20th week of 2020 patent applcation highlights part 61 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20200152225 | INTERACTION SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An interaction system that provides an interaction interface comprising: a computer and a device that obtains information, wherein the computer stores information for managing data in which a type of a second feature value is associated with a listening pattern that defines a tendency of a response action performed by the interaction interface on a user; calculates a first feature value that is an index for evaluating a change in state during speech by the user on the basis of information obtained by the device; calculates second feature values on the basis of the first feature value; selects a target second feature value from among the second feature values; selects the listening pattern corresponding to the target second feature value; and generates output information for controlling the interaction interface on the basis of the selected listening pattern. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152226 | Design of Stimuli for Symptom Detection - Embodiments are disclosed for health assessment and diagnosis implemented in an artificial intelligence (AI) system. In an embodiment, a method comprises: obtaining, using one or more processors of a device, a speech sample from a user uttering a first sentence; processing the speech sample through a neural network to predict a first set of one or more disease-related symptoms of the user; and generating, using the one or more processors, a second sentence to predict a second set of one or more disease-related symptoms or confirm the first set of disease-related symptoms. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152227 | SOUND CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM FOR HEARING AIDS - A hearing aid includes a sound classification module to classify environmental sound sensed by a microphone. The sound classification module executes an advanced sound classification algorithm. The hearing aid then processes the sound according to the classification. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152228 | Process of Forming a Recessed Spin Flipping Element in the Write Gap - A method of forming a spin torque assisted magnetic recording writer is disclosed wherein a spin flipping (STO) device is recessed from an air bearing surface. The STO device has a middle flux guiding layer with a magnetization that flips to a direction anti-parallel to the write gap field when a current of sufficient magnitude is applied from the trailing shield towards the main pole (MP) thereby increasing reluctance in the write gap to enhance writability. A STO stack is deposited and patterned to define a cross-track width on the MP tapered trailing side. Thereafter, the STO stack is patterned to define a STO device with a front side recessed from the air bearing surface, and a backside. A write gap is deposited surrounding the STO device, and has a thickness greater than or 2020-05-14 | |
20200152229 | SUSPENSION ASSEMBLY, HEAD SUSPENSION ASSEMBLY AND DISK DEVICE WITH THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a suspension assembly includes a support plate, a trace member on the support plate and a drive element mounted on the trace member. The trace member includes a metal plate, and a multilayered member on the metal plate. The multilayered member includes a first insulating layer, a conductive layer stacked on the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer stacked on the conductive layer. The multilayered member includes a mount portion on which the drive element is mounted, and a branching portion arranged along the mount portion with a gap therebetween. At least one portion of the branching portion is formed into a thin portion having a thickness less than other portions of the multilayered member. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152230 | MODE SPLITTER FOR HEAT-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING - An apparatus includes a first waveguide core extending along a light-propagation direction and configured to receive light from a light source at a combined transverse electric (TE) mode and a transverse magnetic (TM) mode. A second waveguide core is spaced apart from the first waveguide core and is configured to couple light at a TM mode to the second waveguide core. A near-field transducer (NFT) is disposed at a media-facing surface of a write head, the NFT receiving the light from the first waveguide core or the second waveguide core and heating a magnetic recording medium in response thereto. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152231 | ACTUATOR BLOCK HAVING DUAL SENSORS FOR DETECTING VIBRATION ON MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes an actuator assembly including an actuator block including a rotatable bearing unit, a plurality of heads movably supported by the actuator assembly, a first sensor provided to the actuator block, and a second sensor provided at a position different from the first sensor. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152232 | REVERSIBLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A reversible recording medium according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is a reversible recording medium that includes recording layers and heat-insulating layers that are alternately stacked, in which the recording layers each include a reversible heat-sensitive color developing composition and a first light-heat converting agent. In this reversible recording medium, the recording layers are different from each other in a developing color of their respective reversible heat-sensitive color developing compositions and are different from each other in an absorption wavelength of their respective first light-heat converting agents. This reversible recording medium further includes a heat-generating layer that includes a second light-heat converting agent having an absorption wavelength that is different from the absorption wavelength of the first light-heat converting agent included in each of the recording layers. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152233 | SLIDER GAS-BEARING SURFACE DESIGNS TO MITIGATE EFFECTS OF SMEAR IN HEAT-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING - Disclosed herein are sliders having air-bearing surface (ABS) designs to mitigate the effects of smear on near-field transducers used in data storage devices, and data storage devices comprising such sliders. A slider comprises a leading edge, a trailing edge, a NFT, and an ABS with features to increase oxygen concentration near the NFT. The ABS comprises a channel configured to direct gas in a direction from the leading edge toward the trailing edge and a funnel region connected to the channel, disposed between the channel and the NFT, and configured to receive gas from the channel. In an ABS view of the slider, a width of the funnel region along a longitudinal axis passing through the NFT monotonically increases with distance from the NFT. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152234 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE STREAMING OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - The disclosed computer-implemented method includes determining that audio quality is to be adjusted for a multimedia streaming connection over which audio data and video data are being streamed to a content player. The audio data is streamed at a specified audio quality level and the video data is streamed at a specified video quality level. The method also includes determining that a specified minimum video quality level is to be maintained while adjusting the audio quality level. Still further, the method includes dynamically adjusting the audio quality level of the multimedia streaming connection while maintaining the video quality level of the multimedia streaming connection at at least the specified minimum video quality level. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152235 | ENCRYPTED DATA KEY IN MEDIUM AUXILIARY MEMORY - A method for securing user data that is stored to a tape cartridge having a medium auxiliary memory (MAM) is described. When user data is sent to a tape library from a client, the tape library sends a request to a cloud based key management service for a data key to encrypt the user data and an encrypted data key that corresponds to the data key. The data key is used to encrypt the user data which is then stored to the tape cartridge and the encrypted data key is stored to the MAM. Upon decrypting the encrypted user data, the encrypted data key is extracted from the MAM and sent to the cloud based key management service where it is used to produce the data key from the cloud based key management service which is then sent to the tape library. When the tape library is in possession of the data key, the encrypted data in the tape cartridge can then be decrypted and sent to a requester of the user data. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152236 | Reader Bias Based Locking Technique Enabling High Read Concurrency For Read-Mostly Workloads - A data object has a lock and a condition indicator associated with it. Based at least partly on detecting a first setting of the condition indicator, a reader stores an indication that the reader has obtained read access to the data object in an element of a readers structure and reads the data object without acquiring the lock. A writer detects the first setting and replaces it with a second setting, indicating that the lock is to be acquired by readers before reading the data object. Prior to performing a write on the data object, the writer verifies that one or more elements of the readers structure have been cleared. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152237 | System and Method of AI Powered Combined Video Production - The System and Method of AI-Powered Combined Video Production of the present invention is a digital platform used by both master clip Creators and scene clip creators. In a preferred embodiment, the platform comprises at least one master clip creating device, an APCV application, at least one scene clip creating device, a scene clip database, a scene clip uploading interface, an AI module, a scene clip searching & selecting module, and a network. The platform uses AI technology to detect the master clip attributes of a master clip, and then use the detected master clip attributes to search a scene clip database and select at least one scene clip its defined attributes match the detected master clip attributes, and then the APCV application will combine the master clip with the selected scene clip to create an APC video. The present invention makes it extremely easy for average people to create high quality tailor-made combined videos. