Patents Assigned to A&A Technologies
  • Patent number: 10776626
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to machine learning techniques for identifying collections of items that are visually complementary. These techniques can relying on computer vision and item imagery. For example, a first portion of a machine learning system can be trained to extract aesthetic item qualities from pixel values of images of the items. A second portion of the machine learning system can learn correlations between these extracted aesthetic qualities and the level of visual coordination between items. Thus, the disclosed techniques use computer vision machine learning to programmatically determine whether items visually coordinate with one another based on pixel values of images of those items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Qiuying Lin, Brian Mann
  • Patent number: 10773906
    Abstract: Embodiments herein describe a tote dispenser that removes the bottom tote from as stack of totes which is then ejected by a conveyor belt. In one embodiment, the tote dispenser includes a first pair of support members which support all but the bottom tote in the stack, while a second pair of support members applies a force that removes the bottom tote from the stack. The first and second pairs of support members can be disengaged so that the stack of totes can be realigned relative to the support members so that the next tote at the bottom of the stack can be removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Raashid Mohammed, Majid Abdul, Eric C. Flagel
  • Patent number: 10776432
    Abstract: The presently disclosed subject matter includes a system, a method and a program storage device which enable to add selectivity to content sharing between users of communication networks. When a sender indicates a desire to share content, information with respect to the suggested content item (i.e. the content item intended to be shared) and information with respect to the sharing profile of one or more respective target recipients is analyzed. A recommendation is provided as whether or not it is suggested to the sender to perform an action. For example, the recommendation can be indicative as to whether or not it is recommended to share a given content item with a given recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: PECAN TECHNOLOGIES INC
    Inventor: Ben Volach
  • Patent number: 10777321
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for facilitating delivery of patient-care in adherence with a standard of care clinical protocol is described. The method includes monitoring, by a computing device, patient information indicative of a clinical condition, based on a clinical protocol that comprises patient-care instructions that must be completed within a time period. The method further includes providing, by the computing device, the patient-care instructions to a user based on a result of the monitoring. The method also includes determining, by the computing device, adherence to the clinical protocol based on a result of at least one of the providing patient care instructions and the patient information; and for a determination that the clinical protocol has not been adhered to, providing a recommended action request that calibrates the patient care instructions in compliance with the clinical protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: CURA TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Devi Prasad Shetty, Samir Mitra
  • Patent number: 10777220
    Abstract: Dual and triple PMR writers are disclosed wherein the number of writer pads required to energize the selected PMR writer is minimized to three or four, respectively, with a coil configuration wherein separate top coils are connected by separate interconnects or side taps to separate bottom coils. Either top coils or bottom coils may be linked to a common W? pad. Alternatively, there may be one bottom coil that allows all output current to flow to a common W? pad. Coils may have a pancake or helical shape. In dual PMR writer embodiments, there may be one or two dynamic fly height heater coils. Magnetic performance in the selected writer of a dual PMR writer is similar to that of a single PMR writer with regard to erase width in AC mode (EWAC), Hy field, trailing and side shield return fields, down-track and cross-track gradient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Headway Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yue Liu, Ying Liu, Yuhui Tang
  • Patent number: 10777683
    Abstract: A thin film transistor, a method of manufacturing the same, an array substrate and a display panel are disclosed. The thin film transistor includes a light blocking layer, an electrode layer, and a combination layer, which are sequentially stacked. The electrode layer includes a gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode which are separated from one another, and the gate electrode is located between the source electrode and the drain electrode. The light blocking layer includes a first portion of which an orthogonal projection is located between an orthogonal projection of the gate electrode and an orthogonal projection of the source electrode; and a second portion of which an orthogonal projection is located between the orthogonal projection of the gate and an orthogonal projection of the drain. The combination layer includes an active layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Zhang, Luke Ding, Bin Zhou, Haitao Wang, Ning Liu, Jingang Fang, Yongchao Huang, Liangchen Yan
  • Patent number: 10774692
