Abstract: Methods and pharmaceutical compositions for treating viral infections, by administering certain 2-aryl-benzothiazole or 2-heteroaryl-benzothiazole derivative compounds in therapeutically effective amounts are disclosed. Methods of using the compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are also disclosed. In particular, the treatment and prophylaxis of viral infections such as caused by flavivirus is disclosed, i.e., including but not limited to, Dengue virus, West Nile virus, yellow fever virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, and tick-borne encephalitis virus.
Type:
Application
Filed:
February 6, 2015
Publication date:
June 4, 2015
Applicant:
SIGA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Inventors:
Chelsea M. BYRD, Dongcheng DAI, Robert JORDAN, Dennis E. HRUBY
Abstract: The present invention relates to conveyor belts having rip detection systems which utilize microcoil sensor wires which offer improved durability as compared to conventional microcoil sensor wires. This higher degree of durability increases service life of the rip detection system and allows for the conveyor belt to be used reliably over an extended time period without the need to replace damaged microcoil sensor wires within the rip detection system of the conveyor belt. The present invention more specifically discloses a conveyor belt comprising (1) an elastomeric body having a load carrying surface and a parallel pulley engaging surface; (2) a reinforcement ply disposed within the elastomeric body; and (3) a rip detection sensor in the form of a microcoil sensor wire which is configured in an endless loop, wherein the microcoil sensor wire is comprised of an elastomeric core having an electrically conductive wire spirally wrapped around the elastomeric core.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 26, 2014
Publication date:
June 4, 2015
Applicant:
VEYANCE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Inventors:
Jack Bruce Wallace, Charles Edwards, Robert Eugene Leib
Abstract: Features are disclosed for determining preferred content request modes for client computing devices when initiating content requests. The request modes may correspond to direct requests (e.g., requests made from a client device directly to a content sever hosting requested content) or to indirect requests (e.g., requests made from the client device to the content server via an intermediary system). The preferred request modes made be based on a statistical analysis of performance data (e.g., prior content load times) obtained from one or more client computing devices for a given content item, group of content items (e.g., domain), and the like.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 2, 2013
Publication date:
June 4, 2015
Applicant:
AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Inventors:
Ameet Nirmal Vaswani, Saral Jain, Matthew Lloyd Trahan
Abstract: The invention generally relates to a security sheet or document having one or more enhanced watermarks. In one exemplary embodiment, the inventive security sheet or document is a single-ply paper that is made up of a paper layer including one or more watermarks, and a micro-optic security device (e.g., a patch or thread) that at least partially covers an upper or face portion of the watermark(s). The overlying patch or thread increases the durability of the watermark(s), thereby allowing for the watermark(s) as well as reduced fiber density areas therein to be made larger, and further allowing for the reduced fiber density areas to be made thinner. In a preferred embodiment, the micro-optic security device projects one or more synthetic images that coordinate or link in with the watermark design(s). In a more preferred embodiment, the micro-optic security device offers a machine detectable/readable feature in the form of enhanced IR-brightness, especially when measured in transmission.
Inventors:
William Blake, Jeffrey Boody, Kraig M. Brigham, James Callahan, Paul F. Cote, Michael Darroch, Manish Jain, Karin Mörck Hamilton, Giles D. Prett
Abstract: A battery assembly internal connection device for making an electrical connection within a battery assembly that includes a plurality of cells. The device is operable from a pre-stage position where no electrical connection is made to a final position where an electrical connection is made. The device includes a terminal configured to make electrical contact with a first electrode of a cell when the device is operated to the final position. The terminal may optionally include a sharp portion configured to cut through dielectric material covering the first electrode as the device is operated from the pre-stage position to the final position.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 2, 2013
Publication date:
June 4, 2015
Applicant:
DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Inventors:
ROBERT C. BEER, MARK A. EBENHART, ROBERT A. LAWRENCE
Abstract: A method for laser processing of Silicon includes placing a Kerr material into engagement with the Silicon forming an interface therebetween. A laser beam is applied having at least one subpulse in a burst envelope operating at a first wavelength. The laser beam passes through a distributive lens focusing assembly and to the Kerr material. The first wavelength is modified to a plurality of second wavelengths, some of which are effective for processing Silicon. Photoacoustic compression processing is produced by the laser pulse energy by a portion of second wavelengths delivered through the interface and to the Silcon which initiates Kerr Effect self focusing which is propagated in the Silicon by additional energy input to the Silicon thus producing a filament within the Silicon.
