50th week of 2021 patent applcation highlights part 51 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20210391013 | MEMORY WITH IMPROVED CROSS TEMPERATURE RELIABILITY AND READ PERFORMANCE - A memory device comprises a memory array including memory cells, a temperature sensing circuit, and a memory control unit operatively coupled to the memory array. The memory control unit includes a processor. The processor is configured to receive temperature information from the temperature sensing circuit, initiate programming of the memory cells with data using a first threshold voltage distribution when the temperature information indicates an operating temperature is in a first temperature range, and initiate programming of the memory cells with data using a second threshold voltage distribution when the temperature information indicates the operating temperature is in a second temperature range. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391014 | MEMORY DEVICE AND PROGRAMMING METHOD THEREOF - A method for programming a memory device including a first plane and a second plane is provided. The method includes simultaneously initiating programming of the first plane and the second plane, and in response to the first plane being successfully programmed and the second plane not being successfully programmed, suspending the programming of the first plane, and keeping the programming of the second plane. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391015 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING HIGH VOLTAGE SWITCHING CIRCUIT, AND OPERATION METHOD OF THE NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE - A memory device includes a memory cell array, a voltage switching circuit configured to switch a plurality of voltages provided to the memory cell array in response to a switching control signal, a discharge circuit configured to discharge the voltage switching circuit in response to a discharge signal, and a control circuit configured to generate the switching control signal based on a command and a high voltage enable signal received from outside of the memory device. The voltage switching circuit includes a high voltage switching circuit, and a low voltage switching circuit. The control circuit is configured to generate the discharge signal based on the command and an activated high voltage enable signal responsive to detecting external abortion while performing an operation corresponding to the command from among a program operation and an erase operation. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391016 | MODIFIED SEEDING SCHEME DURING A PROGRAM OPERATION IN A MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM - A processing device in a memory system initiates a program operation on the memory device, the program operation comprising a seeding phase. The processing device further causes a seeding voltage to be applied to a string of memory cells in a data block of the memory device during the seeding phase of the program operation and causes a positive voltage to be applied to a first plurality of word lines of the data block during the seeding phase. Each of the first plurality of word lines is coupled to a corresponding memory cell of a first plurality of memory cells in the string, the first plurality of word lines comprising a selected word line associated with the program operation. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391017 | MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A memory device includes: a first string including a plurality of first memory cells, and a first select transistor connected between a first conductive line and the plurality of first memory cells; a second string including a plurality of second memory cells, and a second select transistor connected between the first conductive line and the plurality of second memory cells; a peripheral circuit configured to perform an erase operation of the first and second strings; and control logic. The control logic is configured to control the peripheral circuit to, during the erase operation, apply a first erase voltage to the first conductive line, float a first select line connected to the first select transistor after the first erase voltage is applied, and float a second select line connected to the second select transistor after the first select line is floated. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391018 | ONE TIME PROGRAMMABLE MEMORY - A memory device is provided. The memory device includes a first transistor and a second transistor connected in series with the first transistor. The second transistor is programmable between a first state and a second state. A bit line connected to the second transistor. A sense amplifier connected to the bit line. The sense amplifier is operative to sense data from the bit line. A feedback circuit connected to the sense amplifier, wherein the feedback circuit is operative to control a bit line current of the bit-line. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391019 | STORAGE DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - A storage device having an improved operation speed includes memory blocks and a sudden power-off manger. The memory blocks connected to word lines as part of a super block. The sudden power-off manager in communication with the memory blocks and configured to, in response to a sudden power off, 1) select reference word lines among the word lines to group the word lines into word line zones defined using the reference word lines, 2) perform read operations on pages connected to the reference word lines to determine states of the pages connected to the reference word lines, 3) select a first erase page search zone among the word line zones based on results of the read operations, and 4) determine a first erase page located at a boundary between a program page and an erase page in the first erase page search zone. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391020 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY APPARATUS AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF, AND SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY SYSTEM - A semiconductor memory device may include a caching latch circuit and a sensing latch circuit. The caching latch circuit may store setup data. The sensing latch circuit may store sensing data. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391021 | BIAS CONTROL FOR MEMORY CELLS WITH MULTIPLE GATE ELECTRODES - Disclosed herein are related to a memory device including a memory cell and a bias supply circuit providing a bias voltage to the memory cell. In one aspect, the bias supply circuit includes a bias memory cell coupled to the memory cell, where the bias memory cell and the memory cell may be of a same semiconductor conductivity type. The memory cell may include at least two gate electrodes, and the bias memory cell may include at least two gate electrodes. In one configuration, the bias memory cell includes a drain electrode coupled to one of the at least two gate electrodes of the bias memory cell. In this configuration, the bias voltage provided to the memory cell can be controlled by regulating or controlling current provided to the drain electrode of the bias memory cell. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391022 | POWER CONTROL METHOD FOR A MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE AND A MEMORY STORAGE SYSTEM - A power control method for a memory storage device and a memory storage system are provided. The method includes configuring a power controller in a host system, controlling, by the power controller, a power gate disposed between the host system and the memory storage device, and controlling a power supply of the memory storage device from the host system by the power gate, wherein the power gate is not controlled by a Basic Input Output System (BIOS) controller of the host system. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391023 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE - A non-volatile memory device includes a memory cell region including a first metal pad and a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells, and a peripheral circuit region including a second metal pad and an output driver to output a data signal, and vertically connected to the memory cell region by the first metal pad and the second metal pad. The output driver includes a pull-up driver and a pull-down driver. The pull-up driver includes a first pull-up driver having a plurality of P-type transistors and a second pull-up driver having a plurality of N-type transistors. The pull-down driver includes a plurality of N-type transistors. One or more power supply voltages having different voltage levels are selectively applied to the pull-up driver. A first power supply voltage is applied to the first pull-up driver, and a second power supply voltage is applied to the second pull-up driver. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391024 | SHORT PROGRAM VERIFY RECOVERY WITH REDUCED PROGRAMMING DISTURBANCE IN A MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM - Control logic in a memory device initiates a program operation on the memory device, the program operation comprising a program phase, a program recovery phase, a program verify phase, and a program verify recovery phase. The control logic further causes a negative voltage signal to be applied to a first plurality of word lines of a data bock of the memory device during the program verify recovery phase of the program operation, wherein each of the first plurality of word lines is coupled to a corresponding memory cell of a first plurality of memory cells in a string of memory cells in the data block, the first plurality of word lines comprising a selected word line associated with the program operation and one or more data word lines adjacent to the selected word line. