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C08K,C08L,G01N | 9,701,827 | 2017-07-11 | 1. A system for the detection of contaminant particulates in closed containers, said system comprising: a plurality of solid polymer gaskets comprising radio-opaque, barium-containing polymerized fluorinated hydrocarbon elastomers disposed in a production line of container contents and susceptible to degradation during the manufacture of said container contents and filling of said closed containers; an x-ray source disposed proximate to a path of said closed container in a production line; an x-ray image intensifier whereby x-rays from said x-ray source are collected and an image is generated; a ccd camera whereby said x-ray image is digitized; a contaminated container rejection mechanism whereby closed containers having x-ray images with radio opaque portions are rejected as contaminated and removed from said production line. |
H01Q,H04B | 9,653,803 | 2017-05-16 | 1. A radio frequency signal processing method, adapted to a wireless communication device comprising an omni-directional antenna and a plurality of directional antennas, wherein the radio frequency signal processing method comprises: receiving a request signal from a first sending node with the omni-directional antenna, and sending a confirming signal to the first sending node with the omni-directional antenna, wherein the request signal is utilized to request the wireless communication device to receive a data signal; performing a training packet process for the plurality of directional antennas; receiving the data signal from the first sending node with a first directional antenna of the plurality of directional antennas according to a result of the training packet process; and transmitting an acknowledge signal to the first sending node with the first directional antenna after the data signal is completely received, and receiving subsequent signals with the omni-directional antenna after transmitting the acknowledge signal; wherein total amount of the data signal is respectively larger than total amount of the confirming signal and total amount of the acknowledge signal. |
H01L,H05K | 9,699,884 | 2017-07-04 | 1. A latch device for heat dissipation unit, which is applied to and mounted on a motherboard, the latch device for heat dissipation unit comprising: a first elastic abutment member disposed on an upper face of the motherboard and having a first protrusion block; a second elastic abutment member disposed on the upper face of the motherboard corresponding to the first elastic abutment member, the second elastic abutment member having a second protrusion block opposite to the first protrusion block; and a heat sink including multiple radiating fins, a first latch member and a second latch member, the radiating fins being disposed on one face of the heat sink, the first and second latch members being respectively disposed on two opposite sides of the heat sink, the first and second latch members being respectively latchable with the corresponding first and second protrusion blocks or unlatchable from the corresponding first and second protrusion blocks, whereby along with the latching or unlatching, the first and second elastic abutment members can be elastically deformed into abutment against or out of abutment with the other face of the heat sink, wherein the first elastic abutment member has a first abutment section and a pair of first elastic sections, the pair of first elastic sections extending from two ends of the first abutment section, a first fixed section extending from a free end of each first elastic section, the first fixed sections being fixed on the upper face of the motherboard, the first protrusion block being disposed on an upper end face of the first abutment section, the first protrusion block being formed with a first hook section, the first hook section being formed on outer circumference of the first protrusion block and protruding therefrom, the first latch member being correspondingly latchable with or unlatched from the first hook section. |
H05B,Y02B | 9,609,721 | 2017-03-28 | 1. A method performed by one or more computers, the method comprising: obtaining data representing an amount of ambient light detected within the portion of the property by a light sensor located at the portion of the property; obtaining data indicating (i) a shape of an optical spectra for a natural light source, and (ii) a shape of an optical spectra for a non-natural light source; determining a relative composition of the ambient light detected within the portion of the property based at least on (i) the shape of the optical spectra for the natural light source, and (ii) the shape of the optical spectra for the non-natural light source; determining an estimated amount of natural light within the portion of the property based on the amount of ambient light detected within the portion of the property and the determined relative composition of the ambient light detected within the portion of the property; determining to adjust an amount of light output by one or more light sources located at the portion of the property based on the estimated amount of natural light within the portion of the property; and in response to determining to adjust the amount of light output by one or more light sources located at the portion of the property based on the estimated amount of natural light within the portion of the property, adjusting the amount of light output by one or more light sources located at the portion of the property. |
A61K,C07K,C12N,C12Y | 9,550,981 | 2017-01-24 | 1. An isolated and purified fusion protein comprising: a tafazzin peptide; and a cellular permeability peptide. |
A61B,A61N | 9,533,166 | 2017-01-03 | 1. A cardiac rhythm management system comprising a cardiac rhythm management (CRM) device and a data correlation device, wherein said CRM device includes programmable parameters controlling operation of said CRM device; said data correlation device being adapted to receive data from said CRM device, said data correlation device including: said memory storing a first data set and a second data set, said first data set comprising at least one type of patient cardiac data over time during a first time period, said second data set including a type and an event time of a patient therapy event occurring during the first time period, wherein a patient therapy event is either a change in at least one of the programmable parameters of the CRM device or a change in a patient's medication, said processor correlating said first data set and said second data set and sending said correlated first and second data sets to said output unit, said output unit configured to display said first data set on a graphical display of said first data set during the first time period and simultaneously display at least a portion of the second data set at the event time on the graphical display. |
B23K | 9,731,376 | 2017-08-15 | 1. A method for the cutting of ductwork in an automated fashion, the method comprising: providing a coil line comprising: cutting said unrolled material by: |
G02F,H01L | 9,634,287 | 2017-04-25 | 1. A display device, comprising: a substrate including a display region and a peripheral region surrounding the display region; a plurality of display structures in the display region; a first block member in the peripheral region and surrounding the display structures, the first block member having a first height; a second block member spaced apart from the first block member in a first direction extending from the display region to the peripheral region, the second block member surrounding the first block member, the second block member having a second height that is greater than the first height; a first encapsulation layer over the display structures, the first block member, and the second block member, wherein the first encapsulation layer is formed of an inorganic material; a second encapsulation layer over the first encapsulation layer, the second encapsulation layer overlapping at least a portion of the first block member in the depth dimension of the display device, the second encapsulation layer formed of an organic material; and a third encapsulation layer over the first and second encapsulation layers, the third encapsulation layer formed of the inorganic material. |
A61B,A61H | 9,554,965 | 2017-01-31 | 1. An apparatus for introducing shock waves into a living body, comprising: a transmitting element which transmits the shock waves into the living body; a percussion part for transmitting a shock pulse to the transmitting element, the percussion part having a toothing formation; a spring member for generating the shock pulse, wherein the spring member is operatively connected to the percussion part; and a tensioning device for abruptly triggering the spring member, the tensioning device comprising a pinion having an outer circumference, only a portion of the outer circumference having teeth which periodically engage the toothing formation for tensioning the spring member; wherein the spring member is triggered when the teeth on the outer circumference disengage from the toothing formation; and wherein spring force of the spring member, when the spring member is triggered, is transmitted as the shock pulse to the transmitting element by having the percussion part directly strike the transmitting element. |
G06F | 9,740,583 | 2017-08-22 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: creating, by one or more computing systems, a hierarchy of multiple encrypted data volumes, including creating a parent data volume with a first set of encrypted data that is decryptable with a first decryption key, creating a first child data volume that inherits from the parent data volume the first set of encrypted data decryptable with the first decryption key and that further includes an additional second set of encrypted data decryptable with a second decryption key, and creating a second child data volume as a snapshot of the first child data volume that includes from the first data volume the first set of encrypted data and the additional second set of encrypted data; |
A01C | 9,585,306 | 2017-03-07 | 1. A fertilizer spreader attachment for a small framed truck that has a chassis, engine, drive train and wheels, the fertilizer spreader attachment comprising a frame having a front and a rear configured to mount on the chassis, a hopper mounted to the frame having an elongated bottom and a rear opening, left and right independently driven chains mounted to the frame, each with an upper run over the elongated bottom and exiting the rear opening in the hopper, the left and right driven chains being driven to transport the upper run of each chain rearwardly, and a divider between the left and right driven chains, left and right driven spinners mounted to the frame at the rear below rear ends of the left and right driven chains, respectively, and a control system comprising a GPS reader coupled to a computer memory and processor to compare where the fertilizer spreader attachment is as mounted on a truck with a stored electronic map of where granular fertilizer is needed and to output control signals to control the speeds of the left and right driven spinners and the left and right driven chains, the control signals driving the left chain and spinner independently of the right chain and spinner, so that the fertilizer spreader attachment can be mounted on a small framed truck, and as the truck traverses an area, fertilizer held in the hopper can descend by gravity onto the left and right driven chains, be transported on the chains rearwardly to fall off the left and right driven chains onto the left and right driven spinners, respectively, and be broadcast to the left and right of the fertilizer spreader attachment in separately controllable amounts. |
F24F,G05D,Y02B | 9,703,299 | 2017-07-11 | 1. An economizer controller plug and play system recognition method performed by an economizer controller installed on-site for controlling an HVAC economizer system, the method comprising: the economizer controller discovering sensors connected to the economizer controller; the economizer controller repopulating a menu structure in accordance with control types of the discovered sensors; and the economizer controller repeating the method; and wherein the method is performed automatically by the economizer controller by executing a system configuration determination routine stored in firmware of the economizer controller. |
B05D,H03H,Y10T | 9,584,095 | 2017-02-28 | 1. An acoustic wave device, comprising: a substrate comprising: an acoustic wave element on the first main surface; and a cover on the first main surface, the cover covering the acoustic wave element, |
