Abstract: Electrostatic chucks (ESCs) for plasma processing chambers, and methods of fabricating ESCs, are described. In an example, a substrate support assembly includes a ceramic top plate having a top surface with a processing region. One or more electrodes is within the ceramic top plate. A plurality of mesas is within the processing region and on the top surface of the ceramic plate or vertically over an edge of one of the one or more electrodes.

Abstract: A method and system of authenticating a user logon builds a user logon profile with a plurality of user logon features gathered during at least one successful attempted user logon, determines a logon feature novelty score for each feature, receives a user logon request for authentication and extracts current user logon features, retrieves corresponding logon feature novelty scores, determines a first distance function score for the corresponding logon feature novelty scores of the current user logon features, builds a failed logon attempt database, determines a failed logon feature novelty score, extracts the failed logon feature novelty scores corresponding to current user logon features, determines a second distance function score for the corresponding failed logon feature novelty scores of the current user logon features, and determining to one of allow or deny the user logon request based on at least one of the first distance function score and the second distance function score.

Abstract: The instant disclosure provides a data structure store system and a method of managing data in the store. The method includes receiving, by a data structure store management system, a request for storing data from a client. In the created data structure, each data element includes a portion of the data. On receiving a read request for at least part of the data, the data structure store management system provides at least part of the data to a recipient device. The data elements are stored in persistent memory in the form of one or more non-volatile random access devices, wherein during a time interval between receiving the storing request and providing the at least part of the data by the data structure store management system to the recipient device, the data structure store management system provides no portion of the data for writing to a hard disk drive.

Abstract: Embodiments describe a system configured with a brain machine interface (BMI) system implemented in a vehicle for performing vehicle functions using electrical impulses from motor cortex activity in a user's brain. The system uses fuzzy states for increased robustness. The fuzzy states are defined by sets of Gaussian kernel-type membership functions that are defined for steering and velocity action function states. The membership functions define fuzzy states that provide overlapping control tiers for increasing and decreasing vehicle functionality. An autonomous vehicle may perform control and governance of transitions between membership functions that may overlap, resulting in smooth transitioning between the states.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for vector-quantized image modeling using vision transformers and improved codebook handling. In particular, the present disclosure provides a Vector-quantized Image Modeling (VIM) approach that involves pretraining a machine learning model (e.g., Transformer model) to predict rasterized image tokens autoregressively. The discrete image tokens can be encoded from a learned Vision-Transformer-based VQGAN (example implementations of which can be referred to as ViT-VQGAN). The present disclosure proposes multiple improvements over vanilla VQGAN from architecture to codebook learning, yielding better efficiency and reconstruction fidelity. The improved ViT-VQGAN further improves vector-quantized image modeling tasks, including unconditional image generation, conditioned image generation (e.g., class-conditioned image generation), and unsupervised representation learning.

Abstract: Techniques for time-aware remote data transfers. A time may be associated with a remote direct memory access (RDMA) operation in a translation protection table (TPT). The RDMA operation may be permitted or restricted based on the time in the TPT.

Abstract: A network of matrix processing units (MPUs) is provided on a device, where each MPU is connected to at least one other MPU in the network, and each MPU is to perform matrix multiplication operations. Computer memory stores tensor data and a master control central processing unit (MCC) is provided on the device to receive an instruction from a host device, where the instruction includes one or more tensor operands based on the tensor data. The MCC invokes a set of operations on one or more of the MPUs based on the instruction, where the set of operations includes operations on the tensor operands. A result is generated from the set of operations, the result embodied as a tensor value.

Abstract: In some aspects, the present disclosure provides methods, apparatuses, and systems for efficient thermal mitigation while maintaining wireless device performance on a primary component carrier (PCC). Embodiments described may include implementation of target transceiver module configurations, where bandwidth (e.g., PCC bands and secondary component carrier (SCC) bands) may be monitored by a wireless device based on intra-module target configurations and/or inter-module target configurations. An intra-module target configuration may include a target transceiver module monitoring both PCC bands and SCC bands. An inter-module target configuration may include or refer to a plurality of target transceiver modules together monitoring PCC bands and SCC bands.

Abstract: A piezoelectric device comprises: a substrate (12) and a lead magnesium niobate-lead titanate (PMNPT) piezoelectric film on the substrate (12). The PMNPT film comprises: a thermal oxide layer (20) on the substrate (12); a first electrode above on the thermal oxide layer (20); a seed layer (26) above the first electrode; a lead magnesium niobate-lead titanate (PMNPT) piezoelectric layer (16) on the seed layer (26), and a second electrode on the PMNPT piezoelectric layer (16). The PMNPT film comprises a piezoelectric coefficient (d33) of greater than or equal to 200 pm/V.

