Abstract: A cooling system for a computing device is described. The cooling system includes a heat transfer structure. The heat transfer structure includes a heat spreader, a fin structure, and a differential pressure device. The fin structure transfers heat from the heat spreader to a fluid. The differential pressure device generates a low pressure region that draws the fluid from an ingress in the computing device through the fin structure. The heat transfer structure is enclosed in a chamber of the computing device. The chamber includes the ingress and an egress.

Abstract: Microbolometer systems and methods are provided herein. For example, an infrared imaging device includes a microbolometer array. The microbolometer array includes a plurality of microbolometers. Each microbolometer includes a microbolometer bridge that includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion includes a resistive layer configured to capture infrared radiation. The second portion includes a second portion having a plurality of perforations defined therein.

Abstract: An apparatus, a system and a method indirectly detect the operational state of a machine among a plurality of operational states and track the movement of a material through a plurality of machines.

Abstract: A system for applying agricultural fluid to a target includes a controller communicatively connected to valve assemblies and configured to control at least one operating parameter of each valve assembly, and a portable electronic device connected in communication with the controller. The portable electronic device includes a user interface. The portable electronic device is configured to retrieve a stored user profile including at least one prestored value that relates to a physical characteristic of the system or an operating parameter of the system, and populate at least one user input field of the user interface with the at least one prestored value. At least one of the controller and the portable electronic device is configured to retrieve the stored user profile and determine the at least one operating parameter of each valve assembly based on the physical characteristic of the system or the operating parameter of the system.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes tissue gripping devices, systems, and methods for gripping mitral valve tissue during treatment of a mitral valve and while a tissue fixation device is implanted in the mitral valve. The tissue gripping device includes a flexible member and one or more tissue gripping members coupled to one or more arms of the flexible member. The flexible member is formed from a shape-memory material, such as nitinol, and the tissue gripping member(s) are formed from a material that is more rigid than the shape-memory material. The tissue gripping member(s) are attached to the flexible member by threading or looping suture lines around and/or through the tissue gripping member(s) and the flexible member and/or by applying a cover material to the tissue gripping device to hold the tissue gripping member(s) against the flexible member.

Abstract: A method for predicting abnormal eye convergence in a human or animal subject may involve tracking eye movement of at least one eye of the subject to generate eye tracking data for the subject and using the eye tracking data to predict whether the subject has abnormal eye convergence. A method for diagnosing a brain injury in a human or animal subject may involve tracking eye movement of at least one eye of the subject to generate eye tracking data for the subject, using the eye tracking data to predict whether the subject has abnormal eye convergence, and predicting whether a brain injury has occurred in the subject, based on the prediction of whether the subject has abnormal eye convergence.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing optimization of network resources. The system is operable to monitor the electromagnetic environment, analyze the electromagnetic environment, and extract environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment. The system extracts the environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment by including customer goals. The system is operable to use the environmental awareness with the customer goals and/or user defined policies and rules to extract actionable information to help the customer optimize the network resources.

Abstract: Non-toxic stimulating agents, supplements and/or pharmaceutical preparations including such stimulating agents for increasing arginine and nitric oxide (NO) levels in the body (above and beyond the naturally occurring levels).

Abstract: Disclosed is a cable assembly including at least one conductor and a metal sheath disposed over the at least one conductor, the metal sheath including a continuous strip of metal having a plurality of revolutions. A first revolution of the plurality of revolutions may include a first section having a curved profile extending into an interior cavity of the metal sheath, and a second section extending from the first section, the second section extending along a lengthwise axis, wherein a length of the second section, along the lengthwise axis, is at least two times as large as a diameter of the first section when the metal sheath is in a linear configuration. The first revolution may further include a third section extending from the second section, the third section including a free end terminating within a recess defined by a curved profile of a first section of an adjacent revolution.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices enable spectrum management by identifying, classifying, and cataloging signals of interest based on radio frequency measurements. In an embodiment, signals and the parameters of the signals may be identified and indications of available frequencies may be presented to a user. In another embodiment, the protocols of signals may also be identified. In a further embodiment, the modulation of signals, data types carried by the signals, and estimated signal origins may be identified.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing optimization of network resources. The system is operable to monitor the electromagnetic environment, analyze the electromagnetic environment, and extract environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment. The system extracts the environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment by including customer goals. The system is operable to use the environmental awareness with the customer goals and/or user defined policies and rules to extract actionable information to help the customer optimize the network resources.