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391025 | ENHANCED MULTISTATE VERIFY TECHNIQUES IN A MEMORY DEVICE - A method comprises determining a verify voltage for a next iteration of a verify operation to be performed on memory cells a first set of memory cells of a selected word line, and determining data states for a second set of memory cells of at least one neighboring word line. The method further comprises determining, based on the data states, a verify voltage configuration that includes bit line voltage biases or sense times, and performing the next iteration of the verify operation on the selected word line by using the verify voltage configuration to iteratively verify whether respective memory cells, of the second set of memory cells, have threshold voltages above the verify voltage, wherein determining the data states, determining the verify voltage configuration, and performing the next iteration are to be repeated until a program stop condition is satisfied. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391026 | MEMORY DEVICE AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - The present disclosure relates to a memory device may include a plurality of memory cells coupled to a selected word line and to be programmed to one of first to n-th program states distinguished from each other based on threshold voltages thereof, a sensing latch storing data sensed from a bit line coupled to one memory cell, a pre-latch storing pre-verify information and a plurality of data latches storing data to be stored in the one memory cell, wherein at least one data latch stores main verify information on the main verify voltage during verify operations for the first program state to a threshold program state among the first to n-th program states until the verify operation for the threshold program state passes, and wherein the pre-latch stores the main verify information on the n-th program state after the verify operation for the threshold program state passes. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391027 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR NAND FLASH MEMORY - Methods and apparatus for NAND flash memory are disclosed. In an embodiment, a NAND flash memory is provided that includes a plurality of bit lines connected to a plurality of bit line select gates, respectively, and a page buffer connected to the plurality of bit line select gates. The NAND flash memory also includes a plurality of load devices connected to the plurality of bit lines, respectively. The plurality of load devices are configured to provide load current during read operations. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391028 | IMPEDANCE CALIBRATION VIA A NUMBER OF CALIBRATION CIRCUITS, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS, DEVICES AND SYSTEMS - Semiconductor devices are disclosed. A semiconductor device may include a number of impedance calibration circuits and an interpolation circuit. The interpolation circuit may be configured to generate a calibration code based on two or more other calibration codes generated via one or more impedance calibration circuits of the number of impedance calibration circuits, another interpolation circuit, or any combination thereof. Methods and systems are also disclosed. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391029 | GROWN BAD BLOCK MANAGEMENT IN A MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM - A replacement block pool for a memory device is established. The replacement block pool comprises one or more valid blocks from a set of valid blocks in the memory device determined based on a constraint defining a minimum number of valid blocks for the memory device. A grown bad block is detected in the memory device. The grown bad block is replaced with a replacement block from the replacement block pool in response to detecting the grown bad block. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391030 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING DEAMIDATION AND IMMUNOGENICITY OF POLYPEPTIDES - Characteristics of proteins, peptides, and/or peptoids can be determined via two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy and/or two-dimensional co-distribution spectroscopies. Spectral data of the proteins, peptides, and/or peptoids can be obtained with respect to an applied stress, such as thermal stress. Two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy can be used to generate two-dimensional synchronous and asynchronous plots. The asynchronous plot provides enhanced resolution and the sequential order of molecular events that occur as a function of the applied stress. Peaks may be identified in the asynchronous plot, and correlation of peaks that exhibit out-of-phase intensity changes can be used to determine the existence and extent of deamidation events. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391031 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF TARGETING EPITOPES FOR NEOANTIGEN-BASED IMMUNOTHERAPY - A method of ranking epitopes derived from neoantigens as targets for personalized immunotherapy includes collecting candidate epitopes based on patient data of a cancer patient. A set of scores are calculated for each of the candidate epitopes, each of the scores in a respective one of the sets for a respective one of the candidate epitopes representing an independent measure of a likelihood of the respective one of candidate epitopes to elicit an immune response in the cancer patient. The scores in each of the sets of scores are combined into a single score for each of the candidate epitopes. The single scores for the candidate epitopes in each case reflect an overall likelihood of eliciting the immune response in the patient. The candidate epitopes are ranked using the single scores for the immunotherapy. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391032 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BINDING AFFINITY PREDICTION AND METHOD OF GENERATING A CANDIDATE PROTEIN-BINDING PEPTIDE - In a first aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a computer-implemented method of predicting a binding affinity of a query binder molecule to a query target molecule, the query binder molecule having a first amino acid sequence and the query target molecule having a second amino acid sequence, the method comprising: computing, with the at least one processor, the binding affinity for the query binder molecule to the query target molecule as a weighted combination of reference binding values of reference binder-target subsequence pairs, wherein weights of the weighted combination are based on similarity scores. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391033 | Smart qPCR - Embodiments of the invention are disclosed that implement deep learning methods using artificial neural networks to provide improved automated predictions regarding whether a particular sample comprises a target molecule. In some embodiments, a convolutional neural network is used. In some embodiments, an artificial neural network is trained using a class-weighted error determination. These and other embodiments are disclosed herein. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391034 | Methods for Determining Transition Metal Compound Concentrations in Multicomponent Liquid Systems - Methods for simultaneously determining the concentrations of transition metal compounds in solutions containing two or more transition metal compounds are described. Polymerization reactor systems providing real-time monitoring and control of the concentrations of the transition metal components of a multicomponent catalyst system are disclosed, as well as methods for operating such polymerization reactor systems, and for improving methods of preparing the multicomponent catalyst system. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391035 | GLYCAN STRUCTURE ANALYZER AND GLYCAN STRUCTURE ANALYSIS PROGRAM - In a glycan structure analyzer according to one mode, a plurality of tabs for setting analysis conditions includes a dedicated tab for the setting of the conditions concerning a chemical modification specific to the linkage type of sialic acids, allowing a user to select major chemical modification agents. When one of those agents is selected, the mass change for each linkage type is automatically set. When using a chemical modification other than the preset ones, the user can input a numerical value of the amount of mass change for each linkage type. In an analysis, theoretical m/z values of a plurality of glycan structure candidates having different m/z values depending on the linkage type corresponding to one chemical modification are simultaneously compared with the m/z values of measured ion peaks. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391036 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING A MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION OF A BIOPOLYMER BLEND - Methods, systems etc., for predicting and/or consistently obtaining uniform biopolymer compositions by blending a plurality of input biopolymer compositions with different molecular weight distributions, the blending based on concentration data as a function of molecular weight for the plurality of input biopolymer compositions. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391037 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOLECULAR DYNAMICS ANALYSIS - Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for molecular dynamics analysis of condensed matter and its transformations, including liquids, solids, aerosols, surfaces, and nanoparticles. In accordance with one embodiment, a computer system determines a force associated with a plurality of particles in a system, where the determining of the force is based on a potential energy function that comprises a first term proportional to the total charge of the system, and where the total charge is an integer. The computer system determines, based on the force, the position and velocity of a particle at a particular point in time, and an intermolecular property of the system is estimated based on the position and velocity. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391038 | SPECIFICALLY-SHAPED CRYSTAL OF COMPOUND AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - The present invention provides a method for obtaining a specifically-shaped crystal (specifically, spherocrystal) of a compound with good reproducibility. This method for producing a specifically-shaped crystal (specifically spherocrystal) of a compound comprises: (1) a step for preparing a supersaturated solution of a compound having a degree of supersaturation equal to or higher than a critical degree of supersaturation; and (2) a step for precipitating a specifically-shaped crystal (specifically spherocrystal) of a compound from the supersaturated solution. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391039 | DATA ANALYTIC APPROACH TO PERSONALIZED QUESTIONNAIRE DEVELOPMENTS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a plurality of answers to a first set of questions. The actions include generating an adjacency matrix based on the question-answer pairs. The actions include determining a network graph that includes question nodes and edges. The actions include identifying one or more clusters of question nodes by applying a community detection algorithm on the network graph. The actions include determining, for each cluster, i) a cluster centrality and ii) a cluster magnitude. The actions include ranking the clusters based on the cluster centralities and the cluster magnitudes of the one or more clusters. The actions include selecting a second set of questions for the user. And, the actions include causing the questions from the second set of questions to be presented to the user. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391040 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING, ACCESSING AND MERGING PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION - A protected health information (PHI) service is provided which de-identifies medical study data (e.g., digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) study data) and allows medical providers to control PHI data, and uploads the de-identified data to a remote service system. The PHI service, or an associated service, hosted within an organization performing scans, maintains a database of personally identifiable information, and enables the user to access PHI without having to establish a connection to a virtual private network or WiFi network of the medical service provider. The system also increases the speed, efficiency and flexibility of the technology of medical imaging and analysis over computer networks by correlating unique identifiers in the PHI Service in order to accept DICOM study data over time, and track and retrieve what PHI data has changed regardless of the chronological order in which it was received. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391041 | Health Safety System, Service, and Method - A health safety method executed by a processor includes receiving, by the processor, from a medical facility, a certificate of vaccination for a particular disease for an individual, the vaccination conferring immunity to the individual for the disease; receiving by the processor an access request from a venue for the individual; and responding to the venue access request by providing a health safety certification including the certificate of vaccination for the individual and an effective date range of the certificate of vaccination. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391042 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A management system includes a test order acquisition unit that acquires a test order, a communication unit that receives a subject identifier, container information of a sample container used by a subject for storing a sample, and a container image which is an image of the sample container from a subject terminal through communication with the subject terminal, a determination unit that determines a success or failure of sample collection by using the container image, and a registration unit that registers the test order, the container information, and a determination result in the determination unit in association with each other by using the subject identifier. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391043 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING INCIDENT REPORTING ASSOCIATED WITH AN EQUINE SHOW - A method performed by an incident management system for managing or processing incident reporting for, e.g., a benefits program provided by an equine show organizer. The method involves, e.g., receiving, from a registrant user device, an incident report for an incident in which a horse or a rider associated with the registrant suffered an injury or death, generating and sending an information request message which includes a request for diagnosis or treatment information, and receiving and storing the diagnosis or treatment information. The method may further include sending, to the equine show organizer, information associated with the incident report, receiving a benefit payment decision indication from the show organizer, and generating and sending, based on the payment decision indication, a status notification message to a registrant associated with the incident report. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391044 | PATIENT INTERACTIVE HEALING ENVIRONMENT - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing an interactive healing environment to a patient are provided. Servers in a network may operate a set of modules to communicate with a client device of the patient. The set of modules may operate to enhance communication between the patient and the healthcare providers of patient in the healthcare facility. The modules may also interact with medical devices associated with the patient. The medical devices may be connected to a component, such as a bus, that receives data from the medical devices and determines where the data should be sent. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391045 | HEALTHCARE COVERAGE MATCHING AND VERIFICATION - Disclosed are systems, methods and devices for providing healthcare coverage matching and verification. In some aspects, a method includes receiving, from a frontend graphical user interface (GUI), a healthcare coverage application comprising client demographics that include at least two of the following: a last name, a first name, a birthdate, an identification number, an address and a request type associated with a client, using a parallel matching and verification architecture to determine, based on a first set of criteria, a matching database record from an eligibility database that corresponds to the healthcare coverage application, and communicate with a healthcare provider using electronic data interchange transactions, identify, based on a second set of criteria, a medical policy that corresponds to the matching database record, and verify the medical policy, and transmitting, to the frontend GUI, the medical policy to allow reception of the medical policy by the client. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391046 | A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEDICAL VISIT DOCUMENTATION AUTOMATION AND BILLING CODE SUGGESTION IN CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENTS - Various embodiments relate to a method and system for automatically generating a medical document during a medical visit in a controlled environment, the method including the steps of monitoring, by a network monitoring module, a network to capture use of medical equipment connected to the network, detecting, by an atomic action video recognition module, predefined atomic actions in the controlled environment, extracting, by a patient-medical provider conversation recognition module, clinical information from a conversation between a patient and a medical provider, matching, by a visit graph generation module, the use of medical equipment and the predefined atomic actions to an atomic actions and CPT codes database of known uses of medical equipment and predefined atomic actions, generating, by the visit graph generation module, an event graph based on the use of medical equipment, the predefined atomic actions and the extracted clinical information and translating, by a medical document generator, the event graph into a medical document. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391047 | DOCUMENT CREATION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A document creation apparatus includes a first unit that acquires health data indicating a user health condition, a second unit that acquires at least one of consciousness data indicating user health consciousness, environment data indicating an environment related to user health, or knowledge data indicating a knowledge level related to the user health, a determination unit that determines a type of the user health based on a position of a point corresponding to the data acquired by the first unit and the second unit in a space spanned by bases, the bases being a vector having the health data, and at least one vector of a vector having the consciousness data, a vector having the environment data, or a vector having the knowledge data, and a creation unit that creates document data for a document to be presented to the user according to the type. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391048 | CARE PLAN ASSIGNMENT BASED ON CLUSTERING - A method for assigning a care plan to a patient, the method including: clustering patients based upon input patient data; producing a care plan frequency distribution for each cluster based upon the care plans assigned to each patient in the cluster; and assigning, for each cluster, the most frequent care plan from the frequency distribution for each cluster to each patient in that cluster. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391049 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NONVOLATILE COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing device includes an acquisition unit that obtains smoking information from a flavor inhaler, etc., associated to a user terminal; a creation unit that creates output information for outputting a message on the basis of the smoking information, to the user terminal; and a transmission unit that sends the output information to the user terminal or a control device that controls the output of messages to the user terminal. As a result, the retention rate for users using the flavor inhaler can be increased. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391050 | CLOSED-LOOP DIABETES TREATMENT SYSTEM DETECTING MEAL OR MISSED BOLUS - A computer-implemented method of performing closed-loop insulin therapy comprises: receiving blood glucose values and bolus information regarding a person with diabetes, the blood glucose values and the bolus information relating to a period of time; determining, based on the blood glucose values, the bolus information, and a meal size propensity record regarding the person, an amount of insulin for the person; and causing, in response to the determination, the amount of insulin to be administered to the person. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391051 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an information processing apparatus including a control unit ( | 2021-12-16 |