Abstract: A method for a crawl algorithm includes obtaining a plurality of web pages for a web crawler to crawl. The method also includes determining an available bandwidth for the web crawler. The method includes, for each respective web page of the plurality of web pages, determining a respective crawl value for the respective web page based on the available bandwidth and determining that the respective crawl value of the respective web page satisfies a threshold value. The method includes, in response to determining that the respective crawl value of the respective web page satisfies the threshold value, updating the respective web page in a cache memory.

Abstract: The subject matter disclosed herein is generally directed to pathogenic Th1 cells whose phenotype is dependent on IL-23R signaling. Th1 cell specific therapeutic targets and gene programs are disclosed herein. In particular, inhibition of CD160 reduces Th1 cell pathogenicity.

Abstract: A non-occluding drug-coated balloon catheter device for use in a blood vessel transporting blood comprises a catheter shaft including a guidewire lumen, a fluid lumen and a connector port. A balloon is mounted on the catheter shaft and includes an outer envelope surrounding the guidewire lumen in fluid communication with the fluid lumen; a drug coating applied on the exterior surface of the outer envelope; and at least one bypass lumen forming a passage extending from the proximal end of the outer envelope to the distal end of the outer envelope. When the balloon is positioned in a blood vessel and inflated, the exterior surface of the outer envelope presses the drug coating against the blood vessel and the bypass lumen is open between the distal end of the outer envelope and the proximal end of the outer envelope such that blood transport continues through the bypass lumen.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an inhalable composition comprising a therapeutically effective dosage amount of compound (I), 2-{4-[(2S)-1,1-difluoro-2-hydroxypropyl]phenyl}-N-{4-[3-(2-ethylphenyl) pyrazine-2-yl]phenyl}acetamide or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Particularly, the present invention relates to a inhalable dry powder composition comprising compound (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Further, the present invention relates to a method of treating a pulmonary disease using such a composition.

Abstract: A method of thermal cycling a droplet, including providing a droplet actuator with heaters establishing a first thermal zone and second thermal zone in a substantially oil-filled droplet operations gap; a thermal cycling path comprising droplet operations electrodes comprising a first droplet operations electrode in the first thermal zone and a second droplet operations electrode in the second thermal zone, wherein the first and second droplet operations electrodes are within 5 mm of each other; a first temperature at the first droplet operations electrode and a second temperature at the second droplet operations electrode, wherein the first and second temperatures differ by at least about 10° C.; and using the droplet operations electrodes, transporting the droplet in a cycling pattern for multiple cycles along the thermal cycling path between the first droplet operations electrode and the second droplet operations electrode. Cartridges and systems are also provided.

Abstract: Techniques discussed herein relate to provisioning one or more virtual cloud-computing edge devices at a physical cloud-computing edge device. A manifest may be generated/utilized to specify various attributes of the virtual cloud-computing edge devices to be executed at a physical cloud-computing edge device. A first set of resources corresponding to a first virtual cloud-computing edge device may be obtained from memory of a centralized cloud-environment and provisioned at the first virtual cloud-computing edge device. Similar operations may be performed with respect to a second virtual cloud-computing edge device. The techniques described herein split the physical edge device into multiple virtual device resources that can be utilized in combination or separately to extend the functionality and versatility of the physical edge device.

Abstract: The present specification describes a computer-implemented method. A first comparison test is executed to determine whether an unknown object is of a first sub-class of a class of objects. Responsive to determining that the unknown object is not of the first sub-class, it is determined whether the unknown object is an instance of a second sub-class by determining whether there are additional sub-classes other than the first sub-class and a second sub-class. Responsive to determining that there are additional sub-classes, the second code fragment executes while refraining from assuming the unknown object is of a particular sub-class.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds of formula (I) and (II), wherein all substituents are defined herein, as well as pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising compounds of the invention and methods of using said compositions in the treatment of various disorders.

Abstract: Methods of treating tumors by administering compounds to a patient are provided. Compounds such as drugs, may be administered to the patient orally, by injection, intravenously, or topically, which then accumulate as compounds such as a protoporphyrin compound in tumor cells. After such accumulation, such compounds are then activated in various aspects to treat tumors cells, thereby treating cancer. Cancers such as glioblastoma may be treated.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a processor may include a plurality of processing engines and a sequencing circuit. The sequencing circuit may be to: detect a completed execution of a first workload by a first processing engine; in response to a detection of the completed execution of the first workload by the first processing engine, identify at least one processing engine specified as consecutive to the first processing engine in a sequence mapping; and activate the at least one processing engine specified as consecutive to execute a second workload.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for data-aided channel state information (CSI) measurement and reporting. One apparatus includes at least one processor and coupled with the at least one memory and configured to cause the apparatus to: decode a received signal to determine a decoded data sequence; perform at least one data-aided CSI measurement based on both the received signal and the decoded data sequence; and transmit a CSI report based on CSI reporting criteria and the at least one data-aided CSI measurement, where the CSI report comprises at least a portion of the at least one data-aided CSI measurement.