    Abstract: A tappet is proposed, for a fuel pump or for a valve timing gear, in each case of an internal combustion engine, comprising a hollow-cylindrical housing, which includes two separate portions lying in line one after the other, which are fitted together in a region of their facing inner faces and are permanently connected to one another by way of a joint. The tappet has a roller on its driving side and an abutment for a follower part on its driven side, which abutment is formed on a separate insert. The abutment is radially supported on the housing in the fitted-together region of the two portions, wherein the insert has a middle annular collar, from which on the one hand a sleeve portion protrudes in the direction of the driving side and on the other hand a dome-like attachment protrudes towards the driven side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Norbert Geyer, Alexander Fichtner, Georg Backert, Michael Dotterweich, Matthias Reichel
  • Patent number: 10777155
    Abstract: A method for controlling polarity of each subpixels of a display panel by using a pattern detection manner is provided. The method includes the following steps: receiving image data of each subpixels of the display panel, in which the image data of the subpixels corresponds to an image pattern displayed on the display panel; performing the pattern detection manner to determine whether the image pattern is a killer pattern which induces occurrence of horizontal stripes on the display panel; employing a 1-column inversion method to drive the display panel when the image pattern is not the killer pattern; and employing a 2-column inversion method to drive the display panel when the image pattern is the killer pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Ho-Sheng Chuang, Shih-Yu Wen
  • Patent number: 10779340
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products relating to anchoring a wireless device to a wireless controller. A type of a network device is identified based on data included in a network message received at a first wireless local area network (LAN) controller (WLC). It is determined, based on the identified type, that the network device should be anchored to a pre-determined anchor WLC. An anchor request message is transmitted from the first WLC to the pre-determined anchor WLC. A network traffic tunnel is established between the network device and the pre-determined anchor WLC such that network traffic from the network device can be controlled by the pre-determined anchor WLC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Mahesh Satyanarayana, Chethan Channappa
  • Patent number: 10772334
    Abstract: Microbial strains, compositions, and methods of use thereof to enhance the growth and/or yield of a plant are provided. Also provided are materials and methods for presenting, inhibiting, or treating the development of plant pathogens or phytopathogenic diseases. The disclosure also provides non-naturally occurring plant and derivatives thereof such as plants artificially infected with a microbial strain of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: David T. Bullis, Christopher J. Grandlic, Ryan T. McCann, Janne S. Kerovuo
  • Patent number: 10778091
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a clock booster configured to generate a boosted intermediate voltage greater than a source voltage, wherein the clock booster includes: a controller capacitor configured to store energy for providing a gate signal, wherein the gate signal is for controlling charging operations to generate the boosted intermediate voltage based on the source voltage, and a booster capacitor configured to store energy according to the gate signal for providing the boosted intermediate voltage, wherein the booster capacitor has greater capacitance level than the controller capacitor; and a secondary booster operatively coupled to the clock booster, the secondary booster configured to generate an output voltage based on the boosted intermediate voltage, wherein the output voltage is greater than both the source voltage and the boosted intermediate voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Michele Piccardi
  • Patent number: 10775593
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, in an order from an object side to an image side, an aperture, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: AAC Communication Technologies (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jianming Wang
  • Patent number: 10776395
    Abstract: A system that implements a scalable data storage service may maintain tables in a non-relational data store on behalf of clients. The system may provide a Web services interface through which service requests are received, and an API usable to request that a table be created, deleted, or described; that an item be stored, retrieved, deleted, or its attributes modified; or that a table be queried (or scanned) with filtered items and/or their attributes returned. An asynchronous workflow may be invoked to create or delete a table. Items stored in tables may be partitioned and indexed using a simple or composite primary key. The system may not impose pre-defined limits on table size, and may employ a flexible schema. The service may provide a best-effort or committed throughput model. The system may automatically scale and/or re-partition tables in response to detecting workload changes, node failures, or other conditions or anomalies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Stefano Stefani, Chiranjeeb Buragohain, Rande A. Blackman, Timothy Andrew Rath, Raymond S. Bradford, Grant Alexander MacDonald McAlister, Jakub Kulesza, James R. Hamilton, Luis Felipe Cabrera
  • Patent number: 10776234
