Abstract: A system and method for generating an angular calibration factor (ACF) for a metrology tool useful in a fabrication process, the method including providing the metrology tool, the metrology tool including a stage and a housing, measuring a rotational orientation of the stage relative to the housing and generating the ACF for the stage based at least partially on the rotational orientation.

Abstract: A medication dispensing system, having a medication panel, a plurality of docking ports for accommodating medication containers, a gripper, and a receptacle carrier having a mount for holding the receptacle and movable by one or more actuators. In some embodiments, the system includes control circuitry, outputting positioning signals to move the receptacle carrier, and outputting dosage-manipulation signals to move the gripper to pick and manipulate a medication dosage out of the medication container, and the horizontal distance between the opening of the receptacle and the medication dosage is less than 20 cm at least prior to outputting the dosage-manipulation signals. The method includes extracting a medication out of the medication container, positioning a receptacle by a receptacle carrier in a horizontal distance of less than 20 cm between the medication and the opening of the receptacle, at least prior to the extracting, and dispensing the medication in the receptacle.

Abstract: In one implementation, a method for automatically generating a security policy for a controller includes receiving, by a security policy generation system and from a controller development environment, code for a device controller; selecting middleware that enforces a security policy; analyzing the code for the device controller; based at least in part on the analyzing, automatically generating the security policy; and providing the selected middleware along with the generated security policy.

Abstract: Embodiments may determine user intent in conversations with dialogue systems so as to improve the quality of such conversations and to reduce the number of failed conversations. For example, a method may comprise receiving, at a dialogue system, a first text utterance from a user, generating a plurality of second text utterances at the dialogue system in response to the received text utterance, generating a third text utterance based on each generated second text utterance using a trained deep neural network model, generating a score indicating a quality of each conversation, wherein each conversation includes the first text utterance, one of the second text utterances, and the third text utterance based on the one of the second text utterances, and outputting to the user the second text utterance included in the conversation having the highest quality score.

Abstract: The presently claimed subject matter concerns methods and kits for identifying agents that reduce binding of a clostridial neurotoxin to synaptic vesicle glycoprotein 2 (SV2).

Abstract: Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure relate to application of artificial intelligence (AI) processing to generate classifications of user activity for a group of users. For example, a classification prediction is generated indicating whether students in an educational class are predicted, over a predetermined time period, to have a high or low activity level based on contextual analysis of multiple types of user-driven events. As user activity data is typically quite robust, the present disclosure applies dimensionality reduction processing to efficiently manage user activity data and further improve accuracy in generating downstream binary classifications. A dimensionality reduction transformation of user activity data results in a low-dimensional representation of input feature data that is contextually relevant for generating a binary classification. Derived classifications are then utilized to generate data insights pertaining to user activity levels of one or more users.

Abstract: A method including generating, by a state engine from data describing behaviors of users in an environment external to the state engine, an executable process. An agent executes the executable process by determining, from the data describing the behaviors of the users, a problem of at least some of the users, and selects, based on the problem, a chosen action to alter the problem. At a first time, a first electronic communication describing the chosen action to the at least some of the users is transmitted. Ongoing data describing ongoing behaviors of the users is monitored. A reward is generated based on the ongoing data to change a parameter of the agent. The parameter of the agent is changed to generate a modified agent. The modified agent executes the executable process to select a modified action. At a second time, a second electronic communication describing the modified action is transmitted.

Abstract: In one implementation, a method for providing security on an externally connected controller includes launching, by the controller, a security layer that includes a whitelist of permitted processes on the controller, the whitelist including (i) signatures for processes that are authorized to be executed and (ii) context information identifying permitted controller contexts within which the processes are authorized to be executed; determining, by the security layer, whether the particular process is permitted to be run on the controller based on a comparison of the determined signature with a verified signature for the particular process from the whitelist; identifying, by the security layer, a current context for the controller; determining, by the security layer, whether the particular process is permitted to be run on the controller based on a comparison of the current context with one or more permitted controller contexts for the particular process from the whitelist.

Abstract: Systems and methods of blocking phishing attempts in a computer network, including receiving a list of assets of the computer network, wherein each asset is associated with at least one computer network address, generating at least one address permutation on the at least one computer network address of each asset of the computer network, wherein the generated at least one address permutation is different from the address associated with each asset of the computer network, receiving a communication request at a gateway server of the computer network, determining a destination address of the communication request, comparing the determined destination address with the at least one address permutation, and when the determined destination address is the same as at least one address permutation, blocking the communication request at the gateway server.

