Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure generally provides a method and apparatus for a polishing article or polishing pad having a microstructure that facilitates uniform conditioning when exposed to laser energy. In one embodiment, a polishing pad comprising a combination of a first material and a second material is provided, and the first material is more reactive to laser energy than the second material. In another embodiment, a method of texturing a composite polishing pad is provided. The method includes directing a laser energy source onto a surface of the polishing pad to affect a greater ablation rate within a first material having a greater laser absorption rate and a lesser ablation rate within a second material having a lesser laser absorption rate to provide a micro-textured surface consistent with microstructure of the composite polishing pad.

Abstract: A system monitor real-time conditions to assess pre-event variations from the norm in order to alert appropriate care-givers to provide timely care for the individual in order to avoid costly and life-changing events, with minimal disruption of life, which may be supported by an integrated system of devices to monitor a patient, including data storage and transfer devices, and a data management engine for assessing and handling the data according to instructions, so as to provide continual, real-time assessment of the individual's condition to provide optimally timed care with minimal disruption of life, including a microphone and camera array to detect incidents and capture varied degrees of visual data, depending on the perceived circumstances, including the capacity to obscure the identity of individuals detected in the video feed.

Abstract: An integrated sales and logistics system for tracking existing and ongoing sales, to develop supplemental sales offers marketed directly to likely supplemental customers located near or along the delivery route to and from a pending customer, along with an assortment of related and tangential tasks and processes that help to optimize the production and logistics capacity of the goods supplier, including the system and process for determining the likelihood of multiple potential customers to create and contact a list of likely supplemental customers.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure generally provides a method and apparatus for a polishing article or polishing pad having a microstructure that facilitates uniform conditioning when exposed to laser energy. In one embodiment, a polishing pad comprising a combination of a first material and a second material is provided, and the first material is more reactive to laser energy than the second material. In another embodiment, a method of texturing a composite polishing pad is provided. The method includes directing a laser energy source onto a surface of the polishing pad to affect a greater ablation rate within a first material having a greater laser absorption rate and a lesser ablation rate within a second material having a lesser laser absorption rate to provide a micro-textured surface consistent with microstructure of the composite polishing pad.