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152238 | PROCESSING AND FORMATTING VIDEO FOR INTERACTIVE PRESENTATION - Systems and methods are described for determining a first media item related to an event, of a plurality of stored media items each comprising video content related to the event, that was captured in a device orientation corresponding to a first device orientation detected for the first computing device; providing, to the first computing device, the first media item to be displayed on the first computing device; in response to a detected change to a second device orientation for the first computing device, determining a second media item that was captured in a device orientation corresponding to the second device orientation detected for the first computing device; and providing, to the first computing device, the second media item to be displayed on the first computing device. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152239 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSOCIATING ONE OR MORE FILTER FILES WITH A PARTICULAR MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION - A method, apparatus, computer program product and computer accessible code configured to link or otherwise associate content filters with a multimedia presentation, e.g., a movie. The content filter data includes an identifier value with an aspect ratio identifier or as a function of an aspect ratio for a particular multimedia presentation associated with the filter information. In one implementation, association between a filter set and a multimedia presentation involves a filtering application that searches a particular multimedia presentation to locate aspect ratio information and further searches filter information for a matching aspect ratio identifier. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152240 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VIDEO PROCESSING AND SIGNALING IN TRANSITIONAL VIDEO SCENE - Aspects of encoding and decoding video content are provided. An encoding system detects a scene change by identifying a first picture among a sequence of pictures that corresponds to a last picture of a first scene, identifying a second picture among the sequence of pictures that corresponds to a first picture of a second scene, and determining that one or more pictures that are between the first picture and the second picture in the sequence of pictures correspond to an input transition scene between the first scene and the second scene. The encoded video content indicates an existence of the input transition scene and information for reproducing a transition scene. A decoding system generates the transition scene that corresponds to the input transition scene based on the received indication of the existence of the input transition scene and the information for reproducing the transition scene. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152241 | AIR CURTAIN GENERATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL IN AUTOMATED DATA STORAGE LIBRARIES - A data storage library includes an array of drive slots each configured to receive a data storage drive therein. The data storage library also includes a nozzle for creating an air curtain across a front of the array of drive slots and a fan for creating an airflow through the nozzle. A method includes selectively instructing a fan to create an airflow through a nozzle for creating an air curtain across a front of an array of drive slots in the data storage library. A computer program product is configured to perform the foregoing method. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152242 | MEMORY DEVICE WITH STRAP CELLS - A device includes a memory array. The memory array includes a first sub-bank, a first strap cell coupled to the first sub-bank, and a first continuous data line. The first continuous data line includes a first portion and a second portion coupled to the first sub-bank via the first strap cell. The first portion of the first continuous data line is disposed above the first strap cell and the second portion of the first continuous data line is disposed above the first portion of the first continuous data line. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152243 | SELF-REFERENCING SENSING SCHEMES WITH COUPLING CAPACITANCE - Methods, systems, and devices for self-referencing sensing schemes with coupling capacitance are described. A sense component of a memory device may include a capacitive coupling between two nodes of the sense component. The capacitive coupling may, in some examples, be provided by a capacitive element of the sense component or an intrinsic capacitance between features of the sense component. An example of a method employing such a sense component for detecting a logic state stored by a memory cell may include generating a first sense signal at one of the nodes while the node is coupled with the memory cell, and generating a second sense signal at the other of the nodes while the other node is coupled with the memory cell. The sense signals may be based at least in part on the capacitive coupling between the two nodes. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152244 | STACKED MEMORY DEVICE, A SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME AND AN ASSOCIATED METHOD - A stacked memory device includes: a logic semiconductor die; a plurality of memory semiconductor dies stacked with the logic semiconductor die, wherein each of the memory semiconductor dies includes a memory integrated circuit and one or more of the memory semiconductor dies is a calculation semiconductor die including a calculation unit; and through-silicon vias electrically connecting the logic semiconductor die and the plurality of memory semiconductor dies, wherein each of the calculation units is configured to perform calculations based on broadcast data and internal data and to generate calculation result data, wherein the broadcast data is commonly provided to the calculation semiconductor dies through the through-silicon vias, and the internal data is respectively read from the memory integrated circuits of the calculation semiconductor dies. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152245 | DATA STROBE CALIBRATION - Devices and techniques are disclosed herein for determining, using a host device, a timing relationship between a data strobe signal, such as from an embedded MultiMediaCard (eMMC) device, and an internal clock signal. The host device can control a delay circuit using the determined timing relationship, such as to align received read data for sampling, or to determine or adjust a delay value of the delay circuit. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152246 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING LOGICAL OPERATIONS USING SENSING CIRCUITRY - The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to performing logical operations using sensing circuitry. An example apparatus comprises an array of memory cells and sensing circuitry comprising a primary latch coupled to a sense line of the array. The sensing circuitry can be configured to perform a first operation phase of a logical operation by sensing a memory cell coupled to the sense line, perform a number of intermediate operation phases of the logical operation by sensing a respective number of different memory cells coupled to the sense line, and accumulate a result of the first operation phase and the number of intermediate operation phases in a secondary latch coupled to the primary latch without performing a sense line address access. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152247 | Marching Memory, A Bidirectional Marching Memory, A Complex Marching Memory And A Computer System, Without The Memory Bottleneck - A marching memory is disclosed having an array of memory units. Each memory unit has a sequence of bit level cells. Each bit-level cell has a transfer-transistor having a first main-electrode connected to a clock signal supply line through a first delay element, and a control-electrode connected to an output terminal of a first neighboring bit-level cell positioned at an input side of the array of the memory units, through a second delay element. Each bit-level cell also has a reset-transistor having a first main-electrode connected to a second main-electrode of the transfer-transistor, a control-electrode connected to the clock signal supply line, and a second main-electrode connected to the ground potential. Each bit-level cell also has a capacitor connected in parallel with the reset-transistor. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152248 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD - An interference of control signals is caused by a deviation in the start timings of counting between counters of timer counter units of a first MCU and a second MCU. And thus, when a count value of the counter of the MCU of a parent reaches a predetermined value D, the MCU of the parent transmits a trigger signal to the MCU of a child. The MCU of the child obtains the time difference between the start timings of the counts of the counters of the parent and the child from the difference between the D and a count value E of the child at that time. A count period of the child until a maximum value of the count value is reached is adjusted by the time difference. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152249 | APPARATUSES AND METHOD FOR REDUCING ROW ADDRESS TO COLUMN ADDRESS DELAY - Apparatuses and methods for reducing row address (RAS) to column address (CAS) delay (tRCD) are disclosed. In some examples, tRCD may be reduced by providing a non-zero offset voltage to a target wordline at an earlier time, such as during a threshold voltage compensation phase of a sense operation. Setting the wordline to a non-zero offset voltage at an earlier time may reduce a time for the wordline to reach an activation voltage, which may reduce tRCD. In other examples, protection against row hammer attacks during precharge phases may be improved by setting the wordline to the non-zero offset voltage. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152250 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR REDUCING ROW ADDRESS TO COLUMN ADDRESS DELAY - Apparatuses and methods for reducing row address (RAS) to column address (CAS) delay are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a memory including a sense amplifier configured to, during a precharge phase, couple a first gut node of the sense amplifier to a second gut node of the sense amplifier and to a precharge voltage while the first gut node and the second gut node are coupled to a first digit line and a second digit line, respectively, at a first time. The sense amplifier is further configured to, during the precharge phase, decouple the first gut node from the first digit line and decouple the second gut node from the second digit line at a second time that is after the first time. The sense amplifier is further configured to transition to an activation phase in response to an activate command at a third time after the second time to perform a sense operation. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152251 | MAGNETIC MEMORY DEVICES - A magnetic memory device includes a first conductive line extending in a first direction on a substrate, a first magnetic pattern on the first conductive line, the first magnetic pattern including a first portion and a second portion that have different thicknesses, and a second conductive line on the first magnetic pattern and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152252 | SPIN-ORBIT TORQUE MAGNETORESISTIVE RANDON ACCESS MEMORY AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WRITING THE SAME - A spin-orbit torque magnetoresistive random access memory, and a method and an apparatus for writing the same. A magnetoresistive tunnel junction is provided on a spin-orbit coupling layer. In a case that a current is applied to the spin-orbit coupling layer, a spin current is generated in the spin-orbit coupling layer, so that a magnetic moment in the magnetoresistive tunnel junction is oriented into a plane of the spin-orbit coupling layer. At such time, there is a temperature difference between one end of the magnetoresistive tunnel junction and another end of the magnetoresistive tunnel junction. An deterministic switching of the magnetic moment is achieved under the temperature difference, and a switching direction can be controlled based on the direction of the current direction or the direction of the temperature difference. Thereby, the deterministic switching of the magnetic moment is achieved in the SOT-MRAM. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152253 | STORING METHOD AND APPARATUS OF DATA - Provided is a method including acquiring reading and writing information of logical chunks of a storage apparatus in a number of historical periods before a current time, and predicting reading and writing information of the logical chunks in a next period according to reading and writing information of the logical chunks in a number of historical periods before the current time and a data prediction model. The data prediction model indicates a relationship between reading and writing information of the logical chunks in a next period and reading and writing information of the logical chunks in a number of historical periods before the current time. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152254 | CONTROLLER ARCHITECTURE FOR REDUCING ON-DIE CAPACITANCE - The disclosed controller includes a DDR architecture that includes a dual-channel interface designed to include DQS IO ports configured to generate a first DQS signal that is a distance of substantially 0.125 times the period of a clock signal (ΔT denoting the 0.125 of the period of the clock signal) ahead of a rising edge of the clock signal and a second DQS signal that is a distance of substantially 0.125 times the period of the clock signal behind the rising edge of a clock signal. If ΔT is more than a tDQSS then ΔT is set to tDQSS, where tDQSS is a maximum allowable time between either DQS signal and the rising edge of the clock signal. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152255 | SENSING AND TUNING FOR MEMORY DIE POWER MANAGEMENT - Techniques, apparatus, and devices for managing power in a memory die are described. A memory die may include an array of memory cells and one or more voltage sensors. Each voltage sensor may be on the same substrate as the array of memory cells and may sense a voltage at a location associated with the array. The voltage sensors may generate one or more analog voltage signals that may be converted to one or more digital signals on the memory die. In some cases, the analog voltage signals may be converted to digital signals using an oscillator and a counter on the memory die. The digital signal may be provided to a power management integrated circuit (PMIC), which may adjust a voltage supplied to the array based on the digital signal. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152256 | MEMORY DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - An operation method of a memory device includes sequentially receiving an active command and a precharge command from an external device, during a first time interval, applying a first activation voltage to a selected wordline in response to the active command, applying a second activation voltage to the selected wordline after the first time interval elapses from a first time point when the first active command is received, and applying a first deactivation voltage to the selected wordline in response to the precharge command. The second activation voltage is lower than the first activation voltage and is higher than the first deactivation voltage. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152257 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING ACCESS LINE LOADS FOR SENSE AMPLIFIERS FOR OPEN ACCESS LINE SENSING - Apparatuses and methods for implementing access line loads for sense amplifiers for open access line sensing. An example apparatus may include a memory array comprising a plurality of sense amplifiers. A first sense amplifier is coupled to a first access line segment and to a second access line segment and a second sense amplifier is coupled to a third access line segment and to a load segment. The first, second, and third access line segments are coupled to a respective plurality of memory cells. The load segment comprise load circuitry configured to provide a capacitive load to the second sense amplifier based on a capacitive load of the third access line segment. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152258 | Memory Systems and Methods for Improved Power Management - A memory module with multiple memory devices includes a buffer system that manages communication between a memory controller and the memory devices. Each memory device supports an access mode and a low-power mode, the latter used to save power for devices that are not immediately needed. The module provides granular power management using a chip-select decoder that decodes chip-select signals from the memory controller into power-state signals that determine which of the memory devices are in which of the modes. Devices can thus be brought out of the low-power mode in relatively small numbers, as needed, to limit power consumption. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152259 | MATERIAL HANDLING APPARATUS WITH DELIVERY VEHICLES AND RECIRCULATION - A method and apparatus are provided for sorting items to a plurality of sort destinations. The items are fed into the apparatus at an input station having a scanning station. The scanning station evaluates one or more characteristics of each item. The items are then loaded onto one of a plurality of independently controlled delivery vehicles. The delivery vehicles are individually driven to sort destinations. Once at the appropriate sort destination, the delivery vehicle ejects the item to the sort destination and returns to receive another item to be delivered. A re-induction conveyor may be provided for receiving select items from the vehicles and conveying the items back to the input station for re-processing. Additionally, a controller is provided to control the movement of the vehicles based on a characteristic of each item being delivered by each vehicle. The system may also include vehicles having an assembly for detecting items being loaded onto or discharged from the vehicles. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152260 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - A storage device comprising: a nonvolatile memory device including a plurality of memory blocks; and a device controller configured to control the nonvolatile memory device to determine a memory block to perform a refresh operation and to control the memory block to perform the refresh operation to recover data of the memory block. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152261 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCED AREA CONTROL REGISTER CIRCUIT - In described examples, an apparatus includes: a set of control registers containing control bits for controlling circuitry coupled to receive register write enable signals and to receive input data; a memory for storing data corresponding to the control bits coupled to receive an address and a memory write enable signal; decode circuitry coupled to output the register write enable signals; a data output bus coupled to receive data from the memory but free from connections to the control registers; and a controller coupled to receive an address, coupled to output the address on an internal address bus, coupled to output a register write enable signal, and coupled to output the memory write enable signal, configured to cause data to be written to a selected control register corresponding to the address received, and to cause the data to be contemporaneously stored at a memory location corresponding to the address received. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152262 | WEIGHT STORAGE USING MEMORY DEVICE - Methods, systems, and devices for mimicking neuro-biological architectures that may be present in a nervous system are described herein. A memory device may include a memory unit configured to store a value. A memory unit may include a first memory cell (e.g., an aggressor memory cell) and a plurality of other memory cells (e.g., victim memory cells). The memory unit may use thermal disturbances of the victim memory cells that may be based on an access operation to store the analog value. Thermal energy output by the aggressor memory cell during an access operation (e.g., a write operation) may cause the state of the victim memory cells to alter based on thermal relationship between the aggressor memory cell and at least some of the victim memory cells. The memory unit may be read by detecting and combining the weights of the victim memory cells during a read operation. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152263 | MEMORY DEVICE ARCHITECTURE - Row electrode drivers and column electrode drivers for a memory device are distributed within a footprint share by a memory cell array. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152264 | MEMORY DEVICE, MEMORY CELL AND METHOD FOR PROGRAMMING MEMORY CELL - A memory device includes a word line, a bit line intersecting the word line, and a memory cell at an intersection of the word line and the bit line. The memory cell includes a first electrode connected to the word line; a second electrode connected to the bit line; and a selective element layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. The selective element layer includes one of Ge—Se—Te, Ge—Se—Te—As, and Ge—Se—Te—As—Si, and a composition ratio of arsenic (As) component of each of the Ge—Se—Te—As and the Ge—Se—Te—As—Si being greater than 0.01 and less than 0.17. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152265 | NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING TRANSFER ELEMENT - A nonvolatile memory device includes a bank and a program current generator. The bank includes a memory cell array that includes phase change memory cells storing data based on a program current, and the transfer element transfers the program current to the memory cell array through current mirroring. The program current generator generates the program current based on a reference current. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152266 | NOVEL RESISTIVE RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY DEVICE - A memory device includes: a memory bit cell; a write circuit, coupled to the memory bit cell, and configured to use a first voltage to transition the memory bit cell to a first logic state by changing a respective resistance state of the memory bit cell, and compare a first current flowing through the memory bit cell with a first reference current; and a control logic circuit, coupled to the write circuit, and configured to determine whether the first logic state is successfully written into the memory bit cell based on a read-out logic state of the memory bit cell and the comparison between the first current and first reference current. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152267 | DATA STATE SYNCHRONIZATION - The present disclosure includes apparatuses, and methods for data state synchronization. An example apparatus includes performing a write operation to store a data pattern in a group of resistance variable memory cells corresponding to a selected managed unit having a first status, updating a status of the selected managed unit from the first status to a second status responsive to performing the write operation, and providing data state synchronization for a subsequent write operation performed on the group by placing all of the variable resistance memory cells of the group in a same state prior to performing the subsequent write operation to store another data pattern in the group of resistance variable memory cells. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152268 | QUANTUM MEMORY SYSTEMS AND QUANTUM REPEATER SYSTEMS COMPRISING DOPED POLYCRYSTALLINE CERAMIC OPTICAL DEVICES AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A method of manufacturing a doped polycrystalline ceramic optical device includes mixing a plurality of transition metal complexes and a plurality of rare-earth metal complexes to form a metal salt solution, heating the metal salt solution to form a heated metal salt solution, mixing the heated metal salt solution and an organic precursor to induce a chemical reaction between the heated metal salt solution and the organic precursor to produce a plurality of rare-earth doped crystalline nanoparticles, and sintering the plurality of rare-earth doped nanoparticles to form a doped polycrystalline ceramic optical device having a rare-earth element dopant that is uniformly distributed within a crystal lattice of the doped polycrystalline ceramic optical device. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152269 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL MEMORY CELLS - The present disclosure includes multifunctional memory cells. A number of embodiments include a gate element, a charge transport element, a first charge storage element configured to store a first charge transported from the gate element and through the charge transport element, wherein the first charge storage element includes a nitride material, and a second charge storage element configured to store a second charge transported from the gate element and through the charge transport element, wherein the second charge storage element includes a gallium nitride material. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152270 | TERNARY CONTENT ADDRESSABLE MEMORY - Ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) structures and methods of use are disclosed. The memory architecture includes one or more ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) fields, and control logic that applies progressively discriminating data-masking and scores a closeness of a match based on matched and mismatched bits. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152271 | PARTIAL BLOCK MEMORY OPERATIONS - Methods and apparatuses are disclosed, such as those including a block of memory cells that includes strings of charge storage devices. Each of the strings may comprise a plurality of charge storage devices formed in a plurality of tiers. The apparatus may comprise a plurality of access lines shared by the strings. Each of the plurality of access lines may be coupled to the charge storage devices corresponding to a respective tier of the plurality of tiers. The apparatus may comprise a plurality of sub-sources associated with the strings. Each of the plurality of sub-sources may be coupled to a source select gate of each string of a respective subset of a plurality of subsets of the strings, and each sub-source may be independently selectable from other sub-sources to select the strings of its respective subset independently of other strings corresponding to other subsets. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152272 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DISCHARGING CONTROL GATES AFTER PERFORMING AN ACCESS OPERATION ON A MEMORY CELL - Methods, and apparatus configured to perform similar methods, might include performing an access operation on a memory cell of an array of memory cells, discharging a control gate of a first field-effect transistor after performing the access operation, discharging a control gate of a second field-effect transistor connected in series between the first field-effect transistor and the memory cell after discharging the control gate of the first field-effect transistor, and discharging a control gate of the memory cell after discharging the control gate of the second field-effect transistor. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152273 | VERTICAL MEMORY DEVICE HAVING IMPROVED ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A method of operating a memory device including a substrate; at least one dummy word line over the substrate; a plurality of word lines over the dummy word line; and a plurality of vertical holes extending through the at least one dummy word line and the plurality of word lines in a direction perpendicular to the substrate and classified into channel holes and dummy holes, each of the channel holes being connected to a bit line, the method including: performing an erase operation on dummy cells formed as the dummy word line and the dummy holes; verifying the erase operation; and performing a program operation on at least one of the dummy cells such that the at least one dummy cell has a higher threshold voltage than main cells formed as the dummy word line and the channel holes. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152274 | DATA STORAGE APPARATUS, OPERATING METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE SYSTEM INCLUDING DATA STORAGE APPARATUS - A data storage apparatus includes a controller configured to control data input to and output from a storage according to a request transmitted from a host apparatus, a buffer memory configured to store data transmitted and received between the host apparatus and the storage, and the storage including a plurality of memory cells and a verification component configured to verify a state of a target memory cell before write data is programmed in the target memory cell while the write data is transmitted from the host apparatus in response to a write request of the host apparatus. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152275 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR INITIALIZING CHANNEL IN NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE - A method for initializing a channel in a non-volatile memory device comprising a memory block including a plurality of word lines and a plurality of string selection lines, includes applying a voltage to the plurality of string selection lines; converting a bit line passing through the block into a floating state; and a releasing the floating state of the bit line. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152276 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE AND A READ METHOD THEREOF - A non-volatile memory device including: a page buffer configured to latch a plurality of page data constituting one bit page of a plurality of bit pages, and a control logic configured to compare results of a plurality of read operations performed in response to a high-priority read signal set to select one of a plurality of read signals included in the high-priority read signal set as a high-priority read signal, and determine a low-priority read signal corresponding to the high-priority read signal, wherein the high-priority read signal set is for reading high-priority page data, and the low-priority read signal is for reading low-priority page data. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152277 | CHARGE PUMP AND MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A charge pump includes: a charging unit including a first n-type transistor connected between an input terminal configured to receive an input voltage and a first node, a second n-type transistor connected between the input terminal and a second node, a first gate control element configured to control the first n-type transistor based on a first clock signal and a second gate control element configured to control the second n-type transistor based on a second clock signal having a phase opposite to the first clock signal; a first pumping capacitor including one end connected to the first node and an other end configured to receive the first clock signal; a second pumping capacitor including one end connected to the second node and an other end configured to receive the second clock signal; and an output unit. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152278 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING READ VOLTAGES FOR A READ OPERATION - Methods of operating a memory, as well as memory configured to perform such method, include applying an intermediate read voltage to a selected access line for a read operation, adding noise to a sensing operation while applying the intermediate read voltage, determining a value indicative of a number of memory cells of a plurality of memory cells connected to the selected access line that are activated in response to applying the intermediate read voltage to the selected access line, and determining a plurality of read voltages for the read operation in response to the value indicative of the number of memory cells of the plurality of memory cells that are activated in response to applying the intermediate read voltage to the selected access line. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152279 | STORAGE DEVICE MONITORING AND STORING ON CELL COUNTS OF BLOCKS AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - A storage device includes a non-volatile memory including a plurality of blocks, a buffer memory, and a controller that stores an on-cell count in the buffer memory, the on-cell count indicating a number of memory cells, which are turned on by a read level applied to a reference word line of each of the plurality of blocks, from among memory cells connected to the reference word line. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152280 | READ DISTURB SCAN CONSOLIDATION - A processing device in a memory system determines that a first metric of a first memory unit on a first plane of a memory device satisfies a first threshold criterion. The processing device further determines whether a second metric of a second memory unit on a second plane of the memory device satisfies a second threshold criterion, wherein the second block is associated with the first block, and wherein the second threshold criterion is lower than the first threshold criterion. Responsive to the second metric satisfying the second threshold criterion, the processing device performs a multi-plane data integrity operation to determine a first reliability statistic for the first memory unit and a second reliability statistic for the second memory unit in parallel. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152281 | Post Write Erase Conditioning - A storage device with a charge trapping (CT) based memory may include improved data retention performance. Data retention problems, such as charge loss in CT memory may increase for a particular programmed state when a neighboring state is at erased state. Modifying the erase state with post write erase conditioning (PWEC) by pushing up deeply erased states can reduce the lateral charge movement and improve high temperature data retention. In particular, the erase state may be reprogrammed such that the erase distribution is tighter with a higher voltage. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152282 | PROGRAMMING PROCESS COMBINING ADAPTIVE VERIFY WITH NORMAL AND SLOW PROGRAMMING SPEEDS IN A MEMORY DEVICE - Techniques are provided to adaptively determine when to begin verify tests for memory cells during a program operation. The memory cells are programmed using a normal programming speed until their threshold voltage exceeds an initial verify voltage. The memory cells are then programmed further using a reduced programming speed until their threshold voltage exceeds a final verify voltage. In one aspect, a count of memory cells which exceeds the initial verify voltage is used to determine when to begin verify tests for a higher data state. In another aspect, a count of the higher state memory cells which exceeds the initial or final verify voltage is used to determine when to begin verify tests for the higher data state. The counted memory cells are not subject to the reduced programming speed. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152283 | SHIFT REGISTER UNIT AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, GATE DRIVING CIRCUIT, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A shift register unit, a gate driving circuit, a display device, and a driving method are disclosed. The shift register unit includes an input circuit, a first control circuit, and an output circuit. The input circuit is configured to receive an input signal and control a level of a first control node according to the input signal and in response to a first clock signal; the first control circuit is configured to control a level of a first node under control of the level of the first control node and the first clock signal; and the output circuit is configured to receive a first voltage of a first voltage terminal and output the first voltage to an output terminal under control of the level of the first node. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152284 | Flexible and Efficient Device Trim Support Using eFuse - A one-time write, read-only memory for storing trimming parameters includes an address pointer table, a fixed packet portion, and a flexible packet portion. The fixed packet portion includes one or more fixed packets, each fixed packet including trimming parameters for a component identified for trimming during a design phase. The flexible packet portion includes one or more flexible packets of different types. Each flexible packet includes trimming parameters for a component identified for trimming after the design phase. One packet type includes a length section and a number of fields equal to a value stored in the length section. Each field includes an address, a trimming parameter, and a mask. Another packet type includes trimming parameters associated with operands in operating instructions for a microcontroller, where the operands include an address and a mask. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152285 | MEMORY DEVICE AND BUILT-IN SELF TEST METHOD THEREOF - A memory device including a self-test circuit, a memory cell array, a power voltage generator, and a redundant row address replacement circuit is provided. The self-test circuit is configured to generate a self-test data signal and a power voltage control signal. The memory cell array receives the self-test data signal and outputs a self-test failure signal. The power voltage generator generates a word line power voltage according to a power voltage control signal. The redundant row address replacement circuit receives the word line power voltage and the self-test failure signal to provide a redundant word line address to the memory cell array. The power voltage generator is configured to provide the word line power voltage in a built-in self-test (BIST) mode to be lower than the word line power voltage in a normal mode. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152286 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND TEST SYSTEM - A memory system includes a memory device including a test region; and a processor configured to write pattern data transferred from a host device to a pattern data region included in the test region, read test data from the test region, and transmit the read test data to the host device. A position of the pattern data region may be adjustable in the test region. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152287 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE PERFORMING TRAINING ON MEMORY DEVICE BY RANK UNIT AND TRAINING METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device includes a memory device including first and second ranks, and a system-on-chip that exchanges data with the memory device. The system-on-chip loads a first training code to the first rank and performs a first training operation on the second rank using the first training code loaded to the first rank, and loads the first training code to the second rank and performs a second training operation on the first rank using the first training code loaded to the second rank. The system-on-chip generates a first reference voltage for sampling output data of the first rank, and generates a second reference voltage for sampling output data of the second rank. The first and second reference voltages are generated based on a first result of performing the first training operation on the second rank, and a second result of performing the second training operation on the first rank. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152288 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING EFFECT OF GENOMIC VARIATIONS ON PRE-MRNA SPLICING - This disclosure relates generally to method and system for predicting effect of genomic variations on pre-mRNA splicing. The method include receiving genomic position information of at least one candidate variant, gene transcripts and genomic coordinates information of the gene transcripts; classifying the at least one candidate variant into one of a splice acceptor site region and a branch site region based on the coordinates information of the gene transcripts and the genomic position information of at least one candidate variant; evaluating effect of the at least one candidate variant on pre-mRNA splicing, based on a classified region from the classification of the at least one candidate variant and predicting pathogenicity of the at least one candidate variant based on the evaluated effect of the at least one candidate variant on the pre-mRNA splicing. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152289 | COMPRESSED SENSING FOR SCREENING AND TISSUE IMAGING - The present invention relates to tissue and cell imaging utilizing genomic informatics and gene-expression profiling. Gene-expression profiles utilized in methods to obtain in situ imaging of cells and tissues provide complex molecular fingerprints regarding the relative state of a cell or tissue. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152290 | METHODS FOR PREPARING OLIGONUCLEOTIDES FOR DETECTING TARGET NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCES WITH A MAXIMUM COVERAGE - The present invention relates to optimization logic for preparing an optimal introduction of degenerate bases and/or universal bases into an oligonucleotide used to detect a plurality of target nucleic acid sequences, in a completely different approach from conventional methods, i.e., empirical and manual methods. In addition, the optimization logic of the present invention may be used in (i) the preparation of an oligonucleotide into which a limited number of degenerate bases and/or universal bases are introduced for detecting a plurality of target nucleic acid sequences with a maximum target coverage, and (ii) the determination of a probing region in a plurality of target nucleic acid sequences. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152291 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATED SEQUENCE DETERMINATION USING PATTERN-DIRECTED ALIGNED PATTERN CLUSTERING - There is provided a system and method for automated sequence determination using pattern-directed aligned pattern clustering. The method includes: determining a set of seed patterns; generating an address table mapping the determined sets of seed patterns to occurrences of sequences of seed patterns in the protein nucleotide sequence; determining a breakpoint gap between two respective seed patterns in an occurrence of one of the sequences in the address table; for each sequence of seed patterns in the address table, where there is a breakpoint gap, merging the respective seed patterns in the sequence surrounding the breakpoint gap with the breakpoint gap into an extended seed pattern, otherwise merging the respective seed patterns in the sequence into an extended seed pattern; and determining rare mutant patterns from the extended seed patterns by comparing extended seed patterns. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152292 | ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE CAUSATION IDENTIFICATION - A system to identify genes that confer antibiotic resistance, comprising: a processor configured to: (i) identify a set of genes present in a sample of genome sequences sequenced from potentially pathogenic isolates; (ii) generate a genome sequence without the identified set of genes; (iii) generate a gene presence-absence matrix listing the genes present in each of the genome sequences, comprising an identification of each of the plurality of genes and an identification of each of the plurality of genome sequences, and comprising an identification of whether each of the genome sequences is obtained from an organism resistant to at least one antibiotic, and further comprising an identification of either presence or absence of the respective gene within the respective genome sequence; and (iv) identify at least one gene or mutation in the plurality of genome sequences associated with antibiotic resistance; and a user interface configured to provide a report. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152293 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR APPLICATION OF ENHANCED CONTROLS WITH A GENOMIC COMPUTING PLATFORM - A system and method for genomic sample processing in a computing system using an enhanced spike-in that includes specifying a genetic control sequence; registering the genetic control sequence to a genetic database of the computing system; in association with a genomic sample, detecting a detected instance of the control sequence in a collection of genetic data collected for the genomic sample; and augmenting sample management of the genomic sample within the computing system according to the detected instance of the control sequence. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152294 | METHOD FOR CALIBRATING A DATA SET OF A TARGET ANALYTE USING AN ANALYTE-INSUSCEPTIBLE SIGNAL VALUE - The present invention relates to a method for calibrating a data set of a target analyte in a sample using an analyte-in-susceptible signal value, wherein the analyte-insusceptible signal value is provided by a background-representing signal value of the data set or by a total signal change value of a standard data set. The present method is very convenient and effective in removing the inter- and intra-instrument signal variations of data sets. Furthermore, since the present method can be configured in software, the instant method is capable of being applied universally to various analytical instruments (e.g., a real-time PCR instrument) regardless of manufacturer. Accordingly, the method by the present invention would be very useful in diagnostic data analysis. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152295 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT COMPOUND LIBRARY CREATION - The disclosure provides methods and systems for identifying a subset of compounds in a plurality of compounds. The identifying includes obtaining, for each compound, a vector including a set of elements, where each element includes a measurement of a different feature of an instance of a cell context upon exposure to the compound. The identifying includes repeating the obtaining for a plurality of cell contexts, to obtain a plurality of vectors for each compound across different cell contexts. The identifying includes combining the vectors for each compound to form a combined vector for each compound, thereby forming a plurality of combined vectors representing different compounds. The identifying includes pruning the plurality of compounds to the subset of compounds based on a similarity between respective combined vectors in the plurality of combined vectors corresponding to compounds in the plurality of compounds. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152296 | DIAGNOSING AND TREATING NEUROLOGICAL IMPAIRMENTS - A method administers a therapeutic treatment for a neurological impairment of a patient. One or more processor(s) display query content on a display, and then receive responses to the query content from a patient. The processor(s) identify a physiological locus of a neurological impairment of the patient based on the responses to the query content from the patient, and administer a therapeutic treatment to the patient based on the identified physiological locus of the neurological impairment of the patient. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152297 | AUTOMATED CONSTRUCTION OF PATIENT CARE TOOL USER INTERFACE USING THREE-TIERED ARCHITECTURE - A system for constructing a patient assessment user interface. The system comprises at least one processor, a data store, wherein the data store stores an assessment template in a format comprising a plurality of human readable attribute-value pairs, wherein the assessment template identifies the format of an assessment, a memory, and an assessment component stored in the memory. When executed by the at least one processor, the assessment component receives a request for an assessment form from a patient care giver tool user interface (UI), creates an assessment form based on the assessment template, transmits the assessment form to the patient care giver tool UI, receives assessment input from the patient care giver tool UI, and stores the assessment input along with associated portions of the assessment template in the format comprising a plurality of human readable attribute-value pairs in a column of a table in the data store. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152298 | BODY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A computing system, device, and/or method with utilizes one or more processors which receive at least a first image and a second image, the one or more processors may determine a starting calories content of a first consumable item from extracting data from the first image and an ending calories content of the first consumable item from extracting data from the second image, the one or more processors may determine a first consumed calories by calculating a difference between the starting calories content of the first consumable item and the ending calories content of the first consumable item. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152299 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REQUESTING AND TRANSMITTING MEDICAL RECORDS BETWEEN MEDICAL PROVIDERS ON UNAFFILIATED MEDICAL DATA NETWORKS - The present invention relates, in general, to systems and methods that allow medical providers to request and send medical records, and in particular medical imaging studies, across disparate data exchange networks, and between medical providers that are not part of a same or affiliated data exchange network, thereby eliminating the need for physical media to be created and physically delivered. The present invention further relates to allowing individual patients to transmit medical records to requesting medical providers. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152300 | METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PROVIDING A HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT PLATFORM - The present invention is directed to a method for providing a healthcare management platform. Specifically, an application server may be implemented to provide a website or application for access to various user portals of the platform while providing the facility's management with analytical tools such as real-time patient satisfaction. For example, a patient may be given access to a private patient portal in order to at least submit performance surveys of employees of the facility. A patient may designate guests, who may access the patient portal as would the associated patient. An employee may be given access to a private employee portal in order to at least redeem virtual currency awarded automatically via positive survey results. An administrator may be given access to an administrator portal in order to at least view employee survey data. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152301 | CLINICAL INTERFACE - A system and device for collecting and delivering smoker statistics to an external storage device that accurately describe a smoker's smoking habits. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152302 | Capturing Detailed Structure From Patient-Doctor Conversations for Use in Clinical Documentation - A method and system is provided for assisting a user to assign a label to words or spans of text in a transcript of a conversation between a patient and a medical professional and form groupings of such labelled words or spans of text in the transcript. The transcript is displayed on an interface of a workstation. A tool is provided for highlighting spans of text in the transcript consisting of one or more words. Another tool is provided for assigning a label to the highlighted spans of text. This tool includes a feature enabling searching through a set of predefined labels available for assignment to the highlighted span of text. The predefined labels encode medical entities and attributes of the medical entities. The interface further includes a tool for creating groupings of related highlighted spans of texts. The tools can consist of mouse action or key strokes or a combination thereof. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152303 | METHODS FOR ELECTRONICALLY PROCESSING INSURANCE CLAIMS AND DEVICES THEREOF - Disclosed technology includes identifying injury data in an electronic medical claim data associated with a claimant based diagnosis code data present in the electronic medical claim data. Presence of historical claim data including initial injury data represented by initial diagnosis code data associated with the claimant for the electronic medical claim data is determined. At least one type of clinical correlation of a plurality of clinical correlations between the identified injury data represented by the diagnosis code data and the initial injury data represented by the initial diagnosis code data is identified when historical claim data is determined to be present for the claimant. Claim processing guidance data to process the electronic medical claim data is provided based on the identified at least one type of correlation between the identified injury data represented by the diagnosis code data and the initial injury data represented by the initial diagnosis code data. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152304 | Systems And Methods For Intelligent Voice-Based Journaling And Therapies - A system for providing therapies from voice-based journaling, the system includes a processor, and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor. The memory itself includes a journaling logic to receive a plurality of voice journal entries from a user. The received voice journal entries include at least voice data and contextual data. An analyzer logic is also included to extract textual data from the plurality of voice journal entries, generate a sentiment analysis score based on the textual data, generate an emotional classification score based on the voice data, the textual data and the contextual data, and determine user recommendations as therapies based on the sentiment analysis score, emotional classification score, voice data, textual data, and contextual data. A user interface logic then displays the user recommendations to the user and can receive, from the user, feedback data associated with the user recommendation to be used in future user recommendations. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152305 | HEALTHCARE COMPLIANCE PROCESS OVER A NETWORK - A method and system for increasing compliance with a prescribed treatment protocol is provided. The system includes a network operating over one or more servers configured to provide a portal that supports interactions with healthcare practitioners and their patients. The network is configured to receive a first plurality of real-time data associated with one or more patients in order to generate a prescribed treatment protocol. The network is further configured to provide a second plurality of real-time data associated with medication, supplements, and other applicable information relating to the prescribed treatment protocol. The network performs one or more analysis functions based on the pluralities of data in order to provide analytic and micro-analytic data relating to compliance with the prescribed treatment protocol to the healthcare practitioner and/or the one or more patients. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152306 | MEDICATION REQUISITION FULFILLMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and associated method are provided for fulfillment of medication requisitions corresponding to contained medication units. Requisition fulfillment logic may be included to provide decision data to a patient care provider for use in selecting one of a plurality of different fulfillment sites to fill a given medication requisition. A requisition router may route the medication requisition to a selected one of the plurality of fulfillment sites. The fulfillment sites may provide medication requisition metadata (e.g., data relating to the preparation and handling of medication units) to a medication requisition database in corresponding relation to the corresponding medication requisitions fulfilled by the fulfillment sites. The medication requisition metadata may be stored in the medication requisition database and accessed to facilitate enhanced management functionalities in relation to medication units dispensed by patient care providers. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152307 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RANKING OPTIONS FOR MEDICAL TREATMENTS - A computer system, computer program product and method for determining a probability of attaining a PK-PD target associated with efficacy for a patient that includes a processor obtaining information identifying an infection and based on the information, generating and displaying, by the one or more processors, a list comprising one or more pathogens consistent with the information, the processor then obtaining a first indication designating at least one pathogen from the list comprising one or more pathogens and based on at the obtaining of the least one pathogen, generating a list comprising one or more drug therapies utilized to treat the at least one pathogen. The method also includes the processor obtaining, descriptive information relating to a patient and based on the one or more drug therapies, selecting a pharmacokinetic model and the processor applying the pharmacokinetic model and utilizing the information relating to the patient to determine, for each of the one or more drug therapies, a probability of attaining a PK-PD target associated with efficacy for the patient with the infection. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152308 | MEDICATION-TAKING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MEDICATION-TAKING MANAGEMENT METHOD, MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - In order to accurately manage medication-taking, a medication-taking management system is provided with: an irradiation unit; an image capture unit; an identification unit; and an output control unit. The irradiation unit irradiates a tablet that moves in a housing with light. The image capture unit captures an image of the tablet being irradiated. The identification unit, on the basis of information representing a feature of a tablet surface obtained from a captured image obtained by means of the image capture unit, identifies the tablet of which an image has been captured. The output control unit outputs an image capture time, indicating the time of acquisition of the captured image, in association with the result of identification. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152309 | MEDICAMENT DISPENSING DEVICE - The invention provides for a metered dose delivery device adapted to dispense a metered dose of a medicament, wherein the metering of the dose is controlled based on a user input and user specific data. The device includes a user interface adapted to receive a user input. The device further includes a communication interface adapted to communicate with a processing unit and adapted to transmit user specific data to, and receive user specific data from, the processing unit. The transmitted and received user specific data includes the user input. The device further includes a control unit adapted to control the metering of the dose of the medicament based on the user input and the received user specific data. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152310 | METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATION SERVICE - An electronic device includes a housing, a communication module positioned inside the housing, a processor positioned inside the housing and operatively connected with the communication module, a sensor module operatively connected with the processor, and a memory positioned inside the housing and operatively connected with the communication module, the sensor module, and the processor. The memory stores instructions configured to, when executed, enable the processor to gather data related to a first user, send a request for a user group corresponding to a first category among a plurality of categories to an external server using the communication module, obtain the user group corresponding to the first category based on at least part of the data related to the first user from the external server using the communication module, and provide information about at least one second user in the obtained user group. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152311 | SURGICAL PLANNING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method receive a request for a patient-specific surgical plan, create the requested plan, and provide it to a surgeon. A Planning server may receive information regarding a patient, such as one or more files or objects, such as an image of the part of the patient's anatomy that is to be operated on, and an order from a surgeon for a surgical plan. A Plan Development client may include a surgical planning module that accesses the digital image from the Planning Server, and creates a computer-generated, three-dimensional model of the patient anatomy. The planning module of the Plan Development client also may create an electronic surgical plan, and may transmit the plan to the Planning server. The ordering surgeon may be notified of the availability of the plan, and may access the plan stored at the Planning server through a surgeon client. The ordering surgeon may utilize the remotely generated surgical plan during the surgical procedure on the patient. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152312 | Systems for Nutritional Monitoring and Management - This invention is a system for nutritional monitoring and management which includes a camera, a spectroscopic sensor, a fiducial component, a wearable biometric sensor, a smart utensil or dish, a passive feedback mechanism which provides a person with information concerning food item types and/or quantities, and an active stimulus mechanism which modifies the person's food-related physiological processes. This system can help a person to improve their dietary habits and health. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152313 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VERIFICATION OF MEDICATION ADHERENCE - A system and method of confirming administration of medication in a clinical trial is provided. The method comprises the steps of receiving information identifying a particular medication prescription regimen in accordance with the clinical trial, determining one or more procedures for administering such prescription regimen and identifying one or more activity sequences associated with such procedures. Activity sequences of actual administration of such prescription regimen are captured and then compared to the identified activity sequences to determine differences therebetween. A notice is provided if differences are determined. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152314 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION AND AUTOMATIC BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT - Systems and methods for human-machine interaction using a conversation system. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152315 | MEDICAL USER INTERFACE - A system including a medical device to form a 3D image of an anatomical structure in a body of a living subject, a user interface including a display and an input device, and a processor to prepare a user interface screen presentation including a graphical representation of the anatomical structure based on the 3D image, generate a feature list of a plurality of features associated with the anatomical structure, each feature having a respective location, render the user interface screen presentation to the display showing a first view of the graphical representation, receive an input from the user interface selecting a feature from the list, and render the user interface screen presentation to the display showing the graphical representation of the anatomical structure being automatically rotated from the first view to a second view showing the selected feature at the respective location on the graphical representation. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152316 | METHOD FOR MANAGING ANNOTATION JOB, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM SUPPORTING THE SAME - A computing device obtains information about a medical slide image, and determines a dataset type of the medical slide image and a panel of the medical slide image. The computing device assigns to an annotator account, an annotation job defined by at least the medical slide image, the determined dataset type, an annotation task, and a patch that is a partial area of the medical slide image. The annotation task includes the determined panel, and the panel is designated as one of a plurality of panels including a cell panel, a tissue panel, and a structure panel. The dataset type indicates a use of the medical slide image and is designated as one of a plurality of uses including a training use of a medical learning model and a validation use of the machine learning model. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152317 | Medical Registration System - Patient identification is transmitted to a health care provider prior to the patient arriving at the health care provider. The patient identification may be a driver's license, health insurance card, or other identification, and may be used to pre-register the patient. The transmission may include other information, such as health status, purpose of visit, intended procedures, symptoms, or other information. The transmission may be made via a device, such as a cellular telephone, where the information may be encrypted and transmitted using a secure mechanism. The system may be used by ambulance personnel, paramedics, or other emergency responders to notify a hospital, for example, of an inbound patient, as well as by patients prior to an appointment. The system may also be used by clinicians or other health care providers to prepare for emergent or non-emergent patients prior to arrival. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152318 | Release of Medical Modules of a Medical Kit - The invention relates to a method performed by at least one apparatus, the method comprising: Obtaining release information representative of a release of a medical module of a medical kit comprising one or more medical modules; and releasing or triggering release of the medical module of the medical kit. The invention further relates to a method performed by at least one apparatus, the method comprising obtaining a user input of a user indicating the release of a medical module of a medical kit comprising one or more medical modules; and providing release information representative of the release of the medical module of the medical kit. The invention also relates to corresponding apparatuses, computer program products and computer-readable storage media. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152319 | SCHEDULING A TASK FOR A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL - According to an aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method of scheduling a task for a medical professional. The method has steps of obtaining patient characteristics associated with a patient and obtaining test subject characteristics associated with a plurality of test subjects. A task to be performed in relation to a patient is then identified based on the patient characteristics, the test subject characteristics and one or more tasks performed on the test subjects. The method then comprises scheduling, using a processor, the identified task for the medical professional. A computer program product is also disclosed. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152320 | MEDICAL TREATMENT METRIC MODELLING BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING - In one example, an apparatus comprises a treatment metric model database that stores a plurality of treatment metric models, each of the plurality of treatment metric models being generated for a first cluster of cluster features vectors, each cluster feature vector representing a distribution for each of a plurality of data categories of patients data represented by patient feature vectors clustered in a second cluster. The apparatus is further configured to: receive patient characteristics features data of a patient; identify a first treatment metric model based on the patient characteristics features data of the patient; input the first patient characteristic features data and data representing a range of administrations of the treatment to the first treatment metric model to compute a range of the treatment metric; and select an administration of the treatment from the range of administrations of the treatment having optimal treatment metric. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152321 | COST OF HEALTHCARE ANALYTICS PLATFORM - Implementations directed to identifying variables affecting a cost of healthcare include actions of receiving data from a plurality of data sources, the data relating to cost of providing healthcare, providing a data model based on the data, processing the data model using non-parametric analysis to provide a non-parametric result, the non-parametric result including a first and second variable, automatically processing the data model to correlate at least the first variable of the non-parametric result to the second variable of the non-parametric result to provide a correlation result, processing the correlation result using parametric analysis to provide a parametric result including at least one variable that affects the cost more than one or more other variables of a plurality of variables of the data model, and providing at least one data visualization for display, the at least one data visualization providing at least one graphical representation of the parametric result. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152322 | ACCEPTANCE, COMMISSIONING, AND ONGOING BENCHMARKING OF A LINEAR ACCELERATOR (LINAC) USING AN ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICE (EPID) - The present invention is a method or system for acceptance testing and commissioning of a LINAC and treatment planning system (TPS). For a LINAC commissioning, the present invention collects reference data from a fully calibrated LINAC and compares the reference data with machine performance data collected from a testing LINAC. The compared results are analyzed to assess accuracy of the testing LINAC. For a TPS commissioning, the present invention collects standard reference data from standard treatment plans and standard input data and compares the standard reference data with results from standard tests that are performed by a testing treatment plan system. The compares results are analyzed to assess accuracy of the testing treatment plan system. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152323 | METHODS FOR TRACKING AND RESPONDING TO MENTAL HEALTH CHANGES IN A USER - One variation of a method for tracking and responding to mental health changes in a user, the method includes: rendering a graphical object within a graphical user interface; indexing an emotion value assigned to the graphical object through a spectrum of emotion values according to a direction of an input into the graphical user interface; within the graphical user interface, updating the graphical object to visually correspond to the emotion value assigned to the graphical object; recording submission of a final emotion value through the graphical user interface; and in response to the final emotion value equaling a trigger value, distributing a prompt to monitor the user to an external entity. | 2020-05-14 |
20200152324 | Mobile Medicine Communication Platform and Methods and Uses Thereof - Telemedicine systems and methods are described. In a telemedicine system operable to communicate with a remote operations center, communications can be transmitted/received using a transceiver having an antenna. The antenna can include first and second di-pole antenna elements, the first di-pole antenna element being vertically polarized and the second di-pole antenna element being horizontally polarized. A controller of the system can establish, using the transceiver, a telemedicine session with the operations center using a Transport Morphing Protocol (TMP), the TMP being an acknowledgement-based user datagram protocol. The controller can also mask one or more transient network degradations to increase resiliency of the telemedicine session. The telemedicine system can include a 2D and 3D carotid Doppler and transcranial Doppler and/or other diagnostic devices, and provides for real-time connectivity and communication between medical personnel in an emergency vehicle and a receiving hospital for immediate diagnosis and treatment to a patient in need. | 2020-05-14 |