics, one or more network waveforms, or a combination thereof; converting a first DC input voltage provided to a power supply to generate a converted DC voltage, the first DC input voltage having a greater magnitude than the converted DC voltage, the converted DC voltage being present at an output voltage node of the power supply; and passing the first DC input voltage to the output voltage node when a voltage at the output voltage node exceeds the threshold voltage. |
H04B,H04W | 9,379,782 | 2016-06-28 | 1. An operation method of an electronic device, the operation method comprising: determining whether Near Field Communication (NFC) is performed in an NFC mode among a plurality of NFC modes within a set time; monitoring a frequency of use of the NFC mode when it is determined that the NFC is performed; and adjusting a performance period of a card emulation mode among the NFC modes according to the frequency of use of the NFC mode wherein the NFC is sequentially performed by performance periods in which the card emulation mode, a read/write mode, and a peer-to-peer mode are set. |
E21B,F16L | 9,261,207 | 2016-02-16 | 1. A threaded connection for engaging a first tubular with a second tubular, the threaded connection comprising: a. a mill end pin connector comprising: b. a threaded coupling receiving the pin mill end teeth from the mill end pin connector, the threaded coupling comprising: c. a field end pin connector comprising: |
A01K,A47B | 9,307,838 | 2016-04-12 | 1. A fishing rod holder comprising: a rod holder base includes a tubular body and a pair attachment flanges, said pair of attachment flanges extend from opposing sides of said tubular body at a bottom thereof, a substantially U-shaped slot is formed through said opposing sides, a pair of retention flanges terminate a top of said tubular body; a rod holder pad includes a rod slot and a rod hole, said rod slot is sized to retain a rod portion of a fishing rod, a bottom of said rod slot is terminated with said rod hole, a length of said rod slot is greater than a diameter of said rod hole, an outer perimeter of said rod holder pad is retained in an inner perimeter of said tubular body, wherein said rod base holder is vertically retained in said tubular body under said pair of retention flanges; and a suction cup is attached directly to a bottom of said pair of attachment flanges, wherein the rod portion of the fishing rod is retained in said rod holder pad, said suction cup is secured to a flat surface. |
G01S,H04W | 9,519,044 | 2016-12-13 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a first computing device, a first location request for an estimated location of a target computing device; gathering, by the first computing device, a set of local signal readings from a local memory of the first computing device, the set of local signal readings describing wireless communication signals received from the target computing device; receiving, from a tracking management system, a set of cloud stored signal readings describing wireless communication signals received from the target computing device, the set of cloud stored signal readings including at least one signal readings not included in the set of locally stored signal readings, and the at least one signal reading describing a wireless communication signal received from the target computing device by a second computing device, different than the first computing device; selecting, by the first computing device, a set of two or more signal readings from the set of local signal readings and the set of cloud stored signal readings, yielding a set of selected signal readings, wherein the set of selected signal readings includes at least a first signal reading from the set of local signal readings and a second signal reading from the set of cloud stored signal readings; and determining, by the first computing device, the estimated location of the target computing device based on the set of selected signal readings. |
A24B,C12P | 9,402,415 | 2016-08-02 | 1. A tobacco composition for use in a smoking article or a smokeless tobacco composition, comprising a tobacco material and a seed isolate derived from a seed of the Nicotiana species. |
G06F | 9,239,893 | 2016-01-19 | 1. Method for computation of the state variables of a hybrid differential-algebraic process model (hybrid DAP) in succeeding time steps on a process computer with a process interface, comprising the steps of: A) setting up the process computer such that at least one process variable of a physical process can be at least one of: B) determining a current mode of the hybrid DAP in a computation process by evaluating state variables for deviation of a current mode of the hybrid DAP from a prior mode of the hybrid DAP, C) choosing a mode-specific process model, which is less complex than the hybrid DAP by only activating a subset part of the hybrid DAP and which corresponds to the current mode from a group of executable mode-specific process models and basing a further computation on the chosen mode-specific process model, and D) for obtaining executable mode-specific process models for said group, E) to the extent necessary as determined by the computations of the preceding steps, using the process computer to influence the physical process via the process interface, wherein the hybrid DAP is a structurally variant, omnipotent and all-encompassing differential-algebraic model and therefore contains any case configurations of the hybrid process model. |
