Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for using machine learning models for plant biotechnology. One of the methods includes obtaining a network input comprising an image depicting a plurality of plant cells or regions of plant tissue; processing the network input using a machine learning model to obtain an identification of one or more particular biotechnologically-modifiable plant cells or one or more particular biotechnologically-modifiable regions of the plant tissue; excising or delineating the one or more identified plant cells or the one or more identified regions of the plant tissue; and delivering exogenous material to the excised or delineated plant cells or regions of plant tissue.

Abstract: A detection system for an x-ray microscopy system utilizes high bandgap, direct conversion x-ray detection materials. The signal of the x-ray projection is recorded in a spatial light modulator such as a liquid crystal (LC) light valve. The light valve is then read-out by a polarized light optical microscope. This configuration will mitigate the loss of light in the optical system over the current scintillator-optical microscope-camera detection systems.

Abstract: A floor vent assembly with slots for airflow having a structure and interaction between an air vent and a slider with an actuator extending through the air vent to permit manual sliding of the slider in the floor vent assembly to selectively open/restrict the air vent for airflow. The floor vent assembly may also have an internal structural plate with corresponding slots. The user simply manually moves the actuator and thus the slider within the floor vent assembly where respective slots align or are offset to allow or restrict the flow of air through the floor vent assembly.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to a deep learning/AI-based product surface quality inspection system which is accurate and reliable in product quality inspection which is a core task in an injection process among various manufacturing fields. The system can provide, to a user, better performance than non-defective/defective manufactured product classification methodology which is an existing commonly used method through a method and a system considering characteristics of a factory environment and an actual product production process for all pipelines of product quality inspection by using only a non-defective manufactured product image unlike most injection process surface inspection AIs developed to date.

Abstract: An optical sensor including an array of photodiodes having a first and a second photodiode, each having an optical active region and a peripheral region. The sensor further includes a metal layer having a plurality of metal wires located in the peripheral regions of the first and second photodiodes, wherein the first photodiode is connected to a first subset of metal wires of the plurality of metal wires and wherein the second photodiode is connected to a second, different subset of metal wires of the plurality of metal wires.

Abstract: Embodiments of an electric heater apparatus are disclosed. In one embodiment, an electric heater apparatus includes: (a) a first thermally conductive layer comprising an electrically insulating material; (b) one or more electrically conductive heating elements disposed in one or more grooves arranged on the top side of the first thermally conductive layer; and (c) a second thermally conductive layer disposed on the top side of the first thermally conductive layer over the one or more heating elements. The one or more heating elements include one or more refractory hard metals doped with at least one of carbon, nitrogen, aluminum, yttrium, or oxygen. The doped one or more refractory hard metals include a temperature insensitive electrical resistance over operational temperatures ranging from ambient temperature to about 850° C. as compared to undoped refractory hard metals. The one or more heating elements are independently controllable to provide one or more heating zones.

Abstract: A photonic coupler includes an input coupling section, an output coupling section, and a multimode interference (MMI) waveguide section. The input coupling section is adapted to receive an input optical signal along an input waveguide channel. The output coupling section is adapted to output a pair of output optical signals along output waveguide channels. The output optical signals having output optical powers split from the input optical signal. The MMI waveguide section is optically coupled between the input and output coupling sections. Notched waveguide sections may each be disposed between the MMI waveguide section and a corresponding one of the input or output coupling sections and/or the MMI waveguide section may include curvilinear sidewalls.

Abstract: A fuel grain for a rocket, the fuel grain having a plurality of layers of fuel grain material, each layer comprising a plurality of concentric circular structures of different diameter fused together to form a central opening therein, wherein the fuel grain material comprises an ignitable substance. The plurality of layers are stacked and joined securely to form a cylindrical fuel grain with the central opening of each one of the plurality of layers aligned to form a combustion unit extending axially through the fuel grain and bounded by a combustion surface, and wherein the fuel grain is configured to permit mixing of heterogenous materials to enhance thrust performance.

Abstract: A method of forming an oxide layer in an in-situ steam generation (ISSG) process, including providing a silicon substrate in a rapid thermal process (RTP) chamber and injecting a gas mixture into the RTP chamber. The method further includes heating a surface of the silicon substrate to a reaction temperature, so that the gas mixture reacts close to the surface to form steam and thereby oxidize the silicon substrate to form the oxide layer on the surface, and wherein the gas mixture comprises hydrogen (H2), oxygen (O2) and nitrous oxide (N2O).