H04W | 9,730,115 | 2017-08-08 | 1. A method for executing a handover in a communication system, the method comprising: receiving, by a target base station of a target access system, from a source base station of a source access system, information of a source cell of the source base station; receiving, by the target base station, from another base station of the target access system, a radio link failure report; detecting, by the target base station, that the source base station triggers an unnecessary inter-radio access technology (inter-RAT) handover to a target cell of the target base station, based on the radio link failure report, and transmitting, to the source access system, a handover report using the information of the source cell. |
A61F,B29C,B29L,B65B | 9,655,786 | 2017-05-23 | 1. An ultrasonic sealing system in a machine for making composite webs in production of absorbent sanitary articles, comprising: a contact roller, said contact roller having an axis of rotation and comprising a central portion and a peripheral portion which is supported by said central portion, the peripheral portion including an outer surface forming an outer surface of said contact roller, said contact roller comprising a sealing pattern on said outer surface of said peripheral portion, said contact roller including a suspension system acting between said central portion and said peripheral portion, said peripheral portion being associated with said central portion by said suspension system. |
B82Y,H01G,H01M,Y02E,Y02P,Y10T | 9,711,292 | 2017-07-18 | 1. A method of manufacturing an active material particle, comprising the steps of: preparing a first mixed solution comprising lithium and oxygen; preparing a second mixed solution comprising a metal and oxygen; and obtaining a particle of a compound comprising lithium, the metal and oxygen by mixing together the first mixed solution and the second mixed solution, wherein each of the first mixed solution and the second mixed solution comprises graphene oxide. |
G02B | 9,625,696 | 2017-04-18 | 1. A laser microscope comprising: a light irradiating portion that irradiates a specimen with laser light; a light detecting portion that detects light from the specimen irradiated with the laser light by the light irradiating portion and that outputs an intensity signal; an information converting portion that converts the intensity signal output from the light detecting portion to brightness information at each pixel; a full-scale setting portion that can set, in the information converting portion, a normal full scale that is smaller than the intensity signal of the light from the specimen when given a light stimulus and an expanded full scale that is larger than the normal full scale, as a maximum range of the intensity signal that can be converted to brightness information by the information converting portion; a switching determination portion that determines whether to switch between a normal observation mode in which the brightness information of the specimen when the light stimulus is not given thereto is obtained and a stimulation observation mode in which the brightness information of the specimen when the light stimulus is given thereto is obtained; and a setting control portion that controls the full-scale setting portion based on a result of the determination by the switching determination portion so that the normal full scale is set in the normal observation mode, and the expanded full scale is set in the stimulation observation mode. |
F01N,F02D,Y02T | 9,664,131 | 2017-05-30 | 1. A method of controlling exhaust injection in an exhaust gas aftertreatment device including an exhaust pipe injector at an exhaust pipe of an engine for perform exhaust pipe injection, a diesel oxidation catalyst connected to the exhaust pipe downstream of the exhaust pipe injector, and a diesel particulate filter connected to the exhaust pipe downstream of the diesel oxidation catalyst, the exhaust gas aftertreatment device being configured to perform multiple-injection, post injection and the exhaust pipe injection when particulate matter accumulates in the diesel particulate filter, thereby burning a reduction gas in the diesel oxidation catalyst, raising an exhaust gas temperature, burning the particulate matter, which has accumulated in the diesel particulate filter, for regeneration of the diesel particulate filter, the method comprising: preparing, in advance, a light-off performance map that indicates a combustion efficiency relative to a diesel oxidation catalyst temperature in the post injection and in the exhaust pipe injection, both when the catalyst is fresh and when the catalyst has deteriorated; setting the catalyst temperature that enables the exhaust pipe injection, from a degree of deterioration of the catalyst based on the light-off performance map; performing the multiple-injection and/or the post injection when the set catalyst temperature is not reached; and performing the exhaust pipe injection when the catalyst temperature reaches or exceeds the set catalyst temperature, wherein the light-off performance map decides activation temperatures from a light-off performance of the catalyst in a multiple-injection region, a post injection region and an exhaust pipe injection region, and the multiple-injection, the post injection and the exhaust pipe injection are sequentially selected based on the catalyst temperature. |
G11C | 9,715,925 | 2017-07-25 | 1. A method comprising: determining bias voltages for a non-volatile storage system comprising a plurality of bit lines, first and second word line combs, each word line comb comprising a plurality of word lines, a plurality of memory elements, each memory element coupled between one of the bit lines and one of the word lines, a first memory element coupled between the one of the bit lines and a word line of the second word line comb, and a second memory element coupled between a word line of the first word line comb and a second one of the bit lines, by: wherein the first bias voltage and the second bias voltage are determined such that a first voltage across the first memory element substantially balances a second voltage across the second memory element. |
F16D,F16H | 9,631,682 | 2017-04-25 | 1. A synchronization device for a manual transmission of a vehicle, comprising: a clutch hub having an annular shape, the clutch hub being arranged, in an integrally rotatable manner, on a rotation shaft forming a powertrain between the rotation shaft and a drive wheel of the vehicle; a hub sleeve having an annular shape, the hub sleeve comprising internal splines engaged with external splines formed on an outer circumference of the clutch hub, the hub sleeve being movable from a first position to a second position in an axial direction of the rotation shaft under a state in which the internal splines are engaged with the external splines of the clutch hub; a gear piece formed on a transmission gear arranged on the rotation shaft in a relatively rotatable manner, the gear piece comprising external splines to be brought into an unengaged state, in which the external splines are not engaged with the internal splines of the hub sleeve at the first position thereof, and into an engaged state, in which the external splines are engaged with the internal splines of the hub sleeve at the second position thereof; and a synchronizer ring arranged between the clutch hub and the gear piece, the synchronizer ring being configured to synchronize rotation of the transmission gear and rotation of the clutch hub by coupling the hub sleeve and the gear piece when the hub sleeve is moved from the first position to the second position in the axial direction, the synchronizer ring comprising: the ring body, the axial protruding portion, and the radial protruding portion being formed integrally by metal stamping. |
A61B,G06T,G16H | 9,591,994 | 2017-03-14 | 1. A method for diagnosing a risk of cardiac disease, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining an image showing a vasculature of at least part of a patient's biological tree; identifying a luminal cross-sectional area of a side branch vessel from the image; identifying a luminal cross-sectional area of a main artery most proximal to the side branch vessel from the image; determining a myocardial region at risk for infarct from side branch occlusion relative to a mass perfused by the most proximal artery, wherein such region is a percentage of the mass perfused by the most proximal artery and quantitatively calculated using the cross-sectional areas of the side branch and the most proximal main artery; diagnosing a risk of cardiac disease based on a diameter of the side branch vessel and a size of the myocardial region at risk for infarct perfused by the side branch, wherein a relationship between the size of the myocardial region at risk for infarct and the cross-sectional area of the side branch is substantially linear; and administering a treatment to the patient if a risk of cardiac disease at or above a predefined acceptable risk level is diagnosed. |
H01L | 9,721,820 | 2017-08-01 | 1. An end effector for a robot, the end effector comprising: a body having an electrostatic chucking force generating assembly, wherein the body comprises an electrode assembly having interleaving electrode formed therein and each electrode includes interconnections formed between electrode islands, wherein the interconnections and the electrode islands in combination form the electrode fingers in a longitudinal form, each electrode finger is spaced apart from each other, defining a space therebetween; and a mounting end coupled to the body, the mounting end for coupling the body to the robot. |
C09K,E21B | 9,587,469 | 2017-03-07 | 1. A method of treating a subterranean formation, the method comprising: placing in the subterranean formation a composition comprising a poly(alkenylamide)-polysaccharide hydrogel; and plugging a flow pathway in the subterranean formation with the hydrogel; wherein the poly(alkenylamide)-polysaccharide hydrogel comprises at least one crosslink comprising an imide between the poly(alkenylamide) and the polysaccharide, each of PAA and CL at each occurrence independently occur in the orientation shown or in the opposite orientation, the polysaccharide comprises Structure I each of R at each occurrence R at each occurrence R at each occurrence CI p is at least about 2, each of R each of L |
E21B | 9,739,111 | 2017-08-22 | 1. A controlled aperture ball drop, comprising: a ball cartridge adapted to be mounted to a frac head or a high pressure fluid conduit and further adapted to support a frac ball stack arranged in a predetermined size sequence; an aperture controller adapted to incrementally control a size of an aperture at a bottom end of the frac ball stack to sequentially drop frac balls from the frac ball stack; a control console that accepts operator input to create a ball stack list arranged in a size sequence from a smallest to a largest frac ball to be dropped by the aperture controller, and further accepts input from the operator to drop a next frac ball in the ball stack list; an onboard processor that accepts data and commands from the control console to configure the ball stack list and subsequently drop the next frac ball in the ball stack list, and returns data to the control console after each frac ball has been dropped to permit the control console to display data and draw graphs that are displayed to the operator to confirm that each of the respective frac balls has been dropped by the aperture controller. |
G06F,Y02D | 9,710,150 | 2017-07-18 | 1. A touch-sensitive display system for an electronic device, comprising: a touch-sensitive display comprising a touch-sensitive surface; and a control module configured to: |
A61B,F16B | 9,592,081 | 2017-03-14 | 1. A spinal stabilization system for transfixing a motion segment of a spine comprising: a pair of translaminar screws configured for insertion into facet joints of the motion segment, each screw comprising a shaft and a head region extending from the shaft, the head region having a smooth, arcuate underside; and a pair of captive washers configured for use with the translaminar screws, each washer comprising a first upper plate and a second complementary shaped lower plate, each of the plates including a central opening for receiving the shaft of the screw to capture the head region of the screw therein, wherein the first and second plates each have a spherical contour that complements the smooth, arcuate underside head region such that the head region of the screw can be seated against, and slidingly move with respect to, the plates. |
