Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing vehicle collisions based on driver risk groups are provided. A plurality of vehicle operators may be classified into a driver risk group based on one or more attributes (e.g., location, workplace, school, demographic, hobby, interest, etc.) shared by the plurality of vehicle operators. Vehicle sensor data (e.g., speed data, acceleration data, braking data, cornering data, following distance data, turn signal data, seatbelt use data, etc.) associated with each of the plurality of vehicle operators of the driver risk group may be analyzed. Based on the analysis of the vehicle sensor data, one or more indicia of safe driving behavior associated with the driver risk group may be identified. In response to a third-party query regarding a vehicle operator in the driver risk group, an indication of the safe driving behavior associated with the driver risk group may be provided to the third party.

Abstract: A method of altering a refractive property of a crosslinked acrylic polymer material by irradiating the material with a high energy pulsed laser beam to change its refractive index. The method is used to alter the refractive property, and hence the optical power, of an implantable intraocular lens after implantation in the patient's eye. In some examples, the wavelength of the laser beam is in the far red and near IR range and the light is absorbed by the crosslinked acrylic polymer via two-photon absorption at high laser pulse energy. The method also includes designing laser beam scan patterns that compensate for effects of multiphone absorption such as a shift in the depth of the laser pulse absorption location, and compensate for effects caused by high laser pulse energy such as thermal lensing. The method can be used to form a Fresnel lens in the optical zone.

Abstract: Wear members for wear assemblies include a lock configured to secure the wear member to a base, where the lock has two engagement positions, namely: (a) a first position that secures the lock to the wear member, and (b) a second position that secures the wear member to the base. The locks are further configured to be unlatched and removed from the wear member in two phases, a first retraction of the latching mechanism, followed by a rotation of the lock itself with removal from the wear member.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses monitor mammal conditions, report condition changes, and provide neurocode-based treatment in response to condition changes. A mammal implantable controller includes modules to monitor, wirelessly communicate to external computers, and administer treatment received from a remote computer based on monitoring of changes in mammal condition as analyzed by the remote computer. External computers can be provided in the form of a mobile device (e.g., smartphone/tablet), resident treatment pods, and treatment servers. Treatment can be provided to change biological function or trigger cell death in cancer cells.

Abstract: An improved systems and methods to reduce and remove particulate matter and chemical pollutants from flue gasses. Specifically, the invention relates to waste incinerator furnaces and devices and methods for improved combustion, destruction and removal of undesirable particulate and gaseous environmental contaminants and pollutants.

Abstract: A system performs digital notarization using a biometric identification service. A signature requesting service receives a request to validate a digital item with a signature for a person. The signature requesting service provides a payload that identifies the digital item and/or the person to an identity service. The identity service obtains one or more digital representations of biometrics for the person, determines an identity for the person, and returns a data structure including the payload and one or more identity attestations regarding the determined identity. The identity service encrypts at least a portion of the data structure using a private encryption key. A public encryption key for the identity service can then be used to decrypt the portion to verify that the data structure was generated by the identity service after determining the identity. In this way, validation can be verified to the full trust level of the identification service.

Abstract: A device assembly having a syndicated data service interface that is communicatively coupled to a vendor-specific syndicated data application platform and having an installed vendor specific syndicated data application, with the interface receiving point-to-multipoint non-addressed transport bearer channels of different syndicated data channel transport networks initially only including the monitoring of the syndicated data channels and not decoding the syndicated data messages or syndicated data informational data contained therein, identifying from the transport bearer channels a received syndicated data channel having an syndicated data channel identifier of the specific syndicated data device, and reading the syndicated data messages within the received syndicated data channel and extracting the syndicated data supplier-independent informational data from the syndicated data message and providing the extracted syndicated data informational data to at least one of the installed vendor specific syndicated d

Abstract: A method for facilitating communication between application components is provided. The method comprises invoking, by a data consumer, a data contract by requesting data, wherein the data contract specifies communication parameters between application components. The data contract identifies and invokes a provider component in response to the invocation by the data consumer. The provider translates input data from the data consumer to construct a producer request and sends the producer request to a data producer. The data producer sends output data to the provider in response to the producer request. The provider translates and sends the output data to the data contract, and the data contract send the translated output data to the data consumer.

