Abstract: An identity verification system enables peer-to-peer authentication in a potentially insecure channel by leveraging a secure channel communication. The system authenticates a user via an identity verification application. The system provides a validation code to the user. The user communicates the validation code to a counterparty of the peer-to-peer communication. The system receives a request to authenticate the counterparty with the validation code and counterparty authentication data. The system authenticates the counterparty and sends the user the authentication of the counterparty. Alternatively, the user device communicates a request to generate a secure code for participants in a first insecure group application session. The user device selects an authenticated counterparty to receive the secure code from a list of authenticated counterparties. The user creates a second application session using the secure code as a password.

Abstract: Systems and methods for a clutch assembly. The clutch assembly includes a first clutch pack coupled to a component via a rotational connection component and a second clutch pack coupled to a drum via the rotational connection component. The clutch assembly further includes an actuation piston configured to actuate the first clutch pack and the second clutch pack.

Abstract: For a radio frequency (RF) receiver system (1) for providing magnetic resonance (MR) information from an examination space of a MR imaging system, a solution for increasing the dynamic range of the radio frequency (RF) receiver system (1) for a better imaging performance shall be created. A sigma delta ADC of the RF receiver system operates in single-bit mode with an automatic gain control (AGC) circuit used to control the DAC feedback strength thereby extending the dynamic range of the receiver to match the MRI signal. The present invention also refers to a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system, a method A method for extending the dynamic range of a radio frequency (RF) receiver system, a software package for a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system, a software package for upgrading a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system and a computer program product.

Abstract: A method of operating a touch screen panel includes initiating a communication between the panel and an active pen and determining a touch zone of the panel. The touch zone includes communication channels that are operating by touch while bi-directional communication is occurring between the panel and active pen. Communications channels within the touch zone are disabled and communication between the panel and the active pen can occur while the communications channels within the touch zone are disabled. When it is determined that the communication between the panel and the active pen has stopped, communications channels continue to be disabled within the touch zone for a set time delay while no communication occurs between the panel and the active pen. After the set delay time, the communication channels within the touch zone are enabled.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides genetically modified microorganisms (e.g., bacteria or yeast) with enhanced mucin-binding and/or cell-adhesion properties. For example, the present disclosure provides bacteria exhibiting increased in vitro binding to Caco-2 cells, and increased in vitro binding to mucins. Such microorganisms (e.g., bacteria) can be used, e.g., to deliver bioactive polypeptides to the gastrointestinal tract of a mammalian subject. Modifying the microorganism in the described manner allows for the modulation of gastrointestinal retention and transit times for the microorganism (e.g., bacterium). Exemplary microorganisms (e.g., lactic acid bacteria, such as Lactococcus lactis) contain an exogenous nucleic acid encoding a fusion protein containing a cell-adherence polypeptide, such as CmbA, and a mucin-binding polypeptide, such as a trefoil factor (TFF), e.g., human TFF3. The current disclosure further provides method for making and using the described microorganisms (e.g., bacteria).

Abstract: A digital distributed ledger-based system provides for receiving, via a first application, a first data transmission record representative of a transmission of a file by the first application, and for receiving, via a second application, a first data receipt record representative of a receipt of the file by the second application. The digital distributed ledger-based system also provides for storing the first data transmission record and the first data receipt record in the digital distributed ledger. The digital distributed ledger immutably stores the first data transmission record and the first data receipt word record. The digital distributed ledger-based system additionally provides for determining that the transmission of the file has occurred correctly by retrieving the first data transmission record and the first data receipt record from the digital distributed ledger and by comparing the first data transmission record to the first data receipt record.

Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, machine readable mediums that provide a network-based joint investment platform that enforces agreed-upon decision rules on jointly managed investments and provides collaboration and decision-making support tools for joint managers to make decisions about taking actions related to one or more jointly-managed assets. The platform may provide for configuring a plurality of decision rules that identify which managers can take which actions and under what conditions. The joint investment platform may enforce the decision rules by requesting any specified approvals according to the decision rules. Once those rules are satisfied, the joint investment platform may execute the requested actions. If the required approvals are not obtained, or the rules provide no path to approval, the action may not be executed.

Abstract: Password-less authentication and login onto an application are disclosed. A processor extracts Digital Driver's License (DDL) data from a user's computing device; extracts the DDL data of the user from an external database (i.e., DMV); validates the DDL data by comparing with the DDL data from the external database; creates, in response to validating, a DDL secret private key; allows successful registration of the computing device to utilize DDL data for login; and stores the DDL secret private key onto an internal database and a secured environment of the computing device. At login request by the user, when the processor determines that the computing device is successfully registered, it validates the DDL secret private key by comparing with data from the internal database; creates a new DDL secret private key and updates the internal database and the secured environment with the new DDL secret private key for subsequent login.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an ultrasound system (10) comprising a first non-invasive ultrasound probe (14) configured to acquire first ultrasound data having a first field of view; a second invasive ultrasound probe (16) configured to acquire second ultrasound data having a second field of view which is different from the first field of view; a tracking unit (30) configured to determine tracking data comprising a position and orientation of the first non-invasive ultrasound probe (14) relative to the second invasive ultrasound probe (16); and a registration unit (32) configured to register the second field of view into the first field of view based on the tracking data.