A24D,B41M,D21H | 9,732,475 | 2017-08-15 | 1. A composition for coating paper wrappers for smoking articles, consisting of water, between 40% and 95% by weight of gum arabic with respect to the total dry material weight of the composition, and between 5 and 60% by weight of calcium carbonate with respect to the total dry material weight of the composition, wherein the composition has a viscosity of between 80 and 600 cps, measured with a Brookfield RVT viscometer at room temperature, and wherein a smoking article comprising a paper wrapper coated with the composition is self-extinguishing and has an SE value equal or higher than 75% and a FASE value equal or lower than 15%. |
H04L,H04W | 9,681,338 | 2017-06-13 | 1. A method for transmitting state information by a terminal in a communications system, the method comprising: receiving a control message associated with a radio resource control (RRC) connection reconfiguration; identifying whether the terminal has transmitted, to a first base station, state information of the terminal during a predetermined time period preceding reception of the control message; and if the terminal has transmitted the state information to the first base station during the predetermined time period, transmitting the state information to a second base station when the second base station fails to receive the state information from the first base station. |
G01B,G01N | 9,702,829 | 2017-07-11 | 1. A method for inspecting a wafer, comprising: measuring a set of intensity frames of at least one portion of a surface of the wafer utilizing at least one phase-shifting interferogram detector of a wafer inspection system; extracting an amplitude map of said at least one portion of the surface of the wafer based on said set of intensity frames with a wafer surface feature detection module executed by an interferometer system; performing wafer defect detection based on the amplitude map with the wafer surface feature detection module executed by the interferometer system; quantifying at least one of: a shape, a height, a depth, an area and a volume of a detected defect of the wafer; and reporting data regarding the detected defect of the wafer and said at least one of: the shape, the height, the depth, the area and the volume of the detected defect of the wafer. |
C08G,C08L,C09D | 9,624,396 | 2017-04-18 | 1. A water-based primer composition comprising: a high molecular weight emulsion (A) which is an emulsion of a resin having a weight average molecular weight of 200,000 or higher; and a low molecular weight emulsion (B) which is an emulsion of a resin having a weight average molecular weight of 100,000 or lower; wherein an average particle diameter of the resin of the low molecular weight emulsion (B) is 0.6 μm or less wherein the resin of the low molecular weight emulsion (B) is an acrylic emulsion obtained by copolymerizing monomers containing from 15 to 25 mol % of a polymerizable monomer having an ionic functional group. |
E21B | 9,617,830 | 2017-04-11 | 1. A downhole chemical injection system for positioning in a well, the system comprising: a generally tubular mandrel having an axially extending internal passageway and an exterior, the mandrel including an injection port in fluid communication with at least one of the internal passageway and the exterior of the mandrel; a chemical injection line coupled to the mandrel and operable to transport a treatment fluid from a surface installation to the mandrel; a check valve supported by the mandrel and in downstream fluid communication with the chemical injection line; and a density barrier fluidically positioned between the check valve and the injection port, the density barrier having an axial loop and a circumferential loop relative to the mandrel, thereby preventing migration of production fluid from the injection port to the check valve regardless of the directional orientation of the well. |
G06Q,G07B,G07D,G07F,G07G | 9,640,009 | 2017-05-02 | 1. Apparatus comprising: a depository that operates to accept a deposit item responsive at least in part to at least one data bearing record and pre-recorded deposit data having a predetermined relationship, including: a depository head, a depository safe that extends below the depository head, wherein the depository head includes a lock member, an electromagnetic actuator, an actuator module, a control panel, a controller, wherein the controller includes a microprocessor and a database, wherein in the open position the drum is enabled to accept the deposit item in the pocket, and wherein after accepting the deposit item, the drum is enabled to move to the closed position, whereby the deposit item moves into the interior area of the safe, and wherein after the lock member is moved to the unlocked position, the actuator module is operative responsive at least in part to the controller to cause the actuator to move the lock member to the locked position. |
A61B,A61F | 9,655,708 | 2017-05-23 | 1. A sling delivery system comprising: an elongated shaft; a sling assembly, including: a push tube including: the dilator tube being configured to slidably interfit over the push tube, such that the dilator tube is entirely disposed between the first end of the push tube and the second end of the push tube. |
C03C,C08F,C08G,C09D,G02B | 9,563,013 | 2017-02-07 | 1. An optical fiber coating comprising the cured product of a curable coating composition having a gel-time ratio relative to C1 of less than about 2 and more than about 1.1, said coating having an in-situ modulus of about 0.12 MPa or less at a thickness of about 32.5 μm, a Young's modulus as a cured film of about 0.7 MPa or less, and a Tg below −22° C. and above −40° C. |
H01L | 9,704,829 | 2017-07-11 | 1. A stacked structure, comprising: a first semiconductor chip, which includes: |
G03F,H01L | 9,685,357 | 2017-06-20 | 1. A substrate treating apparatus comprising: an index unit having an index robot and a port on which a container containing a substrate is placed; a process treating unit having a development treating unit in which a first development treating chamber and a second development treating chamber for performing a substrate development process are arranged in divided layers; and a first path unit arranged between the development treating unit and the index unit, wherein the first development treating chamber comprises a development module, a first heating module, and a first main transport robot arranged in a movement passage accessible to the development module and the first heating module, wherein the first path unit comprises a second heating module, a first buffer module, a cooling module, a second buffer module, and a first buffer transport robot arranged in a movement passage accessible to the second heating module, the first buffer module, the cooling module and the second buffer module. |
G06F,G06T | 9,659,342 | 2017-05-23 | 1. A method comprising: setting a valid address in a pointer register to a buffer location by a scheduler, the addressed buffer location being a start of an instruction sequence of a second context; executing instructions of a first context at a graphics processor and incrementing a head pointer after the execution of each instruction, the head pointer indicating the location of a next instruction to be executed, the context having a sequence of instructions in a first addressable buffer, at least one of the instructions being a preemption instruction, the preemption instruction having a reference to the address in the pointer register that was set by the scheduler; updating the head pointer based on the address in the pointer register; upon executing the preemption instruction, stopping execution of the first context before the sequence of instructions is completed; storing an address for an instruction with which the first context will be resumed; executing the second context at the graphics processor based on the updated head pointer; and upon completion of the execution of the second context, resuming the execution of the first context at the stored address and updating the head pointer based on the stored address. |
G06F,H04L | 9,723,016 | 2017-08-01 | 1. A computer, comprising: a memory device; and a processor having access to the memory device, the memory device storing a series of machine-readable instructions to execute a method of detecting exploit kits, wherein the method comprises: and wherein tree structures are converted into a canonical format for the comparing, the canonical format comprising a listing of a string of node identifiers that encodes the tree structure by listing each node in a preorder traversal of said tree structure. |
H04W,Y02D | 9,648,570 | 2017-05-09 | 1. A method by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving configuration information for configuring a power headroom report (PHR) from a base station, the configuration information indicating whether a PHR format for the UE is an extended PHR; identifying whether the PHR format for the UE is the extended PHR based on the configuration information; if the PHR format is the extended PHR, if the PHR format is not the extended PHR, |
B29C,B29K,B29L,B33Y,Y02T,Y10T | 9,597,843 | 2017-03-21 | 1. A method of forming a tool for laying up composite material to form a workpiece having a target contour, the method comprising: additively manufacturing a non-metallic backing structure comprising a working surface that includes a backing contour complementary to the target contour; manufacturing a support structure comprising support plates and an elongated member; and attaching the non-metallic backing structure to the support structure. |
H01L | 9,570,567 | 2017-02-14 | 1. A method for manufacturing a FinFET, the method comprising: forming a fin structure on a substrate; forming a dielectric layer on a top surface and two side surfaces of the fin structure, wherein the side surfaces are connected to two opposite edges of the top surface, and the fin structure and the dielectric layer are formed from different materials; forming a dummy gate on a first portion of the dielectric layer; forming two spacers respectively on two opposite sidewalls of the dummy gate, wherein an operation of forming the spacers comprises forming the spacers respectively on two second portions of the dielectric layer and exposing two third portions of the dielectric layer, wherein each of the second portions of the dielectric layer is located between the first portion and one of the third portions of the dielectric layer; performing a first etching operation on the dielectric layer and the fin structure to remove the third portions and a portion of each of the second portions of the dielectric layer, and two first portions of the fin structure underlying the third portions and the portions of the second portions of the dielectric layer, thereby forming two first recesses respectively in the spacers; and performing a second etching operation on the fin structure to remove two second portions of the fin structure which are respectively adjacent to the first portions of the fin structure, thereby forming two second recesses in the dielectric layer, wherein the second recesses respectively communicate with the first recesses. |
H01L | 9,601,689 | 2017-03-21 | 1. A memory device, comprising: a plug; a variable resistance film provided on the plug; and an electrode provided on the variable resistance film, the variable resistance film including: the plug includes: |
A47K | 9,603,491 | 2017-03-28 | 1. An expanding curtain for use to provide privacy to an area, the expanding curtain comprising: at least one sheet of rigid and flexible material; and at least one horizontal hinge joint integrally formed in the at least one sheet of rigid and flexible material to divide the expanding curtain into more than one panel, wherein the expanding curtain is manually manipulated to expand the amount of usable space in the area without the use of a mechanical device external to the expanding curtain. |
