Abstract: A bone cutting and joint realignment instrument may include an integrated spacer body, bone preparation guide, and fulcrum body. The spacer body is configured to be inserted into a joint space between a metatarsal and an opposed cuneiform of a foot. The bone preparation guide body is affixed to the spacer body with the spacer body extending downwardly from the bone preparation guide body. The bone preparation guide body can define at least one guide surface configured to be positioned over at least one of the metatarsal and the opposed cuneiform. The fulcrum body may be rotatably coupled to the spacer body within a bounded range of rotation, such as a bounded range of less than 45 degree. The fulcrum body can be configured to be inserted in an intermetatarsal space between the metatarsal and an adjacent metatarsal.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided useful in various procedures, including hair harvesting and implantation, and further including computer-implemented and/or robotic hair transplantation. Methodologies are provided which enable selection of follicular unit harvesting or implanting sites within the same row in a direction of travel of the tool, or by incrementing to another row. In various cases, such selection may be made using a lowest and closest method, overlap-based methods, position-based methods, pattern-based methods, and/or a combination of these methods. In various combinations of the methods, the output selection from one of the methods may be used as an input for one of the other methods.

Abstract: A system for detecting a vehicle speed, comprising an exterior housing configured to be secured to an exterior surface of a vehicle. A Doppler radar unit contained within the exterior housing and configured to detect a relative speed of a road surface. A wireless transceiver contained within the exterior housing and coupled to the Doppler radar unit, the wireless transceiver configured to transmit data representing the relative speed of the road surface to a system inside of the vehicle that includes a display.

Abstract: A method for determining spin of a projectile comprising generating an electromagnetic radar signal and transmitting the electromagnetic radar signal towards a projectile. Receiving a reflected electromagnetic radar signal from the projectile. Identifying a component of the reflected electromagnetic radar signal, and performing an autocorrelation process on the reflected electromagnetic radar signal using the component to generate an estimate of a spin of the projectile as a function of the autocorrelation process.

Abstract: A method of applying a bone plate across a tarsometatarsal joint or two different portions of a metatarsal may involve positioning a bone plate across a separation between two bone portions. The bone plate can have at least two fixation holes and a bend between the holes. A locking screw can be inserted through one or both holes that has a head thread and a shaft thread, where the shaft thread has a pitch greater than a pitch of the head thread. The locking screw can be screwed into an underlying bone portion until the bend in the bone plate is deformed.

Abstract: Systems and methods for computing device authentication can involve template matching with an authentication filter. Authentication filters can be generated by using an authentication model to determine or generate templates for authenticated classes. For example, simulated signal data sets can be input into the authentication model until an authenticated class classification is output. The successful simulated signal data set may then be used to generate or update an authentication filter that uses the template for template matching authentication classification.

Abstract: A method of providing custom audio processing in an audio device having an embedded audio DSP framework is disclosed. The audio device has an associated application that runs on a personal computing device. The method comprises receiving a notification of the availability of an audio processing configuration file, the audio processing configuration file identifying audio modules, interconnections between the audio modules and related settings for custom audio processing, transmitting a request for the audio processing configuration file from the personal computing device, receiving the audio processing configuration file at the personal computing device, transmitting the audio processing configuration file to the audio device from the personal computing device, and loading the audio processing configuration file into the audio device.

Abstract: Bone-secured dental arch veneers and methods for fabricating and utilizing the same. The dental arch veneers include a veneer assembly having one or more tooth veneers and a support structure configured to support the tooth veneer(s). The dental arch veneers also include a coupling structure configured to interconnect the veneer assembly to a bone mount that is anchored along a user's maxilla or mandible. The coupling structure also is configured to permit the veneer assembly to be selectively and repeatedly interconnected with and disconnected from the bone mount. The methods include determining a target region within the user's mouth, obtaining a representation of the target region, manipulating the representation to create a desired arrangement of the user's teeth within the target region, determining anchoring positions proximate the target region for anchoring the bone mount, and forming the dental arch veneer based on the anchoring positions and the desired arrangement.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for obtaining desired organic compounds from harvested biomass. Some examples include an extraction vessel and a distillery system, where the extraction vessel is configured to wash harvested biomass with a process solvent to obtain a liquid extract, and where the distillery system is configured to distill the extract to separate the process solvent from the extract and obtain a distillate from the extract. Some embodiments additionally include a speedloader configured to load harvested biomass into the extraction vessel and a discharge gantry configured to remove processed biomass from the extraction vessel. In some embodiments, the extraction vessel, distillery system, speedloader, and discharge gantry are mobile and can be deployed “in field” at a harvest location.