20210391052 | DETECTING MEAL INGESTION OR MISSED BOLUS - A computer-implemented method of detecting a missed bolus comprises: receiving blood glucose values and bolus information regarding a person with diabetes, the blood glucose values and the bolus information relating to a period of time; classifying, based on the blood glucose values and the bolus information, each of multiple time periods within the period of time regarding whether the time period is associated with ingestion of a meal by the person; performing regression analysis on the classified multiple time periods to identify a first time period of the classified multiple time periods as corresponding to a beginning of the meal, wherein the bolus information indicates no bolus associated with the identified first time period; and associating, based on the regression analysis, a missed bolus event with the meal. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391053 | PROVIDING NUTRITIONAL NEEDS FOR TREATMENT OF DISEASE STATES - A method includes receiving, at a computing system, at least one health metric associated with a patient; receiving, at the computing system, information from a patient computing device corresponding to a meal box fulfillment method; categorizing the patient into a nutritional needs category based, at least in part, on the at least one health metric, the nutritional needs category being defined by nutritional criteria; determining a list of meals meeting the nutritional criteria of the nutritional needs category; providing the list of meals to the patient computing device; receiving, at the computing system, information from the patient computing device corresponding to selected meals from the list of meals; and based, at least in part, on receiving information corresponding to the selected meals, providing the information corresponding to the selected meals to a meal box fulfillment center computing device. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391054 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING GROCERY CART BASED ON HEALTH INFORMATION - A health cart management system may be configured to generate a health cart score based on items in a grocery cart. The system may receive item information including a quantity and a sharing parameter for an item in the cart. The system may receive profile information including medical conditions of a consumer of the items. The system may receive dietary reference intake information of nutrients, compute a daily consumption value for each item in the cart, and generate a nutrient score for each nutrient. The system may generate the nutrient score by adjusting the recommended intake value of the nutrient based on the consumer's medical conditions, and computing a daily nutrient consumption value for the nutrient based on the daily consumption quantity values for all items in the cart. The system may generate the health cart score by computing a weighted mean of the nutrient scores for all nutrients. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391055 | RELATIONSHIP-ANALYSIS SYSTEM THAT GENERATES A TRUST METRIC - The current document is directed to a relationship-analysis system. The currently disclosed relationship-analysis system collects objective and subjective observations of participants, and their relationship, in an interaction or transaction. The objective and subjective observations are combined to generate an observation data set that is processed by a computational relationship-analysis system. The analysis produces a variety of different types of results, including trust metrics, and stores the results in memory and/or mass-storage for control of downstream analysis, reporting, and actions. Trust metrics provide a basis for carrying out numerous types of downstream actions and for generating recommendations and evaluations by various types of relationship-evaluation and relationship-management systems that employ the relationship-analysis system. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391056 | HEALTH BIG DATA SERVICE METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON REMOTE FUNDUS SCREENING - Big data health service method and system based on remote fundus screening are provided. The method includes steps of: acquiring information to be analyzed sent by remote terminal agency; pre-interpreting information to be analyzed, and judging whether information to be analyzed is qualified; extracting characteristic data from information to be analyzed if it is qualified, and forming structured quantitative index; sorting and analyzing characteristic data and quantitative index according to knowledge calculation model to obtain analysis conclusion; and storing information to be analyzed, characteristic data, quantitative index, and analysis conclusion into pre-designed database. The above steps can produce quantitative index and characteristic data with uniform comparability for final fundus images such processed, no matter what type of fundus camera or which working mode is used, so that a whole big data service platform is established, and medical practitioners are facilitated greatly in disease diagnosis and the like. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391057 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEVICE QUERY/RETRIEVE CAPABILITY DISCOVERY - Systems and methods are provided for automatically generating a digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) conformance statement. In one example, a method includes determining a set of DICOM query/retrieve capabilities of a DICOM application implemented on a DICOM device by performing a list of queries to the DICOM application, and populating a DICOM conformance statement with the determined set of DICOM query/retrieve capabilities. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391058 | MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM FOR NAVIGATED ORTHOPEDIC SURGERIES - A surgical guidance system is disclosed for computer assisted navigation during surgery. The surgical guidance system is configured to obtain post-operative feedback data provided by distributed networked computers regarding surgical outcomes for a plurality of patients, and train a machine learning model based on the post-operative feedback data. The surgical guidance system is further configured to obtain pre-operative data from one of the distributed network computers characterizing a defined patient, and generate a surgical plan for the defined patient based on processing the pre-operative data through the machine learning model. The surgical plan is provided to a display device for review by a user. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391059 | METHOD FOR FILTERING NORMAL MEDICAL IMAGE, METHOD FOR INTERPRETING MEDICAL IMAGE, AND COMPUTING DEVICE IMPLEMENTING THE METHODS - A method of reading a medical image by a computing device operated by at least one processor is provided. The method includes obtaining an abnormality score of the input image using an abnormality prediction model, filtering the input image so as not to be subsequently analyzed when the abnormality score is less than or equal to a cut-off score based on the cut-off score which makes a specific reading sensitivity; and obtaining an analysis result of the input image using a classification model that distinguishes the input image into classification classes when the abnormality score is greater than the cut-off score. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391060 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, TRAINING DATA GENERATION METHOD, AND TRAINING DATA GENERATION APPARATUS - A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process includes identifying first filter processing applied to a first image that is training data used for machine learning; generating the first image from which characteristics of the identified first filter processing are removed; and generating, by applying second filter processing to the first image from which the characteristics are removed, a second image to be assigned a label identical to a label of the first image, the second image being used in the machine learning as the training data. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391061 | COMPARTMENTALIZED DYNAMIC ATLAS - A compartmentalized dynamic anatomic atlas is disclosed, comprising static atlas data comprising spatial element data and element representation data, wherein the spatial element data describes spatial properties of a spatial atlas element and wherein the element representation data describes representational properties assignable to the spatial atlas element, the atlas further comprising dynamic atlas data comprising information on a dynamic property which information is respectively linked to the spatial atlas element. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391062 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING LENGTH-OF-STAY WITH AI - Systems and methods are disclosed for an AI learning system to predict patient length of stay (LOS) in healthcare facilities. The AI learning systems uses historic data from a healthcare facility and demographic data local to the facility to develop a predictive model for LOS for a patient. The system uses the contemporaneous data from the healthcare facility related to patient treatment and healthcare resources to predict LOS continuously from patient admittance to discharge. Patients with predicted LOS greater than an insurance reimbursed maximum are flagged as at risk and blocking factors are identified. The system recommends proactive steps to resolve the blocking factors and reduce the LOS for at risk patients. The system self modifies the model to minimize the delta between predicted LOS and actual LOS. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391063 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC WORKLOAD BALANCING BASED ON PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS - A method for allocating resources comprising: (i) receiving information about a plurality of patients being monitored by a plurality of healthcare professionals; (ii) receiving information about a monitoring load for each of the plurality of healthcare professionals; (iii) classifying, by a trained monitoring liability classifier, each of the plurality of patients into one of a plurality of monitoring liability classes; (iv) determining a distribution of the plurality of patients for monitoring among the plurality of healthcare professionals based on both the received monitoring load for each of the plurality of healthcare professionals and the monitoring liability class for each of the plurality of patients, wherein the distribution optimizes the monitoring load for each of the plurality of healthcare professionals; and (v) redistributing the plurality of patients for monitoring among the plurality of healthcare professionals according to the determined distribution. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391064 | INTELLIGENT AUTONOMOUS PATIENT ROUTING FOR SCANS - The present invention relates to patient routing. In order to provide a more efficient patient flow for autonomous image acquisition, a method is provided for controlling a patient transfer apparatus within a healthcare facility. The method comprises the following steps: providing a routing information for transferring the patient transfer apparatus to a required location; controlling the patient transfer apparatus to move on a first guided path according to the provided routing information; detecting at least one of a vital sign and an abnormal movement of the patient during a transit of the patient transfer apparatus; evaluating a patient condition based on at least one of the detected vital sign and the detected abnormal movement of the patient; updating the routing information in response to the evaluated patient condition, if the evaluated patient condition meets a predefined criterion; and controlling the patient transfer apparatus to move on a second guided path according to the updated routing information during the transit of the patient transfer apparatus. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391065 | METHOD FOR SELECTING A WOUND PRODUCT FOR A PATIENT - The present disclosure generally relates to a computer implemented method for adaptively selecting at least one wound product for a patient, for example adapted to take into account a healing trajectory determined for a wound of the patient. The present disclosure also relates to a corresponding computer system and computer program product. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391066 | PROCEDURAL AND SURGICAL INFORMATION ALERT SYSTEM - The procedure and surgical information alert system | 2021-12-16 |
20210391067 | MANAGEMENT OF MEDICATION PREPARATION WITH FORMULARY MANAGEMENT - A pharmacy workflow management application with improved functionality is disclosed. The improved functionality may include enhancements to a user interface for maintenance of a formulary at a local system executing the pharmacy workflow management application. The local system may include user interface elements provided at least partially based on a user profile. Additional enhancements to a user interface associated with a user profile may be provided for dose order record maintenance using the pharmacy workflow management application. Furthermore, enhancements to triggered scan events for updating a status of a dose order, situation board enhancements related to formatting of the situation board in relation to a user profile, encryption of communication by the pharmacy workflow application, and improved methods of installing updates to terminals of the pharmacy workflow management application are also disclosed. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391068 | OPERATING A MEDICAL DEVICE DURING STARTUP AND SHUTDOWN - A medical device comprises a software (SW) system for execution by processor(s). The SW system defines a plurality of subsystems, including a primary subsystem and one or more secondary subsystems, and each subsystem comprises SW applications involved in the operation of the medical device during a medical procedure. A deterministic and distributed startup of the SW system is enabled by separating the startup procedure into a preparation for startup on a subsystem level, by use of two different notifications, and a preparation for startup on a system level, in which the primary subsystem coordinates startup of the subsystems. The method comprises: initiating (401) each SW application; providing (402), by each SW application in the respective secondary subsystem when ready for startup, an “application ready” notification; providing (403), by the respective secondary subsystem when all of its SW applications have provided the “application ready” notification, a “subsystem ready” notification; and coordinating (405), by the primary subsystem upon receiving the “subsystem ready” notification, startup of the subsystems. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391069 | SECURE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENABLED WEARABLE MEDICAL SENSOR PLATFORMS - A secure artificial intelligence (AI) enabled wearable medical sensor platform is used for adaptive operation according to features and techniques described herein. Operational parameters are modified based on data inputs thereto that provide feedback to the AI systems of the wearable sensor platform. The described technology can facilitate adaptive optimizations provided by AI machine learning algorithms in a manner that can beneficially assist in the monitoring and treatment of a patient. For example, the system described herein may be used for the continuous monitoring of the physiological parameters and health of a patient's vascular access point (for example, the fistula) and may provide, among other things, early warnings of possible infection at the vascular access location. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391070 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COORDINATED MOTION AMONG HETEROGENEOUS DEVICES USING A MOVEMENT TOKEN - A system and method of coordinated motion among heterogeneous devices includes a medical device with one or more movable elements and one or more processors. Any of the processors uses a shared interface to access services. The medical device requests a movement token from a token service through the shared interface, receive the movement token from the token service, exchange configuration data, kinematic data, or planned motion data through the shared interface, plan a first motion for a first movable element of the movable elements based on the movement token and the configuration data, the kinematic data, or the planned motion data, and execute the first motion. In some embodiments, the movement token is selected from a group consisting of an exclusive-motion token, a master follow-me token, a slave follow-me token, a master collision-avoidance token, a slave collision-avoidance token, and a passive collision-avoidance token. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391071 | Workflow Systems And Methods For Enhancing Collaboration Between Participants In A Surgical Procedure - A surgical workflow system for assisting a surgical procedure comprises a workflow controller. The workflow controller is configured to access a pre-scripted workflow having a plurality of workflow steps associated with the surgical procedure, obtain camera video data of the surgical procedure, monitor the surgical procedure from the camera video data, predict occurrence of an anticipated deviation from one or more of the workflow steps of the pre-scripted workflow, generate event information to address the predicted occurrence of the anticipated deviation, and automatically respond to the predicted occurrence of the anticipated deviation by being configured to transmit the event information to a participant of the surgical procedure through an information conveyor device. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391072 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTACT TRACING USING A SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT KIT (SDK) INTEGRATED INTO CLIENT DEVICES - The invention generally relates to a method and system for utilizing an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based technology for tracking human mobility patterns and contact points, via a Software Development Kit (SDK) integrated into client device applications. The SDK performs contact tracing by recording past and current signal data/measurements of Wi-Fi access points encountered by a client device and stores these measurements in a local memory of the client device. The SDK further analyses the recorded past and current signal data/measurements of the Wi-Fi access points using an AI module to derive mobility patterns of user of the client device. The AI module of the SDK then identifies other client devices that the client device may have encountered based on analyzing the mobility patterns of the user of the client device and the recorded past and current signal data/measurements and via performing Wi-Fi network sniffing. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391073 | A SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROCESS WAVEFORM DATA IN MEDICAL DEVICES - Various embodiments relate to a programmable interface configured to connect a medical device to a main platform, including: a medical device interface configured to connect to a medical device, receive waveform data from the medical device, and to send medical device commands to the medical device; a main platform interface configured to connect to a main platform, receive platform interface commands from the main platform, and transmit waveform data from the medical device to the main platform based upon the platform interface commands; a buffer memory configured to store waveform data generated by the medical device; and a waveform processing and control unit configured to process the waveform data generated by the medical device stored in the buffer memory according to the platform interface commands. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391074 | SENIOR LIVING ENGAGEMENT AND CARE SUPPORT PLATFORMS - Provided herein is an engagement and care support platform (“ECSP”) computer system including at least one processor in communication with at least one memory device for facilitating senior user engagement. The processor is programmed to: (i) register a user through an application, (ii) register a caregiver associated with the user through the application, (iii) generate a senior profile based upon user personal and scheduling data, (iv) build a daily interactive user interface that reflects the senior profile, (v) display the daily interactive user interface at a first client device associated with the user, (vi) cause the first client device to initiate a daily interaction prompt to the user, (vii) determine whether any user interaction was received in response to the daily interaction prompt, and (viii) transmit a daily update message to a second client device associated with the caregiver, including an indication of whether any user interaction was received. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391075 | Medical Literature Recommender Based on Patient Health Information and User Feedback - A system recommends to a healthcare professional (HCP) ( | 2021-12-16 |
20210391076 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING FOR PATHOLOGICAL IMAGE - A system for searching for a pathological image includes: an autoencoder having an encoder for receiving an original pathological image and extracting a feature of the original pathological image, and a decoder for receiving the feature of the original pathological image extracted by the encoder and generating a reconstructed pathological image corresponding to the original pathological image; a diagnostic neural network for receiving the reconstructed pathological image generated by the autoencoder that has received the original pathological image, and outputting a diagnosis result of a predetermined disease; and a training module for training the autoencoder and the diagnostic neural network by inputting a plurality of training pathological images, each labeled with a diagnosis result, into the autoencoder. The autoencoder is trained by reflecting the diagnosis result of the reconstructed pathological image output from the diagnostic neural network. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391077 | MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - To make it possible to more suitably suppress increasing medical expenses. There is provided a medical information processing system including: an acquisition section ( | 2021-12-16 |
20210391078 | DEEP LEARNING MODEL LEARNING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CANCER REGION - A deep learning model learning device is proposed, including: a parametric MRI image input part inputting an image corresponding to a diagnosis region, inputting at least one parametric MRI image constructed on the basis of parameters different from each other, and constructing and providing an MRI moving image by using the at least one parametric MRI image; a cancer detection model learning part receiving an input of the at least one parametric MRI image and the MRI moving image corresponding to the diagnosis region, and learning a deep learning model on the basis of information labeling the cancer region; a labeling reference information providing part providing at least one reference information contributing to the labeling of the cancer region; and a labeling processing part checking the cancer region input on the basis of the at least one reference information and processing the labeling of the checked cancer region. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391079 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING A PATIENT - Methods and apparatus for monitoring a patient are provided. In one arrangement, a multi- dimensional patient data set is received at each of a plurality of different reference times. Each dimension of the patient data set stores a value representing a different type of information about the patient. A plurality of predictions of a health trajectory of the patient are generated. Each prediction is generated using a trained machine learning model receiving as input a different one of the patient data sets. The trained machine learning model may be dimensionally adaptive, such that predictions of the patient trajectories are provided using patient data sets having different respective dimensionalities for at least a sub-set of the reference times. The trained machine learning model may use machine learned predictions of accuracy to select trained machine learning units from an ensemble of trained machine learning units. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391080 | Entity Semantic Relation Classification - The examples of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for classifying an entity semantic relation, a model training method and apparatus, an electronic device, and relate to the field of text identification technology. A first entity and a second entity in a corpus is determined and obtained. According to a first position distance between each word in the corpus and the first entity and a second position distance between each word in the corpus and the second entity, a feature vector corresponding to each word is obtained. Then, feature vectors corresponding to all words in the corpus are combined to obtain a model input vector corresponding to the corpus. Then an entity semantic relation type corresponding to the corpus is obtained by using the model input vector corresponding to the corpus an input of the entity semantic relation classification model. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391081 | PREDICTIVE GUIDANCE SYSTEMS FOR PERSONALIZED HEALTH AND SELF-CARE, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - Systems and methods for biomonitoring and personalized healthcare are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a biomonitoring and healthcare guidance system is configured to generate personalized self-care recommendations (e.g., recommendations relating to sleep, exercise, diet, etc.) to guide a. patient in effectively managing and/or improving a chronic condition (e.g., diabetes, pre-diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, etc.). The system can continuously or periodically update and/or adapt the self-care recommendations (e.g., based on data from the particular patient as well as data from a plurality of other patients). The system can guide individuals toward self-care changes that are likely to improve their chronic health conditions, support them in making those changes, and adapt and/or update continuously over time. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391082 | DETECTING ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AND ATRIAL FIBRILLATION TERMINATION - A method is provided. The method is implemented by a detection engine embodied in processor executable code stored on a memory and executed by at least one processor. The method includes modeling a vector velocity field that measures and quantifies a velocity of electrocardiogram data signals that pass through a local activation time. The method further includes determining codes for each point in plane to provide a color code vector field image; detecting focal and rotor indications by using kernels to scan the color coded vector field image; and classifying the focal and rotor indications into perpetuators. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391083 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING HEALTH THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS TO A USER - A method and system for digitally providing healthcare to a patient, the method including receiving a log of use dataset associated with patient digital communication behavior at a mobile computing device, wherein the first log of use dataset corresponds to a time period; receiving a supplementary dataset corresponding to the time period; receiving a survey response dataset from the patient, the survey response dataset corresponding to the time period; receiving a care provider dataset in association with the time period; selecting a therapeutic intervention from a set of therapeutic interventions, based on processing with at least one of the first log of use dataset, the supplementary dataset, the survey response dataset, and the care provider dataset; generating a dynamic care plan modifiable over a time period; promoting the therapeutic intervention according to the dynamic care plan. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391084 | CLINICAL SMART WATCH FOR ADDRESSING ADVERSE CARDIAC EVENTS - A clinical smart watch, comprises a housing; a band coupled to the housing, at least one of the housing or the band including one or more sensors that measure health-related events of a wearer of the smart watch; a cardiac event risk assessment processor in the housing that receives and processes sensor signals corresponding to the health-related events; and a user interface that includes an the sensor signals, a second risk score generated from a second combination of the user input data and the sensor signals, and a third risk score generated from a third combination of the user input data and the sensor signals. input for providing user input data to the cardiac event risk assessment processor. The cardiac event risk assessment processor executes a prediction model including a first risk score generated from a first combination of the user input data and | 2021-12-16 |