Abstract: A hair-cutting unit with rotatable cutting elements for use in a shaving device has hair entry slits of which at least a side surface facing in a direction generally opposite to a direction of rotation of the cutting elements, has a relatively flat and oblique intermediate segment between an upper segment forming a curved transition to the outer surface of the annular wall and a lower segment which serves for catching hairs and urging these into an upright position for achieving a close shave. Within a relatively broad range of shaving pressures, the pleat of skin bulging into a hair-cutting slit contacts a portion or at most all of the intermediate segment. Because the intermediate segment is relatively flat, changes in the extent of skin penetration in response to changes in shaving pressure are significantly reduced.

Abstract: A training data modification system (TDM) for machine learning and related methods. The system comprises a data modifier (DM) configured to perform a modification operation to modify medical training X-ray imagery of a patient. The modification operation causes image structures in the modified medical training imagery. The image structure is representative of a property of i) a medical procedure, ii) an image acquisition operation by an X-ray-based medical imaging apparatus (IA), iii) an anatomy of the patient.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for integrating a first party service into a second party computer application are disclosed. In one embodiment, in a financial institution comprising at least one computer processor, a method for integrating a financial services payment service into a merchant computer application may include (1) receiving customer electronic device information from a customer electronic device using a first communication channel; (2) transmitting a passcode to the customer electronic device using a second communication channel; (3) receiving the passcode from the customer electronic device over the first communication channel; (4) sending a session identifier to electronic device over first communication channel; (5) receiving the session identifier from a merchant host; and (6) sending an authentication value to a merchant host. The merchant host may provide the authentication value to the customer electronic device.

Abstract: A device for positioning of an X-ray imaging system. The device comprises a processor configured to obtain 3D image data of a spine region of interest of a subject comprising a spine structure. The processor is further configured to select at least one vertebra of the spine structure as target vertebra; segment the target vertebra in the 3D image data including identifying at least one anatomic feature of the target vertebra; define a position of a predetermined reference line based on a spatial arrangement of the at least one anatomic feature; determine a target viewing direction of the X-ray imaging system based on the predetermined reference line; and provide the target viewing direction for the X-ray imaging system.

Abstract: A payer computing system includes a processing resource, a memory resource, and computer-executable instructions stored thereon and embodied in a customer-side application programming interface (API). The instructions, when executed by the processing resource, cause the payer computing system to receive an electronic payment request and, in response, generate a request (e.g., a first API message) to access a biller computing system using a previously generated payer electronic token. The request is transmitted to the biller computing system. The payer computing system receives (e.g., via a second API message) payment information provided by the biller computing system in response to the request to access. Based on payment information, the payer computing system generates a payment transaction and causes (e.g., via a third API message) the payment transaction to be initiated.

Abstract: Techniques are described for analyzing and presenting alert-based information for an enterprise business. In particular, a central device in a computer system receives alerts from other devices associated with different office branches of the enterprise business, and analyzes the alerts on a periodic schedule. For example, every month, the central device may calculate a weighted alert volume by district based on the risk scores calculated for the office branches within the district, calculate an average weighted alert volume across the entire enterprise, and calculate the standard deviation of the average weighted alert volume to determine the alert risk rating for the district. The central device may also analyze the dispositions of the alerts on the period schedule. For example, the central device may determine coaching rates and/or disposition rates by district. The central device may further output the alert and/or disposition information to users in a simple format.

Abstract: In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: determining a first, a second, and a third logical partition separation indicator in a string file, wherein the first logical partition separation indicator is for a first partition level, the second partition separation indicator is for a second level, and the third logical partition separation indicator is also for the first partition level, each in a partition hierarchy; setting a first variable value to a value of the first logical partition separation indicator and a second variable value to a value of the second logical partition separation indicator; writing the first variable value to a data structure and writing the second variable value to the data structure; persisting the data structure to a search index; and clearing the first variable value and the second variable value.

Abstract: The invention provides for a medical instrument (100, 300, 400, 500, 600) comprising a camera system (102, 102?, 102?) for imaging a portion (418) of a subject (108) reposing on a subject support (106). The medical instrument further comprises a display system (104) for rendering a position feedback indicator (130, 900). The display system is configured such that the position feedback indicator is visible to the subject when the subject is reposing on the subject support.

Abstract: A driveline system and driveline operating method are provided herein. In one example, the driveline system includes a hydraulic coupling designed to rotationally couple to a prime mover and an output interface designed to rotationally couple to a downstream driveline component, and a power take-off (PTO) assembly. The PTO assembly includes a first pump gear rotationally coupled to an input gear that is directly coupled to the output interface, where the first pump gear is designed to rotationally couple to a first pump via a first pump shaft interface and a first pump adapter designed to mount to the first pump.

Abstract: In an embodiment a processing system includes a reset circuit configured to receive a reset-request signal and one or more further reset-request signals, wherein the one or more further reset-request signals are provided by a processing core, one or more further circuits and/or a terminal of the processing system and to generate a combined reset-request signal by combining the reset-request signal and the one or more further reset-request signals, and a hardware test circuit including for each of the one or more further reset-request signals, a respective first combinational circuit configured to selectively assert the respective further reset-request signal, a second combinational logic circuit configured to selectively mask the combined reset-request signal, and a control circuit configured to repeat operations during a diagnostic phase.