Abstract: A method of directional skin tightening by fractional treatment of the skin is provided. The method includes producing a plurality of excised tissue portions in a region of skin tissue. The method further includes applying contraction or expansion tension to the region of skin tissue in at least one predetermined direction. Applying the contraction or expansion tension to the region of skin tissue promotes collagen growth and provides directional skin tightening in the region of skin tissue.

Abstract: A bone positioning guide may include a main body member, a shaft, and a bone engagement member. The shaft can be movably connected to the main body member and have the bone engagement member rotatably coupled to its distal end. The bone engagement member can have a surface configured to engage a bone. The main body member can also include a tip opposite the bone engagement member for engaging a second bone. In use, the bone engagement member may be positioned in contact with a medial side of a first metatarsal while the tip is positioned in contact with a lateral side of a different metatarsal, such as a second metatarsal. The shaft can then be moved to advance the bone engagement member toward the tip, causing realignment of the first metatarsal.

Abstract: A movement assistance and stowage device for a spa cover that is movable relative to a spa opening from a first position at least partially occluding the spa opening, to a second position removed from the spa opening and stowed adjacent the spa body and, when stowed, the spa cover is not substantially above an upper peripheral edge of the spa body, the movement assistance and stowage device providing a mounting body secured to a side portion of the spa body and carrying a pivoting lever arm and a pivoting control lever arm, and both pivoting arms are connected to, and extend between, the mounting body and a channel bracket on a lateral peripheral edge of the spa cover, and pneumatic cylinders extend between the mounting body and lever arm to provide mechanical advantage and control to movement and stowage of the spa cover.

Abstract: A controlled-impedance cable assembly for removably attaching a controlled-impedance cable to a surface of a device. Signal contacts are attached to signal conductors of cables and ground members are coupled to shields of the cables. Ends of the signal conductors and of elongated appendages extending from the ground members are positioned to make a pressure contact to pads and ground lands on the surface. Pressure to make those contacts may come from deflection of the ends of the signal conductors and elongated ground appendages or from a spring. The signal contacts and elongated appendages may be positioned to provide an impedance matching an impedance with the cables.

Abstract: Systems and methods for non-invasively measuring intracranial in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a method for estimating an intracranial pressure of a patient, including introducing a tracer into the blood of a patient, recording, using an imaging device, the traversal of the tracer through a brain of the patient as a kinetic curve, estimating a mean transit time (MTT) of the tracer through the brain of the patient based on the kinetic curve, measuring a mean arterial pressure (MAP) of the patient, calculating an intracranial pressure index as MAP?Ck/MTT, where C is a constant to scale proportional relationships based on healthy patient population characteristics, and k is a constant in pressure/time, and providing the intracranial pressure index. In various embodiments, regions of the brain unaffected by transient vascular abnormalities are identified and are used for data collection.

Abstract: In various implementations, a signage manager may manage digital sign content. The signage manager may transmit playlists and/or media to signage devices to be presented on a display and/or on a set of displays. The signage manger may allow independent customization of playlists. The media items associated with the playlists and presented on display(s) may be stored on a memory of the signal device and/or streamed media from another source.

Abstract: A bone plate can be used to fixate one or more bones. In some examples, the bone plate defines an elongated body having a plurality of fixation holes arrayed at different points along the length of the body. For example, the bone plate may have opposed fixation holes separated by a bridge. The bone plate may be bent or shaped along a central longitudinal axis extending through the elongated body and also twisted around the central longitudinal axis. The bending and twisting can position each fixation hole of the elongated body in a different plane in three-dimensional space.