C21B,Y02P | 9,273,368 | 2016-03-01 | 1. A process for effecting direct reduction of iron oxide in a shaft furnace having a pre-reduction zone near its uppermost portion, a metallization zone below the pre-reduction zone, an intermediate zone which separates the pre-reduction zone from the metallization zone and which includes a restriction to inhibit rich fuel gas from passing from the pre-reduction zone to the metallization zone, and a cooling zone below the metallization zone at the lowest portion of the shaft furnace, the process comprising feeding an iron oxide burden to the shaft furnace, passing the iron oxide burden successively downwardly through the pre-reduction zone, the intermediate zone, the metallization zone, and the cooling zone of the shaft furnace while passing rich fuel gas produced by external partial combustion with a sub-stoichiometric volume of air upwardly through the pre-reduction zone in counter-current flow so as to partially reduce the iron oxide burden, and passing reducing gas downwardly through the metallization zone in co-current flow so as to substantially complete the reduction of the iron oxide burden to metallic iron, the reducing gas having first been preheated in a gas heater and then subjected to partial combustion with oxygen to further increase its temperature, and removing metallic iron from the cooling zone. |
A61B,G01N | 9,435,756 | 2016-09-06 | 1. A method to quantify biomarkers, comprising providing a sample comprising a biomarker, the biomarker comprising one or more chemicals that are related to a physiological condition; preparing the sample for X-ray analysis by exposing the sample to a solution; using an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer to perform an X-ray fluorescence analysis on the sample to obtain spectral features derived from the biomarker; and quantifying the X-ray fluorescence signal of the biomarker; wherein the X-ray fluorescence spectrometer irradiates the sample with polychromatic X-rays. |
E21B,G01M | 9,228,428 | 2016-01-05 | 1. A system for monitoring a subsea structure, the system comprising: a sensor disposed on or about one or more tubular components of the subsea structure, wherein the one or more tubular components of the subsea structure comprise a riser, a flow-line, and a subsea umbilical, and wherein the sensor comprises a fiber optic sensor configured to detect a change in a magnetic field and measure a parameter based on the change in the magnetic field; and a controller operatively coupled to the one or more tubular components of the subsea structure and configured to detect an anomaly in the one or more tubular components of the subsea structure. |
H04L,H04W | 9,277,540 | 2016-03-01 | 1. A method of wireless communication, the method comprising: allocating a first physical resource region for transmitting downlink grant information in a data region of a subframe, wherein the first physical resource region spans a first number of resource blocks in the subframe; encoding a first control channel for the downlink grant information; and interleaving the first control channel within the first physical resource region by a first interleaver corresponding to the first number of resource blocks, wherein the first number of resource blocks of the first physical resource region is determined by a user equipment (UE) through blind decoding with respect to multiple interleaver-candidates, each of the multiple interleaver-candidates corresponding to a different number of the resource blocks; allocating a second physical resource region for transmitting uplink grant information in the data region of the subframe, wherein the second physical resource region is disjoint from the first physical resource region; encoding a second control channel for the uplink grant information; and interleaving the second control channel within the second physical resource region by a second interleaver; wherein the second interleaver is a shifted version of the first interleaver. |
F23J | 9,228,745 | 2016-01-05 | 1. A cleaning unit for cleaning at least two smelt spouts of a recovery boiler one at a time, the cleaning unit comprising: a motorized cleaning member comprising a cleaning tool and configured to clean a first smelt spout of a recovery boiler; and a motorized transfer device configured to transfer the cleaning unit including the motorized cleaning member and cleaning tool from a location of the first smelt spout to a location of a next, second smelt spout of the recovery boiler, wherein the motorized cleaning member comprising the cleaning tool is further configured to clean the second smelt spout. |
G06F,G11B,G11C | 9,454,991 | 2016-09-27 | 1. A system comprising: a read/write module configured to access a first portion of a recording surface of a rotating storage device, wherein data is stored on the first portion of the recording surface of the rotating storage device at a first density using a shingled magnetic recording format; and a caching module configured to cache data on a second portion of the recording surface of the rotating storage device at a second density using a recording format different from the shingled magnetic recording format, wherein the second portion of the recording surface of the rotating storage device is separate from the first portion of the recording surface of the rotating storage device, wherein the second density is less than the first density; and wherein the first density and the second density indicate number of sectors per track or number of bytes per sector. |
G06K | 9,336,476 | 2016-05-10 | 1. An RFID device assembly comprising: a. a fabric; b. an RFID device coupled to the fabric, wherein the RFID device comprises a first antenna contact pad and a second antenna contact pad; and c. an electrically conductive wire intermixed with the fabric, wherein the electrically conductive wire has a pattern that forms an antenna, further wherein the electrically conductive wire has a first end electrically coupled to the first antenna contact pad and a second end electrically coupled to the second antenna contact pad. |