B66F,E04H,G01C,G05D,G06K,G06Q | 9,658,622 | 2017-05-23 | 1. An industrial vehicle comprising industrial vehicle hardware, a tag reader, a reader module, a user interface, and a vehicle controller wherein: the industrial vehicle hardware comprises storage and retrieval hardware and a vehicle drive mechanism; the tag reader and the reader module cooperate to identify individual tags of a tag layout; the individual tags of the tag layout comprise a plurality of sequenced tags; the plurality of sequenced tags are sequenced along an aisle path in accordance with a sequence list that is accessible to the reader module; the reader module the vehicle controller controls operational functions of the industrial vehicle hardware in response to (i) the correlation of vehicle functionality with the malfunctioning sequenced tag when a missing tag signal is generated, (ii) the correlation of vehicle functionality with an identified tag in the tag layout, tag-dependent positional data, or both, (iii) user input at the user interface of the industrial vehicle, or (iv) combinations thereof. |
B60L,Y02T | 9,662,988 | 2017-05-30 | 1. A method to adjust power management of off-board devices powered by a vehicle comprising: entering a plurality of user selected charging levels for each of the off-board devices, each user selected charging level corresponding to one of a plurality of threshold levels of a state of charge (SOC) level of a battery pack of the vehicle; determining a current SOC of a battery pack of the vehicle; and adjusting charging levels of individual off-board devices from first user selected charging levels to second user selected charging levels when the current SOC of the battery pack changes from a first threshold value to a second threshold value. |
H02M | 9,537,421 | 2017-01-03 | 1. A power converter, comprising: at least one leg, comprising: wherein each of the at least two switching units comprises a plurality of fully controllable semiconductor switches and at least one energy storage device; and wherein the at least two switching units and the controllable semiconductor switch in the first branch are connected to each other via the first connecting node and a first inductor and the at least two switching units and the controllable semiconductor switch in the second branch are connected to each other via the second connecting node and a second inductor. |
H04W | 9,554,238 | 2017-01-24 | 1. A method performed by a first computing device executing an operating system, the method comprising: receiving a request for the first computing device to form, with a second computing device, a wireless communication link, wherein the request is received via the operating system from an application executed by the first computing device; sending, to the second computing device, a first message representing the request to form the wireless communication link, wherein the first message indicates an address corresponding to the second computing device; prior to the operating system providing to the application a notification that the wireless communication link has been formed, sending, to the second computing device, a second message representing a request to receive data via the wireless communication link to confirm that the wireless communication link has been formed; receiving, from the second computing device, the data confirming that the wireless communication link has been formed; and based on receiving the data, sending via the operating system to the application, the notification indicating that the wireless communication link has been formed. |
H04L,H04N | 9,654,539 | 2017-05-16 | 1. A method comprising: generating a manifest for primary multimedia content and alternate multimedia content related to and different from the primary multimedia content, the primary multimedia content comprising segments of multimedia content data and the alternate multimedia content comprising different segments of multimedia content data, the manifest including a list of identifiers for the segments and a list of identifiers for the different segments, the generating comprising modifying an initial manifest generated for the primary multimedia content by splicing the list of identifiers for the different segments into the initial manifest to produce a modified manifest for multi-streaming the primary multimedia content on a primary client device and the alternate multimedia content on an auxiliary client device affiliated with the primary client device; and providing the manifest to the primary client device, and the auxiliary client device, the manifest comprising a marker for triggering the auxiliary client device to obtain and play the at least one alternate multimedia content in synchronization with the primary multimedia content. |
B60R | 9,676,365 | 2017-06-13 | 1. A side airbag device comprising: a cushion formed in a bag form formed from a first base fabric so as to be inflated and deployed toward a lateral side of an occupant in a vehicle seat; an inflator provided on a vehicle rear side inside the cushion so as to supply an inflation gas; an inner tube formed of a second base fabric and provided inside the cushion so as to surround the inflator and receive the inflation gas first, the inner tube is provided in a state in which a portion of the second base fabric disposed inside the cushion overlaps an outer circumferential portion of the cushion, and the portion of the second base fabric and the outer circumferential portion of the cushion are sewn together; an upper opening formed in an upper portion of the inner tube so that the inflation gas can pass therethrough; a lower opening formed in a lower portion of the inner tube so that the inflation gas can pass therethrough; a partition wall formed of a third base fabric so as to extend toward a vehicle front side from a region between the upper opening and the lower opening of the inner tube and partitions the vehicle front side of the inside of the cushion into a chest restraining portion on an upper side and a waist restraining portion on a lower side; a void portion provided inside the cushion at a position further toward the vehicle front side of the partition wall so that the inflation gas can pass between the chest restraining portion and the waist restraining portion; and a vent hole formed in the first base fabric of the cushion near the void portion so that the inflation gas can be discharged to the outside of the cushion, wherein the upper opening has a smaller opening area than the lower opening, and the partition wall is inclined downward toward the vehicle front side from the vehicle rear side with respect to a line perpendicular to the front edge of the inner tube. |
G11C | 9,659,638 | 2017-05-23 | 1. A data storage device comprising: a nonvolatile memory device including a first plane and a second plane; and a controller suitable for providing to the nonvolatile memory device a read command for reading simultaneously the first plane and the second plane, a first address for accessing the first plane and a second address for accessing the second plane, wherein the nonvolatile memory device simultaneously reads two types of pages from each of the first plane and the second plane when a type of a page corresponding to the first address and a type of a page corresponding to the second address are different, and simultaneously reads one type of pages from each of the first plane and the second plane when a type of the page corresponding to the first address and a type of the page corresponding to the second address are the same. |
A61K,A61M,A61P,B01D,B01F,B01J | 9,730,892 | 2017-08-15 | 1. A composition comprising a suspension of multivesicular liposomes in a suspending medium, said multivesicular liposomes having a structure including multiple non-concentric chambers and comprising at least one amphipathic lipid, at least one neutral lipid and a therapeutic agent: wherein said multivesicular liposomes are made by a process comprising removing greater than 90% of an organic solvent from multivesicular liposome pre-droplets using an evaporation apparatus comprising: wherein the organic solvent removal process comprises: |
G06F,G11C,H03M | 9,582,359 | 2017-02-28 | 1. A method for mitigating hard errors, comprising the steps of: creating a plurality of inter-bit dependencies between a current bit in a sequence of data bits and a plurality of neighboring bits in the sequence of data bits to generate a plurality of mapped bits; writing the plurality of mapped bits among at least two cells of a plurality of memory cells in a memory with at least two of the plurality of mapped bits stored in each of the plurality of memory cells; generating a plurality of log-likelihood ratio values in response to reading the plurality of mapped bits from the memory, wherein each of the log-likelihood ratio values is based on two or more of the mapped bits and is representative of the plurality of inter-bit dependencies, and the plurality of inter-bit dependencies mitigate a hard error due to one of the at least two cells being stuck in a fixed state; and decoding the plurality of mapped bits based on the plurality of log-likelihood ratio values to recover the current bit. |
B27F | 9,586,334 | 2017-03-07 | 1. A staple-refill comprising: a casing in which a connected staple is accommodated; a staple discharge port which is formed in the casing to discharge the connected staple from the casing; a first positioning projection which is formed on a surface of the casing on which the staple discharge port is formed; a second positioning projection which is formed to protrude from a surface of the casing which is opposite to the surface on which the staple discharge port is formed; and third positioning projections protruding outward from lateral surfaces of the casing and from said opposite surface on which the second positioning projection is formed such that the third positioning projections form a plane with the opposite surface, and wherein each of the third positioning projections has a plate shape extending along the plane and has a surface which faces a side of the staple discharge port, wherein a width of the third positioning projections protruding from the lateral surfaces of the casing in a direction along the plane is larger than a thickness of the third positioning projections in a direction perendicular to the plane. |
G06F,G09G | 9,728,163 | 2017-08-08 | 1. An operation mode switching method wherein the method is applied to an electronic device; the electronic device comprises a display unit, and the electronic device has a first operation mode and a second operation mode; the display unit has a first light-transmittance in the first operation mode and a second light-transmittance in the second operation mode; the first light-transmittance is higher than the second light-transmittance, the method comprising: detecting to obtain a trigger event; judging whether or not the trigger event satisfies a predefined condition, to get a judgment result; when the judgment result indicates that the trigger event satisfies the predefined condition, generating a switching instruction; according to the switching instruction, switching the electronic device between the first operation mode and the second operation mode; wherein the step of detecting to obtain a trigger event is: detecting a first application trigger command; the step of judging whether or not the trigger event satisfies a predefined condition to get a judgment result is: judging whether or not the first application is a predefined application, to get a judgment result; the step of generating a switching instruction when the judgment result indicates that the trigger event satisfies the predefined condition is: when the judgment result indicates that the first application is the predefined application, generating a switching instruction, wherein in the first operation mode, a user can see a real scene through the display unit; and in the second operation mode, the user can see a running result of the first application displayed on the display unit and cannot see the real scene through the display unit. |
C12N,C12Q | 9,567,645 | 2017-02-14 | 1. A method comprising: associating a single bead with a single cell, wherein said single bead comprises a plurality of oligonucleotides, wherein each of said plurality of oligonucleotides comprises an identical cellular label sequence, a molecular label sequence, and a target-binding region, and wherein at least 100 of said plurality of oligonucleotides comprise different molecular label sequences. |
G06F,G06T | 9,665,982 | 2017-05-30 | 1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: an imaging part configured to capture an image; an image acquisition part configured to acquire the captured image; an environment recognizing part configured to recognize a three-dimensional space structure of a real space based on the acquired image and generate a first recognition result; and a display controller configured to cause display of a virtual object based on a second recognition result of a real object shown in the acquired image, wherein the display controller is configured to: |