Abstract: A method of determining whether a user has a self-control problem. A computing system receives, from a plurality of financial institutions associated with a target user, a plurality of transactions associated with the target user. The computing system groups the plurality of transactions into a category or subcategory based on transaction data associated with each respective transaction. The computing system determines, based on the plurality of transactions, that the target user has a self-control problem. The computing system, responsive to determining that the target user has the self-control problem, generates an alert or recommendation to the target user. The alert or recommendation notifies the target user of the self-control problem.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for updating a policy of an agent, including receiving a first transaction file associated with an entity; predicting, by the agent, an expected reward for each respective string of a plurality of strings associated with the first transaction file based on a policy of the agent, wherein the policy is determined based on a context comprising at least an attribute of the entity; determining a first string based on a highest expected reward; providing, to an environment, the first string; receiving a response to the first string, wherein the response comprises an actual reward; and updating the policy of the agent based on the response to the first string.

Abstract: A medical ultrasound (US) imaging system includes a US probe and a processor. The US probe includes an array of transducers arranged in a reflection geometry, the probe configured to emit US waves and to receive reflected ultrasound waves that are reflected from a body portion of a patient. The processor is configured to generate an image of the body portion of the patient by applying an inverse model to the emitted and reflected US waves.

Abstract: Embodiments of the current disclosure are directed toward systems, devices and methods for diabetes management. In particular, the present disclosure relates to devices and methods for dispensing insulin to a patient. A portable fluid infusion device, comprising a disposable part (DP) and a reusable part (RP) is disclosed. The DP comprises a first reservoir and a second reservoir, the second reservoir less than or equal to the first reservoir in length, while the RP comprises a first compartment configured to receive the first reservoir, a second compartment configured to receive the second reservoir and a gasket for sealing a junction between the second reservoir and the second compartment upon connection of the RP and the DP.

Abstract: An improved device delivers a fluid medicament to the subcutaneous tissue of a user. The device is better suited for patients with Parkinson's Disease and other central nervous system disorders, than conventional infusion devices. The device can include a reusable part including a drive component (e.g., motor) and control electronics and a disposable part including a medicament reservoir. Medicament can be evacuated from the medicament reservoir by a plunger assembly that includes a plunger attached to a lead screw that is rotated by a nut, all within the disposable part. The device can be fluidically coupled with the tissue via a flexible cannula. Various embodiments relate to an improved cannula insertion mechanism that delivers the cannula under a force applied by a spring. Various embodiments relate to improved filling of the device, for example, using a vial adapter and an automated filling station.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to measure the similarity between a first and second data sample. The method can include creating a plurality of k-mers from the first data sample, each k-mer having a first length; generating a first vector from the plurality of k-mers by processing the plurality of k-mers with a plurality of hash functions; calculating a similarity level between the first and second data sample by comparing the first vector to a second vector, the second vector representing the second data sample; and based on the similarity level, determining a maliciousness level of the first data sample.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating an output sequence from an input sequence. One of the methods includes, at each of a plurality of generation time steps: generating a combined sequence for the generation time step that includes the input sequence followed by the output tokens that have already been generated as of the generation time step; processing the combined sequence using a self-attention decoder neural network to generate a time step output that defines a score distribution over a set of possible output tokens; and selecting, using the time step output, an output token from the set of possible output tokens as the next output token in the output sequence.

Abstract: A crawling mechanism for a drug delivery device has a central longitudinal axis and is arranged to crawl in an axial direction. The crawling mechanism includes a housing and one or more swing members pivotally coupled to the housing that are arranged to swing relative to the housing between an initial position and a terminal position suitable for urging crawling of the mechanism.

Abstract: The present invention relates to non-excitatory electrical heart failure therapy as a therapy for Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems and methods for constructing a customized debt reduction plan for a user. In some implementations, a customized debt reduction system obtains a plurality of financial attributes of the user and a plurality of other users, where the plurality of financial attributes are indicative of credit card debt, and identifies users from the plurality of other users who successfully repaid their credit card debt based on their respective financial attributes and one or more repayment techniques that resulted in successful repayment of their credit card debt. The customized debt reduction system correlates the plurality of financial attributes of the user with the plurality of financial attributes of a number of the identified users and determines a personalized score for the user, using a trained machine learning model, based on the correlation to determine a customized debt reduction plan for the user based on the personalized score.

Abstract: Systems and methods for asset-centered expense forecasting.