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Publication number: 20180287768Abstract: A femtocell telecommunication system equipment comprising: a base apparatus structured to provide a first information signal and control signals; an electrical conductor based transmission line connected to the base apparatus; and a bidirectional conversion apparatus adapted to receive/transmit from/on the transmission line the first signal, and receive on the transmission line the control signals. The bidirectional apparatus comprising: a processing module structured to process the first signal to generate a second information signal and vice-versa; the second signal being adapted to be transmitted/received by an antenna device connectable to the bidirectional apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2017Publication date: October 4, 2018Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Umberto Spagnolini, Jonathan Gambini, Mauro Arigossi
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Patent number: 10087355Abstract: An oil-based drilling fluid and method of preparing an oil-based drilling fluid are disclosed. The oil-based drilling fluid comprising a base oil continuous phase, an aqueous discontinuous phase, and at least one rheology modifier. The at least one rheology modifier including an alkaline-earth diamondoid compound. The method of preparing the oil-based drilling fluid including mixing a base oil, at least one emulsifier, and at least one wetting agent to form a first mixture, adding and mixing at least one rheology modifier into the first mixture to form a second mixture, adding and mixing at least one fluid-loss control additive into the second mixture to form a third mixture, adding and mixing a brine solution into the third mixture to form a fourth mixture, and adding and mixing a weighting additive into the fourth mixture to form the oil-based drilling fluid.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2017Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignees: Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Durham University, M-I Drilling Fluids U.K. LimitedInventors: Musarrat H. Mohammed, Hugh Christopher Greenwell, Manohara Gudiyor Veerabhadrappa, John Adrian Hall, Gasan Selman Alabedi, Andrew Whiting, Michael Hayward Hodder
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Patent number: 10086409Abstract: A system and a method tension a screen having a generally rectangular shape defined by a length and a width. The screen has a profile with a shape extending the length of the screen. A rod has a channel configured to receive the shape of the profile of the screen therein. The rod has a plurality of segmented portions such that a first segmented portion of the plurality of segmented portions is separable from a second segmented portion of the plurality of segmented portions. The screen is positioned on a frame. The rod is positioned parallel to the length of the frame on two sides. A clamping mechanism tensions the screen with respect to the frame.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: M-I L.L.C.Inventor: Mark Heitfeld
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Patent number: 10086526Abstract: A puffer pan comprises a plurality of pan segments and one or more air chambers that include a plurality of groups of nozzles. Each panel segment is associated with a group of nozzles configured to blow scrap across the panel segment to at least a next location. For a subset of panel segments, the next location is an adjacent panel segment. For an end panel segment, the next location is off the puffer pan.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: GEO. M. MARTIN COMPANYInventor: Daniel J. Talken
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Patent number: 10087382Abstract: A number of variations may include a product including a fluid additive including at least one asphaltene dispersant/inhibitor including a branched dendritic core and at least one carboxylic acid moiety.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2013Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignees: Schlumberger Norge AS, M-I L.L.C.Inventors: Tore Nordvik, Anders Grinrod, Rachael Anne Cole, Astrid Lone, Chandrashekhar Yeshwant Khandekar
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Patent number: 10087066Abstract: Liquid collection and transport device includes a liquid collection tank having an inlet on an upper portion and an outlet on a lower portion. There is a detachable cap on the inlet for retaining a liquid in the tank during transport. A drain is provided on the outlet, and the drain has a valve for controlling the collection and removal of liquid from the tank. A cart includes a frame which releasably secures the tank on the cart, and the tank is slidable relative to the frame, so that the location of the drain relative to the cart can be varied. The liquid collection and transport device may have a handle provided on the valve to open and close the valve, the handle being provided adjacent the upper portion of the tank.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: M & E Manufacturing Company, Inc.Inventor: Donald M. Hall
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Patent number: 10085816Abstract: A collector includes a container body defining an interior containment space and having an open end for access, and a cap in covering relation to the open end and having an opening for receiving therein a distal end of a kerrison-type rongeur. An improvement includes the cap including a first plurality of scrapers in the form of fingers for engaging and dislodging cut bone from the cutting area of the distal end of the rongeur and a second plurality of scrapers in the form of wipers for engaging and dislodging cut bone from the cutting area of the distal end of the rongeur when the distal end of the rongeur is withdrawn through the opening from the collector, the second plurality being arranged so as to permit insertion of the distal end of the rongeur through the opening into the collector without engaging the distal end of the rongeur.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: H & M INNOVATIONS, LLCInventor: Michael Morgan Starkey