B01D,B01L,G01L,G01N | 9,671,375 | 2017-06-06 | 1. A fluidic chip device configured for processing a fluid, the fluidic chip device comprising: a plurality of layers laminated to one another; wherein at least a part of the layers comprises a patterned section of an alternating sequence of bars and fluidic channels for conducting the fluid under pressure along a resultant flow direction, the patterned section having a length along the resultant flow direction and being configured for being displaceable in response to the pressure such that the length of the patterned section changes in response to the pressure; and a pressure detector configured for responding to the displacement of the patterned section by generating a detector signal being indicative of a value of the pressure. |
B01L,G01N,Y10T | 9,689,863 | 2017-06-27 | 1. A micro-device for detecting a disease in a biological subject, comprising a first sorting unit capable of directly detecting an intrinsic property of the biological subject at the microscopic level and sorting the biological subject by the detected intrinsic property; a first detection unit capable of detecting the same or a different intrinsic property of the sorted biological subject at the microscopic level; and a first layer of material having an exterior surface and an interior surface, wherein the interior surface defines a first channel in which the biological subject flows through the first sorting unit, and then the sorted biological subject flows from the first sorting unit to the first detection unit; wherein the first sorting unit and the first detection unit are integrated into the first layer of material and positioned to be at least partially exposed in the channel. |
C08L | 9,650,515 | 2017-05-16 | 1. A polyarylene sulfide resin composition, including: 60 to 95 wt % of a polyarylene sulfide resin (A) having a polyarylene sulfide main chain, wherein at least part of an aryl end group of the polyarylene sulfide main chain is substituted by iodine, and wherein at least part of an aryl end group of the polyarylene sulfide main chain is substituted by a carboxyl group; and 5 to 40 wt % of an epoxy-containing olefin-based elastomer (B). |
A61F | 9,730,787 | 2017-08-15 | 1. A foldable intraocular lens, comprising: an optical lens portion having a center, an outer peripheral edge that defines a continuous convex curve, and only first and second indentations that are each closer than the continuous convex curve to the center; a first haptic extending from the first indentation such that a first portion of the first haptic is closer to the center than the continuous convex curve, a second portion of the first haptic is farther from the center than the continuous convex curve, the first haptic has first and second side edges that both extend from the first portion of the first haptic to the second portion of the first haptic, and the first indentation is only associated with one of the first and second side edges of the first haptic; a second haptic extending from the second indentation such that a first portion of the second haptic is closer to the center than the continuous convex curve, a second portion of the second haptic is farther from the center than the continuous convex curve, the second haptic has first and second side edges that both extend from the first portion of the second haptic to the second portion of the second haptic, and the second indentation is only associated with one of the first and second side edges of the second haptic; wherein the optical lens portion and the first portions of the first and second haptics are formed from a first material, and at least a part of the second portions of the first and second haptics that are located adjacent to the first portions of the first and second haptics are formed from a second material that is harder than the first material. |
G06T,G16H | 9,595,123 | 2017-03-14 | 1. A method of displaying trends and variability in a physiological dataset, comprising, on a processor: obtaining the physiological dataset; applying a smoothing algorithm to the physiological dataset to obtain a trend of the physiological dataset; applying a variability algorithm to the physiological dataset to obtain the variability of the physiological dataset; outputting a real-time graph of the trend of the physiological dataset; outputting a real-time graph of the variability of the physiological dataset overlaid on the graph of the trend of the physiological dataset, wherein the graph of the variability of the physiological dataset comprises a real time visual envelope bounded on the top by a plot of the maximums identified by the variability algorithm and bounded on the bottom by a plot of the minimums identified by the variability algorithm, where said maximums and minimums are identified within each time window over which the variability is estimated; and triggering at least one of an audible or visual alarm upon a predetermined condition in the variability or trend of the physiological dataset being met whereas the predetermined condition is based on at least one of: (1) ratio between variability and trend values within a time window, (2) difference between maximum and minimum within a time window, (3) the value of the trend within a time window, (4) the change in the trend values from one window to the next, (5) the change in the difference between maximum and minimum within a time window from one window to the next, or (6) area within the maximum envelope and the minimum envelope. |
A47J | 9,723,950 | 2017-08-08 | 1. A food cabinet, comprising: an enclosure with an access door; a plurality of shelves carried by and vertically arranged within said enclosure; and a heat transfer arrangement defining a closed fluid flow system and including: |
G06K,G06T | 9,607,376 | 2017-03-28 | 1. A method for analyzing a digital pathology image, the method comprising: selecting at least one analysis region in the digital pathology image; separating the at least one analysis region into a tissue region and a background region using a predetermined separation threshold; selecting nuclei within the tissue region; determining an estimated membrane perimeter; designating a membrane region according to the tissue region and the selected nuclei; calculating an actual membrane perimeter of the membrane region; and calculating a staining extent by comparing the estimated membrane perimeter and the actual membrane perimeter. |
B32B,H01M,Y02E,Y10T | 9,553,284 | 2017-01-24 | 1. A molding material for package comprising: an outer base material layer comprising a heat-resistant resin; an inner sealant layer comprising a thermoplastic resin; a metal foil layer disposed between the outer base material layer and the inner sealant layer; and a matte-coating layer formed on a side of the outer base material layer that is opposite to another side of the outer base material layer on which the metal foil layer is disposed, wherein the matte-coating layer includes: |
H03M | 9,634,683 | 2017-04-25 | 1. A low power consumption sigma-delta modulator architecture capable of correcting dynamic range automatically, including: a sigma-delta modulation unit for converting analog signals and digital signals by means of sigma-delta modulation; an integrator unit for signal processing by utilizing coefficients derived via a continuous sigma-delta architecture algorithm; and an automatic correction unit for comparing a system input signal specification to come out multiple sets of dynamic range curves according to a strength of a system output signal in the sigma-delta modulation unit, and extracting a combination of a system order and feed-forward coefficients for decreasing or increasing the system order so as to extend a system dynamic range when the strength of the system output signal changes. |
H04L,H04M,H04W | 9,571,559 | 2017-02-14 | 1. A method of operating a master wireless device service processor to manage service plan sharing, comprising: obtaining, from a master user, a device usage allocation applicable to two or more wireless devices, the two or more wireless devices associated respectively with respective ones of at least two different users associated with a service plan to which the master user subscribes; obtaining aggregate measures of device usage associated respectively with the at least two different users; performing a comparison of one or more of the aggregate measures of device usage with a usage metric; and based on the comparison, adjusting the device usage allocation. |
B23Q,G01B | 9,546,858 | 2017-01-17 | 1. A trajectory display device for displaying a trajectory of a movable part which is moved along a circle or an arc based on a motion program, the trajectory display device comprising: a motor-side position obtaining part which obtains positional information of a motor for driving the movable part, from a motor-side detector arranged on the motor at predetermined sampling periods of time; a motor end actual coordinate calculating part which calculates an actual coordinate value of a motor end of the motor based on mechanical information and the positional information of the motor; a position measuring instrument which measures a position of the movable part and outputs the position of the movable part as a coordinate value of a point on an actual trajectory of a machine end at predetermined time intervals; a machine end data obtaining part which obtains the coordinate values of the points on the actual trajectory of the machine end as point sequence data; and a displaying part which displays the actual coordinate of the motor end and the point sequence data of the machine end, as the actual trajectory of the motor end and the actual trajectory of the machine end, respectively, wherein the actual trajectories of the motor end and the machine end are overlapped with each other so that a central coordinate of a circle or an arc constituted by the actual trajectory of the motor end coincides with a central coordinate of a circle or an arc constituted by the actual trajectory of the machine end; and a central coordinate calculating part which calculates the central coordinate of the circle or the arc constituted by the actual trajectory of the motor end, based on the actual coordinates of the motor end, wherein the central coordinate calculating part calculates the central coordinate of the circle or the arc constituted by the actual trajectory of the motor end, based on the actual coordinates of the motor end which are not included in a predetermined angular range including a quadrant projection. |
B60K,B60R,G01C,H04L,H04W | 9,736,667 | 2017-08-15 | 1. A vehicle comprising: a terminal communication unit configured to receive signals from portable terminals according to types of the portable terminals and generate normalized data; a controller configured to generate a control signal for controlling a corresponding component in the vehicle based on the normalized data; and a display configured to display at least one of navigation information, media information, and telephone information to a user based on the control signal, wherein the terminal communication unit comprises: wherein the terminal determination unit is configured to receive the terminal information from the portable terminals, search for previously stored terminal vendor identifications matching the vendor identifications included in the terminal information of the portable terminals, and determine the types of the portable terminals corresponding to the previously stored terminal vendor identifications matching the vendor identifications. |
A61K,A61P,A61Q,C07C,Y10S | 9,622,994 | 2017-04-18 | 1. A method for treating common acne, comedones, polymorphous acne, nodulocystic acne, acne conglobata, or secondary acne afflicting the skin of an individual in need of such treatment, comprising topically administering to said individual a topically applicable pharmaceutical aqueous gel composition consisting essentially of an anti-acne effective amount of 6-[3-(1-adamantyl)-4-methoxyphenyl]-2-naphthoic acid (adapalene) of 0.3% by weight thereof, formulated into a topically applicable, pharmaceutically acceptable aqueous gel medium therefor, wherein said aqueous gel medium comprises at least one ingredient selected from the group consisting of carbomers, polymeric emulsifying agents, polysaccharidic biopolymers, gums, alginates, modified celluloses, starch derived products, a mix of polysorbate 80 and isohexadecane and acrylamide/sodium acryloyldimethyltaurate, and mixtures thereof. |