    Abstract: There is provided an integrated loopback used for on-die self-test and diagnosis of transceiver faults. According to embodiments, there is provided an interface network including an AC coupling capacitor interposed between input pins of the interface network and an input of an amplifier, a shunt capacitor interposed between the AC coupling capacitor and the input of the amplifier and a selector. The selector includes a mission mode circuit component connected to a bottom plate of the shunt capacitor and the selector is configured to select between a first mode and a second mode, wherein the first mode is mission mode and the second mode is loopback mode, wherein in the second mode the mission mode circuit component forms at least part of a circuit that supplies a loopback signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Marc-Andre Lacroix
  • Patent number: 10776296
    Abstract: A control method for a host device includes assigning a first detection command and a first identification number to a first slave device; receiving first response information generated by the first slave device to determine the first function number of the first slave device; and determining whether the first slave device is cascaded to a second slave device. When the first slave device is not cascaded to the second slave device, the host device performs a first specific action according to the first function number, or it directs the first slave device to perform a first specific action. When the first slave device is cascaded to the second slave device, the host device assigns a second detection command and a second identification number to the second slave device and receives second response information generated by the second slave device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Nuvoton Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Sheng-Tsai Chang
  • Patent number: 10773347
    Abstract: A dismantling mechanism with convex curved backplate and dismantling device for a display module are disclosed. The dismantling mechanism for the display module includes: a screen fixture configured to carry and secure a screen of the display module when dismantling the display module; a convex curved backplate arranged opposite to the screen fixture, configured to support a cover board of the display module when dismantling the display module; a moveable first dismantling structure configured to drive a first end of the cover board to move in a direction adjacent to the convex curved backplate when dismantling the display module; a first actuator connected with the first dismantling structure and configured to drive the first dismantling structure to move; and a second dismantling structure configured to at least partially support a second end of the cover board away from the first end when dismantling the display module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guangyuan Cai, Youhao Sun
  • Patent number: 10778757
    Abstract: Various methods and apparatus for load balancing traffic via dynamic DNS record time-to-live values (“TTLs”) are described. In at least some embodiments, a DNS layer of a DNS load-balanced system receives performance metrics corresponding to a plurality of server instances. If the DNS layer detects a performance metric imbalance for a server instance, it adjusts the TTL value for the DNS records associated with that instance. For example, the DNS layer can lower the TTL value in the DNS records associated with the server instance. This means that clients that have DNS record associated with this server instance will make more frequent DNS queries, thus resulting in at least some of those clients receiving IP addresses for other server instances. In some embodiments, the DNS layer can implement a load balancing scheme that determines which network address(es) to include in a DNS response based on the received performance metrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hardeep Singh Uppal, Matthew Graham Baldwin
  • Patent number: 10776565
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a change to a format of user interface output being output in a user interface is received. Relationships between nodes in a document object model and rules in a style specification are analyzed to determine a context of the change with respect to first nodes in the document object model. The context indicates the change affects a format of the first nodes. Second nodes in the document object model that are associated with the cascade are identified based on the context. The cascade is applied to the second nodes and the first nodes by calculating the change in the format of the user interface output for the second nodes and the first nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Bogdan Brinza, Rossen Atanassov, Kevin M. Babbitt
  • Patent number: 10776002
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method and apparatus for inputting a text. An embodiment of the method comprises: receiving a prompt text from a connected backend server, the prompt text including a defined content segment and a user name of a user logged on the server; acquiring the user name of the user from login information of the user; extracting the defined content segment from the prompt text based on the acquired user name; distributing characters in the prompt text randomly to virtual keys on a virtual keyboard; displaying a typed character, in response to an operation by the user to type a character based on the prompt text by clicking a virtual key. The embodiment enables quick and accurate input of a prompt text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yelu Liu
  • Patent number: 10777918
    Abstract: A terminal block that includes a housing having a resin part; a bus bar integrally including an embedded part embedded in the resin part and a connecting part projecting outward from the resin part; and a seal sealing a gap existing between the embedded part and the resin part, wherein the seal is formed by an adhesive sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LIMITED, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo Nakashima, Katsufumi Matsui