F03D,F05B,Y02E | 9,297,365 | 2016-03-29 | 1. An offshore wind turbine assembly comprising: a plurality of wind turbines floatable on water when situated at an offshore location, each wind turbine of the plurality of wind turbines comprising a support structure partially submerseable in water when situated at the offshore location, the support structure having a longitudinal axis; each wind turbine of the plurality of wind turbines being connected with at least one of the other wind turbines by means of cables substantially maintaining a position of each wind turbine relative to the assembly and an upright orientation of each wind turbine, the cables arranged such that respective cables extend from at least a first and a second position different from each other along the longitudinal axis of the support structure of the wind turbine to corresponding at least a first and a second position different from each other along the longitudinal axis of each support structure of the respective at least one of the other wind turbines; characterized in that the offshore wind turbine assembly further comprises a power collection and/or communications system interconnecting each of the plurality of wind turbines, wherein the power collection and/or communications system is at least partially comprised in at least some of the cables interconnecting the plurality of wind turbines, the power collection and/or communications systems being adapted to at least collect, convey or distribute power generated by the plurality of wind turbines. |
B60L,G06Q,Y02E,Y02T,Y04S | 9,399,403 | 2016-07-26 | 1. A server for controlling charging and discharging of battery, the server being configured to: obtain electricity pricing information; provide the electricity pricing information to a mobile terminal; receive an instruction from the mobile terminal to charge or discharge a battery, the instruction being generated according to the electricity pricing information; and provide the instruction to a battery management device to charge or discharge the battery, receive information about a residual electric quantity of the battery from the battery management device; provide the received information about the residual electric quantity to the mobile terminal; receive information about a discharging limit from the mobile terminal, the discharging limit being calculated according to the residual electric quantity; and calculate a time scheduled for discharging the battery based on the received information about the discharging limit; wherein the instruction provided to the battery management device includes the discharging limit. |
H04N | 9,344,591 | 2016-05-17 | 1. A display method for displaying a schedule screen which indicates an execution reservation state of JOBs on a display section, the method comprising: displaying, in accordance with a display scale condition of the schedule screen, a part or a whole of at least two job bar images concerning the JOBs such that the at least two job bar images are superimposed over each other in a same area on the schedule screen, wherein each of the job bar images comprises a bar shaped rectangular image having a width which corresponds to a time period required for executing a respective one of the JOBs; and displaying, in cases where information which is required to be recognized by a user exists in any of the at least two job bar images which are superimposed over each other, the job bar image including the information required to be recognized by the user on an uppermost layer so as to be visible on the schedule screen; wherein the at least two job bar images are displayed to be superimposed over each other in the same area of the schedule screen in response to a change in the display scale condition, the at least two job bar images not having been displayed to be superimposed over each other before the change in the display scale condition. |
G06Q | 9,349,145 | 2016-05-24 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, in a security engine of a system including one or more server computers and one or more storage systems of a first entity via a first secure connection, information of a small business concern, the information including financial information of one or more principals of the small business concern and principal identification information, the security engine comprising a hardware fixed token; communicating at least some of the small business concern information to at least one external credit source, via a second secure connection; receiving credit data from the at least one external credit source responsive to the communicating; accessing a database of at least one of the one or more storage systems of the first entity using at least some of the credit data to identify a set of one or more lenders with which the small business concern may be compatible, based at least in part on some of the small business concern information and the credit data, the database including a plurality of entries each associated with a lender and including loan preference information for the lender; evaluating, in a hardware decision engine of the system of the first entity, information obtained from the accessed database; generating, in the hardware decision engine, based at least in part on the information obtained from the accessed database, a report for the small business concern, the report including credit scoring information from the at least one external credit source, educational content, and at least one of a likelihood of funding and one or more pre-qualification offers, wherein generating the report includes: |
G01C,G06Q,G08G | 9,373,259 | 2016-06-21 | 1. A method for managing a public transport system, the method comprising: receiving, by a receiver module implemented at least partially in hardware, information indicating a change of status for a component of the public transport system; identifying, by a locator module implemented at least partially in hardware, a commuter who is affected by the change of status; generating, by an alternative travel advisory module implemented at least partially in hardware, an alternative travel advisory for the commuter based on the change of status; and transmitting, by a transmitter module implemented at least partially in hardware, the alternative travel advisory to the commuter. |