G06F | 9,672,165 | 2017-06-06 | 1. A method of storing data in a storage system, comprising: writing data, from a virtual machine in a compute node, to a temporary storage in the compute node and coupled to the virtual machine and in parallel with the writing data to the temporary storage, reflecting the write onto another compute node; copying data from the temporary storage to a primary storage coupled to the virtual machine; reading data from the temporary storage; sending the data that is read from the temporary storage in the compute node to a data node; writing the data that is read from the temporary storage in the compute node to an intermediate storage coupled as direct attached storage to the data node; and writing a second copy of data from the intermediate storage to a secondary storage; and reusing space in the temporary storage, responsive to the sending the data from the temporary storage to the data node. |
B32B,G01J,G02B,G02F,G06F,H01L,H02S,Y02E | 9,726,790 | 2017-08-08 | 1. An electromagnetic energy filtering structure, comprising: an energy scattering layer, comprising the energy scattering layer being configured to have a first refractive index in a first-mode, and a second refractive index different from the first refractive index in a second mode when subjected to effects from an externally-applied electrical field, refractive indices of at least some of the plurality of substantially-transparent particles fixed in the substantially-transparent matrix material being modified by the externally-applied electrical field between the first mode and the second mode, and a refractive index of at least a portion of the substantially-transparent matrix material being modified by the externally-applied electrical field between the first mode and the second mode. |
A61K,A61P,C07D | 9,556,191 | 2017-01-31 | 1. A compound having Formula (I): or a stereoisomer, a geometric isomer, a tautomer, a hydrate, a solvate, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R is wherein each X and X X X each Y, Y Y each Y wherein each R each R each R each d is independently 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5; e is 0, 1, 2, or 3; f is 0 or 1; L is a bond, O or S; R R each of R R Ar is wherein each R k is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5; and R wherein optionally each of alkyl, alkoxy, alkoxyalkyl, alkylamino, alkylaminoalkyl, heteroalkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl, cycloalkylalkenyl, cycloalkylalkynyl, cycloalkyloxyalkynyl, heterocyclyl, heterocyclylalkyl, heterocyclylalkenyl, heterocyclylalkynyl, fused bicyclyl, fused bicyclylalkyl, fused bicyclylalkenyl, fused bicyclylalkynyl, fused heterobicyclyl, fused heterobicyclylalkyl, fused heterobicyclylalkenyl, fused heterobicyclylalkynyl, spiro bicyclyl, spiro bicyclylalkyl, spiro bicyclylalkenyl, spiro bicyclylalkynyl, spiro heterobicyclyl, spiro heterobicyclylalkyl, spiro heterobicyclylalkenyl, spiro heterobicyclylalkynyl, aryl, aryloxy, arylalkyl, arylalkoxy, arylamino, heteroaryl, heteroarylalkyl, heteroarylalkoxy, heteroaryloxy, alkylthio, alkylcarbonyl, alkylacylamino, alkylsulfonyl, haloalkyl and alkylsulfinyl is independently substituted with one or more substituents independently selected from D, F, Cl, Br, I, —OH, —NO |
A01H,C12N | 9,560,824 | 2017-02-07 | 1. A seed of hybrid corn variety CH138178, produced by crossing a first plant of variety CV023001 with a second plant of variety CV247671, wherein representative seed of said varieties CV023001 and CV247671 have been deposited under ATCC Accession numbers PTA-122891 and PTA-121104, respectively. |
G06K,G06T | 9,576,181 | 2017-02-21 | 1. A method for defining an isolation area around an object of interest in a cell culture vessel, the method comprising: obtaining one or more images of the cell culture vessel using one or more of a plurality of illumination sources, each illumination source being capable of illuminating the vessel from a different direction; selecting an image or combination of images for further processing; applying a circular object detection transformation to identify one or more objects of interest being substantially circular objects in the cell culture vessel, the one or more objects of interest being representative of isolated colonies in the cell culture vessel and determining a center of an object of interest; applying a binarizing step to obtain a binarized image of the object of interest and other objects, wherein a center of the binarized image corresponds to the center of the object of interest; iteratively forming concentric circles with increasing radius, wherein the concentric circles are centered on the center of the binarized image; identifying coronas, wherein a corona is delimited by two circles having successive radius values; and for each corona: |
G06F,G06Q | 9,659,309 | 2017-05-23 | 1. A method comprising: identifying, by one or more processing devices, a target document based on information provided by a content provider through a user interface displayed on a computing device, the content provider being a purveyor of content that is distributable electronically; generating, by the one or more processing devices and based on information associated with the target document and information associated with a separate document that references the target document or that the target document references, a set of distribution terms representing concepts represented in the target document, the distribution terms defining one or more serving constraints comprising one or more conditions limiting distribution of the content, wherein generating the set of distribution terms comprises: storing, in computer memory and by the one or more processing devices, the generated set of distribution terms; and distributing the content for inclusion in an additional document that is not the target document in response to the additional document satisfying at least one of the one or more serving constraints. |
B01D,B07B,B23P,Y10T | 9,687,878 | 2017-06-27 | 1. A method comprising: engaging a bottom surface of a screen frame with an upper surface of a deck of a vibratory separator; sliding the screen frame over a locating element disposed on the top surface of the vibratory separator; and contacting the locating element of the vibratory separator with a tapered recess of the screen frame; and guiding the tapered recess of the screen frame disposed longitudinally along an end of the screen frame against the locating element of the vibratory separator in a direction parallel to a direction of a taper of the tapered recess and in a direction parallel to the sliding of the screen frame and into a terminal location of the tapered recess of the screen frame, thereby positioning the screen frame on the vibratory separator. |
C01B,C23C,H01L | 9,688,540 | 2017-06-27 | 1. A method of forming a graphite-based structure on a substrate comprising: (A) patterning the substrate thereby forming a plurality of elements on the substrate, each respective element in the plurality of elements separated from an adjacent element on the substrate by a corresponding trench in a plurality of trenches on the substrate, wherein (i) each respective element in the plurality of elements has a corresponding top surface, (ii) each respective trench in the plurality of trenches is characterized by a trench surface, (iii) each respective trench in the plurality of trenches separates a pair of adjacent elements in the plurality of elements, (iv) each top surface of each respective element in the plurality of elements is separated from an adjacent trench surface by a side wall of the respective element, (v) a top surface of a first element in the plurality of elements is characterized by a first elevation, (vi) a trench surface of a first trench in the plurality of trenches, the first trench separating the first element from another element in the plurality of elements, is characterized by a second elevation, (vii) the first elevation is other than the second elevation, and (viii) a first orthogonal projection of the top surface of the first element and a second orthogonal projection of the trench surface of the first trench onto a common plane are contiguous or overlapping; and (B) segmentedly depositing a graphene initiating layer onto the top surface of each respective element in the plurality of elements at an energy level that restricts deposition of the graphene initiating layer to the top surface of each respective element; and (C) generating graphene using the graphene initiating layer thereby forming the graphite-based structure. |
B65D,B67D,F16M | 9,593,801 | 2017-03-14 | 1. A water jug support device comprising an essentially horizontally disposed rectangular support device wherein the rectangular device is supported by three legs, having two legs in the front and a single rear leg, further wherein the rectangular device has a front, two sides and a back, further wherein the single rear leg mounted near the center of the back of the rectangular device and, wherein the rear support leg supports a riser, further the front of the rectangular device comprise a front cross-bar capable of supporting the front, spigot-end of a water jug, further wherein the long sides of the rectangular device comprise a pair of adjustable length rails extending back horizontally and parallel from atop each of the two front legs, further wherein the rails are perforated at regular intervals with a row of holes, for adjusting the length of the rails, further wherein an arc attachment fits adjustably into the side rails and serves as a handle; additionally, the side rails, and the front cross-bar support a front bail, for securing the jug onto the front of the device, further wherein the side rails and the back of the rectangular device support a rear bail. |
H04W | 9,578,472 | 2017-02-21 | 1. A method of providing an email service for an International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) for a sender and a recipient without a known email address, the method comprising the steps of: a. providing a remote server within a computer-based operating environment that includes access to a recording medium operable for the remote server; b. enabling said sender without the known email address and using a mobile device having a first IMSI to connect to the remote server, said step of enabling the sender to connect to the remote server further comprising providing a first email client application to the sender, the first email client application being operable to send and receive mail to/from other IMSIs through the remote server; c. enabling said recipient without the known email address and using a mobile device having a second IMSI to connect to the remote server, said step of enabling the recipient to connect to the remote server further comprising providing a second email client application to the recipient, the second email client application being operable to send and receive mail to/from other IMSIs through the remote server; d. using said first and second email client applications to send at least one of an email sending request, a mail box creation request and a mail box verification request from said sender and said recipient to the remote server; e. upon receipt of one of said requests, verifying whether a mail box exists at the remote server for said first and said second IMSI; f. where no mail box exist at the remote server for said first IMSI, providing a first mail box at the remote server enabling the sender to send and receive mail to/from other mobile devices having other IMSIs; and g. where no mail box exist at the remote server for said second IMSI, providing a second mail box at the remote server enabling the recipient to send and receive mail to/from other mobile devices having other IMSIs, wherein each of the first and second email client applications is at least one of an IMSI mail client application, an IMSI mail web client and a conventional email client, and wherein the method further comprises a step of configuring said conventional email client through pop/imap/smtp settings utilizing a format comprising an ISMI and an extension @imsimail.com. |
H03H | 9,602,079 | 2017-03-21 | 1. A device including a baseband processor for setting transconductance g m and pole frequency parameters in an analog filter, comprising: a gain controller configured to generate, on the basis of a determination of a desired change in gain, a gain control signal to adjust the transconductance g a decoder configured to generate, on the basis of the determination and the gain control signal, a pole frequency control signal mapped from the gain control signal that simultaneously adjusts the pole frequency to maintain at a specific value a bandwidth of the analog filter across a range of changes to the gain of the analog filter, wherein the gain control signal is configured to selectively switch on a subset of parallel-arranged transconductors, and the pole frequency control signal is configured to selectively switch on a subset of parallel-arranged capacitor elements. |