Abstract: A storage device includes non-volatile memory and a controller. A method performed in the data storage device includes sending an instruction to a host device to cause the host device to perform one or more specified computations. The method further includes receiving a response from the host device. The response is based on execution of the one or more specified computations.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 4, 2013
Publication date:
June 4, 2015
Applicant:
SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC.
Inventors:
MANUEL ANTONIO D'ABREU, DIMITRIS C. PANTELAKIS
Abstract: A fixing device for fixing a toner image onto a recording paper includes a heating member for heating the recording paper, a pressing member for pressing the heating member by pressure-applying contact, a casing accommodating the heating member and the pressing member, and being provided with an exit port for discharging the recording paper, and a closing unit added to the exit port for keeping a temperature of the casing. The closing unit has a rotation member, and an opposed member forming a nip region together with the rotation member.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 24, 2011
Date of Patent:
June 2, 2015
Assignee:
KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) package includes a substrate, a first electrode and a second electrode embedded in the substrate and spaced from each other, an LED die mounted on a top surface of the substrate and electrically connected to the first and the second electrodes. Both the first and the second electrodes include a top face and a bottom face, with the top face and the bottom face of each of the first and the second electrodes being exposed at the top surface and a bottom surface of the substrate, respectively. The top face of the first electrode defines a first groove corresponding to a positive bonding pad (p-pad) of the LED die. The p-pad is partially inserted into the first groove. An oxidation-resistant metal coating layer is filled between an insertion portion of the p-pad and an inner surface of the first groove.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 12, 2013
Date of Patent:
June 2, 2015
Assignee:
ADVANCED OPTOELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Abstract: A monitoring system for an HVAC system including an evaporator unit device, first and second temperature sensors, and a condenser unit. The evaporator unit device includes a first current sensor that measures current provided to a circulator blower and a differential pressure sensor that measures pressure between a point prior to a filter element and a point after the filter element. The first temperature sensor measures a refrigerant temperature between a condenser and an expansion valve. The second temperature sensor measures a refrigerant temperature between an evaporator and a compressor. The condenser unit device communicates with the evaporator unit device over low-voltage control lines, wherein the condenser unit comprises a second current sensor that measures current provided to the compressor. The evaporator unit device transmits sensor data to a remote monitoring service over a data network. An efficiency of the HVAC system is calculated based on the sensor data.
Abstract: Using an allocated control channel resource in a relay transmission frame, with an identified starting point, in a semi-static allocation scheme is disclosed. The control signaling may be mapped to the allocated control channel resource using different mapping schemes. Also disclosed is decoding a control channel element from a relay transmission frame received via a wireless relay link. The control channel resource associated with the relay transmission frame may be allocated in a semi-static allocation scheme. A starting indicator may be extracted from the decoded control channel element. A part of control signaling may be extracted from the decoded control channel element using the extracted starting indicator.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 9, 2013
Date of Patent:
June 2, 2015
Assignee:
WIRELESS FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES INC.