G06F,G06Q,G11B,H04L,H04W | 9,292,841 | 2016-03-22 | 1. At least one electronic device capable of wirelessly communicating with a server system and also of being used in association with at least one other electronic device, the at least one electronic device comprising: storage capable of storing at least one media content list generated by the at least one other electronic device and provided to the at least one electronic device via wireless communication; the at least one media content list identifying at least one media content item stored at the server system; the at least one electronic device being capable of, in response to at least one request, wirelessly requesting the at least one media content item from the server system; wherein the at least one media content list is associated with a user identification and also wherein the user identification is associated with a subscription; also wherein the at least one electronic device is capable of providing a prompt for user consent to purchase at least one other media content item previously selected for future purchase from the server system, the prompt to be provided after the at least one electronic device has received user request to identify the at least one other media content item for the future purchase. |
F21K,F21V,F21Y | 9,360,166 | 2016-06-07 | 1. A light emitting apparatus comprising: an LED-based light source; a phosphor containing toroidal diffuser generating a light intensity distribution output responsive to illumination inside the diffuser; a base comprising a pedestal hosting said LED-based light source and a base connector; said diffuser surrounding said LED-based light source; the LED-based light source, the diffuser, and the base being secured together as a unitary LED lamp installable in a lighting socket by connecting the base connector with the lighting socket; and the base being operatively connected with the LED-based light source in the unitary LED lamp to electrically power the LED-based light source using electrical power received at the base connector. |
G11C | 9,418,718 | 2016-08-16 | 1. A semiconductor apparatus comprising: a command control unit configured to decode external signals and generate a read strobe signal or a write strobe signal; a clock enable signal generation unit configured to activate one of a read clock enable signal and a write clock enable signal in response to the read strobe signal or the write strobe signal; and a clock control unit configured to generate a first control clock signal and a second clock control signal in response to an internal clock signal, the read clock enable signal, and the write clock enable signal, wherein the clock enable signal generation unit is configured to activate the read clock enable signal and deactivate the write clock enable signal in response to the read strobe signal. |
H04N | 9,338,425 | 2016-05-10 | 1. A stereoscopic image generation device comprising: a multi-viewpoint image storage including a plurality of stored images, the plurality of stored images being images of a subject captured at different positions; a rotation angle obtaining unit configured to obtain a rotation angle at which a stereoscopic image of the subject is to be rotated around a line-of-sight direction; a selection unit configured to select two base images from the plurality of stored images, the two base images being determined based on the rotation angle; and a rotation unit configured to rotate the two base images at the rotation angle, thereby generating images which are to form the stereoscopic image of the subject rotated at the rotation angle, wherein the selection unit determines first capturing positions based on the rotation angle, and selects, from the plurality of stored images, the two base images captured at second capturing positions that are within a predetermined range from the first capturing positions in a direction perpendicular to a parallax direction in the stereoscopic image. |
A23C | 9,265,269 | 2016-02-23 | 1. A method for preparing a shelf-stable milk concentrate, the method comprising: (a) introducing a raw milk product into a balance tank; (b) heating the raw milk product in a preheater to create a preheated milk product; (c) injecting the preheated milk product into a first effect of an evaporator, wherein the preheated milk product is heated at a temperature of about 70° C. to evaporate water and increase a solids content of the preheated milk product to create a first effect milk product with a solids concentration of from 10% to 13%; (d) injecting the first effect milk product into a second effect of the evaporator, wherein the first effect milk product is heated at a temperature of about 65° C. to evaporate water and increase a solids content of the first effect milk product to create a second effect milk product with a solids concentration of from 13% to 18%; (e) injecting the second effect milk product into a third effect of the evaporator, wherein the second effect milk product is heated at a temperature of about 62° C. to evaporate water and increase a solids content of the second effect milk product to create a third effect milk product with a solids concentration of from 18% to 27%; (f) injecting the third effect milk product into a fourth effect of the evaporator, wherein the third effect milk product is heated at a temperature of about 60° C. to evaporate water and increase a solids content of the third effect milk product to create the milk concentrate with a solids concentration of from 28% to 34%; (g) injecting the milk concentrate into a fifth effect of the evaporator along with aseptically adding a lactase enzyme, wherein the fifth effect is heated at a temperature of about 48° C. to evaporate water and increase a solids content to create a hydrolyzed milk concentrate with a solid concentration of from 34% to 42%; (h) injecting the hydrolyzed milk concentrate into a sixth effect of the evaporator, wherein the hydrolyzed milk concentrate is heated at a temperature of about 43° C. to evaporate water and increase a solids content of the hydrolyzed milk concentrate to create a final hydrolyzed milk concentrate with a solids concentration of from 42% to 50%; (i) immediately following step (h), holding the final hydrolyzed milk concentrate in an aseptic tank at a temperature of about 80° F.; and (j) immediately following step (i), packaging the final hydrolyzed milk concentrate in an aseptic container using an aseptic filling machine. |
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