Patents Assigned to B
  • Modular exponentiation using randomized addition chains
    Patent number: 9942038
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a device for generating code which implements modular exponentiation, the device including: a memory used to store a lookup table; and a processor in communication with the memory, the processor configured to: receive information for a generated randomized addition chain; output code for implementing the modular exponentiation which loads elements from the lookup table including intermediate results which utilize the information for a generated randomized addition chain; and output code for implementing the modular exponentiation which uses the loaded elements to compute the next element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Joppe Willem Bos
  • Electrical transceiver for synchronous ethernet
    Patent number: 9942025
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electrical transceiver for synchronous Ethernet, including: a first interface connected with a host; a second interface including a physical layer (PHY) transceiver connected with a serial link; and a processor connected with the first interface and the second interface, wherein the processor includes a timing control unit controlling a transmission signal transmitted to the second interface from the first interface and a reception signal transmitted to the first interface from the second interface to have the same time delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignees: OE SOLUTIONS CO., LTD., AIMVALLEY B.V.
    Inventors: Willem Van Den Bosch, Niels Schipper
  • Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method
    Patent number: 9939740
    Abstract: A lithographic apparatus including a barrier system and a device manufacturing method using such a lithographic apparatus. The barrier system is used to maintain a protected volume of gas within a barrier. The protected volume may be maintained when different components of the lithographic apparatus move relative to each other. The barrier system may be used in different locations within the lithographic apparatus. The geometry of the barrier affects how efficiently the protected volume is maintained, especially at high speeds. The geometry reduces the amount of ambient gas entering the protected volume from outside the barrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
    Inventors: Günes Nakiboglu, Martijn Van Baren, Frank Johannes Jacobus Van Boxtel, Koen Cuypers, Jeroen Gerard Gosen, Laurentius Johannes Adrianus Van Bokhoven
  • Device for gently producing a pastry strand
    Patent number: 9936708
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the dough-saving production of a dough strand (28) from a dough mass (6) found in a container (5), for which the container (5) has an outlet (27) at the bottom. The container (5) is made to rotate about its axis (7). The outlet (27) is edged by the container (5) and by a cutting disk (13) forming at least a part of the base of the container (5). The cutting disk (13) is also made to rotate in the same direction as the container (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: KOENIG MASCHINEN GESELLSCHAFT M.B.H.
    Inventors: Eduard Rauch, Walter Martin
  • Method, apparatus and plant for cutting and fitting a cap onto the opposite cut ends of a pipe
    Patent number: 9937593
    Abstract: Method for fitting caps by means of an automatic apparatus onto at least one end of a pipe, fed in a longitudinal direction by a pipe-feeding machine and directed to a machine for bundling the pipe, wherein said apparatus being movable alternately in both senses of the longitudinal direction between two opposite end-of-travel ends, i.e. rear end facing the feeding machine, and front end opposite to the rear end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: F.B. BALZANELLI AVVOLGITORI S.P.A.