G06F | 9,552,411 | 2017-01-24 | 1. A method implemented at least in part by a computer, the method comprising: in response to receiving user input from an input device of a client device, providing one or more text suggestions from a first dataset, the first dataset and a second dataset including a respective set of phrases to be used for text suggestions and stored at the client device, the user input including a character, the first dataset comprising trending data, the second dataset different from the first dataset, the second dataset comprising phrases that have been inputted by user input on the client device; in response to the user selecting one of the text suggestions from the first dataset from the input device of the client device, adding the selected text suggestion to the second dataset; in response to receiving a new first dataset from a service, deleting the first dataset from the client device; and assigning the new first dataset a weight that is less than a weight assigned to the second dataset such that suggestions from the new first dataset are suggested after higher weighted suggestions available from the second dataset when the suggestions from the second dataset and the suggestions from the new first dataset are equally probable. |
B29C,B33Y | 9,533,450 | 2017-01-03 | 1. An apparatus for manufacturing a three-dimensional object by solidifying multiple solidifiable materials, comprising: a first solidifiable material source; at least one linear solidification device movable only along a first axis, wherein during an object solidification operation, the at least one linear solidification device scans solidification energy along a second axis while moving along the first axis; a second solidifiable material source; and a build platform movable in a first build platform operation along a third axis, wherein during a second build platform operation, at least one of the build platform and first solidifiable material source moves relative to the other of the build platform and the first solidifiable material source in a plane perpendicular to the third axis; wherein the first solidifiable material source is spaced apart from the second solidifiable material source along the first axis or the second axis; and wherein the first solidifiable material source is spaced apart from the second solidifiable material source along the second axis, and the build platform is translatable along the second axis as well as the third axis. |
H04B,H04J,H04L,H04W | 9,614,647 | 2017-04-04 | 1. A User Equipment (UE) to transmit an uplink channel, the UE supporting a cross-carrier scheduling between a Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) cell and a Time Division Duplex (TDD) cell, the UE comprising: a transmitter; a receiver to receive cross-carrier scheduling information; and a processor configured to determine, for the cross-carrier scheduling between the FDD cell and the TDD cell, an uplink (UL) reference configuration indicating an interval k1 between a UL grant transmission and a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission and an interval k2 between the PUSCH transmission and a Physical Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest Indicator Channel (PHICH) transmission, wherein a TDD uplink/downlink configuration of the TDD cell is the UL reference configuration when the FDD cell is a scheduling cell and the TDDcell is a scheduled cell, wherein the receiver receives a UL grant through the FDD cell, the UL grant being transmitted in a first subframe of the FDD cell, wherein the transmitter transmits a PUSCH associated with the UL grant through the TDD cell, the PUSCH being transmitted in a second subframe of the TDD cell, wherein the receiver receives a PHICH associated with the PUSCH through the FDD cell, the PHICH being transmitted in a third subframe of the FDD cell, wherein the cross-carrier scheduling comprises at least one of a downlink cross-carrier scheduling and an uplink cross-carrier scheduling, wherein Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) and Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) are transmitted through different downlink carriers in the downlink cross-carrier scheduling, and wherein a downlink carrier in which PDCCH having a first UL grant is transmitted is different from a downlink carrier linked with an uplink carrier in which PUSCH associated with the first UL grant is transmitted. |
B01D,C07K,C12N,Y02P | 9,663,553 | 2017-05-30 | 1. An integrated process for the isolation and purification of plasma derived clotting Factor VIII, clotting Factor IX, albumin and immunoglobulin (IgG), without the use of ethanol precipitation, comprising: a) subjecting plasma to gel filtration chromatography to obtain three fractions (Fraction I, Fraction II and Fraction III); b) subjecting Fraction I and Fraction III to further chromatographic separations using anion and cation exchange resins; and c) subjecting to viral inactivation and recovering isolated and purified clotting Factor VIII from Fraction I, and clotting Factor IX, albumin and immunoglobulin (IgG) from Fraction III. |
E03C,E03D,Y02A | 9,745,730 | 2017-08-29 | 1. A toilet tank structure; comprising: a primary-secondary water tank set the primary-secondary water tank set comprising a primary water tank, a secondary water tank, a tank cover and an outlet pipe; the primary water tank comprising a water inlet and a primary tank outlet, the water inlet and the primary tank outlet of the primary water tank being formed on a bottom of the primary water tank; the secondary water tank comprising a lower secondary water tank and an upper secondary water tank cover; the lower secondary water tank comprising a water inlet, the water inlet of the lower secondary water tank being formed on a lower edge of the lower secondary water tank; the lower secondary water tank comprising a secondary water tank outlet; an air-flow column; the air-flow column being formed on the upper secondary water tank cover and penetrating through a top of the upper secondary water tank cover; an air-flow chamber; the air-flow chamber being formed under the air-flow column and opposite to the lower secondary water tank; the upper secondary water tank cover and the lower secondary water tank being latched and combined with each other; the secondary water tank being disposed in the primary water tank; the secondary water tank outlet of the secondary water tank and the primary tank outlet of the primary water tank being configured to be opposite to each other and latched and fixed by the outlet pipe; the tank cover being covered onto an opening at a top of the primary water tank; a tap water inlet control valve; the tap water inlet control valve comprising a support rod and a water control ferrule; the support rod of the tap water inlet control valve comprising a fixing end and a pivoting end; the fixing end of the support rod of the tap water inlet control valve comprising a fixing hole formed thereon; the fixing end of the support rod of the tap water inlet control valve comprising a sealing plug slidably installed thereon; the pivoting end of the support rod of the tap water inlet control valve comprising a horizontal floating plate pivoted thereto; the water control ferrule of the tap water inlet control valve comprising two water outlets penetrating each other and formed on a lateral side thereof, a plurality of notches formed adjacent to the two water outlets of the water control ferrule of the tap water inlet control valve, and two pivoting lugs disposed between the water outlet and the notch of the water control ferrule of the tap water inlet control valve; the pivoting lug of the water control ferrule of the tap water inlet control valve comprising a pivot column; the sealing plug of the fixing end of the support rod of the tap water inlet control valve being accommodated in the water control ferrule of the tap water inlet control valve; the sealing plug of the fixing end of the support rod of the tap water inlet control valve comprising a water outlet, the water outlet of the sealing plug of the fixing end of the support rod of the tap water inlet control valve being formed at a position opposite to an edge of the water control ferrule of the fixing end of the support rod of the tap water inlet control valve; the fixing hole of the fixing end of the support rod of the tap water inlet control valve being configured to be opposite to the pivoting lug of the water control ferrule of the tap water inlet control valve and pivotally fixed by the pivot column of the pivoting lug of the water control ferrule of the tap water inlet control valve; the fixing end of the support rod of the tap water inlet control valve being slidably latched to a corresponsive notch among the plurality of notches of the water control ferrule of the tap water inlet control valve; the water control ferrule of the tap water inlet control valve being fixed and coupled to the water inlet of the primary water tank; a secondary water tank inlet control valve; the secondary water tank inlet control valve comprising a support rod and a water control ferrule; the support rod of the secondary water tank inlet control valve comprising a fixing end and a pivoting end; the fixing end of the support rod of the secondary water tank inlet control valve comprising a fixing hole; the fixing end of the support rod of the secondary water tank inlet control valve comprising a sealing plug slidably passing therethrough; the pivoting end of the support rod of the secondary water tank inlet control valve comprising a horizontal floating plate pivoted thereto; the water control ferrule of the secondary water tank inlet control valve comprising two water outlets formed on an edge of the water control ferrule of the secondary water tank inlet control valve and penetrating through each other, a plurality of notches formed adjacent to the two water outlets of the water control ferrule of the secondary water tank inlet control valve, and two pivoting lugs disposed between the water outlet and the notch of the water control ferrule of the secondary water tank inlet control valve; the pivoting lug of the water control ferrule of the secondary water tank inlet control valve comprising a pivot column; the sealing plug of the fixing end of the support rod of the secondary water tank inlet control valve being accommodated in the water control ferrule of the secondary water tank inlet control valve; the sealing plug of the fixing end of the support rod of the secondary water tank inlet control valve comprising a water outlet, the water outlet of the sealing plug of the fixing end of the support rod of the secondary water tank inlet control valve being formed on an edge opposite to the water control ferrule of the secondary water tank inlet control valve; the fixing hole of the fixing end of the support rod of the secondary water tank inlet control valve being configured to be opposite to the pivoting lug of the water control ferrule of the secondary water tank inlet control valve and pivotally coupled by the pivot column of the pivoting lug of the water control ferrule of the secondary water tank inlet control valve; the fixing end of the support rod of the secondary water tank inlet control valve being slidably latched to a corresponsive notch among the plurality of notches of the water control ferrule of the secondary water tank inlet control valve; the water control ferrule of the secondary water tank inlet control valve being fixed and coupled to the water inlet of the lower secondary water tank of the secondary water tank; a flush control module, comprising a fixed column and a sealing-ball cover pivotally coupled to a bottom of the fixed column; the sealing-ball cover comprising a pull string coupled thereto; an end of the pull string being coupled to a control handle linking rod; the fixed column being fixed into the secondary water tank; the sealing-ball cover being configured to be opposite to the secondary water tank outlet formed on a bottom of the secondary water tank, linked and coupled to the pull string, and passed out from the air-flow column; the control handle linking rod at the other end of the pull string being pivotally coupled to an edge near a top of a front of the primary water tank in a flipping manner. |