Inventors:
Erlin Zeng, Haiming Wang, Xiangguang Che, Chungyan Gao, Peng Chen, Jing Han, Bernhard Raaf
Abstract: Methods of using di, tri, and tetracyclic acylhydrazide derivatives and analogs, as well as pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, for the treatment or prophylaxis of viral infections and diseases associated therewith, particularly those viral infections and associated diseases caused by the orthopoxvirus.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 3, 2014
Date of Patent:
June 2, 2015
Assignee:
SIGA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Inventors:
Robert Jordan, Thomas R. Bailey, Susan R. Rippin, Dongcheng Dai
Abstract: Approaches to enable a computing device, such as a phone or tablet computer, to utilize a number of cues to detect the presence of a face (or head) in an image captured by a camera of the computing device. The cues may include the elliptical shape of the face, the stereo disparity signature of the face, color or image brightness, among others. The facial detection may be performed by using a boosted classifier ensemble that has been trained using a plurality of images that are known (i.e., have been previously identified) to contain faces. The classifier ensemble can combine a number of different cues, such as the elliptical shape and/or stereo disparity signature, to be used for detecting faces within an image.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 19, 2013
Date of Patent:
June 2, 2015
Assignee:
AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Inventors:
Sharadh Ramaswamy, David Wayne Stafford, Ilya Brailovskiy
Abstract: A feeder is configured to feed a recording medium. An image forming unit has a maximum sheet feed width corresponding to a longer side length of a maximum size recording medium to be accommodated in the feeder, and is disposed above the feeder in such a manner as to allow the maximum size recording medium to enter the image forming unit with a longer side first.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 11, 2012
Date of Patent:
June 2, 2015
Assignee:
KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Abstract: An apparatus for assigning a print job is provided. The apparatus includes a detector configured to detect an ambient temperature of each of a plurality of areas, each of the areas including at least one printer and at least one air conditioning system; a selection portion configured to select a printer included in a suitable area of the areas, the suitable area being an area where the ambient temperature detected is lower than a predetermined temperature; and an issuing portion configured to give the print job to the printer selected.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 11, 2012
Date of Patent:
June 2, 2015
Assignee:
KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Abstract: In an oblique-incidence optical system, a pair of optical beams are incident from the deflection section on an optically anisotropic common scanning lens. First and second individual scanning lenses are optically anisotropic and on which the one and the other of the pair of optical beams are respectively incident from the common scanning lens. Light sources are arranged such that their respective planes of polarization are symmetrical to each other. The first and second individual scanning lenses are arranged so as to be symmetrical to each other, the common scanning lens has a symmetrical shape in the secondary direction with respect to a plane including its own optical axis, and each of the individual scanning lenses has an asymmetrical shape in the secondary direction with respect to a plane including its own optical axis.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 3, 2012
Date of Patent:
June 2, 2015
Assignee:
KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Abstract: Methods for compensating for variations in bit line resistance during sensing of memory cells are described. The variations in bit line resistance may occur die-to-die or plane-to-plane on the same die. In some embodiments, for each die or memory plane on a die, a plurality of bit line read voltages associated with a plurality of zones may be determined based on sensing criteria. The sensing criteria may comprise a number of fail bits. Each zone of the plurality of zones may be associated with a memory array region within a die or memory plane. Prior to performing a read or verify operation on a group of memory cells, a bit line read voltage used during sensing of the group of memory cells may be determined based on the plurality of bit line read voltages and a zone associated with the group of memory cells.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 19, 2014
Date of Patent:
June 2, 2015
Assignee:
SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC.
Inventors:
Teruhiko Kamei, Seungpil Lee, Siu Lung Chan, Kwang Ho Kim, Man Lung Mui
Abstract: In a memory system, a programming waveform reduces program noise by using sets of multiple adjacent sub-pulses which have a saw-tooth shape. In a set, an initial sub-pulse steps up from an initial level such as 0 V to a peak level, then steps down to an intermediate level, which is above the initial level. One or more subsequent sub-pulses of the set can step up from an intermediate level to a peak level, and then step back down to an intermediate level. A last sub-pulse of the set can step up from an intermediate level to a peak level, and then step back down to the initial level. A verify operation is performed after the set of sub-pulses. The number of sub-pulses per set can decrease in successive sets until a solitary pulse is applied toward the end of a programming operation.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 11, 2014
Date of Patent:
June 2, 2015
Assignee:
SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC.
Inventors:
Yingda Dong, Yupin K. Fong, Gerrit Jan Hemink