    Inventor: Marco Sorrentino
  • Substrate holder and support table for lithography
    Patent number: 9939736
    Abstract: A substrate table supports a substrate holder to which a substrate is clamped for exposure. The substrate table has a plurality of e-pins spaced apart from and distributed around the center of the substrate holder to receive, and lower, a substrate onto the substrate holder prior to exposure, and to raise a substrate off the substrate holder after exposure. Tip portions of the e-pins and the corresponding apertures in the substrate holder have a shape in plan including at least one re-entrant, e.g. a cross shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
    Inventors: Martijn Houben, Thomas Poiesz
  • Lens heating aware source mask optimization for advanced lithography
    Patent number: 9940427
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for improving a lithographic process for imaging a portion of a design layout onto a substrate using a lithographic projection apparatus comprising an illumination source and projection optics, the method including computing a multi-variable cost function of a plurality of design variables that are characteristics of the lithographic process, at least some of the design variables being characteristics of the illumination source and the design layout, the computing of the multi-variable cost function accounting for lens heating effects; and reconfiguring the characteristics of the lithographic process by adjusting the design variables until a predefined termination condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
    Inventors: Michael Matthew M. Crouse, Youri Johannes Laurentius Maria Van Dommelen, Peng Liu, Hua-Yu Liu, Aiqin Jiang, Wenjin Huang
  • Picking-up signals in electrically contactless manners
    Patent number: 9941932
    Abstract: Pick-up devices (1-9) for picking-up signals from first cables (21, 22) in electrically contactless manners comprise first arrangements (31) for picking-up power signals from the first cables (21, 22) in inductive manners and second arrangements (35, 36) for picking-up data signals from the first cables (21, 22) in capacitive manners. The first arrangements (31) may comprise inductive couplings such as magnetic cores (61, 62) with first openings for surrounding parts of first conductors (21) of the first cables (21, 22) and with second openings for surrounding parts of second conductors (22) of the first cables (21, 22). The second arrangements (35, 36) may comprise capacitive couplings such as first and second electrodes (71-74). The pick-up devices (1-9) may be pick-up and transfer devices (3) for transferring the signals to second cables (23, 24) in electrically contactless manners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Eberhard Waffenschmidt, Bernd Ackermann, Theodorus Johannes Petrus Van Den Biggelaar
  • Radio transceiver circuit
    Patent number: 9941923
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to transceivers incorporating a transmit-receive switching circuit, embodiments of which include a radio transceiver circuit comprising: a first amplifier for amplifying signals received from an antenna via an antenna connection; a second amplifier for amplifying signals to be transmitted by the antenna via the antenna connection; and a switching circuit connected between an input of the first amplifier and the antenna connection, the switching circuit comprising a capacitor, a switching element and an impedance matching element, wherein the switching element is configured to connect a node between the capacitor and the impedance matching element to a signal ground when the transceiver is in a transmit mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Cantena Holding B.V.
    Inventors: Omid Esmaeilzadeh Najari, Mats Lennart Carlsson
  • Speaker driver
    Patent number: 9941847
    Abstract: A speaker driver comprising an amplifier, configured to receive a test signal that comprises a plurality of equivalent test-blocks, and provide measurement-signalling for a speaker at the amplifier output. The measurement-signalling comprising a plurality of measurement-blocks, wherein each of the measurement-blocks corresponds to the output of the amplifier for one of the plurality of test-blocks. The speaker driver also includes an output-current-sensor configured to: measure a current level of the measurement-signalling, and provide sensed-signalling that comprises a plurality of sensed-blocks, wherein each of the plurality of sensed-blocks corresponds to one of the plurality of measurement-blocks of the measurement-signalling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Marco Berkhout, Chen Chen
  • Gain calibration controller
    Patent number: 9941853
    Abstract: A gain calibration controller and gain calibration method is described for calibrating the gain of a class D audio amplifier comprising an adjustable gain stage and a feedback path coupled to an output of a reconstruction filter. The gain calibration controller detects a first output noise level in a first frequency range and a second output noise level in a second higher frequency range, varies the gain of the adjustable gain stage, determines a minimum stable gain value of a stable gain range from a change in at least one of the first and second output noise level in response to varying the gain of the adjustable gain stage, and determines a maximum stable gain value of the stable gain range from a change in at least one of the first and second output noise level in response to varying the gain of the adjustable gain stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Fred Mostert
  • Toroidal virtual reels for slot machines
    Patent number: 9940795
    Abstract: A gaming system comprising a spheroid object, a surface of which is provided with a plurality of symbols, gaming means for causing the spheroid object to rotate along at least three separate axes of rotation, display means for displaying symbols provided on a part of the surface of the spheroid object as rotated by the gaming means in a display area of the gaming system, and win determination means for evaluating a winning condition from those symbols of that are visible in the display area along at least one win line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: GAMING SUPPORT B.V.