G06F,G06N | 9,639,516 | 2017-05-02 | 1. An express spreadsheet visualization system configured for the simultaneous viewing of spreadsheet information and visualization information of a model, comprising; a. a processor; b. a display device; c. an input interface configured for use by the user; and d. a system memory comprising; |
G06F,H04L | 9,729,499 | 2017-08-08 | 1. A method for domain name resolution by a browser, the method comprising: starting, by a processor, the browser and calling DNS acceleration data information, wherein the DNS acceleration data information comprises several domain names obtained in advance and IP address information corresponding to each domain name; receiving, by the processor, an access request for a certain URL initiated by a user, parsing the access request and extracting the domain name corresponding to the URL; detecting, by the processor, whether the domain name corresponding to the URL is contained in the DNS acceleration data information, and if the domain name corresponding to the URL is contained in the DNS acceleration data information, obtaining the IP address information corresponding to the domain name, and utilizing the IP address information for access processing; when the user is browsing a webpage corresponding to the URL, obtaining, by the processor, a certain webpage partition DIV element in the webpage; segmenting, by the processor, individual URLs within the DIV element to obtain domain names corresponding to the individual URLs; and detecting, by the processor, that the domain names corresponding to the individual URLs are contained in the DNS acceleration data information, extracting IP address information corresponding to the individual domain names, and directly utilizing the extracted IP address information when the user accesses a URL within the DIV element. |
G06F | 9,747,363 | 2017-08-29 | 1. A computer-implemented process comprising: receiving data describing a sparse array, the sparse array having a positive integer number N of sparse array entries, each sparse array entry having an identifier between 1 and N for accessing the sparse array entry, each sparse array entry storing a value related to the identifier for the sparse array entry, wherein the value of each sparse array entry can be null; allocating an array of pointers to memory locations, with a pointer entry in the array of pointers for each portion of a plurality of portions of the sparse array; and for each portion of the plurality of portions of the sparse array, |
A61K,C07J | 9,637,514 | 2017-05-02 | 1. A compound having the structure of Formula (I): wherein: R R R R R |
G06F | 9,633,063 | 2017-04-25 | 1. A method comprising: obtaining, by a processing device, redaction data identifying content to be redacted in a document and non-redaction data identifying content not to be redacted in the document; determining, by the processing device, that (i) a phrase from the document is included in one of the redaction data and the non-redaction data and (ii) that a word from the phrase is included in another of the redaction data and the non-redaction data; and producing, by the processing device, a redacted version of the document by applying a conflict resolution rule with respect to the phrase, wherein the conflict resolution rule comprises applying the one of the redaction data and the non-redaction data that includes the phrase and ignoring the other of the redaction data and the non-redaction data with respect to the word in the phrase. |
G06T,H04N | 9,654,706 | 2017-05-16 | 1. A method for reducing blurs of TDI-CCD camera images, in which the target surface that supports the TDI-CCD camera is set to be n columns and m rows, wherein the method for reducing blurs includes the following steps: S1. establish a coordinate system of the image: the direction of the number of pixels on the TDI-CCD camera area array, which is the direction of columns, is the Y axis, while the direction of the grades of the pixels on the TDI-CCD camera area, which is the direction of rows, is the X axis, the upper left corner of the image is the starting point of the coordinate system, wherein the coordinate for the first row and first column is (0,0); S2. read the area array images of the TDI-CCD camera outputted from each integration and carry out numbering of the images: the images are sequentially numbered as G S3. carry out decomposition on the area array images: decompose each image read in S2 by rows, each area array image outputted from the integration grades is decomposed into m rows, each row having n pixels, each row forms a one-dimensional digital signal after decomposition, the signal length being n, the first N pixels are extracted from each one-dimensional digital signal, respectively forming one-dimensional digital signal series that is recorded as f(t), wherein 0≦t≦m, 0≦N≦n; S4. according to the one-dimensional digital signal series of S3, construct similarity matching rules for two one-dimensional signal series, including: wherein w r is the number of iterations, A and B are constants; wherein, h represents every point that matches i; S5. Conduct offset calculation according to the neighborhood matching calculation results of S4, obtain the tie points in the images, including: S6. conduct spatial geometric correction on the images according to x S7. repeat step S3 to step S6 on subsequent images relative to the benchmark image G S8. superimpose the one-dimensional signal series having the same instant field of view in the corrected images in the coordinate system to become the first row of digital image of the images with the oscillation effects removed, repeat step S3 to step S8, arrange each row of the superimposed image obtained with the reduced oscillation effects according to spatial and chronological order to form digital images with the oscillation effects reduced. |
F42C | 9,638,503 | 2017-05-02 | 1. A grenade fuze, comprising: a fuze body; a striker lever rotatably mounted to the fuze body; a rotor assembly rotatably mounted to the fuze body; a spring that torsionally biases the rotor assembly; a pull ring having a pull pin that is inserted through the striker lever to restrain rotation of the striker lever and the rotor assembly; a trigger pin having a longitudinal axis and inserted through the striker lever to restrain rotation of the striker lever, one end of the trigger pin including an undercut portion; a slide bar disposed in the fuze body and having a keyhole opening at one end for selectively engaging the undercut portion of the trigger pin; a trigger having one end connected to the slide bar and another end rotatably fixed to the fuze body; and a second spring that biases the trigger away from the fuze body. |
H01L,Y10T | 9,583,730 | 2017-02-28 | 1. A display device, comprising: a substrate including a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area; a first insulating layer formed in the non-display area; a first metal layer formed over the first insulating layer; a second insulating layer formed over the first metal layer, wherein a plurality of openings are formed in each of i) the first and second insulating layers and ii) the first metal layer; and a sealing member formed over the second insulating layer, wherein the sealing member comprises a plurality of coupling portions filling the openings, wherein a groove is formed in a side wall of each of openings, and wherein each of the first and second insulating layers protrudes farther towards the center of each of the openings than the first metal layer. |
A23N,B65B,B65G,Y10T | 9,598,246 | 2017-03-21 | 1. A method for distributing food product, the method comprising: pumping food product and liquid through an inlet of a food distribution system; delivering the food product and liquid through at least one opening in an outlet of the internal passageway and onto a plurality of food product directing member, wherein the velocity of the food product is reduced between the inlet and the outlet; and separating at least a portion of the liquid from the food product as the food product moves across the at least one food product directing member. |
G06K,G06T,H04N | 9,626,745 | 2017-04-18 | 1. A multi-band image fusion method, comprising: receiving three or more images, wherein each image includes a plurality of channel types, and wherein each image has at least one channel of each of the plurality of channel types; selecting one of the three or more images to serve as a reference image, wherein each of the other images not selected as the reference image is selected to serve as an input image; registering each of the input images to the reference image; applying multi-band noise reduction to the reference image to generate a filtered pyramidal representation of each of the reference image's channels, wherein the pyramidal representation of each of the reference image's channels comprises a plurality of levels; applying multi-band noise reduction to each input image to generate a filtered pyramidal representation of each channel of each input image, wherein the pyramidal representation of each channel of each input image comprises a plurality of levels; fusing, on a level-by-level basis, each of the reference image's filtered pyramidal representations with a corresponding filtered pyramidal representation of each input image to generate a fused image channel for each channel of the reference image; and saving the fused image channels to a memory. |
G01R | 9,599,643 | 2017-03-21 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a comparator to compare a first signal to a threshold to generate a second signal indicative of the comparison; an output circuit to receive the second signal and generate at least one third signal indicative of whether a magnitude of the first signal is within predetermined boundaries; and a controller to control the threshold for the comparator based at least in part on whether the at least one third signal indicates that the first signal is within a region defined by the predetermined boundaries. |
A63F,G09B,G16H,Y02A | 9,601,026 | 2017-03-21 | 1. A training program comprising a combination of games configured to systematically drive neurological changes to treat major depressive disorder (MDD), the training program comprising: a plurality of computerized processing speed, attention, and executive functioning games configured to treat different cognitive impairments associated with MDD, the plurality of games including: a processing speed game that serves visual and/or auditory stimuli, wherein the processing speed game is effective in upregulating activities in cerebral attention networks that are impaired in a game participant diagnosed with MDD; an executive task game that is effective in improving executive functioning in a game participant diagnosed with MDD; and an inference renormalization game configured to: |
G01R,H01J | 9,653,269 | 2017-05-16 | 1. A method for operating a deposition chamber, the method comprising: generating a threshold value associated with a first chamber parameter according to historical chamber data obtained during processing of prior substrates in the deposition chamber; monitoring a RF match network for the first chamber parameter; receiving the first chamber parameter from the match network during processing of a first substrate according to a stage of a recipe; and determining at least one of a breakage exists in the first substrate or arcing has occurred in the deposition chamber while processing the first substrate in response to determining the first chamber parameter exceeds the threshold value. |
H01M,H02J,Y02E | 9,641,003 | 2017-05-02 | 1. A method of controlling a switch circuit which includes n (n is a natural number greater than or equal to 3) switching units configured to respectively connect n storage batteries, which are connected in series, with n coils, wherein the n storage batteries have respective potential differences between opposite ends thereof, the method comprising the step of: controlling the switching units corresponding to k (k is a natural number wherein 1<k<n) storage batteries, which are secondary batteries other than a secondary battery having the largest potential difference among the potential differences of the n storage batteries, to connect the k storage batteries with respective k coils. |
A01H,C12N | 9,585,325 | 2017-03-07 | 1. A seed of hybrid corn variety CH160973, produced by crossing a first plant of variety CV606894 with a second plant of variety CV436306, wherein representative seed of said varieties CV606894 and CV436306 have been deposited under ATCC Accession numbers PTA-12244 and PTA-121491, respectively. |
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