20210391085 | MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING ICU PREDICTIONS - A computing device may receive a first one or more features associated with a patient. The computing device may determine, based on the first one or more features, a second one or more features associated with the patient. The determining the second one or more features associated with the patient may comprise feature engineering to generate features that improve the accuracy of one or more machine learning models. For example, the second one or more features may be determined based on a combination of at least a subset of the first one or more features. The computing device may generate, based on the one or more machine learning models, a prediction associated with the patient, which may comprise a mortality rate for the patient in the intensive care unit (ICU) or a length of stay in the ICU for the patient. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391086 | Latent Factor Structuring of Psychopathology - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining psychological data, generating a psychopathological analysis data structure (PADS), applying a latent factor analysis algorithm to the PADS to obtain a psychopathological latent factor space (PLFS), generating a latent factor graph, and outputting the latent factor graph. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391087 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXTRACTING DATES ASSOCIATED WITH A PATIENT CONDITION - A model-assisted system for extracting patient information. A processor may be programmed to access a database storing one or more medical records associated with a patient and determine, using a first machine learning model and based on unstructured information included in the one or more medical records, whether the patient is associated with a condition. The processor may further be programmed to identify a date associated with the patient and determine, using a second machine learning model and based. on the unstructured information, whether the patient is associated with the condition relative to the date. The processor may generate an output indicating whether the patient is associated with the condition and whether the patient is associated with the condition relative to the date. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391088 | System and Method for Detecting Presence of Illness Symptoms - A system and method for collecting symptomatic data to screen for a targeted disease. Testing hardware incorporates a plurality of testing units with corresponding indicators that can be altered to indicate whether a symptom is present or not. The resulting data from the testing use can then be analyzed to determine the likelihood of presence of a disease. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391089 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REDUCING A RISK OF SPREAD OF AN ILLNESS IN A BUILDING - Methods and systems for reducing a risk of spread of an illness in a building. In one example, a method for monitoring a risk of spread of an illness in a building may comprise capturing video of a surveilled area in the building, identifying individuals in the captured video and performing behavior analytics on the individuals identified in the captured video. The behavior analytics may include determining a risky behavior metric that identifies a measure of risky behavior of the individuals identified in the captured video that is based at least in part on a distance between two of the individuals identified in the captured video and a time that the distance between the two of the individuals is below a predetermined distance threshold. An alert may be issued when the risky behavior metric exceeds a risk threshold. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391090 | Classification of Immuno-Oncology Impact - An embodiment may involve reading conditions for respectively determining research impacts of cancer-related journal publications, congress activities, guideline activities, and trial activities; reading data regarding the cancer-related journal publications, the congress activities, the guideline activities, and the trial activities of each of a plurality of individuals; applying the conditions to the data on a per-individual basis to determine partial grades and overall grades for each of the plurality of individuals, wherein applying the conditions to the data of a particular individual involves: determining individual partial grades respectively for the cancer-related journal publications, the congress activities, the guideline activities, and the trial activities of the particular individual, and determining an individual overall grade for the particular individual based on a sum of the individual partial grades; and storing the overall grades and the partial grades for each of the plurality of individuals. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391091 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DESCRIBING AND RECOMMENDING OPTIMAL TREATMENT PLANS IN ADAPTIVE TELEMEDICAL OR OTHER CONTEXTS - A method is disclosed for providing, by an artificial intelligence engine, an optimal treatment plan to use with a treatment apparatus. The method includes receiving, from a data source, clinical information pertaining to results of using the treatment apparatus to perform particular treatment plans for people having certain characteristics. The clinical information has a first data format. The method also includes translating a portion of the clinical information from the first data format to a medical description language used by the artificial intelligence engine, determining, based on the portion of the clinical information described by the medical description language and a plurality of characteristics pertaining to a patient, the optimal treatment plan for the patient to follow using the treatment apparatus to achieve a desired result, and providing the optimal treatment plan to be presented on a computing device of a medical professional. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391092 | FUEL DESIGN AND SHIELDING DESIGN FOR RADIOISOTOPE THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS - Provided is a fuel design configured to have a thickness that is equal to or less than a mean-free path of electrons emitted by a radioactive energy source to prevent electrons produced thereby from being stopped within the fuel design and thus decreasing the intensity of bremsstrahlung radiation generated within the fuel design. Additionally provided is a two-phase shielding system including a first shield formed of a first material having a thickness exceeding a mean-free path of an electron emitted from a radioactive source material so as to prevent the electron from passing through the first shield, and a second shield formed of a second material configured to prevent bremsstrahlung radiation generated by the electron from passing through the second shield. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391093 | EQUIPMENT FOR PRODUCING NUCLEAR FUEL POWDER - A nuclear fuel powder production plant comprises a conversion installation ( | 2021-12-16 |
20210391094 | Utilizing Multiple Proton Injection Ports in Accelerator Driven Subcritical Reactor for Direct Adopting Spent Fuels from Light Water Reactors - The new features of an accelerator driven subcritical reactor disclosed by this invention include the multiple intake ports connected to the reactor vessel for delivering protons from one or more accelerators to accommodate the full length LWR spent fuels for furnishing the desirable neutron distribution in a subcritical core to incinerate nuclear wastes. This is based on the notion of adopting the spent fuels in intact form to feed directly to the newly designed subcritical core. External modulators in the proton intake ports have the ability of splitting the fluxes and adjusting their energy from one or more accelerators to form multiple proton streams arriving at different axial locations in the spallation target for creating multiple neutron sources. The new design could combine the cycles of reprocessing spent fuels, manufacturing fuels for reuse, and incinerating minor actinides into one single cycle. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391095 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR MINIMIZING X-RAY SCATTERING ARTIFACTS - Disclosed are methods for minimizing x-ray scattering artifacts, the method comprising: contacting an object with an x-ray scattering mitigation material. The contacting can comprise coating the x-ray scattering material on the object, including spraying a solution of suspension of an x-ray scattering mitigation material onto the object or dry powder coating the object with a x-ray scattering mitigation material. Alternatively, the contacting can comprise immersing the object in a fluid comprising the x-ray scattering material. The fluid can be a gas, a liquid, or a gel. The disclosed x-ray scattering mitigation material can be optimized for mitigating Compton radiation scattering or for mitigating Rayleigh radiation scattering. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391096 | Electrically Insulated Electric Conductor Strip, In Particular For Electric Motors And Transformers - An electrically insulated electric conductor strip ( | 2021-12-16 |