Abstract: A method includes receiving a user program for execution on a reconfigurable dataflow computing system comprising a plurality of compute units and a plurality of memory units, the plurality of compute units and the plurality of memory units being interconnected. The user program is converted to an intermediate representation comprising a plurality of logical operations, executable via dataflow through one or more compute units of the plurality of compute units, one or more logical operations preceded by or followed by a buffer of one or more buffers, each buffer of the one or more buffers corresponding to one or more memory units of the plurality of memory units. The method further includes determining whether splitting a selected buffer yields a reduced cost and splitting the selected buffer in response to determining that splitting the selected buffer yields the reduced cost, to produce a first buffer and a second buffer.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing optimization of network resources. The system is operable to monitor the electromagnetic environment, analyze the electromagnetic environment, and extract environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment. The system extracts the environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment by including customer goals. The system is operable to use the environmental awareness with the customer goals and/or user defined policies and rules to extract actionable information to help the customer optimize the network resources.

Abstract: A system and method for automatically implementing a therapy for treating sleep disordered breathing.

Abstract: Smile treatment planning systems and methods are described herein. One method for adjusting an image of a smile may generally comprise receiving a three-dimensional (3D) digital model of a dental arch of a patient, receiving a digital facial image of the patient which includes an image of one or more teeth of the patient when smiling, registering the 3D digital model to the one or more teeth of the patient from the digital facial image, correcting the 3D digital model for scale and distortion to create a corrected 3D digital model, and overlaying the corrected 3D digital model onto the digital facial image.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing optimization of network resources. The system is operable to monitor the electromagnetic environment, analyze the electromagnetic environment, and extract environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment. The system extracts the environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment by including customer goals. The system is operable to use the environmental awareness with the customer goals and/or user defined policies and rules to extract actionable information to help the customer optimize the network resources.

Abstract: A distributed cloud computing system is disclosed that includes a controller configured to deploy a first gateway in a first cloud computing network and a second gateway in a second cloud computing network and logic that, upon execution by one or more processors, causes performance of operations including: obtaining metadata pertaining to each of the first gateway and the second gateway, obtaining network data, wherein a combination of the metadata and the network data identify each of a plurality of constructs, the communication paths between each construct, and in which cloud computing network each construct is deployed, generating an elliptical layout of a network topology graph illustrating a first segment including the first gateway representing deployment in the first cloud network and a second segment including the second gateway representing deployment in the second cloud computing network, and causing rendering of the visualization on a network device display screen.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing optimization of network resources. The system is operable to monitor the electromagnetic environment, analyze the electromagnetic environment, and extract environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment. The system extracts the environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment by including customer goals. The system is operable to use the environmental awareness with the customer goals and/or user defined policies and rules to extract actionable information to help the customer optimize the network resources.

Abstract: A modular building and a pair of mating modules thereof are described. A first module of the pair comprises a male connector projecting from a first face of the first module to form a cylindrical projection terminated by a hemispherically shaped terminus. A second module of the pair comprises a female connector comprising a rigid plate having therethrough an aperture dimensioned to receive the terminus and at least a portion of the cylindrical projection so as to permit the inter-connection of the modules by off-level installation. A second-face male connector is disposed on a second face of the first module opposite the first face. The second-face male connector projects from the second face to form a second-face cylindrical projection terminated by a hemispherically shaped second-face terminus suitable to be received by a corresponding female connector of a corresponding module of the modular building.

Abstract: A medical device operating as a stylet is described. The medical device can include an insulating layer (or sheath) encapsulating both a multi-core optical fiber and a conductive medium. The optical fiber can include a cladding and a plurality of core fibers spatially arranged within the cladding. Each of the core fibers can include a plurality of sensors distributed along a longitudinal length of that corresponding core fiber and each of these sensors can be configured to: (i) reflect a light signal of a different spectral width based on received incident light, and (ii) change a characteristic of the reflected light signal for use in determining a physical state of the multi-core optical fiber. The conductive medium can provide a pathway for electrical signals detected at a distal portion of the conductive medium. The conductive medium may be concentric to the cladding, but separate and adjust thereto.