Abstract: The application describes a computer-implemented apparatus that includes a non-transitory memory having instructions stored thereon for assigning address space in a network. The apparatus also includes a processor, operably coupled to the non-transitory memory, configured to execute at least the instruction of receiving a solicitation from a router in the network. The processor is also configured to execute the instruction of replying to the solicitation with address space. The processor is also configured to execute the instruction of receiving a second solicitation from the router to register a new address. The processor is further configured to execute the instruction of determining if the new address is from a dedicated address space or a shared address space. The processor is even further configured to execute the instruction of sending a neighbor advertisement with the address registration to the router.

Abstract: A process for assembling microelectronic or semiconductor chips, comprising: providing a semiconductor chip having an active face with a connection pad; coating the active face of the semiconductor chip with a conformal dielectric material layer, such that the connection pad is completely coated by the conformal dielectric material layer; temporarily adhering the active face of the semiconductor chip to a carrier wafer; temporarily adhering the carrier wafer to a wafer-with-a-through-cavity such that the semiconductor chip extends into the through-cavity; assembling the semiconductor chip to the wafer-with-the-through-cavity by filling the through-cavity with a heat spreader material; releasing the assembled semiconductor chip and wafer-with-the-through-cavity from the carrier wafer; removing the conformal dielectric material layer from at least a portion of the connection pad; and forming an electrical connection to said at least a portion of the connection pad.

Abstract: Creating and managing linked decentralized identifiers for an entity. A parent decentralized identifier of an entity has an associated parent private key. A determination is made that a child decentralized identifier is to be created for the parent decentralized identifier. In response to the determination, the parent private key is used to generate a child private key, and a child decentralized identifier is created by at least assigning the generated child private key as the private key for the child decentralized identifier. Each of the decentralized identifiers may be associated with a permission to another entity. The permission associated with the child decentralized identifier may not be broader than the permission granted to the parent decentralized identifier.

Abstract: The described technologies leverage a trained evaluation function to analyze an email message to determine if a password is included in the text of the email message. The text of the email message may be vectorized using a character lookup table including vector values for each ASCII character. The trained evaluation function analyzes the vectorized text to determine if a password is included in the text of the mail message. An email message found to include a password may be placed in a quarantine storage to at least temporality prevent the email message from being disseminated to a recipient.

Abstract: An acoustic receiver includes a first receiver subassembly having a bottom housing plate with a motor assembly fastened thereto, and a second receiver subassembly having a closed-ended receiver housing sidewall fastened to the bottom housing plate that includes at least one sidewall opening where a portion of the acoustic receiver is disposed in the at least one sidewall opening.

Abstract: The present invention provides a tampon pledget with one or more of the following properties: increased absorbency rate; high absorbent capacity and fluid retention; rapid expansion potential; and ease of ejection of the pledget from the applicator. Surprisingly, the one or more properties are achieved by using a modified dual cross-pad, folded, compressed tampon pledget design.

Abstract: A display system is disclosed. The display system includes a merchandise display and a platform. The platform has the merchandise display mounted upon it. The platform includes: a processor; a weighing element in communication with the processor; and a wireless communications device in communication with the processor, wherein the platform is operable to communicate information about the weight change of the merchandise display with an external system.

Abstract: A wearable for providing light therapy to a wearer includes at least one fabric panel having an inner surface that when the wearable is worn is configured to face a wearer's skin and an outer surface opposite the inner surface and at least one side-emitting optical fiber affixed to at least one of the inner surface and the outer surface. The side-emitting optical fiber is optically connectable with an optical fiber light source and configured to project light having a therapeutic wavelength toward a wearer of the wearable. When affixed to the fabric panel, the side-emitting optical fiber can have a length in meters no less than the quotient of 0.46 and the average attenuation of the at least one side-emitting optical fiber.

Abstract: In some embodiments, a method includes a shaft having a side catheter guide attached thereto via a guide coupler into an inferior vena cava and a superior vena cava such that the guide coupler is disposed in a right atrium, and applying a distal force to a proximal portion of the side catheter guide such that a distal end of the side catheter guide deflects laterally about the guide coupler towards a septum. The method further includes extending a side catheter that is disposed within the side catheter guide distally from the side catheter guide towards and into contact with the septum. The method further includes, with the side catheter in contact with the septum, extending a septum penetrator that is slidably disposed within the side catheter distally from the side catheter such that the septum penetrator pierces the septum.