20210391097 | LOW-PROFILE CABLE ARMOR - Disclosed is an armored cable assembly may include a plurality of conductors and a metal sheath disposed over the plurality of conductors. The metal sheath may have a plurality of revolutions extending helically along a lengthwise axis, each of the plurality of revolutions including a first section having a curved profile, a second section extending from the first section, the second section having a planar profile, and a third section extending from the second section. The third section may include a free end angled towards an interior cavity of the metal sheath, the free end extending past a plane defined by a bottom most point of the first section of an adjacent revolution, the plane extending perpendicular to the second section. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391098 | CuNiSi alloy cable sheathing - A water blocking layer/sheathing is provided for subsea power cables made from a CuNiSi-alloy. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391099 | AUTOMATED ASSEMBLY SENSOR CABLE - An automated assembly sensor cable has a generally wide and flat elongated body and a registration feature generally traversing the length of the body so as to identify the relative locations of conductors within the body. This cable configuration facilitates the automated attachment of the cable to an optical sensor circuit and corresponding connector. In various embodiments, the automated assembly sensor cable has a conductor set of insulated wires, a conductive inner jacket generally surrounding the conductor set, an outer jacket generally surrounding the inner jacket and a registration feature disposed along the surface of the outer jacket and a conductive drain line is embedded within the inner jacket. A strength member may be embedded within the inner jacket. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391100 | Self-Assembling Antenna Networks and Antenna Feed Circuits for Same - The disclosed embodiments provide a plurality of antennas that can be interconnected with each other and with a central receiver in a self-assembling manner, such that antennas can be added, removed, and replaced with minimal configuration. Each antenna comprises an antenna feed circuit, an input connector, and an output connector. Each of the antennas may be configured to assign a first set of signal channels at its output connector to a second set of signal channels at its input connector (or vice versa) according to a predetermined or dynamically determined mapping. Each antenna may be further configured to assign a signal channel at its input connector to the signal it receives at its antenna feed circuitry. By sharing the same configuration for mapping signal channels between the antennas' input and output connectors and feed circuitry, the antennas can be added or removed in a sequence of antennas using simple cable connections and without having to rewire the connections at the central receiver. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391101 | METHOD OF PRODUCING PERMANENTLY STRUCTURED WATER - A method of producing permanently structured water, several products based on superconducting material, such as food, cosmetics, medicals, jewelry, cleaning and radioactivity-reducing product, and various uses of a superconducting material. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391102 | INTEGRATED INSULATOR SEAL AND SHIELD ASSEMBLIES - An integrated insulator sealing and shielding assembly includes a rubber housing having a plurality of radial weathersheds and a tapered end adjacent an endmost radial weathershed. The tapered end has an outer surface with a ring extending outward from the outer surface. The ring is compressible. A metal end fitting is disposed adjacent to the endmost radial weathershed and receives the tapered end. The tapered end is received in a counterbore in the metal end fitting. The counterbore has a sealing surface so that interference of the ring with the sealing surface creates a compressive sealing force to form a seal. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391103 | PROTECTIVE DEVICE FOR ELECTRICAL CONDUIT SYSTEM - A protective device for electrical conduits including a body having a lower opening for engaging with a first conduit and a central cavity for receiving conductors extending from the first conduit to a second conduit, a top member having an upper opening for engaging with the second conduit, and a coupler slidably engaged around the body, the coupler slidable between an open position distal to the top member and a closed position attached to the top member. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391104 | FLUID FLOW CONTROL VALVE WITH SWIVELED & COMPENSATED STROKE - A fluid flow control valve with swiveled & compensated stroke ( | 2021-12-16 |
20210391105 | IN-PLANE MAGNETIZED FILM, IN-PLANE MAGNETIZED FILM MULTILAYER STRUCTURE, HARD BIAS LAYER, MAGNETORESISTIVE ELEMENT, AND SPUTTERING TARGET - A CoPt-oxide-based in-plane magnetized film having a magnetic coercive force of 2.00 kOe or more and remanent magnetization per unit area Mrt of 2.00 memu/cm | 2021-12-16 |
20210391106 | MAGNETIZING PERMANENT MAGNETS - A method for magnetizing a section of one or more permanent magnets arranged substantially in a V-shape, comprising: applying a first magnetic field such that magnetic flux lines are substantially perpendicular to a first leg of the V-shape, and removing the first magnetic field. Then the method comprises applying a second magnetic field such that magnetic flux lines are substantially perpendicular to a second leg of the V-shape, and removing the second magnetic field. Systems and methods for magnetizing sections of permanent magnet modules are also provided. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391107 | COMMON MODE CHOKE COIL - A common mode choke coil includes an element body of laminated insulating layers; electrically insulated first and second coils in the element body; first and second outer electrodes on the element body electrically connected to ends of the first coil; and third and fourth outer electrodes on the element body electrically connected to ends of the second coil. The first coil includes first to third coil conductors on first to third insulating layers. The second coil includes fourth to sixth coil conductor on fourth to sixth insulating layers. The second and third coil conductors are electrically connected via a via conductor overlapping at outer ends of the conductors. A dummy conductor overlapping the via conductor is provided on at least one of the first, fourth, fifth, and sixth insulating layers other than between the second and third insulating layers and electrically insulated from all the coil conductors. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391108 | COMMON MODE FILTER - Disclosed herein is a common mode filter that includes a core having a winding core part and first and second wires wound in a same direction around the winding core part. The first and second wires have a first crossing portion at which first turns thereof counted from one ends thereof cross each other and a second crossing portion at which first turns thereof counted from the other ends thereof cross each other. The first and second wires are wound by layer winding in an aligned state with one of the first and second wires positioned in a lower layer and other one thereof positioned in an upper layer in at least parts of the first and second wires between second turns thereof counted from the one ends thereof and second turns thereof counted from the other ends thereof. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391109 | COMMON MODE FILTER - Disclosed herein is a common mode filter that includes first and second wires wound in the same direction around the winding core part. The first and second wires have first to third layer winding portions, a first crossing portion positioned between the first and third layer winding portions, and a second crossing portion positioned between the second and third layer winding portions. The vertical positions of the first and second wires are reversed at least partially between the first and third layer winding portions, and the vertical positions of the first and second wires are reversed at least partially between the second and third layer winding portions. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391110 | COMMON MODE FILTER - Disclosed herein is a common mode filter that includes first and second wires wound in the same direction around the winding core part. The first and second wires include first and second layer winding portions each including a plurality of blocks axially alternately arranged. A first block belonging to the first layer winding portion is disposed closest to the first flange part. A second block belonging to the second layer winding portion is disposed closest to the second flange part. The first and second wires cross each other in a region between axially adjacent blocks. | 2021-12-16 |
20210391111 | STACKED CORE FOR STATIONARY INDUCTION APPARATUS - In a stacked core ( | 2021-12-16 |
20210391112 | ELEMENT BODY, CORE, AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - An electronic component having excellent DC superimposition characteristic and initial magnetic permeability, a core used for the electronic component, and a element body constituting the core are provided. The element body has magnetic large particles and at least one spacer region, wherein one or more small particles having an average particle size smaller than that of the magnetic large particles exist as spacers to form the spacer region between the large particles in a field of view within a predetermined range where 10 or more and 40 or less of the large particles are observable in a cross section of the element body. | 2021-12-16 |