Abstract: A hybrid pulse-width-modulation pixel includes a light controller responsive to a variable power signal specifying different powers and a pixel controller. The pixel controller is operable receive a pixel luminance signal comprising multiple bits specifying a desired light-controller luminance, generate the variable power signal in response to the pixel luminance signal, and drive the light controller to emit light at different luminances in response to the variable power signal for different time periods. The pixel controller is operable to provide the variable power signal at a constant first power for a first time period and provide the variable power signal at a constant second power different from the constant first power for a second time period.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for controlling an electrical system using setpoints. Some embodiments include control methods that monitor an adjusted net power associated with the electrical system and adjust the setpoint based on a comparison of the adjusted demand to the setpoint. If the adjusted demand has not exceeded the demand setpoint, the setpoint is reduced. If the adjusted demand has exceeded the demand setpoint, the setpoint is increased.

Abstract: Devices and methods for providing a power transistor structure with a shallow source region include implanting a dopant of a first dopant polarity into a drift region on a source side of a gate structure to form a body region, the body region being self-aligned to, and extending under, the gate structure, and producing a shallow body region wherein the source side hybrid contact mitigates punch through of the shallow self-aligned body region and suppresses triggering of a parasitic bipolar. A retrograde body well, of the first dopant polarity, may be disposed beneath, and noncontiguous with, the shallow self-aligned body region, wherein the retrograde body well improves the electric field profile of the shallow self-aligned body region. A variety of power transistor structures are produced from such devices and methods.

Abstract: Proposed is a dual emission LED chip that emits light to the upper and lower sides of a PN junction, wherein the duel emission LED chip uses the electroluminescent effect of the PN junction including a P layer and an N layer provided below the P layer, and characterized in that the dual emission LED chip emits light in the upward direction of the P layer and the downward direction of the N layer. The dual emission chip can be applied as a single chip to a field requiring dual emission, thereby enabling miniaturization of applied equipment, and increases power efficiency, thereby reducing manufacturing costs. In addition, as the dual emission LED chip can be manufactured through a batch process, a separate packaging process is not required.

Abstract: A process for facilitating environmental conservation is described.

Abstract: An LED backlight driving circuit with a voltage regulating unit is provided. The LED backlight driving circuit includes a power supply unit, an LED string, an ADC voltage detection circuit, and a driving controller; the ADC voltage detection circuit is used to detect a voltage value Vled of a negative terminal of a LED string, and the ADC voltage detection circuit includes an ADC sampling module that converts the measured voltage value Vled at the negative terminal of the LED string into a voltage numerical code; for the numerical code of the negative terminal voltage value Vled measured by the ADC sampling module, a first threshold V1 and a second threshold V2 are set.

Abstract: A method of making a fuel grain for use in a rocket motor, the method comprising blending a first energetic nanoscale metallic compound and a second compound suitable to form a feedstock material for use in an additive manufacturing apparatus, the additive manufacturing apparatus operatively connected to a computing system, that provides additive manufacturing printing instructions to the additive manufacturing apparatus, permitting construction of an autonomously designed and optimized rocket fuel grain section; wherein the stochastic deposition simulation-assisted fuel grain geometries further comprise a plurality of agglutinated layers of solidified fuel grain compound, each layer of the plurality of layers comprising a plurality of blended and radially displaced beads of different radii, said radial displacement optionally optimized via competitive simulation programs, and wherein the system continuously mixes constituent materials in an inline/static mixer, with viscosity controlled via particle size var

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire biological information of plural users determined to be within a predetermined area and operate an apparatus based on the biological information of the plural users.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a synthesized signal. A computer-implemented system obtains generator input data including an input signal having one or more first characteristics, processes the generator input data to generate output data including a synthesized signal having one or more second characteristics using a generator neural network, and outputs the synthesized signal to a device. The generator neural network is trained, based on a plurality of training examples, with a discriminator neural network. The discriminator neural network is configured to process discriminator input data that combines a discriminator input signal having the one or more second characteristics with at least a portion of generator input data to generate a prediction of whether the discriminator input signal is a real signal or a synthesized signal.

Abstract: The dynamic complexity and the operational risk inherent in a system are defined and incorporated into a mathematical model of the system. The mathematical model is emulated to predict the states of instability that can occur within the operation of the system. Dynamic complexity of a service is demonstrated where there is an observed effect where the cause can be multiple and seemingly inter-related effects of a many-to-one or many-to-many relationship. Having assessed the dynamic complexity efficiency and the operational risk index of a service (e.g., a business, process or information technology), these indexes can be employed to emulate all attributes of a service, thereby determining how a service responds in multiple states of operation, the states where the dynamic complexity of a service can occur, optimal dynamic complexity efficiency of a service, and the singularities wherein a service becomes unstable.