    Inventor: Lucien M. Van Linden
  • Printing system for displaying digital images
    Patent number: 9942424
    Abstract: A method of displaying a digital image having a high aspect ratio on a user interface screen connected to a control unit of a printing system includes the steps of determining a first part of the digital image, which part includes one end of the digital image in a longitudinal direction; determining a second part of the digital image, which part includes the other end of the digital image in the longitudinal direction; displaying the first part and the second part simultaneously on the user interface screen; and further displaying the remaining part of the digital image in a suppressed manner or a compressed manner in-between the first part and the second part at the user interface screen. A printing system includes a control unit, which includes a memory unit for storing a digital image, and a user interface screen for displaying the digital image, the control unit being configured to execute the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: OCE-TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Nanne Krikke, Andrea E. J. Meessen
  • DC offset correction for inductor current ripple based, constant-on-time DC-DC converters
    Patent number: 9941792
    Abstract: Embodiments of a circuit for controlling DC offset error for an inductor current ripple based, constant-on time DC-DC converter are disclosed. The circuit includes a ripple generation circuit coupled to a reference voltage input and to a sense voltage input, and having a reference voltage output to form a main loop. The circuit also includes a DC error correction circuit connected between the reference voltage input and the sense voltage input, and the reference voltage output of the ripple generation circuit. The DC error correction circuit includes a coarse DC error correction loop coupled between the sense voltage input and the reference voltage output and a fine DC error correction loop coupled between the reference voltage input and the reference voltage output. A method for controlling DC offset error for an inductor current ripple based, constant-on time DC-DC converter, is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Yue Jing, Ahmad Dashtestani, Shufan Chan
  • Managing wirelessly transmitted use-data in a wireless data transmission environment
    Patent number: 9941949
    Abstract: A method of managing wirelessly transmitted use-data in a wireless data transmission environment, the method comprising: Receiving the wirelessly transmitted use-data by a first receiver and estimating a reception quality of the use-data received by the first receiver by applying a quality criterion. In case the reception quality meets the quality criterion, the method moreover comprises using a second receiver for background scanning the wireless data transmission environment, and in case the reception quality does not meet the quality criterion, the method moreover comprises using the second receiver additionally for reception of the use-data, thus providing both receivers for a diversity reception of the use-data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Martin Kessel
  • Intraocular lens assembly
    Patent number: 9937034
    Abstract: The invention provides an intra ocular lens assembly comprising an intra ocular lens structure (IOL) for placement in the capsular bag and securing the IOL in an opening in an anterior part of a capsular bag, with an anterior capsular bag flap surrounding said opening, and a secondary intraocular lens (S-IOL) comprising fixing parts for attaching said S-IOL to said IOL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: OCULENTIS HOLDING B.V.
    Inventor: Bernardus Franciscus Maria Wanders
  • Methods for genetic analysis of textiles made of and cotton
    Patent number: 9938586
    Abstract: Methods for distinguishing between cotton species by analyzing a sample of mature cotton fibers from raw cotton materials or from textile goods are disclosed. DNA is extracted from the mature cotton fiber sample and subjected to PCR techniques which enable the identification of the species of cotton utilized in the textile or cotton material of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: APDN (B.V.I.) INC.
    Inventors: MingHwa Benjamin Liang, Stephane Shu Kin So
  • Beverage dispenser
    Patent number: D814841
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: HEINEKEN SUPPLY CHAIN B.V.
    Inventors: Robert Sluijter, Simon Wilkinson
  • Case for electronic cigarette
    Patent number: D815346
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: FONTEM HOLDINGS 2 B.V.
    Inventor: Hitesh Bagai
  • Poinsettia plant named ‘Dueferra’
    Patent number: PP29225
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Poinsettia plant named ‘Dueferra’, characterized by its upright to somewhat outwardly spreading and uniformly mounding plant habit; moderately vigorous growth habit; strong lateral branches; relatively late flowering habit; inflorescences with large red-colored flower bracts; and excellent post-production longevity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Dümmen Group B.V.
    Inventor: Arjan Koot