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Patent number: 10087213Abstract: The present invention includes methods, compositions, uses, and kits for purifying a protein of interest (POI) comprising contacting a first fusion protein comprising the POI fused to the C-terminus of an intein C-fragment with a second fusion protein comprising an intein N-fragment and a purification tag to form a complex between the first fusion protein and the second fusion protein, cleaving the POI from the intein C-fragment, wherein the protein is released from the complex; and isolating the POI; the present invention also includes fusion proteins and vector.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2014Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEMInventors: Zhilei Chen, Miguel A. Ramirez, Dongli Guan
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Patent number: 10086408Abstract: A vibratory separator includes a screen frame having an upper screen surface and a plurality of openings and a first screen insert disposed in a first opening of the plurality of openings of the screen frame, the screen insert having a screen surface positioned at a first height above the supper screen surface. The vibratory separator also includes a second screen insert disposed in a second opening of the plurality of openings of the second screen frame, wherein a screen surface of the second screen insert is positioned at a second height. The second height may be different from the first height. A method of processing fluid includes providing a flow of fluid to a vibratory separator, and flowing the fluid over a screen having a first screen insert positioned at a first height.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2013Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignees: M-I L.L.C., UNITED WIRE, LTD.Inventors: Eric Cady, Graham Alexander Robertson, Claire Rosaleen Galloway McLean, LaTosha Moore, Andrew Ralph
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Patent number: 10090983Abstract: A method for configuring communication in a wireless communication system includes obtaining, at a first network node, information indicating a plurality of candidate subframes for downlink transmissions to a wireless communication device in a first cell served by the first network node. Each candidate subframe satisfies a candidate condition that relates to transmissions in a second cell during that subframe. The method also includes determining, based on the obtained information, a number of copies of an uplink transmission a wireless communication device should transmit in consecutive uplink subframes so that a downlink transmission related to the uplink transmission will occur during one of the candidate subframes. Additionally, the method includes configuring the wireless communication device to transmit the determined number of copies of the uplink transmission in consecutive subframes.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Iana Siomina, Shaohua Li, Muhammad Kazmi
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Patent number: 10091763Abstract: A method for supporting paging of user terminals by a base station that supports first and second paging modes, the second paging mode providing extended coverage relative to the first paging mode and using more resources than the first paging mode is provided. The method includes determining that the second paging mode is needed for a user terminal, and then initiating paging of the user terminal according to the second paging mode, in response to the determining. In some embodiments, the node is a mobility management node, and initiating paging of the user terminal includes sending, to the base station, a message ordering the base station to page the user terminal according to the second paging mode. In other embodiments, the node is the base station, and initiating paging includes transmitting one or more paging messages using a message format corresponding to the second paging mode.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2014Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Johan Bergman, Konstantinos Dimou, Erik Eriksson, Anders Wallén
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Publication number: 20180271178Abstract: Embodiments generally relate to a baby sleeping garment. The baby sleeping garment comprises a wrap portion configured to receive the body of the baby or infant and at least partially wrap around the body of the baby or infant; and at least one arm portion attached to the wrap portion around at least part of the arm pocket's perimeter to define at least one arm pocket sized to receive at least one arm of the baby or infant. The arm pocket has an opening configured to allow the at least one arm of the baby or infant to be inserted into the arm pocket.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Applicant: S & M TRADING PTY LTDInventor: Lourdes Villarreal
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Patent number: 10084561Abstract: According to some embodiments, a network node determines configuration information associated with a wireless device. The configuration information is indicative of interference mitigation capabilities of the wireless device. The network determines, based on the configuration information, whether assistance information may improve an ability of the wireless device to mitigate interference. In response to determining that the assistance information may improve the ability of the wireless device to mitigate interference, the network node sends the assistance information. The assistance information includes information used by the wireless device to mitigate interference.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2014Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Shaohua Li, Muhammad Kazmi
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Patent number: 10085156Abstract: Systems and methods for selectively enabling Robust Header Compression (RoHC) for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls in a cellular communications network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a data radio bearer for a VoIP call is established between a base station and a mobile terminal. During the VoIP call, a radio frequency parameter for the data radio bearer is monitored. When the radio frequency parameter for the data radio bearer satisfies a predefined coverage-based condition, the base station enables RoHC for the VoIP call. In one preferred embodiment, the radio frequency parameter is a Signal-to-Interference-plus-Noise Ratio (SINR) for the data radio bearer for the VoIP call, and the predefined coverage-based condition is a predefined SINR threshold below which the base station enables RoHC. By enabling RoHC in this manner, RoHC resources are selectively made available for those VoIP calls that will benefit most from increased cell coverage provided by RoHC.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2016Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Jayson Chan, Alexander Langereis, Eva Englund
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Patent number: 10081842Abstract: The present disclosure provides gene expression profiles that are associated with prostate cancer. The gene expression profiles can be used to detect prostate cancer cells in a sample and to distinguish between well differentiated (WD) prostate cancer and poorly differentiated (PD) prostate cancer. Also provided is an array comprising oligonucleotide probes for detecting the unique gene signature associated with WD and/or PD prostate cancer.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2013Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.Inventors: Shiv K. Srivastava, Gyorgy Petrovics
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Patent number: 10081156Abstract: A floor mat made of a rubber sheet having a top surface and a bottom surface with spaced-apart lugs extending therefrom, each lug having a pair of opposing nibs spaced-apart to define a passage therebetween with a longitudinal axis in a selected direction and the selected direction different from the direction of the longitudinal axis of the passage in an adjacent lug, which lugs cooperatively resist movement of the mat in response to loading by foot and wheeled cart traffic across the floor mat disposed on a floor surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2017Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: M+A MATTING, LLCInventor: William Leon Tillery
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Patent number: 10081658Abstract: The instant application provides methods and related compositions pertaining to novel HIV envelope proteins. In some embodiments, the invention relates to methods and compositions for the preparation, production, and administration of isolated novel HIV envelope nucleic acid and protein sequences suitable, for example, as vaccines against HIV.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2012Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignees: Advanced BioScience Laboratories, Inc., The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army, The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicines, Inc.Inventors: Vaniambadi Kalyanaraman, Stephen Whitney, Thomas C. VanCott, Victoria Polonis, Carl Alving, Gary R. Matyas, Mangala Rao, Mary Marovich, Francine McCutchan, Sodsai Tovanabutra, Eric Sanders-Buell
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Patent number: 10080734Abstract: A method for treating autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders including the step of administering an effective amount of an isothiocyanate functional surfactant to a human, wherein the isothiocyanate functional surfactant comprises at least one isothiocyanate functional group associated with an aliphatic and/or aromatic carbon atom of the isothiocyanate functional surfactant. The administration of the isothiocyanate functional surfactant may be augmented with a NMDA-receptor antagonist and/or a TNF-? inhibiting agent.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2017Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: The William M. Yarbrough foundationInventor: Michael E. Silver
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Patent number: 10085019Abstract: Provided is a method that de-multiplexes a bit stream to extract intra prediction mode information and residual signals, restores an intra prediction mode of a current prediction unit using the intra prediction information and intra prediction modes of prediction units adjacent to the current prediction unit, generates reference pixels using one or more available reference pixel if there exist unavailable reference pixels of the prediction unit, adaptively filters the reference pixels based on the restored intra prediction mode, generates a prediction block using the restored intra prediction mode and the reference pixels, decodes the residual signal to generating a residual block, and generates a reconstructed block using the prediction block and the residual block. Accordingly, additional bits resulted from increase of a number of intra prediction mode are effectively reduced. Also, an image compression ratio can be improved by generating a prediction block similar to an original block.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2016Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: M&K HOLDINGS INC.Inventors: Soo Mi Oh, Moonock Yang
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Patent number: 10081755Abstract: Cement compositions containing a cement component and an oil-immiscible solvent and methods for using same are provided. In another aspect, methods for sealing subterranean zones are provided that include emplacing a cement composition into a wellbore containing a cement component and an oil-immiscible solvent, contacting the cement composition with a water source, and reacting the cement composition with the water source to form a hardened cement.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2013Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: M-I Drilling Fluids UK LtdInventor: David Ballard